Comments on: Post processing workflow video

By: marcel

marcel — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:48:40 +0000

Nice to see someones workflow.
Although i’m not into sportsphotography.
Agree with shane, maybe a little bit too sped up, and would like some text here every now and then why u do the things you do.
Like all the cropping for instance, maybe you need a bigger zoom instead of all the cropping afterwards, make the choices when you do the photographing?, saves a lot of time editing.
I hope you found the right tools in LR by the time now, it is a wonderful application wich i use on a daily basis now.
Just as easy to use as the lightbox in ‘the wet years’.

Maybe check out the LR workshop on lynda.com, can teach u a lot.

By: Rolograaf

Rolograaf — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:36:23 +0000

I use Bordermaker a free utility working on all platforms (Java) which will do batchwise resize, USM after resize, make a border and put a logo and/or text. Check it out on http://www.Bordermaker.nl

By: Shane Trammel

Shane Trammel — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:06:43 +0000

What tool did you use to do the screencast?

By: Michael Hickey

Michael Hickey — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:03:23 +0000

I’m pretty familiar with Aperture and Lightroom but I can’t even tell what’s going on in the video, might be sped up a little too fast and some dialog would help immensely.

By: Kay in t Veen

Kay in t Veen — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:20:24 +0000

Thanks, did not know easybatchphoto. will be sure to check it out! thanks man!

By: Kay in t Veen

Kay in t Veen — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:19:44 +0000

Personally i choose to just make a great photograph, if this is not touching it at all, or only cropping its fine. but most of the time i do add vibrancy, contrast, exposure editing, sometimes even remove small parts that are annoying in the photo.

90% of the times i do not like custom crops. and stick to the 2×3, the only real reason for this is that i looks good on al services like flickr, picasa, blogs and so on. but sometimes when it compliments the photo of course go with the custom crop. but personally i like to advice to keep 2×3 or other standard format. and only do something different if it really makes a difference!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:12:53 +0000

I just found this blog… Like some other people said, it is always nice to see the workflow of other photographers. I use only Lightroom and now and then PS.
To put a signature on it, I use easybatchphoto for mac.
Keep up the good work and see you soon!

By: Rolograaf

Rolograaf — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:20:26 +0000

Hi Kay,

Very interesting to see someone’s workflow, although it’s a little fast sometimes

I have the same problem with being used to separate management and editing software, and are not comfortable (yet?) with Lightroom. I’m on windows and use the free Picasa, which does what it should, is fast, non destructive and crops/straightens easy for me. For editing I like the layers, filters and actions of Photoshop (now with ARC used to do with DPP for RAW conversion). Free Borderline utility puts my logo and resizes for web with final sharpening.

In your editing do you feel that you are more reporting than artistic? Do you try to represent the situation as closely as you saw it or do you just want the result to be a nice picture? I mean if for composition it would be nicer, do you edit out certain elements like a foot in the corner or something?

Second question if I may, continued on Calvin’s good question, why do you constrain yourself to a fixed cropsize? Is it personal taste or do customers demand that? I think photo-editors of magazines/newspapers will mostly crop a picture again in their own strange format?
I once had to crop all my pictures for a widescreen (16×9) presentation, have you ever tried that? (very difficult on portrait-orientation…)

Thanks again,
Lourens

By: Kay in t Veen

Kay in t Veen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:17:05 +0000

no i love aperture i all ways except speeds.. also cropping in aperture is much faster and nicer then lightroom. but for some reason aperture is acting bizar slow on my imac and macbook pro.
think i need to get myself a mac pro or imac quad core..

i crop 2×3 by the way
thanks for your comment, appreciate the participation!

By: Calvin Hill

Calvin Hill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:32:58 +0000

Hey,

Are you saying that Lightroom development is much faster when cropping and such than Aperture? Also, when you crop do you use a custom crop or a standard ie 2×3 or 4×5?

Great video!

Thanks,

Calvin

By: hamperium

hamperium — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:19:57 +0000

good video Kay.. Good to see how you crop the pictures..

By: Kay in t Veen

Kay in t Veen — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:15:32 +0000

i just love aperture. but hate the speed of the develop module. this i just changed for lightroom. since im only working a few days in lightroom. i still need to check all those small features. thanks indeed!

By: Jakke

Jakke — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:43:34 +0000

Hi,
great video nice to see your workflow! You can always learn from other photographers
Why do you do your selecting in Aperture (btw you have to change Apple Lightroom into Apple Aperture)? You can easily do this in Lightroom or do you just prefer Aperture?
I saw you dragged a lot in the small screen of the sharpening tool in Lightroom to find the right area to sharpen. You can easily click on it, then it zooms out and then click where you want to zoom in again, just in case you didn’t know .