Does anyone have a post processing monkey?

So I'm still getting into photography, I've had a Rebel XTi for just over a year now (actually, the first time I used it was a year ago tomorrow), and I've purchased three fast primes over the past year to go along with the XTi. I love using my camera, especially for concert photography, but I then find myself getting home and dumping all the photos to my computer...and letting them sit there for a long time.

Does anyone else dread the post processing bit of digital photography? I know it's completely necessary, especially for concert photography, but at the same time, it's so damn tedious. I really wish I had a monkey to do this stuff for me, photography would be so much more fun !

Oh well, back to the "drudgery" of sorting through my photos, maybe I'll get all caught up tonight if I don't get too distracted.

I enjoy it but it can be tedious at times.

I'm the same. I love the act of taking photos but HATE the drudgery of sitting in front of a computer to post process.

Yep, hate sifting through them all after a fun time shooting. I have tried hard to take fewer pictures during an event. I try to take pictures that count so I dont have to go and erase a ton in the end.

I saw a TV program a few weeks ago and the photographer even had someone operate the camera for him - He was just a glorified art director really!

He did come up with some truly amazing street shots though, they were all 'stage-managed', even with roads being closed off and the snow being brushed to remove imperfections, and actors pretending to walk along a pavement/sidewalk during the long exposure, but the end result was as if it was just taken at the time.

Ah, the post processing issue. It is: 1) necessary and 2) time consuming, yet 3) we see the fees for professional photography dropping all the time. These three constraints force many photographers to stop post processing, or reducing the images they do post process. With film, the lab did the work. With digital, most photographers now incorporate this most expensive of tasks in-house. With all the pros I know, the very first task they delegate to their first paid assistant is post processing.

The only way I've controlled this process is to severely reduce the number of images I show. Take the weeds out first and you don't have so much yardwork later.

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cosworth wrote in post #4527751
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Wait, Im pretty sure thats a chimp, not a monkey!

i like doing a little PP. its fun, and i can do it for hours before i finally get bored.

but i usually start working on them the next day.

woloi wrote in post #4524726
So I'm still getting into photography, I've had a Rebel XTi for just over a year now (actually, the first time I used it was a year ago tomorrow), and I've purchased three fast primes over the past year to go along with the XTi. I love using my camera, especially for concert photography, but I then find myself getting home and dumping all the photos to my computer...and letting them sit there for a long time.

Does anyone else dread the post processing bit of digital photography? I know it's completely necessary, especially for concert photography, but at the same time, it's so damn tedious. I really wish I had a monkey to do this stuff for me, photography would be so much more fun !

Oh well, back to the "drudgery" of sorting through my photos, maybe I'll get all caught up tonight if I don't get too distracted.

I enjoy it sometimes, if there is a creative element. That sort of stuff reminds me of all the dodging and burning in my old darkroom days.

Going through spotting dust bunnies because is was to dumb to remember to clean the sensor (again) is a pain in the proverbial, but a hell of a lot easier than touching up prints with a brush and ink like in the chemical printing days.

I guess you need to know what you are missing to appreciate what you have.

I asked Vince Laforet this once. Some in the crowd chuckled but he took it seriously. He sets saturation to +10 and sharpens then FTPs then shots off to his employer.

volume processing.

Lester Wareham wrote in post #4528453
I enjoy it sometimes, if there is a creative element. That sort of stuff reminds me of all the dodging and burning in my old darkroom days.

Going through spotting dust bunnies because is was to dumb to remember to clean the sensor (again) is a pain in the proverbial, but a hell of a lot easier than touching up prints with a brush and ink like in the chemical printing days.

I guess you need to know what you are missing to appreciate what you have.

Oh, I definitely love the final result, I finished up a set from a concert about two weeks ago, and some of the pictures definitely surprised me. It's fun to go out with two brand new lenses and shoot a show (I wasn't paid, just for fun).

I need to try the shooting less technique. The only problem, at a concert, I tend to just keep shooting, especially if there's low light. I'm always worried that they'll all be blurry, so I just shoot all night.

jklewer wrote in post #4528317
Wait, Im pretty sure thats a chimp, not a monkey!

Chimps don't have tails.

cosworth wrote in post #4527751
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Mojo, what have you done to him!?

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For concert photography I do a batch process in lightroom of +1 exposure, contrast to -50 and convert to grey scale,
then flick through them and use the pick flags for the ones that grab my attention, work on those individually, the rest get scrubbed.

20droger wrote in post #4530770
Chimps don't have tails.

Pwnd... bummer. Actually, all I was doing was making reference to Cosworths sig. But at least I learned something new, huh?