This is great info, as a professional sports photographer myself I can honestly say the workflow described here is nearly perfect, and implementing any or all of what is shown here will speed up anyone's photography process. Thanks for sharing!

I am going thought a lot of workflows videos and this is the best one so far. Kevin is so clear and direct. Amazing work!

Kevin! You are one of the very few best KZfaqrs I’ve ever watched! Very informative! Well made! Easy to understand! Straight to the point! No BS! Thank you very much!!!

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Wow. This video just made every other related tutorial redundant. Thank you so much for the good-good content.

Thank for the video, and especially the back up part. Even pros don’t have a clue about RAID storage and using the 3-2-1 back up scheme. As for editing and culling software. We switched to Capture One and Affinity Photo 6 months ago. We haven’t looked back. Capture One’s raw engine is unmatched. No need to use multiple software for culling and editing. It’s crazy fast and we editing in raw, with layers, 97% of the time. We chose the perpetual license. Crazy.

Can you make a tutorial video series that breaks this process down and takes us step by step on how to do this? Or do you have any recommendations for existing courses that can teach this?

Excellent. You can use Adjustment Layers in Photoshop to do a non-destructive work but, no doubt, LR or even C1 are better, fast to change and all adjustments in one file, no need to save as Tiff or PSD.

spot on, really appreciate the no bs approach. Not one time did I feel like you were milking the video to fill the time requirement.

this one is really good, thank you!

This is quality. I found so much value in this one video I'm headed over to his website to take part in the one hour free training and possibly buy his training. It looks super comprehensive

Excellent! Exactly what I was looking for. I just needed to see someone's workflow in PM. I have been using Bridge for that purpose but, I like the idea of using PM for setting up ingest templates for team activities. Thanks for the great and to-the-point info.

man your workflow is extremely efficient! not an idle second. thank you for the tips.

This is so insanely helpful to me as a new photographer. I feel like I'm always drowning in photos. I was starting to feel like I should slow down my camera's burst rate so I have less to go through, but I think photo mechanic is going to be a life saver for me and my cloud storage.

subbed, super informative from the start

Great info! I definitely need an effective workflow and it seems like you got it. Thanks!

Are familiar with ACDSee and Zone photo or on1raw? I believe they are the best options for scaled execution.

For backup I use amazon photos as a prime subscriber which has unlimited storage for JPG and Sony RAW files workmas well (don't know about Canon, Nikon etc) and also comes with a Windows software that can auto-backup your files

Your workflow looks similar to mine, including your naming conventions, etc. The video is right to the point. I didn't see Bridge in your workflow...? I wonder what your opinion of Bridge vs. Photo Mechanic is 2 years later, and whether it's still worth the money to buy Photo Mechanic?

Brilliant! I'm pretty OCD, but your workflow takes it to the next level. You also introduce some software that many of us probably haven't heard of. I'm planning to look up Photo Mechanic and Goodsync. Huge thanks and best wishes! J

great video, love the detail that you went into!

Wow this is great info! Super helpful. Just what I needed. I’ve been trying to level up on my work flow and data storage. My early naive self thought I only needed a backup hard drive. Ha! Thanks for the info on Photo Mechanic, first time hearing of it.

Thank you for this!

Great video. Straigth to the topic, no nonsense. Love how effective your workflow is. Subscribed.

I like your comments upon photo editors in another video could you address Windows machines as to how much horsepower do you need such as processor memory graphics and so forth

Very usefull.

So, Photo Mechanic is nowhere near as useful _after_ you've dumped your images off your card and onto the computer or external hard-drive? In other words, it _only_ works the best at/during *_ingest?_* Is that correct?

Wouldn't using a layer in photoshop create a non-destructive editing environment?

This is awesome!!! You've helped me so much! I learned more than i expected.

Someone may have posted this earlier, so I apologize for missing it. Question, how did you generate your camera profiles for your R6? Did you manually do that by color correcting a Raw file next to it's jpeg equivalent? If you have a video covering this please point me to it 😔 Thanks

Gosh.....Wish I watched this on July 3rd, 2020 lol. Thank you for the incredible insight.

