It seems the number of pictures I take a month has been steadily increasing. While during my first month with my camera I took about 2 gigs worth of pictures, last month I took 30. I'm going to Hawaii in a week, taking 34GB worth of memory cards, and am somewhat worried that that won't be enough.
Initially I just kept the pictures in my "\My Documents\My Pictures\" folder like any good newbie. As hard drive space dwindled I opted to buy a new machine, so all my images were transferred to an external 320GB drive, where they still are.
I have a habit of not deleting anything but the worst of the worst shots (i.e., incredibly underexposed or horribly overexposed), so a decent portion of my images are really just junk that i probably should have deleted.
I also organize things into just one level of folders, "\pictures\mm-dd-yyyy\" and am starting to think I should break it down a bit more granular, such as "\pictures\yyyy\mm\dd\" for ease of searching and archiving.
And speaking of archiving, I don't even really do that at all
So, fellow camera addicts, how do you deal with your images once you get home from shooting? How do you organize stuff on your machine? How do you keep your computers hard-drives clutter free once you're done working with a set?
Initially I just kept the pictures in my "\My Documents\My Pictures\" folder like any good newbie. As hard drive space dwindled I opted to buy a new machine, so all my images were transferred to an external 320GB drive, where they still are.
I have a habit of not deleting anything but the worst of the worst shots (i.e., incredibly underexposed or horribly overexposed), so a decent portion of my images are really just junk that i probably should have deleted.
I also organize things into just one level of folders, "\pictures\mm-dd-yyyy\" and am starting to think I should break it down a bit more granular, such as "\pictures\yyyy\mm\dd\" for ease of searching and archiving.
And speaking of archiving, I don't even really do that at all
So, fellow camera addicts, how do you deal with your images once you get home from shooting? How do you organize stuff on your machine? How do you keep your computers hard-drives clutter free once you're done working with a set?