Identifying bracketed sets

[beyond the blue]

I'm going on holiday shortly and intend doing lots of shots including bracketed sets (for HDR) and sets for focus stacking etc. When I get home and come to download these shots to my hard drive I can see it's going to be a nightmare trying to sort through them all. So is it possible to separate the bracketed sets from one another as I shoot them? What I've been doing up to now is taking a shot with my finger half over the lens when I've finished one sequence of shots to separate them from the next sequence, it works, but I'm wondering if there's another way. Hope I've explaned this adequately.

 

[magicaxeman]

Notebook or a voice recorder, note the frame no, the number of frames in the sequence and the type of sequence your shooting.

Then later when processing you can refer back to your notes.

 

[Jayst84]

Do you need to separate them? Shoot them one after the other, then they'll be in order when you download them.

 

[gnirtS]

Take a photo of my hand, take the bracketed sets then take another photo of my hand.

 

[MJWC1]

Yep - take a photo of something in between, I reckon.

It could be your finger or your hand, as mentioned. Anything really. Maybe pop the lens cap on and take a black shot - that could be particularly easy to see as you are sorting through thumbnails.

 

[Mitchell k]

Hi everyone my name is Mitch. I would recommend if your camera can make a internal separate file then u can store your Bracketed photos in a separate File. That way when your ready to process them on your computer they'll already be separate from all your other photos.

 

[Tringa]

I have not taken shots for stacking but I do a lot of bracketed shots for HDR and I don't think there will be a problem.

I set the camera to take the shots in order from + to - . When the photos are imported the sequences of, for example, 3 or 5 light to dark images are easy to spot.

Dave

 

[beyond the blue]

I'll just have to continue doing what I do allready ie: taking a shot of my finger inbetween sets.:shrug:

 

[rjbell]

can you rename them in camera?

 

[philthejuggler]

As suggested before, change the bracketing order - I use -,0,+. It is easy to see them in a filmstrip (eg in Lightroom).

 

[markmullen]

I use the hand in front method, it is simple and it works.

 

[tdodd]

If you have Lightroom you can have the software automatically create "stacks" of photos taken within a given span of time - e.g. photos taken within the same second or couple of seconds. That should hopefully assist in identifying and correctly grouping HDR shots or an action sequence of shots in rapid succession. You can pick any period of time from one second up to one hour.

 

[beyond the blue]

If you have Lightroom you can have the software automatically create "stacks" of photos taken within a given span of time - e.g. photos taken within the same second or couple of seconds. That should hopefully assist in identifying and correctly grouping HDR shots or an action sequence of shots in rapid succession. You can pick any period of time from one second up to one hour.

Ah!, interesting, thanks.