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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 579894" data-attributes="member: 13090">Well, just because you *have* 1,000 shots doesn't mean you have to process 1,000 shots. I always keep my decent shots as raw files but I only take the time to process those raw files I intend to actually do something with. For instance I took hundreds of shots while hiking in the desert over the Memorial Day weekend but I didn't process all those shots; not even close. Out of roughly two-hundred fifty shots I selected about eight I was really, really happy with for processing.The first I thing I do after a big shoot. such as a vacation, is use Adobe Bridge to review and rate my shots. I rate shots as &quot;Rejected&quot; or with 5-Stars; the mediocre shots get no rating at all (no 1's 3's etc). Then I filter for &quot;Rejected&quot; photos and delete them, en-masse. The 5-Star shots are the ones that get fully processed for posting online or printing. The mediocre shots I keep, but I don't process them. I've been asked why I don't Rate every shot... And that's because when I go back and look at shots from a specific shoot, I've never found myself wishing I could find my 1 or 2-Star photos. I want to be able to quickly find the BEST shots of the shoot. So only the best shots get rated in the first place, the rest do not. This approach saves me a lot of time since I don't waste time waffling over how mediocre a particular shot is (e.g. &quot;Is this a two-star or a three star?&quot;) Screw that. It's either outstanding, and deserving of 5-stars, or it's not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 579894, member: 13090"] Well, just because you *have* 1,000 shots doesn't mean you have to process 1,000 shots. I always keep my decent shots as raw files but I only take the time to process those raw files I intend to actually do something with. For instance I took hundreds of shots while hiking in the desert over the Memorial Day weekend but I didn't process all those shots; not even close. Out of roughly two-hundred fifty shots I selected about eight I was really, really happy with for processing. The first I thing I do after a big shoot. such as a vacation, is use Adobe Bridge to review and rate my shots. I rate shots as "Rejected" or with 5-Stars; the mediocre shots get no rating at all (no 1's 3's etc). Then I filter for "Rejected" photos and delete them, [I]en-masse[/I]. The 5-Star shots are the ones that get fully processed for posting online or printing. The mediocre shots I keep, but I don't process them. I've been asked why I don't Rate every shot... And that's because when I go back and look at shots from a specific shoot, I've never found myself wishing I could find my 1 or 2-Star photos. I want to be able to quickly find the BEST shots of the shoot. So only the best shots get rated in the first place, the rest do not. This approach saves me a lot of time since I don't waste time waffling over [I]how mediocre[/I] a particular shot is (e.g. "Is this a two-star or a three star?") Screw that. It's either outstanding, and deserving of 5-stars, or it's not. [/QUOTE]

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