mborn Loc: Massachusetts

First decide what Program you are going to use to catalog your pictures then develop your workflow
I use Lightroom
My workflow
Import
- if all taken at the same location they are imported into the year folder subfolder location
- if taken at different locations on same card import into year folder under date
- Add keywords
- import
Library
- Review at full screen flag Keep or Delete
- Second review of deletes to make sure I did not miss a good picture the delete all
- Star rate the picture 1-5 Develop your own system for what each star means
Develop
- choose the star picture which means now develop
Export
- I have presets to tell where to export the photos to and what size etc. depending on their use web, blog, portfolio etc

Hope this helps

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

The basis for my sorting system is after download from the camera, I rename each based on the date of download. I do not leave photos in the camera for more than a day or so. Sometimes, I'll download several sessions from the same day. Having used film and starting this system when I was, here is the way I name my photos. I want each to have a unique name or number. The naming convention I use is this.

Camera Code - date code+"roll number" - exposure number. My memory cards only hold 303 images per each card. So, if I use more than one card the "roll number" is 01, 02, etc.

Thus, a photo taken today during the first session in my D700 and the 10th exposure would be

D700-2013081601-010

A photo taken with my Hasselblad 500C during the same session and the 10th negative on that first roll, developed and scanned is numbered

500C-2013081601-010

This gives each image a unique identifier and makes any database work easy. The additional data of subject, place, etc. is then entered into a database.
--Bob

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

yhtomit Loc: Port Land. Oregon

I load them into LR.
My 1st step is to cull all photos based on focus.If they are not crisp,
they are culled.
I then look at them for"are they what I wanted". Composition.
I then make lab adjustments to my liking.Have fun.Cheers.

ole sarg Loc: south florida

Have to endorse your observations.

I tend to think that shooting 1,000 or so shots at a single event is really taking a movie and then picking out some frames to reproduce.

stonecherub Loc: Tucson, AZ

Crwiwy: You might want to investigate a Digital Asset Management System, a database for your images. I presume you want some way to find just "that" particular image among the thousands on your disk.

This requires an investment greater than you made for your camera, that was just money. I'm talking about time. There will be an initial investment of time learning the bells and whistles of the DAMS you choose. I started with ID Imager and then switched to IMatch when the IDI developer went walkabout. There are others like Adobe Bridge that I think is part of Lightroom but have tried to avoid to focus on one system.

The second investment of time is in your workflow. I spend a day in the field stumbling over the rocks and return to the beer cooler at dusk with 2-600 images on my Nikon. A field day's worth of images may be 4-5 days work in front of the computer. I have single images, panorama sets, and stereo sets.

Within the DAMS, I established categories, and labels that I assign (take a lot of time) and all the metadata from the camera as well as geo-location from combining my day's GPS track with the timed images in the day folder. IMatch can show me all of my "best" images that contain volcanic bombs on the C flow within 100 m of a particular point (Lat/Long) where the exposures were made before 10 am at shutter speeds greater than 1/1000.

If you expect to have a lot of images like I do, the DAMS is essential. You will spend time learning it (as with photoshop, you will always be learning something new) and you will spend time integrating your images in it.

Something to think about, good luck.

HangtownGal Loc: Placerville CA

I often come home from trips with 4000 - 9000 photos. I sort by when & where, ie
2013 Croatia
2009 Greece
Santorini
Corfu
Athens
2009 Italy
Rome
Venice
Messina
Florence
2010 NYC
2005 New England
2003 Carmel

Works for me. Everything is kept on external drive.

HangtownGal Loc: Placerville CA

I often come home from trips with 4000 - 9000 photos. I sort by when & where, ie
2013 Croatia
2009 Greece
Santorini
Corfu
Athens
2009 Italy
Rome
Venice
Messina
Florence
2010 NYC
2005 New England
2003 Carmel

Works for me. Everything is kept on external drive.

Baguas Loc: Southern California

I like this! Will try it before I slit my wrists!

Baguas Loc: Southern California

I like this! Will try it before I slit my wrists!

lighthouse Loc: No Fixed Abode

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

yhtomit Loc: Port Land. Oregon

I forgot one thing,try use a small card to limit how many captures you take.I do this and it forces me to think more before capturing.

DarLyn Ranch Loc: Randleman, NC.

mdorn is right, I do the same, delete, delete. He is right to say, who needs to see your bad shot's, not even you and true, you clog up your good files.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I do a bit of tutoring. Those "bad" photos make great illustrations of mistakes and how to recognize them.
--Bob

lighthouse Loc: No Fixed Abode

Heck, I'll send ya a box full if ya like!!