Could professionals define some terms for me

[dullard]

Suppose you have 1000 photos. Suppose you wanted 10 of them selected, altered to remove flaws, and printed.

What is the correct term for parsing those 1000 photos down to 10 photos?

What is the correct term for making those 10 photos look good via software manipulation?

I know these questions are silly, but I clearly don't have the proper terminology when I talk to my professional photographer friends.

 

[abaez]

Answer to second is usually post processing.

First question is kinda weird and I don't think there is a term.. maybe hit rate or something?

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: abaez
Answer to second is usually post processing.

First question is kinda weird and I don't think there is a term.. maybe hit rate or something?

Thanks for answering. So, if I wanted to make a photo look good, then I need photo post-processing software and not photo-editing software? If I were to keep the terminology strictly correct.

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: dullard
Suppose you have 1000 photos. Suppose you wanted 10 of them selected, altered to remove flaws, and printed.

What is the correct term for parsing those 1000 photos down to 10 photos?

Edit.

Originally posted by: dullard
What is the correct term for making those 10 photos look good via software manipulation?

I know these questions are silly, but I clearly don't have the proper terminology when I talk to my professional photographer friends.

Process or retouch.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: abaez
Answer to second is usually post processing.

First question is kinda weird and I don't think there is a term.. maybe hit rate or something?

Thanks for answering. So, if I wanted to make a photo look good, then I need photo post-processing software and not photo-editing software? If I were to keep the terminology strictly correct.

photo editing IS post processing... photoshop is used in post processing for example.. but not only. i've always taken post processing as anything after the actual negative, or raw file.

first term is just weeding.. or narrowing out junk... heh.. i dunno... filtering? sorting?

 

[soydios]

The whole process is called post-capture processing. This is also called post-processing (but why? what do you do with a photo after you process it? print or enlarge?), or abbreviated "post" or "PP".

Originally posted by: dullard
Suppose you have 1000 photos. Suppose you wanted 10 of them selected, altered to remove flaws, and printed.

What is the correct term for parsing those 1000 photos down to 10 photos?

My terms: sorting, triage, and culling/rating, in that order. First you sort into categories, keywords, or shoots. Then you pick which is most important to cull first. Then you go through and delete (cull) and rate the photos.

What is the correct term for making those 10 photos look good via software manipulation?

This part is editing.
Personally in this stage I do final touch-ups like chromatic aberration and distortion correction in Photoshop. The rest of my workflow including cropping, exposure compensation, and white balance, is done manually in Lightroom. Noise reduction, sharpening, and tone mapping are part of presets I use for each ISO level in Lightroom.

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
first term is just weeding.. or narrowing out junk... heh.. i dunno... filtering? sorting?

First term is edit.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: virtuamike

Originally posted by: randomlinh
first term is just weeding.. or narrowing out junk... heh.. i dunno... filtering? sorting?

First term is edit.

No - you aren't editing anything. Just picking out the ones you want to edit.

Really, to me - everything after the shoot is just called post processing. The choosing of images, editing and enhancing those images, etc.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: virtuamike

Originally posted by: randomlinh
first term is just weeding.. or narrowing out junk... heh.. i dunno... filtering? sorting?

First term is edit.

No - you aren't editing anything. Just picking out the ones you want to edit.

Really, to me - everything after the shoot is just called post processing. The choosing of images, editing and enhancing those images, etc.

Post processing sounds very professional. I'm not saying you will impress your professional photographer friends, but they surely won't look at you askance when you use that term. 😉 Loosely, there are two things a photographer does: Shooting and post processing.

 

[virtuamike]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: virtuamike

Originally posted by: randomlinh
first term is just weeding.. or narrowing out junk... heh.. i dunno... filtering? sorting?

First term is edit.

No - you aren't editing anything. Just picking out the ones you want to edit.

Really, to me - everything after the shoot is just called post processing. The choosing of images, editing and enhancing those images, etc.

Is that your opinion or is that actually based on industry usage?

 

[arrfep]

I think "culling" is as close to an "industry usage" as you'll get.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: virtuamike

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: virtuamike

Originally posted by: randomlinh
first term is just weeding.. or narrowing out junk... heh.. i dunno... filtering? sorting?

First term is edit.

No - you aren't editing anything. Just picking out the ones you want to edit.

Really, to me - everything after the shoot is just called post processing. The choosing of images, editing and enhancing those images, etc.

Is that your opinion or is that actually based on industry usage?

Well I can tell you that "edit" is not based on industry usage.

If you notice I said "to me" that is what post processing means. You could call the whole thing "workflow" or "post processing workflow" as that would fit more with the industry as a whole that seems to like the "workflow" buzzword.

But people I've dealt with either call it post processing or refer to it as their workflow, etc. They don't call choosing pictures editing.