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.
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