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Newbie - Workflow method

Scott Radford-Chisholm
Hi guys,
Firstly many thanks to the whole team for all the vids you have done and this forum. I have been viewing vids for long time to try and become a bit accustomed to the whole Cap One prog. I was recently made redundant from my press photog job after 33 years with the company and now out on my own and starting a whole new venture.
A quick overview of what I am doing will prob help you.
Im starting a 'headshot' studio, looking at clients coming in the door every 15 mins or so. I will be shooting tethered, so clients see the pics and after maybe 8-10 frames, they decide what pic they like and I send to them, more or less straight away.
Its this first stage that I am just trying to work out.
I am gathering I be best using 'sessions' to start with, and then for each new client do i start a new session? Or would I be better off just the one session for each day and then just renaming each different client? The only info I want to keep and be searchable down track is the client name, mobile number and email. Can I just put all this info in the 'next capture naming' ..'name' ?
I am using Windows.
I hope this makes some sense !!

cheers
SRC
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  • cdc
    I"m sorry to hear about your press job.

    If I were in your position I would do one session per day and name the session the days date for easy tracking. You can type any name you wish into the 'Name' field of the Next Capture Naming tool, so if you want their name, email, and phone number that should work. You might want to consider following up the name with the 3 digit number token as opposed to the default camera counter token, this way every day starts at 001. That's just a preference of mine.

    Another alternative is to make a folder for each client which would be titled their name, and use the tokens 'destination folder name'_'3 digit counter'. Then which ever folder you have set as the capture folder will provide the name for the images that are shot into the folder.
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  • Scott Radford-Chisholm
    thank you very much cdc. I will take all that info onboard. Cheers.
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  • Ian Wilson
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    From memory, I think that there is a webinar on the YouTube channel and on the Learning Hub about tethered shooting, in which David Grover covers subdividing a tethered session into subfolders.

    Ian
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  • SFA
    You can create a Template for a session making it easy to set up multiple predefined sessions during the day it that was what you wished to do.

    If you choose to work on a session per day basis I would agree with cdc's suggestion.

    However having a session self contained per shoot/subject could also be useful - name the session for the subject and keep all the files in session folder structure (as the design of a session is intended to be used) and you have a very easy archivable result per client (or per shoot/subject if it is for a family or a business).

    So long as you have used suitable naming, etc., either way would be easy enough to use to find the images in the future but the session my client/subject might be better - especially if they become regular clients - then a purely date based session. IMO.

    That said, if you also archive to a catalogue for future rediscovery the search facility in the catalogue would allow rediscovery by either method.


    HTH.


    Grant
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  • Scott Radford-Chisholm
    Many thanks Ian3 and SFA, I think I may have seen that David Grover tutorial way back when I first started looking at CO. I will have a look back through. Your help is great too thanks SFA, I think I am on the right track then.
    cheers SRC
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