Now I'm not sure about you, but seeing 100EOS5D 101EOS5D, 102EOS5D and so on ad infinitum isn't particularly helpful when I'm trying to work out what I'm doing and what I'm about to edit. But when you're at the computer and you slide your little SD card into the slot, this picture below is what you invariably get. Of course, if you're viewing the shots in camera, you get that nice little thumbnail on the right to show you the shots included in that folder. In theory, it's great, but this is what you're left with as you create folder after folder. It was genius, and it compartmentalized all my shots and kept them away from confusing each other.
The night before a shoot (if I was uber-organized) or most often early on the morning of a shoot after four coffees, I'd scroll to the yellow menu and create a new folder for that day's work. Initially, when I embarked on my quest to become a better file-keeper, I thought it'd be a grand idea to create new folders every time I went out for a shoot. When you're trying to organize files in the Canon menu, this is the first thing you'll see as you scroll through to the yellow section. I am a Canon user, so the following photos apply to a Canon menu, but I'm sure you can relate or find parallels with your own system. It has saved me so much angst and time and allowed me to focus on the things I really love about photography: shooting and editing. I tried to find ways of organizing my files more efficiently, but nothing really worked, and I ended up getting incredibly frustrated at the time I was wasting trying to locate files and shoots and folders, until I found a very simple workaround that I want to share with you today. That's not a particularly great trait when you're a photographer dealing with hundreds, if not thousands of photos from shoots over a span of days.
What that means in the context of this article is that I wasn't blessed with the meticulous tendencies of a shrewd accountant and I may well be the world's worst file keeper. I'm not an indoors person at all, and I drive my poor wife crazy with my constant need to "be outside". Just recently I wrote about what gives me meaning and satisfaction in photography: being outside shooting in solitary isolation.
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