Help!! How many photos should I be editing per hour? Events, weddings etc..

[Bending Pixels]

Sounds like he's listened to some of SLR Lounge's videos where they intimate by using their Lr preset system, you can speed up editing.

If there is consistency for each wedding shoot, then it's doable. However, given that some images are shot in JPEG, and some in RAW, there's no way to establish any sort of consistency.

The owners expectations are somewhat unrealistic. He needs to have each of his photographers shooting in RAW only. That'll give you the best image and widest latitude for editing.

You can do some cookie-cutter presets to address the main things he wants - adjust exposure, change the camera profile to [CAMERA] Portrait, add a vignette, adjust up/down 1, 2, 3. stops.

 

[themumu]

At 12 seconds per photo, your boss is not expecting perfection, he is expecting you to come with a workflow that will get the greatest improvement in the smallest amount of time. You are not going to be doing adjustments to individual photos, or, god forbid, masking or retouching at that rate. (At least I would expect that to be the case. I cannot imagine stamping out pimples at 12 seconds per photo, my brain is too slow.) Figure out a dozen presets that match a variety of shooting conditions, and for each shot, just pick a preset, apply it, and move on to the next.

If that's not the kind of work you want to do, you would need to find a different studio.

Also, when a day long shoot produces 2000 images, in most cases the editing time should be reduced by trashing at least half of the shots.

If you have sequences of very similar images and determining what to trash is not in your scope of responsibilities, just perform sensible edits to 1, copy and apply to the whole 20 of them. Then go have a coffee

 

[Apple fanboy]

As a few have mentioned keyboard shortcuts could help speed up the process. They sell keyboard skins for Macs with the shortcuts on each key. Might help.

But are you sure he's not just giving you an impossibly high target to see how much work he can get out of you? It's a pretty standard tactic for bad employers.

Quality would always trump quantity for the client and a decent boss.

 

[sim667]

Just do one and copy and paste the adjustments..... if he thinks that its so quick to edit a image, I doubt he's a particularly good photographer.

Do one, lift adjustments, select all, apply adjustments....... Let him bask in the glory of your editing prowess, but never ever tell him how you do it so quickly

 

[alexxk]

wrong topic