My Post Photoshoot Workflow! Organise Files, Editing & Photo Backups!

Hey guys! I wanted to take your through my photography workflow - so everything that happens AFTER a photoshoot. I go through how I organise my files, how I backup my photos and take you through each photo editing program I use including Photo Mechanic, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Bridge and Photoshop.

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FIND ME ON //

Dan @ I Make Films

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VLOG CAMERA SETUP //

Sony RX100iv
Sony a7s mkii + Sigma 24mm f1.4

PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA SETUP //

Canon 5dmkiii
Sigma 24mm f1.4
Canon 35mm f1.4
Canon 50mm f1.2
Canon 85mm f1.2
Canon 135mm f2

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Thank you so much for watching! xx

[jasonmus]

Thanks for this, it seems not many photographers want to share this kind if in depth detail and it's something I have been struggling with for awhile.

[OMGxITZxPACMAN]

I feel like I randomly stumbled upon photography one day. I've been shooting and editing photos that I'm proud of ever since, but I have continuously struggled to have an efficient workflow. Its turned something that I once enjoyed into a chore. Overwhelming storage space issues, competitive deadlines, and slow downloads have seriously made me want to distance myself from it. However, this video is a step in the right direction for me. It's incredibly helpful and gives me hope that I can take my work to the next level. This is info every photographer needs to know, yet it is hard to come by! Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to share your expertise

[theyellowchucks]

Wish my life was this organised haha. Very good video, thank you! 😀👌🏼

[snowman]

Here I was thinking I had a good workflow... You opened my eyes to a much cleaner & more efficient way to do Post. This video is full of useful info. Thanks, Julia!

[tanyacoleman]

This is the absolute best video of this process. Thank you so very much. As a newbie this is amazing.

[melissabrienda]

Julia, I always had Photoshop as my favorite. But I tried Lightroom last week because I had a bunch of pictures to edit and I thought it was going to be faster - and it really was. Then I also used Photoshop only to retouch this time and the final results really pleased me. Thanks for your tips!

[haleyhess]

This is the most helpful video I’ve seen for beginning photography.

[noemisuellau]

Thank you so much for this video. It helped me a lot! I'm still new in the business and constantly learning helpful things. I'd be really interested in your pre-photoshoot routine! It would be awesome if you could make a video on this topic.

[jamescao]

Thank you so much for the video, you are one of the few Australia photographers that inspire me

[KeaniSoa]

Best workflow/backup video I have seen so far !

[jdpainson]

Your videos are amazing and straight to the point. I am learning so much from you. Thank you!!!

[DakshManchanda]

thanks for telling about your workflow.I am a beginner and struggle with file management.loved to see how professionals like you work!Thanks😁

[SohamSarkar]

Thanks for sharing this video. Really helped me figure out how to organise and backup my photos!

[sashagousse]

I just had a friend use your video to make an infographic to help young creators! I now use this file system for all of my personal and professional work as well!

[elblaino]

Very helpful, thanks for walking through the whole process!

[nelsono]

excellent video! Some good solid info. I would like to add a word of warning though for those that use traditional external hard drives. By that I mean the ones that have spinning platters. That type of external hard drive is still a hard drive and subject to failure just as if it was in your computer. I would warn against using it as your sole backup. I have friends that had issues with those kind of external drives. Sometimes it is just the power supply and if you remove the drive from the case you can still retrieve your files. If its the hard drive itself now you're talking file recovery and that can be expensive. Bottom line: it is best to have your files on more than one hard drive.
Thanks again for an excellent video 🙂

[jakesdewet]

thanks this is fantastic and going to make some changes to declutter my workflow and overfull back up drives.

[johnbergsing]

Thanks for the information. I might suggest looking into GoodSync to automate some of your workflow. I use to to copy newly added folders to both my external drive and NAS.

[stevemathis]

Thank you for sharing this. I really like the way you name your folders. I will use your method from now on. Thanks again. Have a great day,

[davideb]

Just a small tip: organising by year-month-day is actually more efficient: when you order folders alphabetically, you are also ordering them by date.

For example: photo shooting are Dec 1, 2023 and May 20, 2024.

If you use the year-month-day format, you end up with

2023-12-01
2024-05-20

Which are ordered both alphabetically and by date.

With the month-day-year format, you have

05-20-2024
12-01-2023

The are ordered alphabetically but not chronologically