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Order of presentation of the images on CD when two shooters?

Brackish
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Oct 29, 2007, 4:19 AM

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I never really thought of this till now and would like
some opinions.

Say you have two shooters. Say one is shooting the
bride prep. At the same time, the other is shooting
guest arrivals.

Now, when you give the images to the client on CD,
if you order the images by "time of shooting", then,
in the above situation, you will have prep shots
alternating with guest arrivals. Two prep shots
followed by 3 guest arrival shots followed by 1 prep
shot followed by 4 guest arrival shots, and so on.

Is it best to stick with ordering according to
time of shooting. Or ... is it best to put all
shots of the same type together?

How do you do it?

szerangue
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Oct 29, 2007, 10:21 AM

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I would think time of shooting, or file modification date, would the choice. I can't imagine you would have a ton of guests arriving shots. I would also think that groom prep and bride prep would be close together as well.
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Shadow
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Oct 29, 2007, 1:52 PM

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I haven't had the time of shooting re-name work out well for me yet.
I just usually end up renaming the files and putting them in folders.

For example the files on the dvd would read

Preparations
Church
Formals
Reception

In there if I re-name the files from camera 1 they will all read "Jill & Tom (1) 01.jp" the 01 would go 02, 03, so on.
Camera 2 files would say "Jill & Tom (2) 01.jpg"

When I'm post processing I have a folder that has RAW and a folder that has the transferred Jpg images.

From there I have one called "adjusted" which I move from the jpg folder to the adjusted folder once they've been corrected.
And from there I can put them in a Prints folder or as mentioned above.

I usually have another folder "resized for web" but before you resize always copy and paste into the folder then resize those just in case when you're resizing it saves over the origional image.

Brackish
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Oct 29, 2007, 5:17 PM

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I would also think that groom prep and bride prep would be close together as well.

Well, how do you think you'd group the groom prep and
bride prep on the CD? All bride sequence and then all groom
sequence?
Because if they are grouped according to just "time
of the shot" then it would be going back and forth.

Brackish
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Oct 29, 2007, 5:50 PM

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Preparations
Church
Formals
Reception ----------------------------------------------------------------------- These four are the only "sections" you have on the DVD? --------------------------------------------------------------------
When I'm post processing I have a folder that has RAW and a folder that has the transferred Jpg images.

From there I have one called "adjusted" which I move from the jpg folder to the adjusted folder once they've been corrected.
And from there I can put them in a Prints folder or as mentioned above.

I usually have another folder "resized for web" but before you resize always copy and paste into the folder then resize those just in case when you're resizing it saves over the origional image. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You're shooting jpeg now or RAW? I did one where I shot RAW for everything except jpeg for the reception, which seemed to work out okay. On a side note ... It's interesting to see how we seem to develop a similar system of cataloging the images when we work i.e. "prints folder", re-sized for web folder", "color-corrected folder".

szerangue
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Oct 29, 2007, 6:23 PM

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Well, I am really not sure what the problem is? What is the issue if they are all combined?
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Brackish
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Oct 29, 2007, 6:48 PM

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Well, I am really not sure what the problem is? What is the issue if they are all combined?

Well, I'm looking at it like video chapters: Would it be better

to have a DVD video chapter where it is just the bride prep

and another where it is just the groom prep? Or better
to combine the prep into one chapter and go back
and forth between the bride and groom?

Is it a better viewing experience to keep the images from
the same scene all in a row? Is it confusing to story continuity
for the viewer if the images are jumping back and forth?
If the prep section were to be put to a slideshow for
viewing on TV, best to have just the bride followed
by just the groom? Or better to flip back and forth?

(This post was edited by Brackish on Oct 29, 2007, 6:52 PM)

szerangue
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Oct 29, 2007, 7:36 PM

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Are you talking about a photo slideshow? I really do not believe it matters. Its photos, they each stand alone... now, if you are putting together a storybook album... that is different.
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Shadow
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Oct 29, 2007, 9:17 PM

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For weddings I shoot RAW, then convert. Jpg for reception is a good idea.

Those have been the only sections I've used so far. If I have coverage at the grooms (which no one yet has ordered) then I'd probably add a folder for his stuff too.

I guess it depends on how many images you shoot if you think you need to break it into more folders. That set up has been managable for the weddings I've done.

I do like to move the images to the colour-corrected folders and such. It helps me weed out any I want to delete and if I leave the job and go back I know where I left off.

WLR
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Oct 29, 2007, 10:19 PM

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In your case I would group it according to "topic".........AND if you do a multi camera job according to time
make SURE the cameras are set for the same time......... also not 12 hrs off either...
Just finishing editing an 800+ image job (not mine) that used 4 cameras with one of them being off by 12 hours, and another being off by 1 hr, 1 min, 7 seconds.
Arrrrgh.

Friends don't let friends shoot jpeg.