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I thought I would make a poll for this topic so everyone could see what people do for managing there photo's. I apologise in advance if I have forgoton a major option

from the selection above, what is your choice with organising all your photo's?

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Tobywuk personal website || My Flickr
Gear: Sony a700! || CZ 16-80mm! || Sony 75-300 || bag: Crumpler PB xxxl / Lowepro slingshot 200

i at least assume its adobe lightroom organizing them for me, i just plug the SD card/camera into the computer and it automatically uploads them into 1 folder with sub folders by date.

sooooo its either vista or lightroom! lol i voted lightroom tho

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D60 - SB-600
18-55VR
50mm f/1.8
90mm f/2.8

Name each photo, then save into one of 30 subfolders (by subject) under a PIC master folder (one of a hundred or so projects on my computer). Each day I spend about 5 minutes making sure each of about 120 folders on my 3 laptops are also up to date on 4 external hard drives plus a couple of thumb drives. Easy task, BTW.

Shouldn't it be: "How do you organise your photos?"
instead of: "How do you organise your photo's"?

Well...yes but that's a bit pedantic!!! :P lol

Mark

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Canon EOS 40D / EF-S 17-85mm IS / EF 50mm f/1.8 / My Flickr

Im more interested in how other people organise there photo's than people criticising my spelling to be honest.

I am dyslexic and I get the luxury of having to put everything I write in a spell checker before I post anything and even then I still occasionally make errors. Sometimes I even get lazy and don’t bother with a spell checker at all, You would have a field day over one of those posts.

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Tobywuk personal website || My Flickr
Gear: Sony a700! || CZ 16-80mm! || Sony 75-300 || bag: Crumpler PB xxxl / Lowepro slingshot 200

Relaxation is a beautiful thing.

Mark

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Canon EOS 40D / EF-S 17-85mm IS / EF 50mm f/1.8 / My Flickr

I use Lightroom. I briefly experimented with Aperture 2 trial but found it didn't work the way I like it to for managing my images. It felt like I had to do too much work. To be fair, I didn't really read the user manual too well but I didn't need to do that with Lightroom at all. Lightroom automatically dumps my images in folders (as opposed to a big database), that are correctly named by date. Perfect for my needs.

Only thing I don't like (much) is the naming and ordering of folders by date. I want to have something like:



which you can do but it orders the folders alphabetically. Ideally I'd have the folders named:



But then I'd have to create the folders manually or rename them manually, which I don't want to do. I'm just being picky though! I have it like



and that works fine. I don't have to do anything, Lightroom does it all for me. Lovely.[/code]

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Nikon D700 | 20mm f2.8 | 28mm f2.8 | 50mm f1.8 | 70-300 f4-5.6 | SB800 | flickr | serial photography

I though so, which is why I voted before I wrote that comment.



I wouldn't have a field day over it, I just thought that a thread without grammatical mistakes in the title is a bit more appealing when browsing through forum topics.

I apologise, but if I were to judge you're dyslexic just from the title, then there would have to be thousands of people with it on the web writing comments and whatnot everywhere.
If you said "Don't weigh in on the grammar", then I probably wouldn't have written something that suggests fixing the title.

I was a little offended as you took the effort to write a reply to the topic and all you did was criticise my grammar.

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Tobywuk personal website || My Flickr
Gear: Sony a700! || CZ 16-80mm! || Sony 75-300 || bag: Crumpler PB xxxl / Lowepro slingshot 200

is there any software that you can "tag" your photos for easy search? I want that realy bad, so i can seach lets say "landscape spain" and i get all the shots that have those two tags!

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My Picasa

My Flickr

Yea Lightroom can do it.

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Graham
Flickr

i think aperture can do this his also

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Tobywuk personal website || My Flickr
Gear: Sony a700! || CZ 16-80mm! || Sony 75-300 || bag: Crumpler PB xxxl / Lowepro slingshot 200

i really need to buy light room or aperature (i've got a mac) why does there have to be two now i can't decide what one i want! anyone tried both?

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Canon 40D + 70-200mm f/2.8L IS + 50mm f/1.8
Manfrotto 055CX3 + 496RC2
www.thomaslowe.com

I use Lightroom on my iMac to organise my photos. When photos are imported they are put into the following folder structure:

/Photography/RAW/<Year>/<Month>/<Date>

eg /Photography/RAW/2008/05/12

and the files are renamed

<Date>-<Time>.nef

eg 20080512-181500.nef

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Nikon D80, Nikkor lenses: 35mm f1.8 G AF-S DX, 50mm f/1.8 AF D, 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED-IF AF-S DX, 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED AF-S VR, SB800 flash
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