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Atlanta based editorial music photographer, Zack Arias. |
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Mon , February 15th, 2010
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14 minutes in and wishing you had moved your mouse pointer off to the side. (I find myself doing that too.) My brain kept telling me to move my mouse.
I have been using PM for over a year now. It is amazing. I really enjoyed this. It gives me some insight to how to better improve my post production.
Just about to watch the vid, I am sure it will rock. I was introduced to PhotoMechanic 2.5 years ago and it saved me from quitting photography. True story.
I LOVE PM. LR and or Aperture are just the sprinkles on the icing.
Cheers bro!
Love your jr. art director’s comments. Kids have a way of keeping you humble. Future guest host for your web site critiques? Great idea on the back and forth method. Hadn’t seen that before. Had to laugh at your initial go through when you said a couple of times you’ll have to work on it in post. All I could hear was your comment on the DVD about dope slapping yourself. Thank you for your commitment to teaching.
Glad to find out that I’m not the only one who does PM->LR->PS
Caleb,
For me, this wasn’t terribly boring. :p Lots of helpful info here (for me anyways). Thanks, Zack, for being open and sharing!
I watched the whole thing! Part of it I listened to while I had my own Lightroom processing going. Very informative – thank you. I especially enjoyed the boring bits.
When I was first starting out I wanted nothing more than to be a fly on the wall while some big shot pro just went through their boring edit work… You just want to know what’s so different about them by comparison to you. Putting this out there shows that the ‘big secret’ is nothing: you’re good at what you do. There’s no magic cheat – you do all the down and dirty stuff everyone else does: fiddling around, booing over your exposure, deleting shots that weren’t great… I think lots of people would be happy to see this (and maybe some people would be unhappy to see it, finding out there aren’t as many ‘quick fixes’ as they thought there were).
It’s awesome: thanks for doing it!
- Heather
Loved the screencast. I was wondering though, how do you search your catalog if you ever need to find something?
Are all your images kept in PM? Do you ever find yourself needing to find old images?
PS. Branded thumb drives: I hear more and more about this, and it intrigues me. Where are you getting yours done? Is it really cost effective by comparison to CDs with pretty labels? Inquiring minds want to know.
Daniel – I’ll cover that in an archive post.
I found it very interesting. Nice job to the both of you and thanks for posting this up.
G
Heather – We are going with this company. http://www.ipromo.com/
Zach,
Where do you get your branded flash drives?
G
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Zach do you have another business you are moon-lighting? Googled the blog post after I saw it on Twitter.
http://imgur.com/yHc3t
Thanks for taking the time for providing the backstage pass to your workflow. It really hit home about staring at an image too long as I’ve been driving myself nuts doing just this the last few days color correcting an indoor auto show shoot. Nice to see I’m not the only one. Thanks again!
Not boring at all!
I thought LR was my saviour for allowing me to parse through all my images and get to the keepers… but wading through all the extras has proven to be annoying. Finding images is near impossible because keywording is a waste of time and never works right. Far more investment for anything saved.
I NEVER thought of using a different program to weed through the images first, then to copy them to Lightroom as the edits. That seems like such an obvious solution. I drank the LR kool-aid a little too hard I think because that’s an issue it was supposed to help solve.
Now I just have to figure out how I’m going to organize my catalogs and re-import any of my old keepers if I’m going down that road.
It would be nice to select all of the edits from PM and pass them into a LR import without having to move a copy of them first though. I’m not keen on having the same image in 2 folders.
You’ve got me thinking again Zack! Way to go!
Rich
Thanks for not shortening this movie and showing us your whole process. I picked up a lot of good points, so I never feelt tempted to scroll on even it at times was a bit boring, but your son took care of those moments in a fine way.
Very cool – but how do you get the mouse pointer to make the circle when you click?
Very cool! Not boring at all.
Thank you!
Ty – How in the hell does that happen?
Great video, Zack. Good to see a full session of editing and culling. Just goes to show I need to get MUCH faster at both haha.
And Caleb, totally not boring. And I’m about to fall asleep, but I watched the whole thing.
Zack, great video. I really enjoyed the tips on Lightroom, especially the option key tip (I’m a new Mac user so I didn’t know about it). Thanks for this.
Caleb, not boring at all. I thought the “Sloppy Joe” joke was actually quite clever. Nice job!
Thanks Zack, very much appreciated. Also appreciated was the interaction between you and your son, excellent.
(And no, Caleb, it wasn’t boring. How did cleaning the kitchen go?)
Zack thank you for taking the time to create this video. Loved your teaching style and walking us through your whole workflow. I am looking forward to the archiving tutorial.
I’m watching this as I go through my images for the day (Snow and Breath), and I’m lovin’ the PhotoMech! I found out about it through working as a photojournalist for its down-and-dirty speed, and I use it every time now.
Great screen-cast and production once again, Zack!
Thanks Zack. There was a lot of insight and good workflow tips. …and it was FAR from boring Caleb
Thanks for the video and insights into your workflow and image management Zack! I am not sure I see any advantage of PhotoMechanic to the latest version of Picasa from Google (free) which I use exactly like you are using PM. The rest of your and my workflow is pretty much the same in tools and methods. I just find Picasa to be the right tool, intuitive, feature rich, and the price is right.
Thanks again- your work is always providing me motivation.
Pretty great video/tutorial. Could have been tightened a bit, but regardless, it was very informative and I picked up a lot of things I didn’t know before. I was sort of confused as to what PM did for you exactly, though; I realize you love it and didn’t go in-depth with it, but couldn’t see why you couldn’t pull off everything you did with just a Lightroom/Photoshop (and maybe Finder, I guess) combo. I’m sure we’ll find out later. Thanks for these – you do a great service to the photo community.
Forgot to ask: why do you never use “Clarity”?
I use it at all my pics. Specially pictures on a white background, because in my small studio it is difficult to avoid the light from flooding and thereby lowering the contrast.
