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This is a publication that has been requested from some regular readers for a long time. Here I will put exactly what happens after taking photos, either after a break from the city, a family day or a wedding. From file management to subsequent processing and publication, this is my Fujifilm photography workflow.
It is very good to know exactly which camera use and what configurations of Fujifilm JPEG use to create my own unique style, but there is one side completely another for photography; One of those who rarely speak, since perhaps it is a bit bored. Bored can be, but what happens after taking a photo is as important as the photo itself. Digital files need to store safely, photos sometimes need postprocessing (we will get to that) and most importantly, their entire collection of images, their memories, their life needs organization. I am calling this (every thing that happens after taking a photo) my Fujifilm photography workflow and I am here to share it with you.
Whether it is a Fujifilm user or not, a beginner of photography or an experienced veteran, the principles established in this article will remain useful. For me, I am always interested in learning how others manage their photography files, how they are stored and what do they do with them later. Hopefully this article helps to create a new system after the photo or, if not, maybe it will give you different ideas when it comes to your own photography workflow.
Before starting, although the publication is titled My Fujifilm Photography Workflow, the principles that I established below are not exclusive for those who have a Fujifilm camera, but the beautiful jpegs produced by the X-T5 means that it spends more time possible editing.
My fujifilm photography flow
Laptop and storage
As digital files become larger, the demand for their laptop and storage becomes increasing. For storage, I use two LACIE 2TB Rugged hard behaviors that are more or less an identical copy of each other. Both are starting to fill, so I am definitely on the market for some additions, but I recommend having more than one hard section and ensuring that it has a regular backup routine. I left once I realized that, despite being announced as ‘resistant’, I could no longer access the files. Fortunately, the customer service was brilliant and sent it to the Netherlands for me and everything was recovered. Fortunately, everything was backed, but it could have been disastrous!
I bought a 4K 27 -inch monitor recently and suddenly I discovered that my laptop could not handle the photo editing on an external monitor, so I was driving myself crazy! Now I have done my best to make sure that my new laptop is quick enough to handle unprocessed files when necessary in 4K on the monitor. Let me tell you that Dell XPS 15 9510 with 32 GB of RAM is the craziest portable computer!
File management
This is probably one of the most important sections of this entire article. For me, someone who loves to be organized, you can’t not have your thousands and thousands of images stored in a simple structure that facilitates file management. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, but let me tell you exactly how I do it.
All my images have been saved exactly the same way since I first changed to Fujifilm in 2016. Since then I have reorganized all my folders in my lacie hard drive so that all my photos are classified per year; From 2013 to today. It is a fairly basic system with my stored image files as follows; Year/month/day. So, let’s say that I have taken some photos today: they will be stored in the following folder structure: 2022/July/31. If I took RAW and JPEG images, I will separate them inside the day folder in two different folders.
Now that I am writing this, I really can’t imagine store images in another way. The only way in which it would be slightly different is when I make a commercial session (for example, filming the new food menu in Grind coffee), I will create a separate folder in the corresponding month so that it does not overlap my daily images.
My great travel trip of the ten month through Australia and Southeast Asia is stored completely separately, but the structure of the file is the same; Country/year/month/day.
For weddings, something similar happens. I have a main folder in the Lacie Drive Duro divided in years and then at weddings per last name. Within each of those weddings, I will have separate folders for all unprocessed images and all JPEG.
The software
Despite firing almost exclusively JPEG, which only require minimal editions, I still choose to pay Adobe Lightroom, which seems unbeatable to me. For me, Lightroom is an absolute necessity not only for my minor editions but also editing unprocessed and organizing my photos.
As I explained above, I have a very simple file management system. With Lightroom I add to that system using the excellent ‘collections’ that are directly synchronized with my phone. I have annual collections in which almost all my photos are added every year, so I simply have a 2022 main collection for this year. Then I will reduce it with more specific collections that could be based on places that I have visited, weddings or people (I have a full of photos of Evelyn).
