On 2010-07-13 14:21 , Eric Weir wrote:
The one thing that's absolutely critical for a filing system to work for me is the ability to rename and restructure files. My "systems" develop iteratively. I start. I see the need to restructure. That continues until I've got a relatively stable system worked out. Occasionally, it will need to be tweaked here and there.
this is easy since filing on a computer need not be hierarchical; if you have a good tool, you can ignore the actual files and folders on the hard disk
i use the date, rating, keywords, caption and location to "file" my photos; my choice of keywords evolves but is centered on subjects i'm interested in, and more is better; for example i take a lot of garden photos and a lot of weed photos; i also take pictures in my neighborhood and during my travels; if i take a picture of a weed in my neighborhood it gets the keywords "weed, baker"; if i take a picture in my own garden, it gets "home, garden"; any of those images may have other keywords such as "umbel", "insect" or "abstract"
my captions are specific, such as Latin names of plants, a specific event or things happening in the shot
i do all of this with Aperture, which may not be as good as Lightroom, but it is definitely "good enough" (and it would be a pain to switch); in the process of importing images i have Aperture organize my photos into folders on the hard drive by year, month and day, but then i ignore the location and keep them in Aperture "projects" by year
before Aperture i used iView Media Pro, which is now called Microsoft Expression Media; i used iView because i had also used it to catalog a large collection of my dad's vintage prints, making them searchable by galleries and researchers; i switched to Aperture because iView is a pure cataloging tool with no image manipulation or RAW development capability, and because iPhoto had nowhere near what i wanted; i use Photoshop for serious editing, but don't do edit my photos much despite a having spent part of the 90s as a Photoshop jockey
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