1/12/2024 0 Comments Crop imgaes in fastrawviewerAs I said…deleting in the field is a no go for me…but rating so I know what images to focus on in LR initially has some benefits…but it depends on time in the field between opportunities and breaks in the action or driving between locations or whatever. There's something to be said for that…but there's something to be said for upgrading techniques and procedures when you have more capability than you used to have. With all due respect to Hudson, I give my 'straw vote' to Steve on this one. But when I do shoot at 20 fps, yes there is a lot to take home to cull, but that is the price I pay for the privilege of being able to have a Z9 and long lenses when I feel like going out of my own comfort zone. Full disclosure, I mainly shoot landscapes and still life and take lots of time to compose etc and shoot variants which is far different than the majority of you here who shoot wildlife at 10 to 20 fps and have seconds to capture a BIF. But for many of us, these trips would be a 'once in a lifetime' trip, so I wouldn't want to throw away a hidden gem that I can never get back. Same with Hudson, as much as I respect him, he frequently visits Costa Rica and other photography meccas multiple times. For Dennis, all he sees around him is like me going out into my backyard, so I am sure that his portfolio is overflowing with wonderful photos of wildlife and fauna. I like Mike's comment about Dennis who lives in Costa Rica and gave Hudson the 'in camera' culling tip. As well it gives valuable data on your exposure, especially highlight and shadows. Lots of great comments here, both pro and con and I do not have much to add to this discussion, except that "FastRawViewer" gives a much faster and accurate representation of your RAW images as it does not use the embedded jpeg. I realize this is a first world problem and if this is all I have to complain about I should consider myself blessed. I guess I could get a regular spinning hard drive at an affordable price but I don't like them for travel as they more delicate (not to mention being a lot slower). So if I go to the 4TB (and I need two of them obviously), it starts to get very expensive. Well, I did the math and 1TB is not going to hold 18000 RAW Sony A1 pics and 2 TB is just barely enough. Today I've been using these small Crucial USB-C drives to store my pictures and (temporary) catalog on when I travel. That is exciting and frightening all at the same time. I will be going to Costa Rica for a couple of weeks next March and recently read of a photographer that shot about 18,000 pictures on such a trip. I might add the toll it will take on your battery, but I guess if taking along an extra battery would solve my culling problem that would be a small price to pay.īut please keep the dialogue going. But I do want to emphasize the point that while you are culling on your camera, you are distracted from other photo opportunities, not enjoying the moment, and might miss a lot of good shots. He lays out all of the things I was thinking of so I won't repeat them all. I do agree with Steve's comments about the drawbacks of culling on your camera in the field. I am going to give that a shot before too much longer. They are both especially for people shots (great for wedding photographers), but I've had some dialogue with the Narrative Select people and I think it has pretty good potential for wildlife, also, and will continue to evolve to be better for us wildlife photographers. I've found two other products: Narrative Select and Aftershoot. Then I only import the keepers into LR and further cull from there. I quickly go through and check the ones that are "close" by moving them to a _Keepers folder (the documentation tells you how to do this). FastRawViewer is software I bought for $17.99. The second thing I've done is look at culling tools. I've started to address this by understanding when I needed to shoot at what speeds. I only recently moved into BIF and with my A1 able to shoot at 20 fps, culling has taken on a whole new level of tediousness. I read this thread with a lot of interest as culling has always been my least favorite activity.
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