Free Sky Sample Pack: mattk.photos/s... The Full Sky Replacement Pack: mattk.com/prod... Eagle and Osprey Tours: www.dvwildlife... In this video we're going to use Lightroom Classic to get through 1500 photos in about 15 minutes.
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@hanskuoni70883 жыл бұрын
Totally amazing … For wildlife photographers or guys who shoot pix with 20-30 frames/second . Well done 👍
@royceahr3 жыл бұрын
Matt, thanks for sharing. I typically do something similar on large photo shoots but I like to look at each shot so I use the technique where I turn Caps Lock on and then press the X or P keys to Reject or Pick the photo in question. The Caps Lock On causes the photo to advance to next picture after your press the X or P and you can cover a lot of ground pretty fast. The other thing I do on import is to turn on what I call my Auto Preset. I created a Preset that invokes the auto setting from the Basic panel because in most cases when I preview an image I want to see some adjustments and the Auto setting is usually good enough to start with. I get why you may bulk reject large blocks of pictures but one of the advantages of shooting with a high MP camera like the A7RIV is you can easily crop those shots looking for those subjects that are worth saving as long as they are sharp...cropping can make them full frame. One thing you did not talk about is what to do with all those unnecessary sidecar files after you finish editing... Another technique I like to use is to create high resolution preview files during the import because after I finish editing my Lightroom preference is set to delete the preview files after a short period of time so I don't have to worry about freeing up disk space but at least have the previews handy during the speedy editing process. Creating the preview files during import lengthens the import but that is just processor time.
@karstengieselmann55693 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your way of working, Matt - very useful information as always 👍 BTW, for having access to high resolution previews, but not needing to spend any extra time to create them, there is a small but very effective tip. Unless you are writing only RAW files during shooting, you can import the JPGs as sidecar files and use these as preview. For this - uncheck "Treat JPEG files next to raw files as separate photos" in Preferences | General tab - uncheck "Replace embedded previews with standard preview during idle time" in in Preferences | General tab - set Build Previews to "Embedded & Sidecar" in Import Dialog, File Handling (as mentioned in your video) This will take a JPG file as preview for the corresponding RAW file, with no extra processing effort. Time to import 100 images on my system: 20sec, before I can start culling and even pixel peep at 100% if required. If you don't want to keep the JPGs, you can delete them from your HDD later and resync the folder in LR. I am sure this is no news for you, but it is not known to some people and a reason why use additional SW like eg PhotoMechanic as a culling step prior to importing in LR, because "LR is just too slow".
@ScriptureToday3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Matt. That is helpful and I will try to incorporate your technique into my workflow. It looks like you had a really fun time and your images are impressive.
@steverich_photography3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Matt, I always learn something by watching your videos. I really appreciate your hard work.
@samwilson40123 жыл бұрын
Fabulous tutorial and perfect timing! I photographed a surfing competition yesterday and have almost 2000 pics to go through and was feeling daunted. Not now - thank you so much!
@robynaldridge83043 жыл бұрын
It's all changed over the last few years. Thanks for bringing us up to speed, Matt.
@boatman2223453 жыл бұрын
Some excellent tips for speeding up photo selection.
@sjsphotog3 жыл бұрын
Always the BEST tutorials Matt. Thanks. pairing down is always a chore for me even with these tips by you and others. Im just SLOOOOW for culling and editinbg my images. One of my negatives. :)
@alohaleslie94073 жыл бұрын
Thanks Matt! Great help to keep things organized. BTW, I love the Sky Replacement in Photoshop. Definitely makes a difference in many of my photos.
@CamillaI3 жыл бұрын
Great video, an area often over looked ! I have great trouble rejecting photos, always holding out for some ounce of goodness in a pile of turds ! Normally wade through and come out on top though ! Thanks again for your process seems way better than mine 👍🤔👌
@LouisDallara3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Matt, lots of info, just the right length. Wish you would explain the next step you would do to preserve the edition collection. Thanks again
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Hi Louis. Thanks. Not sure what you mean by preserving the "edition collection". There's nothing that is discarded or thrown away, so I'm not sure what you mean by preserve. Thanks!
@johnredrup10363 жыл бұрын
Matt I remember that soaring Eagle shot! I will be getting ALL of my LR tips from you from now on. Replaced my sky and love the result. Thanks!
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Thanks John! Great seeing you. Hopefully we'll get out again soon! :-)
@orangeuavpilot75723 жыл бұрын
Great tips Matt! Love the repeatable thought process. Similar to voluminous wildlife photos, I had many continuous photo bursts of waves crashing from a trip to Hawaii that I needed a more effective way for processing thousands of photos. Filtering out the rejects quickly and creating a target collection for the ones you want to investigate further and edit is brilliant to keep you focused. Thanks!
