Georg:
Several ways to look at it. The advantage of shooting to a session is the images are grouped together within a session. Once inside a session, you can have C1 create subfolders that will share the session's output, trash and move-to folders. You can also create a master Job folder, and have multiple sessions reside inside it. So a few options might be,
1) Think of a session as a shoot within a job. In your National Park shoot, this may mean your job is the park itself, while each session is a day or specific location in the park.
2) Think of the session as the whole job and then import (or shoot to) a bunch of subfolders inside the session. Here when you import, C1 offers a few different options for creating subfolders within a session, one of which is by date.
3) Or a hybrid. Park is the job, session is a specific subject or location in the park, and if these sessions span multiple days, you could import or shoot to appropriate subfolders inside each session.
Bottom line is it is very flexible depending on how you want to sort it all out, and can even move things around later. With some experience, you can merge sessions and/or subfolders, or even spin subgroups off, but this requires care and knowledge of how to find, name and move the respective sidecar data files without corrupting them.
Finally, it is also fairly easy to copy your entire structure from one drive to another. So for example, when I'm in the field, I use my laptop and a portable external drive to house my images. These are stored using master, session and subfolders as required. Since C1 stores all associated data files together, I can copy that entire group of folders to my main desktop storage system and have full, uninterrupted access. When I open C1 on the main computer, I'll have to navigate to the appropriate session folder to open it, but when I do, any original edits, image adjustments, even session output, trash and move-to items are all just the way I left them on my laptop drive. I can even set that session as one of my favorites if I want. (Not sure LR handles moving between systems very well with its library structure -- ???)
FWIW, almost all of the above are items we cover on our workshops during the C1 training modules.
Several ways to look at it. The advantage of shooting to a session is the images are grouped together within a session. Once inside a session, you can have C1 create subfolders that will share the session's output, trash and move-to folders. You can also create a master Job folder, and have multiple sessions reside inside it. So a few options might be,
1) Think of a session as a shoot within a job. In your National Park shoot, this may mean your job is the park itself, while each session is a day or specific location in the park.
2) Think of the session as the whole job and then import (or shoot to) a bunch of subfolders inside the session. Here when you import, C1 offers a few different options for creating subfolders within a session, one of which is by date.
3) Or a hybrid. Park is the job, session is a specific subject or location in the park, and if these sessions span multiple days, you could import or shoot to appropriate subfolders inside each session.
Bottom line is it is very flexible depending on how you want to sort it all out, and can even move things around later. With some experience, you can merge sessions and/or subfolders, or even spin subgroups off, but this requires care and knowledge of how to find, name and move the respective sidecar data files without corrupting them.
Finally, it is also fairly easy to copy your entire structure from one drive to another. So for example, when I'm in the field, I use my laptop and a portable external drive to house my images. These are stored using master, session and subfolders as required. Since C1 stores all associated data files together, I can copy that entire group of folders to my main desktop storage system and have full, uninterrupted access. When I open C1 on the main computer, I'll have to navigate to the appropriate session folder to open it, but when I do, any original edits, image adjustments, even session output, trash and move-to items are all just the way I left them on my laptop drive. I can even set that session as one of my favorites if I want. (Not sure LR handles moving between systems very well with its library structure -- ???)
FWIW, almost all of the above are items we cover on our workshops during the C1 training modules.