AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I just returned from a 2-week trip to Turkey, visiting the sites of churches established by the apostle Paul plus the 7 churches of Revelation. It was a marvelous trip and I took about 5000 images along the way. Now I'm struggling to sort, name and locate all the images. I'm using LR6 to catalog these. I sorted them by time taken, but apparently it either doesn't work perfectly or my two cameras weren't set in sync, as not all of the images from a particular place come up together. Annoying.

But even more daunting is the processing work I now face. I love taking pictures, but I really hate processing them!!!!! I'll post a few if I ever get them done. Just downloading them all to the computer took an entire day!

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

I agree with you about loving taking pictures but hating PP.
Back it late 1968 or early 1969, when I was in the Navy, we stopped in Istanbul for a few days. It is an amazing place. To have a couple of weeks to visit the whole country is fantastic. I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

What's the goal? Is it a dozen wall hangers for the living room? Is it an endless slide show for the big screen TV? Is it a collection for SmugMug? Facebook?

Sirius_one Loc: S.F. Bay Area

I look forward to viewing your shots of your trip.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

Yes.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

Thanks. I'm working on it.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

If your goal is "yes" to everything, then you're going to have to learn to love post processing! With film we used to pretty much have one choice. Now the initial exposure can be a source for lots of different results.

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

at one an hour,for 8 hours a day that is 12 weeks I think? Probably even longer if you want to eat and drink. I think you need to be ruthless. Go through quickly and give each image a star rating. Put them in separate folders for each star rating. Then sort the highest star rated folder by place and add the next highest star rated images so that you have one full set of places. Of the rest,keep the best of the duplicates and put the worse ones in a folder marked duplicates. Work on the highest star rated photos first (a full set of images) and then give up and start taking more pictures.
Have fun

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

That's probably smart. But what I'm actually doing is going tbrough each location and doing it. That way when a location is finished I can post it.

AZNikon Loc: Mesa, AZ

IMHO, you are working too hard. For example, I just got back from a road trip to Kansas City (not as exotic a destination but over 900 shots. Last time it was an Alaskan cruise with 1500 shots, etc.) Anyway, I bring them all into Lightroom and then divide them into folders by days (October 12, October 14, etc). Then I work one folder at a time, making picks, adding keywords, adding ratings, creating collections, developing and exporting, one group at a time. There is no need to name each and every photo unless you are entering it in a contest. The camera has already assigned a name which is good enough for processing. HTH.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

That sounds like an overwhelming task. I dread going through a couple of hundred. When I use more than one camera, and I want to group images together, I'll put them all into one folder, do a batch rename, and then sort by date, which also sorts them by time. Although I use LR, I do all of that organizing before I import them.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I don't rename each one. But I do title the ones I intend to actually work on. And all of them need appropriate keywords and locations, etc. I did find one very interesting tool: I can update for time zones automatically! That's a real saver. Problem is, I found the two cameras still weren't syncing. Then I discovered that the baby camera was set for the Midwest zone! So I had to find all of those and correct that. Then I discovered that even then the two cameras were set 9 minutes apart! Guess I looked at different clocks when I was doing them initially. Oh well. Got all that done so everything falls into the right place. Now all I have to do is remember where I took those pictures!

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I don't rename them. I title them - at least the ones I'm going to possibly use. I always have trouble in LR6 finding where the "sort by date" command is. But found it. But did you notice I said that even then they didn't all line up correctly? I discovered why.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

If you have not reset the time on either camera, check to see how many minutes/seconds they are apart.
It is then easy to see how much earlier or later the photos from camera A should be placed on your timeline as compared to camera B.

I ran into this problem when our son was married and I had asked other guests for the photos they took of the wedding ceremony (for the purpose of making a book).
The difference in timing between cameras were as little as 3 seconds, and as much as 27 hours. Comparing the times: Local time for the event (Jamaica), winter time Alberta, summer time Alberta, winter time British Columbia, summer time British Columbia - and within each setting the time could be off by several minutes.
What I did: Picked one moment that everyone had taken a photo of (the bride saying "I do"); Took note of the time stamp of that photo and took note of what camera it had been taken with.
Now it was easy to figure out where in the sequence "that" photo belonged - and to be able to sort the photos by time stamp, I simply added the time in six digits (24 minutes, 13 seconds past 2 o'clock in the afternoon as "142413" in front of the file name. One click on the name header of the column in Windows Explorer and they were all sorted.
A lot of work? For sure! Was it worth it? Well, I would do it all over again if I was at another event and asked to "collect" the photos to make a book. Although if asked beforehand, I would demand that everyone synchronize the time settings of their cameras!