34 ACTIONS TO GO

Did you know there are  approximately 17 actions a professional photographer has to go thru in his “workflow” after the photographs are captured and before they are ready to leave the studio to go to the processing plant or be delivered to the customer?

 OBTW, none of these chores are “glamorous” by any stretch of the imagination. 

First there is downloading and making the back-ups. At Keith and Associates, Fine Photography, we make 3 duplicates of all images, one for our hard drive and two on DVD, which we place in the archive. A simple chore is combining all of the photographs in a time sequence from both photographers cameras (this usually means 4 compact flash cards but it could be 6 or 7) but if camera clocks do not match before the event, it becomes a nightmare. 

Then comes editing, re-numbering, and placing into user-friendly buckets for upload to IMAGEQUIX. Burning client DVDs is next. 

Whew. We try to have all actions completed in 3 days. No matter how fast we do it, someone wants it faster.