kristjan on photography
Much to read about images
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Boy oh Boy do I have a lot for you to read.
I have finally finished my main chapters on workflow and now you should be able to get the hang of things and start sorting out your library. The sooner the better
Workflow Xlll
Posted by kristjan
So where do we stand now in all these informations.
you should be able to figure out things by now and build up a good system. Still there are all the software to take a look at. That will have to wait.
Workflow Xll
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Keywords.
The most important link in archiving and finding images are keywords. That is when you put tags or describing words to the image. Even though you can in a dataabase look up images by just about any thing, keywords ar just about as important as description if not more so. It is much easier to find images by keywords thatn by caption as the caption does not neccesary have the same keywords to look for. There for it is not nessecary that you will have words like bright summer day in a description of an image you are looking for. On the otherhand if the image has these keywords you could search for bright+summer+day+Reykjavik and thus get all images taken on a bright summer day in Reykjavik.
Workflow Xl
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Metadada in Lightroom
On o f the main reason that I have chosen to use Lightroom from Adobe as my raw converter is the fact that I can write all the IPTC info there and keep them with the raw file (by converting it to DNG) . Not only can I write it there I can automate lot part of the process when importing the images. I can FFX have it put all the info in the contact panel and even some or all of the info in the Content panel. When this is written I am in Baja California in Mexico. When I import files to Lightroom I let it fill out the fields of where images are taken. FX. City=Loreto Country=Mexico and so on. for explanation Ill go over the IPTC fields in Lightroom.
