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02/05/2013 10:39:34 AM · #51 |
I was also surprised that you were missing adobe bridge & photoshop for your cataloging and batching stuff. |
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02/05/2013 10:59:15 AM · #52 |
thanks! keep them cards & letters comin'!
Originally posted by vawendy: I was also surprised that you were missing adobe bridge & photoshop for your cataloging and batching stuff. |
bridge is an option in question #4. photoshop is anything/everything but a cataloging system ;-) it is fine for batch processing and applying metadata, but i'm pretty sure that it won't rename files. |
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02/05/2013 02:10:13 PM · #53 |
Did it! You did a good job w/the 10-question limit. Interested in the results. |
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02/05/2013 02:21:39 PM · #54 |
I filled it out; almost all of my answers fell under the "other" category. |
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02/05/2013 04:02:56 PM · #55 |
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02/05/2013 05:51:02 PM · #56 |
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02/05/2013 06:45:17 PM · #57 |
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02/05/2013 07:40:40 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by roz: Done .. :) |
Hi Roz! :D |
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02/05/2013 08:04:44 PM · #59 |
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02/05/2013 09:16:39 PM · #60 |
I have satisfied your curiousity. For now. |
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02/06/2013 08:55:21 AM · #61 |
again, thanks, but it's not over yet! i've got about 60 responses and i'd like to get at least 100 to feel like i have a representative sample.
your input is greatly appreciated!
i promise you this, the result is going to be very interesting... |
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02/06/2013 10:27:03 AM · #62 |
Skip says in the survey:
Ultimately, I would like to have an understanding of the processes people use to find "that photo of the fountain in Las Vegas, not the one with people in it, the one at night, you know, when we took that trip while the kids were still in middle school..." "
I feel useless, stupid, and inadequate. Thanks Skip... Hehe Why? Because there is no way I can answer or look the image up, other than asking: "what week of which year did this happen", and then run through the 400 images taken that week. So imagine my embarrassment if asked to produce all my late-afternoon elephant shots.
The worst part of it is, I am not going to change my lack of a real system. Good thing my livelihood does not depend on it. |
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02/18/2013 11:55:08 AM · #63 |
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02/18/2013 09:56:36 PM · #64 |
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03/27/2013 03:23:32 AM · #65 |
My naming/organization... While not as elegant as most folks methods... it has evolved and usually gets the job done...
Folders named by date taken are my primary organizational tool. "yyyymmdd description of session or event"
raw files sit in main folder, and edits, generated JPEGs, in camera JPGs, movies, or misc related files go in sub folders. Even cell phone pictures and files from friends/family cameras go in sub folders under each date/session folder. If the session was in the earlier days before I used raw files, then the in camera JPEGs are the main files which sit directly in the main folder.
file names get an in-camera 3 character prefix followed by the Nikon 4 digit sequence number 0000-9999. The "third" character i use is a digit (0-9), which I increment every 10k clicks... SO, I could theoretically get up to 100k clicks before my sequence odometer "rolls over." If it does do that then there will only be a couple of files w the same name, but they'll be in folder separated by vastly different dates.
I usually leave these file names as-is (generated by my camera plus editing suffixes) when I distribute pictures of friends and family events, in case i get a request for a different aspect ratio or resolution or some other edit. I then just need the date taken or the individual file name to track my original down. If I'm doing a paid gig or event of great importance I sometimes do a more elegant file renaming AFTER final edits, before distribution.
All files stored on USB hard drives... three of them. The third is stored off site and gets swapped out and then "synched up" every few months.
And so... if I need to find "that night shot in Vegas, by the chapel where we got married," then i must hunt through my shots from that night (must remember/figure out the date it was taken). Perhaps I will evolve into a tagging machine in the future.
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