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<blockquote data-quote="GracieAllen" data-source="post: 597132" data-attributes="member: 41283">I read through this topic and didn't see the question asked and answered, but it may have been...&nbsp; You said you shoot commercially and personally.&nbsp; How frequently do your searches for images encompass both types of shooting?&nbsp; If the answer is rarely or never (why would you be searching personal images along with commercial ones?) then having separate catalogs would seem to make sense.I recently taught a 2-week Lightroom class, and just finished this week a class on organizing, and pretty much everyone struggles with exactly what and how they want their data and metadata organized.&nbsp; And exactly what workflow will work best for them.&nbsp; I shoot events and have those in a separate event-based catalog.&nbsp; My personal images are in a catalog organized largely according to the DAM method (using buckets for storage and non-contextual naming conventions).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GracieAllen, post: 597132, member: 41283"] I read through this topic and didn't see the question asked and answered, but it may have been... You said you shoot commercially and personally. How frequently do your searches for images encompass both types of shooting? If the answer is rarely or never (why would you be searching personal images along with commercial ones?) then having separate catalogs would seem to make sense. I recently taught a 2-week Lightroom class, and just finished this week a class on organizing, and pretty much everyone struggles with exactly what and how they want their data and metadata organized. And exactly what workflow will work best for them. I shoot events and have those in a separate event-based catalog. My personal images are in a catalog organized largely according to the DAM method (using buckets for storage and non-contextual naming conventions). [/QUOTE]

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