I have a philosophy about post processing based on my experience with it. I believe that with PP you can take a really good photo and make it a great photo. But you cannot take a below average photo and make it wonderful. If you are looking for 'wonderful' the photo has to be pretty good to begin with. I think the PP'd photos in this post show that.
I would like to hear other comments about this if you are inclined.
I like it. I've never seen such a great picture of a black hole before.
If I took these, I would delete them both.
A beautiful baby in Laos.
I like all of them but the sunset and the boat wake are the best for me.
I have one folder per year. I name the pictures in that folder with the date and subject, like this:
2014 05 01 May Day celebration 001
and increase the number at the end for however many photos there are of that particular subject. typically the number of photos for a given subject range from about 10 up to 30.
The date that is part of the name is not necessarily the actual date the pictures were taken. For example if I shoot several May Day photos on different days I still assign just the beginning or ending date for that series.
The advantage of this system is that all my photos for a given year are in chronological order by date, subject, and photo number. So to retrieve them all I have to know is what year I took them. If I guess wrong, that becomes obvious quite quickly.
When I take a vacation in a given year and shoot hundreds of photos I make a sub folder under that year and put them all there.
Whatever you do, do not get the Nikon J3. You have to compose all your photos using the screen on the back. there is no viewfinder. This works OK indoors under low light but outdoors in the sun the reflections off this screen are so intense you can barely see what is in the picture.
If you want to protect the lens because you expect it to get banged around my idea won't work. If you just want something to store it in while it is in your back pack I recommend a heavy duty athletic sock.
Too big. The average man's waist size of 44 inches. I just don't buy it.