37 votes

What is an efficient way to digitize a family photo collection?

Your DSLR can do it in about 5 seconds each. You need a tripod, a piece of glass and a decent light. Try to come up with a way to work at table height. Aim the camera straight down. Put a flat board ...
Sherwood Botsford's user avatar
31 votes

How do I keep track of many, many clients in a single shoot (like a school portrait day)?

I'd use a pad of paper or a whiteboard, let them write contact info on it with a marking pen, and take a photo of each person holding it during their photo shoot (like a mug shot). That's what I did ...
Glenn Randers-Pehrson's user avatar
30 votes

What is an efficient way to digitize a family photo collection?

For large collections (in the 1000s) outside services can be very expensive. Especially if you: A) want decent quality, B) don't want them shipped to another country for cheaper processing, and/or C) ...
bucknljake's user avatar
16 votes

What is an efficient way to digitize a family photo collection?

An alternative... If you have considered Sherwood Botsford's answer and it seems like a lot of work...well, you are not wrong, especially for larger archives. Consider finding a service to do this ...
osullic's user avatar
  • 11.7k
15 votes
Accepted

Is it better to continue shooting in JPEGs instead of RAW if you are not planning to do post processing?

"Better job" is subjective. We certainly get lots of questions like Why does this camera generated JPEG look better than the software generated one? Why do RAW images look worse than JPEGs in editing ...
mattdm's user avatar
  • 143k
10 votes
Accepted

What is pixel peeping and why do some people say should I avoid it?

What is pixel peeping? Pixel peeping can be defined as magnifying an image until individual pixels are perceivable by the viewer. Pixel peeping may also be defined as magnifying an image on a monitor ...
Michael C's user avatar
  • 175k
9 votes

How do I keep track of many, many clients in a single shoot (like a school portrait day)?

Most cameras allow an image review mode immediately after shooting, and some let you choose to display info overlaying the image, including the image number or file name. Have each person fill out a ...
Adam Davis's user avatar
9 votes

PNG files in photography workflow

I think your understanding is incorrect. Converting a JPEG to PNG doesn't magically aid in quality preservation as you edit an image. Essentially, when an image is opened in an editor, the filetype ...
osullic's user avatar
  • 11.7k
8 votes
Accepted

Use DateCreated for DateTaken (CreationTime) on a PNG using ExifTool

As long as you have the filename set as you mention, the command you want to use is exiftool "-PNG:CreationTime<Filename" FileOrDir Date Taken is a ...
StarGeek's user avatar
  • 3,683
8 votes

Is it better to continue shooting in JPEGs instead of RAW if you are not planning to do post processing?

In addition to what the other answers have already stated: There may be specific shooting situations that you encounter on a regular basis that would benefit from batch converting raw files after the ...
Michael C's user avatar
  • 175k
7 votes

How do I keep track of many, many clients in a single shoot (like a school portrait day)?

Will these be paying customers? The last conference I was at, the photos were posted publicly on Twitter. Obviously, the people being shot were not the customers. The conference was the main ...
Stephan Branczyk's user avatar
7 votes

How do I keep track of many, many clients in a single shoot (like a school portrait day)?

Photograph the form just before the person. It doesn't have to be high quality, just readable. Optionally, have some other bookend at the end of that client's shoot, like a blank sheet, black card, ...
WBT's user avatar
  • 210
7 votes

Is there an alternative to Apple's Photos application without a single library file?

I used to use Mac's Photos application, but I don't like the fact that it's generating some huge Library file which might get corrupted and without mac I can't access my images. Frankly, I think you'...
inkista's user avatar
  • 51.3k
7 votes

How to look back on 10 years of photography?

After years of photography you can look back on your work thematically and discover periods or area’s in your development as photographer. I think this is interesting to document. Once you find “...
agtoever's user avatar
  • 857
6 votes

Is there photo analysis software which will pre-sort images by identifying potential technical problems?

