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Anonymous Sun 17 Dec 2023 10:05:13 No.4265634 View View Reply Original Report

How do you manage/organize all your photos? I've got a bit under 100,000 photos and I have no idea what the fuck I'm going to do with them or how I'm going to trim or organize them. Contemplating just ending it all and deleting them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Dec 2023 10:20:00 No.4265638 Report

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I import all digital raw/jpeg photos into monthly folders that are like a "staging area"
~/photos/import/raw/<yyyy-mm>
and if there are any raw files they go to
~/photos/import/raw/<yyyy-mm>/raw

And finished photos go into their respective yearly folder (which may have some sub-directories)
~/photos/albums/<year>

There's a separate folder(s) for film scans. Trying to keep it as simple as possible

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Dec 2023 11:22:12 No.4265643 Report

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welcome to DAM (digital asset management) theres lots of software/books/etc on this topic. i only shoot film, and photos from a roll go into a folder, and that folder goes into a catch all folder. theres no naming conventions or anything. i wrote my own software to do this for me, acting as a sorting/filtering/browsing system. if i want i can export it as filetypes that play nice with other software (c1/lightroom/etc)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Dec 2023 19:34:51 No.4267305 Report

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I import through canons app in a folder using yyyy/mm/dd
I separate personal life from work in two different folders
I immediately work on deleting all unusable files and the edited files are put in a file within that file

Not the best way of doing things I'm sure but it's easy

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Dec 2023 19:55:32 No.4267310 Report

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Apart from phone snapshits and everyday stuff, I only shoot film
I have a spreadsheet with the films I have in my fridge:
>film stock name
>format (120 or 135)
>expiration date
>observations etc.
In my phone I use Google Keep and change items into the right places:
>which films I have in my cameras
>films that have already been shot
>those which are ready to be developed
>the ones I have to get back from the lab
Once I get them back I use another tab in the same spreadsheet:
>camera used
>film
>format
>ISO used
>when it was shot
>brief description of contents
>numerical code from the lab
The digitalized files are saved in folders named in this manner:
>YYYY_MM_DD

 brief description [Camera/Lens]
(brief description like "trip to Townsville")
It works for me

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 23 Dec 2023 23:36:30 No.4267343 Report

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>>4265634
On a computer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 24 Dec 2023 09:50:31 No.4267448 Report

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>>4265634
Binder full of negatives
I only shoot 35mm

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