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A New Lightroom Tool For Me
Apr 21, 2019 10:47:11   #
BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan
 
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.


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Apr 21, 2019 11:19:09   #
rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin
 
Great color and detail, BlueMorel!

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Apr 21, 2019 11:29:03   #
BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan
 
rjaywallace wrote:
Great color and detail, BlueMorel!


Thanks rjay - exposure and color are SOCC for a change. Taken last year early May.

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Apr 21, 2019 13:50:58   #
R.G. Loc: Scotland
 
I like viewing the files full screen and scrolling down through them using the scroll wheel.

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Apr 21, 2019 18:00:12   #
BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan
 
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.

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Apr 21, 2019 22:19:17   #
rwilson1942 Loc: Houston, TX
 
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.

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Apr 21, 2019 22:32:21   #
BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan
 
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.

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Apr 22, 2019 06:19:31   #
tcthome Loc: NJ
 
Great pic.

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Apr 22, 2019 08:49:01   #
mizzee Loc: Boston,Ma
 
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.

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Apr 22, 2019 09:46:36   #
Jaackil Loc: Massachusetts
 
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.

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Apr 22, 2019 09:55:08   #
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.

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Apr 22, 2019 11:12:14   #
Redmond Loc: Oregon
 
very nice picture...

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Apr 22, 2019 14:10:58   #
BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan
 
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.

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Apr 22, 2019 14:14:08   #
BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan
 
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.

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Apr 22, 2019 14:16:17   #
BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan
 
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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