I've been meaning to make the switch to PM but just haven't gotten around to it yet. As such, I can tell you my medium speed workflow using LightRoom. I'm not the fastest, but I still work on tight deadlines just fine.
For social media live coverage, I'll sometimes have an editor. At timeouts, I pull my SD card, find and import 1-2 images directly to my phone with a dongle (faster than any wifi card I've tried) and then either A) send to google drive where editor edits or B) do quick LR edit on phone/ipad and then send to social media.
For publication, while shooting I star my images as the cameras I use have a rate button on them; one star for interested (~100-150 game) or two stars for publish (~10 per game). I import everything into LR, search by two stars, and edit and caption those both at half time and at the end of the game. I usually get 3-5 shots up at half and another 3-5 within a few minutes of the end of the game. I'm usually waiting on stats so my timeline is fast enough (my wire requires stats in caption). After that, I spend an hour or so culling/editing/captioning another 30-40 images.
RobertLynn wrote:
I wish I could get away with jpeg for what I do but with changing light, it's difficult because there's times- even when you're vigilant that you blow the exposure more than I can recover in LR.
My work flow is camera raw to LR then delete OOF, then delete photos that aren't desirable, then export. It's needlessly cumbersome.
Too much time. Maybe think about this, should cut your culling time down 70-75%:
• Get PhotoMechanic, and if you don't, still do the rest
• PM will let you move only your selects over to Lr
• If you don't get PM, instead of deleting OOF shots in one pass and then undesirable images in a second pass, just do one pass and rate the good images with a star. When finished, view "rated only" and then make your Lr edits.
