10. Managing your photos in Lightroom

How to use the metadata tools in Lightroom to manage your catalogs

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Photograph: Hockeridge Wood, UK © 2014 Martin EveningHasselblad H5D-50C | 80mm | ISO 200 | f22 @ 2.5s

Here is a quick test for you: Can you remember all the things you photographed last month? Did any shots in particular stand out? How about that same month five years ago? Many photographers think they can successfully rely on their memory when accessing pictures from their photo archives. The fact is, as we shoot more and more photographs, this kind of approach is doomed to failure, and as time goes by, it will only get worse.

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