How to deal with all the photos?

Wow. I don’t even know that I could handle having 4300 photos to sift through. I would definitely need a better computer! My computer takes ages to handle the 100’s of photos I take with my P&S!

Good luck with it all!

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Seriously a profound philosophical question and you seem to figure out the answer yourself

Ooh you changed the layout. I like this. At first I was like… whoa. Why did you change it to a lighter colour? I liked the dark but this is better. I also like that its centered and not left aligned like the last one.

I DO need to upgrade. I think I’m going to start saving for a mac. A friend has told me that he would be willing to share his Adobe CS4 with me (he just bought a mac recently)

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Yep I feel your pain Stuart – about the time we hit 3000 photos on our trip to China I realized someone was going to have to look at them all!
First I have used a Mac for a few years and iPhoto handles over 22,000 photos in my library without ever complaining. (Backup – Often!)
It is also very fast when going through the shots.
We sometimes use a DVI-HDMI cable and show them on our HD TV so we can all make final selections. Using the slide show function you can pause stop and delete as you go through.
Be a little ruthless and limit yourself, ask yourself “If I could only show one photo to represent this sequence. Which one would it be?” and then add from that.
Also, we discovered on the China trip how important it was, with three digital camera, to make certain all the dates and times were in sync – we got home and one camera was a day and a half off and another was about eight hours ahead. Makes it all that much harder!
Good luck.

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@Dan – WOWSERS that is a heck of a lot of photos, I dread to think how many gigabytes you had in there LOL.

And That is good advice on being ruthless. I have had to resort to doing that… carefully going over each one from a series and selecting the best one to keep. There have been a few where the series as a whole (of say 3 or 4 shots) I have kept as the sequence works well, but other than that… it is cut throat LOL.

EEk and that is something I will keep in mind thank you, I had never thought about syncing the times between cameras hahaha.

@Megan – Nice going… 21 thousand shots, tho if I took three thousand in one trip I dread to think of where I will be in a few years LOL.

That is a shame about egypt, however look on the bright side, it gives you an excuse to go back mwahaha. What better reason is there?

And thanks so much for all your input guys. I never thought this blog would take off so quickly.
Stuart

Got TIVO? You can have your own show to share with friends who have TIVO.

Alternatively, burn them to DVD…

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I don’t have Lightroom, but friends who have it swears by it to sort out their pictures. I would immediately delete the blurry ones and select the best out of your duplicates. I save my photos onto a backup hard drive, but I should also copy the important ones onto a DVD. You’ve got a lot of work to do, but they’ll bring good memories to you as you work on them. Hope you will be posting some.

Don’t try to do the purge all at once. Going through the set will require multiple tries. If you are too focused on getting it done on the first go through, it will be too hard.

Start by going through quickly and just getting rid of the obvious junk. Those are they shot where it’s just too blurry from motion, or out of focus, or that picture of your shoe when you accidentally hit the shutter button. Worry only about the stuff that is just useless. Then put the remaining images aside, and take a nap.

The next time you go through them, do it again, but now start deleting pictures for other reasons. You may or may not delete as many. But each time you go through, you trim another layer.

As you go through the set, you’ll also get to know the remaining pictures better and have a better sense of what you want to keep and what is worth your post processing time.

Good luck.

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@Cromely, – Too true, I have actually decided to do one skim through the whole set, get rid of the blatantly obvious ones and cull it down as much as possible just like you said, this seems so much easier. (And I may have a couple of my shoes that I got rid of too MWAHAHA).
Thanks so much for the suggestion, I am finding this a lot easier.

@drofen – It is really funny that you mention that, as I was trawling through the photos I realised that I really was taking the spray and pray approach (lol I love the phrase, very nice).

And thanks for the suggestion, next time I go out I will try to take some photos without just doing a massive shotgun day, I will try something a little more conservative.

And apologies to both of you for the delay in getting back to you. I have been having lappy issues and have been running on only battery power for a week due to a dead power adapter lol.
Stuart

Hi Stephen,
Interesting idea, (not importing them into Lightroom)… I have found that doing that really lets me go through the good and the bad quickly so that I can be more ruthless.

As you said, I am really thinking that just a DVD backup will be the best way to go. Not really any use in trying to compress them as the compression to time ratio is REALLY not worth it LOL.

Once again – apologies that it took me so long to respond, I have been unwell and had a death in the family, so have been unable to give my blogs the attention they deserve.

Stuart