file organisation

[timotimo]

Hi

I just want to know from experience photographer how do you organise your photographs?

Currently, I am keeping them in a format of date after every shoots. I am adding a title to each folder after the date. (ie: 15 Aug 2011 Night shoot at MBS)
But I am having problem trying to organise the photo in a systematic way.
Do any of the experience photographers have any suggestions?

The second thing is:
Do you keep all the photos, including the ones that ain't really gonna be shown to anyone in a whole lifetime?
How do you store them? Separate from the other shots that day or together?

I am just trying to get some suggestion to better organise photos.

Any suggestion is welcome. I am friendly and willing to learn.

Thanks

 

[makolit]

everybody has their own way of organizing files, this depends on what works for you best.

personally, my shots are kept under a Nikon folder with subfolders of the Date Shot Was Taken.
I have a copy on my working HDD (for quicker access) and two backups on two separate external HDDs.
I use lightroom to show the photos, so yes, it depends on which catalogue is open, those are the only photos people will see.
(not that i have any clients, i'm just a hobbyist)

this was done to help me in keeping my lightroom catalogue organized as well.
this has worked for me, although i do have a couple of catalogues now to accomodate them (but then, that's just a personal thing)

 

[timotimo]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I still have not explore into photography software yet. Lightroom seems like a good software though..


Thanks for sharing!!

 

[allenleonhart]

i dun use softwares to manage unless i have a lot of shots that i shoot in 1 day and i wanna do a series with them. its easier to sort, edit and view a series of work with bridge.

mine normally goes like this.
(year)
within year folder
(genre)
within the genre folder
(event)
within event
(edits)(raws)

 

[ricohflex]

A good photo organiser software will be of help to you.
You can set your own custom categories.
A photo can be under more than 1 category.
You can also keep them in folders say e.g. you went on Phuket trip 1 July 2010. Then keep photos taken in this trip in one folder.
Actually much of the work has been done for you.
When you take a photo, the EXIF data is recorded. So you do no have to do any further data entry or tagging.
Photos can also be sorted according to the EXIF data.

 

[timotimo]

Seems I need to clean up my folders a bit.

I still haven taken photo in RAW format yet as I do not do any editing to my photo.
I still believe in practising to become proficient with the camera without having to edit the photo to make it looks good.

Time for me to get harddrives... Again.

 

[David Kwok]

Seems I need to clean up my folders a bit.

I still haven taken photo in RAW format yet as I do not do any editing to my photo.
I still believe in practising to become proficient with the camera without having to edit the photo to make it looks good.

Time for me to get harddrives... Again.

I don't recommend plain one hard disk

 

[NikF601]

Create sub folders by grouping landscapes, street photo, tours etc. Keep min one set as backup to removable hardisk.

 

[kei1309]

mine goes by:

Camera Model

Year

Month

Event

RAW / JPEG

 

[stlimkh]

I keep them in iphoto.. N for those not in iphoto, i label the sud dir by "yyyy-mm-dd - event-name" hence u can always sort by the title.

 

[Prince Photogenic]

Mine goes by:
- Year
- Month
- Genre
- Title of Album
- Original / Edited

I usually compress to RAR format before backing-up. Is that ok?

 

[timotimo]

I now organise my file as yyyy-mm-dd (title of events)

Sub folder:
\to be published
\to be ignore

inside the sub folder:
\original
\edited

well, hope this will work for the future!~~