My digital photography workflow

Just a quick post about my digital photo workflow while I'm in the middle of it. (Sorting the 1500+ pictures I took at X-Day is a chore unto itself!!)It goes something like this:

• Fire up Adobe Lightroom
• Insert the CF/SD card into the computer
• Download the entire batch
• Backup the computer
• Erase the card for the next use
• Initial round of tagging - I try to tag the whole group with one set of tags ("Subgenius", "X-Day" in the current case)
• Move the batch to the final directory (I have things load into a generic "import" directory that I try in vain to keep tidy)
• Go through all of the pictures and simply flag all of the ones I intend to post. (I wind up flagging typically 1/6 - 1/4 of the pictures I take)
  • This is where having two monitors really helps out -- I have the grid view on the main monitor (27" iMac) and a zoomed view of the current picture on the Samsung monitor to the right. Having them both be color calibrated helps out things tremendously!
• Filter the pictures to the flagged ones
• Go through and crop the good ones to make them better and adjust the levels of each of them as needed.
• Upload the set to SmugMug using Jeffrey's plugin.

I know... nothing groundbreaking, but it's what works for me.