A sequence of actions project: Your own workflow 1

Exercise : Your own workflow 1 : establishing workflow

This exercise required me to devise,put into practice and assess a workflow for a time limited portrait session. This is the approach that I took for a time limited portrait session.

       Stage 1 Preparation

 

• Theme - decided to opt for a simple theme i.e. someone with a cycle
• Location - I chose the outside of our garage as I wanted a fairly unobtrusive setting
• Timing / weather forecast - given the time of year ( March ) and the recent poor weather, it made sense to to     check the 10 day weather foreast for this area to ensure availability of 'model' and suitability of weather for outside  location matched up 
• Equipment preparation - checked batteries were fully charged, memory card empty and enough storage space on desktop

 

       Stage 2  Site checks / shooting

      

• Camera settings check on site - did a quick check outside in location to see how the natural light availabile  might   warrant certain camera settings e.g. WB / ISO  to save time.
• Shooting the images - the number of images I could take were limited by the 'model's availability, the time of day ( afternoon on a cloudy/ bright day ). I did in fact take more 20 as I changed the pose/ camera settings from my original approach to achieve what I was looking for. 

 

      Stage 3  Uploading images

        A total of 78 images were taken and uploaded.

 

 

         Stage 4  Technical check of images

      This stage reduced the number of images taken to 24.

 

      Stage 5  Interim selection of images for processing 

 

•   Edit technically correct images  
•   Order, number images and record technical detail  

      Technical detail was reviewed but not recorded until  Stage 6

 

      Stage 6  Processing interim selection

      8 images were  selected  for processing 

 

      Stage 7  Final selection

 

•    Selection

•   Further processing if required

           The interim selection was whittled down from 8 to 4 images - I decided that

       they  did not  need further  processing.



P453 : f4 @1/125  ISO 100 -0.3 exp. 25mm

 

              


P455: f5 @ 1/100 ISO 100   33mm

P457: f5.6 @ 1/100  ISO 100  -0.3exp. 46mm

 

      

P459 : f$ @ 1/80  ISO 100 +1exp. 18mm

 Stage 8  Saving selected images in :

 

•     Course database 
•    Backup archive database 
•    Learning blog  ( as appropriate )
•    Print / or upload to web gallery - not done for this exercise

 
Workflow assessment


I followed the above workflow to the letter as it was very much the process that I would normally take with one exception. This was the stage at which I decided to record the technical detail. This was done later in the process i.e. at  Stage 6  due to the large quantity of images taken. Think I'll adopt the same approach for the next exercise to gauge if this works well for me.