Photography 101

BigV · 06-20-2008, 06:01 PM

I have been reading and rereading this thread, I like it. Thanks to all.

The recent trip to Hawaii produced a ton of pictures. I have been ... less than diligent in my editing. Well, that's not entirely fair. I have been diligent, but I haven't managed to kill many pictures. I'm a keeper, not a killer.

And my discovery of the joy of making mosaics has severely eroded my enthusiasm for deletion. More is better, though it does take a very long time to index the images... *yawn*.

Anyway. I have begun to exercise some new muscles in Picasa, which I love. The muscle in question is "Tagging". I have over 98,000 images in my library. That's a lot of images. Even the Hawaii trip generated about 4500 pics, now down to about 3500 (curse you continuous shooting mode and your evil sidekick, high capacity SD cards) and I have managed to tag most of them. All of them got a hawaii tag, and all of them got a photographer's initials tag. From there it got less global and more specific. Some got snorkeling, house, kid1/2/3, Tink, BigV, scenery, volcano, luau.... stuff like that.

I have a loooong way to go. I've tagged only a few hundred so far. But I think this is a very effective way to manage my library. I will be able to combine it with another feature of Picasa, "Hide picture". I can "hide" an image that I want to keep, but I don't want to keep paging past as I review my pictures. "Hide" and "unhide" are toggles, and there's a third state, "Show hidden pictures" so you can see what's been hidden without changing its hidden status. Nice.

A third aspect of Picasa I'm going to use more is Albums. They work like old skool photo albums. You select a picture, and tell Picasa it belongs to a given album. Picasa makes note of your desire, and displays that image when you view a given album. A given image can belong to more than one album.

And lastly, I will be making more use of PicasaWeb, the online sharing component of Picasa. Very very easy. It only takes a couple clicks to post an Album, for public or private exhibition.

06-20-2008, 06:01 PM	#11
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	I have been reading and rereading this thread, I like it. Thanks to all. The recent trip to Hawaii produced a ton of pictures. I have been ... less than diligent in my editing. Well, that's not entirely fair. I have been diligent, but I haven't managed to kill many pictures. I'm a keeper, not a killer. And my discovery of the joy of making mosaics has severely eroded my enthusiasm for deletion. More is better, though it does take a very long time to index the images... yawn. Anyway. I have begun to exercise some new muscles in Picasa, which I love. The muscle in question is "Tagging". I have over 98,000 images in my library. That's a lot of images. Even the Hawaii trip generated about 4500 pics, now down to about 3500 (curse you continuous shooting mode and your evil sidekick, high capacity SD cards) and I have managed to tag most of them. All of them got a hawaii tag, and all of them got a photographer's initials tag. From there it got less global and more specific. Some got snorkeling, house, kid1/2/3, Tink, BigV, scenery, volcano, luau.... stuff like that. I have a loooong way to go. I've tagged only a few hundred so far. But I think this is a very effective way to manage my library. I will be able to combine it with another feature of Picasa, "Hide picture". I can "hide" an image that I want to keep, but I don't want to keep paging past as I review my pictures. "Hide" and "unhide" are toggles, and there's a third state, "Show hidden pictures" so you can see what's been hidden without changing its hidden status. Nice. A third aspect of Picasa I'm going to use more is Albums. They work like old skool photo albums. You select a picture, and tell Picasa it belongs to a given album. Picasa makes note of your desire, and displays that image when you view a given album. A given image can belong to more than one album. And lastly, I will be making more use of PicasaWeb, the online sharing component of Picasa. Very very easy. It only takes a couple clicks to post an Album, for public or private exhibition. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

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