On Organising Photos
This it the last photo I’m posting from the Great Ocean Road trip. Went to take a look at the Triplet Falls. This is one of the rare times I bring my tripod out and actually use it. Slapped on a polariser to reduce some of the light going in while stopping down to the minimum aperture of f/22. Even used ISO100 on my D300 to get as slow a shutter speed as possible. Managed to get a 2 second exposure out of it. All this just to get the silky look of water from the waterfalls
Really should invest in a 77mm ND filter for these sorts of shots, but I hardly get to see waterfalls anyway.
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Been busy editing the website when I’m free, just to keep the momentum going while I’m still keen and excited about doing it. Putting a little more effort into deciphering code, so I’ve tweaked the archives to display the listings as I prefer it.
As I want continuity, sometime down the road I’d like to move linking photos to flickr. As convenient as it is, I don’t really want to pay $25USD annually to have that option. This plus the fact that Yahoo might wind up flickr one day and migrating the whole lot of photos if it does go down will be a giant undertaking (currently over a thousand photos on flickr).
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I recall from the early days of my D70 while I was reading a Malaysian photography magazine about how one of the photographers organised his photo folders. He created folders with the year, month and day plus a short description and he imported the shoots into each based on that. I picked up the date format easily but took a little while to get meaningful descriptions for each folder.
This was way back in 2004 so I’ve been organising photos that way ever since, which is very helpful for me to find photos as I just need to recall roughly when I went on a trip or did some activity and it doesn’t take me more than a minute to locate the folder and image files.
As my collection of photos get larger (35,000 photos as of this writing?), it gets more difficult to track. I take less photos and delete images with more fervour these days. Quality over quantity they say.
I’m also getting into the habit of tagging my photos with useful metadata for easy search in the future. I get the gist of how it is useful and how I should be tagging the photos so that it makes sense for me when I do a search. I recommend watching the LL guide to Asset Management video from Luminous Landscape if you want a quick and simple method of organising your own photos. I haven’t finished watching all the videos in the tutorial but what I have gleaned so far from it is helping me sort through my files more efficiently.
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After a couple of days of rain, the weather is more tolerable now. Time to go for a quick run.
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