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Shouldn't take that long, as you don't have to do them individually.
Now 80k, or 180k, now that could take awhile.
organising all your folders
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Shouldn't take that long, as you don't have to do them individually.
Now 80k, or 180k, now that could take awhile.
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- droj
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Nothing set in stone.
Currently, I have:
Legacy HD folder structure holding mainly tiff files (could equally have been psd's) from scanned film, and batched by subject matter.
Continuing HD folder structure of wholly digital images batched by date period (c 450 files per sub-folder). RAW files alongside converted tiff's. Keywording across these folders would be an advance if ever thought necessary. My LR setup draws on this folder structure.
I can see a function for LR collections? relating to any projects that arise eg book, exhibition that draw on the existing image resource, that might make my procedures more slick than previously.
I backup all folders to 2 other drives, and backup LR cats similarly.
Now - there is an implication that once having begun with LR you have to stick with it otherwise you'll lose your RAW adjustments. Why save all the original RAW's? Because sometimes I want to go back & adjust them differently. Is this an Adobe plot to get us hooked? No, it's just how it is.
As often mentioned, storage is relatively cheap.
Re-sizing and any further image work is output from the tiff's via PS.
Currently, I have:
Legacy HD folder structure holding mainly tiff files (could equally have been psd's) from scanned film, and batched by subject matter.
Continuing HD folder structure of wholly digital images batched by date period (c 450 files per sub-folder). RAW files alongside converted tiff's. Keywording across these folders would be an advance if ever thought necessary. My LR setup draws on this folder structure.
I can see a function for LR collections? relating to any projects that arise eg book, exhibition that draw on the existing image resource, that might make my procedures more slick than previously.
I backup all folders to 2 other drives, and backup LR cats similarly.
Now - there is an implication that once having begun with LR you have to stick with it otherwise you'll lose your RAW adjustments. Why save all the original RAW's? Because sometimes I want to go back & adjust them differently. Is this an Adobe plot to get us hooked? No, it's just how it is.
As often mentioned, storage is relatively cheap.
Re-sizing and any further image work is output from the tiff's via PS.
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Shouldn't take that long, as you don't have to do them individually.
Now 80k, or 180k, now that could take awhile.
Just highlighting the ones that will have the same keywords or is there a quicker way?
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- Mark
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I use Media Pro, each and every one of my finished, edited shots, is geotagged, titled and keyworded, all the metadata completed (copyright, author info, rights, contact details etc). The catalogue therefore allows me to search for a location, or theme.
Beyond that Capture One organises each shoot as a session, folders go:
Photos, Year, Description and Month (eg Sutton Bank Sunset October 2013).
Within each shoot's session folder there is a further hierarchy, Selects, Output, Deleted. Within the Output folder there is a subfolder for each output, eg full sized TIFF, full sized JPEG, small JPEG etc.
It sounds complicated but once you've got a workflow sorted out it all runs quickly. In life I am pretty disorganised but with my photos somehow I manage to keep it in order.
Beyond that Capture One organises each shoot as a session, folders go:
Photos, Year, Description and Month (eg Sutton Bank Sunset October 2013).
Within each shoot's session folder there is a further hierarchy, Selects, Output, Deleted. Within the Output folder there is a subfolder for each output, eg full sized TIFF, full sized JPEG, small JPEG etc.
It sounds complicated but once you've got a workflow sorted out it all runs quickly. In life I am pretty disorganised but with my photos somehow I manage to keep it in order.
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FWIW, this exactly the same scheme that I used with a paper file index that I'd been keeping of my film shots since I was about 15 ( which is 30 years ago now!)Film scans are kept in a separate directory Scan/YYYY/MM/Fxx where the date is the month that the film roll was developed. I figure it's pretty safe that I'll never shoot more than 99 rolls in one month.
