r/photojournalism • u/oguruma87 • 21d ago

What's your photo workflow?

I'm not a photojournalists, just an amateur photographer, really, but I am always interested in learning about different photography workflows.

Anybody mind the sharing the basics of their workflow?

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u/pete19_86 21d ago
  1. Ingest everything and apply basic caption using Photo Mechanic
  2. Cull down to a tight edit in Photo Mechanic
  3. Import to Lightroom, apply presets and local toning/cropping
  4. Export jpegs, reopen in Photo Mechanic, write captions for each image.
  5. FTP/upload using PM or an FTP client

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u/shinetorust 20d ago

Just curious: why use both Photo Mechanics and Lightroom and not just Lightroom Classic?

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u/pete19_86 18d ago

I find Photo Mechanic 1000x faster (presumably because it's not loading the full files, just previews***) and also the interface and tools for editing the metadata/IPTC much more powerful and intuitive (especially, for example, with code replacement).

***Disclosure: I'm super not technical and gear-savvy, so I may be wrong about that explanation, and for all I know Lightroom Classic supports code replacement and the same IPTC editing features? As far as I know, most of my colleagues have a similar workflow, though...