How to manage lots of images from a single shoot?
This is a generic workflow question.
I was experimenting with "Pro Capture Mode" on my OM-D E-M1. This is the mode where it keeps grabbing frames for as long as you hold the shutter button down. Needless to say, I very quickly filled a 30 GB card with over 600 images.
I'm curious how people handle processing big image sets like that. There's a bunch of sequences of images, spaced a fraction of a second apart. I'm looking for some efficient way to sort them them all, looking for the best of each cluster. Is there some way, for example, to select a bunch of images and have it sort them by sharpness of focus?
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There is no sort by sharpness feature, but there are certain bits and pieces helping you cope with a lot of images from a burst.
The principle is that you look at a small subset of your images in the viewer component, inspect, tag or rate them individually and move on tho the next sub set. Using the keyboard for tagging and switching images or image sets, this is quite fast.
- There is a "focus mask" assisting you somewhat to asses sharpness, it overlays a green color (or color of your choice) on image areas with a high micro contrast (you need to enable this: menu View>Focus mask
- You can select a set of images in the browser (e.g. 4 or 6 or 8) and the viewer shows this set together (you need to enable this in the viewer tool bar (orange)
- disable menu Image>Edit all selected
- check menu View>Select Next When is set to star rated or color tagged or both.
- Select next image of next image set when you have tagged or rated all images currently in the viewer works nicely and is a fast way to advance
- Holding shift key when you zoom in (or double click for 100%) zooms into all images of the sub set at once.
- Instead of a selecting a sub set you could also look at just one at a time, select next when advance to the next image then
Some variant of above. You'll end up with all images rated or color tagged and can use this for sorting.
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Roy,
How would you assess the sharpness of focus as related to the purpose for your shot?
For what it is worth, I have regularly shot several thousand images per day, often of moving subjects, and up to 10 frames per second. Sometimes the intent is to create motion blur but retain sharpness in one small part of the image.
The only real way to assess the results is to view them.
If shooting a static or relatively unchanging image I would see little point in shooting a lot of frames in most cases. There may be some specific technical requirements where such an approach is useful and there are some obvious cases - like focus stacking - where multiple frames are part of the process but I don't think that is what you are discussing in your description.
I think BeO has covered all of the suggestions that are likely to be practical for what you have outlined as the requirement you are looking for but if there are further specifics that might influence your particular requirements let us know. Such challenges are often good ways to prompt people to re-think their normal working practices to check how optimised they really are.
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