Looking for tips on Bracketing: Hi, I some time like to shot 3 shot bracket pictures, using a Canon 70D. Here is were I need help - when a travel and take hundreds of pictures its hard...

baygolf Loc: DMV

Hi, I some time like to shot 3 shot bracket pictures, using a Canon 70D. Here is were I need help - when a travel and take hundreds of pictures its hard to pick out the pictures that were bracketed in LR. It just so many pictures. Can any one tell me how the manage retrieving their bracketed pictures when they mixed in among hundreds pictures. Yes I know they will be in sequence, but they are hard to find, especially when yo have taken preview/test shots.

Any ideas?

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

I saw one suggestion in a previous UHH topic that said to take a picture of your hand first, and maybe with fingers raised to indicate the number of shots in the sequence.

McKinneyMike Loc: Texas

baygolf wrote:

Hi, I some time like to shot 3 shot bracket pictures, using a Canon 70D. Here is were I need help - when a travel and take hundreds of pictures its hard to pick out the pictures that were bracketed in LR. It just so many pictures. Can any one tell me how the manage retrieving their bracketed pictures when they mixed in among hundreds pictures. Yes I know they will be in sequence, but they are hard to find, especially when yo have taken preview/test shots.

Any ideas?

Doesn't your EXIF data tell you the exposure used for each photo?

baygolf Loc: DMV

Interesting!
Thx

Linda From Maine wrote:

I saw one suggestion in a previous UHH topic that said to take a picture of your hand first, and maybe with fingers raised to indicate the number of shots in the sequence.

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Linda From Maine wrote:

I saw one suggestion in a previous UHH topic that said to take a picture of your hand first, and maybe with fingers raised to indicate the number of shots in the sequence.

This is what I do, take my brackets till blinkies are gone, then take a picture of same background with no. Of shots displayed witth appropriate no. Of fingers.

baygolf Loc: DMV

Yes it does, but you still have to go the many pictures/EXIF data to collect the correct ones. And I assumed that the pictures are taken in this order, i.e., under, even, and over, but in LR thats not the order.

McKinneyMike wrote:

Doesn't your EXIF data tell you the exposure used for each photo?

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

baygolf wrote:

Yes it does, but you still have to go the many pictures/EXIF data to collect the correct ones. And I assumed that the pictures are taken in this order, i.e., under, even, and over, but in LR thats not the order.

On a Nikon, the bracket order is set in the menus - +1,1,-1 or 1,-1,+1 etc. Can you not do the same in a Canon?

The "hand and finger" method as described above works well to signal the beginning or end of a sequence.

In Lightroom, in the Library choose sort by file name, NOT as Capture Time.

In grid view, scroll to the hand and select the previous or next three images, press B on the keyboard to pop them into the Quick Collection.

Now you have the bracketed sequence altogether with nothing else to muddy the waters.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Linda From Maine wrote:

I saw one suggestion in a previous UHH topic that said to take a picture of your hand first, and maybe with fingers raised to indicate the number of shots in the sequence.

I use that.

baygolf Loc: DMV

thx

Searcher wrote:

On a Nikon, the bracket order is set in the menus ... (show quote)

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

That's exactly what I do, photograph my hand in front of the lens to indicate before and after of each bracketed or panorama shot series.

Leitz Loc: Solms

baygolf wrote:

Hi, I some time like to shot 3 shot bracket pictures, using a Canon 70D. Here is were I need help - when a travel and take hundreds of pictures its hard to pick out the pictures that were bracketed in LR. It just so many pictures. Can any one tell me how the manage retrieving their bracketed pictures when they mixed in among hundreds pictures. Yes I know they will be in sequence, but they are hard to find, especially when yo have taken preview/test shots.

Any ideas?

I bracket under, meter, over. The under shots are darker, and the over shots are lighter, than the meter shots. The difference is easy to see.

tsilva Loc: Arizona

Just use the finger/hand method and save yourself a lot of headaches. KISS

baygolf Loc: DMV

So true. KISS

McKinneyMike Loc: Texas

Lightroom shows them in the order that they were bracketed (under, meter, over) in sequence from my Nikon D750. Maybe I forgot and just look for the light change in each sequence of shots? I need to look at it again to make sure.

tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

Talk to the hand.