Shooting with a 2nd Photographer or more than 1 camera bodies

Recently, I brought a second photographer to a wedding shoot. She was trying out her 1st hand in being a wedding photographer and brought along a Nikon D90 for the assignment.

Usually I will get my 2nd photographer to sync their in-camera clock to be exactly with mine. This is to allow me to later sort out the photos according to captured time for getting the sequence of events right.

Well, in that assignment I overlooked this setting and when I got back from the shoot the photo sequence was in a mess. Part of journalistic photography is to tell a story. Therefore it is important that the final delivery of photographs is like a story book.

Lightroom to the rescue.

LR2/3 is able to adjust the captured time of the photographs in BATCHES!!!! (yes!!)

Not only that, it can even change the time in relative to the original captured time. Which means that i could add 1 min to every photo. (DOUBLE YES!!)

Step 1: Compare 2 photos from the different cameras which were taken at or about the same time by looking at the Metadata. (e.g Camera A - 9.00am, Camera B - 9.02am)

Step 2: Filter your catalog with Camera B info.

Step 3: Select All > Metadata > Edit Capture Time

Step 4: Adjust to a specific data and time > Corrected Time > "reduce by 2mins"

There you have it!!

Brilliant!~