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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 260632" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>I'll give it a try, but not sure I see any real problem. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Other than many images perhaps. I gotta say, where I'm coming from is like returning from a weeks cruise with more than 1000 pictures, in all manner of scenes, many taken on a run, from inside dark cathedrals at high ISO to street scenes to ship interiors to bright pool scenes. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> If you have two or three hundred, it would seem an hours work ought to do it. Buck up. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p> I'm teasing of course, but it doesn't sound that bad, and if you shot Raw, you're way ahead. And it really is the fun part. You're going through your pictures for the first time, and just doing what you see they need. Some of the fun is called reminencing. And there is not really much to do other than white balance and exposure, and I would add cropping.</p><p></p><p>Open all at once into Raw. Your pictures are surely sorted by file name which time-wise, sort into different rooms. Could be the groups are not exactly rooms, but a glance ought to be able to recognize a few groups of similar needs. In each such group, in turn, click the top one, and hold the shift key and click the bottom one, to select them all. In some parameters, they probably all need near about the same thing, which is the idea of the groups. If you need to boost exposure 2/3 stop, one click does all selected. There could be a few need individual or different attention, more than I'm going to admit, but you are closer, and have reduced the count substantially. There will be cases this won't apply, but it will apply often.</p><p></p><p>If white balance is off in this room, colored ceiling or something, find one with a good white target that gives good results with the WB tool. Is that meaning clear? One click there can apply to all selected in the same group. I'm talking Photoshop and Bridge, you may be using Lightroom, but wherever your Open In Raw menu is, if necessary, there should be a Develop or Apply Previous Change to all now selected, so again, one click. But I just select them all at once, and do the WB click.</p><p></p><p>In a portrait session, you can even crop them all in one click, and then maybe scoot each one around a bit, but in varied situations, cropping probably does need individual attention. But you probably can improve most of them with a little tighter cropping. Cropping helps many cases. It just takes a second to crop one.</p><p></p><p>Then before publishing them, go back through them quickly next day, a second look, just to check things.</p><p></p><p>Next time, when you change rooms (or realize the situation has changed), and you think there will be several more, do take another few seconds on the first one to get it closer. Most of the rest there won't be terribly different.</p><p></p><p>Spot metering in camera Manual mode is good, because Spot only affects ambient, but camera Manual will not respond, so no harm done. Spot doesnt affect flash exposure, but it does shift to TTL mode, which often eliminates a few problems. The main trick is to remember to reset it out of Spot for the next time out. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 260632, member: 12496"] I'll give it a try, but not sure I see any real problem. :) Other than many images perhaps. I gotta say, where I'm coming from is like returning from a weeks cruise with more than 1000 pictures, in all manner of scenes, many taken on a run, from inside dark cathedrals at high ISO to street scenes to ship interiors to bright pool scenes. :) If you have two or three hundred, it would seem an hours work ought to do it. Buck up. :) I'm teasing of course, but it doesn't sound that bad, and if you shot Raw, you're way ahead. And it really is the fun part. You're going through your pictures for the first time, and just doing what you see they need. Some of the fun is called reminencing. And there is not really much to do other than white balance and exposure, and I would add cropping. Open all at once into Raw. Your pictures are surely sorted by file name which time-wise, sort into different rooms. Could be the groups are not exactly rooms, but a glance ought to be able to recognize a few groups of similar needs. In each such group, in turn, click the top one, and hold the shift key and click the bottom one, to select them all. In some parameters, they probably all need near about the same thing, which is the idea of the groups. If you need to boost exposure 2/3 stop, one click does all selected. There could be a few need individual or different attention, more than I'm going to admit, but you are closer, and have reduced the count substantially. There will be cases this won't apply, but it will apply often. If white balance is off in this room, colored ceiling or something, find one with a good white target that gives good results with the WB tool. Is that meaning clear? One click there can apply to all selected in the same group. I'm talking Photoshop and Bridge, you may be using Lightroom, but wherever your Open In Raw menu is, if necessary, there should be a Develop or Apply Previous Change to all now selected, so again, one click. But I just select them all at once, and do the WB click. In a portrait session, you can even crop them all in one click, and then maybe scoot each one around a bit, but in varied situations, cropping probably does need individual attention. But you probably can improve most of them with a little tighter cropping. Cropping helps many cases. It just takes a second to crop one. Then before publishing them, go back through them quickly next day, a second look, just to check things. Next time, when you change rooms (or realize the situation has changed), and you think there will be several more, do take another few seconds on the first one to get it closer. Most of the rest there won't be terribly different. Spot metering in camera Manual mode is good, because Spot only affects ambient, but camera Manual will not respond, so no harm done. Spot doesnt affect flash exposure, but it does shift to TTL mode, which often eliminates a few problems. The main trick is to remember to reset it out of Spot for the next time out. :) [/QUOTE]
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