There’s a million ways to organize a catalog or start culling your images, but this is the way I have found is the most helpful for me and my workflow.
Jared -- great video, buddy! Consise and super informational. I wish more new photographers would spend more time in this LrC space. Such a wonderful tool. Like you, I don't import from the SD card, nor do I store any photos on the PC itself. I copy the shots to one of the external drives, and then "import" from there. My culling is a little different -- I start with a flag, pure and simple -- if the image makes the first cut, I flag it. From there I cull the flagged shots with stars, as you do. Couple other things I find helpful is at the time of importing it's easy to import a second copy of the images to your backup drive. Doing it at the same time helps prevent forgetting later. Another thing I stress is that when you're setting up those import requirements, it's also a great time to fill out the copyright info panel. From there, your copyright is on every image - culled keepers and originals. If you complete your copyright info you only have to do it once. From there, put a check in the box if you want your copyright used on every import. Fun fact, you can have multiple copyrights -- a personal one; a business one; etc and use them accordingly as needed. I'm glad you mentioned collections too! In the early days I didn't take full advantage so it was much more difficult to find a particular set of shots as my practice grew. Now I have collections for everything -- and -- collections within a collection. Parent collection = Models; sub collection would be each model and date photographed within the parent. Parent collection = Weddings -- sub collection would be each wedding within a calendar year, etc ...To your point about solo mode, I find using a parent-child collections strategy helps keep the left side clean too because you can collapse to the parent level. Again - thanks man, this was a great video - and serves as a reference video. I will save this and offer it to the new photographers I see regularly. All the best!
That collection organization is super well thought out! I like that methodology a lot! I know a lot of people today use AI to cull for them, but I still like doing it myself, personally
How do I edit using the smart previews if I disconnected my external drive and when I try to open LRC it keeps saying the Lightroom catalog was not found (my external drive is not connected) so how do I edit my smart previews without the external drive not being connected? I’m so confused
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As a new user I find this sooooooooooooo useful
That's great! I'm glad it helped in some way!
Never knew solo mode existed. Thank you.
Yea it doesn’t change a whole lot, but I think it sure does clean up the side panel if it only opens the tab you’re using at the time.
@@jaredcollins-photo it saves a bunch of clicks & scrolls over time. Big assist. Thank you again.
Great explanation, thank you.
There’s a million ways to organize a catalog or start culling your images, but this is the way I have found is the most helpful for me and my workflow.
Subscribed. More Lightroom video tutorial/tips please. Thank you!
Oh I would love to! What’s something specific you’d like to see?
@@jaredcollins-photo Color Grading, please.
Okay, I can work with on getting something going there!
Jared -- great video, buddy! Consise and super informational. I wish more new photographers would spend more time in this LrC space. Such a wonderful tool. Like you, I don't import from the SD card, nor do I store any photos on the PC itself. I copy the shots to one of the external drives, and then "import" from there.
My culling is a little different -- I start with a flag, pure and simple -- if the image makes the first cut, I flag it. From there I cull the flagged shots with stars, as you do. Couple other things I find helpful is at the time of importing it's easy to import a second copy of the images to your backup drive. Doing it at the same time helps prevent forgetting later. Another thing I stress is that when you're setting up those import requirements, it's also a great time to fill out the copyright info panel. From there, your copyright is on every image - culled keepers and originals. If you complete your copyright info you only have to do it once. From there, put a check in the box if you want your copyright used on every import. Fun fact, you can have multiple copyrights -- a personal one; a business one; etc and use them accordingly as needed.
I'm glad you mentioned collections too! In the early days I didn't take full advantage so it was much more difficult to find a particular set of shots as my practice grew. Now I have collections for everything -- and -- collections within a collection. Parent collection = Models; sub collection would be each model and date photographed within the parent. Parent collection = Weddings -- sub collection would be each wedding within a calendar year, etc ...To your point about solo mode, I find using a parent-child collections strategy helps keep the left side clean too because you can collapse to the parent level.
Again - thanks man, this was a great video - and serves as a reference video. I will save this and offer it to the new photographers I see regularly. All the best!
That collection organization is super well thought out! I like that methodology a lot!
I know a lot of people today use AI to cull for them, but I still like doing it myself, personally
How do I edit using the smart previews if I disconnected my external drive and when I try to open LRC it keeps saying the Lightroom catalog was not found (my external drive is not connected) so how do I edit my smart previews without the external drive not being connected? I’m so confused
I'm not 100% sure how you'd do that.
Is there any reason why you wouldn't just connect the external drive?