Wow… a whole hour of useful insights. Many thanks for that – I’ve always been a firm believer in the tight edit, but you’ve shown me that maybe I’m not as tight about it as I could be. Thanks again for jumping through all the hoops in order to bring this to us.
Cheers,
Kris
I really want to tell how you much I love you right now after watching your ScreenCast. Seeing how quickly you could work with your RAWs and get to the nitty gritty of just flagging/picking so quickly, then taking em to Lightroom. Being predominantly a freelance wedding photographer/2nd shooter myself I have assignments with 1000s of images that are now just hogging 8GB of RAM whenever I launch Lightroom. I haven’t even tried this yet and I can see the amount of RAM I am going to save. I also have to check out the flash galleries PM produces as well because the Lightroom ones are pretty heavy galleries in terms of resources, time to render, and overall endsize.
BTW one more thing I saw one of my mentors using PM back in like 2005 because it used so little resources to process all the clients he was shooting. Now I can’t wait to purchase my copy!
Thank You Zack it was a great way to pick up tips on streamlining the multi-headed demon that can be post-production. Not Boring at all. Need to Get P.M. Thanks Again.
Another epic lesson.
I found it especially valuable, as I had not started using LR when I was at your Seattle OneLight last October. This really helped fill in the gaps in my memory. Also pleasantly surprised that CameraBits is located in my backyard. So will be pleased to support them shortly.
Caleb, it wasn’t boring, partly because you were there to keep your dad on ground level. Y’all must be a riot around the dinner table.
Peace, -J
Thank you Zack…. as always.. you are a big help and inspiration to us….
Sorry to disappoint Caleb, but I watched it all in one go, about as boring as the episode of Twin Peaks where you find out who killed Laura Palmer! Though the jokes could’ve been funnier :p
Now, questions:
a) I wonder what you used to organize your files before PhotoMechanic and the daisy-chained Lexars?
b) Amazing to see how responsive LR is for you, what hardware are you running? I wish i could go cold-warm-cold-warm, but on my machine it’s more like cold (let’s make a cup of tea), nah that’s not it, warm (read some blogs) etc.
c) In LR, using the grayscale toggle thingy, with blue it seems to create a lot of noise in the image. Ever had that? Is there another way to convert to B&W still?
That’s about all for now
Thanks soooooooooo much!
Loved it…you are fast…I am slow…off to contemplate why I suck…
Great video Zack, thanks! I had never even heard of Photo Mechanic until I started working for a press agency a couple of years back. Since then it’s never left my workflow, don’t know how many hours it’s saved me.
Quick question with the thumb drives – do you lock or protect the files on them in any way before providing them to the client? Just thinking in case they accidently delete the files from the drive or somehow use it for something else and end up wiping it.
Liked it. Didn’t bore me. Nice background music. What was the web address again?
Thumbs up!!
Thanks for the time given to this, really helpful!
Cheers mate
Thanks for the post, I mostly liked it because it assured me I’m not the only one shooting tons of pictures and only ending up with a dozen or so.
I too use picasa (photoviewer) for this kind of thing, it allows me to scroll through large pictures quickly and open them directly in photoshop. And it’s free…I love that (being Dutch and all). Picasa also allows the rating thing, though I never used it since I just open all the pictures I like (not having enough jobs allows for that).
Thanks again for sharing.
Bobby Ray! Thanks for posting this… I have been worried about my workflow and this helps as ton… B.O.B!
very cool. I love how fast you can go through the pics.
Curious though, what is your Mac specs?
Im on PC (yeah, could be why things seem slow in the first place) but considered getting a mac to update my processing station.
Mechanic seemed to really give some speed to the whole process.
Hi Zack, thank you so much for your post. I have a question about the camera calibration setting in lightroom, I noticed you use the adobe default camera setting. Have you looked at the individual camera settings? They replicate any in camera settings and for me seem to reproduce more accurate colours right from the word go, especially greens!
Super video.
Questions:
1. Do you specifically avoid the WB tool in LR? I find it makes a good starting point for the back and forth bit.
2. In your high-key videos from way back, I notice that you go back and forth calling up the levels adjustment. Have you thought about using a levels adjustment layer and leaving it dark while working on the layer below? That’s what I do and it saves some time.
Great video Zack, thanks for sharing, but… Canon? You’ve gone Canon!?
I didn’t think it was boring at all! (Though I can see how Caleb might disagree.) Keep these videos coming, I really appreciated this glimpse into your workflow. Seems a hell of a lot quicker than mine!
Great review! And “CTRL+ALT+DEL should take care of your PC problems” made my day… LOLZ
Sorry to “kinda” be off topic but what reflector did you use for the outside shoots?
@Jim – I have not thought of using the adjustment layer. Good idea. I’ll give that a try.
@James – Maybe. I love the 5d except for focus issues. The ONLY way I’ll ditch Nikon for good is if I can upgrade to medium format this year. I simply won’t need three systems. I’ll have to sell the Nikon to make the transition. I am keeping the Canon for HD video. That’s why I have it in the first place.
Cheers,
Zack
@Tyler – My main reflector is an old Westcott. It is gold on one side and silver on the other but it’s falling apart and I love it. The gold is just sort of warm and this silver is almost like a white reflector but has just a bit more punch to it.
Cheers,
Zack
@ Al – I have experimented a few times with individual camera settings and have had mixed results. It’s one of those things that I need to dedicate more time to tweak it but when it comes to having more time, I just don’t have much of it. I’m hoping to demo the Xrite system soon and spend a few days on really drilling down on my LR settings.
@Nev – For the screencast I used my 1 year old MacBook Pro. It has 4 gig of ram.
Cheers,
Zack
not boring at all. Interesting to see the parallels between our post production processing, although I haven’t yet boarded the PM train — been thinkin about it for awhile now. Very happy to have picked up those little option key tricks from you while you’re in Lightroom, super super helpful. THANK YOU, KIND SIRS. BTW I second that idea of having Caleb join as guest critiquer. Peace.
