Lightroom sorting nusance

First, my complaint (or lack of knowledge on my part) about Lightroom… I'm having issues with sorting. My collection has both Canon & Nikon raw files (from a wedding shoot with two photographers) and when I sort on capture time it doesn't sort correctly even though the times show correctly in the library grid view. So, I took the time to manually order the images in the collection - I'm trying to create a slide show in roughly chronological order - and I thought everyone was cool. I switched to another collection that I wanted to see sorted differently so changed the sort order. When I came back to my original collection the order was all screwed up again and switching to user order did nothing. This is a nusance to say the least… Did I need to export the collection after I manually ordered the images in order to preserve my ordering?

Overall I'm still a big fan of Lightroom. It has saved me a ton of time cataloging and editing 1500+ images from this wedding shoot.

Thought I'd spend a few minutes searching on the web and seeing if there was a solution to my ordering dilemma. Found several posts, but a lot of them seemed irrelevant as they obviously were using version earlier 1.x version. Did 1.0 really only support ordering by rating or color??? Anyway, ran across this nice little utility software (freeware) that will rename files based on embedded capture time. It's highly customizable and will even create sequence numbers for images with same date/time. It's not super intuitive, so I had to back pedal and resort to reading the help pages. This will definitely help with the sorting if I remember to include this step in my workflow.

Check out Stamp (I got version 2.8) at http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stamp.html I hope you find this helpful.

Interesting photographer - Rod Daniel

I went to the Brentwood Camera Club June meeting and the main program was Rod Daniel. Rod is a Nashville native that went to Hollywood and became a successful TV anad movie director. He recently relocated back to Franklin, TN. For several years Mr Daniel would ship a Harley-Davidson motorcyle to the mid-west and then meet it and spend time traveling back to southern California. Along the way, without any set itinerary or timetable, Rod would photograph anything that caught his eye. His specialty is black and white landscapes. His images include many "rural" mid-west settings that no longer exist. I was inspired by Rod's presentation to try and do some B&W landscape work, digitally of course. Rod did much of his early work in medium format, but has switched to digital (Nikon) and touted the teachings of Carlan Tapp (http://carlantapp.com/) and the Santa Fe Photography Workshop (http://www.santafeworkshops.com/) classes.

I haven't been able to find a web site associated with Mr. Daniel, but he has several exhibitions that a Google search will find. Mr. Daniel's directing credits can be viewed on imdb.com.

I found the program very educational and would like to learn more about B&W conversions in Photoshop/Lightroom. Also many of the shots reminded me of scenes I saw on my trans-America bicycle trip in 1987. I wonder if a lot of those places still exist???