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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?

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Post by deely3 »

poulpy123 wrote: post #22

I put eveything in a folder named YYYY-MM-DD_XXXX where XXXX is an general identifier of the pictures, usually a place, sometime an event or a person. When there are several days that belong together I use YYYY-MM-DDstart_YYYY-MM-DDend_XXXXXXXX/YYYY-MM-DD It's more difficult since I have a cellphone that take good pictures, since I can have a lot of day with one or two pictures instead of sevral in few days like befo…

Heh, my solution exactly the same. 20 years of photos, and so far I pretty happy with this structure.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?

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Post by fileeditview »

I import all my photos onto my HDD with shotwell. They are just saved in folders by date.

If I see a picture I don't like I delete it immediately. The main problem is that we keep to many pictures. From time to time I go through some months of pictures and delete as much as I can, add some stars to good pictures and postprocess some.

Also from time to time we order prints of all of the "filtered" pictures and then we put them into a physical photo album. We certainly looked at these photos as a family but we never look at the digital ones.

The big problem with all kinds of digital collections is that you don't find anything at some point.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?

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Post by evansj »

kalleboo wrote: post #36

Everything goes in iCloud Photo Library so it's always available to me on my phone or computer. There's about 2 TB of photos. It gets backed up to my Synology NAS via icloudpd in docker, and then uploaded to Amazon Glacier (3-2-1 backup) For photos of our kids, we have an iCloud shared album that is shared with family (grandparents, aunts/uncles, close friends, etc) so that becomes the curation of all the photos of t…

Thanks for the pointer to icloudpd[1]! Looks very useful. Do you actually run it on your Synology?

I've enabled the "Download originals to this Mac..." option in Photos, which then gets backed up using Backblaze, but obviously that takes a ton of space on my Mac that I could be using for something else.

[1] https://github.com/boredazfcuk/docker-icloudpd

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?

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Post by benterix »

poulpy123 wrote: post #22

I put eveything in a folder named YYYY-MM-DD_XXXX where XXXX is an general identifier of the pictures, usually a place, sometime an event or a person. When there are several days that belong together I use YYYY-MM-DDstart_YYYY-MM-DDend_XXXXXXXX/YYYY-MM-DD It's more difficult since I have a cellphone that take good pictures, since I can have a lot of day with one or two pictures instead of sevral in few days like befo…

I'm doing almost the same except that I add a tag or two to the name of the folder.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?

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Post by kalleboo »

evansj wrote: post #44
kalleboo wrote: post #36

Everything goes in iCloud Photo Library so it's always available to me on my phone or computer. There's about 2 TB of photos. It gets backed up to my Synology NAS via icloudpd in docker, and then uploaded to Amazon Glacier (3-2-1 backup) For photos of our kids, we have an iCloud shared album that is shared with family (grandparents, aunts/uncles, close friends, etc) so that becomes the curation of all the photos of t…

Thanks for the pointer to icloudpd[1]! Looks very useful. Do you actually run it on your Synology? I've enabled the "Download originals to this Mac..." option in Photos, which then gets backed up using Backblaze, but obviously that takes a ton of space on my Mac that I could be using for something else. [1] https://github.com/boredazfcuk/docker-icloudpd

> Do you actually run it on your Synology?

Yeah, it "just works" in Synology's built-in Docker support on their models with Intel CPUs.

I used to use the "download originals" option until my photo library started exceeding the storage in any of my Macs...

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?

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Post by winstonrc »

I have two places I store photos: a gallery[0] of curated photos on my personal website, and a larger stream of photos backed up to my NAS.

The photos on my NAS replicate what I capture with my phone. I actively delete photos of the mundane such as a random snap of food I cooked. I let the iOS photos app automatically create albums of people and places and display those as a widget on my home screen. I go through it every now and then to clean it up from bad photos that accidentally got uploaded. This collection has survived a transfer from Android to iOS since it is platform agnostic.

My gallery on my website is for hosting things I want to be shared and has a higher standard for what I select. I also don’t have social media, so when people ask where they can view photos of my trip, I point them to my website. Right now it has photos from vacation trips that were mostly shot on film. It’s more artistic in nature and features landscapes rather than humans. The idea is to capture the essence of the photo albums of the past that my older family members have. I can always go to my website and view photos from a trip. Shooting those photos on film makes the shots more deliberate and more limited in nature. I could always get them printed physically to place into a photo album, but I’m happy with storing them digitally for now to reduce clutter. The gallery feature itself is something I really enjoyed building.

I like the balance of viewing subjectively more interesting photos in my gallery but also being able to see the behind the scenes photos with my family in my digital collection. I’m waiting for a way in the future to more conveniently display my photos locally on a digital photo album such as a docked iPad.

[0] https://www.winstoncooke.com/gallery

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?

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Post by d3w4s9 »

With the context that I use my phone for taking photos and I am not even remotely professional by any means...

I don't. I used to manage my photos very carefully, doing all sorts of the things you can think of. Until I stopped doing that, because I realize all that effort gives me no real-life benefit and is a waste of time. Nowadays I just auto upload photos to Google Photos and call it a day. Occasionally I delete photos that are duplicates or are not meaningful, but that's it.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?

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Post by sergimansilla »

jwr wrote: post #32

Somewhat less philosophically: there is a huge technological problem in keeping photo archives. We entrust our photos to companies like Apple and Google with the attention span of a fruit fly — nobody seems to give any thought to long-term archival. Solutions appear and disappear within several years. Also, all current photo library solutions are deficient and built mostly for a single flashy keynote presentation, no…

Current Photos app can actually import these libraries. Click on “import” and select the aperture file. It should keep all the albums, metadata, etc.
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