Photo Mechanic 101: A Quick Overview
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2023
- Commercial sports and portrait photographer and Camera Bits Ambassador, Jeff Vogan, was a guest on this episode of Camera Bits' #workflowwednesday.
In this episode, Jeff Vogan does a quick overview of Photo Mechanic, shows an example of ingesting a set of images, then culling, rating, cropping then taking the selected images into Adobe Lightroom for editing.
Jeff Vogan teaches two workshops, "Getting Started With Photo Mechanic" for new users, and "Streamline Your Workflow With Photo Mechanic (aka Advanced Photo Mechanic). Additionally, Jeff offers private 1:1 sessions. For further information, see www.jeffvoganphotography.com/...
Using Jeff's process on hot codes and the college I shoot for loves it. They get pictures ID'd with the athlete's name. It saves us both time and makes my work more valuable than a photographer who doesn't do this.
Glad that you are finding value in using the workflow that I suggested.
The part where you said "I'm just going to put these in swimming..no let's do it right..no wait there's an easier way" could have absolutely come out of one of my trainings. Then you said "strategically lazy" and I realized our brain meat is probably similarly tuned. I'm just a hobbyist trying to process the few thousand shots I took a couple of weeks ago at the Oregon high school snowboarding state finals and I wish I'd watched this first. I'm also splitting my time in Windows & Mac but probably need to move my photo stuff all to the Apple machine. I'm about to watch 201, but the whole athlete into folders thing is real intriquing. I'm responsible for the roster spreadsheets too, so if I can make that easier on myself I am here for it.
My first big event after going full-time was the national figure skating championships. I had 85,000 images, taken over four 16-hour days. I was under contract to rename every image after the skater, placing them in folders named after each skater. It took me 3 weeks to do that in Lightroom. I was determined to find a better workflow. I saw the videographer changing tapes for each skater. I knew that I could do the same thing, but virtually, by changing storage folders in camera. I started using PM and subsequently shot a figure skating competition where I had over 100K images. The foldering and renaming took zero time in post thanks to my use of Photo Mechanic.
That was outstanding thank you! Just a question on the cropping, is it possible to auto straighten a crop in PM please? If not, I imagine the workaround is to mass apply crops to a series of images then auto straighten in LRC as required?
No way in PM to auto straighten images. What I do for a series is crop the first image, copy the crop and then apply to the rest of the series one at a time. I do any final straightening in LR if necessary when I do my final review.
What I recently found with my Sony A7R3, whenever I use folders with the prospect of applying code replacements to them, Sony doest this weird thing.. It creates a new folder once image counter gets to 9999, which is normal. However when I switch back to a folder I used before the one that got to 9999 file numbering continues where it ended there. Say folder 101 had last photo numbered 9956, then I switch to folder 102 where it continues from 9956 and gets to 9999 creating 103 folder and starts naming files from 0001. However when I switch back to folder 101 my Sony decides to continue numbering files from 9956, gets to 9999 and then creates a new folder 104, which complicates everything if you are not aware of it.
I have the menu item to reset the sequence number on my menu so that I can very quickly and often reset the image counter. Sony has asked me to write up my recommendations for how they could change their firmware to improve workflow. Unfortunately I suspect my recommendations are not an immediate priority.
@@jeffvoganphotographythat’s a good workaround, thanks Jeff!
Jeff, thanks for your help sir. I've joined PM and it has cut my processing time in half! 3100 images in 1.5 hrs.....Do you own 400 2.8 lens to cover sports in addition to other lenses?
Glad that PM has helped you. I own 14-28, 24-70, 70-200 and 300. I am a member of Nikon Professional Services so borrow longer glass when needed.
@@jeffvoganphotography I assume you have not moved over to Z system yet? Great shots you show us!
Two Z9 and one Z7. Sold my D4 when I got the first Z9 and then sold my D5 when I got the second Z9.
Hello dear! If I was downloading photos from my memory card and I select the images I want to keep in Photo Mechanic. I drag the images I would like to edit into Lightroom and do my editing. But ALL the images are on my external drive, the once I selected as well as the ones that I didn't want. Is there a way to simply not download the rejects, just the ones I selected? I don't want to go to my external drive and delete one by one the images I didn't want to keep... Thank you in advance.
I don't understand exactly what you are trying to do. I think that my video on ingesting may be of help to you. I do not recommend culling on the memory card. I recommend that you ingest all of the images onto your computer. Then you cull by assigning a rating or tag to the images you wish to keep. Move just the keepers to Lightroom for editing. You can then go back to PM and delete the unrated images. If you used Move or Copy to import into LR, you could delete all of the images from the ingest destination since the keepers are now stored in the location LR saves the files.
Hello @jeffvoganphotography, I'm having difficulties trying to open CR3 files imported into Photo Mechanic 6 to Camera RAW in Photoshop 2024 using the shortcut 'E', just like I do with CR2 files. When I press the 'E' shortcut, it now opens in the MacBook's image viewer. Could you assist me with this?
For technical support I recommend you contact Camera Bits. One possible reason for your issue is PM does not understand what type of file the CR3 is. It is possible that you need to update your PM to the latest version. If that doesn't help, then you could tell PM what application to use for CR3 files. I explain how to do that in this video ua-cam.com/video/M8jgJx8MegI/v-deo.html
I use as much as I can of Jeffs workflow. I do get a couple of issue. The first is that I use Fuji cameras and their naming conventions are a pain to follow with Jeffs suggestions from the past, Also our local soccer teams insist on shirt swapping with substitutes so I get 2 players with the same number 🤬
Not much you can do when the team gives jerseys of the same number to multiple players. But Fuji asked me to write up my recommendations for how they manage their storage folders. Unfortunately I have not seen them make any changes to their firmware yet.
just started PM yesterday ..ive completed injest of 130 images that ive cropped and rated red and not sure how to proceed to get these images to folder on desktop. like the speed of pm over Nikon NX studio when I shoot 2-4 k images of college sports. I think I'll enjoy this product. Inject is complete ..what do I do next?
Select the photos. File > Save Files as…
Just re-reading your question. If you have done your culling/rating using PM, why are you now looking to get the images to a desktop folder? Your images already exist on your computer. What are you trying to do?
@@jeffvoganphotography sorry about the confusion on my end, I'm storing my files on external hd and not on my desktop..thanks again for your help.
I watched 101 and have few questions. I'm not using PM yet..been only using Nikon NX Studio to scroll through sometimes 2500 jpg images of college sports i shoot bi weeky. i need something to scan through them quickly and post to my smug mug galleries. i do not use LR or Photoshop only cropping my shots before posting on line. I'm going to give this a try if the work flow is not too difficult to wade through. As it is now i'm shooting an hour of shooting and hour of processing..would like to cut the processing time down...sleep is needed after 7-9 innings of baseball..LOL Dave
What’s the question?
will PM cut my processing time down and speed up my work flow?? Over NX Studio by nikon@@jeffvoganphotography
Yes, Photo Mechanic would speed up your workflow. PM enables you to cull, crop and upload your images to SmugMug. If you wish to edit the images, NX Studio can do that and then you'd export the images that you want to upload to SmugMug. I'd use PM to upload to SmugMug. Very easy.
This video answers your question directly ua-cam.com/video/oK77NjqSLn4/v-deo.html