What do do after I shoot in Raw (Page 2): If you want too much to read, take a look at some of these "digital workflow" articles. There are loads of possibilities, and some good...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Starr wrote:

Hi UH friends.

I am beginning to shoot in Raw but at a loss as what to do with them after I put then in Bridge, do my color correcting and then moving them to PS CS4. Not sure what to do after all the post processing. Convert them to JPGs and where do I store them? Back in iPhoto? What do you guy do?

Thank you again, for all your advise.

If you want too much to read, take a look at some of these "digital workflow" articles. There are loads of possibilities, and some good suggestions.

https://www.google.com/search?q=digital+workflow&oq=digital+workflow&aqs=chrome.0.69i57j69i60j69i62.4545j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Dewar Loc: Summer in MN & Winter in FL

I think the question was "Where do I store them?". As I see it you have 3 basic options: 1. on the cloud, or something similar, such as the Google or Nikon, etc. websites. 2. On a large external hard drive. 3. If you want to be extra certain they do not get lost, do both.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

jerryc41 wrote:

If you want too much to read, take a look at some of these "digital workflow" articles. There are loads of possibilities, and some good suggestions.

http://www.google.com/search?q=digital+workflow&oq=digital+workflow&aqs=chrome.0.69i57j69i60j69i62.4545j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Mudshark Loc: Illinois

"What do do after I shoot in Raw"

Dress quickly before the police arrive......or you will be in deep "do do"

DesertRat Loc: Arizona

JR1 wrote:

This has been covered many times, use the search facility above for RAW processing, saves many same questions

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/search.jsp?q=raw+processing&u=&s=0

Thank you for the search link, but I don't have time to search every subject that I might have a question about. I check here every day to see if anything of interest to me is currently being discussed, and if so, I learn at that time. Such is the case with this subject, and I'm glad the OP brought it up.

mdorn Loc: Portland, OR

jerryc41 wrote:

A lot would depend on the size of your house and how much wall space is available. :D

LOL... I said "ask yourself" not to actually hang them all at the same time. Much to my wife's chagrin, I have several photos hanging on the walls of my home. Of course, I have many more that do not hang on the walls. What I usually do is swap the photos every 6 to 8 mo. or so. I suppose if I had a pro business, I'd keep everything. :-)

XKaliber

Oh Jerry.... I DOOOO love your sense of humor my friend..

Photo-Al Loc: Sonoma County, CA

I guess I'm surprised that some items weren't brought up:
-* What are you going to do with the photos once you've tweaked them? If you are going to sell them for publication someplace, you'll most likely need to supply jpg's.
-* Are you going to go back and tweak them more at some later point? I mean like a year from now, or 3 or 5 or ???
-* How much disk space do you have for file storage, and how many photos are you talking about? (Maybe a related topic is "How much $$$ you got????"

I do headshots, and have started shooting in raw because of the improved post handling available in raw. I discard a lot that I know I wouldn't work with. I then have the client select the ones they want in their portfolio, and I keep those after final post processing in a TIFF format ... along with some that were MY favorites for my portfolio ... and deliver jpgs to the client along with the printed portfolio.

But if I'm shooting "snapshots" or something where I don't expect to be more of a professional shoot, I'll just shoot jpg high quality. If I'm surprised and get a real keeper, I'll use a raw processor to tweak the jpg ... not as good as on a raw, but better than the standard jpg post processing ... and save it as TIFF or jpg depending on my mood and the photo.

Confusing enough?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

mdorn wrote:

LOL... I said "ask yourself" not to actually hang them all at the same time. Much to my wife's chagrin, I have several photos hanging on the walls of my home. Of course, I have many more that do not hang on the walls. What I usually do is swap the photos every 6 to 8 mo. or so. I suppose if I had a pro business, I'd keep everything. :-)

Simple solution with those of you with small homes (under 20,000 sq ft): hang the pictures in stacks of 10. When you get tired of looking at the one on top, rip it off and get a new piece of art to admire. You can hang thousands of images that way.

GaryS1964 Loc: Northern California

As has already been mentioned when you save to JPEG you loose some of the image data. That's why a JPEG is a smaller file than a RAW file. I save all the images I want to keep in their original RAW format with the the Photoshop XMP file if I've done some PP. For those images I want to print and/or share with others I create JPEGs.

Keep in mind that if you have photos you will want your great grandchildren to look at in 50 years either print them or prepare to spend some time keeping them up to date with the changes in storage and file format technology. JPEG has been around a long time but that doesn't mean that in 50 years there will be computers and software that will read todays JPEGs. Also the CD, DVDs, Flash Drives, or whatever device you store them on will most likely not be accessible in 50 years by the "computers" people will be using then. I put computers in quotes because computers as we know them today may not exist or will be vastly different.

Mudshark Loc: Illinois

GaryS1964 wrote:

As has already been mentioned when you save to JPE... (show quote)

This has been a favorite topic of mine for several years. I like to think about the following...If you had access, Matthew Brady's civil war glass plates, negatives are in the National Archives in D.C. One could take a magnifier, loop, or just the naked eye and retrieve millions and millions of bits of information from those images. Pure history...what kind of buttons were on Union soldiers' uniforms? How long were their rifles? What did their tents look like? etc. times millions...
Now, let us imagine 150 years from now...and you have these question concerning one of the middle east wars. You have digital images...a CD that has been mystically preserved or a DVD or whatever...what you have is a boatload of 1111s and 000s. Do really think digital technology will be viable in any form 150 years from now...I don't know...I'll be long dead. But the analog negatives if preserved have a chance of retaining value over long strings of 11011100001, etc. I suppose I should have better things to worry about...but I tend to trust technology that I can touch and feel and see over digital mayhem...
O.K., I'm nuts...fire away hogs...
I recently dug out my grandma's trunk and retrieved some old photos I've been scanning...who will dig through my junk and retrieve what...hard disk files, DVDs...???

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Mudshark wrote:

Now, let us imagine 150 years from now...and you have these question concerning one of the middle east wars. You have digital images...a CD that has been mystically preserved or a DVD or whatever...what you have is a boatload of 1111s and 000s. Do really think digital technology will be viable in any form 150 years from now..

That's been a valid concern of historians. We're relying more on electronic storage, and less on letters chiseled into rock, or words written on paper. Google has been trying to "preserve civilization" by scanning every book ever written. Maybe the books will survive better than their digital counterparts.

Mudshark Loc: Illinois

jerryc41 wrote:

That's been a valid concern of historians. We're relying more on electronic storage, and less on letters chiseled into rock, or words written on paper. Google has been trying to "preserve civilization" by scanning every book ever written. Maybe the books will survive better than their digital counterparts.

A most excellent observation Jerry!!