- Bonjour, my name is Serge.
In this video I want to show you how to import
and a really cool workflow to find a really faster,
best photos and of course,
we're going to do some retouching together.
I just spent a whole week in Miami
trying to shoot for maybe my next book.
And I really enjoyed this city.
I took lots of photos
and I'm going to show you
something I've been doing
for years to really organize my photo really well,
find the best one really fast
and retouch them.
Let's do it.
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All right.
So I have my SD card with all the photos from Miami.
What I'm going to do now is
I'm going to go click here
and I'm going to go to other destination.
So I'm here in my travel photos folder
which is on Dropbox.
I use Dropbox as a backup.
I have Dropbox unlimited.
But you know, I do this for a living.
And so in this Dropbox folder
I got something called travel photos.
And in this one, I'm going to create a folder called Miami.
But unfortunately with this option of Lightroom, you can't.
So I have to go here,
new folder, let's call it Miami.
Okay. And then in Miami,
so I'm going to pick the Miami folder here
and click choose.
In that folder, I'm going to organize it into by date.
And the date format is going to be 2021-05
and the different dates.
And what that's going to give me is
I'm going to have the Miami folder
and I'm going to have for every day I shot,
I've got to have the photos of that day.
I really like that.
So I'm going to copy them,
not as DNG this time.
I'm going to copy them as the original Sony raw file.
I do this because these are very light raw files anyway
and it's faster than to do DNG.
So I'm going to import this.
It's going to import a whole week of photos
and it's going to do that day by day
which I found really, really useful.
I love to go through my photos day by day.
All right so the photo have been imported
and you can see here in my library, I got 2021.
I got 4s, you know, April 28, April 30, 2nd of May.
You know, fourth of May.
May the fourth be with you and fifth of May.
And this one, for example, look at this,
this day I shot 1,192 photos.
It's kind of crazy.
Also what I do is I forgot to mention,
but when I import
I use the option of embedded preview in it.
So I can go really fast.
Look how fast I could,
(speeding sounds)
I shot with a Sony
like really very, very fast in the in the Everglades.
Very fast photos.
Anyways, so I'm going to give you the example
on the day before I left.
And because I think it's one of my favorite photos.
So what I do is once I imported a photo
I take a day and then I go through
and if I find a photo
that I think has some kind of potential
I give it a one star.
So I just press one on my keyboard.
So let's see maybe this one, I'm going to give it a one.
This is the art deco district in Miami
and it was a great sunset.
So I did a lot of panos too.
That's a pano.
Okay, that's a pano.
So when I have a pano like this,
I select all four photos.
I think this one can be kind of cool.
I right click.
I first give it a color, like red.
And then I give it a one.
I think this one has some potential to be something.
All right, so this one where I'm not crazy about this one.
This one may be I give it a one.
Here is another pano.
Usually when I do pano, I'll go portrait
so I can really see I went pano.
So same thing, this one I'm going to set like that.
And I'm going to go
one and color red.
So usually when I did a color red,
the next one I do yellow so I can see them better.
I use that for my panos.
Okay. This one?
Yeah. This is like just a two photo pano.
And then I did a three photo pano.
On this one, this one can be kind of cool.
I think I'm going to prefer this one.
So I'm going to go here.
One, and then color label red.
And then I go through.
This one, I don't like it, so many in the shot.
Oh, this is like a pano where I go like
one up, one down, one up, one right, one left.
That can be kind of cool.
This one can be kind of cool.
I actually really like this one.
So this one, I'm going to give it a two.
When I see that something has a lot of potential,
I give it a two
and then a color label.
Let's go to yellow
and let's carry on.
Yeah, on that night I did lots of pano.
This one, yeah, this one's okay.
I give it a one.
Took a lot of good shots that night.
One, two, three, four.
That's a pano.
Yeah, this one is kind of cool
so I'm going to give it a one.
I mean usually I don't take so much "good photos".
It's just because that night was really nice.
So, and that's just my workflow.
So this one I'm going to give it a yellow
and then I do that for everything.
So let's go faster.
All right, so I've given a one star
to the photo that I think has potential
and a few that I gave a two star to.
So usually I always start
by retouching my two-star photos.
So for example, this is a cool pano.
So let's select this, right click.
Photo merge, panorama
and okay, perspective doesn't really work.
Let's try cylindrical on this one.
Yes, cylindrical might be better.
Let's try spherical.
Yes, it's very cool, it's pretty good.
