* Quickly scan pics and delete anything that is flat out bad. I try to get these on the spot, but some slip through.
* Go through again and rate.
* Go through again and adjust ratings further.
* Post process the 5 stars, and put them up to view.
* Everything else is saved through an offline backup service.
I find that the 5 star pics end up being great covers into an event. Often the 5 star pics are good enough, but sometimes they draw me in the look at the rest. The only downside is you have to be ruthless with your ratings.
mine is (say D750 as a source, with raw+basic jpeg):
- move all jpegs from card, keep raws there
- go through jpegs, select "best" (ie worth further work), for worthy ones take RAW from card instead of jpeg
- select panoramas to join in autopano
- join panoramas (source is jpeg, if anybody knows how to do it with Nikon Raws, please share!)
- select best panoramas (often quality is visible only after all is rendered)
- if I have multiple sources (photos, panos with different naming, GF camera, Gopro, phones etc.) I make one single unified ordering based on file names (this is crude process, but no clue about anything better)
- process those Raws in Lightroom, put them back
- post on flickr for parents (don't have FB)
- select even more for FB albums for all rest
- delete all raws on memory card (ie except those few worthy processing that were moved from it)
cumbersome process, but I simply don't like the workflow Lightroom is forcing me to use, so I use it only for Raw edits. Now where to backup those selected few is another question, since I don't want to pay...
I do about the same except that "rating" need not be precise. There are only three categories:
- good / pick (5 stars)
- bad => delete (your first step)
- in between => no need to rate further
There is no objective difference between a 2-star and a 3-star image; the really interesting step is to rate the picks (I actually quite enjoy this step).
I'm doing the same, except the picks are realistically going to be separated into four and five stars later, where there will probably only be one five-star photo, maybe two if I'm super lucky. The four-star ones may go on Instagram, or they usually just go to the great storage in the sky.
* Quickly scan pics and delete anything that is flat out bad. I try to get these on the spot, but some slip through.
* Go through again and rate.
* Go through again and adjust ratings further.
* Post process the 5 stars, and put them up to view.
* Everything else is saved through an offline backup service.
I find that the 5 star pics end up being great covers into an event. Often the 5 star pics are good enough, but sometimes they draw me in the look at the rest. The only downside is you have to be ruthless with your ratings.