Outdoor Photographer – September 2019

A Place For

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and organizational techniques for your image catalog

Text & Photography By Jason Bradley

P

ersonally, I think I have a fairly

average size archive of images for

someone who, in part, makes their

income through photography—just over

300,000 photographs. I’m not certain that

number is fairly average, but I do work

with clients that have far more than I do,

which helps give me that impression. One

client I work with has a catalog of over 5

million images. My point is that digital

capture allows us to create a quantity of

images in unprecedented numbers.

And whether you’re a so-called pro

photographer or not, whether or not

you have 5 million or 5,000 images,

pixels today are free, as they say. We

aren’t burdened with the cost of photo

development, so we’re all taking more

photographs. As a result, keeping them

organized is a challenge like never before.

Once upon a time, we photographers

had drawers or boxes filled with slides

and negatives. We shot a lot less, and

managing it all was simpler. Today,

we have hard drives, and organizing it

all—knowing how to properly wield the

field of ever-evolving software, wrapping

ORGANIZING YOUR PHOTOS, PART 1:

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