BudsOwl
Loc: Upstate NY and New England
Mogul wrote:
I like the way you think! I have three cards, all 32 SDHC, one marked "F2" for my stepchildren, grandchildren and great-grandchildren (and maybe a great-great-grandchild), one marked "RR" for any railroad related pictures and one marked "WL" for wildlife, refuges and landscapes. In addition, I fill my folder with other cards and some small removable Avery labels if I find another subject I want to shoot. I try not to mix subjects on cards. When I download a card with a dozen unrelated subjects on it, I get SO confused trying to catalog them. Of course I get confused easily anyway.
I like the way you think! I have three cards, all... (
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What I do is number my cards. For example 32-U(1) for a 32 gb Ultra number one. I try to put only one topic or shoot on a card and upload to the computer aa soon as possible. That's why I have eight cards I use with my 6D and 5 cards I use with my 60.
Bud
BudsOwl
Loc: Upstate NY and New England
brucewells wrote:
I'm a huge advocate of folks doing things in a way that makes sense to them, so from that perspective, it appears you have a handle on things. Just to give food for thought, I would have imported all the images into one folder, then used 'Collections' to separate the images as they needed to be. Collections are a very powerful feature of LR.
The problem with that is I would have to do significant renaming and since I was going back and forth between the ice shed and the warm room, I found it easier to just change cards back and forth. I keep them in an eight card holder, so no real danger of losing them.
Bud
When on vacation or a multi day trip for whatever reason, if I'm taking pictures, I just upload them into my Lightroom v3 on my laptop onto an external disk just to get them off the card and have a looksee as to what I got that day. When I get home, I upload them to my desktop and then go about choosing which ones to edit.
BudsOwl
Loc: Upstate NY and New England
I want to thank all who commented. There were many useful comments, so I hope that we all had a chance to learn some new or different ways of doing things.
Bud
Hope you were using high speed shutter :)
Baz
Loc: Peterborough UK
I also use the "shoe" shot, to mark the start and finish of a pano sequence. Left foot for start and right foot for end. Makes life a lot easier when you get home. I take a lot of panos (don't print them all though) so after a holiday there could be thousands of shots to sort. I always start the day with a fresh card, replacing where needed, and the first two photos on the card are my business card, and what day it is. One problem is that as cameras have improved, and I have upgraded, what was a sensible sized card, now ends up being too small for practical use, so although the cards are perfectly serviceable, they rarely get used other than as an oversized floppy disc. No card gets erased until I get home and copy and backup are made of course.
Another shoe shooter - welcome to the club.
When I shoot panoramas, I usually shoot it at least twice. Once left to right, the second right to left. Of course in the first case I shoot the left show first, and in the latter I shoot the right shoe first.
BHC
Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA
jcarlosjr wrote:
Another shoe shooter - welcome to the club.
When I shoot panoramas, I usually shoot it at least twice. Once left to right, the second right to left. Of course in the first case I shoot the left show first, and in the latter I shoot the right shoe first.
This is fine for you young whipper snappers, but when dementia sets in and you start putting your shoes on the wrong feet, or can't remember left from right, I suspect things could get confusing.
BudsOwl
Loc: Upstate NY and New England
jliane wrote:
Hope you were using high speed shutter :)
When you slide a stone down the ice, it takes from about 20 to 25 seconds for the stone to travel about 120 feet so don't really need fast shutter speed.
Bud
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