My Lightroom workflow provides me with 4 opportunities to discard any given photo:

- Import photos

- Apply ‘auto settings’ to all of them

- And then…

1. For each photo, I give a rating (0 to 5) based on technical features (focus, grain etc). To do this I often zoom in on key features to see how sharp they are.

2. Filter out all photos with a rating of 0.

3. For each remaining photo, I adjust cropping / settings, and, if the composition is poor, reduce the rating. I rarely increase a photo’s rating the second time round, but may quite well drop it back down to 0 (ie get rid) for poor composition.

4. For each remaining photo, if I think it’s worthy of exporting/uploading I set a ‘green’ flag

5. For each photo with a green flag, I finely (re)-tune cropping, rotation, shadows, colour etc. Sometimes if I just don’t like the changes I am making I remove the green-flag again (ie get rid).

6. Save the metadata of the edited files (so that changes are not lost forever) and export JPEGs for uploading / sharing.