jaycoffman Loc: San Diego

Nice site - I may take you up on a few questions later--but too much travel in my immediate future to try to set up a new process.

BudsOwl Loc: Upstate NY and New England

Not if you send them a link since they then don’t need Dropbox on their computer. I use this system for photos I take during group nature walks and also of curling bonspiels. I then tell the recipients of the link the have about three of four months to look at the photos and save any they like to their computer.
Bud

RolandDieter

With digital it is to easy to take too many shots. If you're good at photography you get too many keepers. I had lots of them framed, and hanging on walls and stuffing closet floors. I started doing photo books about ten years ago, but are now a few years behind. It seems my only "solution," which I won't do, would be to travel less.

df61743 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX

I haven't read this entire thread, so this could be redundant. I thought I would add some advice regarding PhotoMechanic, which is my first step in processing my photos. It is the only photo processing program I've found that includes batch editing and updating EXIF metadata. The first thing I do is update this metadata to tag each photo with its original filename, the camera ID, and the author (who took the picture). This is so that no matter how the pictures might get renamed later, I can easily track it back to the original.

Once the EXIF data has been tagged, these originals, or negatives if you will, are copied to an external Passport drive, never to be touched again except in read only mode to make a copy.

The copy that is still on my computer becomes a "working copy", where I cull the trash, and choose "keepers". Then I select a 30 to 50 photo subset that best summarize the trip and deserve post prosessing. These are gererally the ones I will share with whoever might be interested.

My wife and I frequently go back and peruse the working copy collections of our trips. I generally put a copy of the 30 to 50 best, downsized some to conserve space, on my phone so I always have them with me and can flip up a picture quickly if it's desired.

NBBPH Loc: Indiana

Wow! Where did Louis come from? I have been involved with the Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation for over 25 years and I come up with Louis. Isn't that the name of the new prince and pronounced Lew-ie? Maybe I was thinking royally.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Mine are stored in archival folders. Every so often one of them is pertinent to illustrating something and I'll scan and post it.
--Bob

chasgroh Loc: Buena Park, CA

...good info! I use DB for dealing with professional stuff with colleagues so haven't delved into the link method...that would be fine, but I'm *really* good with Google Photos. Try it!

Beruldsen

I've travelled a lot as well. After all the photo processing ... I always prepare a book via Shutterfly. I've been very pleased with the results and I have about a dozen books now. They are fun to look at on occasion.

Guyserman Loc: Benton, AR

Great idea.

BarbB

I post mine on my website ( BarbaraBarbourPhotography.com), I also make a slide show for each trip, with music, lasting about 30 minutes, that my friends ask to see..( Oh, and I feed them dinner as well :-) and then I make a coffee table book. In addition, I sell many on stock.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Well done website with marvelous images. Do you mind a brief explanation about how you set it up and the tools you used to do it?

BarbB

Thanks! I use smugmug. I had a website before thru apple, but when the discontinued iWeb, I could not manage it myself. With Smug mug, I was able to link it to my lightroom account, and upload photos directly t0 my site. They were very helpful if I ran into trouple. I just picked a template that I liked, and picked an account level that allowed me to charge for my photos. If someone buys a photo, it goes directly from the lab I chose ( Bay photo) to the buyer, and I don't have to do anything more! I can easily update and add to the site. I am very happy with it!

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Thank you BarbB. I've watched Smugmug for years without setting up an account. Whenever there is a discussion about photo sharing sites, the one I like best is SmugMug.

I took a second look and found a tiny "powered by SmugMug" in the lower left corner. I like how they minimize that. For now, I'm having fun with the Portfolio that comes with my Lightroom plan. It does not offer any options to sell. However, there are options in the Adobe system to put images into Adobe Stock. I may explore that. SmugMug may be the better choice for selling.

CrackerMag Loc: Titusville, FL

I do the workflow management part, then I make a book. My preferred book software is Blurb, Bookwright. I always use premium paper and I include my journaling that I do while making the photos. Where I was, what I was thinking, how I felt about the location, who was with me, along with technical details. Don't leave all those photos on a hard drive for your kids and grand kids to try and find 50 years from now. There's still a place for print. Let them know what you liked to do, and what was meaningful to you. Make the book something you'd be proud to give to your mentor or best professional photographer friend. Some of them I upload to "short vignettes" on my website. www.momentsintimelifestylephoto.com

donb17

This is exactly what I do as well. I also enjoy selecting appropriate music to accompany the video. I burn the whole video to a DVD (flash drives are another option, of course). I typically start with 1000-1200 photos from a 2-3 week vacation, select the best 100 or so, combine them into the video (with a few montages, maps, itinerary slides from PowerPoint as needed), so that the whole video is ~15 minutes. That's a reasonable enough length for people to sit through without getting bored, and it also gives a pretty good overview of the trip. It also looks good when put on a 50" flat screen HDTV.