I’m trying to come up with a system for rating my photographs in Lightroom. How’s this sound?<\/p>\n
5 Stars: Submit to BBC Nature Photographer of the Year, Audubon Magazine Photography Awards, and other contests
\n4 Stars: Consider making wall prints and framing, using in a calendar, putting in a photo book, submitting to nature magazines, etc.
\n3 Stars: Submit for Microstock
\n2 Stars: Upload to Picasa
\n1 Star: Personal interest; documentation photo. E.g. a personal life bird even with a crappy photo.
\n0 Stars: Keep
\nX: Delete
\n<\/p>\n
Of course this will require some review of prior work. I’m not sure I’ve got any plausible 5 star photos yet. I probably have enough 4 star photos to make a nice Christmas present for friends and family though. Looking at the bird photos by another photographer I have hanging on my walls now, I’d say I’ve shot better than at least two of the three, and perhaps can match the third. <\/p>\n
The four star\/ five star distinction may not be cut quite right. Arguably framed prints (especially large ones) should be of Nature Photographer of the Year caliber, as perhaps should be any I submit to magazines (though magazines are also sometimes interested in lesser quality but newsworthy photos.) Similarly there are some great photos I’ve seen in competitions and magazines that I still wouldn’t want to hang on my walls. (In particular, photos of environmental destruction and simple cruelty.)<\/p>\n
The one thing this misses is the rarity of the subject. That’s important for some uses where even a fuzzy but IDable shot of a never before photographed species may be more interesting than the 38 millionth photo of an American Robin or a European Honeybee. I could do that with just a keyword, but my goal is to be able to quickly review and categorize a day’s shoot with maximum speed and minimum typing, so I know what to come back to later for editing or uploading. <\/p>\n
I’d also like some indication of whether I’ve already worked on the photograph in Lightroom\/Photoshop or whether it’s a good base photo that still needs to be processed. <\/p>\n
Thoughts? How do you rate your photos? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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