Simon – I do not lock the files on the thumb drive. I hand it to the client and look them in the eye and remind them that they need to back these images up onto a few different computers or hard drives. Luckily, many of my clients are musicians and they are used to backing projects up and understand what I’m saying. That said, I usually get an email every 4 to 6 weeks from someone who has lost their photos and needs a copy again. I always archive the final edited photos so it usually isn’t a problem to then FTP them the images again.
Cheers,
Zack
Jilske – a) I’ll talk about that when I do an archive post.
b) MacBook Pro with 4 gig of RAM.
c) Yes, the blues get noisy very quickly. If I see that happening in LR and can’t get it under control with the B&W conversion panel, I’ll give it a try in PS. I usually find that to typically happen if the blues have been underexposed too much.
Cheers,
Zack
Claus – Sometimes I do use clarity. I kind of like it but I feel it isn’t needed for a lot of my work.
Jessyel – “Could have been tightened a bit” – Hahahahaha! You should have seen the first take! Over two hours! OMG. The second run was an hour and a half. I’m glad I got the third down to an hour!
There is no way I could have done my selection that quickly after import with bridge or LR. The rendering of previews is painfully slow for me. With PM I simply download the cards and look at the image without the need to render previews. When you are talking about 500, 800, 1,000 images or more on large jobs, that rendering process can be upwards of an hour of time. Not so with PM. Finder just isn’t a browser. You can get a quick preview but not like you can in PM.
Kevin – Picasa is a pretty great app but I’ve run it side by side with PM and there is no comparison as far as speed for initial edit. But hey, it’s free right?
awesome video
Which photo made it to the magazine? I’d love to see the final print. Thanks for sharing!
Katrin – I’d love to see it too! I forgot to pick up a copy when it was out! I need to call and get a copy to see what ran.
Cheers,
Zack
Over an hour is way too long a video.
Zack, nice job as always. My workflow is mostly scanned-film TIF’s, but still a lot here for me to learn.
Re Aperture 3: I’ve been trying the demo. It looks very sweet. More intuitive, and quite speedy, more so than my old LR2. I might even consider switching if there was a way to export LR catalogs to Aperture so that my cataloging structure, built up laboriously over a couple of years (since I laboriously exported it, previously, from Expression Media!) wouldn’t go by the wayside. That’s a deal-killer for me.
Thanks much.
thanks for taking the time to put this together, zack, big props for your generosity and willingness to share.
others have commented and you’ve responded — but you really could have cut this in half again — what would be useful is more info about PM and less about your personal editing choices…
just sayin’
i LOVE PM and finally switched to it after slogging through editing with iView, now expressions media. READERS — PM is lightening fast, very easy to use at its most basic.
zach – why don’t you ask PM to rename upon ingest? i do because i shoot with two canons and file names are sometimes the same…
i edit in PM then bring the selects into BRIDGE where i color correct etc, and then use that to batch. so you can batch hundreds of pix and still have photoshop available while BRIDGE crunches the files.
but — whatev — so many ways to skin this cat.
HD
Well Henry, at least
A) didn’t see the first one which was over two hours long and
B) have you ever watched one of those five minute workflow videos? Don’t get a lot of out of them do you?
Cheers,
Zack
First of all, I’ll say that Caleb is such a wise ass lol.
Secondly, I didn’t think it was boring at all, I found it very informative and definitely gives me some ideas to streamline my workflow.
Zack,
Thanks for posting this. As a beginner it’s great to be able to see a solid flow.
Does anyone have good info on how to adjust for bags under someone’s eyes in either LR3 or A3? I’m really stuck on a fair skinned model. If you do, please drop me a line luke [dot] eaton [at] gmail [dot] com. I will be eternally grateful.
not boring, it was necessarily long-ish. and i think most photogs are geeky enough to hang on to every second that an established pro has to offer.
it was nice to see what it is that i do similarly and beneficial to see what shortcuts of been missing.
caleb, i do not take offense to the “sloppy” comment. because, ya know, i am. also, it’s nice to see star wars nerd-dom spreading to another generation. keep it up!
I didn’t think it was boring either.
To those complaining: don’t watch next time, or get a ZPA (Zacks’ Premium Account) available at just $99,00 a month.
So simple even a caveman could do it. a Dork & Dork Production
Thanks.
Thanks for posting the video. I had never considered Photo Mechanic before this but my Aperure library is getting way too large and very slow. Using PM would allow me to only import the images I needed for the job.
You gave me something to think about.
Thanks for posting this video, will be referring back to it in the future to get a good workflow going. It really helps immensely to see how other people do things.
This post couldn’t have come at a better time. I photographed my brothers wedding over the weekend and I started processing them yesterday but started hit the usual color correction snag I have working in RAW. I never used camera calibration and now realize it’s one of the biggest missing links in my workflow! Now I can get my skin tones, white dress and black suits all to look right!
Once again, you have produced an extremely useful screen cast for the masses. Thanks!
Oh also I noticed in LR that you didn’t zoom to 1:1 on your pictures, do you typically not do that to save time? Also when you import into LR what size previews do you render?
I typically do not zoom in at 100%.
I tell LR to render standard previews for speed.
Cheers,
Zack
Zack, I don’t see that much difference with photomechanic. If you import in LR, you can have LR make small previews (also the Embedded jpegs in your RAW’s). It speeds up the process significantly.
Sure the multiple cardreader is nice, but does that count up to hours of saved time?
Thanks neighbor. What advantage do you see to naming the folder with the date first and then Job or Client name? Like 20100216-Bozo as opposed to Bozo-20100216? I am thinking Bozo first, because then each job for Bozo is chronologically ordered under “B”. Otherwise, when Bozo loses their files (that Bozo!), I need to figure if it was the Bozo shoot in January or the Bozo shoot further down the 2010 list in October, 9 months (and all those many jobs) later.
