Destination Folder for Lightroom 4

What should the desitnation folder be for Lightroom 4?

Megan, I agree with Rob. Here is what I teach my students. When you shoot (it doesn't matter if JPG or raw; if both, just delete the JPG before importing), what you conceptually have is a negative (of course, it's actually a positive). I keep the organization simple and put all my images (with two engineering details specified below) in one "bucket", my Negatives folder. I export my favorite pictures, potentially (probably) after some editing, to a subfolder under my Pictures folder. So, if you have taken img1.jpg, img2.jpg, and img3.jpg, after import, you'd have, maybe, d:\negatives\img1.jpg, d:\negatives\img2.jpg, and d:\negatives\img3.jpg . Maybe you edit and want to save the first image as a flower picture, don't do anything with image 2 (or delete it), and export image 3 as a portrait. Perhaps, you'll end up with d:\pictures\gardens\roseGardens\xyzGardenDallasTX\20121211'DoubleDelight'Rose(338pm).jpg and d:\pictures\family\john\20121211(1131a)JohnStudyingCrystalCreek.jpg.
Now for the engineering details. Most people will cycle through the image names (img_0001 through img_9999), so I divide my negatives folder by quarter - 20124Q, for example. The other "gotcha" is that if you are shooting with more than one camera, set one to be your default camera. Pictures from other cameras shoudl be renamed - e.g., "img_3773{PowerShotS100}.jpg" so that the images don't overwrite each other.
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