Love the idea! I just have a bunch of folders for different animals. Orca folder, humpback folder, blue whale folder. Then in each folder is another folder, starting with the date and the behavior I captured that day. I’m pretty date oriented and can recall actions from specific dates quite readily. But I love your file naming! Might have to pick that up for individual files, thanks and keep up the awesome work!
Interesting way to do it and looks pretty easy to look something up. I started making file folders and subfolders. Pictures/Wildlife/Deer/Doe/Buck/Fawn, then using the YYMMDD after they are sorted. I use FastStone to sort pictures. I take a picture of my computer screne with the words DONE TO HERE so I know where to start my download each time. The photo's are sorted from the transfer file in to folders. If I have a lot, I drag to the main folder. Then sort that folder to the subfolders in that group. It's easy, but it takes time.
Well, I started taking photos right at the start of the new millennium, so I don't think I'll run into any issues with lapsing that number :) I felt that there was no advantage for me to see "20" in every single filename because that doesn't give me any more insight than what I already knew.
@@RyanMenseWildlife I totally get that. I plan to put all of my photos in a public archive when I die, so they can continue to be used for a long, long time. Hopefully for 100s of years if we don't manage to kill the planet in the meantime. That's why the specific year matter to me.
Hey Ryan, happy to have found your channel, such a pleasure. I'm curious if this convention is only for your 'keeper' or processed images? I tend to keep it simple with only date and image number, changed on import. Then use keywords for the critters. Probably cuz still way too many 'unknown' animals (especially birds!) for me. Keep going.
This is for all animal photos I store. But the thing is that I've trained myself to be quite brutal in the culling process so I don't end up with a lot of extra stuff that would feel like it's not worth the effort. Also, it's really not that bad for me when I can select a batch of them and rename them all at once. I showed the Photo Mechanic process for that, but macOS also has a really good renaming tool in Finder as well that does the same batch processing for my video stuff. I started this process when I wasn't too good with bird names either, but I was super interested to learn so I think it actually helped in that I would spend the time to ID the unknowns.
Love the idea! I just have a bunch of folders for different animals. Orca folder, humpback folder, blue whale folder. Then in each folder is another folder, starting with the date and the behavior I captured that day. I’m pretty date oriented and can recall actions from specific dates quite readily. But I love your file naming! Might have to pick that up for individual files, thanks and keep up the awesome work!
Interesting way to do it and looks pretty easy to look something up. I started making file folders and subfolders. Pictures/Wildlife/Deer/Doe/Buck/Fawn, then using the YYMMDD after they are sorted. I use FastStone to sort pictures. I take a picture of my computer screne with the words DONE TO HERE so I know where to start my download each time. The photo's are sorted from the transfer file in to folders. If I have a lot, I drag to the main folder. Then sort that folder to the subfolders in that group. It's easy, but it takes time.
Ryan, thank you for sharing. very thoughtful and organized. Cheers Mike
Blimey far more organised than me Ryan well done ! Love the file naming 👍😍
Great system. I’ve been using folders by species but your system is more efficient.
Briliant. Thanks for the tips. Reg.
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Very cool way of doing it. I would personally just change the year to all 4 numbers for archiving reasons.
Well, I started taking photos right at the start of the new millennium, so I don't think I'll run into any issues with lapsing that number :) I felt that there was no advantage for me to see "20" in every single filename because that doesn't give me any more insight than what I already knew.
@@RyanMenseWildlife I totally get that. I plan to put all of my photos in a public archive when I die, so they can continue to be used for a long, long time. Hopefully for 100s of years if we don't manage to kill the planet in the meantime. That's why the specific year matter to me.
Hey Ryan, happy to have found your channel, such a pleasure. I'm curious if this convention is only for your 'keeper' or processed images? I tend to keep it simple with only date and image number, changed on import. Then use keywords for the critters. Probably cuz still way too many 'unknown' animals (especially birds!) for me. Keep going.
This is for all animal photos I store. But the thing is that I've trained myself to be quite brutal in the culling process so I don't end up with a lot of extra stuff that would feel like it's not worth the effort. Also, it's really not that bad for me when I can select a batch of them and rename them all at once. I showed the Photo Mechanic process for that, but macOS also has a really good renaming tool in Finder as well that does the same batch processing for my video stuff.
I started this process when I wasn't too good with bird names either, but I was super interested to learn so I think it actually helped in that I would spend the time to ID the unknowns.