[Leica] Editing

Wed Jul 31 09:33:47 PDT 2019

Tina... if I understand the nuances, YOU are picking and posting your images
for the social purpose stated.... There is no person called "Editor" to pick
the required images?

I think you have little to no recourse....  and you will be happier with the
result rather than hiring someone to do it for you..... which is the other
choice.....

If you define Editing images as a pure selection project, no image
enhancement, no cropping, etc.....
The good news is that if you can sort at the rate of 1 image every 5
seconds, which sounds long to me per image on this pass.....
With presumably 500,000 images, it will take 100,000 seconds
With 60 seconds to a minute, that is 1600 minutes
With 60 minutes to an hour that is roughly 30 hours.  

A month should do it for the first pass..... at the rate of 1 hour per
day.... 
Second pass is less images, so say 1 more week
Third pass is less again, so say another week ( more time per image)

Total would be maybe 6 weeks ...... That's not so bad..... 

Sometimes it is better emotionally to break up the big project into smaller
parts, completing one part at a time gives you a boost....
Take 1 time period at a time... the July 2015 trip for example. And work on
them as a sub-catalog.... finish and go to the next....  
Do this by making a new LR catalog of SOME of the pictures in the big
catalog.... edit THAT catalog, then combine back into the main catalog.... 
Repeat...

You could set up another seat and "let"  Tom help?

Frank Filippone

Red735i at verizon.net

Thanks, Frank.  The only purpose behind editing is to choose which photos
might be used to make a difference.  I have plenty of storage (just ordered
another 10TB drive for the Drobo) and will not through any away.  Like
Gerry, I use the star system when I edit and put the 4 and 5 stars into a
special folder to eventually post somewhere.

The stock photos I take are used to create income.  The family photos from
Central America are used to try to make a difference.

Thanks,

Tina

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:48 AM Frank Filippone via LUG
<lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> It sounds to me like you wish to "throw away" the less good DIGITAL
> images..... at least that is what I read into your question......
> consolidate, Maggie Steber, etc all indicate this....
>
> The first question is ... Why?  Why do you want to edit your images?   Are
> you being pushed by Almy to limit your Stock?  Some other reason?
>
> Storage is so cheap, I can not see the thought of editing to save HDD
space
> as a really good idea..... HDD costs are now $20 per TB.....
> Doing some quick math... your files are 20MB per image ( a pure
> guess)......
> or 50 images to a GB....
> You have 400,000 images in 2 countries.... say half a million to make
> things
> easy....  That would be 10,000 GB....
> There are 1000 GB in a TB....
> The math says you have about 10TB in images..... for a total HDD cost of
> $200.
> Is it really worth your time to edit images whose cost to you is your
time,
> when you could be using that tine creating new images that would yield you
> income?
>
> Is there something about editing that is important?  That you NEED to do
to
> create income for yourself?
> What would you do with the "good ones" that can not be done with ALL of
> them?
>
> ITOD, you took your negatives and saved all of them ( ask Ted) ....  Why
> does Digital Imagery require the throwing away of images?
>
> Buy more and bigger HDD.... edit when you take the SD cards ( or other)
and
> transfer them into your computer..... and go take more Pix....
>
> Don't worry about Marie Kondo and the KomMari Checklists.....  if that is
> what is driving the question.....
>
> Frank Filippone
>
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
> PESO:
>
> I am cleaning up old files on my Drobo and trying to consolidate
> everything.  Years ago, I spent a couple of weeks with Maggie Steber, a
> photo editor, who helped me edit 50,000 of my Honduran photos down to
about
> 24.  The problem is that I have many, many more than the original 50,000
> that she edited.  According to my LR files, I have 174,258 photos of
> Honduras.  If I spend the rest of my life editing them I will not finish.
> But just glancing through, it looks like there are a lot I would include
in
> a final edit.  So what to do?  Recently, I have been going back editing
old
> family photos of European trips.  Should I stop that and work on Honduras?
> I really am drawn to that because of their situation today.  The same
thing
> applies to Guatemala.  I have over 150,000 photos of Guatemala.  If I edit
> those, I will never get to any other countries.
>
> I think I have answered my own question but I would appreciate your
> opinion, anyway.
>
>
>
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