In a recent conversation with some other photographers, I could not figure out why it was such a pain for them to line up their images and their second shooters images in post-production in time order. I listened for a bit thinking I must have misunderstood, but I finally asked why they don’t just change the time on their second shooter’s images if the cameras weren’t synced properly beforehand. They kind of looked at me like, “What?”

So I explained what I do in Lightroom after a wedding to get both mine and my second shooter’s images in sync. In case you also didn’t know this handy little trick, here’s how you do it.

1. Highlight all of the images you need to time-change. I do this right after I import the card so I select all of the “previous import” in LR. You can also do it by sorting the images by camera serial number.
2. In the Library tab, scroll down on the right-hand side to the Metadata and you’ll see something like this: 
3. What you’re looking for in the above screenshot is the “Capture Time”. Click the menu tab to the right “Capture Time” and you’ll have an options window pop up like this: 
4. Here you can easily see what the original time was that the camera recorded and adjust it down to the seconds for the corrected time. I always find two images taken at the same, or near same time, by me and my second shooter and check the exact original time listed on mine. I use that time difference as the adjustment meter for my second shooter’s images.
5. As soon as that is adjusted, all of your images will be lined up in proper time capture order!

Of course, it’s always great to sync your cameras before the event, but in case that didn’t happen or the time still somehow got off, this is an easy peasy fix to get all of the images back in their proper time order!