How do you keep track of your photos?

[Sparrow]

... when I started a computer was a girl who worked on an adding machine, in accounts

 

[philipus]

For me, as a happy amateur, the solution is simplicity.

I only use a few keywords which I assign to my scanned images in Bridge. These keywords are for important persons in my family, kamera/lens/film used, development info, location. I don't use keywords for events because I create subfolders (in annual folders) for the events.

For generic type of images, by which I mean things like macro, skies and even street photo, I have separate folders (ie not annualised) where I put all images of the genre. T

The sort order is date-numerical because I assign file names to all scanned images according to a year-number convention I've devised: year-roll number that year(total number of rolls)-scanner-camera-film_frame number, ex 2013-89(312)-9k-TTL-3X. This number is also put on the negative sleeves of course.

This may seem unorganised but works for me. So far I've not been unable to find a frame I've looked for.

 

[Dan]

Lightroom is really a wonderful way of keeping track of everything in one place, easily backed up, and not slow at all (my catalog has over 87K files).

Read Peter Krogh's DAM blog site and his latest DAM book for guidance, too. He has spent way more time working this stuff out than any of us here.

 

[willie_901]

Lightroom is really a wonderful way of keeping track of everything in one place, easily backed up, and not slow at all (my catalog has over 87K files).

Read Peter Krogh's DAM blog site and his latest DAM book for guidance, too. He has spent way more time working this stuff out than any of us here.

Great advice. Thoughtful planning of asset management is often more important than the tools used to implement the plan.

 

[alistair.o]

... when I started a computer was a girl who worked on an adding machine, in accounts

Pre - Jacquard card type accounts?

I did a part of my apprenticeship in a similar environment .

 

[Sparrow]

Pre - Jacquard card type accounts?

I did a part of my apprenticeship in a similar environment .

... yes we did jacquard textiles too, anything from 100's English Pitch to 1344 hook Verdol endless paper, then EPROM and the rest ... I just worked for a living though, not a professional

 

[willie_901]

... when I started a computer was a girl who worked on an adding machine, in accounts

The first computer I was responsible for had teeny, tiny doughnut-shaped magnets wired together. It's sole purpose was to signal average noisy analog data.

 

[-fp]

I dump everything into one folder and forget about them for a year or four. Then I book a week off to delete the crap. Then when I can be arsed I choose and tweak the picks. It repeats forever.

No structure at all 🙂