Re: What's your workflow from camera to finsihed image?

MrBiggZ wrote:
I just recently upgraded to vista and I was transfering files from my
old computer to my new one. I noticed that I had oodles of
duplicates. I'm not a pro-photographer .. barely a novice one at
that.

My question or the need for advise is how to you edit your photos?
Meaning where do you keep your originals to the finished products?
What if the photo was good with out editing does that need to be kept
in two places too?

No, except everything is backed up on a pair of external drives.

I'd like to implement a good work flow from camera
to viewing/printing.

I shoot raw plus fine jpeg. Download the jpegs, sort the junkers out to a subfolder named 'seconds' only deleting really awful stuff, then copy over the raw files for the keepers. Each day's shoot get a folder with a name like: 2008-01-13-sweeny-ridge. If I do any editing or use the raw files, the original jpeg goes into a subfolder named 'orig'. I've started putting raw files there too rather than a 'raw' folder. About once a year I clean out all the seconds & orig/raw folders to a pair of external drives. This is a pain as I have to make another 2008-01-13-sweeny-ridge folder to contain them. It does allow me to have all my favorite final jpegs on my C drive though.

I do my culling with irfanview, setting the seconds folder as the move-to folder so a tap on the F7 key is all it takes and I can work fast. If I change my mind, it's still there so again that lets me work fast & be ruthless. At least I keep jpegs for all of them. If it's a big set or I want to be even more ruthless, I'll make a 'thirds' folder under the 'seconds' folder and cull again after copying over the raw files.
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