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This is genuine enquiry as to why you keep and 'bother' to catalogue your images? Do you have a frequent need to search and sort your images? Do you really keep so many photos, just in case you may need them in the future?
I don't know how many shots I have taken both socially and commercially over the last 30years. But I cannot remember 'losing' an image and never 'needed' extraordinary search assistance, to retrieve an image.
I say this, not to cause offence or question everyone's personal recall skills...I would like to know how the sort of cataloguing you mention would help me?
I genuinely don't understand how putting all your photos in one big pile, then getting software to sort it out again is better than compartmentalising the photos into folders in the first place.
Commercially I have a range of clients. Their images are stored in folders bearing their name and the month. Each year the folders are restarted.
I may do 1 or 2 hundred shots on the day, but after the client selection the majority of the images are never needed or even thought of again. So why put them in a catalogue?
Maybe it's the type of work I do?
But this approach has rubbed off in my social photography. I know where and when the image I want was taken ...before I hit a key.
I am sure most of you guys can do this as well.
So I do wonder how changing my whole method of referencing images would be of benefit?
What am I missing?
Edit.. Forgot to add ...I can understand if you are taking repeated shots of a similar subject (flowers, insects or some specialised category) it could be beneficial to search 'pink flowers' or 'red spiders' . But for general photography across a range of subjetcs I am unsure.
Last edited on Mon May 7th, 2012 13:05 by Eric
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