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Originally Posted by Badllarma  It may not be right, it may not be wrong but it works ok for me. |
There is no right or wrong for this - just what works for you and what you feel comfortable with.
I'm using Lightroom (still at version 1.4) and can see a lot of similarities between my structure and what Badllarma is doing.
First my folder structure. Just like Badllarma it's not on the C drive and certainly not in "My Pictures". I have a top level folder called "Nikon DSLR Photos" under which are various folders for finished images depending on what they were for, e.g. there's a folder for jpeg images uploaded to WAB. There is also a folder structure for raw images. This start with "All Photos" then has the year followed by the month (prefixed with a number so that the months are shown in order) then the day. So the photos I took today are in
E:\Nikon DSLR Photos\All Photos\2009\01 January\20090130\
When I've finished editing and am sure I won't be deleting any more I rename the raws to 20090130-001...999. That way I can be certain that no two photos will ever have the same file name. This screen grab shows what my folder structure looks like in Lightroom...
I also keyword my photos but try to keep this as simple as possible, just the species name for wildlife images. However I have organised keywords into a hierarchy too...
This means that I can very quickly find all birds, or all birds of prey, or all falcons, or just the kestrels. It also means that if I keyword a photo with just the single word "kestrel" it will automatically be included in "falcon", "birds of prey" and "bird" - I don't have to add those keywords.
Lightroom includes a metadata browser too...
It maintains this automatically from the EXIF data so you don't need to worry about it.
Dave P.