How best to work with 1600 images!

I have shot several events with 2000 images. I am using Xee (Mac) to cut down the raw file and the Normal Jpeg at the same time. I used to convert the NEF to Tiff files and then edit them. With the D300 that many tiff fiiles at 70 meg each would fill up even a large drive. I have gone to making 100% jpeg's and editing them all at once. Only open and save them once. I have tried both NX and Bridge to pre correct the images, but some need cleaning up. I tend to need to correct for cropping and image tilt and density. Charles L. Mims
What work flow are others doing to deal with these large image size.
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You can use Lightroom fot that.

First, use View NX (latest version it's not bad) to correct exposure or big white balance mistakes, then convert to TIFF 16 bits or jpg maximum quality (if you don't have enough hd space) finally, fine tune, crop and export wih Lightrom.

It's sad but for me it's faster than start with nef's in Lightroom.

Charles L. Mims said:

I have shot several events with 2000 images. I am using Xee (Mac) to
cut down the raw file and the Normal Jpeg at the same time. I used to
convert the NEF to Tiff files and then edit them. With the D300 that
many tiff fiiles at 70 meg each would fill up even a large drive. I
have gone to making 100% jpeg's and editing them all at once. Only
open and save them once. I have tried both NX and Bridge to pre
correct the images, but some need cleaning up. I tend to need to
correct for cropping and image tilt and density. Charles L. Mims
What work flow are others doing to deal with these large image size.
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Charles L. Mims - an old guy still trying to learn.

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How do you use View NX to change WB and exposure errors?

Only way I know is to launch image from View NX to Capture NX.

Use Aperture. Correct exposure, WB, crop, index, tag, store.....it does it all in one go. Especially the culling process is fast and painless. Xee is hardly a proper app to be using in this case.
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Adobe Lightroom, absolutely.

Select your images in ViewNX and use "quick adjustments"
Works like a charm, and it's fast.

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You could batch convert to JPEG in View NX, getting the WB more or less correct, and then edit the JPEGs and only create TIFFs for the images that present issues.

1500-2000 images is typical of a wedding and I'm assuming that not all 2000 are keepers but I may be wrong.

Shoot RAW, import in Lightroom or Apperture (I use Lightroom). You can batch apply a default correction to you pics. I suggest working only on the file you keep and using the flag/color/star cataloging tools in Lightroom to minimize your efforts.

There's absolutely no reason technical or otherwise why you should waste 70mb per file using TIFF for all your files. They have no more details than the RAWs. RAW is the original format for everything coming out of your camera JPG and TIFF included.

If you use Photoshop for those difficult images, it will integrate itself into Lightroom very nicely using the Photoshop document format, again, avoiding the TIFF monsters.

Only if you need to use another software to work on you files should you TIFF them to get your images in a lossless format.

Good luck.
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