This is pretty easy to do if you can write in Python. Here's a good article on using an open-source computer vision package to detect overall picture blurriness: https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2015/...
RubinMac's user avatar
6 votes

Methods (mechanics) to select a set of pictures from large amounts

The process you are describing is commonly referred to as culling images. Any modern photo editing suite will have features to help you accomplish this far more efficiently than a standard file ...
dpollitt's user avatar
  • 46.5k
6 votes

Is there a known practice of post-processing to make a finished photo while viewing a subject?

It's not exactly the term you are specifically looking for, but looking for information about tethering will get you in the right track. I'm not aware of any generally used term to describe tethering ...
Michael C's user avatar
  • 175k
5 votes
Accepted

What's a typical Lightroom + Photoshop workflow for "normal" postprocessing?

First, understand there is no "normal" post processing. You can spend hours on one image and use a dozen tools to achieve what you desire. Or you could convert from RAW to JPEG and call it a day. If ...
dpollitt's user avatar
  • 46.5k
5 votes
Accepted

How to set up correct color profile in Windows?

The question is very broad and probably beyond the scope of an answer here. Entire books have been written regarding points 1-5 of your question. It seems that all of that is really just a long ...
Michael C's user avatar
  • 175k
5 votes
Accepted

Is there any benefit to RAW+JPG being two separate files on Nikon?

I expected that this would cleverly embed the JPG within the .NEF file structure so I could handle them as a single unit. When you record a raw file, the camera almost always embeds a jpeg preview ...
Michael C's user avatar
  • 175k
5 votes

PNG files in photography workflow

If you want manufacturer-quality editing, filters/LUTs etc, use the manufacturer's software. If you want to edit further after that, use 16-bit TIFF. Only ever go to 8-bit at final export. Yes, this ...
Tetsujin's user avatar
  • 23.1k
4 votes

What techniques or tools can be used to show that a UFO or cryptid has been manually added to an image on a web page?

People sometimes post images showing alleged UFOs, cryptids, or other unusual content. Are there techniques or tools can be used to conclusively show that the UFO/cryptid/etc has been manually added ...
Russell McMahon's user avatar
4 votes

Issues with Adobe Lightroom Library vs Develop modules

It looks from your example images as though it could be a colour management issue. Lightroom uses different colour spaces for the Library and Develop modules, as explained here. (Key excerpt below) ...
Kat's user avatar
  • 446
4 votes

How do I keep track of many, many clients in a single shoot (like a school portrait day)?

What you're doing is similar to what the photographers at places like theme parks do. They just give the customer a slip of paper with the shot number and any other necessary information, to be ...
Chris H's user avatar
  • 3,772
4 votes
Accepted

What is the correct workflow for Nik collection (with free tools only)

Your assumption is mostly correct. The Nik tools have what could most politely be described as an 'awkward' workflow when used without Photoshop and Lightroom. The key difference is that any ...
James Snell's user avatar
  • 9,539
4 votes
Accepted

Run multiple exports at once in Lightroom

You now can! With the 'Max 2019 Photography Releases' one of the improvements to Lightroom Classic is the ability to export the same image multiple times. Just by selecting the exports you wish to ...
Crazy Dino's user avatar
  • 4,864
4 votes
Accepted

Corrupted picture while moving Lightroom folder to network drive

Lightroom is simply using the underlying operating system to move files. The benefit of doing it in Lightroom is that it also updates the LR database with link locations. Lightroom itself did not ...
cmason's user avatar
  • 14.7k
4 votes
Accepted

Is bracketing useful in the era of digital photography and post-processing?

Particularly if you're shooting RAW, you're correct that two-thirds of a stop's worth of bracketing doesn't get you that much. Two-thirds of a stop is something you can get in post-processing with ...
Philip Kendall's user avatar
  • 21.8k
4 votes

Is there any benefit to RAW+JPG being two separate files on Nikon?

Is there any benefit to RAW+JPG being two separate files... ? The JPG can be used as-is with software that is incapable of processing raw files. The raw file is available for processing should the "...
xiota's user avatar
  • 26.9k
4 votes
Accepted

Should I do retouching on Photoshop before color grading on Lightroom or vice versa?

I always do the color grading stuff before, because if done after retouching it can make the editing more visible. The edited parts are always a bit different from their surroundings and will react ...
xenoid's user avatar
  • 20.6k

Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible