My digital photography workflow
Just a quick post about my digital photo workflow while I'm in the middle of it. (Sorting the 1500+ pictures I took at X-Day is a chore unto itself!!)
It goes something like this:
Fire up Adobe Lightroom
Insert the CF/SD card into the computer
Download the entire batch
Erase the card for the next use
Initial round of tagging - I try to tag the whole group with one set of tags ("Subgenius", "X-Day" in the current case)
Move the batch to the final directory (I have things load into a generic "import" directory that I try in vain to keep tidy)
Go through all of the pictures and simply flag all of the ones I intend to post. (I wind up flagging typically 1/6 - 1/4 of the pictures I take)
This is where having two monitors really helps out -- I have the grid view on the main monitor (27" iMac) and a zoomed view of the current picture on the Samsung monitor to the right. Having them both be color calibrated helps out things tremendously!
Filter the pictures to the flagged ones
Go through and crop the good ones to make them better and adjust the levels of each of them as needed.
Upload the set to SmugMug using Jeffrey's plugin.
I know... nothing groundbreaking, but it's what works for me.