PS: Love my white bi-folds… Tom
Good stuff Zack! Thanks as always. I would like to hear about your web sharpening sometime.
Hi Zack,
Love, love, love the tutorial. I really appreciate your time and expertise. I have learned a lot and can’t wait to dive into your site further.
Now, for my next comment…I’m going to sound like an a$^*-hole. Zack, there is no such word as “heighTH.”There is “width” and “heighT.”
It’s one of those things that drives me crazy!!! There. I said it.
Hey Buddie!
You are in luck! So far it looks like everything you do falls into Aperture 3.
1. Import and archive. Check! (step saved from using PM)
2. 4 star pictures. Check! (or you can create an album under a project with is awesome and non destructive and just as fast!)
3. Bringing files to LR for soft edits is not needed anymore! Can be done faster and smoother in A3. Saved a step here, Check!
4. Export to PS (A3 will create a sidecar file which is incredibly small) for editing. The program also allows for raw+jpeg importing which is nice.
5. Batch Rename Files. Check!
6. Export to Promotional Flash Drive. Check!
Done! you just cut out PM from your workflow. I’m sure they wont like hearing that their program is pretty much a part of aperture 3 now but what the heck. If you want a cheaper upgrade then buying a new copy of A3 I guess it works!
I will say this though. transitioning from LR to Aperture is not a quick ordeal. You need to learn how Aperture’s structure works and performs. Simply leaving your structure how it is and trying to import over to Aperture will hurt you in the end.
Something nice though is that Lynda.com offers a few free training videos with Aperture 2 which give you a brief idea of how their structure works. And on a final note, Lightroom 3 is in beta right now so we will see if that is able to compete with A3. If it does then hold out for awhile!
Cheers!
-Person who is testing A3 vs. lightroom.
Great post. Thanks very much.
Zack you always don’t have time but you take time to give back to your readers, fans, inspire your family etc.
That is commendable my friend.
PS Did you make it JMC’c Party in Vegas
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Cheers,
Zackth
Darren – Two questions…
Does A3 import multiple cards at one time? And, can I preview a shoot as quickly as I can in PM? Like, import and begin my selections within five seconds? Or is it more like LR where you import, render previews, then start your selections? Also, does the catalog grow and grow and grow and grow to the point that it starts running like crap like LR does?
Most importantly though, can I plow through images on the first selection as quickly as I can in PM? If I can’t, then PM is not leaving my workflow process.
Cheers,
Zack
Zack!
I feel like I am talking to a celeb… I will try to find some information directly from Apple’s site so there is no interpritation!
“Import images directly from cameras and storage devices
CompactFlash I, II, and Microdrive
Memory Stick and Memory Stick Duo
Secure Digital, MultiMedia, and SmartMedia cards
xD Picture cards
Import from multiple cards simultaneously”
Load time (from my experience) using a 1 year old Imac 24′ is really fast. That alone was the reason I left LR without question. The difference was night and day. Now is PM faster then A3? I will test when I get home and report! But compared to LR2 A3, I can’t even explain…
On the catalog note, it does grow and grow like LR, BUT! (depending on your usage) you can clean it up a couple times a year. It is one of those set it and forget it options which takes maybe an hour or two at tops. Also if you want to keep your Aperture catalog down, just take your files that you don’t use anymore and archive them. You can access them later if needed, but they wont bog you down when not in use.
Like the loading, I can plow fast… but it might be because I have a decent computer. I will do a side by side tonight, just give me a few hours.
thank you,
Darren
I should add a few things though pros and cons (because it’s not a perfect program!)
Love-
Auto Flickr/Facebook uploads. Switching between view modes (full screen tiles etc) is really fast. Pro but was a con at first was the projects/albums funtionality. This is what voids the need for PM. At first it seems frustrating to organize with, but in all reality you are just combining two programs. Stacking is faster then LR and more organizable.
Don’t Loves…
Meta Data is still archaic with any of these programs… it is very limited. If you want to know why/how just ask.
Transitioning from LR to Aperture should be easier. If you are like me and want to do everything perfectly it took me a long time to research the right way to do it. I am going to try and make a video on this asap to save you guys a lot of frustration.
Zack, thanks for this. Your White Balance methods remind me of a very good Dr. Suess titles “Old Hat, New Hat”. You should pick it up for your baby.
Thanks for the tutorial Zack. Very interesting stuff.
I’m curious, do you ever use ‘recovery’ in LR to bring back blown highlights?
As someone who works in pre-press I’m astounded that your client requested sRGB files because they’d have to convert to CMYK before going to press and sRGB gives them a smaller colour gamut to work with.
Anyway, I know that’s off topic, so thanks again for the vid.
Cheers
Nas
Hey Zack….there’s lots of good karma headed your way from the universe!
I appreciate how you take the time to REALLY show us blog readers how you do something.
Plenty of other photog bloggers post “tutorials”, but I find that they are so brief that they raise more questions than they answer.
With your stuff, you’re not afraid to show your whole process and it’s an amazing learning experience.
You give out so much…you’re definitely going to get something back! (even though I know that’s not your goal, and you simply do it because you enjoy teaching!).
Pretty much exactly my same workflow, only difference I can spot is I dont use PM to ingest, i do a straight copy.
Thanks for the quick rundown on your post.
props for the Skinny Puppy reference!
Hi Zack,
I loved your “little” video. It’s nice to see a real Post Production in real (with breaks) time.
Few questions.
1. How many pictures can you get into Lightroom till it gets slowly. When I’m right you only put selected pics in it and nothing more.
2. Do you ever use a graycard? or am I that kind of a noob. When I try the cool/warm methode at different days and times I get slightly different results.
I Hop to see a lot more video’s on how you doing your stuff.
I’ve learned a lot again.
