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Over the last decade or so I've been refining my workflow to be as fast as possible and have had a Loupedeck+ and an Xtouch in the past. I'm now using a, possibly unorthodox, combination which allows me to do crop/rotate/WB/exposure faster than I managed with the previous two devices.
What I shoot plays into my workflow, so I am sure that this will not work for everyone but figured I'd share it in case it's useful to someone else. I'm doing fairly high volume event photography where most shots need a degree of crop adjustment.
I realised that for my work the fine Quick Develop controls were granular enough 90% of the time (with the exception of exposure) so I went for a controller with more buttons at the expense of encoders. I got a Korg nanoKONTROL2 as it three buttons per channel instead of two on an Xtouch.
I edit in the develop module with the crop tool active and mash buttons instead of turning encoders. I use Auto Tone as a starting point and adjust from there. One glance at the image and I can work out how many times to press each button to get the look I want and ~80% of the time it needs no further adjustment.
The bottom two buttons on each channel are assigned to fine Quick Develop inputs and the top buttons do things like turn crop or blemish control on and off. The nanoKONTROL2 has a useful array of buttons on the left, including five in a row that are convenient for star or colour ratings. To get around the fine exposure Quick Develop being not granular enough at 1/3 stop, I assigned a pair of buttons to the Lr shortcuts that increment a slider and leave it on Exposure to get 0.1 of a stop adjustments.
Due to the volume of images that I edit I previously found myself getting a touch of RSI when twiddling the knobs on my Loupedeck+ and I found that mashing buttons was better for allowing me to vary the motions I used which helps prevent RSI.
Am I mad for using this workflow and has anyone else tried it? I'm not sure if this is fast or not but I easily hit a image every 40 seconds.
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Over the last decade or so I've been refining my workflow to be as fast as possible and have had a Loupedeck+ and an Xtouch in the past. I'm now using a, possibly unorthodox, combination which allows me to do crop/rotate/WB/exposure faster than I managed with the previous two devices.
What I shoot plays into my workflow, so I am sure that this will not work for everyone but figured I'd share it in case it's useful to someone else. I'm doing fairly high volume event photography where most shots need a degree of crop adjustment.
I realised that for my work the fine Quick Develop controls were granular enough 90% of the time (with the exception of exposure) so I went for a controller with more buttons at the expense of encoders. I got a Korg nanoKONTROL2 as it three buttons per channel instead of two on an Xtouch.
I edit in the develop module with the crop tool active and mash buttons instead of turning encoders. I use Auto Tone as a starting point and adjust from there. One glance at the image and I can work out how many times to press each button to get the look I want and ~80% of the time it needs no further adjustment.
The bottom two buttons on each channel are assigned to fine Quick Develop inputs and the top buttons do things like turn crop or blemish control on and off. The nanoKONTROL2 has a useful array of buttons on the left, including five in a row that are convenient for star or colour ratings. To get around the fine exposure Quick Develop being not granular enough at 1/3 stop, I assigned a pair of buttons to the Lr shortcuts that increment a slider and leave it on Exposure to get 0.1 of a stop adjustments.
Due to the volume of images that I edit I previously found myself getting a touch of RSI when twiddling the knobs on my Loupedeck+ and I found that mashing buttons was better for allowing me to vary the motions I used which helps prevent RSI.
Am I mad for using this workflow and has anyone else tried it? I'm not sure if this is fast or not but I easily hit a image every 40 seconds.
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