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OlympicMtnBoy
climber
Seattle
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 30, 2016 - 08:05pm PT
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So once upon a time I used to take my photos to a store and have little paper things printed. I would put those in a box, and every once in a while sort through them and put the favorite paper thingys in an album.
Along came digital and I used to download my photos to my computer, back them up on an external hard drive, and put my favorites on a picasa web album which I could share with friends or use to host images for trip reports like here on the taco.
Now I have an iPhone and I find I never use my digital camera anymore. Picasa has also been abandoned by Google. I know I can just have my photos automatically added to google photos in the cloud, but does it end there?
What do you folks do with your pics? What is your process for going from all the raw photos with multiple similar shots and stuff to a shareable album? This is a question for the lazy non-photo geeks, I just want to take ok pics of adventures and share later in a variety of forums. O ray be my kids will want to see some day.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Sep 30, 2016 - 08:47pm PT
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I went through similar odyssey.
I have an "Inbox Unsorted" folder on my laptop computer, and periodically download from iPhone to computer. When I get inspired (typically months or years later) I organize into trip-specific folders and then upload to photos.google.com
I link pics to here from photos.google.com for more pixels if I take the time, or more often I'm lazy and just want to seize the moment and get it done, so upload directly from iPhone into supertopo hosted photos for trip reports here.
I also have a home storage server with unRAID (multiple disk redundancy but you don't need RAID drivers to pull out the disk and mount it in any other computer) to free up space on my laptop.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Sep 30, 2016 - 09:53pm PT
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All digital photos get copied twice when I load them onto my computer from my camera.
First they get copied into a folder of ORIGINAL images and then copied again into a folder of EDITED images.
The photos in the ORIGINAL folders are never touched again. I do not edit them at all, and do not delete anything. They are the "backup" images.
The digital images in the EDITED folders are the ones that I open, delete shitty picture and edit with Photoshop.
If I irreversibly screw up a photo in Photoshop, then I can always go back and copy the ORIGINAL photo back into the EDITED folder and start all over.
All subfolder names in the ORIGINAL folder start with the letter X which is a reminder not to over-write an original image when I save an edited image from Photoshop.
For example:
My Photoshop images of Yosemite are in the folder:
EDITED > CLIMBING > USA > CALIFORNIA > YOSEMITE
But the original images are in the folder:
ORIGINAL > XCLIMBING > XUSA > XCALIFORNIA > XYOSEMITE
NEVER save anything to an X folder or you will over-write the original image. X = STOP, DON'T DO IT!
My digital photos are HUGE files - 12 megapixels. This is overkill web sharing. So I copy the edited images from the EDITED folder into a WEB folder.
In the WEB folder I delete even more photos and chop the rest down to 1,024 x 768 pixels and 72 DPI (0.7 megapixels) before uploading them to the Internet.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 30, 2016 - 10:32pm PT
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Adobe Lightroom, like there's other ways? ;-) (OK, I've heard there are)
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Lightroom is the only way, Rook.
I do the import and leave the images in the date folders that are created.
I'll do a once through and use the X key to delete the ones that are pure junk. I'll go back over year/month catalogs and do that a few more times every once and a while. I'll also give them a rating of 1-5. I have smart folders set up that filter on the star rating. As I go through those I move them around by changing the rating.
I'll also keyword them as I do the initial filtering (or later as I create new project ideas). That way as I'm working on albums I can set up smart folders to organize them. Or if I want to simply find all the Gym Birdwell images I can set up a smart folder and find them that way.
Recently I started using the P(ick) key and have a smart folder for that. It's set to show anything Picked but with no stars so once I rate them they disappear from that folder.
And though Lightroom will pull in videos I keep those in separate folders as it's tough to find video once buried in catalogs (to pull into FCPX).
Keywords: Manta, Hawaii, Diving, Night Dive
Stars: 5
Last week I switched from owing Lightroom to Adobe Create Cloud. $10/month for LR, Adobe Camera Raw (Everyone shoots only in RAW these days, right? right?) and Photoshop. Plus a gallery and easy access to upload to their Stock service.
Another nice thing about Lightroom in regards to editing is that it doesn't touch the originals. All the post work you do is kept in a "side car" file. So you can delete any history changes made or delete everything to return to the original. You can also make a virtual copy of the original and work with that if you want to work on multiple editing variations.
Mixed feelings on their portfolio service
https://nature.myportfolio.com/pick-10
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Lightroom
Keep it simple.
But, I back up originals on separate HD's
I keep those HD's in separate places (my house burns down I still have originals).
I upload select worked ones 1 last time to google drive + my website.
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OlympicMtnBoy
climber
Seattle
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2016 - 08:27am PT
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Cool, NutsAgain is making a lot of sense to me. As a mediocre photographer who has never paid for photo software in my life, I think more what I'm asking is how anyone is transitioning to all this cloud based stuff and instant saving from my phone camera. I find myself spending less and less time on my actual computer aside from work and doing most everything from my iPad. Although looking at photos on my tiny phone screen is dumb. I rarely do much editing because I'm lazy, but I do want a better way to download/upload to cloud and sort stuff. I find doing more stuff on my phone/tablet I get farther and farther behind on my old download to hard drive and sort stuff system.
Or are we all just old folks here who can't transition to the newfangled cloud services? ;-)
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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'Old' is just a state of tech literacy. ;-)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I fall into that last category: old and in my own way.
I only seem to do the thing which seems appropriate at the time.
Finally got a Seagate External Junk Box.
Dates, already provided with a click, but I only have @ 4yrs worth of pix.
Just say they are all in my head and I have a time-linear frame of reference.
One thing in my favor is that I'm retired and have little else to do, unlike you young geeks. (Thank God I'm not a geek.)
I use much time trying to figure out WHERE IS THAT STUPID PIC?
I do maintain a relatively small cache called Brian's Favorites. This one is one of them.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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LR is what I use. When I share files, I use Dropbox.
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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Great pic MFM! Shipton, the real deal. And SLR, your post is quite useful info. Thanks
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Happy Cowboy, 'tis not my photo. I forgot to change the credit. :0)
I shall do so now. Thnx.
As to using "x", I've tried that. But since I only post here, with a few FB posts over the years, I find it simpler to check my photo log on ST.
I get few re-posts, amazingly, but no one seems to mind when I do.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID
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I have MANY photos. They're in a box. Sometimes I look at them.
"Manage", yeah, right.
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nathanael
climber
CA
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Lightroom.
But if I was using only an iPhone I would not be paying for something like Lightroom. I'd probably use the Mac "Photos"/iPhoto app. Or the Google Photos automatic cloud syncing.
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