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The digital workflow

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What happens to my photographs in the time between the click of the shutter and their arrival here on the internet? I've made a diagram:

Notice how important Adobe Lightroom is to the process, handling most of the metadata and levels edits. Since I started using Lightroom, Photoshop has been relegated to relatively minor tasks like editing out sensor dust.

What does your workflow look like?

Alex Wild is Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books and media outlets.

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