Huge image library

[jben_net]

Hi All,

I've just finished my first professional photoshoot. It's gone for 3 days, and I have taken in excess of 3,000 photos. Photos ranged from corporates to architecture to factory workers.

Anyway, I have so many pictures and not sure which program is the best to use to sort through them all. It is very difficult managing so many photos.

The ones I have at my disposal are:

Nikon View 6
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Lightroom

Does anyone have experience with this?

Cheers,

James

[wendellt]

congratulations on the commercial shoot, ou must be relieved after 3 days of solid shooting

all those adobe and nikon programs are slow
if you shot in RAW you could use raw essentials by http://www.pixmantec.com

the thumbnail preview is much faster and the workflow is almost realtime
in terms of sliding the sliders and seeing the results

you can also copy tweaked settings across 1 or as many images you select

[radar]

James,

congrats on your first pro shoot

I use Bibble Pro, I just started using is a week ago, seriously. I had tried their Lite edition previously. $129USD for the Pro version.

You can download a 30 day evaluation, it doesn't restrict any of the features. Their batch queues is great when working on a number of images. It is available for Mac, Mactel, Windows and Linux.

I also find it very fast. It can startup any other application to do further PP.

Get it at:
http://www.bibblelabs.com/

HTH,

André

[jben_net]

Thanks for the advice wendellt - your right those adobe and nikon programs are slow.... had a look at raw essentials - looks really good but I have a macintosh at work

[jben_net]

cool thanks radar I'm downloading it now.

James

[moz]

Just in case you aren't only after bulk raw conversion:

I use http://www.pixort.com/ for rapid sorting even though the rendering is not (quite) as fast as ACDSee 3 because it handles raw and lets you sort into multiple directories as fast as you can hit the number keys.

I'm currently evaluating image library programs because I want something that has a decent database and can "publish to Gallery" or at least something than can be mangled to fit. iMatch and iView are the serious candidate, but I'm open to other suggestions.

[the foto fanatic]

If you are going to be using Adobe PS for your PP work, then it might make sense to use Adobe Bridge. It is quite powerful and flexible, and will open images straight into PS.
A huge advantage is that Bridge will also store and handle the XMP files generated by PS for your image alterations.
Of course, if you shot RAW, then Adobe Camera RAW slots in nicely too.

[mikephotog]

3,000 photos / 36hrs (if you where working 12 hours per day without any sort of break) = 83.33 photos per hour !

I salute you, don't know how you even had time to set up shots/lighting.
Incredible.