Where do I put THIS photo?
Monday, May 17th 2010 @ 1:02 PM (not yet rated)
I've been writing for MyPhotoMentor about how to store our photos so that we can retrieve any photo we might want to find easily by just searching for the date, event, place, or people contained in it. Still, there are some times it gets ... messy! Like this photo:
It was taken on the airplane on the way to Hawaii, for the wedding of our older son Nels to his beloved Dannielle. This image has Miriam (Nels' mom, of course!), Gabe Ertsgaard, "Auntie Cherie" (not only dear friend but the official photographer for the event), and little Lars in the background. Just a note ... this is what, a year and a half ago? "Little Lars" is now nearing 5'11" ... ah well, I digress.
This is definitely a family foto, right? So it should be in the folder-tree in which I've stored our family fotos. And yet, we do have the "official" wedding photos also in my professional filing system under the Haugen-Ritacco event. This is image is part of the story of the "greater" event, and so should it be in the official "event" folder too?
I've got the "Personal" files and the "Professional" files on separate drives, as they are BOTH getting to be large volumes. Should I use a program that can create a catalog from GIGABYTES of files on multiple drives to make an over-all catalog of images, so that the file only needs to be in one place, but can be included in a search that spans multiple drives and filing systems, like ... idImager 5? This way, I could place some of the pics of that week in the "family" filing tree, and the wedding itself in the "professional" filing tree, and still (if the images are all tagged for being part of the wedding and its trip) find ALL the images associated with that event.
Give me a moment to think this one out ... !
Neil
