Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

Eddie wrote in post #19326189
Thanks Bill, we have a very similar workflow up until this stage. I also have yearly folders with sub-folders inside. The bit Im trying to work out is the next step to this. Currently around 75% of my images remain as edited RAWs within LR (i.e no conversion to jpeg or tiff). I essentially want to create a full res jpeg of all my RAWs once edited so that if I no longer have access to LR there is still a digital copy of the final edit.

Just don't know what the best way of doing this is though so curious to see what others do. It could be that people don't worry about this and its just me

Eddie,
I think I'm doing just as you describe. Edit in LR->export every file as full res jpeg. Basically if I take the time to edit I export as full res jpeg. The idea is that I have a finished product within an organized filing system for whoever/whatever needs it down the road. I figure if I'm not around nobody is going to know how to dig into LR for the files. That said, I am a heavy culler and not a RAW file hoarder. I do my best to keep only the best (and many times the second best). So my output folders don't have 100's and 100's of edited shots. I don't really feel like my HD is a dump. And I don't really care about storage these days. I've get a slick backup system...but that's another topic.

I vote you export the files you take the time to edit. Your family will appreciate it if they ever need to looking for things.

Bill in Texas wrote in post #19326225
Look at the 4th screenshot. The edited RAW files are exported out of LR and into this folder and remain unless I delete them. I can double click on any of the RAW files in that folder and it will open it in Camera RAW.

Ah ok so if I’m following you correctly, in each months folder you also have the edited JPEG’s in addition to the raws?

idsurfer wrote in post #19326251
Eddie,
I think I'm doing just as you describe. Edit in LR->export every file as full res jpeg. Basically if I take the time to edit I export as full res jpeg. The idea is that I have a finished product within an organized filing system for whoever/whatever needs it down the road. I figure if I'm not around nobody is going to know how to dig into LR for the files. That said, I am a heavy culler and not a RAW file hoarder. I do my best to keep only the best (and many times the second best). So my output folders don't have 100's and 100's of edited shots. I don't really feel like my HD is a dump. And I don't really care about storage these days. I've get a slick backup system...but that's another topic.

I vote you export the files you take the time to edit. Your family will appreciate it if they ever need to looking for things.

Thanks Cory, sounds like where I’m at and the same concerns. So do you just have it set up as an export conversion in lightroom and do they all go to the same location regardless of when shot etc?

Eddie wrote in post #19326171
Looking for a bit of file management advice. I use LR Classic for the catalogue and don't want to switch from that.

Currently I have photos saved in folders by year and sub-folders by date i.e 2022/2022-01-01 - New Years Day/(raws here)

Although I edit every image in LR a large % of them don't ever get converted from RAW or posted online. My worry is that if I ever move away from LR all my edits will be lost (or more morbidly when I am dead and gone my kids will see the RAWs but won't see my intended edits).

So - I am thinking I need to set up an export action to convert the image to full resolution jpeg and send to a folder. I could then do this with every single folder of images once edited which would ultimately create a single folder with full resolution jpegs of all my edited files. They would still be named the way I like (starting with year-month-day) so it would be easy to see what was shot when.

Does anyone else have a more elegant way of doing this as this feels like a bit of a dump folder? Or do others not worry about only having the edited raws and no jpeg or tiffs?

FOr me, any edits in LR are exported to a new folder in that Parent folder...so...for example.

2022->The Corvette->EXPORTS->TIFF, that is where the full resolution file is saved, because nothing I do is done solely in LR. It gets edited, and then saved in that folder when I am done in PS.

From there... there are two other folders in that EXPORTS folder, one for JPEG, which will be full resolution JPEGS and then a WEB folder for anything that gets posted online, or emailed to friends/family.

And yes...that is a hint at what is the next project for me...

Eddie wrote in post #19326263
Ah ok so if I’m following you correctly, in each months folder you also have the edited JPEG’s in addition to the raws?

I export edited jpegs to the same folder as the raw files are originally imported too so its all together.

Photographically speaking the sad day of my trip down the Rhine was the Castle day. Its a section of the cruise on the river where for 3 hours you see a multitude of castles most rebuilt but dating from the 1100s. Standing on the top deck of the boat in 30 degree weather.... this phoenix kid was cold.... lol. All with the R4 and 100-400

Of course that day it was foggy cold and times of mist..... light was horrible. I tried to pull these shots out.

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Messing around a little bit with the MC-11/200 2.8 L ii combo on the A7Riii the other day after getting them delivered, and I was pretty satisfied with the AF and how well the lens resolved with the sensor. I can't say the AF is any worse than it was with this lens than when I used it natively on the 6D and 60D years back, and of course the IQ is better. The lens/adapter combo is just over 1100g, but balances well.

As good as the old Minolta 200 2.8 primes were, I would love to see Sony come out with a native 200 whether it be F2.8, 2.0 or even 1.8.

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Eddie wrote in post #19326263
Ah ok so if I’m following you correctly, in each months folder you also have the edited JPEG’s in addition to the raws?

That is correct. The photo thumbnails shown are the jpegs. I do my cropping for the jpegs in LR though. If I want to do something further, I can go back to the RAW file.

If a file is important I save a .jpg and a .tiff file onto my backup disc and onto an external hard drive. While I should probably have an offsite location as well I haven't done that yet. Maybe one day.

Thanks for the input everyone. One final question (apologies!)

Is there any way to export the images from LR into a folder as a full res JPEG but have them show in lightroom? When I export as a JPEG currently the exported files don’t show within the LR catalogue, is there any way around that?

Eddie wrote in post #19326328
Thanks for the input everyone. One final question (apologies!)

Is there any way to export the images from LR into a folder as a full res JPEG but have them show in lightroom? When I export as a JPEG currently the exported files don’t show within the LR catalogue, is there any way around that?

Lets say under your LR 2022 folder you have a subfolder 20220104 (My Children) where those images came from, create a second subfolder 20220104 (Edited jpegs of My Children) of where you export your jpegs to out in folder than link that back to LR by importing ADD

There may be a much more streamline way of doing it, but that was just off the top of my head

Eddie wrote in post #19326328
Thanks for the input everyone. One final question (apologies!)

Is there any way to export the images from LR into a folder as a full res JPEG but have them show in lightroom? When I export as a JPEG currently the exported files don’t show within the LR catalogue, is there any way around that?

I find videos explain better than I do. Try this one and if it doesn't work search around on YouTube. I'm sure you'll find what you are looking for.

Eddie wrote in post #19326265
Thanks Cory, sounds like where I’m at and the same concerns. So do you just have it set up as an export conversion in lightroom and do they all go to the same location regardless of when shot etc?

SD Card>LR>Edit>full res jpeg to HD per export parameters of my choice. I keep the current years' files on the Mac. I keep an alias folder of the jpegs on the desktop for quick access. Prior years are stored per my 3-2-1 back up strategy. For that I use a combo of local external HD, local time capsule and cloud based Backblaze platform. I feel this is sufficient for my needs.

HD is set up such as you can see in the screen shot below.

Hopefully that all makes sense.

Here are a couple screen grabs of my export parameters. Pretty basic.

Bianchi wrote in post #19326351
Lets say under your LR 2022 folder you have a subfolder 20220104 (My Children) where those images came from, create a second subfolder 20220104 (Edited jpegs of My Children) of where you export your jpegs to out in folder than link that back to LR by importing ADD

There may be a much more streamline way of doing it, but that was just off the top of my head

Yeah the “import” back in manually is the way I’ve done it previously but it gets a bit tedious. Would be ideal if I could export my JPEG’s from the raws into a new folder at the same time as adding those JPEG’s back into the catalogue automatically