importing directly to lightroom??

Who does it?
Is it better that using Bridge, then selecting the photos you want?

I have been using bridge and found that I am not editing a lot of the photos that I am taking.

I use lightroom almost exclusively for my photos. I Import, cull, organize, and edit, all in lightroom.

I don't import directly into LR. I used to, from time to time, but quite often found it to be harder than it should be. The reason is that sometimes I have cards from two or three cameras that need to go into one folder (and sometimes more than one folder). I use LR's default folder naming, but append a description that describes the event or place. All this is hard to accomplish in LR.

LR as of ver 5.7 still has that annoying bug that often gives an error when you try to rename a folder. That never happens in Win Explorer, and that is further reason for fixing folder and file names before importing.

I directly import in Lr. This way I can select the photos I want, tag them, rename them (usually with the date I took the photo), and apply a default preset of mine at once. It goes very smoothly this way, and by applying a preset of mine during import I sometimes just have to check exposure and that all, my photos are done.

After the import (or imports if there are several camera) I rename the folder with the date and a 2-3 words description.

I import via Lightroom now. It took me a year or two to figure it out, I had been copying the files via the OS and synchronizing my Lightroom view of my photos folder. That worked but I found that I had been missing a number of features available via Lightroom import like keyboarding, preset application, and others.

I found it difficult to figure out LR import initially so then had to spend some time learning how it works. Now that I understand it I would not use anything else. Spend some time with it and I think you will like it too.

I import directly into LR from a card reader. I have set up the Import dialogue to apply different presets (I have one for Rugby, one for Street, one for Black and white) and also apply different default Keywords. It is also set to apply a colour label (Green) to all the RAW files as they are imported. Then if I later create a virtual copy I change the label on that to Yellow. If I create a TIFF and bring that back into LR it gets a blue label. I don't generally bother to bring JPEGs back into the catalog (I treat them as disposable files and just delete after posting to the web) but if I do they are red.

The above allows me to see at a glance what format a file is (RAW/Virtual copy/TIFF-PSD/JPEG etc) when viewing the library.

i use Scott Kelbys way exturnal hardrive then lightroom

Dan Marchant wrote in post #17885269
I import directly into LR from a card reader. I have set up the Import dialogue to apply different presets (I have one for Rugby, one for Street, one for Black and white) and also apply different default Keywords.

Same.

I have a few different import presets for specific things that I repeat, plus one general preset that's a starting point that I modify as needed. The presets rename the files, add keywords, and put them in the folder directory where I want them. I don't use Lightroom's defaults very much.