My photos are renamed on import with the date and a sequential number. For
example, 161230_05134 means the photo was made on December 30, 2016 and it
is photo number 5134 for that year. All of that is automatic on import.
They are imported on two different hard drives as raw files into folders
based on location. That's the way I filed with film in my filing cabinets
and I use the same filing system with LR. I have two catalogs in LR. One
is Archival and the other is Current. I'm more likely to be working on the
Current ones so that catalog is kept lean with only photos from the current
year. All of the Archival photos are again filed in folders by location
and then file name. That's the one with over 900,000 files in it. It is
not terribly slow but not quite as fast as the Current one. If I need to
search for something, it's usually a photo in the Archival catalog and I
can search by date or camera or lens or keywords or filename. It only
takes seconds. I use this every day several times a day. I can't imagine
working without LR. I certainly don't mind paying the $9.99 a month to
have the latest updates in LR and PS. I think it's the best bargain in
photography!
Tina
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Thanks for sharing your insights, Philippe. I am getting ready to
> attempt
> > to select a file structure that fits my picture taking habits, i.e.,
> Family,
> > Little League, Airport, Skydiving, maybe even Pretty Girls. :-)
>
> That works too. Of course, you'll have to have sub-directories and
> indexes for the last category.
>
> I am still in the pre-rationalization stage of my indexing system. For
> the most part, all of my digital camera files are sorted by year and
> capture date in the directories. So, from 2006 on, I can jump to any
> year/date and get to what I want. However, I have also renamed many of
> the directories by adding the subject to the directory name. So
> instead of "2017-01-06" it's "2017-01-06 Green Lake State Park".
>
> With the film scans it is a little different. For all the slides, I
> follow the same methodology as my hanging files. Everything is
> categorized. So, I can grab the hanging folder that says "Swans" and
> those same scanned images will appear in a directory called "Swans".
> But for roll-film, I have index numbered the rolls and I scan them
> into directories by that same index number. Like the camera files, if
> they are of a particular subject, I'll put the subject after the index
> number. When I can be bothered to do so, I do add the subject matter
> into the image description field in Lightroom, but haven't done much
> of that because then I'm trapped forever into Lightroom.
>
> Lightroom does have one feature that is extremely valuable to me. It's
> the folder syncronization tool. When I add scans to the drive, all I
> have to do is sync the "scans" folder and it automatically adds those
> images to the Lightroom catalog. No muss, no fuss.
>
> I have hundreds of ClearFile archival sheets of negs to eventually get
> around to scanning. Just taking a wild guess, but probably 300 hundred
> of them. Over the past two years, I've averaged two rolls a week
> getting scanned. It's a long process and not easy getting reliably
> good automated scans on B&W film. Not much impetus for that, though,
> because I still have my darkroom and I have no pressing urgency to
> digitize the entire library. When I do eventually shutter the darkroom
> for the final time, I do plan on off-siting the negs to a safe and
> secure archival location for backup. But for now, they are as safe and
> secure as anything else. Just a reminder that the Bible tells us that
> we are nothing but a vapor in the timeline of this world.
>
> AG (vapors) Schnozz
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