mass photo organization?
Friday, June 13th, 2008
I had kind of an awesome time at the wedding. Who knew Iowa could be so much fun?
I’ve spent a little time trying to decide how to organize the 900+ photos for web-based review by the newlyweds and others. I wanted to categorize the photos by event type—rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, reception, and general portraits. I wanted to provide edited versions of those sets—my personal picks—while making sure everything was available for review somehow, in case someone likes a shot that I didn’t think was better than mediocre.
Lightroom offers some built-in gallery templates, but as far as I could tell they didn’t provide as much hierarchy as I wanted. I decided to give Flickr a shot. Currently I’ve got almost everything uploaded to my account, and have basically achieved the organization I wanted with Flickr’s collections and sets.
Two big downsides to this are:
- My photostream is now 900+ photos bigger, and only about 100 of them are shots I’d actually want to keep in there.
- I set everything to the “friends and family” privacy level, since I figured not everyone would want their likeness posted publicly online. Obviously I can’t require everyone who wants to see the photos to sign up for Flickr, but Flickr does offer a “guest pass,” where you send out a secret URL that gives the viewer access to otherwise restricted photos. However, this works for only for Sets and for an entire photostream, not for a Collection. If it worked for a Collection (which can contain Sets), I’d be set. As it is, I’m going to have to send out two URLs: one to sign in as a guest for my whole photostream, and then a second for the actual Collection. Less than ideal.
I’ve never done this kind of mass shooting for “a client” before. Suggestions are welcome.
