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Using the two-pass rating system with Lightroom

Using the two-pass rating system with Lightroom

From the course: Portrait Photography: High School Seniors

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Using the two-pass rating system with Lightroom

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- [Instructor] Our portrait shoots can yield a lot of images, right? (laughs) And that's because we get excited, right? We're trying these different poses. Sometimes we do burst mode. Next thing you know, you got a whole bunch of shots. And we're looking at Ashley's shoot right here, and we have 102 frames. And that's way too many for me to spend post-processing time on. What I want to do is narrow it down to a handful of shots, do my image editing on those, and show those shots to her. Now we can always add more later on if we need to, but we don't want to spend too much time at the computer with this photo shoot. So I use the two pass system to do this. And basically what I do is the first time around, I give it two stars if I think it's a potential keeper, and if it isn't, then I give it no stars. So it's either one or the other. And we're looking at these in grid mode right now in Lightroom. So you can see as we go through the shoot here, here's a two star. Here's a few that…

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