RAW overload

[Mat Maessen]

On 6/30/07, cbwaters <cbwaters at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I've got something over 700 shots from GFM and my recent tour of the upper
> Midwest (some would say it was a vacation but it was really a tour of family
> locations).
> I know the only way to make a dent is to attack one photo at a time but I'm
> overwhelmed at the moment.

As others have mentioned, Adobe Bridge makes fairly short work of
sorting through the raw files and picking the "winners." I just
started using Lightroom earlier in the week, and it's even more
streamlined at sorting through pictures. I also am starting to like
the conversion process in Lightroom  (well, the Develop mode), and the
raw converter has more tweaks than the older version.

Both programs have a filmstrip mode that will let you see a
medium-sized preview of the shot, and use the left/right arrow keys to
move through the pictures. Memorize a couple of hot keys for flagging
the pictures, and you'll make short work of flagging the good ones. I
don't yet do the keyword tagging thing, but I suppose I'll have to
learn that in time. :-)

I had around 500 shots from my vacation trip. It took a little while
to convert them to DNG's and read them into lightroom, but I've been
able to spend a little bit of time doing sorting and conversion every
night.

-Mat