Two Minute Tips: Avoid sluggish raw editing software with this simple tip

 

 

With how affordable memory cards are these days, it’s easy to capture a ton of raw images in a very short amount of time. When it’s time to process them, how can you easily and quickly convert a large batch of raw photos? In the latest episode of Two Minute Tips, photographer David Bergman shows us.

If you are shooting with a camera with a lot of megapixels, as many photographers do these days, you can end up with a huge amount of data on your computer. This can severely slow down image cataloging software. To help reduce the strain on your computer when working with a lot of photos, one thing you can do is only import your best images. You can use a separate viewer program, like Photo Mechanic, will allow you to quickly scan through your images and make selects. Once you’ve made selects, you can put them in their own file and import only these better shots into your raw processing software of choice. Bergman’s personal technique is making multiple passes through his latest batch of shots and eliminating more and more images each time until he feels comfortable with his final selection and doesn’t want to remove any more from consideration. In Bergman’s work as a concert photographer, he can easily capture 4,000 images in a night. After shooting 100 concerts, instead of having 400,000 photos in his photo library, he has only 4,000 to 5,000. It’s still a lot, but it’s much easier for his computer to handle that significantly smaller workflow.

(Via Adorama)