Thanks,
Martin
Thanks Zack, it is greatly appreciated for you to put this kind of stuff together. Keep it coming if you can.
@Celeb Not boring bud, go clean the kitchen champ.
Thanks to Caleb for saving that one shot. I was screaming at the computer “don’t you dare delete that one”! You’re the man, Caleb!
A couple of things really jumped out at me during this video; I tend to shoot a lot darker and I’m wondering if that’s to a fault. You really make use of the fill light and I rarely touch it. I would have really been interested to see the histogram in LR as you were editing these shots.
Also, Zack, you have a kickin’ beard, you dress a lot more like a rock star than I do…so what’s with the, ahem, feminine panel flourishes in Lightroom? Why not choose the more masculine Tattoo or Atom offerings? Anything than the flowerdy (is that a word) looking panel decoration that comes default in LR. Anyway, just a thought to take your rock star status to the next level.
Word.
Zack: Great video. Thank you for sharing. I learned a lot from the artistic/vision choices you narrated.
Another ingest option is Image Ingester. It handles up to 8 cards at once and has a slew of options to customize that part of your workflow. It looks it can do a lot more than PM can for ingest, but of course it lacks the rest of PM’s great features.
I just implemented a whole new archiving and backup scheme, so I am interested to seeing how Zack does it.
Thanks for the video Zack, your generosity in sharing your knowledge seems endless.
Most of the information for me was familiar, either from my own learning or your One Light DVD, but the few new nuggets of info I picked up were well worth the time watching.
It’s cool that you did that with your son too.
Thanks,
Alan
Thanks for sharing Zack, I learnt that I spend far too much time with my images after watching you at work.
It was either watch this or clean the kitchen…. I watched this. All the way through….. Not once was I tempted to clean the kitchen.
The Option click on the sliders was something I’d forgotten. Thanks for that.
I have a nephew named Kaleb (that’s how they spell it). I call him Kal-Eb, Superman’s nephew…. Hmmmm. What does that say about me?
so much to learn, so little time… thanks heaps (again!)
Great screencast, thanks Zack!
Just a note. If you import into LR with the “sidecar & embedded” preview option, you don’t have to wait for previews too.
Best,
Daniel
Great job Zack. Caleb, not boring at all if you’re a geek… which is an OK thing to be.
You’ve inspired me to re-evaluate my work flow when things slow down again. Though, I’m not sure the ZA method is appropriate for all this product work. One of the reasons I’ve stayed away from LR and Aperture is that they are resource hogs and I feel like I’m drowning in data sometimes… Looking forward to your archiving post also. The (option) levels bit was a great reminder too.
Thanks again!
PS: How many points for catching the Skinny Puppy reference?
Thank you, Zack! While I may not be sold on Photo Mechanic, the insight into your decision making process is priceless.
The 5 minute tutorials may tell you how, but a longer video like this tells you why. Not boring at all.
Love the tutorial Zack. Especially the way you ‘scientifically’ do your colour balancing. Wanging the slider left and right till it just looks and more importantly, feels right, as neutral pops out at you. t’is brilliant IMO. Excellent stuff!
Awesome dude !
Wondering why you don’t use any of the metadata tools in either PhotoMechanic or Lightroom as you ingest or add to LR’s catalog.
I use PM to rename files and apply metadata on Ingest. That way ALL the images have a baseline of metadata which I can reference later if I go back to a shoot at a later date.
It’s super easy to set this up and add basic copyright information and other metadata right off the bat.
@Darren (#84) says the metadata is archaic with these programs – I’d like to know why he thinks that. PM and LR both support the IPTC Core XMP Schema. What’s missing?
Hooray Zack!! You are awesome…thanks for introducing Photo Mechanic to my workflow. I’ll be seeing you this summer is STL for OneLight!
Great vid! girlfriend is watching some crap about vampires on the tv so i just had an hour to kill!
you mention sharpening is only a real issue when saving for web. would love to know what your workflow on those final steps…
Cool screencast! Thanks Zack, im following you! And of course is not boring!!! You save help us to save time, the most important thing : )
Really good post. You kept apologizing for it being boring, but I eat this stuff up. Thanks for putting it together.
I also have a question about the thumb drives. I took a look at ipromo but don’t want to request a quote for nothing. Cool idea indeed, but that has to be much more expensive than burning disks, right? Do you give these out permanently or request that they are mailed back once the client transfers the files to their hard drives?
@ Steven
I’m going to make a video comparing LR3 and A3, I’ll go into a brief explenation of what frustrates me about meta data. Just give me a few minutes I haven’t made a video before!
Hi Zack!
Just wondering what you use to calibrate your monitor?
Thanks!
I know this is the wrong post for this, but you brought up Affix Music. I am trying to get legal music to use when I create slide shows. I need a song for 1-5 CD’s (copies) at a time, and $60-100 is more than I can swing for something that I can’t charge that much for. I would love it if you could start a discussion on legal music that photographers can use.
very cool. thanks for sharing.
Thanks For the informative video, it was not boring at all. I have to ask you said you never use the luminance in lightroom to decrease the noise as it is not good enough, but I always use it as I don’t know any other way of reducing the noise in my pictures. If you use any softwares or methods could you please let me know
problem getting the video online. any suggestions? it’s only 80mb and 960×600. h264 format. I have my own server Zack any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I can re rip the video as well if need.
Shafin – I don’t use any noise reduction software but I know that Noise Ninja is typically held up as the industry standard.
Cheers,
Zack
Sheila – I have Lacie monitors and I use their Blue Eye puck on those. I also have an old Monaco Optix that does an awesome job. So far I have been really happy though with the Lacie puck married up to their 526 monitors.
Ryan – They are NEVER asked to send them back! Ever! They are a value added thing. Sure they cost more than a CD but who carries a CD around with them? Nobody. Who carries thumb drives around? Lots of people. I do!
