Enter the Darkness.
Of late I have been exploring the wonders of Dark Nebulae scattered across our skies.
Dark Nebula differ from Emission Nebula as the molecular cloud of dust suffocates light emitted from the stars behind producing black voids in space.
Due to the light emitted from neighbouring stars, distinctive patterns emerge, in this case a Seahorse, Dragon, Serpent like shape.
Barnard 150, lies within our Milky Way, the constellation of Cepheus, at some 1200 light years away & when rotated 90 degrees clockwise resembles a serpent type creature (you can decide what you see)?

Happy New Year to you ALL.

Thanks for the image. Looking at your incredible image makes me realize just how massive the place we live in and how tiny we are!

Techy bits.
William Optics Z61 ED
William Optics 0.8x Reducer / Flattener
Altair 183pro V2 c
Altair L Pro MAX filter
Altair guide cam & scope
Skywatcher HEQ5pro belt modded
Sharp cap for polar alignment
PHD2 for guiding & Dithering
HNsky for plate solve & framing
APT for imaging sequence
Lights 100 @ 400gain 30offset 120s
Darks 10 @ 400gain 30offset 120s
Flats 30
Dark Flats 30
Calibrated, registered & stacked in DSS
Post processing in photoshop CC2015

Good and valuable idea, IMHO.

I've been a Google Certified Street/Business View Trusted Independent Photographer since 2016, and so have some experience and maybe expertise in this area. I'm going to quickly share my experience(s) with you. I shoot 360 photospheres (360x360x360) two different ways for two different applications.

Businesses order 360 shoots to show off their business coming in from the Street View. This is almost exclusively shot with a DSLR or Mirrorless camera with an 8mm fisheye lens. It is shot HDR3 on a tripod with images taken in all four directions. This produces 12 images per "spin" location. They are first processed in HDR triplets to produce 4 directional images; then they are stitched together to produce the 360 photosphere for that spin location.

For Real Estate, 360 tours are becoming more and more common in the Covid era as they allow the buyer to really "see inside" the home. These can be shot with exotic (and expensive) equipment such as Matterport, a DSLR/Mirrorless, or much more commonly with a single shot 360 camera. Since the beginning I have been using the Ricoh Theta products, initially the Theta S and more recently the Theta V. They also have the higher resolution, but more than twice as expensive (list $999, and rarely discounted) Theta Z1. Personally, I haven't seen the ROI in upgrading to a Z1, as most home buyers are viewing the photospheres on their phone or tablet where the difference in viewability is minimal, IMHO.

I can shoot a 2500 sq ft house with the Theta V in about 15-20 minutes. For post processing there are several good alternatives. Zillow has a 3D Home app (IOS only at the moment I believe) where you create the tour on the fly and by the time you get home from the shoot it is ready for publishing and review. There are several other options for post processing, such as Panoskin and Tourmake.

The bottom line is that the Theta V is relatively inexpensive as compared to the incremental revenue that it can generate for you (either as a real estate photographer working for an agency or agent, or as an agent doing it yourself). It is widely available; for example just now:

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You also need a monopod to mount the 360 camera on. I've tried MANY over the years and have settled on the iFootage Monopod which costs $169 and is perfect for the job. So, FWIW, if I were to go out today the investment would be less than $600 for a complete 360 rig based on the Ricoh Theta V. Such a rig has generated a few $1,000s of revenue for me over the years. Not a bad ROI IMHO.

I don't know if this qualifies as "big bucks" for you, but it's a place to start looking and evaluating. You are on the right track; stick with it and I wish you success.

Best Regards,

BT

No problem organizing things with folders. Collections have their advantages such as you can put one image into several different collections, but you have to duplicate the file to put the image in different folders.

Folders are useful if someone else is searching for your images assuming your folder names describe the subject well. In my family, I'm the only one who knows how to use Lightroom searches so folder names (and file names) are descriptive.

When I am looking for something I rely on keywords, not folders. Keywording is an art, but it enables you to find images of a particular subject if the keywording is complete enough. For example I try to place names of everyone in an image in the keyword list for that image. Years from now I can look for all the images of a particular person, whether it be in a family folder or an event folder or a place folder. I put keywording as one of the first things I do in my workflow. It takes a while but I feel it's time well spent in the long run.

Note that in the Library grid mode you can select all the images that would get a particular keyword, then add the keyword to all of them at once.

As far as the difference is concerned, folders place an image in a specific area of the disk, while collections are virtual, i.e. the location of the image on the disk goes into the collection rather than placing the image there. Since it's just the location that's being added to the collection, the same information can be added to a separate collection.

I don't think it's necessary for you to do anything with your current structure.

Collections can be just a group of images that you think belong together. They don't have to be in the same folder, or even on the same disk. They only have to be in the catalog.

Smart Collections are defined by specific criteria that you can set up at the time you define the smart collection. Something like all images with a green color label, or all images with a red color label and a 3 star rating that was taken between Jan 20, 2018 and Aug 4, 2019. Or all images taken with a specific camera. Or all images containing a specific word (or words) in the keywords or in the title. Once set up, any image that fits those criteria is automatically included in the smart collection, without you having to do anything more.