Essays

Sorting the wheat from the chaff

// April 19th, 2007

When I return triumphantly from a shoot I always run excitedly up to the office and begin downloading the photos. The first step in my process is to download everything and then sort them into bins depending on what I plan to do with them. Here’s my system:

Bins

Unfortunately, here are the usual contents of the “Perfect” folder:

Perfect

Sigh. There’s always tomorrow, I suppose.

7 Responses to “Sorting the wheat from the chaff”

  1. Landon Whitsitt says:

    That’s what my “perfect” folder loks like as well.

    (Is that Kubuntu I spy? Bravo, my good man!)

  2. Michelle says:

    That’s brilliant and I completely understand.

  3. guynameddave says:

    funny. i’m using lightroom these days and the star system. first i add 1-to-2 stars for photos i think i might keep. then i re-review and add more stars. then re-re-review and take stars away. then… you get the pic.

  4. Todd says:

    I don’t even bother having a perfect folder. It would have to have some false perfects as a place holder.

  5. Taavi says:

    Good photography humor. Made me laugh.

  6. TJ On Photography » Blog Archive » Photodoto - Sorting the wheat from the chaff says:

    [...] Sorting the wheat from the chaff: “When I return triumphantly from a shoot I always run excitedly up to the office and begin downloading the photos. The first step in my process is to download everything and then sort them into bins depending on what I plan to do with them” [...]

  7. L says:

    This is exactly how it is…awesome!

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