How do you organize your travel photos?
Sep 12th, 2005, 06:55 AM
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How do you organize your travel photos?
I'm just curious...
Do you have a travel website? Do you upload your photos to an online site (such as snapfish, kodak etc.)? Do you store them on your computer as well? Do you create backup cds?
Any clever things you do with your pics?
Do you have a travel website? Do you upload your photos to an online site (such as snapfish, kodak etc.)? Do you store them on your computer as well? Do you create backup cds?
Any clever things you do with your pics?
Sep 12th, 2005, 07:14 AM
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I use 2 for different purposes. Here is an example of a short gallery of 35 pics by topic---this one is Sicily---that I put onto worldisround.com for online viewing.
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/169372/index.html
But, to upload to my computer, and to organize my photos into files, I use the wonderful PICASA2 SOFTWARE from Google. It is free and very good.
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/169372/index.html
But, to upload to my computer, and to organize my photos into files, I use the wonderful PICASA2 SOFTWARE from Google. It is free and very good.
Sep 12th, 2005, 07:35 AM
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I use Picassa too, then from there download the improved photos to Kodak Gallery and from there I make my photo book. no scrapping for me, much easier and the book arrives in the mail, it's looks great and professional
Sep 12th, 2005, 07:59 AM
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Personal websites can be thought of as digital scrapbooks. They provide convenient access to your travel (and other) photos for family and co-workers. No need to drag around a photo album or slide projector. Once, when a hotel receptionist in rural Germany mentioned an interest in Arches National Park, we brought up my website on his computer and looked a few of my pictures of the area.
Rather than use a communal photo gallery, I prefer to manage my own website content, although this does involve nominal fees and requires a minimal amount of technical knowledge (html/php, ftp, etc.).
I back up all of my photos on CD or DVD. For digital photos, I make several copies before purging my memory chips. Website photos are reduced in size, which makes them ideal for viewing, but not for print creation (I'd hate to find one of my photos hanging in the Louvre one day).
I number my photos sequentially based on camera and year. For example, my digitals are numbered something like d052334.jpg and slides might be s052314, where the slide numbers indicate year (2005), roll for that year (23), and frame (14). Nowadays, I have all my slides scanned during development, which costs an additional $12 per roll.
For travel photography, I often include and additional indicator of the trip. European trips will include an 'e' after the 'd' or 's', so my first digital shot on a European trip might be de050001.jpg.
Finally, it is important to me that the travel portion of my website should consist of more than just pictures. I try to write brief travelogues of all trips (even the short ones).
Rather than use a communal photo gallery, I prefer to manage my own website content, although this does involve nominal fees and requires a minimal amount of technical knowledge (html/php, ftp, etc.).
I back up all of my photos on CD or DVD. For digital photos, I make several copies before purging my memory chips. Website photos are reduced in size, which makes them ideal for viewing, but not for print creation (I'd hate to find one of my photos hanging in the Louvre one day).
I number my photos sequentially based on camera and year. For example, my digitals are numbered something like d052334.jpg and slides might be s052314, where the slide numbers indicate year (2005), roll for that year (23), and frame (14). Nowadays, I have all my slides scanned during development, which costs an additional $12 per roll.
For travel photography, I often include and additional indicator of the trip. European trips will include an 'e' after the 'd' or 's', so my first digital shot on a European trip might be de050001.jpg.
Finally, it is important to me that the travel portion of my website should consist of more than just pictures. I try to write brief travelogues of all trips (even the short ones).
Sep 12th, 2005, 08:08 AM
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I keep all my photos on my pc using a windows folder hierarchy that looks something like this. Picassa sorts by filename, ignoring any windows file structure, so every picture name starts with the year-mo for future sorting. I've tried various pc library programs over the years and have never been 100% happy with any of them.
My folder structure looks like this - different folder for each decade (I have pix scanned into digital format dating back to 1890s.), sub folder for each year, sub folder for each mo, and sometimes another sub-folder for a big trip or other event.
My Pictures
2000s
2005
2005-09 Sept
2005-09 descriptive_filename.jpg
I like having the year/mo at the start of each filename, so that when I dump a bunch of pix onto a CD to send to someone, they can be sorted by date easily.
For online sharing, I use shutterfly.com. I like the indefinite storage, unlimited (or so it seems) space, and the easy upload tool.
For printouts, I use either Sams club at ~19c/photo or a local photo shop at 15c (new special rate I just started using).
My folder structure looks like this - different folder for each decade (I have pix scanned into digital format dating back to 1890s.), sub folder for each year, sub folder for each mo, and sometimes another sub-folder for a big trip or other event.
My Pictures
2000s
2005
2005-09 Sept
2005-09 descriptive_filename.jpg
I like having the year/mo at the start of each filename, so that when I dump a bunch of pix onto a CD to send to someone, they can be sorted by date easily.
