Comments on: Workflow-a-go-go http://www.leonneal.com/blog/2010/06/22/workflow-a-go-go/ An ever-growing archive of bumbling nonsense from an English press photographer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:51:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pixgremlin http://www.leonneal.com/blog/2010/06/22/workflow-a-go-go/comment-page-1/#comment-14899 pixgremlin Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:19:02 +0000 http://www.leonneal.com/blog/?p=1622#comment-14899 My liege! As always, you are a fountain of wisdom. I've got a similar, yet chaotic technique, but thanks for sharing this. I also back up on Ext hard-drives, email and on DVDS. U can just never not back up enough, I guess.... My liege! As always, you are a fountain of wisdom. I’ve got a similar, yet chaotic technique, but thanks for sharing this. I also back up on Ext hard-drives, email and on DVDS. U can just never not back up enough, I guess….

]]> By: Lee Durant http://www.leonneal.com/blog/2010/06/22/workflow-a-go-go/comment-page-1/#comment-14719 Lee Durant Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:13:13 +0000 http://www.leonneal.com/blog/?p=1622#comment-14719 I'm glad someone does it in a similar way to me, I know lots of photographers that have import and send folders on the desktop and that's it! Then as far as I know they spend a lot of time sorting out their pics into archive at a later date.... On import I drop the original files into a folder named as so: 100623_01_DM_appropriate_keywords Broken down as: reverse date, job of the day, who the job was for (DM = Daily Mail) then the keywords for easy searching. I then have a subfolder called simply: 1... In here a put the edited files and keep their filename as they were transmitted (ie: durant_summer_pics_001) the benefit of this folder being here is that it's the quickest way to find when 'saving as' and it always stays within the originally keyworded job folder when dropping it all into your archive at the end of the day. I’m glad someone does it in a similar way to me, I know lots of photographers that have import and send folders on the desktop and that’s it!
Then as far as I know they spend a lot of time sorting out their pics into archive at a later date….
On import I drop the original files into a folder named as so: 100623_01_DM_appropriate_keywords
Broken down as: reverse date, job of the day, who the job was for (DM = Daily Mail) then the keywords for easy searching.
I then have a subfolder called simply: 1…
In here a put the edited files and keep their filename as they were transmitted (ie: durant_summer_pics_001)
the benefit of this folder being here is that it’s the quickest way to find when ‘saving as’ and it always stays within the originally keyworded job folder when dropping it all into your archive at the end of the day.

]]> By: Reuben http://www.leonneal.com/blog/2010/06/22/workflow-a-go-go/comment-page-1/#comment-14713 Reuben Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:09:10 +0000 http://www.leonneal.com/blog/?p=1622#comment-14713 So what do you use to edit? I totally agree about the importance of keeping everything, and have benefited from that several times recently. I started with a system like yours, but now moved to Folder on to the desktop, import by date in to LR2 and add a couple of keywords on import, seems to work for me, although I tend to be only doing 1 or 2 jobs per day. Exported files go in the desktop backup (original folder) which is backed up to a external every night, following the basics of your system. LR catalogue backed/moved to a different external every week/month depending how big or busy it has got, but is still searchable on my laptop. So what do you use to edit?

I totally agree about the importance of keeping everything, and have benefited from that several times recently.

I started with a system like yours, but now moved to Folder on to the desktop, import by date in to LR2 and add a couple of keywords on import, seems to work for me, although I tend to be only doing 1 or 2 jobs per day. Exported files go in the desktop backup (original folder) which is backed up to a external every night, following the basics of your system. LR catalogue backed/moved to a different external every week/month depending how big or busy it has got, but is still searchable on my laptop.

]]> By: Jan http://www.leonneal.com/blog/2010/06/22/workflow-a-go-go/comment-page-1/#comment-14708 Jan Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:27:37 +0000 http://www.leonneal.com/blog/?p=1622#comment-14708 That's quite similar to the way I do it (date + description as directory names), except I put my edits in a subdirectory. That way I can easily switch between the raw take and the edits, which I do a lot, and usually I don't edit everything at once. So I was wondering, why do you keep your edits in a completely separate folder? Doesn't that make it a bit cumbersome to switch between the raw take and edits? That’s quite similar to the way I do it (date + description as directory names), except I put my edits in a subdirectory. That way I can easily switch between the raw take and the edits, which I do a lot, and usually I don’t edit everything at once. So I was wondering, why do you keep your edits in a completely separate folder? Doesn’t that make it a bit cumbersome to switch between the raw take and edits?

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