@steveshawl30943 жыл бұрын
Been using LR for years but I learned some things from this tutorial!! Given that, I subscribed and look forward to learning more. Thanks, Matt!
@ulmyoc3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Matt, great job.
@kevinhiggins9573 жыл бұрын
Great tips Matt, that I will add to my process of editing. It is hard to delete some photos that you worked hard to get and hope to fix someday. But this makes a lot of sense. Question: Is that a group of storage discs behind you on your right. Maybe you could do a short video of what you use for storing all you images and how you have your office set up. Thank for all your videos.
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Hi Kevin. Thanks! I guess the one thing with deleting is you should always delete bad photos. In my example, there's no fixing out of focus. There's no fixing clipping wings or closed eyes. There's also no fixing black backlit bird and white sky behind it. And there's also no reason to keep 50 of the same bird in flight. Once you have one, the rest should go. So, while I do sometimes keep photos that I don't think are great, but maybe something I want to come back to, I always try to narrow down the field like I did in this video and make the process more manageable. There's a difference in picking the best from the group, and saving photos that you hope to edit one day. As for my drives, they're listed on my site under gear. My backup process is pretty simple. Copy everything to a drive and clone it every once in a while to the other drive so there's a backup. One of my courses has a full video of this but I'll see if I can put something together for youtube. Thanks!
@cliquemediaproductions3 жыл бұрын
Wow! Thanks, Matt. I am not a wildlife photog but your tips have given me great methods to cull the images that I do make. Thank you, thank you, thank you. ~Daniel
@StoriS33kr3 жыл бұрын
So Matt, I don’t quite understand ... you create a collection set that you add your selects to. Then, after you’ve identified all tour rejects you select all the unflagged images and drag them into that collection. Why use the ‘B’ button to put some images into that collection but not others when at the end you’re going to add them anyway. Couldn’t you simply skip the ‘B’ button part of the process and just add all the non-rejected images to a collection at the end? What am I missing?
@jammin0233 жыл бұрын
Yeah it doesn't make a lot of sense. What I do is use X to reject what I definitely don't want, P to pick what I probably do want. Middling stuff stays unflagged. I then delete the rejects, and work on the picks. If I feel I haven't got what I want, I can go back to the unflagged ones and see if there's something I missed. While I'm working on the picks, the best ones get 4 or 5 star ratings. Finally, all the picks go into the collection. Creating a collection is the *last* step, because by that point you really want to be certain that you want to keep everything you're putting in there, because it becomes harder to delete files when you're working from a collection.
@chantalbourgault90253 жыл бұрын
@@jammin023 I do exactly the same :-)
@lindabergeronszefer48783 жыл бұрын
Again, a great tip, really needed. Just a note: you pare down photos, not pair down... (sorry, the nerd in me took over for a moment).
@bruceacphoto5240 Жыл бұрын
tyvm for helpful vid, tips and Sky Packs!
@raymondjobin7673 Жыл бұрын
What a great method.
@malcolmsellar71763 жыл бұрын
Very helpful!! Thanks so much. Matt
@mgshn3 жыл бұрын
Another approach is to do the initial scan before LR. I use PhotoMechanic and there may be other tools as well. That way I only need import the subset of photos that pass this initial scan with the result being a MUCH smaller library that keeps LR running even faster.
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Most people don't want to drop the extra money on PM for just looking at photos. But agreed, it's a great fast (and expensive) way to do so.
@mgshn3 жыл бұрын
@@MattKloskowski Thanks for continuing to provide your outstanding training! Good point and not everyone winds up going through 1000+ photos every shoot. For me, between the rapid triage, the ability to edit EXIF data on import, flag images with colors or stars for that carries into LR, and convenient file renaming, after using it for a bunch of years I'm pretty sure it has more than paid for itself. In fact, with the wonderful way Fuji produces jpgs there are times I don't have to bother with LR at all.
@brendadelorespoole5653 жыл бұрын
When you saved your favorites to collections - do you edit in collections or development module - how do you insure that your favorites are still in the Lightroom catalog. When you imported where did you put all your eagles?
@chelostgo3 жыл бұрын
So seems I will not be needing Photomechanic anymore.... Nice to know as when I get the A1 I will be culling thru tons of images from swim meets.... Thanks...
@colinweir58073 жыл бұрын
I find the issue with culling the photos down is being honest with what you want to keep or reject.
@grussem3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video, this ought to make culling images more efficient. Also, most importantly...what was in the glass?
@lynnehelm3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Matt. Very helpful!
