iVMP3 and Bridge: Work order change?

[andymiller]

Hi Peter

Really enjoyed the book - though my head is also spinning as I obviously need to rejig my workflow and make decisions about a DAM strategy.

I'm wondering whether you have had chance to consider whether you would update any of your workflow advice in the light of the release of iView MP301. I'm wondering  in particular (as I haven't yet upgraded to Photoshop CS2) about the pros and cons of using iView to apply the initial meta template and to do the labelling and rating. Yes I couldn't do exposure or colour temperature adjustment but it seems to do everything else I want to do at the inital stage (I'm use NoiseNinja and PKSharpener for other post-processing work) - or at least that's the theory.

[peterkrogh]

Andy,
You'd have to be a better in-camera photographer than I am.  Since I need to apply at least some form of correction to pretty much everything I shoot, it all has to go through Bridge anyway. I would still suggest that this should be the first place you work with files.

That said, we did things a little bit differently for a shoot this week.  The shoot was an architectural shoot (with people), and I did some focus bracketing in case I needed to combine images to get max depth of field. Since critical evaluation of focus was the issue, we did metadata template and rough CR corrections in Bridge, and then made DNG files.  Then we opened the images in iVMP and used the lightbox at 100% to judge critical sharpness. Match zoom and pan rocks. This was a fast and accurate way to make these judgments.

Make sense?
Peter

[andymiller]

Peter

Thanks for the reply (and so early in the morning too!)

Andy,
You'd have to be a better in-camera photographer than I am.  Since I need to apply at least some form of correction to pretty much everything I shoot, it all has to go through Bridge anyway. I would still suggest that this should be the first place you work with files.

I'm sure you're just being modest.

That said, we did things a little bit differently for a shoot this week.  The shoot was an architectural shoot (with people), and I did some focus bracketing in case I needed to combine images to get max depth of field. Since critical evaluation of focus was the issue, we did metadata template and rough CR corrections in Bridge, and then made DNG files.  Then we opened the images in iVMP and used the lightbox at 100% to judge critical sharpness. Match zoom and pan rocks. This was a fast and accurate way to make these judgments.

Make sense?
Peter

Yep makes sense. I think I'm just gone to have to do some test runs and work out what makes most sense for me - on the one hand there's the advantage of not switching back and forth between applications, set against avoiding the temptation to fiddle with the exposure and colour temperature of low-priority shots.