One thing I use a lot when I do pano now
is I use a new feature called fill edge,
and that's going to fill in all the missing pixel
by creating it.
Okay, I know some of it was going to be weird
but it's, I rather, usually it does a good job in the sky.
So then I merge this one
and it's going to make it into a stack.
Okay. Next one.
This is the next pano.
So while this is happening,
I just go and do the next one.
Photo merge, panorama.
And I've never seen this photo.
I'm actually doing this live.
I have never seen this photo.
They might be really bad.
Create stack.
I'm going to use fill edge.
So to fill in all of that
and I love to work with one camera.
I was just going on with a 24, 72.8
and going really fast.
I love the convenience of going fast,
making sure I only have the two stars.
And this is the last pano that's two-star.
Same idea.
It was a pano night.
It was a pano night, my friends.
Okay. Fill edge.
Okay so now I've got three panos to work with.
This one, this one,
and this one and you see they're into stacks.
All right, guys.
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So here I am, I'm back here
and I'm going to try my golden hour presets.
See, Ooh, the golden hour preset does well
cause that was really like a golden hour.
I think I'm going to go with golden hour,
maybe dark or yeah, dark.
And when I use some of my preset
the first thing that I do is I check my black points.
You see it's too strong
because presets you have to adapt them.
And then I use the white point
making sure I don't have anything burn.
Okay. I usually add a bit of contrast.
On this one I think I'm going to add back more blue.
I mean, it was a crazy night.
Make sure it's everything is sharp
yes it's very sharp
and that's a cool shot of Miami.
And I usually would spend more time
but the preset gives me a good idea.
If I like it with the preset
I give it a three-star
and oh, you see here
something is weird because we did the pano trick.
That's fine.
I'm going to go 16 by 9
because that's what I usually do most of my work with.
And I'm just going to focus a little more on that sky here
Voila.
Okay. And I really like this one.
Let's check out this one.
This is like more blue hours.
Let's use the blue hour preset,
maybe blue or light.
Yeah, blue are normal.
Okay. Same thing.
You'll hold on the option key.
You check the black points.
Way too strong on this one.
The white point.
I can make it better
and there's too much skies.
So on this one, I really am going to 16 by 9
and voila.
Okay, it looks like I messed up here.
See, this one is blurry.
So this one is not good.
So this one I give it a zero.
I messed it up.
Okay. Let's try this one.
This is also a blue hour, but I think I'm good.
There was still some sunset.
So I'm going to use a sunset preset on this one.
Yes. Sunset.
And I don't like how the road is curvy.
So I'm going to crop that.
I'm going to go 16 by 9.
16 by 9 is really something
I do a lot with the galleries and the books that I do.
Yeah, so now that works better for me.
Voila.
And this one is kind of cool.
I'm going to give it a three star.
So always give a three star
when I applied some of my presets.
So now let's see if we can find some other one
in the one star that I kind of like.
Okay, so I'm going to take,
I'm also going to do this one really quick.
So I'll go to a photo merge, a panorama.
Now this one,
if I use cylindrical ,
do you see how the building's going to be very wrong?
So I'm going to use perspective.
It's going to look weird.
That's totally fine.
I'm going to do a bit
of boundary wrap to make it more straight.
Not too much.
Just a little bit.
And I'm going to do some fill edge.
I always do fill edge as a security
because it's going to give me some more skies
and some more road.
I merge it, but then,
you know of course I kind of crop it first.
All right, so that's the results
of what I do is I usually start with one of my preset.
That's a golden hour.
So I'm going to use like a golden hour circle.
Now I know there's a lot of weird stuff there
so I'm going to go 16 by 9.
And I'm going to go here
where the action is.
Okay. And yeah, it's kind of weird,
so on this one let's go to the auto features,
see if we can make it more straight.
Yeah, I don't like how the photo is kind of like this.
So let's see.
Can we do something about it?
I'm going to rotate it a little bit.
It's really leaning toward,
let me see if I can crop a little more on this one.
Just to be there.
Yeah, it's not bad.
The sky's a little too much.
I don't like when it was really, really strong, the sky.
Okay. So I'll give it a two star.
I don't really like it.
Anyway, so let's look at the three stars
that we did.
At the end I only have this one
and this one, which I really liked.
This is the before
and this is the after.
I really like this one.
And so I'm just going to go day by day in Miami and do that.
I just thought I wanted to share that with you.
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And I'll see you in another video.
My name's Serge. Au revoir.