We are printing a photobook every year, giving copies to parents as Christmas gift. It retraces the event of the year
It takes effort to choose photos and make the book, but it is pleasant to see ourselves quickly over the years
Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?
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#62All photos are migrated from phones to a SSD Raid setup as space fills up. Wife copies some photos, prior to migration, to a Google Drive folder that is shared with extended family. We don't use 'traditional social media'. Photos are generally browsed monthly to yearly, as a method of 'keeping track of who we were'. Similar photos are deleted with a weak emphasis on keeping the 'best' variant.
any SSD recommendations?
I've just been using regular hard drives for my RAIDs with really long lifespans, think 7-10 years -- and even then replaced just out of caution, they still work -- and I'm not sure if this is also achievable with SSDs or what to even look out for
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#63You must be young. You are not interested in your own photos. Your children will be mildly interested, but only around the time they have children. They will display some photos of you at your funeral. Your great-grandchildren will not even know your name. All forgotten.
The world is full of phones, which are full of photos, that nobody will ever look at.
Look more intently, see more, evaluate and remember, photograph less.
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#64I pay for Google Photos additional drive space. I back up favorite photos and videos to Apple iCloud.
The primary reason I use Google Photos is that I have android smart TVs. With android smart TVs, during the ambience screen saver mode... I can choose which Google Photo album to display. That is I use my smart TVs to display my photos. Unfortunately, they do not display the videos.
My parents also have a google nest hub. I also set that up to display the same google photos albums.
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#65This sounds insane, but hear me out. If you take photos on film, it's less overwhelming. Film is expensive, so you can't spray and pray, you have to think about what's worthwhile to take a photo of. This also means you're more present in the moment. The more manual the camera is, the more you have to think about what you want to shoot because it takes more skill, but it's also more rewarding when you take a great pho…
Just use a 1 or 2 GB card in your digital camera if you want to think more during shooting process. It's less complicated and result is the same.
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#66Sometimes I wonder why people need to capture every supposedly special moment in a picture. Is it worse to "just" keep it in mind? There's propably some fear of losing or forgetting that moment in play.
We have thousands of photos of our children who were born when smartphones were prevalent. Opposed to my own childhood (early 70s) were only a dozen or so photos of me exist. Then I am beginning to calculate the time it takes for someone to watch the 10.000 or so photos that will be made of our kids until the are grown up. Are they supposed to go all through this mess of duplicates? And no one will ever have the time to go through all photos and bring order to it.
So yes, it feels like digital clutter but on the other hand it really does revive a lot of (mostly positive) emotions to go through a huge collection of family photos.
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#67I 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 do pretty much the same but I also use EXIF data to add place names to the folder name.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?
#68PhotoPrism[0] and some ugly plumbing[1] to semantically tag all images in the gallery.
[0]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism [1]: https://github.com/marklr/labelizer
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#70Will it matter in a few years?
We ll be able to AI-generate photos of ourselves in the past, in any location.