If you are shooting $25 jobs then thumb drives don’t make sense. If you are getting $250 or better though per job and part of your cost is delivering on a $7 thumb drive then that $7 isn’t too bad of a cost.
Oliver – I resize for the web then use unsharp mask set to .2 or .3 pixels at 80 – 100%. Somewhere in that range.
Cheers,
Zack
Thanks Zack, figured that would be the case – was just hoping you maybe had some mystical power over clients to stop them from losing/deleting/forgetting any final images you give them!
Zack… thank you. We love every video you produce! (hoping for more web critiques!)
Darren – I use blip.tv and I love their service.
Thx,
I learned a few new tricks.
thank you, zack! so cool of you to share all this info!
That’s awesome! Thank you so much for sharing. I always wondered about pro workflows.
Wow, that was super informative (and not at all boring). I have been frustrated with the slow import/preview speed of LR beta 3 on my ancient laptop. Before I started testing LR I was doing my import and scanning for selects in FastStone. Your hybrid method here looks like exactly what I need, and I can use the (free) FastStone in place of PM.
Very informative, had been thinking of using a font end for rating images prior to import and seeing your work flow in action has just reinforced the fact that I need to implement something along these lines.
As mentioned above in a previous comment will be very interested in seeing your archiving process and how you perform searches.
Regards
Nigel
Amazing. I feel like I just sat through a workshop with you, I learned so much. I’ve been looking for a better way to do the initial culling process, this was fabulous. Not boring at all. *grin*
And on top of all that, I got a shot of creativity looking at your epic images. Thank you for doing this!
Dear sir,
Thank you for changing my life. I have installed a demo of PhotoMechanics, and it does EVERYTHING I ever wanted for browsing, sorting and organizing my photos, in a way that is completely intuitive. No manual, no help, nothing. Just common-sense keyboard shortcuts and unbelievable speed.
I owe you one.
I have just watched this an hour past my bed time and it was truly worth it.
I love how honest you are with your photography and your video’s.
This has certainly opened my eyes on how to try and improve my very poor Post-Production.
Thank you so much for this, Zach! I am incredibly grateful to you for taking the time. I watched it all and Caleb, it wasn’t boring! My work flow has been as slow as molasses, it seems, so I needed this help. I will definitely be following your tips.
great stuff like always.
Post production is not boring when your shooting VS models… just saying.
http://a6.video3.blip.tv/0260001979289/Humenbean-Aperture3AndLightroom3Beta255.mov?bri=13.9&brs=921
Thanks zack for the link to blip.tv this place is really nice.
re:thumb drives Great points. I was just curious how you worked it. Makes sense to eat the small cost. The more I think about, the more impressed I would be to get receive my images on a branded drive rather than a disk. Very 2k10.
Caleb, I did think it was a little boring, but only because, I’ve read the seamless tutorials. Also Zack…10 bucks a week, give that boy a raise…Damn!…How old is he, I’m guessing about 12ish (lol). I thought the thumb drive was cool too, they put your logo on the drive itself?
Thanks for letting me look over your shoulder… definitely NOT boring!
What a cool kid. What a cool Dad.
Zack
Great stuff…so simple and efficient. I am not ready to spend the $$ on Pm right now but I did love your worlflow, I really dug your folder structure, if I only imported into LR how could I keep a similar workflow
Darren, can you provide a different link? That one isn’t working.
Cheers,
Zack
strange. If you search blip for: aperture 3 and lightroom 3 there are only 2 videos that pop up. One is mine.
http://blip.tv/search?q=aperture+3+and+lightroom+3
Or to my direct link
http://blip.tv/file/3238011/
If that doesn’t work I am going to be pretty sad. It works for me but if not for you guys, I will go back to the drawing boards. I want to get this set up! If you could email me what process you do from start to finish to get a video up I’d really appreciate it.
What made it not boring at all was that it was an actual shoot for an actual client, plus some great and interesting photos. Sooooo much better than a generic tutorial. Thanks for showing it.
Awesome videos!!! Not Boring at all!!
Can’t wait for another video on archive section….Thanks for sharing this!
That was great. Thanks Zack!
Strange. I’m still getting the hang of this stuff. The blip.tv was really good though. If you search aperture 3 and lightroom 3 my video shows up. I will drop a direct as well.
http://blip.tv/file/3238011/
Zack- Golly dude, I can not express the vast help (and reassurance that I’m not totally screwed up {parenting or photography}) Quick question- do you export JPG’s from Lightroom and then re-open them in photochop (through photomechanic)as SOP, or do you typically move the processed raw file into photochop from LR? (as a dng or ??)
Man thank you for this stuff from the bottom of my wicked little heart!
Caleb-
And no it’s not boring. And kiddo, always always post production over the dishes…
Thank you so much for posting this Zack. I am still watching it… I’m curious how long the actual shoot with Bobby Ray lasted?
Is the high quality version video/music, no Zack commentary?
Man Zack I just can’t get over how awesome you are. How can you stand yourself? THanks for the FANTASTIC blog post. NEVER boring I for one appreciate the entire workflow because I realize that they way Im doing it isn’t off the mark. And that when your exposure is off, how much back and forth and time it sucks up when you’re not consistent. Adorable having Caleb there. Question. What modifiers do you use (scrim/reflectors) out in the field? Can you offer recommendations and stand for someone with no scrim bitch? Thx!!
never mind. Got the answer to your modifier from #50. You’re awesome thanks for your overwhelming generosity.
LOVE the idea of not burning dvd/cd.
Do you have any sites that you suggest getting flash drives with logo/website on them?
Thanks for taking the time to do this Zack.
I picked up quite a few tricks, including playing hip hop in the background whilst PP’ing.
Seriously…playing music whilst editing does help!
PhotoMechanic is definitely the missing link in my workflow…off to buy it now!
Thanks a lot for this handy tutorial, and especially for making the source file available as well.
