EOS R7 just too Much ... Change is Needed in My Workflow

[Robbey TC]

Shooting birds at 30FPS sounds exciting and captures a lot in a little time.

C-Raw is my chosen quality level.

BUT having to sort through thousands of images at the end of a day long shoot is just too much for me and my laptop.

Workflow changes are called for ... trying to find a quick way of pixel peeping to conidently delete the also rans.

What are others using to sort the catch, please.?

Robbey TC

 

[R2D2]

Shooting birds at 30FPS sounds exciting and captures a lot in a little time.

C-Raw is my chosen quality level.

BUT having to sort through thousands of images at the end of a day long shoot is just too much for me and my laptop.

Workflow changes are called for ... trying to find a quick way of pixel peeping to conidently delete the also rans.

What are others using to sort the catch, please.?

Robbey TC

I use DPP to cull my images. The “Quick Check” tool is blazing fast and I can run through images as fast as I can hit the arrow keys (works in “magnify” mode too).

A tip for vetting your images in DPP: In the “Quick check window settings” set it to “Show original image.” It will render the images faster.

I select all of my images and then open them in “Quick Check.” I then check all of the images (at x1) for critical sharpness (just double-click the image to magnify). Use the left and right arrow keys to move through the images. Press the “ x “ key to mark an image for later deletion (it’ll say “Reject”). Or press one of the number keys to give it a Star rating (press “ 0 “ to clear ratings).

You just have to remember to click once somewhere inside the image (to re-enable these hot-keys) if you click on any of the buttons on the right side of the work area.

After you’re done in Quick Check, then return to the main window. Click Edit > Rating > Select rejected images only, and now you can delete all of the rejects. Voila! : D

After culling (and some rating) I then open in DxO Photolab for editing. DxO pulls your star ratings from the EXIF, so you can be selective with the images to edit.

R2

 

[Franz Kerschbaum]

Faststone is the quickest raw viewer and just perfect for picking the good ones ... https://www.faststone.org/

 

[katy C.]

And you might add FastStone is free,

katy

 

[Mark B.]

Shooting birds at 30FPS sounds exciting and captures a lot in a little time.

C-Raw is my chosen quality level.

BUT having to sort through thousands of images at the end of a day long shoot is just too much for me and my laptop.

Workflow changes are called for ... trying to find a quick way of pixel peeping to conidently delete the also rans.

What are others using to sort the catch, please.?

Robbey TC

Why not use mechanical and 15fps?

 

[Robbey TC]

Thanks R2D2 ... tried it out as you explained and it is certainly faster than LRC

If I can do each in 5 seconds it will only take me 3.4 hrs to do the 2,500 images ... yeah!!!

You are a saviour.

Robbey TC

 

[Robbey TC]

Shooting birds at 30FPS sounds exciting and captures a lot in a little time.

C-Raw is my chosen quality level.

BUT having to sort through thousands of images at the end of a day long shoot is just too much for me and my laptop.

Workflow changes are called for ... trying to find a quick way of pixel peeping to conidently delete the also rans.

What are others using to sort the catch, please.?

Robbey TC

Why not use mechanical and 15fps?

This was my first time out.

The group of birders I went out with dont appreciate the noisy mechanical shutter blasts. So I use electronic with BEEP enabled and shutter sound set to 1.

I guess I could do 15 FPS electronic though

Robbey TC

 

[Thor1]

You should look at Photo Mechanic https://home.camerabits.com. Sort it on the card, delete what you do not need and then import to lightroom.

 

[MAC]

Faststone is the quickest raw viewer and just perfect for picking the good ones ... https://www.faststone.org/

this, and it has a magnifier for the eyes - 1-3 seconds per pic

 

[Robbey TC]

And you might add FastStone is free,

katy

I have already down loaded DPP4 and, at the moment, I am happy with the workflow now.

i did download FastStone and used it to rename all my bird photos to the name of the folder they are in.... briliant ... thanks. It has a lot of useful file management tools I will get to explore.

 

[BigBen08]

Shooting birds at 30FPS sounds exciting and captures a lot in a little time.

C-Raw is my chosen quality level.

BUT having to sort through thousands of images at the end of a day long shoot is just too much for me and my laptop.

Workflow changes are called for ... trying to find a quick way of pixel peeping to conidently delete the also rans.

What are others using to sort the catch, please.?

