After Post Processing
Aug 12, 2021 06:15:06 #
After running your photos through whatever post processing needed to be done and have decided upon which to keep, do you also save the original photo of the keepers? Just curious.
Aug 12, 2021 06:19:46 #
Yes, because I might want to pp differently at some time in the future. It has already happened a few times, so the future is now 
(My original is the raw file.)
(My original is the raw file.)
Aug 12, 2021 06:24:22 #
Well, since I use Lightroom for 99% of whatever processing I need to use, and it is nondestructive in nature (that is, it maintains a record of whatever edits you do and applies them when you export an image file) then by nature the original raw file is kept.
But since we have seen all kinds of improvements in software over the years, it makes sense to keep the "original" (particularly if it is a raw file) as in the future the next generation of post processing software, when applied to images recorded years ago, may well create even better results than whatever you use today.
But since we have seen all kinds of improvements in software over the years, it makes sense to keep the "original" (particularly if it is a raw file) as in the future the next generation of post processing software, when applied to images recorded years ago, may well create even better results than whatever you use today.
Aug 12, 2021 07:02:21 #
I ALWAYS keep the original (ingredients).
I might want to modify what I did to an image to make another version.
Once you create a JPEG (or whatever), you cannot go back and change the recipe as all of the "ingredients" have been mixed and cooked.
I might want to modify what I did to an image to make another version.
Once you create a JPEG (or whatever), you cannot go back and change the recipe as all of the "ingredients" have been mixed and cooked.
Aug 12, 2021 07:04:43 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
Howard5252 wrote:
After running your photos through whatever post processing needed to be done and have decided upon which to keep, do you also save the original photo of the keepers? Just curious.
Did you discard your negatives after making your prints?
Aug 12, 2021 07:06:36 #
larryepage wrote:
Did you discard your negatives after making your prints?
Haha.
No not originally, but after 25 years of never having made additional prints, I did.....
Aug 12, 2021 07:26:31 #
The wife is my back up. She always wants the originals cause she knows I'll be converting most of them into black & white.
Aug 12, 2021 07:30:27 #
Howard5252 wrote:
After running your photos through whatever post processing needed to be done and have decided upon which to keep, do you also save the original photo of the keepers? Just curious.
Emphatically yes. Between personal tastes and changing tools you may want go back and edit it many more times into different views. LR, create virtual copy, lets you take a single raw file and process it N ways.
Aug 12, 2021 07:31:51 #
When I get the occasional shot that I might print, and edit to that end, I also know that I will, at some later time likely see things I would do differently. After all, a photo can be edited in hundreds of ways, and to think that we might have nailed it the first time around is, to me, premature. I also investigate the possibilities for a B/W conversion of many shots, so now I already have several different B/W conversions that are the best I can come up with at the time, and perhaps different color versions that may get me closer to the B/W that I am striving for. Learning new and different editing methods along the way, can completely alter the approach you take to editing, so its very likely that returning to an older photo for reediting will produce an enlightened edit. Always save your RAW for your starting place.
Aug 12, 2021 07:38:11 #
Aug 12, 2021 07:54:51 #
I always keep the original raw file. When I finished PP and want to keep a copy in that state I save it as PSP (because I use PS). I save it also as JPEG for printing, emailing, posting etc...
Aug 12, 2021 08:14:22 #
Ditto:
Linda From Maine wrote:
Yes, because I might want to pp differently at some time in the future. It has already happened a few times, so the future is now
(My original is the raw file.)
(My original is the raw file.)
Aug 12, 2021 08:56:05 #
twosummers
Loc: Melbourne Australia or Lincolnshire England
Me too - I always keep my RAW images. Then again I store everything online (just in case)
Aug 12, 2021 09:25:25 #
Howard5252 wrote:
After running your photos through whatever post processing needed to be done and have decided upon which to keep, do you also save the original photo of the keepers? Just curious.
Yes
Aug 12, 2021 10:35:28 #
I keep whatever RAW files that I do not cull. Some are processed and some never get processed.
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