For online sharing, I use shutterfly.com. I like the indefinite storage, unlimited (or so it seems) space, and the easy upload tool.
For printouts, I use either Sams club at ~19c/photo or a local photo shop at 15c (new special rate I just started using).
Sep 12th, 2005, 09:17 AM
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I still use slides. But Photoworks also stores the images on their web site. For individual trips, I edit and keep the slides and web images pretty much in sequential order. When I repeat visits, e.g. multiple visits to Paris, or the Dordogne, I combine and reorganize the images according to an order that I think would make sense.
Sep 12th, 2005, 09:48 AM
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I do pretty much like J62--folders with dates. But I add a subject like "beach", "christmas", "kids' visit", "ski trip". I combine years into a whole album and save on an alternate hard disk, as well as MANY CD/DVD backups that will go to the safe deposit box. When the next technical breakthrough comes (beyond DVDs) don't forget to transfer your pics to that media.
Sep 12th, 2005, 09:56 AM
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I don't use a digital camera yet, though on a couple of trips I have had the conventional film also processed into a CD so that I could share some pics on line.
I still keep conventional photo albums, in my experience, people (and I) still prefer to thumb through an album, while comfortably seated in an easy chair, rather than gather people around a computer screen. In the album, which is really more of a scrapbook, I also include maps, restaurant cards and menus, brochures, etc.
Recently as a gift to family I traveled with, I had 50 or so conventional photos scanned, and turned into a DVD with music of my choice, a couple of titles added. I and they were SO pleased with the results. With special effects like page-turning, pans from side to side, close ups, etc, the pictures seem to have movement, yet there was no lugging around a video camera, and the DVD in total length is about 7 minutes, so not too onerous to watch. A couple of the photos I included were actually free stock shots from the internet, where I felt that my own photo didn't do the sight justice.
I still keep conventional photo albums, in my experience, people (and I) still prefer to thumb through an album, while comfortably seated in an easy chair, rather than gather people around a computer screen. In the album, which is really more of a scrapbook, I also include maps, restaurant cards and menus, brochures, etc.
Recently as a gift to family I traveled with, I had 50 or so conventional photos scanned, and turned into a DVD with music of my choice, a couple of titles added. I and they were SO pleased with the results. With special effects like page-turning, pans from side to side, close ups, etc, the pictures seem to have movement, yet there was no lugging around a video camera, and the DVD in total length is about 7 minutes, so not too onerous to watch. A couple of the photos I included were actually free stock shots from the internet, where I felt that my own photo didn't do the sight justice.
Sep 12th, 2005, 11:26 AM
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None of the above ;-)
I take regular old fashioned color snapshots, print them 4x6, rubber band them together behind a dated postcard from the country I was traveling. Then I file them in wicker shoebox shaped baskets.
Clever-ish things: I have scanned, digitized, and enlarged good shots, framed 'em to hang in my apartment. I have color xeroxed and hand-made postcards or greeting cards.
I take regular old fashioned color snapshots, print them 4x6, rubber band them together behind a dated postcard from the country I was traveling. Then I file them in wicker shoebox shaped baskets.
Clever-ish things: I have scanned, digitized, and enlarged good shots, framed 'em to hang in my apartment. I have color xeroxed and hand-made postcards or greeting cards.
Sep 12th, 2005, 01:06 PM
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Our trip reports, with some photos included, are all saved at our web site:
onelittleworld.com
Around 30 albums worth of full-size image files from our trips are stored here:
http://community.webshots.com/user/go_family
onelittleworld.com
Around 30 albums worth of full-size image files from our trips are stored here:
http://community.webshots.com/user/go_family
Sep 12th, 2005, 01:25 PM
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I'm an avid fan of photography, so I make a lot of photographs during my travels. Some of the photographs get edited in Photoshop for printing and some for displaying on the Web - there are different profiles and adjustments for each case.
The unedited photographs are organized on my HD in directories by date (year-month-day) and then name of the event or place. This scheme proved to be very convenient for finding old photographs. All the photographs are stored on backup DVDs as well (I really should make one more set of backup to store it some place else).
BTW, my travel gallery is at http://www.pbase.com/olegis/places , please drop by and have a look
The unedited photographs are organized on my HD in directories by date (year-month-day) and then name of the event or place. This scheme proved to be very convenient for finding old photographs. All the photographs are stored on backup DVDs as well (I really should make one more set of backup to store it some place else).
BTW, my travel gallery is at http://www.pbase.com/olegis/places , please drop by and have a look
Sep 12th, 2005, 01:27 PM
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Because I love to play with Mac, I get my photos put onto CD's, download 'em into iPhoto, take them into iMovie, and make a DVD complete with transitions, titles, and music. Projected on screen (DVD projector) it beats the slide shows six ways to Sunday, at least as far as my students are concerned.
