How many hours do you spend in PP?

mpriest13

I am curious how many hours does everyone spend in PP after a typical photoshoot of say around 300-400 images?

rutt

From 300 shots, I'd try to cull say 20. That might take an hour in Bridge or PhotoMechanic (all that really matters here is getting a fast manual slide show and single key accept/reject.) Then maybe average 5 minutes per shot to fuss in PS.

But it depends on who is going to use them for what.

jjbong

More or less the same for me, exept that I spend more time on the ones I select (average of 10 minutes), probably due to skill differences between me and rutt. Some images take much longer, because of particular problems.

Then there are cases where I find a groove that works for a whole set of shots. This happened for me recently in New Mexico, where it took me probably 20 minutes on the first image, but in the process I found a formula that pretty much worked for all of the rest of the shots. Maybe an average of a minute or two on the rest.

Nikolai

Really depends on what kind of the said shoot is. Most importantly, are the images of a same subject or small group - or of some public event where every images is pretty much has no relation to another subject-wise.

For a portrait session my current average is 200..400 (depending on the length of the shoot), which is culled down to 10..30. Then I may spend anywhere from 1 minute to 30 min depending on how much I paid and/or how much I like the image. I'd say 5 min can be a good average.

For a public event I can bring home anywhere from 700 to 3,000 pictures, again depending of what kind of event it is.
Those are going up with no individual time at all (some mass adjustments may be made, but that's about it). I simply set a delayed print. If an image is purchased, I quickly touch it up (2-3 min or less) and reupload it.
If I have time on my hands I may alsoi cull them down to a couple dozen images and then give them the same treatment as in my first case.

HTH

Qarik

mpriest13 wrote:

I am curious how many hours does everyone spend in PP after a typical photoshoot of say around 300-400 images?

I cull quite bit. with 300-400 shots I may have something like 50 that are exposed wrong or out of focus or some other serious flaw. Then I will force myself to cull down to about 1/2 of what I started with..even "good" shots.

Then like Nik I may spend 1min to 15min a shot..average around 3-5min/per?

Andy

I just sent a whole mess of stuff to shootdotedit can't wait to see how great they do.

rutt

Andy wrote:

I just sent a whole mess of stuff to shootdotedit can't wait to see how great they do.

Andy, this is very interesting. How great do they do? Compared to how great you can do? Compared to me? Compared to posting here and choosing the best result?

mpriest13

Andy wrote:

I just sent a whole mess of stuff to shootdotedit can't wait to see how great they do.

I would love to see some before/after shots...

Nikolai

rutt wrote:

Andy, this is very interesting. How great do they do? Compared to how great you can do? Compared to me? Compared to posting here and choosing the best result?

+1 :lurk

Dogdots

Andy wrote:

I just sent a whole mess of stuff to shootdotedit can't wait to see how great they do.

Andy....could you post a before and after edit from some of the photos you had done