Working with digital images

[tambria]

I am doing a wedding. About 1100 images. Want to do some editing, such as density, color, and cropping. Should I be saving these as tif's, lzw compression?, what dpi?, image size?  Any imput someone can give would be appreciated.

[bdery]

Hi,

workflow depends greatly on your shooting style, your results, the conditions, etc. One thing I' make sure of, though, is to shoot at the highest quality possible. Wedding photographies are not something you want to take chances with. Bring mre memory than needed, backup batteries, etc.

[Deb]

Hi Tambria. Do you have a laptop or portable storage device? If so, I'd suggest bringing it along so that you could copy your images to it for backup purposes. Copy them BEFORE you delete the card(s).

In a tiny little nutshell, here's how I do a shoot.
1. Shoot at the highest quality setting (RAW or TIFF; no compression) at the largest image size (whatever your camera can do)
2. Copy all the images to my laptop AND portable device on location BEFORE I delete them from the card
3. Burn DVD of these images to save as "original" files
4. Using a digital asset management software (Portfolio, Cumulus, etc.), I label images with IDs, location, keywords, copyright, use restrictions, etc.
5. Sort images and select those for output
6. Edit selected images using a "save as" NOT "save" command (retain original files intact)
7. Output selected images (for print, web, etc.)

As Bdery wrote, the key is to develop a workflow that works for your style.

Have a great time shooting the wedding!

[ShutterbugGail]

And while we're on the subject, you may find this article about wedding photography helpful.

http://www.digicamhelp.com/learn/places-events/wedding.php


Also, you didn't mention if you'll be printing the photos but, if so, Qimage is an excellent printing program:

http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/