WorkFLOW not WorkSLOW

As some here who were very helpful to me in the past may recall, I was thinking of making wedding/event photography sort of a second career.

Well, I did one paid wedding and one family member's wedding, but faced what to me was an imsurmountable task of editing and converting the raw photos.

Well, come tomorrow, Friday, Dec 8th, I'm attending a four-day workshop/seminar on Raw Workflow. Hopefully, my old brain will be able to absorb some of it and I'll be back on the road to doing weddings, etc.

The seminar is given by www.d65.com

I saw a preview of it at the New York PhotoPlusExpo show in New York last month and was very impressed with Jaimie.

I'll give a full report after my head stops spinning.

mark

Wow, 4 days of RAW! Actually, I wish I could attend a seminar like that, it would probably do wonders for my workflow. Have fun!

I would also love to go to a RAW workshop. I've taught myself how to do things. I do have a system. Shoot, download, back up originals, separate the wedding into sections. Delete the superduds. Work on each section of 'best' shots. Pre-wedding, formals shots, ceremony, reception, etc. Otherwise you get so overwhelmed with 600 shots.
Good luck with your class. Maybe you can post the highlights for us after?

RAW Workflow for Wedding Photography Online Course
Can't wait to take this one!

What sort of things are taught in such courses?

MDJAK, have you tried Adobe's Lightroom... I think it has potential to help with the need to process batches of photos. I have used it for a few hundred images in a shoot and it was useful. Best regards, Dennis

Hey, that sounds neat. Fill us in on the juiciest details of the course!

subtle_spectre wrote in post #2367538
What sort of things are taught in such courses?

They teach the ins and outs of Adobe Bridge, including writing scripts, which to my vague understanding are like macros. You turn on scripts and execute a number of commands. Then in the future by invoking that script, the computer executes many functions for you.

I have tried it, Dennis, and I like it. In fact, it was supposed to be part of the course but because it is still a beta release, they are not including it. When they come back in April, they expect it to be out officially and will make it part of the course. I am a bit disappointed in that, but they did offer to either give me a full refund or move my registration to the April dates.

I choose to stick with this one for now. It is sold out, as I understand all their workshops do.

During the PhotoPlusExpo a month or so ago, I watched many pros demonstrate lightroom and it looked great.

I will do my best to put my thinking cap on, remember as much as possible, and will share whatever I can.

mark

There's a pdf document that they sent along with the entire agenda. I tried to copy and paste it here but it won't work.

4 days of RAW workflow? I hope it covers more than just that. Just read the Bruce Fraser book and you'll be way ahead of most people, but practical advice at a seminar might be handy if you learn well that way.

This is a bit of the course outline from their website.

Photoshop CS2
* Adobe Lightroom
* Camera Raw
* Bridge
* Exposing for Digital
* Processing Files
* Digital Negative (.dng)
* Color Management From Input to Output
* White Balance
* Creating Actions to Automate Digital Processing
* Customized Scripting
* File Naming Conventions
* Metadata including EXIF and XMP
* Sharpening : Capture, Creative and Output
* Upsizing & Downsizing
* Copyright and Security
* Archiving & Storage
* Digital Delivery: Interactive Web Photo Galleries & Customized Presentations
* Printing, Soft Proofing & ICC Profiles
* Converting to CMYK
* Monitor Profiling
* Retouching for Digital
* The Business of Digital
* Digital Camera Maintenance

This is the actual agenda, subject to change:

9am Welcome
10am Overall Digital Lecture
Shooting in RAW
Understanding Histograms: The Digital Conflict
Exposing for Digital
16 bit vs. 8 bit
Color Space
Working in ProPhoto
Created and Natural Light
Custom White Balance
Color Management
Sharpening
Shooting at the Optimum ISO
Choosing the Right Media for Your Camera
Using a Gretag Macbeth Color Checker
Keywording
Metadata
File Naming Conventions
Ranking
1pm Lunch Break
2pm Optimizing Your Computer
Set up THE D65 LAB
Photoshop Preferences
System Preferences
Color Settings in Photoshop
3pm Profiling A Monitor & System
4pm Sensor Cleaning
5.5pm Class Over...Homework Time

Saturday
9am Bridge and Its Undocumented Features
Menus within Bridge
Editing & Ranking in Bridge
Custom Settings
Creating Workspaces
10.5am Batch Renaming
11am Creating Metadata Templates & Insertion of Metadata
12pm Lunch Break
1pm Using Camera Raw
Fine Tuning Custom Settings
Custom Subsets & Defaults
3pm Understanding Sharpening
Capture Sharpening
Creative Sharpening
Output Sharpening
4pm Writing Actions and Batch Image Processing
5.5pm Class Over...Homework Time

Sunday
9am Using Bridge & Batch Image Processing
10.5am Retouching For Digital
11.5am Writing Multi-Purpose Actions & Batch Image Processing
12.5pm Lunch
1.5 pm Additional Workflow Concepts
Alternative Keywording
Selective Metadata Insertion
Asset Management within Bridge
2.5pm Printing
Resolution
PPI vs DPI
Soft Proofing
ICC Profiles
RIPS
Foolproof CMYK Conversions
5.5pm Class Over...Homework Time

Monday
9am Client Delivery
PDF Presentations
Web Galleries
File Transmission
11am Writing Actions and Batch Image Processing
12pm Archiving
1pm Lunch
2pm The Business of Digital
4pm Final Q&A
Class runs from 9:00am - 5:30pm each day

What do you think, Tim and others?

mark

It looks like a great head start to post processing images. You could learn it all yourself given enough time and books, but getting taught it all at once would be very handy and quite quick.

Let me know about the foolproof CMYK conversions bit!

tim wrote in post #2369348
It looks like a great head start to post processing images. You could learn it all yourself given enough time and books, but getting taught it all at once would be very handy and quite quick.

Let me know about the foolproof CMYK conversions bit!

Tim, you have way too much confidence in me. Don't forget, I'm a product of urban new yawk city schools. And next month I'll be 50. I just have a real hard time learning from books. Even this will be difficult for me.

I'll try to pay real close attention to the cmyk conversions, whatever that is.
mark

Wow,what a schedule.I could do with such a course. How much are you paying? Over here there really aren't many photo courses etc. And the few are soo expensive.