How do you do it?I've been getting more active with my photography for a few years now and it's starting to get messy.On my hard drive I have my pictures in different folder by year and month, so it's quick and easy to just clear out my SD card.Then in Lightroom I pick the images I like and want to use and put them in a collection. However usually I make one collection per "set" and very rarely group any of the collections. Only have a group for shooting at protests, one for portraits and a few for some multi-week trips I took that resulted in multiple photo-sets.In my context a set is just a collection of images with a similar theme or from the same day that I post on social media or send to friends or whatever.Having an ever growing list of collections seems like a problem waiting to happen, especially if I want to go pro one day, so I was wondering how you guys manage it? The only thing I've seen online that might be a good idea is maybe grouping my collections by location to make them a little easier to sort through when I end up visiting the same place multiple times.
>>4489705From top level down>Settings in-cameraUse 4 folders. 3 for normal use and 1 for tests/ignorable photos. Normally devided either by different days of shooting or regular intervals at a long event>Import RAW files to NAS pool1 (and ooc jpegs/video if applicable)- YYYY- MM-DD (of import) [event name/theme name if applicable]- FOLDER1/FOLDER2/FOLDER3 from in-camera structure- Files have metadata that show when file was created aka the day it was taken if it is different to the MM-DD folder date>Cull here, import good RAWs to local storage Working Folder>Rsync local storage RAWs to seperate NAS pool2 for backups>Return to local storage working folder>Edit & Save JPEGs from RAW>Edited JPEGs go into same folder as backed up RAWs on NAS pool2- YYYY- [Landscape | Astro | Urban (etc.)]- MM-DD>burn DVD-R Archival Grade (Master) with the new backed up RAWs/Edited JPEGs whenever I can fill one for the purpose of archiving or every 3 months. Once I got in the flow it's pretty seemless. I have some days where I shoot several thousand photos, and some where I shoot ten. The structure is logical and predictable with only the edited JPEGs going into a folder system that is subjective (themes instead of dates etc.)>Having an ever growing list of collections seems like a problem waiting to happenI would always fall back to the more predicable YYYY-MM-DD format. Of course this only helps you pinpoint when the photo was imported/created and nothing else, but a bit of manual perusing is not particularly perilious.>The only thing I've seen online that might be a good idea is maybe grouping my collections by locationIf you're appending GPS info to your photos, then sure. Otherwise I see this as more of a hinderance than a benefit.I also organise film negs but my volume is so low that I just mark each binder sheet with the date of completion and a unique number that I also put into my digitized folder so I know which is which.
