How To Organize Photos In Lightroom And Photo Mechanic 6

Get my Lightroom Presets: https://bit.ly/3QvTtv2 Subscribed? Its easy! Click the link: https://bit.ly/3QulWkP You HAVE to start organizing your photos. In this video Ill show you how I organize my photos from SD card import in a folder structure that works for me, then how I go through and select the best ones using Photo Mechanic and Adobe Lightroom Classic. Street photography videos: How to use reflections:    • How To Improve Your Street Photography Usi...   Tips on minimalistic photography:    • How To Take MINIMALISTIC Photos (street an...   How to take photos in harsh light (street photography):    • Contrast Street Photography: How To Make Y...   For much longer than id like to admit, I did not organize my photos properly as any photographer should. Both amateurs and proffessionals. I just dumped them into lightroom, edited a few that were then exported to random folder and airdropped to my phone so I could post on the socials. Not a great idea! The process with both photo mechanic and lightroom makes me stay organized, and helps me keep my sanity, which is a big bonus right there. Folder structure: I sort by year, then into type of photos. I.E. Street Photography and Product. Inside the type folders I have a lightroom folder that contains the lightroom catalog, and another called months, for each month (duh). For each month I narrow it down to the, you guessed it, date then theme, topic or location of the shoot. Inside the dated folder I have four more folders: 01 deselects, 02 selects, 03 footage, 04 edits All photos from the cards are dumped into the deselcts folder, then I open photo mechanic and one star the images I find interesting that will later go into 02 selects folder. Photo mechanic is great to use as it is faster than lightroom for quickly looking at the thumbnails to decide if its a keeper or no. Once that is done I select all the one starred images and dump them into 02 selects. Then I open up lightroom and start picking the ones I like in the selects folder and forget about the ones in the deselects folder. If its a long session with hundreds of photos, I go over them again filtering out the one starred picked images, until ive narrowed it down to the ones I would like to work on. The edit is done, and I export edits to my edits folder where I have yet another 4 folders. One for Instagram, another for Web, one Print and a Instagram reels folder. All with different export settings, but that another story. Then voila. Its done! Organized. It sounds like a big process, but its really not once you get used to it!. Hope this was helpful. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro - You must stay organized! 00:44 Where To Store Your Photos 01:24 Chapter 1: Folder Structure 03:45 Chapter 2: Photo Mechanic 6 one starring 05:32 Bonus: A Lovely Flower and My Norwegian Accent 06:18 Chapter 3: Further sorting and selecting in Lightroom 08:19 Bonus: Quick editing with presets 12:15 SUMMARY CAMERA GEAR: (affiliate links) SanDisk SSD WorkDrive - https://amzn.to/3BAr2Ht Backup Drive From Lacie - https://amzn.to/3B710Kl MAIN CAMERA - https://amzn.to/3w735Ex GREAT ALLROUND LENS - https://amzn.to/3w6ZndO 20mmVLOGGING LENS - https://amzn.to/3STCYub 85mm FAST PRIME LENS - https://amzn.to/3pnhl8g VLOG MIC - https://amzn.to/3QK99dH STUDIO MIC - https://amzn.to/3K0Qjgy TRIPOD - https://amzn.to/3pjFQTV MONOPOD - https://amzn.to/3w7q6H7 ACCESSORIES: EXCELLENT TRAVEL BACKPACK - https://amzn.to/3w5AAqs CAMERA CUBE SMALL - https://amzn.to/3pkzUK3 TECH POUCH - https://amzn.to/3SQlHCn SAVES YOUR CAMERA - https://amzn.to/3A1dFhq CAMERA CAGE - https://amzn.to/3QlmiKB Check out my different creator kits here: https://kit.co/DanielBryn #photo #lightroom #howto #photoorganization