{"id":4035,"date":"2007-06-01T11:57:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/06\/01\/photography-workflow\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T14:17:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T22:17:22","slug":"photography-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/06\/01\/photography-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography Workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5322,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/connectedflow.com\\\/flickrexport\\\/iphoto&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251209134108\\\/http:\\\/\\\/connectedflow.com\\\/flickrexport\\\/iphoto\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 07:41:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 01:53:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:08:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:08:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5940,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bullstorm.se\\\/KeywordManager.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110227083325\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.bullstorm.se:80\\\/KeywordManager.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 17:02:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:436},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 01:53:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 22:55:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:08:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:406}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:08:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:406},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I just had someone ask me through my Flickr account about my photography workflow and sales experience, and I figured I might as well put my response up here for&#8230;um&#8230;posterity? Ego-stroking? ;)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not yet started to actually try to shoot for a living (though it&#8217;s a nice dream), as school and work take up enough time that I can&#8217;t devote myself to my hobby. Still, for what it&#8217;s worth, here&#8217;s what I can tell you&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  What is your photography work flow?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These days, I shoot pretty much everything RAW. I haven&#8217;t had the money to upgrade to Apple&#8217;s Aperture or Adobe&#8217;s Lightroom yet, so I use iPhoto for organization and sorting, Adobe Photoshop for RAW conversion and touchups, and then the <a href=\"http:\/\/connectedflow.com\/flickrexport\/iphoto\/\" title=\"Connected Flow: Flickr Export for iPhoto\">Flickr Export plugin for iPhoto<\/a> to upload everything to Flickr.<\/p>\n<p>The basic process is this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Shoot (lots!) in RAW (with my camera set to the Adobe RGB color space).<\/li>\n<li>Import into iPhoto.<\/li>\n<li>Name and tag everything (I&#8217;m using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bullstorm.se\/KeywordManager.php\" title=\"Bullstorm: Keyword Manager\">Bullstorm&#8217;s Keyword Manager<\/a> to help with tag organization and editing, as iPhoto&#8217;s built-in keyword management is one of the least useful aspects of an otherwise excellent program).<\/li>\n<li>Do a first run through the shots, tossing what&#8217;s probably worth uploading into an album.<\/li>\n<li>Do a second run through the shots. Most of this run is converting the RAW files and doing any touch-ups (which I keep to a minimum, generally little more than exposure and white balance tweaking, occasional cropping, sharpening, and setting the color space to sRGB), but I&#8217;ll also make some last decisions on which photos will or won&#8217;t be uploaded.<\/li>\n<li>Upload to Flickr, assigning shots to sets or sending to one group during upload. Later set management or submitting photos to more groups is done online through Flickr when I get around to it.<\/li>\n<li>Do a third cull through the shots, selecting the best of the bunch to be printed out.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p>\n  [Where] or how do you market or promote your work?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never really actively done much promotion other than uploading things to Flickr and then telling people about it. When I can, I&#8217;ll let people involved in an event know about any event photos I&#8217;ve taken (sometimes by e-mail, other times through making posts in online communities focusing on an event or artist), or if I can identify and contact the subjects of shots, I&#8217;ll try to let them know directly. Other than that, I don&#8217;t do a whole lot.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Have you had any success with online promotion or selling your work through a website, if so which ones are you using?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing major here, really. I&#8217;ve experimented with some of the services that have popped up online for helping people sell their work, but as I&#8217;ve never really taken the time to actively pursue anything, I can&#8217;t really report any great sucesses (or failures, really &#8212; I may not be selling much, but I don&#8217;t see that as failure when I&#8217;m not really <em>trying<\/em> to sell anything).<\/p>\n<p>What few shots I have sold or had used elsewhere have happened more or less through blind luck &#8212; people stumbling on a shot through photo searches, deciding I had something that would work for a project, and asking permission to use it.<\/p>\n<p>I have started getting a few people asking me to shoot events, but it&#8217;s not something I&#8217;ve started charging for yet (while it&#8217;s very flattering to have someone ask, I&#8217;m not entirely convinced I&#8217;m &#8220;pro&#8221; enough to ask for money&#8230;though I&#8217;m certainly not going to refuse if any is offered, either!). Right now, I pretty much just chalk it up to learning experiences, with possibilities for future benefit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  And if you can think of any other ideas for a photographer that is ready to start selling his work full time (my goal). I would greatly appreciate it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing much comes to mind, mostly because I&#8217;m not quite heading that direction yet. Good luck on your quest, though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had someone ask me through my Flickr account about my photography workflow and sales experience, and I figured I might as well put my response up here for&#8230;um&#8230;posterity? Ego-stroking? ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2050],"tags":[118,13,27],"class_list":["post-4035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photography","tag-apple","tag-life","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}