George,
What a beautiful set of smiles!
I won’t comment on the majority of your workflow. IMO, most of ours are probably different, because there are so many ways to approach the task. It is a highly subjective topic, I think.
However, I want to talk about your first step, which is converting your images to PSD before burning to CD.
The way I understand, the conversion could be eliminated, and the smaller out-of-camera images burnt to CD, to save time and space.
Converting a JPG to a PSD, and then saving the file, does not improve the image. You could simply burn your JPG files to CD for permanent storage. Then, based on your interest in individual shots, take up your workflow from that point, making the JPG-PSD conversion as you begin editing the image.
Of course, you are in no way damaging your images by converting them and then burning them onto CD. I just think you could save yourself some time and use fewer CDs without losing any quality.
Byron
ya and geeze what if some day psd format becomes obsolete ? Not likely but what if….
then again, the same could hold true for jpeg…oooh, scary thought.
George love the image!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m with Byron as I don’t believe you have to save the files in anything other than how they come out of the camera. This is assuming you are doing a cut and paste and not opening them and resaving them. As soon as you do work on them and then go to save that is a different story. This is the time for you to consider saving in PSD or TIFF. Just one man’s opinion.
g.
geeze, i never even noticed that link ! What a great picture George ! I see some feet moving ! 🙂
George, lovely image! Great expression! Nice bright colours too, exactly fitting to the bright mood of your image. It is very nice to see your progression!
I suppose somebody else made these children smile so lovely. Next time let this person be as close to you as possible or try to make tham smile yourself. Someone looking into the camera is making contact with the viewer.
About lighting the subject, turn your fill light just a tiny little lower. This way you are adding a little more shadow to your subject and it will add a little depth to your image.
I agree with Byron and Grant considering your workflow. I just only miss your burning to CD of the finished files.
Leen
yes Jodi, his feet are moving as he was very excited to be downstairs. i normally don’t bring them downstairs as there are too many things for them to get into. your frames & mattes add a certain touch to my images that i would not have been able to achive otherwise. i normally don’t shoot in RAW as the canon RAW converter is very slow. although the few times i have used it, it did save an otherwise unusable photo. seems "someone" forgot to set the WB to tungsten before taking the photos under the flood lights. guess i just get as excited as the baby when i’m downstairs. i bet my feet were moving also…….lol. thanks for all the comments on my workflow & photo.
George, re the WB setting: did you have it set to "Auto"? If so, I would have thought it would handle the situation with the tungsten lights. Re the Canon RAW converter: it’s a piece of junk. If you’re going to shoot RAW, go for the Capture One converter; Ray can tell you how terrific it is!
chuck, i had the WB set to auto but the pics came out with a yellow tint on the skin. once i changed to tungsten WB all was fine. i have tried the C1 RAW converter but it is very expensive for a Mac so i just shoot in JPEG.
If this is one of you ‘not so good’ photos I’d love to see one your proud of, they must be stunning!!
I concur with others about saving to CD using the original camera format. I don’t *think* PSE does anything when it imports it, but why take a chance (and save some CD Space).
Personally I create a ‘negatives’ folder for each camera upload to place the originals in. I then wait until I have enough folders of originals to make saving to CD more worthwhile.
I squeak when I walk, and cannot bring myself to write just a few pics to a whole CD that can take 700MB of data.
JP
JP – Now I’ve got 10.3 on my imac I can session burn CDs so it’ s no longer a problem – before I was still burning at least once a week and more often if I had a large photosession, and I was using up a lot of not very full CD-Rs – but I figured I’d rather waste 50c-$1 than lose some photographs – most of them are worth more to me than that! I’m also backing up both originals and edited images daily on an external FW drive, but I think that that is soon going to have to become primary storage at the rate my internal drive is filling up!
Susan S.
