With the purchase of the new PC with lots of storage (750GB and 500GB back up), I really want to improve how I organise my digital files, into a proper digital workflow from capture, filing, working-on to finished files.
The way I did it before was rubbish; filed under location/date (i.e. Norfolk, July 08). This is fine for snapshots, but what then if images are selected for possible photographic/artistic merit to be worked on for either personal projects, one's portfolio and/or competition entries. How to track and organise these, especially when images are "in transit" between the initial RAW and final output?
I'd really welcome some comments and postings from you chaps on how you manage your files, or how you think you should manage them, to get the best advice all round. I am also thinking to ask some of the more experience photographers at the club for what they do (and I'll post a summary of their experiences).
Dams - as the only semi-professional among us, your comments (assuming you're still alive) would be great!
Cheers
Ivan
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Working the back catalogue
I find that I have less time these days to get out and shoot. This can be a concern, a worry and a bit frustrating at times.
However, I NEVER throw away any pictures, so this provides ample opportunity to plunder my back catalogue - assuming I can ever find anything (more on that in another post) - and re-work, revisit and rethink (including recropping) images that I have either not fully evaluated or had postponed to the digital shoebox...
I have thousands of un-editited images - some of these will be rescueable, some will be pretty decent, just requiring the usual tweaks. I had a go last night, with some images from Parc Guell in Barcelona. The colours of the characteristic tiles and Goudi-inspired designs made great substrate, and I got a handful of nicely worked- up images. I'll post these soon.
Do you throw images away? Do you get back to them in time, or are they taking up space on your hard disk? Could you revisit these and rework into great images?
Ivan
However, I NEVER throw away any pictures, so this provides ample opportunity to plunder my back catalogue - assuming I can ever find anything (more on that in another post) - and re-work, revisit and rethink (including recropping) images that I have either not fully evaluated or had postponed to the digital shoebox...
I have thousands of un-editited images - some of these will be rescueable, some will be pretty decent, just requiring the usual tweaks. I had a go last night, with some images from Parc Guell in Barcelona. The colours of the characteristic tiles and Goudi-inspired designs made great substrate, and I got a handful of nicely worked- up images. I'll post these soon.
Do you throw images away? Do you get back to them in time, or are they taking up space on your hard disk? Could you revisit these and rework into great images?
Ivan
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