On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sometimes when I shoot, say, a live concert... I'll have tons and tons of > machine-gun sequences. I'll sort through and pick the one which works best > for me from that sequence and then I'd like to delete the rest. > > For the initial sorting, I've been using the "x" to tag for deletion, and the > "b" key to throw the candidates into the quick collection. Every once in > awhile I hit cmd-delete to get rid of the duds - y'know, whittling down the > huge stack.... > > It would be handy, when all is said and done and I've published my web > gallery or whatnot, to see everything from that show which DIDN'T end up in > the collection/gallery so that I could just nuke 'em all (or figure out why I > ought to keep an image that I didn't think was good enough to share). > > Right now my backwards way of doing it is to assign a color of some sort to > every image in the collection. Then when I look at the hundreds of images > from a show all together, I can see that "the images with the red frame are > in a collection" and I try to figure out if I need to keep any of the > neighboring images which do not have a red frame. It's a little tedious.
My methodology for similar things is to use the flags in the following manner: - Looking at the images in the Folder view, I step through the images one at a time using the caps-lock-key-down auto-advance and the P, U, and X keys. P sets the pick flag on the image, X sets the reject flag, U simply passes over and advances to the next image. - Once done with that, I filter on the Rejected images. If they're all really rejects, I delete them. If any have any possibilities, I unset the Reject flag. - Then I filter on the Picks. Select all, and create a collection with name "YYYYMMDD - event name PICKs". The view now automatically jumps to the collection where I can refine my picks more deliberately. * * Remember that flags exist only in the context of a specific view ... that is, dropping a set of picked images into a collections, the flags do not follow, they are all cleared in the collection view ... so once into the collection you can do your pick sequence again and refine the set down further. Labels and ratings, on the other hand, persist across context boundaries with the result that you can now, in the collection, use labels and ratings to further grade and pick your selections. Later, when you want to see all the photos made on "20100916 - All Boy Band concert PICKs", just select that collection, then choose the "Go to Folder in Library" command to find all the others in the Folder structure made that same day. Your labels and ratings will all be there, along with your initial flag settings. (And if you didn't delete the rejected ones, they'll be there too.) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
