Wedding Photographers - Dealing with images from multiple cameras

[mr tommo]

At a typical wedding we use 4 cameras. Now I've taken over as main photographer its down to me to organise all the files from the cameras.

Obviously this can be a bit of a nightmare. I know I can view files by time and then rename them in this sequence. That's fine apart from if I have duplicate IMGxxxx then I cant put them all in the same file/catalog to rename them in sequence.

Kind of struggling to come up with an answer. One of our bodies is a 1ds mkiii so I can choose to have it files to be 2LOBxxxx.

Just wondering how you guys get around this problem of having the same file names from different cameras.

At the last wedding I reset the sequence on one of the cameras and that meant that it worked out ok.

 

[mr tommo]

Cheers guys, yeah I've synced all the camera date & time.

So if theres 2 files:
Camera 1 > Card 1> IMG 0001
and another file in Camera 4 > Card 1> IMG 0001

Are you saying that once imported that lightroom will be able to deal with them in the same catalog as the roots of the files will be different? If so thats fantastic.

Do you guys bother renaming for clients?

Really need to come up with some sort of set workflow for next weeks wedding.

 

[mr tommo]

Ok thanks all, will test it tomorrow.

Also thanks for the link too ill have a read a work in the morning