How do I find raw files corresponding to selected JPEGS

Question

I shoot RAW + JPEG on fujifilm cameras and 90% of the time I'm fully content with my jpeg images but a few could use some editing. To save time I would like to cull my photos into three categories:

1. Accept as is
2. Reject
3. Accept and edit

The quickest way seems to be to cull my jpegs and then find the JPEGS that neeed to be edited and then only grab raw files for those images. That could be 100 images or more so I wonder if there is a good way to do that with one command.

Right now I have to use photo mechanic which pairs raw and jpegs then I sort them and move the raw files I don't edit to an archive. Then I import the files I'm editing. It's pretty fast it seems like there is a search command I don't know about.

Answer 1

As one commenter pointed out: Compare basenames of the file.

Downside of this: Your camera will wrap filenames at 10,000. (Most only use 4 digits.) You may have the option to set a prefix, but if you forget to change it in time you can have a problem.

If your software will recursively show sub directories contents when you click on a folder, then sort the pictures by timestamp. Since the raw and jpeg have the same time stamp they will be adjacent. Caution: May not always be in the same order. Eg. Pix with the same timestamp can be either jpeg first or raw first.

Another possibility is to change names on import to some version of the datastamp. E.g. 2018-10-02_10-51-16. There are two downsides to this: In shoot-as-fast-as-possible-and-hope-to-catch-the-wow-shot mode you can get several frames with the same time stamp. Your import software may be clever enough to put a,b,c... after them, or if really clever will pull the hundredths of a second field out of exif and use that.

If you have multiple cameras, you can get timestamp collisions. (Most of us have at least 2 AND a phone...)

This method can hoop you with scanned images.

Anyway give them a base name and the suffixes will tell them apart.

I have a friend who renames images according to what is in them. This makes it harder. If you do it at different times, you might have totally different names. E.g. Alastair and Beth McKay vs Beth and Alastair McKay.

Ok: The IPTC field Title is actually designated for a unique file ID. Use it. You will need to script this in some way. Too much depends on your software for me to advise -- Hint: Look at ImageMagick. So now 2018-{ddddd}[J|R] is your unique ID where ddddd is a 5 digit ID and J or R says jpeg or raw file.

Answer 2

I'm having a hard time understanding what you are asking for the program to do.

I use photomechanic as well, and I use a system of color coding the images, red is reject, green is accept and edit in Lightroom/photoshop. in Lightroom you have the option to sort by the color that was applied in photo mechanic, but beware you must have the settings in photo mechanic set to correspond with the Lightroom tags, and if you cull after you edit and import into Lightroom you have to choose the option to get the metadata from the file again, which will delete all of your edits.

done correctly, you could color code the images to your liking, or even star rate them, 1 star = accept as is, 2 star = reject, 3 star = accept and edit, then sort in Lightroom and make sure that the jpeg and raws aren't set to "stack".

could also change the settings in photo mechanic to unstack after you star, and then add the star for accept and edit to the raw file, and then sort by the 3 stars and grab only the raws into Lightroom or photoshop.