How do you handle folder naming when a project stretches across more than one day?
Like most of you, I use a date code (eg: 20250312) as part of my filenaming and folder naming. For most shoots, this date corresponds to the day the photo was made. Easy.
But for other projects, sometimes a single project will stretch across multiple days. For example, Day 1, I'll visit the subject and do some posed environmental portraits, and Day 2, I'll return to photograph the subject at an event. The photos are going into one single published story, so it makes sense to work in a single batch of images for culling and filing purposes. Because of this I typically put all these in one folder, even though the folder date will be technically incorrect for some of them.
(For longer-term projects, say, 3+ days, or if I'm working with high volumes of images, I'll usually piece them out into different dated folders.)
This has worked for me, even if it's not necessarily the "tidiest" DAM logic. I'm curious if there's a better or more accepted way of doing it.
