Do you keep your digital photos organized?

[p51d007]

I have all of my photos (amateur photographer, usually shoot 5,000-10,000 frames per year) backed up on my laptop, my home computer, 2 external HDD's. I only "cloud" photos I share using photobucket.
Mostly flowers, trees, outdoor photos, airshows, with maybe 2-3 weddings. I wouldn't trust several hundred gigs on the cloud. I shoot everything in raw mode, so the file sizes get pretty big.

 

[OutlawCecil]

Kept in folders with this format... year, space, name of occasion, space, dash, month, day
example: 2009 Trip to Grand Canyon -March 23
Because the year is first, they are mostly in order and found easier. I don't care as much about month and day but add them if they are important enough.

 

[OutlawCecil]

Unless you're shooting professionally, most don't nee beyond the old 'by date' method - maybe also by camera, if you're super organized.

If you're shooting professionally or as a serious hobby, you're probably already using something like Lightroom or Bridge to organize and tag your photos.

I always try to add the date in the folder name. If you make backups or ever copy all the files elsewhere, you may lose those modified dates.

 

[mbrowne5061]

I always try to add the date in the folder name. If you make backups or ever copy all the files elsewhere, you may lose those modified dates.

In lightroom? Yeah, I do something similar. I first sort by camera (a DSLR, mirrorless, and action cam - all serve distinct purposes for me), then by date. All the folders with the original files are named appropriately.

 

[OutlawCecil]

In lightroom? Yeah, I do something similar. I first sort by camera (a DSLR, mirrorless, and action cam - all serve distinct purposes for me), then by date. All the folders with the original files are named appropriately.

I don't use any organizational programs for my photos. Just Windows. Are you using Lightroom for editing or just to help organizing?

 

[mbrowne5061]

I don't use any organizational programs for my photos. Just Windows. Are you using Lightroom for editing or just to help organizing?

Both. I have the photography plan for Adobe CC. So I organize and edit photos in lightroom, and use the mobile app to take pictures on my phone, and I use both Lightroom and Photoshop to process the photos. It also comes with Adobe bridge, which I've been experimenting with for organizing photos that are won't edit (already png/jpg) simply because of its searching and tagging features.

 

[bluto 2050]

Mine are in subject named picture library folders > sub folders in alphabetical order some of the sub folders content is organized by date and or smaller named sub folders .

Photos I take myself are first put in a temp pix folder. The ones I save from the web in a temp web pix folder first .......or sometimes in a junk folder that gets cleaned now and then if the likelyhood of wanting to keep them is low .Sometimes I upload to my Flickr acct .

OTOH I'm not a Photoshop Geek. I just use the included windows 10 photo app ,and more often just file explorer and the directory tree library's and some fav. folder shortcuts .

 

[romainB]

Well.... I organized all my nudes in a folder called "work", does that count?