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James_N wrote:
I don't have a dog in this fight but if you're keyword tagging your images why would you have to sort through multiple folders or try to recall where you put a file or files?
Sunny Sra wrote:
cuz i hate pulling up 100s of pics that i've taken with the same lens, same camera...its just not efficient for me to search by gear. i'm differentiating business from personal work thats all.
I understand the need to separate your personal work from the rest of your work; or the desire not to commingle all your files. But your last reply makes we wonder if there isn't a misunderstanding. You referenced "same lens, same camera" and "not efficient for me to search by gear" but that's not what keyword tagging is about. You're talking about searching by EXIF metadata (the metadata generated by the camera when a file is created) while keyword tagging refers to adding IPTC metadata (the descriptors of an image's content like who, what, where, when, etc. that are added by the user).
When your click the Import button in Lightroom, the Import dialog box comes up with a Keyword panel where you can enter bulk IPTC metadata or keywords that generally describe the entire shoot. So if, for example, you had a sunset shoot on the beach with a model named Marie, you can enter keyword tags like Marie, beach, and sunset in that panel.
Then once the images are imported into Lightroom you can use the Keyword Panel in the Library Module to add keyword tags that are specific to an image. (You can also use other tools like the Painter/Spray can to quickly keyword tag multiple images). So if Marie is walking, running, smiling, etc in each photo you can add those specific keyword tags at this stage.
Now if you want to find/retrieve a shoot with Marie you simply bring up the Filter bar by pressing the Backslash [ \ ] key, and entering the search terms in the Text tab (not the Metadata search tab you earlier implied). So to find the beach shoot with Marie, you would just enter the search terms Marie and beach and all the images from that shoot will appear immediately. If you want to find a specific image like Marie smiling on the beach, you enter Marie, smiling, beach as the search terms and those specific images will appear instead of the entire shoot.
All of this takes only a second or two if you take the time up front to keyword tag all your images and its certainly much more efficient than searching through multiple folders or hundreds of images.
(Note that if you're importing multiple shoots or "one off" images you can skip the bulk metadata tagging step in the Import dialog box and tag each image separately from the Keyword panel in the Library module).
Did I misunderstand what you meant by "search by gear?"
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