(I haven't done photo albums since I started teaching, as I use my trip pix mostly in school.)
I also do some webshot storage, like this:
http://community.webshots.com/user/missalg
(I haven't done photo albums since I started teaching, as I use my trip pix mostly in school.)
I also do some webshot storage, like this:
http://community.webshots.com/user/missalg
Sep 12th, 2005, 02:11 PM
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Such great photographers we have here on this site. All this info is great.
I've had a chance to look at bobthenavigator's photos, and I've been slowly reading mr_go's trip reports on their family website. I'll look at some of these other ones tomorrow.
I've had a chance to look at bobthenavigator's photos, and I've been slowly reading mr_go's trip reports on their family website. I'll look at some of these other ones tomorrow.
Sep 12th, 2005, 08:07 PM
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I'm still very low-tech and non-digital. Bought a set of dressers at IKEA. Drawer 1 = Greece. Drawer 2 =Ireland. Drawer 3 = Scotland. Drawer 4 = Germany. Not to mention the 4 trips a year to Grand Cayman, and a trip each of the last 2 to Belize!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Amy: I am going to try to do what you are already doing with iMovie. The digital camera I recently bought takes great movies in low light, so I hope to take a bunch of shots and then string them together into a story of the trip. Any suggestions or tips on how you use iMovie and your camera?
Sep 13th, 2005, 11:23 AM
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Hi, Tinling!
I actually use a Nikon SLR and take still photos which are then put onto photo CD (I don't get the prints, just CD's.) I load them from there into the eMac and then add the titles, special effects, and transitions; the music generally comes last for me, as the timing can change, of course. Usually I load the still photos for about an 8.5 second speed, which ends up being 4-5 seconds of each photo taking the transitions into account. (I realize this doesn't help much for movies, but if anyone is doing stills, this is what 's worked for me
) My brother has done the movies, and the editing has been easy for him. (hint to everybody: Edit, edit, edit!!!)
I find iMovie (and all of the Mac stuff) to be extremely simple and intuitive to use; of course, don't forget, even with a Mac, to keep saving your work. (Oh, do I know whereof I speak. Two hours of work on the Peruvian Amazon...)
To me the hugest advantage of this is that I can work on it for ten minutes or two hours, whatever time I have, and not have to put anything away--and not have to store anything more than a DVD case. The photos are stored on the computer in iPhoto library and backed up as well, as are the DVD finished projects.
Happy Mac-ing!!
I actually use a Nikon SLR and take still photos which are then put onto photo CD (I don't get the prints, just CD's.) I load them from there into the eMac and then add the titles, special effects, and transitions; the music generally comes last for me, as the timing can change, of course. Usually I load the still photos for about an 8.5 second speed, which ends up being 4-5 seconds of each photo taking the transitions into account. (I realize this doesn't help much for movies, but if anyone is doing stills, this is what 's worked for me
) My brother has done the movies, and the editing has been easy for him. (hint to everybody: Edit, edit, edit!!!)I find iMovie (and all of the Mac stuff) to be extremely simple and intuitive to use; of course, don't forget, even with a Mac, to keep saving your work. (Oh, do I know whereof I speak. Two hours of work on the Peruvian Amazon...)
To me the hugest advantage of this is that I can work on it for ten minutes or two hours, whatever time I have, and not have to put anything away--and not have to store anything more than a DVD case. The photos are stored on the computer in iPhoto library and backed up as well, as are the DVD finished projects.
Happy Mac-ing!!
Sep 13th, 2005, 12:21 PM
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I started keeping travel journals with photographs about ten years ago due to my terrible memory and because it was easy to direct people to my website when they asked about my trip. If they are really interested, they will look online; otherwise, they were probably just trying to be polite.
As I sell my photographs, it has become important to back them up. In addition to keeping them on my hard drive, I save to CD, and back up to an external hard drive. My website is www.travelswithdiane.com. (I don't sell my photos on my website.) At the bottom of the page is a link to my journals. Off the topic, I had a booth at a Greek Festival this past weekend and it was great fun.
As far as naming my files, I keep the original digital camera number and add a word or two. And, for me, it's very important to add the year. I break the photos into files for ease of locating.
As I sell my photographs, it has become important to back them up. In addition to keeping them on my hard drive, I save to CD, and back up to an external hard drive. My website is www.travelswithdiane.com. (I don't sell my photos on my website.) At the bottom of the page is a link to my journals. Off the topic, I had a booth at a Greek Festival this past weekend and it was great fun.
As far as naming my files, I keep the original digital camera number and add a word or two. And, for me, it's very important to add the year. I break the photos into files for ease of locating.
