when i'm grading (culling) images often i'll have a sequence and i'm zoomed into 100% to really scrutinize the focus and i'm skeptical that the jpg preview will allow me that level of detail. It would freeze so often, and lag after each slider adjustment. But after I’m done rating my images in LRC and I open them in Bridge, Bridge would not recognize or read those ratings. Light room classic would do a much better job if I let it import while I go do something else. If a photo needs more attention, I can open it in photoshop right from ACR.Īfter a trip with 8+ thousands of images, Bridge is the worts tool. (Almost, because ACR doesn’t have another circle and a handle to adjust the feather of a mask) Then I can open a bunch of photos in Adobe Camera RAW which is almost as good as develop in lightroom. I can easily rate them, then copy over to another drive/folder. Same with Photo Mechanic which I own too. Lightroom classic with my brain are not on the same wavelength. Later I build 1:1 previews for the images that survive my review and cull process once on the laptop - my preference is to delete few shots in the field. I only import into LRC with Minimal Previews built. Offloading takes only a few minutes (CF Express Type B and fast cards) using a Delkin Devices card reader and fast T4 cable. Lots of down time in the Safari Vehicle while we wait for our subjects - reviewing and rating is simple and easy to do across my 3 cameras while we wait. I am currently in the Maasai Mara for 20 days 17 game drives over the first 9 days in I have taken 10,300 lossless RAW images (and some long, for me, 8K video sequences) - that is 1,144 a day - normally 3/4 are taken in the morning game drive and the final 1/3rd in the late afternoon game drive. Leave all the rest until you have off loaded them onto a laptop/computer Most often I do what I recommend - leave the cards in your camera until full and review and initially rate images in camera - ONLY delete obvious misses. On rare occasions I use snapbridge to transfer one file or another to look at the focus or similar to help me ensure I captured the planned shot. True - I do not take a laptop into the field - if I did I would transfer files from cards onto it and deal with them then. I think FastRaw Viewer would work for this process as well. I may cull more images once imported into LR but I keep more images for a longer period of time and my culling process may take a lot longer. In other shooting situations my culling process may be much different, I may just remove the out of focus or obviously unusable images in PM and then import the images into LR to study more carefully. I am in and out of Photo Mechanic as quickly as possible. The time it takes to scroll through 4000 images is my primary concern. I don’t care if I am seeing the RAW image or the imbedded JPEG I just don’t want to wait for a preview. It reads the Z9 HE files fine, and I don’t spend much time on each image. Photo Mechanic has a lot of features that I don’t take advantage of, but it saves me time. I then import and edit in LR with my initial rating from PM showing in LR. The ingest process copies the files and the ratings into a folder on my storage drive. I open a contact sheet in PM from the card, rate the keepers 3+, then ingest to my storage drive based on ratings greater than 3. Not all of these images will be used but I will keep enough images to cover the event. I may shoot 4000+ images in a day and I need to reduce to maybe 400 to review and process in Lightroom. I prefer Photo Mechanic for my sports jobs. It is easy to delete from storage but not as easy to delete from backup. In many situations I prefer that the unnecessary stills and videos not ever get to my primary storage drives because they will make it to my backup drives pretty quickly. Shooting video now as well as stills at 20fps you can use up lots of storage space quickly. Image culling is different for each photographer and may differ from situation to situation.
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