wannabe63 wrote:
Having recently returned from a 3 week trip with thousands of photos, I want to organize the keepers in a slide show in chronological order. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, using 1 camera, except that I had 2 cameras, D750's, and used 3 SD cards. Being technology challenged in PP, what do I have to do to be able to place the photos in the order I wish them to be viewed? I only use LR 6.14 and shoot in raw.
When our son got married in 2011 there were at least 5 or 6 people shooting photos. It was an outdoor wedding and no lack of space, so no problems with photographers being in each other's way.
I had asked for copies of their photos, because I had promised to make a photobook for them.
Unfortunately for me, I only asked after all the photos were taken, and no two cameras were synchronised for time.
One of them had brought a laptop and was able to copy all the photos onto a DVD for me! Each set in a separate folder. When I went through them to remove the ones I didn't want to use for the photobook, and was wondering how I was ever going to get the photos in chronological order for the book.
It proved to be quite easy, although a fair bit of work!
There were a couple of moments where everyone had taken a photo at about the same time: When he put the ring on her finger, and right after the minister said "you may kiss your bride!"
It was easy to figure out the cameratime difference between the sets with the help of these two sets of shots.
I used the time of my own camera as a starting point, as that morning I had set the camera time to the large clock in the hotel's entrance hall. From the photos taken of the ring-moment, and the kiss, it was easy to figure out the time difference between the cameras. Took a lot of math, but I managed to do them all in an afternoon.
The book I made for them, now 11 years ago, is still on their coffee table, and looking rather dog-eared!
So, if you have to combine photos from different cameras, just look for photos that were taken at (almost) the same moment by each camera, and do the math from there. The extra work of calculating minutes and seconds will be well worth it to get the photos in the correct order!
PS - I use PSE, not PS or Lightroom.