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Personally I use stars – I go through everything really quickly and anything that has some potential gets 2 stars. (one finger over the 2 key, the other finger on the arrow key) Then I limit the view to see only 2 star photos and go through again, bumping the best up to 3 stars. When I get to 3 stars I sometimes have narrowed it down enough but if not I go up to 4 stars. I rarely go up to 5 stars, as my photography isn’t that great… and because once I get up to 3 or 4 stars I find it easier to go through eliminating photos than picking photos. So I go through the 4 star photos and say… no, that one isn’t quite as good, bump it down to 3 stars.
I also use colour labels… yellow means I want to edit it for printing, green means it has been edited and is ready to print, red means I need to do some photoshop work on it, etc.
A lot of people use pick and reject, but I don’t find that is enough levels – I like to be able to go back to the 2 star photos to pick a new photo if I realise once I get to editing that in the 3 star photo there is something distracting that I missed in the background.
Using this method I would normally get it down from 200 to 20-40 in a matter of a couple of minutes; the final triage may take longer.
If there are a few photos that are similar and I want to edit them all the same to take my final pick, I will do the basic edits and then copy the edits all over to the other photos rather than re-doing the edits.