I suppose if I were in the newspaper business with tight deadlines, I'd feel differently. I have found over time that the brain can get tired looking at a series of photos that are close to one another, and picking out the best one takes some time. The 0 star shots are kept and probably deleted a day or so later - but worth looking at them a second time. LR makes it easy for me to do a first pass following an Auto tone where I can mark some obvious ones for deletion, mark some with 1 star (as probable keepers) and 2 star as definite keepers.

If I threw away a lot of shots before I did some initial processing in LR, I would lose some of my better shots. I follow a National Geo philosophy I learned of 'work the scene': varying composition, varying aperture, occasional HDR, etc. This weekend I unloaded about 1000 images from a walk through a local canyon, looking for autumn shots. I just imported all the photos into Lightroom for processing.Ĭlick to expand.I am like you (except for the horse ). For this situation, there was absolutely no reason for me to use FRV. Pretty straightforward, and I think a lot faster than doing the same cull in Lightroom.Īlso recently I photographed a number of headstones for family members who have passed on. The key here is that all the 'deleted' photos were deleted from disk using FRV, from the default import folder, so Lightroom never had to deal with them. In FRV all I did was mark photos for deletion or assign a star rating, nothing more like white balance. I started by copying all my photos from the memory card to my 'default import' folder. (I have my issues with the interface, but that's a separate subject.) Later in the workflow I did a critical cull.įor this situation, Fast RAW Viewer did a good job. Not suprisingly, on the first pass, I culled out over 95 % of the photos. I took pictures of the pitcher doing his windup and throw. I took photos of many infield plays, if I had the skill to point the lens in the right direction. Every time the batter took a swing, I started taking pictures. I recently photographed a Giants-Dodgers game (Giants won) and i took hundreds and hundreds of photos, mostly at 9 fps. I think that the question of culling before import to Lightroom depends on the subject matter.

I have experience only with Fast RAW Viewer, and not PM or Faststone.

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