On 2/6/2016 5:48 PM, Don Y wrote:
On 2/6/2016 3:02 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:08:06 -0700, Don Y
wrote:

On 2/6/2016 10:48 AM, philo wrote:
I was not terribly interested in computers at all until I got into
digital
photography. Though I am not usually an early adapter, I started in
the year
2000 when it became affordable.

The "value" of a digital photograph completely escaped my notice
until a neighbor, in passing, said, "Why don't you just send
him a photo of it?" (something I was describing to a colleague
in email exchanges).

This had to be the biggest "D'oh!" moment in my life! Cripes, how
incredibly obvious!! :

Now, whenever I disassemble something, I take copious photos at
each stage of the process -- don't have to EVER print any of them!
Don't even have to take them off the camera! Just browse through
them while REassembling and delete when done!

Huge time saver as I repair lots of kit for friends and neighbors.
Keeping track of which screw came out of which hole is a real
challenge, otherwise!

SWMBO takes large numbers of (casual) photos -- mainly to capture
textures and shadows as potential subjects for her artwork. But,
then is faced with the daunting task of TRACKING and ORGANIZING
all of those photos (e.g., she may take 100 snapshots over the
course of a 3 hour hike -- and do that once or twice a week!)

I have thousands of technical documents -- but they are relatively
easily
organized. How the hell do you file a photo of an eagle purched on
a dead branch overlooking some rapids? Wildlife? Birds? Water?
Season? etc.

At least if *I* go looking for a particular document, I have a pretty
good idea of where it *might* be stored...

The trick with pictures is to sort the good ones out right away and
put them away in a predictable place but I still keep all of my raw
images, sorted by the date they were taken. (done by the camera)

Her problem is that they're all "good" (in the sense that they have
captured things (subjects/textures) that she might eventually want
to re-view. But, there's no way of deciding (at the time of filing)
how to sort/store the image!

E.g., if you take a photo of a man wearing a funny hat and a woman in
a large hoop dress, would you store it under pictures of hats? men?
women? couples? hoop dresses? etc. If you later are looking for ideas
for a composition with "interesting people", where would you expect
to find such a photograph?

She was using a program that allows her to "tag" photos with user-defined
keywords: in this case, perhaps "man", "woman", "hat", "dress", "couples",
"outdoor", "venue_name", etc. So, later, she could select *all*
photos with the "hat" tag and expect to find it. Or, perhaps all photos
tagged "hat" + "man", etc.

But, this is a tremendous amount of time "tagging" images! It may take her
an hour or two just to tag them -- and she may still not have addressed
every aspect of the photo (maybe she considered this a "colorful" scene?
does she have a "colorful" tag created? If she creates it today, should
she go back through her collection and see which *other* photos should
also have been tagged as "colorful"? if not, then what value does that
tag have as it only reflects "information" going forward?)


I put my photos in folders and view them by thumbnail.

--
Maggie