Okay, I'm only just starting to use Lightroom and I'm confused by the above. It seems convoluted to me and with a couple of extra steps.
Why convert to DNG?
Why export to 16 bit TIFF?
In the videos I watched from Kelby & NAPP, they never mentioned these two steps.
And Kelby and NAPP aren't the end all be all of a photo workflow.
edit:
Ok, you're new to photography so perhaps I was too harsh. I've been at it as an amateur for 5 years now so I have my work habits down. Let me explain.
I convert to DNG as to work with LR/PS which works faster in Adobe software, retains all editing data without sidecar files, and are smaller than RAW files. These are my WORKING files
The original RAWs get archived to an external hard drive for safe keeping in case a DNG goes rogue or worse, AWOL. These are my ORIGINAL files.
The 16-bit TIFF is the final edited MASTER copy. I shouldn't have to go in LR to find an image using various flags, stars, keywords, colors and what not. All of my best images are in a folder, easy to get to without loading a program and filtering through 15k images. LR will contain 200-300 shots from an event, but I'll edit the best 10-20%. Then I let them "sit" and take my mind off it, and narrow it down to 5-10% a few days later. It just makes sense to have a folder of all your final edits in the highest resolution in an archivable format.
Furthermore, this folder is the folder my family would go to when I die so they can pass it on to future generations or what have you. If they had to go through Lightroom and see all those images, it would be overwhelming and wouldn't know how to use the program anyway, nor understand my editing and processing choices (I can imagine someone in my family asking how to export a file? what do the flags mean? why do some have stars? why some have flags, stars, and colors? which ones did he really like?).
The TIFF Master folder has a text document explaining what the folder is, how it is to be used and under no circumstances should anything in the folder be further edited, nor other images from Lightroom (or whatever cataloging system I use in the future) be used. In fact, there's instructions for the LR catalog to be deleted. People only care about the artist's output, not the tools to make the output.
You won't get that from listening to Scott Kelby.