10/7/2023 0 Comments Camera bits photo mechanic plus![]() The other feature we use is the GPS geotagging. This saves us a lot of copy and pasting of the common and scientific names into the caption fields. So the final caption reads “Male (Cob) Mute Swan Cygnus olor swimming on the River Thames near Windsor Berkshire”. The short code is replaces by the contents of the file after the code. Now when you need to write a caption you use a short code “\msm\ swimming on the River Thames near Windsor Berkshire”. For the Mute Swan example you could create a code replacement file like this. Create a text file with a short code and then a tab and the replacement text. It’s taken a whole lot of time to get the keyword file sorted but it’s so worthwhile.Īs well as automating the keywords the other great feature is “Code Replacement”. Our current keyword file is about 10000-15000 lines and growing daily. Now, it would not be of much use if the file contained one species of bird. The beauty of the system is all those keywords in a couple of clicks. Structured Keywords dialogue Camera Bits Photo Mechanic 5.0ĭouble click on “Mute Swan” and you will add all the keywords at once.Īnimals, animal, wild, wildlife, feral, undomesticated, vertebrates, birds, aves, avian, bird, wildfowl, waterfowl, Anseriformes, Anatidae, swans, swan, farmland, grassland, marine, intertidal, inter-tidal, urban, suburban, wetland, Mute Swan, Cygnus olor One to an external drive another to a NAS (Network Attached Storage). A typical ingest with Photo Mechanic is, open the ingest dialogue box, select the preset that creates folders, based on the capture date, rename the file, then makes two copies. ![]() Photo Mechanic on the other hand is a wiz at ingesting (same as Lightroom’s importing). So we would import images into Lightroom then on a bad day delete 50% of the images we had spent all that time waiting to import. ![]() But, we delete many of our images, low light levels, high frame rates, slow shutter speeds, quick moving subjects are a sure way of getting lots of rejects. The time it takes is not that important if you’re going to keep all those images. A couple of hundred pictures, importing and you have time for a coffee and maybe even a snack before it’s finished. Lightroom Classic CC, let’s face it is not the fastest, when it comes to importing images. In that article he praised the speed of ingest and captioning he could achieve using Photo Mechanic. We first became aware of Photo Mechanic in an article Scott Kelby published about the workflow he uses when taking American football pictures . For the most part we do this with keywording and descriptions. So if we want to be able to sell images we must make it so that we and other people can find just what they are looking for. But “Small brown fury thing” when someone is looking for pictures of Pine Martens, is I suspect going to be more of an issue. It’s possible you might get away with a description “Big yellow flower” and anyone searching for a picture of a Sunflower, might just find it. Both of which are needed to make the image saleable. We’re wildlife and nature photographers, our images in the main have a subject that has a common and scientific name. Photo Mechanic is never going to replace Lightroom or Photoshop. All our images require keywording and detailed descriptions. We still use Adobe Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC and couldn’t work without them. Before I start this look at Photo Mechanic by Camera Bits I need to get a few things out of the way.
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