My partner works in an industry where part of her job is taking wildlife photos for customers, 1-2K shots per trip get curated down to 100-200 and sold to the customer for a small fee, sometimes free. She has rights to the photos and She has every one of the curated photos she’s taken over the last 6+ years on a hard drive.
All 209,000 of them.
I realize this is going to be a pain in the ass but I’m wondering what system there would be for ranking them to make them easier to find the good stuff later on. Like being able to rank 1-5 stars and searching later on for only 5 star photos, whatever. (This is a feature in windows metadata, but it seems clunky as I currently know how to change it, open to suggestions)
She wont have to go though all of them and can do some grouping based on thumbnails.
Wondering if anyone has a creative solutions
Adobe Bridge, you can order them however you want, by lens, camera, iso, aperture, chronologically, etc etc, and it will retain the ranking you give them (5 stars model). Batch rename them, open them as raw, and a heck of a lot of features I probably don’t know.
Just have a fast computer, depends on how many files are on your folder, but it does take a good chunk of ram.
It’s a hog but it does the job (same is true for most Adobe software).
I honestly find Bridge very useful and easy to use, it baffles me that most photographers don’t try it.
When I did weddings, I had a second shooter, between both of us we would take 6,000+ photos, and bridge would combine them flawlessly in chronological order.
As long as your cameras aren’t set to different time zones… ask me how I know.
But yes overall I agree. I use the hell out of Bridge.
You can edit the capture time in Bridge. It’s in the Edit menu.
Jajajajaja happened a couple of times even a few minutes of difference in a wedding will fuck you up
exiftool will adjust the date/time in the exif data by any number of minutes… to adjust for internal clocks that are slightly off or to adjust for timezone.
I learned this about a week too late for my latest wedding editing D: