geneva::information
photography and rant from the middle of europe
February 2, 2010
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To be honest, I don’t know the answer. I bought a shiny little 500 GB Hard drive recently and copied all photos I have in digital format on it. Then I fired off Adobe’s Lightroom and started to add all the pictures to my catalog. I went to work and gave it a day to finish that job. When I came back, my catalog was at around 50k files. Wow.
Ok, there are some double entries, but few – Lightroom is holding an index and probably hashes the pictures, so there are really very few redundant pics in the catalog.
But what do I do now? I started to sight them, first – right now I’m at picture 35′000 or so (duh, there’s some crap, but as well some very good ones). As a next step I will likely start to rate (will probably take a day or two), select the best. At the end, I will probably create a big (really big) photo book as a catalog on paper – blurb goes up to 440 Pages (in large landscape format).
440 Pages means that if I put 4 pictures per page, I can handle 1720 photos..and they still can be viewed. That should probably be a fair selection (knowing that I did not delete as merciless in my early days as I delete today)..but still huge ;)
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Duncan
on February 2, 2010 at 10:18
I make heavy use of LR2’s keywording and collections to organise my catalog. There’s also the school of thought that says to use multiple catalogs, but that strikes me as too much effort.
gvainfo
on February 2, 2010 at 10:31
Right, I might use the rating to rate through based on a “topic” basis, eg “kids” or “landscape” and work from there. Still, if you don’t keyword straight away it’s a real pain (which shows that in this respect I’ve been lazy..).
The final result will probably be a book, still – I’m doing that every christmas and the kids really appreciate having those books flying around at home to look at. I might need to order some for them, so that each one has it’s own.