Photos Multiply Like Rabbits!

[zippyjuan]

Never encountered this in XP but on Vista it can drive me crazy sometimes when I am trying to upload a bunch of pictures to something. I finally finished editing the pics from the Quinceanera I did a few weeks back- shot some 600, deleted the really bad ones, got down to 400 and touched up the best which still left me with about 150 for them. Now I am uploading them to get prints made to present to them (so maybe they will want to order more) and every so often the computer thinks I double clicked (I guess is what happens) and it decides to create a copy of every photo I have selected so far.

By the time I got through all 150 I had as many as six additional copies of the photos added to my HD! That is in addition to the originals plus a smaller size for posting on the web (I will add some to my gallery later but certainly not all 150!). Now I will have to go through, try to select them and delete those without it creating more. Just like in the days before po-up blockers when they popped up as fast as you closed the previous one. Drives me nuts every time it does this!

Just venting- probably not much I can actually do about it. The upload says it will take about an hour and a half for that many.

[zippyjuan]

Well that was fun! As I figured, it would from time to time make copies of the copies I was slecting to delete so I did batches of ten- that way if they multiplied at least I would not have a rediculous number to deal with. At the end, I had 466 items in the recycling bin. I did not want to do the upload in little batches to avoid missing any. What a chore!

Now I just have to wait for the upload to finish and order the prints (which I will have to go through and write the number on the back of each one to know exactly what ones they may want prints of). The next part of the project is to put together a DVD slide show of the photos for them (it plays as a movie). So now maybe you get a little idea why wedding photographers charge so much! I will make a little money but not a lot. This one was about getting the experience.

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Oh, the post-work is always the most difficult. Just converting the raw files to freaking jpegs or tiffs takes hours for me sometimes.

[zippyjuan]

I did shoot in raw- and there were definately shots where that was a huge help- making an otherwise unusable one into something decent. The business of photography has certainly changed. I the past, you shot, dumped off your film at the lab, and picked up prints later and dropped them off at the client- job over. Now you are the lab and end up spending probably 10% of your time shooting and 85 percent on editing and 5% on other related nonsense. You pretty much have to do everything yourself- unless you hire an assistant.

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I the past, you shot, dumped off your film at the lab, and picked up prints later and dropped them off at the client- job over. Now you are the lab and end up spending probably 10% of your time shooting and 85 percent on editing and 5% on other related nonsense.

Well, for some photographers they would spend the time in the darklab processing their own negatives, so they definitely spend a lot of time post.

But I agree, i've been slowly learning little features of Capture NX2 and Photoshop in recent months. I hate spending so much time post processing, but sometimes it's required to fix some of my shooting errors. My biggest issue, holding the camera straight :/

[ArkiStan]

I the past, you shot, dumped off your film at the lab, and picked up prints later and dropped them off at the client- job over. Now you are the lab and end up spending probably 10% of your time shooting and 85 percent on editing and 5% on other related nonsense. You pretty much have to do everything yourself- unless you hire an assistant.

I would guess if you worked for a "client" you would have to do a little more that that.

That's the difference between taking snap shots and photography. If you want to dump everything off at the photo lab, you can still easily do so. Just don't shoot in RAW. But you now also have the choice of doing post-processing, which I believe is half the fun and something that most photographers already did in the dark room anyway before digital came along.

[zippyjuan]

Well, for some photographers they would spend the time in the darklab processing their own negatives, so they definitely spend a lot of time post.

But I agree, i've been slowly learning little features of Capture NX2 and Photoshop in recent months. I hate spending so much time post processing, but sometimes it's required to fix some of my shooting errors. My biggest issue, holding the camera straight :/
Some cameras have a grid in the viewfinder so you can tell if you are straight or not. My Nikon D80 has a couple of different screens you can get to show up (or no grids if you want)- you may check your manual to see if you have anything like that. It helps a lot (but I do still get the leaners!). I spent a lot of time trying to learn Photoshop (even went to a seminar and bought a book besides watching online tutorials) but haven't taken the time to try to learn something else. I tried Lightroom but had problems getting the JPEGs to work for some reason (I was doing the RAW processing in Lightroom and converting to jpeg in Photoshop so it should have worked- I gave up trying to figure out why not). Right now I use Lightroom to download, view, and sort my raw files and Photoshop to edit them. Just where I am more comfortable. The Capture NX2 demo seemed not that hard though.

I do like the control you get with being able to edit your pictures yourself- it is just that it can be so time consuming. Without digital photography I would probably be not doing much shooting. Certainly not nearly as much as I do now. I also like that you can see right away if you are doing something wrong and make an adjustment on the spot. On film you had to wait until you got your pics back and by then it is too late to do it again.