[Digikam-users] Digital Asset Management (DAM) question: final formats, meta data and so on

[Jan Wolter]

Hello,

I use the light-table to select the best shots from a particular series 
of pictures and delete the others. Afterwards, I tag all photos and rate 
the best shots. To the really best photos I apply some improving editing 
operations.

With my old camera, I shot jpeg pictures only. With my new camera I shot 
in jpeg+raw mode and I learned a lot about processing raw with digikam. 
In some situations I got more satisfactory results from manual raw 
processing. But this should be not the point writing about here. Instead 
I would like to ask all of you shooting also jpeg+raw, how do you manage 
the two file types in digikam.

Do you store jpeg and raw files in the same album or do you have 
sub-albums for the raw files, for example?
I have all files (of a particular "project" or holiday) in one album and 
use a filter to switch between jpeg and raw files.

Do you tag jpeg as well as raw files? Or do you tag only the jpeg files? 
But when you derive a new jpeg from a raw file, you have to copy the 
tags from the original jpeg (which the camera processed) to the new 
jpeg. (By the way: provides digikam a function to copy all tags from one 
image to another?) Up to now, I don't have a good strategy, how to 
handle this aspect.

It would be nice to hear some thoughts and strategies how you handle 
jpeg+raw files.

Bests,
Jan

On 23.09.2014 11:25, Anders Kamf wrote:
> This is my workflow.
>
>  -I work mainly with private photos, e.g. from family events and so 
> on. I handle photos from several cameras and from smart phones 
> together. I put a timestamp (from metadata) in the filename so they 
> are displayed in chronological order, even when viewed in a file browser.
>  -Since I no longer have time for post processing, I use only JPEG - 
> even for photos from my DSLR cameras.
>  -I want the information to travel with the picture, i.e. I store all 
> as metadata in the files.
>  -I use rating to make a selection of pictures from each event, rather 
> than saying "rating 5 is a really good picture".
>
>
> 1. Transfer photos from cameras, together with rename and setting 
> rating to 2, with a bash script to ~/photos/edit/YYYY/YYMMDD_EVENT, 
> naming: YYYYMMDD-HHMM_CAMERAID_ORGFILENAME
> 2. Manual backup of ~/photos/edit/ to external disc using rsync
> 3. Sort pictures using the rating and rating filter - viewing 2 stars 
> and above:
>    a) Bad pictures gets rating 1 (I delete them all later on)
>    b) Good pictures, but not duplicates, gets rating 3
>    c) Change filter to 3 stars and above. If there are too many of 
> rating 3, fine tune by set the best ones to rating 4. Continue to 
> rating 5 if needed.
> 4. Tag the finest selection with tag Selection-1, the next finest with 
> Selection-2 and so on. This way the finest selection from an event is 
> always tagged Selection-1, no matter if the finest rating has reached 
> 3, 4 or 5 stars.
> 5. Occasionally, do some manual editing like crop
> 6. Apply additional tags
> 7. Move from edit directory to ~photos/album/YYYY/, which has 
> automated backup with rsnapshot
>
> I put a small JPEG-file in each directory (with the initial script) 
> and use it to keep track of my workflow progress for that directory 
> and for information/notes that goes for the whole directory. This is 
> my way to store metadata for a folder.
>
> Regards
> Anders
>
>
> 2014-09-21 21:09 GMT+02:00 jdd <jdd at dodin.org <mailto:jdd at dodin.org>>:
>
>     Le 21/09/2014 21:01, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>
>         To resume : my free time is very precious, and i won't to
>         waste time
>         with post processing on computer.
>
>
>     same as you.
>
>     but the problem is probably most a question of number.
>
>     I have to shoot many images and can't afford to post edit them
>     (apart basics like resize).
>
>     I know people that shoot only a handfull of images and spend many
>     time refining them, of course in raw. It was the same with roll
>     film...
>
>     no problem, simply not my use
>
>     jdd
>
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