David Lehlbach wrote: > > OK - here is a subject where I would like some info: > > How do you organize your slides?
While we are on this subject, it's a good time to make a case for being diligent about labeling your slides, neg holders, prints, whatever, with AT LEAST location and date as well as the photographer's name. In case you dispose of your collection or make your collection available as an historical reference sometime in the future, this will make the photos much more useful for future reference. Another thing...when I shoot pictures of railroad employees (which I try to do more often), I go out of my way to get their names, PROPERLY SPELLED along with seniority dates and anything about them that might be an interesting addition to the photograph. I mark it in my notebook and try to make a note of it on the slide when it comes back. Last year during a lull in train action, I shot SP welder Leo Mosqueda doing some repairs to the SP-Santa Fe diamond at Colton, Calif. In asking Mr. Mosqueda for his name, etc., he told me that someone from his family has been on the SP payroll continuously since 1909. I made a note of that. Sometime, that little factoid may well be the thing that sells this photo to an editor (for editorial use, not commercial). The above is called photojournalism. I like pictures that tell a story and sometimes the best part of the story is gleaned after the cameras are put away. As I said in an earlier post, these "people" slides are filed at the end of the railroad file, alphabetically according to subject matter. Leo's pictures would be in my SP file in the people section under WELDING. --Dave Busse --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 2423
