Point me in right direction?

[itsjared]

Sorry, I'm new here and I have tried searching for the info I'm looking for but am not familiar with the correct terminology to get the best results.

I shoot and edit about 250-500 photos a day of vehicles in a studio. 50-60 per vehicle. Anyway, nevertheless it's a bit daunting to do this day in and out. So I'm looking to offload some of the editing work. I have found lots of college students at a local school who are willing to do the work, I just need to find the best workflow.

I shoot in RAW, and export to jpg. Pretty simple. The studio is white and my biggest issue is either blow-outs or shadows. How can I get the photos to an editor for them to edit? Do I send them the RAW files? As a catalog? etc.

Google drive is slow (for this many photos) and unreliable (not to mention buggy). Dropbox seems to cumbersome with data limits and all.

ugh....

 

[Cerianthus]

If highlight revovery and shadows is important, they probably need the raws. Are the students using Lightroom as well ? (same version 5.7 ?) Do you want to do a final check before you export ? They might not have calibrated screens etc...

How are you distributing the work : per vehicle / per day ? Do you keyword the photos yourself ? in that case you could export and import catalogs with the raw files.

you could also use one way transfers like wetransfer...

 

[Victoria Bampton]

If they'll purely be using Lightroom, you could send them a catalog with smart previews. They'd upload a lot quicker than the raw files, and when they send the edited catalog back, LR would find the raw files and use those for your exports.

 

[Gnits]

I suggest that you avoid making decisions on noise and sharpening until you have your edits back on your own machine.