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In an odd confluence, there's a thread on Arfcom about going through photo albums and The Lovely Harvey archiving her photos to the NAS.
The thread is about, "should I save these?"
There's people he doesn't know in those pics.
If you're looking a pic of a place you don't recognize, with people who are strangers, should you keep it? Especially if the person who took the picture is gone?
I take a lot of pics since the hobby went digital, and I can mostly remember what's going on in the pictures. But will anyone else?
Many pictures I take get a caption here on the blog. I explain what's going on and give context that won't be with a file on a hard drive.
I have folders of photos named "Card Dump" which was just moving it off the camera onto a hard drive. Photos that should probably be culled ruthlessly because there's multiple attempts at the same photo there. I should also organize them into other folders to that there's some damn context.
I do a better job of curating my Flickr account than my NAS. I should probably change my habits.
At least with printed photos you could write the details on the back: place, date, time, subject(s).
ReplyDeleteSometimes better/newer technology has shortcomings.
Maybe a simple app to add such info to a digital photo would be useful. It's all just ones and zeroes after all.
I'm too lazy to check if such already exists.