Nikolai
May-02-2009, 10:03 PM
... tethered shooting and combo (RAW + small JPEG) mode ...
With the advent of the decent laptop (complete with 15ft USB cable) I finaly was able to try this thing.
And I must say: I love it. :lust
Even with lousy/slow canon s/w we were able to use the 17" screen easily to adjust the poses, get new ideas, etc. And once I get a hold of few more things I'll probably move 27" to the studio too, so it would be even better.
As to the adding small jpegs to raw... it greatly simplified my workflow.
First of all, once the shoot is over, I'm capable immediately burn them to the cd and hand it over to my model, so she doesn't have to wait until images are online or for CD in the mail (save on postage, too:-)
Second, I don't need to wait for hours to generate proofs. As soon as I'm back at the main station I launch Bridge, set the filter to show RAWs only, and quickly split them in folders (by look, scene, or whatever). Since each set is typically contigous time-wise it's a very easy operation. Then I run my little tool I wrote to put the jpegs where Image Processor would put them (which takes mere seconds). Finally I fire up Star*Explorer, create a new (sub)category, drag all the folders from Bridge into S*E and hit Upload. Galleries are created automatically and jpegs fly onto Smugmug. The whole thing takes about 30 min for a 4hr shoot. Naturally can be more if it's a large event with thousand of pictures, yet again, it would probably be less than an hour of my time and the rest would be S*E in its unattended autocreation mode.
Basically, these two things took care of the proof delivery and upload process. Now I simply have more (much more!) time to spend on the final culling and winners post-processing... :ivar
With the advent of the decent laptop (complete with 15ft USB cable) I finaly was able to try this thing.
And I must say: I love it. :lust
Even with lousy/slow canon s/w we were able to use the 17" screen easily to adjust the poses, get new ideas, etc. And once I get a hold of few more things I'll probably move 27" to the studio too, so it would be even better.
As to the adding small jpegs to raw... it greatly simplified my workflow.
First of all, once the shoot is over, I'm capable immediately burn them to the cd and hand it over to my model, so she doesn't have to wait until images are online or for CD in the mail (save on postage, too:-)
Second, I don't need to wait for hours to generate proofs. As soon as I'm back at the main station I launch Bridge, set the filter to show RAWs only, and quickly split them in folders (by look, scene, or whatever). Since each set is typically contigous time-wise it's a very easy operation. Then I run my little tool I wrote to put the jpegs where Image Processor would put them (which takes mere seconds). Finally I fire up Star*Explorer, create a new (sub)category, drag all the folders from Bridge into S*E and hit Upload. Galleries are created automatically and jpegs fly onto Smugmug. The whole thing takes about 30 min for a 4hr shoot. Naturally can be more if it's a large event with thousand of pictures, yet again, it would probably be less than an hour of my time and the rest would be S*E in its unattended autocreation mode.
Basically, these two things took care of the proof delivery and upload process. Now I simply have more (much more!) time to spend on the final culling and winners post-processing... :ivar