I recently got access to a lot of family photos from late 90's, early 00's, and I want to scan and organize them. Scanning is fine, but I want a tool or something that allows me to quickly add metadata (date, place) to them since they are analog photos with the date in the bottom corner. Until I don't find something better, Google Photos automatically creates albums, timelines and such after I do that. What software do you recommend for adding metadata and/or an offline alternative to google photos? with the same abilty of automatically sorting them. This is a new datahoarding venture for me but I'm excited.
I just went to a Vivian Maier exhibition, pic related, her Rolleiflex. There were great photos, sure, but negatives were also shown sometimes: from what I've seen on average one or two shots out of a 12 exposure roll were any good, and that made me feel like photography is a numbers game. I'm kinda new to photography, I've learned the technical basics, but I really don't know shit about composition, and seeing the other failed or sub-par shots made me question the whole theory behind it.
Most pictures were full frame prints made in the last 10 years, sometimes the original print she made was displayed alongside showing how she edited the negatives (mostly cropping, but I've noticed some dodging/burning), meaning that all the full frame prints were probably not the intended outcome, at which point I question what I'm actually seeing, whether the actual artistic intent or just an attempt to milk the negatives, which were but a step in the process.
Then there's the whole "she tried getting recognition, but went nowhere, just to be discovered after death by random chance". I knew about the second part, I didn't know she tried to get noticed. How insanely arbitrary that is, which in turn throws shade on the value that is given to her photos.
I'm not a /p/ autist, I know very little and expected to get something positive out of this experience, but it generated more questions and doubts than answers and knowledge. I want to know anons' opinion on the subject.
I just finished my first project. Shot with a Pentax k1000, Kentmere Pan 400 BW film. Instead of just dumping everything in one go, I'll post as the semester goes along.
