Shared galleries for photographers: working with a second shooter
Lisa
Key takeaway
When working with a second photographer, choose a gallery with named access and a shared way to organise images. On Pelli, you invite another photographer with an account to collaborate on your gallery. Both work in one space while you remain responsible for its presentation to the client.
🤝 How do you give a second photographer access?
In Pelli, the owner invites a collaborator by email. They need a Pelli account and receive the invitation for the relevant gallery. This provides identified working access to the person contributing to the assignment.
Collaborators can view data, add notes and manage photographs and folders. The owner retains control of gallery settings and deletion. This creates a practical framework: shared production with centralised delivery settings.
You can remove a collaborator when their involvement ends. Agree on that stage from the beginning, alongside the file collection and delivery dates. A clear working relationship starts with access suited to the assignment.
Organise two perspectives into one readable story
Before the assignment, divide the scenes to cover and agree how to group them. At an event, one person may photograph speakers while the other covers interactions between participants. The final gallery should tell a coherent day, even when images come from two cameras.
Folders in your Pelli gallery structure this work. Choose names that remain understandable at delivery: arrival, conferences, conversations and evening. You can agree on a temporary working structure and then the client-facing presentation.
Also agree on file naming. Two cameras can generate similar names. A photographer identifier helps if you need to locate the author or original file of a particular image.
📂 Who prepares the version shown to the client?
Appoint someone responsible for final consistency. They check the story’s progression, duplicates and the images retained in each folder. Sharing tasks is more effective when everyone understands the expected result and their decision-making role.
On Pelli, notes preserve context around shared work. Use them to identify a sequence to review or useful preparation information. For general instructions, agree explicitly before starting changes.
When everything is ready, the owner configures presentation, access and downloads. The client receives a gallery with a consistent identity and message. Collaboration shows through the richness of the coverage without requiring clients to understand your internal process.
An example: two photographers covering a seminar
You photograph conferences while your colleague covers workshops. Before the day, you prepared folders and agreed on essential moments. Afterwards, each returns to the shared gallery to contribute their part.
Your colleague adds a note about a sequence particularly important to the organiser. You review the whole set: a workshop image complements a talk and belongs in the final story. The gallery helps you see the coverage as a whole.
Finally, prepare delivery and its message. Our article on corporate photo galleries explains how to make viewing clear for the person receiving the images.
✅ A framework for future assignments
After delivery, briefly review whether folders were useful, names easy to find and responsibilities clear. Keep the conventions that helped. A few shared decisions avoid reinventing the process for the next assignment.
With Pelli
With Pelli’s tools, you collaborate around images and deliver them in the same environment. Your second photographer receives genuine working access and your client gets a gallery prepared for them.