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Archiving methods?
Jarod Opperman, Student/Intern, Assistant
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Eugene | OR | USA | Posted: 10:49 PM on 08.20.07 |
->> Anytime I'm asked to "search the archives" for a photo, it takes close to an hour or more and often involves sifting through CD's full of photos.
I want to fix this situation for the future. What archiving methods have you guys found that works well for your paper (or other publication)? Is there any way to use Photo Mechanic and its rating system to help? Thanks! |
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Paul Nelson, Photographer
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Jarod Opperman, Student/Intern, Assistant
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Eugene | OR | USA | Posted: 10:57 PM on 08.20.07 |
| ->> Crap, didn't even think to search. Thanks! |
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David Meyer, Photographer
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Orlando | FL | USA | Posted: 11:21 PM on 08.20.07 |
->> Jarod,
I've yet to institute this myself, but I do have the book and it appears to be one of the more thoroughly researched methods out there.
http://thedambook.com/
Worth a look in my opinion.
Dave |
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Jon L Hendricks, Photographer
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Merrillville | IN | USA | Posted: 11:30 PM on 08.20.07 |
| ->> I'll sell you that book for cheap if anybody wants to read it. I've read it and it's really great for getting to know a good process to archive. |
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Brad Mangin, Photographer
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Pleasanton | CA | USA | Posted: 12:15 AM on 08.21.07 |
->> Jarod- My archive is searchable on my website and powered by PhotoShelter:
www.manginphotography.com
In my searchable archive (currently consisting of 14,312 images) I have everything from scanned chromes of guys like Joe Montana and Nolan Ryan from the 1980's to digital files of yesterday's Royals @ A's game. All images are captioned of course- which is the tough part.
This is the option that works best for me. There are many others out there that work for other folks.
Good luck! |
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Kevin M. Cox, Photographer, Assistant
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Galveston / Houston | TX | US | Posted: 12:29 AM on 08.21.07 |
| ->> Jarod, since you mentioned Photo Mechanic, Kirk has stated that at some point Camera Bits will release an archive/database add-on to Photo Mechanic. The last I heard there was no timetable but I figured I'd mention it. |
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Jarod Opperman, Student/Intern, Assistant
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Eugene | OR | USA | Posted: 12:42 AM on 08.21.07 |
->> Kevin, that'd be great. I hope something like that comes out soon.
Jon, just how long of a read is that book?
PS: Our unstated method of "archiving" right now is dated folders (dated with when the photos are published) and then we mark our "possiblities" with a 3 (orange tag) in photo mechanic and eventually everything gets thrown on CDs. Maybe we should just archive the ones we tag as usable? And caption those photos? |
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James Madelin, Photographer
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AKL | Auckland | New Zealand | Posted: 6:39 AM on 08.21.07 |
->> hi jarod,
i had the same problem, solved now thanks to...
www.cdfinder.de
superb piece of software. well worth the couple of days it took me to catalogue my back catalogue. |
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Primoz Jeroncic, Photographer
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Kranj | SI | Slovenia | Posted: 6:43 AM on 08.21.07 |
->> Opposed to you Jarod, I hope Photo Mechanic will never have this add-on :) As soon as you add something like this, program will be much slower then it is now. Well unless we will have chance to install, or not to install, this option.
Otherwise I would say there's more then enough available programs which are done exactly for such things (Mediadex, Extensis Portfolio etc.). And nowadays external hard drives, or even NAS are not so expensive anymore, so search through photos (of course if they have correct IPTC info) with one of those applications (which also doesn't cost all that much anymore) is not so hard as it was before. |
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Paul Hollands, Photographer
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Chester | UK | United Kingdom | Posted: 7:53 AM on 08.21.07 |
->> I was chatting to someone about this recently and they mentioned that the search facility on Google Desktop enables you to search ITPC data (not sure whether this is PC only or would work on Mac too).
I haven't tried this as yet, but would be keen to know if it works (if anyone fancies being a guinea pig!). The only concern I do have on this, is that typically indexing software (which is ultimately what Google Desktop is) does tend to be a little resource hungry and slow the computer down.
Might be a cheap solution however.... |
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Stanley Leary, Photographer
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Roswell | GA | USA | Posted: 8:14 AM on 08.21.07 |
| ->> www.photocore.us plus use PhotoMechanic or Adobe lightroom to put in the metadata. |
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Jerry Laizure, Photographer, Assistant
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Norman | OK | USA | Posted: 11:14 AM on 08.21.07 |
->> For those of you on OS X, you already have an archive solution, although not as elaborate as the commercial products. Spotlight can read and index the metadata of image files. Spotlight searches have many options on which you can filter and can search several 300gb drives in a minute or so.
And the new Spotlight Server included in Leopard may be a text and image archive solution for some newspapers. |
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