[Leica] Editing

Wed Jul 31 09:37:28 PDT 2019

Thanks, Frank.  This is exactly what I have decided to do:

"Take 1 time period at a time... the July 2015 trip for example. And work on
them as a sub-catalog.... finish and go to the next....
Do this by making a new LR catalog of SOME of the pictures in the big
catalog.... edit THAT catalog, then combine back into the main catalog....
Repeat...

I've set up a separate LR catalog just for the unedited Honduran photos
which should make the editing go faster.

Tom can't help.  He's on a ladder putting up a tin ceiling in the basement!

Thanks!

Tina

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:34 PM Frank Filippone via LUG <
lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> Tina... if I understand the nuances, YOU are picking and posting your
> images
> for the social purpose stated.... There is no person called "Editor" to
> pick
> the required images?
>
> I think you have little to no recourse....  and you will be happier with
> the
> result rather than hiring someone to do it for you..... which is the other
> choice.....
>
> If you define Editing images as a pure selection project, no image
> enhancement, no cropping, etc.....
> The good news is that if you can sort at the rate of 1 image every 5
> seconds, which sounds long to me per image on this pass.....
> With presumably 500,000 images, it will take 100,000 seconds
> With 60 seconds to a minute, that is 1600 minutes
> With 60 minutes to an hour that is roughly 30 hours.
>
> A month should do it for the first pass..... at the rate of 1 hour per
> day....
> Second pass is less images, so say 1 more week
> Third pass is less again, so say another week ( more time per image)
>
> Total would be maybe 6 weeks ...... That's not so bad.....
>
> Sometimes it is better emotionally to break up the big project into smaller
> parts, completing one part at a time gives you a boost....
> Take 1 time period at a time... the July 2015 trip for example. And work on
> them as a sub-catalog.... finish and go to the next....
> Do this by making a new LR catalog of SOME of the pictures in the big
> catalog.... edit THAT catalog, then combine back into the main catalog....
> Repeat...
>
> You could set up another seat and "let"  Tom help?
>
> Frank Filippone
>
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
> Thanks, Frank.  The only purpose behind editing is to choose which photos
> might be used to make a difference.  I have plenty of storage (just ordered
> another 10TB drive for the Drobo) and will not through any away.  Like
> Gerry, I use the star system when I edit and put the 4 and 5 stars into a
> special folder to eventually post somewhere.
>
> The stock photos I take are used to create income.  The family photos from
> Central America are used to try to make a difference.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:48 AM Frank Filippone via LUG
> <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
> > It sounds to me like you wish to "throw away" the less good DIGITAL
> > images..... at least that is what I read into your question......
> > consolidate, Maggie Steber, etc all indicate this....
> >
> > The first question is ... Why?  Why do you want to edit your images?
>  Are
> > you being pushed by Almy to limit your Stock?  Some other reason?
> >
> > Storage is so cheap, I can not see the thought of editing to save HDD
> space
> > as a really good idea..... HDD costs are now $20 per TB.....
> > Doing some quick math... your files are 20MB per image ( a pure
> > guess)......
> > or 50 images to a GB....
> > You have 400,000 images in 2 countries.... say half a million to make
> > things
> > easy....  That would be 10,000 GB....
> > There are 1000 GB in a TB....
> > The math says you have about 10TB in images..... for a total HDD cost of
> > $200.
> > Is it really worth your time to edit images whose cost to you is your
> time,
> > when you could be using that tine creating new images that would yield
> you
> > income?
> >
> > Is there something about editing that is important?  That you NEED to do
> to
> > create income for yourself?
> > What would you do with the "good ones" that can not be done with ALL of
> > them?
> >
> > ITOD, you took your negatives and saved all of them ( ask Ted) ....  Why
> > does Digital Imagery require the throwing away of images?
> >
> > Buy more and bigger HDD.... edit when you take the SD cards ( or other)
> and
> > transfer them into your computer..... and go take more Pix....
> >
> > Don't worry about Marie Kondo and the KomMari Checklists.....  if that is
> > what is driving the question.....
> >
> > Frank Filippone
> >
> > Red735i at verizon.net
> >
> > PESO:
> >
> > I am cleaning up old files on my Drobo and trying to consolidate
> > everything.  Years ago, I spent a couple of weeks with Maggie Steber, a
> > photo editor, who helped me edit 50,000 of my Honduran photos down to
> about
> > 24.  The problem is that I have many, many more than the original 50,000
> > that she edited.  According to my LR files, I have 174,258 photos of
> > Honduras.  If I spend the rest of my life editing them I will not finish.
> > But just glancing through, it looks like there are a lot I would include
> in
> > a final edit.  So what to do?  Recently, I have been going back editing
> old
> > family photos of European trips.  Should I stop that and work on
> Honduras?
> > I really am drawn to that because of their situation today.  The same
> thing
> > applies to Guatemala.  I have over 150,000 photos of Guatemala.  If I
> edit
> > those, I will never get to any other countries.
> >
> > I think I have answered my own question but I would appreciate your
> > opinion, anyway.
> >
> >
> >
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