Note on The Perfect Photography Wokflow

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on Feb 2, 2024, 8:59 PM

Notes from the video

Gear
- SanDisk SSD
- 14" MacBook Pro
- 11" M1 Ipad Pro
Software
- Lightroom CC
- Affinity Photo
- Apple Photos Library
- Unfold on the iPhone
Library
- 4 main categories
  - Travel
    - by continent
      - by country
  - Clients
    - by name of client
      - type of shoot
        
        date
  - People
  - Random
    - thumbnails and random website phoots
- Keywords
  - be specific with your keywords
- Star ratings
- Shooting, importing, culling
  - have multiple cards so if you lose one you didn't lose everything
  - Import to a nonsyncing folder
  - go through each one and delete the ones you don't need
  - Editing 3 stages
    - Check each one quickly and delete ones you dont like and multiples you didn't delete in the last step
    - Edit in more detail
    - Come back after an hour or day and fo through the edits and keep or delete
- Exporting and Sharing
  - Export biggest and best these go to apple photos library for later sharing to instagram
  - Pick out some of the best best and store at half size for uploading to your website
- Backup
  - You have things in Apple already but you now want on SSD
    - Carbon copy of Lightroom catalog
    - 3 folders for each album
      - RAW meaning original photos off camera
      - DNG Lightroom edit
      - Final JPG

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