HOW TO MANAGE YOUR PROCESS AS A PHOTOGRAPHER

One thing a lot of photographers don’t take cognizance of is sharing their work process. You spend a lot of your time mastering your gears, practicing different creative shoots on how to produce great images. You also put in your time and money into learning to improve your skills and knowledge for maximum productivity. It can be said that after developing your skills you need to create a workflow that will help you manage the process on how you produce those great images.

The following steps will help you manage your process from shooting to editing (BEFORE YOU SHOOT):

1. Draw a plan: No matter what your shoot idea is, you have to make a plan on what, why, how, where, etc. This will help you have a foresight of your shoot. Prepare by planning for your subject and thinking through your shoot and if you’re moving to a different location then you need to park your gear.
2. Set up your camera for a shoot: At this point setting your camera to a suitable mode will help you achieve desirable results.  By setting your camera you’re putting into consideration your presets to handle different scenarios that you face. Also keep in mind that you should adjust your settings for the type of light you will be shooting in. You can always determine the format at which you want to shoot your images on JPEG or RAW. They are both are good, it just depends on what works for you .

After shooting comes the editing part:

1. Move out your images from the SD card: It is usually advisable to move your images out from your cards into your computer or using any other transferring cables. You can use a card reader which transfers images faster than using a direct connection from your camera to your computer or inserting your card into your computer device.
2. Backup into other storage device: Sometimes you might fall a victim of failed device and you can lose all your files containing your images. There are ways to back up your images, but the most basic is to have two copies of your images. You can have a copy on your external hard-drive or computer and one on an external drive.
3. Erase your SD card: You can always erase your card after backing up your works on another separate storage device to help you recover just incase you lose them.
4. Post processing of your images:  When done with shooting, post-processing immediately follows and nothing is absolutely wrong with working on your images after your shoot. Once you develop a workflow that best suits you, then you’re good to go. Whenever you’re post-processing your works remember that your edited images need to be saved in several locations (storage device) and also share them.