GuideJan 27, 20269 min readKamero Team
Multi-Day Event Photo Management: Organize, Share, and Deliver at Scale
Multi-day events — conferences, festivals, tournaments, exhibitions, and destination weddings — present a unique photo management challenge. You are dealing with thousands of photos across multiple days, venues, and photographers. Without a system, it becomes chaos. With the right setup, it becomes seamless.
The Multi-Day Challenge
- Volume: A 3-day conference can generate 5,000-15,000 photos.
- Organization: Photos need to be sorted by day, session, venue, and event type.
- Multiple photographers: Different photographers cover different areas simultaneously.
- Daily delivery: Attendees expect to see each day's photos before the next day starts.
- Consistency: The gallery experience should feel unified despite multiple contributors.
Album Structure for Multi-Day Events
Organization is everything. Here is a proven structure:
- Top level: One Kamero event for the entire multi-day event.
- Day albums: "Day 1," "Day 2," "Day 3" — each day gets its own album.
- Session albums (optional): Within each day, create albums for major sessions: "Day 1 - Keynote," "Day 1 - Workshops," "Day 1 - Networking Dinner."
- Special albums: "Speakers," "Awards," "Behind the Scenes."
Multi-Camera Workflow with Kam-Sync
For large multi-day events, you need multiple photographers working simultaneously:
- Each photographer connects their camera to the same event via Kam-Sync.
- Use remote album switching to direct each camera's photos to the correct album.
- Duplicate detection prevents the same photo from appearing in multiple albums.
- A photo editor or assistant reviews and approves photos from all cameras on a tablet.
Daily Delivery Workflow
- During the day: Photos upload in real-time via Kam-Sync. Attendees access the live gallery.
- End of day: Review and approve any remaining photos in the queue.
- Evening: Send a "Day [X] photos are ready" notification to all attendees.
- Next morning: Share a "Yesterday's highlights" post on social media and the event app.
Handling High Volume
- Shoot JPEG for speed: FTP JPEGs for real-time sharing, keep RAWs for post-event editing.
- Curate aggressively: Not every photo needs to go live. Use review-before-publish to maintain quality.
- Batch processing: At the end of each day, do a quick edit pass on the day's highlights.
- Dedicated internet: Bring multiple hotspots for redundancy across venues.
Attendee Experience Across Days
- One QR code and one gallery link works for the entire event — no new links each day.
- Attendees see new albums appearing as each day progresses.
- AI face recognition works across all days — one selfie finds photos from every day.
- Attendees can browse by day or search across the entire event.
Post-Event Delivery
- Upload the fully edited gallery within your agreed timeline.
- Send a final notification: "Your complete [Event Name] gallery is ready."
- Provide the organizer with engagement analytics: views, downloads, shares per day.
- Archive the gallery as a permanent record of the event.