![]() ![]() We get that manually photo-culling lets you choose the best photos according to your style. The next portion will be our six reasons why you should use FilterPixel over Photo Mechanic 6. Suppose you want to know why to stay tuned and continue reading. We’re here to tell you that a better option is automatic photo-culling using FilterPixel. The reason why photo-culling takes hours is that photographers use Photo Mechanic 6 quite frequently for manual photo-culling. ![]() So it’s going to be a worthwhile investment for you to seek the options that can reduce your time on photo-culling. Photo-culling manually would take you a long time, resulting in you spending hours choosing which photos to select.Īs a photographer, you’d want to be able to maximize your time so you can have more productive time or rest time. You have thousands of photos to choose from of the celebrant, her family, friends, and many more. For example, you will have to decide what looks best in the solo, group, and many other types.Įxample: You were hired to be a photographer for a debut. It may sound easy, but you’ll be doing this for multiple photo categories. ![]() You have to look at various images, compare and contrast which one looks the best, and choose the best. That is a nightmare for many photographers because photographers will have hundreds of photos to choose from. Just in case you don’t understand what photo-culling is, it involves the process of choosing the best photos. If you’ve been a photographer, you know that photo-culling is an arduous task, and Lightroom, Photomechanic is not the right tool to do it. It’s the nightmare of most professional photographers out there. At the end of a sports season I’ll just trash everything outside of the selects file.Photo-culling is a very tedious and time-consuming process. Any Smart Collections previously established will pull in photos as usual, and I can create whatever new creations I need. The DNG process reduces file size but preserves editing flexibility and neatly packages all the metadata and ACR edits rather than screwing around with sidecar XML’s. With this I only import the selects into LR and thus don’t clutter up the catalog. Writing to DNG at this stage is faster than at import as fewer files to deal with.ħ) Drag the Selects folder into Lightroom, apply pick flags to all (LR doesn’t recognize PM’s tags) and from there it’s business as usual. At this point I then have a) an edited selects folder, and b) everything else without duplicates. When they’re done I go back to PM and delete all the tagged NEF versions. I’ll load a preset for all or do a group edit then quickly go through and fine tune individually.ĥ) With all of the images selected in ACR I then write them to DNG (with fast load data) in a new Selects sub-folder for that shoot. I find ACR is faster than Lightroom so this offers further time saving. Again, very fast.Ĥ) With all tagged selected I select edit which brings me into ACR. I’ve abandoned rejects selection at this point.ģ) Isolate just the tagged files and refine metadata for each. What I’ve ended up doing is a multi-stage process…ġ) Use PM to import card to computer, writing custom metadata at the time including use of variables for auto captioning.Ģ) Rip through just like in your video, but I tag my picks and rank 5-stars separately for the favorites. And as you indicate in the video the metadata elements are well beyond LR as well and again contribute to the speed factor using Variables in the meta process lets you easily create captions and headings from other meta fields without duplicating work. I’ve recently adopted PM for youth sports photography because of the speed element. Here’s the link to the NAPP Member website but you’ll have to sign in to see the code. NAPP members get a discount on Photo Mechanic. But trust me, I talk to plenty of wedding, portrait, landscape and street photographers out there that need (or simply just want) to go through their photos extremely fast at times, and this is a great way to do that. As I said in the video, if you watch this and think “But can’t Lightroom do all of that”, you’re absolutely right and using Photo Mechanic is probably not for you. I still use Lightroom for just about everything else (organizing, collections, editing, printing etc…), but Photo Mechanic works great (for me at least) when I need to look through hundreds of photos and check sharpness, and overall quality of the photo, very quickly. Mainly because it draws full size views of the photos blazingly fast. I realized that I (and many other photographers out there) use a program called Photo Mechanic to look through our photos at times. It came as an idea after reading Scott Kelby’s post on his sports photography workflow. I’m doing a little bit of a different kind of video this time. ![]()
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