@deirdremcquade96903 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much, MK! Nice etched glass, there. Grateful for the speed-up-my-workflow tips. Do you then delete the collection when you're done w your edits?
@huwmorgan513 жыл бұрын
I have a simple question - why waste time marking rejects? If you just save the keepers in the quick collection, you save even more time.
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Because it makes the simple to find and delete at any time and if it has a reject flag I know it means I want it gone.
@huwmorgan513 жыл бұрын
@@MattKloskowski The absence of a keep is also easy to find and requires less steps.
@rozzer6153 жыл бұрын
Good process thanks . . .
@patriciawang63403 жыл бұрын
Very helpful!! Thanks so mcuh.
@marclabro3 жыл бұрын
Hi Matt, great tuto. do you use star rating and color labels ? sometimes i use so many things to identify they were processed, printed,... that it takes too much time and colors are a little too subtle in filmstrip to clarly see them. what is the number of images in your catalog today ? what is the limit at which you would create s econd one to have more speed... ? do you always import 1500 photos like that ? I read many people use photo mechanic frontend and then import best ones. in my case, like you, i often need to switch to develop to see that the image is not so bad. with photomechanic, without a quick "auto exposure" i would discard these photos too dark,... How do you backup the photoshop exports ? i don't use incremental backup but manually backup each week. very often i come back to old images and edit with photoshop, luminar,... and they are mixed with images i backuped already so they won't be backup. i didn't find a way to generate the tif from lightroom which woud be saved in a separate "export folder" while coming back in library on side of original nef.
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Hey Marc. I don't use color labels. I have about 200,000+ in my catalog and there is no limit in which you would make another catalog.
@daylightSWW3 жыл бұрын
Matt when you save a series of photos that are all similar into the collection how do you then go through the series and decide which one to keep. That is what slow's down my process. I have a tremor so I shoot in burst mode a lot hoping for a sharp shot so I get lots of similar photos. Is there a way to quickly determine the sharpest one? BTW, your videos are great!
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Hi. There’s no magic bullet here. You have to look through and pick. If they all look the same pick one you like and move on :-)
@howardharrison34983 жыл бұрын
Matt, after you load your LR images as xmp/sidecar, do you eventually convert into Smart Previews, if not, why not and if so, what size/type? Thanks in advance.
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Hi Howard. The only reason I'd use Smart Previews is if I was mobile with the photos and didn't want to take my hard drive. However, this is on my desktop which is always attached to the drive so there's no reason for the smart previews.
@roniamarie3 жыл бұрын
I just got back from a surf shoot and I’ve been googling best way to cull and BOOM! - you come out with this video. Thanks Matt. One question: if you delete the rejects, do they delete from the catalog or delete from hard drive or both???
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!! When you delete any photo from LR you’ll get an option for both.
@eosuser13 жыл бұрын
Excellent! As a sports photographer maybe I can use this method to not need to use photomechanic for culling. BTW, what focus mode do you use with the bird photography...wide, wide tracking etc? Thx!
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Hi. Continuous focus mode with a wide or center zone focus area.
@tlynn19633 жыл бұрын
Thanks Matt!!! This was great!!! I shoot a lot of eagles in the Pacific Northwest, and this helps a ton!!! What was in that glass? haha
@roniamarie3 жыл бұрын
I"m with you, I been shooting eagles in BC since Nov and I have 1000s to go through.
@Martin-nu6ym3 жыл бұрын
Culling photos is definitely another discipline that has gotten easier for me over the years. I just make sure I have enough backups so that if I do some crazy bulk delete that I can at least recover from it. :p I don't use Lightroom but the process is similar for culling.
@shotsbyscott62433 жыл бұрын
What software do you use to cull your images? I am on a Mac and can't find a good program to cull images. I do not want to import 5000 images into LR. I tried Fast Raw Viewer. It is ok but the pics are not sharp so difficult to select the best images.
@Martin-nu6ym3 жыл бұрын
@@shotsbyscott6243 I use Photo Mechanic.
@shotsbyscott62433 жыл бұрын
@@Martin-nu6ym Thanks!
@keithpinn1523 жыл бұрын
Hi Matt: Thanks for creating and sharing this video. This process makes a lot of sense, but have you ever considered using Photo Mechanics for this culling process? Regards, Keith
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
I have but most people don’t want to spend another $150 on software that’s just for looking at photos when LR will do it just fine.
@keithpinn1523 жыл бұрын
Hi Matt: I agree. It is too bad they don't have a better pricing model for non-professionals that don't do a great deal of image shooting. I have a trial version, but I can't justify spending the money for it.
