EvilTed
No problem 😃
None of the following is necessarily the right way to do this, it just works for me.
I use Fast Raw Viewer to cull my images from the card. It’s very quick and has lots of useful tools for quickly analysing images and segregating them.
From there I store the images on my NAS.
I have various top level folders on the NAS by topic like holidays, portraits, wildlife, macro etc
Each top level folder will contain subfolders based on logical differentiators e.g wildlife–location, or Portraits --person
This makes it easy to find an image via folder navigation without going through lightroom.
For wildlife I visit the same places so i sequentially rename the new photos to continue from the last one in the sequence. E.g
Wildlife–Bempton–Bempton0000001.nef
I have one lightroom catalogue and I import the images into it from the folder.
I tag the images as I import them with useful tags. I have been meaning to add species to my wildlife images but that will take some weeks lol
Lightroom will let me find the images by folder or tag or exif data or date etc
I will score the images at this point which can help when searching.
Once imported I will select the ones I want to spend extra time on. Once any additional processing is done I might then use Topaz sharpen and denoise.
Lightroom’s noise reduction has gotten very good lately so I don’t tend to use denoise anymore.
If I want to print the image (rare) it will be on acrylic at 60x40cm so I might use Topaz gigapixel to upscale the image if it was a heavy crop.
I also use a screen calibration tool (Spyder) if I’m doing prints. Printing is a whole 'nother topic that I’m a complete amateur at.
I have Photoshop but I only use it for image stacking for macro and I’m sure you could get cheaper tools to do that with.
I hope that helps.
There are many habitat restoration projects where I live. You can visit hundreds of hectares of fens and woodland within a few K’s of my home, and many more are created each year. It’s not all doom. I was a birdwatcher for decades before I picked up a camera to photograph wildlife. It was a way to remember some of the beautiful things I had seen, photography for me doesn’t replace the bird watching, it’s an addendum.
Thank you 😊
It was about this time I bought my Nikon D850 which, for many reasons, has much superior noise control than the Nikon D7200 I took this with. However, image processing technology has moved on so much that I find myself less concerned with noise now than ever before. I think, if I was taking this shot today, I would probably shoot at ISO 2000 on the D850 to give me the extra shutter speed. What I really need is f/4 500mm 😁
We get goldfinches but no chaffinches or greenfinches. I don’t think there is enough woodland for them, mostly farmland, but there are a lot of teasles, which the goldfinches love for their seeds.
I would love to see any pictures you have of the greenfinches, they are such beautiful birds.
Glad you like it 😊
