Category Archives: Tutorials

My 2010 OCD Photography Workflow

You Will Always Be The Same

So now that we’re almost at the end of the this year, I figured it’s about time I release my workflow article that I’ve promised to myself and to others. This is something I’d like to write about every year because I really think that your workflow is something that should be constantly evolving. When I first started shooting, I would message photographers I admired on flickr to learn about their workflow. It’s not something I asked in an attempt to copy, but rather learn new techniques or seeing how someone else could approach the same problem in a different manner. New equipment and software comes out every year that makes our work as a photographer easier to manage and process and upload and why should our workflow stay static just because we’re comfortable with it?

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Syncing with Google Sync

Along with the upcoming articles on backing up files, hard drives and photo editing workflow, I thought I’d share some other daily workflow tips on how I keep everything in sync. I have never used an @mac.com or @me.com email address. Having a mac, and purchasing mobile me I was given an address but found mobileme’s website very slow and buggy. Not to mention how limiting their email options were. I’ve been using Gmail since 2005 and Google Apps in the last year and frankly, I didn’t need another email address and as I’ve written about it before, you really can’t beat Gmail’s interface or usage of filters and labels.

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The OCD way to a Clean Inbox

This is what my inbox looks like 99% of the time. During the course of a day I can get anywhere between 20-50 emails, which I’m sure many would consider lucky. However, seeing them pile up in the inbox can be overwhelming. Even if they are shown as read I prefer to have them archived and hidden knowing that the conversation is done or I am waiting for a reply. The benefit to my OCD is that it makes for a very organized and structured life, complete with labels, folders, spreadsheets and I figured I’d share some of the steps I take to make this work.

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