Re: tips on going through old work

[Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tina,

Thank you for your insights on this, I appreciate it.

This is a tidbit of great value and I’ll try to apply it: I agree about finding value in previously overlooked work, but I have tried to stick to only working on 4 and 5 star edits or I'll never finish!

Carry on!

Lea

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On Nov 6, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lea -

I'm going through mine by country.  The vast majority of mine are Honduras and Guatemala so I got those out of the way first.  I did hire an editor to help me weed them out.  For the rest, I'm doing them myself.  I've done 20 countries so far and have 47 to go!  I'm trying to pick ones that will sell either as stock or prints.  The current work, I'm editing as I go along.  I used to have two LR catalogs, one for current work and one archival one for everything else.  I recently combined them both and find it is much easier not to have to switch back and forth between catalogs.  It doesn't seem to have slowed things down at all but I did recently upgrade my computer to one with SSD drives.  

I cannot imagine doing this without LR!!  They did mess me up with the last upgrade because the new Import will not allow you to import duplicates, but Adobe has promised that they are reverting to the old Import - soon, I hope!

I agree about finding value in previously overlooked work, but I have tried to stick to only working on 4 and 5 star edits or I'll never finish!

Tina

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tina,

You say you have 800,000 images in your light room catalog. Thankfully I don't have quite that many.

Can you give me some idea of how you are going through those? By subject, by date, by location?

That seems to be the hurdle that I'm having; knowing how to get back through years and years of work in a streamlined way.

In my case I have, through the years, made extensive use of star and color ratings. I would be shooting myself in the foot at this point if I were to alter those that are already in place.

I cannot fathom even attempting to do this job without Lightroom.

One of the surprises that I'm discovering in the little bit of this job that I have done so far is the number of images that I passed over at the time that I took them that now, for one reason or another, I am finding to have value to a bigger body of work.

How in the world did people do this before computers?

Lea

your kids . my camera . we'll click

On Nov 5, 2015, at 2:01 PM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lea -

I am going through my files over 800,000 photos trying to organize them and working on a new website.  The thing that has helped me most is Lightroom.  I can go quickly through the photos and give them star ratings - 5 for portfolio, 4 for website, 3 for keeper but not website worthy, 2 needs work, and 1 discard.  Then I work on only the 4 and 5 ones, adding keywords to only those.  Someday I might get around to working on the 2's and 3's but I doubt.  I'll have edited for the best work anyway.  My photos are already organized by country so that does make it a little easier.

Hope this helps.  Good luck!

Tina

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have over eleven years of personal, digital work which is key worded, starred and color coded in Lightroom, all very neatly organized, that I’m going through in an effort to cull the best of the best.

Perhaps, no matter what, this is slow and tedious at best but as I go through it I seem to keep finding new keepers and every so often I find weaknesses in my key wording system that requires time and attention.

Does anyone have pointers for revisiting old work in an efficient, timely way?

I’ve been doing this, off and on, for months and I feel like I keep stumbling over myself.

Can anyone on this list speak to solid work practices when going over old work?

Oh, and I should add I am constantly adding new work to my body of work.

Thank you,

Lea

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www.leamurphy.com

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