Sweet spot
Not sure who is behind Totally Sweet Photos but he (maybe Tom) or she describes a A Hyper-Organized, Smart Collection-based Lightroom Workflow:
This seems like an incredibly complicated workflow, however since the majority of the tools involved are self-updating smart collections I put forth virtually no effort in order to keep track of thousands of images. In fact, in the past I have managed lesser amounts of photos with fewer steps in what were much more complicated and time-consuming workflows. Thanks to automation, all I really do now is work on my photos and trust Lightroom to keep the books straight.
Good to see my workflow scribblings still hits a sweet spot and provokes people into doing their own thing.
I’ll add my thanks. I, too, have been making use of it since you published the post. I’m still frustrated at the hacks we have to do in Lightroom in order to indicate the absence of a title of caption or whatever, but it is a wonderful approach.
It’s just too bad that there are about 7000 captures in my queue for selection and processing right now….
One more ‘thank you’ from me too. I use the smart-collection based workflow heavily ever since I read your blog post.