Hi Tanya
While I don't have such a prodigious shooting rate as you, I do currently shoot all
Raw and deal with them thus:
1 - Transfer all images to a folder on the PC.
2 - Use Pentax Photo Browser to look through them and delete any I really don't want.
I know everyone derides this software but it's fine for this purpose and reasonably
quick on a decent PC.
3 - Load each remaining image into Photoshop in order to create a thumbnail JPG from
it. I save this with the same name as the original Raw file (with a different
extension of course). I'm using Photoshop Elements v1.1 with the Pentax Raw converter.
This stage could be replaced by those automatic programs you mention, but I think the
Jpeg they produced would be too big for my purposes. I just want an 800x600 ish image.
I also rotate the image if necessary and auto-level it. This gives me a set of images
that can be browsed using Windows Explorer, or for the Web when I get around to
setting up my website.
4 - I then save a CD's worth of RAW and JPG files to CD for archive purposes. This is
the equivalent of putting my film
slides in album pages.The RAW files are always kept as the originals.
5 - I can then browse the CDs to find images for subsequent manipulation or printing,
but use the original RAW file for this. In actual fact I've still got the originals
saved on the hard disk in folders CD1, CD2, etc but that will change when I run out of
disk space.
This works for me as at any one time I'm only likely to print a few of the images I've
taken. It sort of replicates my film workflow - get slides back, put in album pages,
view pages and extract a few for mounting and projection or scanning and printing.
Cheers.
Nick.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Tanya Mayer Photography"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 04/04/04 07:32:36
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A RAW question...
Yesterday, I shot my first every RAW wedding using the 4gb Hitachi
microdrive (courtesy of the Muvo)! I did use some jpgs, just for the family
shots which are very easy to expose, so that I had more room for shooting
the creative stuff RAW. Anyways, I had a great time, and it all went
swimmingly, apart from the amount of batteries that I chewed through, but
that is nothing that carrying a few extra sets won't fix.
Well, it just took me exactly 1 hour and 26 minutes to download my almost
full Microdrive from the shoot! I think this will become one of those "start
it up and walk away" jobs!
A question, and I know that it has been briefly touched upon before but...
Yesterday's wedding resulted in 495 images captured. Of these, about 85%
were RAW with the remaining 15% hi res jpegs. I know that it has been
discussed briefly, but I was just wondering what kind of workflow those who
are shooting RAW are following. It will take me a good week to wade through
so many images , even using the PS CS plug-in....
Also, a couple of you mentioned batch conversion of RAW (.pef) files to
.jpg - I find this concept a little confusing though. If I immediately
convert my .pef files to .jpgs doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose of
shooting RAW in the first place? I mean would I be losing information and
also the ability to correct exposure, white balance etc with the extra
latitude that the Plug-in allows?
Please correct me if I am wrong, and any further suggestions would be
greatly appreciated.
TIA,
tan.