This is pure gold! Thanks for sharing. I am using Lightroom to import photos and it takes SO long. Will try bridge. Where do you keep your Lightroom catalog? In hard drive or cloud storage? Any tips for importing photos to my hard drive using MAC? Thanks for sharing!!!

How come you only need to connect your drives to Backblaze once a year? I thought it would delete your backup after 30-days, even if you have a 1-year version history. Can you please comment? Thanks!

SO helpful and thorough - thank you for putting this together! Just to clarify - you are copying (not moving) your tagged pictures from PM to Lightroom ?

Great workflow and straight to the point explanations. I will copy some of these from you. Thank you! :)

Nice job. I don't use Lightroom but the overall video was helpful. I would HIGHLY recommend that you create a local copy of your Lightroom catalog at least monthly.

This is brilliant. Thank you so much. Do you have any videos on Lightroom and catalog management?

Brilliant!

Do you have a video on your b lightroom export settings?

Bravo.....this is really good info! I am subscribing now!

Super Helpful Information.

Does anyone use camera raw instead of lightroom? The programs are so similar

Is there a free ingest and sorting software that can be used?

Great video. One question: When you crop in photo mechanic is it a "destructive edit" or is the full picture preserved and can be un or re-cropped again?

I see all my fav sports photogs using sum cord going ? Ring side court side etc ? Is,this to a hd ? Seems faster ?

Good content, very helpful! Thank you!

Awesome, job! I like you motivation.

Photoshop should be used in a non destructive way (smart objects, camera raw filter, adjustment layers). Lightroom library works best if you stick to it with all imports and movements of files.

Bridge is free

Oh my gosh. As a photography idiot and drone newbie this will significantly cut down on the non-productive frustrating tasks while I'm getting my practice reps in.

What about all these nba shooters appearing to shoot tethered or ?

You are Mr. Efficient !!

Excellent video!

adobe camera raw through adobe photoshop is very much a parametric editor though

This is brilliant

Hey thanks for the video! Can you tell me why you prefer Photo mechanic over Adobe Bridge?

I liked your video a lot, but i must say, if you are working in photoshop and working destructively, you are simply using Photoshop wrong. If you do not use layers, you propably dont need photoshop and can stay in lightroom or capture one.. But if you do open photoshop there is no reason to not create new layers often. beside that you nailed everything.

How,do,I,send from my cam to beat the iPhoto peeps ?canon 1dxii but guess I’ll trade down or up to a r6 for wifi efffff canon eerrrr 😝

Kevin, Great video. Instead of going from Photomechanic to LighRoom, I go from PhotoMechanic to Camera RAW in Photoshop. You can do virtually everything in Camera RAW that you can do in LightRoom, including nondestructive toning, but it's a lot more efficient. As a photojournalist, I am mostly toning, doing noise reduction. cropping and some geometry. You can mass apply/sync settings. You can this with hundreds of images at once. If pick DONE, it saves the edits and you can come bsck and change them later.. Pick the ones you want and export them all at once in the resolution you want. I do like Lighroom for HDR and a couple other things but deadline work CameraRaw is the way to go. If you shoot JPEGs, you can have cameraRAW treat them the same way.

Hi Kevin. Thanks for sharing. Do you prefer Autoretouch, an AI-powered image editing tool to automate ghost mannequins, clipping path, background removal, etc. image editing process? I found it super cool and easy to operate. Need your opinion regarding this.

You forgot to drop the mic at the end of your video ! ;) Great job !

Are you a native English speaker? I thought the stress in the verbs "to impOrt/expOrt" is on the 2nd syllable

Wow, great information but way too fast for me. I know I can stop and start and review anytime I want to, but this is still a lot of information.

Why not using usb drives? much more handy, imho

Ok, why don’t you name them effectively?

Wanted deeper

This is so wrong! Photo editing involves sorting and culling. Processing is what photoshop does.

NOPE...using a smart object in Photoshop is non-destructive.