Robbey TC

I use DPP to cull my images. The “Quick Check” tool is blazing fast and I can run through images as fast as I can hit the arrow keys (works in “magnify” mode too).

A tip for vetting your images in DPP: In the “Quick check window settings” set it to “Show original image.” It will render the images faster.

I select all of my images and then open them in “Quick Check.” I then check all of the images (at x1) for critical sharpness (just double-click the image to magnify). Use the left and right arrow keys to move through the images. Press the “ x “ key to mark an image for later deletion (it’ll say “Reject”). Or press one of the number keys to give it a Star rating (press “ 0 “ to clear ratings).

You just have to remember to click once somewhere inside the image (to re-enable these hot-keys) if you click on any of the buttons on the right side of the work area.

After you’re done in Quick Check, then return to the main window. Click Edit > Rating > Select rejected images only, and now you can delete all of the rejects. Voila! : D

After culling (and some rating) I then open in DxO Photolab for editing. DxO pulls your star ratings from the EXIF, so you can be selective with the images to edit.

R2

 

[Mike Engles]

Not really a solution for, you, but I only take single shots and try to anticipate what a bird might do. It does mean that you have fewer images to plough through.

 

[Mike Engles]

So is DPP

 

[MAC]

So is DPP

DPP doesn't have the quick magnifier

 

[Canochrome]

I use DPP to cull my images. The “Quick Check” tool is blazing fast and I can run through images as fast as I can hit the arrow keys (works in “magnify” mode too).

A tip for vetting your images in DPP: In the “Quick check window settings” set it to “Show original image.” It will render the images faster.

I select all of my images and then open them in “Quick Check.” I then check all of the images (at x1) for critical sharpness (just double-click the image to magnify). Use the left and right arrow keys to move through the images. Press the “ x “ key to mark an image for later deletion (it’ll say “Reject”). Or press one of the number keys to give it a Star rating (press “ 0 “ to clear ratings).

You just have to remember to click once somewhere inside the image (to re-enable these hot-keys) if you click on any of the buttons on the right side of the work area.

After you’re done in Quick Check, then return to the main window. Click Edit > Rating > Select rejected images only, and now you can delete all of the rejects. Voila! : D

After culling (and some rating) I then open in DxO Photolab for editing. DxO pulls your star ratings from the EXIF, so you can be selective with the images to edit.

R2

Well, I never even knew that feature existed. I use Lightroom to edit normally, but this looks like a great, fast way to cull the bad shots and just delete them before I even import them into LR. Time savings, even for those of us that don't shoot at 30 fps often.

DPP Quickcheck, it is!

Thanks

 

[CameraCarl]

I've heard about Faststone but I always download my memory cards using the Lightroom Classic import process. If I then open images in Faststone and delete a lot of images, then how do I remove them from Lightroom? Or must you download images into Faststone first then cull, then move to Lightroom?

 

[katy C.]

I've been using DPP for many years, it's the quickest way to cull

and organise.

katy

 

[Robbey TC]

So is DPP

DPP doesn't have the quick magnifier

Oh yes it does ...

In Quick Check .. when open go to the the quick check menu at the top right and you will see a row of boxes from full screen to a %. Set the percentage you want to use and one click (right mouse) on the image will magnify to that %....

Robbey TC
Learning all the time ... trying to get better pictures ... enjoying life

 

[Sudek]

First, a fast SD card reader and fast SD cards are crucial. I think UHS-II v60 should be fine because read speed is often faster than write speed. Then, there is no need to copy all images, and it is fast enough to work directly on the SD card.

I use Adobe Bridge. It is very fast if you arrange the windows such that there is a film strip on the left and a huge preview window. It has a magnifier function to check sharpness. Then you can right click and copy to a specific folder quickly using "copy to" function. Each image takes 3-5 seconds assess and copy. You don't need to use Windows Explorer or MacOS Finder at all in any stage.

It comes free with any Adobe subscription. But I will also check the lightstone, it sounds similar to Adobe Bridge.

Now there is a big problem with this workflow (also the lightstone, or any non-DPP workflow). If you use raw burst a lot, only DPP can handle it.

 

[BlueRay2]

Faststone is the quickest raw viewer and just perfect for picking the good ones ... https://www.faststone.org/

yes, Faststone is a powerful app and it is full of features, although some features are weird the way they work ;-)