RXA

Go look at her photos … awesome.

Although probably not nearly as helpful as Mikes tips, I will impart some of the wisdom that helps me with my photography.

Mike asked recently (the email came through about 20 seconds ago) how I organise my photos seeing as I have over 10,000 of them within Lightroom. He also asked about backing up.

As he suggested, I use folders. My photos are all stored on the F: drive of my computer (F of course being the first letter of Fotos) and are contained within the Originals folder. This is automatically done on import as well as the file being renamed to RXA_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS(-sequence within that second if more than one is taken).CR2

Within this folder is a hierarchicaldate structure. So a photo taken last night at 5.35pm would be stored like such:

F:\Original\2007\11\07\RXA_20071107_173523.CR2

I use Lightroom collections to separate my shoots into um … shoots as can be seen in the picture below. This allows me to scroll through the library to find the image I want quickly.

As for backing up … a crap load of DVD’s my friend.

Hope this tip was a good start and I can impart more later.

Think I need to do something about my photo library … problem is this is nowhere near all of my images, this is just what I currently have stored on my hard drive.

This post is being written at 0636 … in the morning.

I could have written it at 06.05 but my brain wasn’t up to being creative.

Lucy is spending the day in Brisbane for work today so she had to be at the airport for an early flight. Being the caring sharing partner I am I happily got up when the alarm went off at 0500 and left when she did.

Poor thing looked rather tired this morning.

Last night was the dress rehearsal for the Murder Mystery she is taking part in over the next three Fridays. Funny show with a lot of improv ability required by the cast. I took the cast photos for the foyer and will be taking photos of the show next week.

Hope you all have a great day … I’m thinking of going back to bed. I have a army rehearsal tonight but not until seven.