gray_ghost2 Loc: Antelope, (Sac) Ca.

What is the procedure/system/weedout process you use to sort through large amount of photos from an event? Yes, dump the blur and people walking in front, but how do you get from 729 to a useable 30+ images in a couple of days? Or is it just a time consuming process that comes with the territory?

Questions for Lightroom CC users, I started the 30 day trial of Lightroom CC. I see how they organize photos into albums. But can the album be broken down into chapters ie... Album name "Rio Wrestling Team"; Chapters, each wrestlers name with his match photos. Also, how does Lightroom and Photoshop work together? Don't they both do the same thing? I'll probably learn this as I get farther into the learning videos.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

A couple of days? Going through just 729 images would take me about an hour or so! But actually, I don't do that in any program, I delete all unwanted images, at the time I download them to the computer!

tcthome Loc: NJ

I just go thru them as I please, zoom in, deleting &, edit 1 or 2 here & there but, I'm not a working photog. You can rename the files anything you want to sort them out. Check out u-tube for vids on LR & PS. Also there are some pretty good books out there with Scott Kelby's being some of the best. I haven't used Photoshop yet but I understand it is a steeper learning curve.

Have fun , Tom

Shutterbug57

1. Download files to computer - go get a coke while the files load
2. Copy files to subdirectory called Working Files - you now have the files in 2 directories
3. Use any photo viewer to delete out of focus or other obvious “delete this” pics
4. Go back through duplicate or similar shots and pick the best, delete the rest - you now have technically good shots
5. Import into Lightroom
6. Go through and rate 1-5 in Lightroom based on the image’s potential - pay attention to how interesting a pic is
7. How many 5s do you have? Either bump some down to 4s or look at the 4s and bump some up
8. Edit keepers
9. Publish
10. Back-up files

All told should take 1-2 hours from stage 3 thru 7. Stage 8 timing will depend on the subject and your shooting/editing style. By the time you get to this stage, the shots should be pretty good and need minimal editing. Stage 9 timing will depend on method used to publish.

crazydaddio Loc: Toronto Ontario Canada

No magic solution.
I find it faster to delete in-camera the obvious ones first ....download and import take time.
2nd pass delete in LR as you scan theough each file. Then start editing your favs.

Steve DeMott Loc: St. Louis, Missouri (Oakville area)

Lightroom is a database (catalog) for your photos. LR Keeps track of were the photos are located, Keywords associated with each photo and what LR edits you performed, all in a non-destructive format. Photoshop can and will change the photo image in a destructive edit, meaning you can change the original image. Both LR and PS can edit the image, except you have more control in PS. To go from LR to PS Select image in LR and press Command + e on mac and Ctrl + e in windows. Make edit then save (no need to provide a name) the image from PS. Remember in LR you don't edit the original, so you'll see an additional file that was copied and edited in PS with all the changes.

There are several tutorials for LR. Two I really like are "Learning Lightroom 6 and CC with Jan Kabili" and "Lightroom & Photoshop Workflow-Start-to-Finish with Julieanne Kost"

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

Here's one of several articles that Google fetched. It's usually a time-intensive process, but LR helps tremendously.

https://www.slrlounge.com/culling-lightroom-speed-tool-how-to/

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

Hi, first on LR. You said "they organize photos into albums." Their is no "they," but only "you." You organize your photos the way you want them to be. They are stored on your hard drive where you store them. LR simply links to the folders when you ask it to. Yes, LR does import and create folders, but this is all based on what YOU tell it to do. From within LR you can do anything you want with an existing folder, you can create sub-folders and new folders and drag and drop to your heart's content. However, you cannot store a single image in multiple folders, each image will only go into one folder. Read the User Manual on LR, found at the top menu and online, regrading the Library Module and this will start you in the correct direction.

As for going through photos, again read the Library Module info; you can use a number of systems but do figure out a system and always use it. You can go through and mark the possible photos with a star, a color, a pick flag, whichever you choose to do. You can mark photos to delete with a reject flag and then delete them all in one swoop. I use the color green to mark photos I want to develop. Then I will go back and relook at those photos, using the search filter in that folder, and review them. If I do want to develop them I will then start out in the Develop Module and work through each one, sometimes I can develop several if they are similar in lighting conditions.

via the lens Loc: Northern California, near Yosemite NP

Hi, just a small correction and I don't mean to be rude. LR is an application that includes a data base component. The application itself is not a data base. There is a misconception in your statement and most people are already confused enough about what the application is and is not.

Steve DeMott Loc: St. Louis, Missouri (Oakville area)

Yes, you are correct. LR is an application that creates and manages the DB.

Howard5252 Loc: New York / Florida (now)

As several responses have said - do your initial culling before opening LR.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

For me, I make use of Fast Raw Viewer to look at the images while they are still on the SD card, I pick the ones worth editing and unpick the ones that are not worth editing in FRV, then I import only the pictures worth editing into Lightroom, adding some basic keywords on import, once imported I will begin editing, using star ratings to determine when each is finished. Finishing can mean work in Photoshop as well.

I also include adding GPS info as well as lens info to EXIF of each image.

The actual time needed varies, but once you get a rythym going things move very fast.

Having a great music library is a plus!

DinoC

Hi, I am new to this site and not sure if my post will send the link. I may have posted this multiple times this is the third try.

Here is a Youtube video link showing a very good way to quickly cull a large number
of pics in Lightroom. https://youtu.be/X5BHKbVwM2Y?list=PL7JpMMpENaD3izGJKch2pB-HPFAYbL79a

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

This is good. Thanks, Bruce.

bcrawf

At the end of a photo session or day, I view the photos on my memory card (with my computer), opening all of them in a bunch. As I then go through them (full screen), I jot down numbers of the images that are "keepers." (Usually just the final three numerals need to be written.) This is easy to do on a Mac. I then move the keepers to a folder (called a directory by Windows folk) on my computer and clear my memory card. (I label each day's folder with the date as an indexing measure, or, if I go several days just taking incidental photos, I use the date of the upload for the batch.) The key to what I've described is having all the batch open at once so that I can easily go from one to the next or back and forth to compare detail.