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RE: How do you organize your images?
Great question! Ruthless editing lol! Think like an editor and delete, delete, delete! I will write a post on taming your image catalogs... in the meanwhile here is what I do... Master catalog has one main directory think of it as a photos go here folder. Then set up folders by year in that directory. Each shoot goes into a folder by date and shoot name e.g. 2018-02-06_Shoot Name. Once the images are imported... delete all bad images, keep 2-3 of the best of each different view of the shoot and delete all duplicates. Then back up the images that you really care about on external drives in case your hard drive dies or your mother board fails...
Hope this helps!
I love the cardinal image! And the truck image is cool - nice perspective!
So you are labeling each folder with the shoot name and date, instead of the default way light room just uses the date. I think that might have been part of my issue, I don't remember dates well. Thank you for the advice.
I am going to have to practice the "think like an editor". It can be hard to narrow down photos to 2-3 shots.
Yes - you can use Lr's default date hierarchy and then add the shoot name when the import is complete... The dates are useful, however adding the name allows you to simply 'know' what is in the folder without having to open it and look... Also think like an editor can become easier if you think "How much would I pay for this image" or "where would I hang this image"...
If you'd pay nothing for it... throw it away - lol
If you wouldn't hang it anywhere... throw it away - lol
I like the idea of throwing it away if I wouldn't spend the money to print and actually want to hang it.
That's a great start... if you think like that you will start to think like an editor. It is a useful skill!
For my last post for #mypictureday I found it very difficult to choose photos to post. Especially since I wasn't that thrilled about any of them. I think I have it narrowed down to two keepers out of about 270 photos.
Good job! That's the way to do it.
Okay, its official now. I am an idiot.... I was deleting images I didn't want from my last outing and somehow deleted the photos that I had flagged as picked from that group. I had taken somewhere close to 700 pictures and was deleting the ones I didn't want. Lightroom was having trouble keeping up and I guess I had selected them and didn't know it.
Luckily I still have the jpg's from it, but really wanted to keep some of the raw's. I hadn't done the back up yet because most of the 700 were trash.
It might still be in the trash if you haven't emptied it.
The trash was the first thing that I checked, it had some of the ones that I did want to delete in there. But no sign of the few that were keepers. Because of how many I deleted I think they were permanently deleted. I don't think it is worth trying to run a recovery tool.
Do you regularly backup Lr upon quitting the program? Is it possible that you have a backup after the import and before you deleted? If you do you'll be able to easily go back to that version. If that's not the case, you'll have to get out there with your camera again!
I don't think I backed up between the time of import and deleting. I have already written them off as a loss.