@seabreezeof3 жыл бұрын
Does embedded & side car create a large file ? I thought minimal created a smaller file? The reason being, it's faster to get your images into LR
@DmitriyMargolin3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Matt! Very interesting! Good tips! But I noticed that you work with JPG format, RAW. I guess RAW format processed a bit slower.
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Hi. Nope i shoot raw quite a bit. It wouldn’t slow what I did down. I just don’t shoot raw when I find need to and I didn’t need it for much of this outing.
@DmitriyMargolin3 жыл бұрын
@@MattKloskowski thank you! I got it!
@VinDieselS703 жыл бұрын
And I thought having 25-50 photos of something was a lot! 😂
@christianzwengel10593 жыл бұрын
Why don‘t use PhotoMechanics, which can handle the culling process 200% faster than lightroom? Its an essential tool for me. After culling in Photomechanics, i just import the keepers in Lightroom, which also slims down my Lightroom Library....
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
So let me ask you... what was slow about this process that would be faster in PM? I can scroll through the photos as fast as I want. No waiting.., I can press a rating key in Lr just as fast as I can press it in PM. And to tell people to go buy $150 software just to look through photos, to do what Lr does already doesn’t really make sense. I get it works for you, but it just doesn’t make sense for most people.
@christianzwengel10593 жыл бұрын
@@MattKloskowski The price is a point. you're right. And to be honest, i have to try out the embedded import mode. I overhear that mention in your video and will try it out for sure. But another point for using PM is my backup routine. As sonn as i import a picture in lightroom, it will automaticcly start to backup the raw to my amazon photos cloud service. And i don't want to backup 100s of frames that i don't finally keep...
@guykerr81113 жыл бұрын
Thanks....
@marclabro3 жыл бұрын
can you please give us some advises for shooting birds like that (aperture, AF type, iso) ? i recently switched from d750 to Z6ii so not as good as sony for AF unfortunately.
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Hi Marc. I use AF-C, Center Zone Focus Area on Sony, Lowest aperture of the lens (most of the time), 1/3200th for Birds in Flight or 1/focal length for perched, ISO is whatever it needs to be based on previous settings. Hope that helps.
@janielawson65533 жыл бұрын
Please explain what you were doing when you cropped to see the resolution?
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Hi Janie. Not sure how to answer that. I cropped the photo and looked at the resolution to see how much was left. Thanks!
@janielawson65533 жыл бұрын
@@MattKloskowski Thanks, I guess I was asking how do you know it will be enough to be good?
@iRabb3 жыл бұрын
If you delete from a collection, the file stays on your disk. Do you just let them build up, or do you purge them?
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
I personally delete photos I don’t want.
@JKweez2 жыл бұрын
I live in Tampa too. Do you give workshops here?
@MattKloskowski2 жыл бұрын
Nice!! Love it here! Nope no workshops planned right now.
@Dexter101x3 жыл бұрын
But do you actually delete photos that you don't want, say for example, underexposed or blurry images?
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
hi... I do. No reason for me to keep them.
@stephenport65903 жыл бұрын
Not sure why but I have requested your free skies pack a couple of times but nothing shows up in my email?
@Dexter101x3 жыл бұрын
Now do a tutorial with 50K+ shots of concerts to sort out 🤣🤣😂😂
@abhinav06863 жыл бұрын
watch a 17 min video on how to "Go Through 1500 Photos in 15 Minutes!". I do like most of your content though. This one was 'ok' for me. keep up the good work.
@raylander63293 жыл бұрын
Better method: Photo Mechanic; just my 2 cents
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
It would be helpful to share Why? It doesn’t really help anyone if you don’t suggest what it would have done better or faster than what I did here.
@raylander63293 жыл бұрын
4 reasons; much easier interface, a lot faster, program is specifically made to do culling, no need to pay Adobe monthly fee; my 4 cents
@MattKloskowski3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Ray. I have PM and use it when I don't want to offload photos from the card and just do a quick look and then delete the rest. But as the video showed, LR is lightning fast to look at the photos once they're imported. And if you need to edit, then you need something else besides PM and you can't beat LR and PS for only $9.99 a month. But if all you're doing is looking at photos and sending them off somewhere and don't need editing then PM is definitely fast.
@shotsbyscott62433 жыл бұрын
@@MattKloskowski I agree with your statement: LR is lightning fast to look at the photos once they're imported. How long does it take to import to 5000 photos into LR? I started using a Sony a9 and looking for a software package like PM that runs on a Mac I installed FastRawViewer and trying to use this. It is fast but the images are not sharp so cannot pick ou the best images from a group. For my Nikon cameras I have been using Nikon ViewNX-i. Looking for something as simple as this! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!