A sequence of actions project : Your own workflow 2

The purpose of this exercise was to devise a workflow for a specific shooting assignment which would be unstructured and open-ended. I decided to try out the workflow I used previously. Post exercise comments highlighted in red.

Stage 1 Preparation



Theme - Seaside in winter 

I chose this theme as I know from experience that it offers a variety of seafront scenes  and activities and I wanted to convey the closed for the season feel juxta opposed to people enjoying the seaside anyway.

• Location - I chose Southsea seafront as being easily accessible and knowing that I would likely need more than one visit.
• Timing / weather forecast - given the time of year ( March ) and the recent poor weather, it made sense again to check the 10 day weather foreast for this area to ensure my availability and suitability of weather for outside location opportunities matched up
• Equipment preparation - checked batteries were fully charged, memory card empty and enough storage space on desktop. Decided against using a tripod due to the distance that needed to be covered and the possibility of limited time on each visit due to weather variation.

Stage 2 Site checks / shooting

• Camera settings - check on site - . Past experience suggested that the light on each visit was likely to be very bright at this time of the year and the sun at a difficult angle for some subjects
• Shooting the images - the number of images I would take would be limited by the weather, possibly the time of day ( given where the sun would be in relation to possible subjects ). 

Stage 3 Uploading images

• Expect well over 100 images from the combined shoot

         260 images taken

Stage 4 Technical check of images

• Will need to allow plenty of time here given the number of images to be checked

        Number of images reduced to 76

Stage 5 Interim selection of images for processing

• Edit technically correct images 76 images reduced to 38 images
• Order and number images

• Decided to order and number  images at Stage 6 due to quantity

 

 Stage 6 Processing interim selection

• Record technical detail  

         Ordered and numbered images at this stage


 Stage 7 Final selection

• Selection    14 images selected - examples below:

        

P465: f9 @1/400  ISO 200  22mm

P466: f4.5 @ 1/2000  ISO 200  22mm

P464: f7.1 @ 1/60  ISO 200  18mm



 

P469: f22 @ 1/60  ISO 200  30mm

P 473: f16 @ 1/400  ISO 200 42mm 



P474: f8 @ 1/800  ISO 200  55mm

• Further processing if required ..some cropping of P475
 

P475:  f9 @ 1/640  ISO 200  218mm cropped

Stage 8 Saving selected images in : 

• Course database  yes
• Backup archive database yes
• Learning blog ( as appropriate ) yes
• Print  no

          

Post exercise thoughts...I slightly re-ordered the workflow again ..this time to help with the time taken to deal with the quantity of images taken. In terms of the time allowed for each stage, I think this went reasonably well though perhaps where the editing was concerned I maybe should have allowed more time ahead of the shoot given I knew I would be taking quite a few images.