Hi Luiz,
From our other discussion, I'll kick off with mine:
The way I work is quite simple:
- Shoot RAW with the Camera set to a standard profile with a bit of extra saturation and sharpening quite high. This I do to be able to judge on-the-camera whether or not my images are Ok (and sharp)
- PM to ingest my images (to two different locations, files get renamed and get a base set of IPTC copyright info)
- PM to cull the images
- Batch run a base set of image settings on the raw files in Capture NX, based on the content of the images (e.g. Landscape, Wildlife) — This step would be similar if you used e.g. Lightroom or ACR)
- Refine selection and determine selected, alternative, and trash images, add ratings for selected images
- Fine tune individual images in Capture NX and/or other software (PhotoMatix Pro, Photoshop, etc.)
- Repeat until happy with final selection
My selection/culling works as follows: trash pictures or real duplicates get tagged (these get really deleted afterwards), selected images and alternatives get temporarily colour coded. The definitely selected ones get a star rating. This is refined until I have the final selection. I then delete the tagged files and remove the temporary colour coding. The images with a rating are my "selected" images, the ones without a rating are alternatives which I store in a separate location.
Selected images then get a colour label based on their "function": 1=Portfolio, 2=Portfolio Series, 5=Input file (e.g. further edited in Photoshop or used as part of an HDR or Panorama). Note the images labelled as Input file are hidden by default in PM so I only see the result images (as I use Capture NX, my NEFs already show the edit result so I don't need to create a tiff for those).
Cheers,
Hayo