In the windowlight photo I was noticing that you accept a big blown-out area in the background. I am hearing that this can cause trouble in printing, once there is no ink/toner on the paper and the area appears cut out. Do you do any post-post processing (cutting off levels etc) to prevent that or will the dtp people take care of that?
Hi Zack,
Another great lesson. Your teacher’s heart really shines on this one. And yeah, I LOL’d when I heard “CTRL+ALT+DEL should take care of your PC problems”
loved this.
around 50:40 – so changing my process.
so not boring. you are so informational and a natural teacher, you just want to keep listening and learning – and the music was nice!
Thanks so much. Between Onelight and this video, I have learned more from you than in the last 5 years of trying to figure it out on my own. Thanks!
Zack,
Thank you very much for doing this. I have been earning my living in photography for over 30 years, but I never tire of learning new things or new perspectives.
What makes this especially valuable is seeing you go thru your whole process showing exactly everything that you do in real time. It may seem to make it a little long, but the full real-time detail is what makes it so valuable.
If you want to tighten it up a bit, you could avoid doing the asides on options or alternatives that you don’t do. For example, you don’t really need to cover things that PM can do but you don’t use. What is so valuable for me to see is what YOU do and how YOU do it.
The other thing that you could do for tightness is be less redundant (as you tended to be in the beginning, when explaining things). Some repetition is necessary when doing a live teaching session, but on a recorded movie, it is unnecessary as we can stop the recording and replay it.
Thanks again for a very helpful look over your shoulder.
Caleb, thanks for your comments. You will find that when someone is talking about something that you care very much about, and/or is very important for your earning a living, it becomes very un-boring!
Dave
hi zack,
i really love the way you run thru lightroom creating such great images. the white balance is fun and it really works !!
even the BW example is great and so easy? i allways did a very few corrections in LR and workes things out with PS.
now i got it, learned a lot. THANX !!!
i already know the seamless white tutorials. i don’t have a studio or any equipment yet. i don’t know the german expression for ’tile board’ and i’m not sure if we have the same stuff in our home depots? do you have any idea how to find out or can you provide a close up foto on this?
best ragrds,
thomas
@lisa – About an hour.
Cheers,
Zack
have i said ‘thank you’ lately? thank you for all you do and who you are! can’t wait to meet you in salt lake city for onelight.
Hi zack,
Well thanks again for a great video tutorial.
I recall info on your DVD where you used to do this PM processing in LR, rating and then deleting the useless photos from catalog + Drive. Did you go to PM mainly for speed of “importing/ingesting” mainly ? as the rest was/is done in LR.
Caleb:Jedi tools are just the best,may the force be with you young PhotoWan
Off Topic stuff : Love the way your job is a “family thing” with critique with your wife, and comments from your son. Like the idea of the On Tour, honnestly just that is worth 1 million words on values, very touching.
Olivier – I went to PM for the reasons you state. Speed and ingesting from multiple cards at one time.
Zack, two words for you: THANK YOU
this was AWESOME of you to do. i sometimes feel in post like i am floundering, and it was great to see that you are having some of the same challenges. thank you thank you thank you, and i vote this was absolutely not boring!
Hi Caleb – totally non-boring. I liked your Jedi Tools joke and I got it a lot quicker than your dad. My 9 year old son used to love Star Wars but now he’s really into Back to the Future.
Saw you announce this on Twitter and finally got around to watching it. Not to pile on, but thanks for letting us look over your shoulder on this one. Long, yes, but informative. Not boring.
Definitely looking forward to you doing the session on archiving.
Zack, I hope that you get this far down the comments list! Thanks for the vid!
We actually have almost the same workflow, in the archiving video, it will be interesting to see what you keep and don’t. I made the mistake of just doing the initial backup, but not dragging the renamed folder with 120 edits onto the backup drive, before the external hd they were on crashed. Sad, very sad, all the tweaking and twisting was gone…total redo.
Also, do you embed your copyright info into your file metadata upon import to Lr with a © preset?
See you at Ps World!
Zac
Hi Zach. I have been lurking on this site for a while, gleaning knowledge like an anteater to an ant hill. But now I have a question.
Have you ever considered doing a loose edit of the images and just completely deleting the images that don’t make it for organizing/space saving reasons??
I know this is like against some kind of photojournalism code that was ingrained into me. But it started when I was like well I will just delete blurry and wrong exposure i.e. “bad” images. Now I am starting to say things like “well i just don’t like this image, so why not delete it.”
thanks for the info, its always good stuff.
daniel.
Thanks so much for posting this Zack and the time you took to get it online! Great to see a faster workflow with PM. Now comparing that to Capture One & excited to get working with a faster post process over here.
Thank you for taking the time to do this non-boring vid. Question; do you always go with the auto +50/+25 Brightness/Contrast settings in LR?
Zak & Caleb,
Thanks very much for sharing the whole workflow process. I got jazzed watching it and would pause it to try stuff with LightRoom and then go back to the video and then… well sort of like the temperature trick you shared. Thanks again for all that you do to further this crazy photography thang. I really appreciate it!
Gary Jackson
P.S. On the boring scale from 1 being excitement and 5 being boring I rate it a 2.
Thanks Again
Zack,
Thanks for this vid. Very interesting as usual
I’ve got a question though. Why do you edit the export jpgs in Photoshop? You’ve got a lot more flexibility if you’d make PSD’s from the raw files straight out of Lightroom.
But you’ll obviously know this, so there has to be a reason why you edit the exports and save them again.
I’m really curious why.
Cheers,
Jeroen
Not. at. all. boring.
Just found you, and I just have to say THANKS!
great, gives some of us the confidentiality that we are doing it the right way.
thanks great vid.
Oscar.
thanks for the great tutorial. coincidentally, i was pretty close in my own workflow. i did have one question though. you say you’re using different presets for camera/lights, when you are shooting, what setting do you have your white balance on? auto? sorry if its a dumb question, i understand the usefulness of presets but if you’re properly white balanced, why the need.
