How To Better Organize My Photographs
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How To Better Organize My Photographs; the photograph you see above, is one from a huge collection of images I photographed at that photo shoot. I loved photographing those girls because they were fun to photograph, easy to get along with and most important they helped me to continue enjoying photography. My number one rule to enjoying photography is to have fun and create memories. In this article you will learn how organized my photographs in the past, how I organize my photographs now and I will also recommend other easy ways for you to organize your photographs.
I received an email from one of the girls in the photograph above asking me if I would be able to take some photos of her with her friends. She told me she saw some of my work from my photo gallery and loved it. I was more than happy to be their photographer. I took the images on Cabbage Beach, Paradise Island, Bahamas. I was excited about this photo shoot because it was my first one photographing a group of people. To help me organize my photographs and the entire photo shoot I sketched some images in my sketchbook of the type of images I wanted to capture. I do this for all of my photo shoots mainly so I can think about the composition of the photograph, how I want my portraits to be laid out etc.; I do it so I can go into the photo shoot extra confident on what I want my results to look like. It’s like my business plan for my photo shoots. No one is perfect unless you are a nobody 
. That’s why we shoot to get better and to get at the point where we can hopefully capture all great images at once; however, I am not at the level where I capture all great images and I don’t think I ever will be because I always seek room for improvement.
After the photo shoot comes a ton of images and organizing them. I still remember the old way I used to organize my photograph after photo shoots; I would upload my images to the computer and write down the default names of the images on paper and that was my way of sorting out the good fish from the bad fish. After a photo shoot I would have use that technique for a few hundred images and that was no fun. I used to look online searching for better ways to organize my photographs before I got introduced to Lightroom. Lightroom is an amazing program to edit the lighting of your photographs and it can also be used to organize your photographs. When I got Lightroom I began looking for ways to organize in there online; that’s when I began using the 5 star rating options. The 5 start rating options is okay but not as good as using the flags. It was only until a few months ago I got Scott Kelby’s Lightroom 2.0 book [here's the link to purchase the book] and read about the benefit of using flags in Lightroom. It now saves me a ton of time.
If you use windows and want to better organize your photograph there is a program named ACDSee. I recommend ACDSee to better organize your photographs. The program is only compatible with windows. In ACDSee you can use ratings like in Lightroom and you can also use a ton of other features after you are complete with your photographs. Examples of those features are:
- You can easily edit photos.
- Burn all photos to Cd or Dvd easily.
- One single or contact sheets photos can be easily printed.
- Videos or slides can easily be created.
- You have the option to easily add video and audio clips to you photographs.
To sum up, to better organize your photographs when you have a ton of images for photo shoots or just images you want to keep organized on your computer you can look into programs such as Lightroom and ACDSee.
How can these photography tips help you?
- You lean a little technique to help prepare before you photograph at your photo shoot.
- You learn how to better organize your photographs.
- You lean that there are easier ways to organize your photographs instead of writing the defaults down.
Useful Links:
- Purchase The Lightroom 2.0 Book [here's the link]
- Buy ACDSee Pro 2.5 Photo Manager today! View, process, edit, organize, catalog, publish and archive with full RAW processing.
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