Another important feature is the attribute filter that I use every day. All photos are filtered in ‘Select’ (finished), ‘Without flashing’ (still to edit) or ‘rejected’ (I will then delete from light and storage).
While I pay £ 9.99 a month by Lightroom and Photoshop (I never use it!), I could not do without it, so I suppose I am a bit crazy with this subscription model.
Fast participation
All modern cameras now have the ability to share images wirelessly directly from their camera to their phone. If I am out and I want to quickly share an image (for example, in my Instagram story as I did while exploring Tees Valley in a paid association), I will simply press the Wi-Fi button dedicated in my Fujifilm X-T2, I will open the remote application of the Fujifilm camera on my phone and select the images to import. This definitely highlights the beauty of ‘getting it in the camera’, which is especially easy with the simulations of Fujifilm movies, since everything is quite good! While my final images look slightly different once they have been imported to Lightroom, I am often more than happy with my photos directly from the camera.
However, I must say that while this sounds perfectly direct, the Fujifilm application leaves much to be desired and freezes at least two or three times by import! Frustrating.
My five -step photography workflow
Step 1 – Remove the SD card photos
The first step after any filming is to go to my office, place the SD cards directly on the laptop and save all the photos in line with my file management system above. They go directly to the hard unit; I only store the Lightroom catalog on my laptop, while literally everything is in external hard traffic. I usually do not eliminate anything from the SD cards until I am sure they are in the hard section. If it is a wedding or something important, everything will remain on SD cards until the final photos have been delivered.
Step 2 – Import Lightroom / Apply presets
This is where things begin to warm up. I have the pre -established importation configuration of Lightroom easier that selects only new photos of the folder I choose and then apply my present JPEG standard for very minor editions (described in my Fujifilm JPEG 2021 configuration article). I also make sure that intelligent previous views are believed immediately, which means that I can use the laptop as planned and edit photos anywhere you want without having to connect my hard traction. The quality is not so high in terms of the preview, but it has no impact on the final output (provided that the hard section is connected when it is going to export). Honestly, I love intelligent forecasts; It is probably one of my best tips for anyone to use in their photography workflow.
Step 3 – Cull / Minor Edits
Probably the most boring but important part of any workflow is sacrifice. I always try to do this first to get rid of the not immediately. I am great in this when I edit professional works, but for my own personal things, I only go to the best photos to order them and then leave the loads intact. I have to admit that, for my personal photos, sometimes I finish a year with thousands of leftover photos that really never see daylight again. It’s not good!
Although I have applied my pre -established importance, I find that there are often a little more to do; Straighten those lines and illuminate the exhibition. To be fair, this is one of the benefits of shooting JPEG and using an import prejustment. Save a lot of editing time!
It is not the same if I am filming a wedding, since there is much more edition involved. I could probably write a separate publication on recording weddings, but the basic conclusion is that I shoot in JPEG in black and white and use RAW files for all color photography.
Step 4 – Choose/add to the collection
Once I am happy with the photo, I quickly press P and B, which, in Lightroom, means that it is ‘chosen’ (remember from above, I use the attributes filter) and then ‘I added to the destination collection’. The collection of objectives that I manually established when passing through the editions, either my main collection ‘year’ or a ‘wedding’ collection. It will synchronize directly with my phone ready to share more widely if necessary.
Step 5 – Export / Save from the phone
Everything done! If the photos will be used on my blog, I will export the files on my laptop, I will load them and simply delete. I think it exports to a maximum size of 2.5 MB and then they can automatically return when added to the blog. For everything else, sharing on social networks, etc., I will save the images directly from the light application on my phone, so directly.
Well, there we are. Finally I have shared my Fujifilm photography workflow that works so well for Fujifilm Jpeg shooters where a minimum edition is required. Hopefully you have found this interesting and potentially even found something new to add to your own photography workflow!
I always appreciate comments and emails, so let me know if you have any idea or advice to improve my own photography workflow!
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