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- Ken
Confession time. I’ve been to over twenty motorsport events this year and have about 20,000 photos to prove it!.
I have to admit that, for me, 2019 has been a year of concentrating more on the equipment which I’ve been using for motorsports rather than the output. The jpeg images are just for my own pleasure and I only view photos on my monitor except when once a year I produce monthly and weekly calendars for the following year. I must have taken over 50,000 images this year and have imported about 20,000 to my hard drive. Selecting the best from 20,000 images to narrow down to less than 100 was therefore a bit of a challenge. Especially as I don’t rate the photos as I go and I normally just leave the images SOOC, then tweak the selected 100 using Photoshop Elements prior to getting them printed.
What shocked me for this year’s calendar was that three of the images I chose were using the Olympus 14-150 mk1,
and three were with the Olympus 70-300mm including one using the ETC setting on my G80.
Consequently the penny has sunk in that getting images that please me doesn’t necessarily rely on lusting after PRO level equipment but technique and using what you’ve got available at the time plus a bit of editing when you get home.
So my first New Year’s Resolution is no more equipment but to use what I’ve got. If I want a challenge then I’ll just use one of my current lenses and see what I can do with that. Although I love a bargain, since this year’s Black Friday I’ve so far managed to not be tempted and hope to stick to it in 2020.
My second resolution is to edit the images after each meeting before I save them to disk. Whilst I delete the clearly out of focus and not wholly in frame images before I import to my hard disk, I’m afraid to admit that I’ve still imported way too many photos this year. I’ve also noticed that even a little bit of post processing works wonders. This is where I could do with a bit of advice.
As I see it doing what I currently do isn’t that sensible. I’d be better importing to Elements, editing after each meeting, review the edited images (as there’s bound to be similar shots) and then delete the unwanted edited images before ending up with around 100 final images per meeting. However, to edit potentially 1,000 images then review and compare within Elements to delete potentially 900 is not going to be that easy!
Has anyone got a work around which they’d like to share? or even recommend another programme that would do what I need? A batch editor? Any suggestions would be welcome.
….. and if you’ve got to here, all the best for 2020.
I have to admit that, for me, 2019 has been a year of concentrating more on the equipment which I’ve been using for motorsports rather than the output. The jpeg images are just for my own pleasure and I only view photos on my monitor except when once a year I produce monthly and weekly calendars for the following year. I must have taken over 50,000 images this year and have imported about 20,000 to my hard drive. Selecting the best from 20,000 images to narrow down to less than 100 was therefore a bit of a challenge. Especially as I don’t rate the photos as I go and I normally just leave the images SOOC, then tweak the selected 100 using Photoshop Elements prior to getting them printed.
What shocked me for this year’s calendar was that three of the images I chose were using the Olympus 14-150 mk1,
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and three were with the Olympus 70-300mm including one using the ETC setting on my G80.
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Consequently the penny has sunk in that getting images that please me doesn’t necessarily rely on lusting after PRO level equipment but technique and using what you’ve got available at the time plus a bit of editing when you get home.
So my first New Year’s Resolution is no more equipment but to use what I’ve got. If I want a challenge then I’ll just use one of my current lenses and see what I can do with that. Although I love a bargain, since this year’s Black Friday I’ve so far managed to not be tempted and hope to stick to it in 2020.
My second resolution is to edit the images after each meeting before I save them to disk. Whilst I delete the clearly out of focus and not wholly in frame images before I import to my hard disk, I’m afraid to admit that I’ve still imported way too many photos this year. I’ve also noticed that even a little bit of post processing works wonders. This is where I could do with a bit of advice.
As I see it doing what I currently do isn’t that sensible. I’d be better importing to Elements, editing after each meeting, review the edited images (as there’s bound to be similar shots) and then delete the unwanted edited images before ending up with around 100 final images per meeting. However, to edit potentially 1,000 images then review and compare within Elements to delete potentially 900 is not going to be that easy!
Has anyone got a work around which they’d like to share? or even recommend another programme that would do what I need? A batch editor? Any suggestions would be welcome.
….. and if you’ve got to here, all the best for 2020.