I have trouble intuitively choosing which photos I really want to keep out of a series. I'm more of a pray and spray type shooter sometimes, though with, hopefully, appropriate settings. I have recently found a tool in LR that really helps me - the "impromptu slideshow" under the "Window" tab in the Library module. As the pictures click through my screen view, my mind can relax and more easily pick out ones that speak to me. Here is one that I discovered in reviewing a day's shoot in the Grand Tetons. I might keep it, I may not, but this is the one that caught my eye among the 5 or so similar ones I took. There are a few more tweaks to make, but I think I'll make a new collection of "found" photos that I can further go back and make final decisions on.
Great color and detail, BlueMorel!
rjaywallace wrote:
Great color and detail, BlueMorel!
Thanks rjay - exposure and color are SOCC for a change. Taken last year early May.
I like viewing the files full screen and scrolling down through them using the scroll wheel.
R.G. wrote:
I like viewing the files full screen and scrolling down through them using the scroll wheel.
Mine's the lazy way - I can just sit back and see them roll by. Otherwise I use the arrow buttons in LR to page through them one by one for editing/deleting.
Interesting, I too was unaware of this tool.
Only one thing missing, it doesn't identify which image is being
displayed so you have to keep count or use some other method to track where in a series you are.
I will give it a try on my next shoot to see how useful it proves to be.
rwilson1942 wrote:
Interesting, I too was unaware of this tool.
Only one thing missing, it doesn't identify which image is being
displayed so you have to keep count or use some other method to track where in a series you are.
I will give it a try on my next shoot to see how useful it proves to be.
If you click on an image the slideshow stops there - sort of helpful, but easy to get lost. It will tell you you're on, say, #6 of your series so you can backtrack if you noted where in the sequence the slide was.
I too use the slideshow to do a first cull on my images for the obvious duds. I press the one key when a dud appears... the shot of my feet or the sidewalk or hopelessly out of focus. Then I use the filter for rated images, double check their dud-ness, delete from disk, and switch back to unrated.
I like survey view. I put it in single picture mode then use “P” for pick and “X” for eliminate. I breeze through pretty fast keeping just the ones I want to consider. When I am done I go back and view similar images side by side in survey view and eliminate all but the best one using the “X” again. When I am ready to edit I switch over to the develop module and filter by “flagged” and I am ready to go. I have found this method to be the most efficient and fast so far.
Dave Sr
Loc: Nazareth, Pennsylvania
I close the left, top, and right panels (clk the small arrows to the outside of each panel). With 'caps lock' on I rate each photo by typing 1-3, and the screen jumps to the next photo. With the bottom panel still on, I can see where I am in the folder of photo.
Redmond wrote:
very nice picture...
Thanks, this is one of several tries to catch the area that the National Elk Refuge blocked off to humans and elk to recover the overbrowsed areas. Even elk have to be conservation-minded! The other attempts are probably getting tossed.
As far as the photo, I think I'll try to remove that lone tree on the right. I tried cropping it, but it changed the composition dimensions.
Jaackil wrote:
I like survey view. I put it in single picture mode then use “P” for pick and “X” for eliminate. I breeze through pretty fast keeping just the ones I want to consider. When I am done I go back and view similar images side by side in survey view and eliminate all but the best one using the “X” again. When I am ready to edit I switch over to the develop module and filter by “flagged” and I am ready to go. I have found this method to be the most efficient and fast so far.
In general that's what I do, but still end up with too many choices. The slideshow lets me step back as if I were reviewing someone else's work.
Dave Sr wrote:
I close the left, top, and right panels (clk the small arrows to the outside of each panel). With 'caps lock' on I rate each photo by typing 1-3, and the screen jumps to the next photo. With the bottom panel still on, I can see where I am in the folder of photo.
I'll try that, too. Sounds faster than picking a filter button for each one.
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