Zack I use photomechanic all the time and one other huge time saver with it is the ability to embed IPTC meta data including copyright notice, keywords and captions that are worthwhile using. They can even be used during the ingest process if you are shooting the same subject. Randy
Zack,
thanks for the awesome insight into your workflow. Learnt so much from it. I struggle a lot with my workflow and it has inspired me to fix it and get it working better.
Just one question, you are doing the edits in PS to jpegs, right? why not export as raw, edit and export the finals to jpeg?
Hope to meet you at DPP next year to shake your hand.
Amazing – tought me so much more than I knew – appreciate the time you took to share this with everyone. Kaleb is very funny and no I wasn’t board at all. Look forward to your next one.
Supa Thanks! I have seen using LR2 and PS CS4 as well and just learned a few more things from you! Not boring at all!
Looking forward to your archive vid.
Cheers!
Zack, thank you for the video. It’s good to see the work-flow of another photographer. Great inspiration and thanks again for sharing.
thank you so much. i had photo mechanic but only used it for downloading cards. am psyched to start using it as a faster replacement for bridge. this helped. a lot. i’m an one lighter from your berkeley workshop!!
Your comments about the websites are so enlightening and inspiring. I like the Xposed artists – great shots ! The man is in the zone !
Great info, not boring at all, I hope you will post other workflows.
I thought the video was awesome, and definitely *not* boring! It was very nice to see you work through your photos and struggle with the same stuff I do. It was also nice to see how fast you are at what you do. And, it was nice to see how that consistency in the field pays off big time in post. Thanks for taking the time to make the video!
Zack,
Was on your Photo Friday workshop last week. Loved this Tutorial, thanks for sharing.
Could you explain how you generally save changes. I like changes being saved in the file knowing that they will always be there, even after the system fails. But with Lightroom, ACDSee Pro etc saving changes in xmps and catalogues, one gets more reliant to keep these backed up and you can’t easily view edited pictures with other programmes.
Thanks,
Jochen
I just save final jpgs or tiffs and not worry with xmp’s
what about the NEFs from lighroom tho?
I have been having issues wading through hundreds and thousands of photos from a shoot in Lightroom. Your video rocked my world! I love your workflow and I can see why giving each piece of software its own sphere is useful. Photo Mechanic looks awesome for what it does. Thanks for putting this and yourself out there. I’m sure it feels strange to scrutinize being scrutinized but little guys like me SO appreciate it! Great commentary too!
When I saw how long it was (60+ minutes), I thought for sure it was gonna be a yawner. But I finished it in one sitting. (Oh, did I just reveal that I have no life?) Everything about it, including the LR and PS segments, was engaging and educational. Thank you!
Super rad, and educational.
It really encouraged me to get it right in camera.
What I kept wondering throughout the whole video was why, when you had bleeding highlights, didn’t you ever touch the recovery slider? I know it sometimes flattens the dynamics of the lighting, but sometimes its that perfect quick fix.
Also, i slowly skimmed all these comments, and thought it was so awesome and genuine to see you actually responding to the comments and questions.
Thanks for everything!
Millie – I don’t use the recovery a lot. When I do it’s just a little bit.
zack, loved the comments of Caleb (and yours). Thanks for sharing this, lots of helpful info for me and you are so good at ‘unwiring’ complicated things. Thanks again, and keep that son of yours sitting next to you!!!
Caleb:…..not boring if you want to learn all this stuff.
In the export dialogue you mention 300dpi but you don’t resize the image. What’s that 300dpi all about then? I don’t get it.
Thanks.
Great work – not boring! Thanks for posting this is helpful.
Caleb and Zack.. great video. I am sold. I have heard others bang on about photo mechanic for ages but you completely sold me on it. Caleb – even the boring things in life are interesting to those who are doing it often. Just imagine your dad was showing you how to do an awesome job cleaning the kitchen in under 2 mins instead of 30… i think you would watch
The Jedi/Clone comment… very funny but I also laughed out loud at Dad’s Ctrl Alt Del comment.. so i think it is a one all.
Saw you with Dane Sanders
I found this vid extremly useful.
I now know that the experienced pros like you have exposure, poles growing out of heads, clipping, ceiling issues that need to be post processed; just like me.
Makes me feel so much better. There is hope for me yet.
Great comment about presets, actions, calibrated monitor.
You are a patient man with your son. Nice quality to have.
Thx Joe
That was so educational. Totally will change my P/P! Boring no way – having your son there was very entertaining.
An hour well spent so many great tips! Thankyou!
Definitely NOT boring, very useful and informative. I just purchased Photo Mechanic too bad code expired, oh well. Thanks for this post!
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Thank you SO much for sharing this! I was dreading the post-processing of my most recent wedding…I followed your advice, and it worked like a charm. I was drifting away from reality in my post-processing old habits…But now I see the light!
Wicked post – really useful – thanks!
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Thanks so much for all the insight you share and the time you take to explain things. So good. You rock.
thanks. very useful stuff. learned more in that hour watching you work than trying to read a book on each application.
for Caleb: nonboring.
Just watching you tweak in LR helped me to better enhance some shots. Your workflow is clean and to the point and you took the time to explain. That alone was worth the price of admission.
And no, Caleb, not the least bit boring. Can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this. Can’t wait for the IMAX version!!!
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Not boring at all. I could watch this stuff for hours. Thanks for sharing this.
hi
first i have to say that i like your jobs.
Im a vehicles photographer and i also use to work with PM and light room for the final work. i started to work with the light room from the beginning. i faund that the key word are faster: you just have to right the first letter and if you use it before the program right it down. i select and work on the pic at the same time and it much more faster. if photograph red-bull event and i must upload the pics (300) at the same day. did you try it?
“I could make everything grayscale” Hilarious
Zack,
This was totally helpful. I love your very detailed posts!
Caleb,
Not boring.
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