Crwiwy Loc: Devon UK

I have seen posts on UHH where people say they have taken many hundreds - perhaps as many as 1000 - pictures in one session.

Recently I went to a steam fair for the first time and ended up with 400 pictures - which is much more than I usually take at once.

This set me thinking - just how do members sort their many hundreds of pictures without getting cross-eyed and losing the will to live?

What is your system and workflow for such a situation?

Aldebaran Loc: Florida

By Subjet: Animals > Birds, egrets, Herons, Ducks, Insects,

Depending on subjects you shoot the most, you should detect a trend.

Then I have "Events"
And "Places" within that I have "Buildings, Landscapes, Lakes, Several Cities I have been to/ lived in

And People are within "ANIMALS", including my family.

Just an idea.

Yoru workflow could be a lot different

Lightroom helps me locate photos by camera make, date, color, keywords, etc/

Hope this helps

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

My 10 step process:

1. Take a crap load of photos

2. Copy RAW images from card to computer.

3. Import into Lightroom

4. In Library module: quickly cull through the bad and delete or flag to be deleted.

5. Switch to develop module: make edits to individual photos (copy and paste settings is your friend here).

6. Switch back to Library module: export out 300dpi JPGs to computer hard drive and backup hard drive. I use a year-month-date format at the end of photos...for example, P1000-20130815, where the P#### is the file name, and the 20130815 is the year, month, date.

7. Upload JPG's to my Smugmug website

8. Delete the RAW files if not needed anymore, keep the keepers

9. Format the card, in the camera.

10. Start all over again.

mdorn Loc: Portland, OR

I delete 80 to 90% of all photos! As my skills have improved, the number of shots have gone down and the number of keepers have gone up. My workflow is delete, delete, delete, keep, delete, delete, delete, keep. Out of 400, I would maybe keep 40. Nobody wants to see your crappy shots, and keeping all images just makes it harder for you to find the good ones later. -Mark

stretch86025 Loc: Holbrook Az

When I do sporting events I useally take up to 600-1000 pictures at each game. What I do is just scan through a partial of them. I put all originals on external hard drives and keep them, then every once awhile I work on a few at a time or batch fix them all at once but save them as a separate jpeg and always keep the originals as they are.

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

When out all day, shoot about 300 photos on average, this is down from 500 since I switched cameras to OMD with EVF (fewer un-useables). I load all of it into Lightroom in folders by date with my preset for developing, cull at least 1/2, keyword then tinker at will with the rest (I love post processing)

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

Crwiwy, my workflow is similar to mdorn's.
Dont put it off, because next week you'll have 400 more, and 400 the week after that. You see a pattern here?
My actual workflow:
I download in DPP(Canon), it's the fastest, best to cull fast.
As large thumbnails, I scan them all, in a few minutes to look for glaring duds. OOF, blurred, too dark, blown out etc. I delete those.
By that time I know what I have. I go through and check mark anything that has a possibility, about 25%. I delete the rest.
I go through those and very quickly put a crop box on the best ones to try and form a preliminary composition. If I can't find it, I erase the box. The dozen that survive go into a separate folder. The crop tells me later when I look at them what I had in mind for the foto. Of those dozen I will probably work on 2 or 3. Maybe I can get 1or2 keepers out of the 400.
Sometimes I erase them all. The vision I had just isn't there, or not sharp enough, or too noisy or just isn't going to knock anybody's socks off.
Now if their your family, of course, they're ALL good !
Just don't put it off. SS

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

The main part of this I would change is that I put the date, formatted as above, at the beginning. I have them in different folders, so I can go back and delete older, no-longer-so-vitally-important pictures after a few years. For example, last week, I deleted almost 200 of the piñata pictures I took at my youngest granddaughters second birthday party (she's five now). I also deleted over 100 face-in-the-cake pictures from her first birthday party.

Crwiwy Loc: Devon UK

This is sooooo true! :shock:

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

I don't...I'm like you...400-600 is a LOT of images to take at one place or one time. I was taking a LOT when I was photographing Lacrosse, but that was motordrive and for a purpose....but with any other shooting?

I don't subscribe to the "Spray-n-Pray" method.

hfb46 Loc: UK

Check out Julieanne Kost's video on the Adobe website http://tv.adobe.com/watch/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-5/lightroom-5-select-rate-and-prioritize-your-images/

russelray Loc: La Mesa CA

I average about 500 pictures per day. If I go to the Zoo, SeaWorld, or the San Diego County Fair, I can easily come home with one or two thousand pictures.

First step is to put them in a dated folder: 081613 Zoo.

Once I've looked at them in Photoshop CC, they get titled: Giant Panda 081613 01.

Then they get moved to more detailed folders: Fauna ► Panda ► Giant Panda

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

The best advice I received is to use keywords in LR. That will let you find what you want later.

WNYShooter Loc: WNY

Build a library of META tags/keywords, using catagories from General all the way down to specific, and apply them when importing. Then, as you process, you can catagorize them even more specifically by adding more META tags.

For example, Photo 1 (tags:date, place, time, person, type of shot, dominant color, subject type, moon phase, menstrual cycle, and etc., etc., etc...........).

I store the pictures in folders on disk by date, but using Lightroom, you can build your catalogs and/or search the entire collection, ie. all directories/folders, by any individual or series of tags--using the tags essentially creates a cross index system.

It's usually a pretty daunting task when you first start setting up the tags/catagories. If you search online, there are Meta tag lists, which people have already created, that you can import into your lightroom to help get you started, some even sell the lists. I personally have a few hundred tags now, and I'm always creating more as needed.

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

If I have a bunch of photos, I import them into a Temp Hold folder to review and delete the bad (less good?). The remainder I move as I get time into Subject or Event folders subdivided by year if the event is repetitive.