I've recently taken up bird photography and want to organize my pictures by species. What I would like to do is create a catalog of each species that I photograph that I can arrange alphabetically and add or delete photos to. So my ideal would be say to list "American Crow" and add 4-5 photos that would come up when I or someone else clicks on that species. Next up would be say "Common Eider" and so on. I'm not technically gifted so a complex process wouldn't work for me. If anyone has any suggestions I'd be most grateful!
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How to make an online catalog of my photos? (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter eallen27
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SteveClark
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Do you mean like this in the Apple Photos app? This achieved by adding keywords to photos.
Pinewood
New York correspondent
@SteveClark ,
Good ideas! Adding key words to each photograph, like species, male or female, along with the location of the photos and date, which Apple does automatically with many digital photos, should allow random access to any sighting. Using albums, like passerine birds, waterfowl, waders, locations and predators, would provide some opportunities for browsing.
Happy bird watching,
Arthur
Good ideas! Adding key words to each photograph, like species, male or female, along with the location of the photos and date, which Apple does automatically with many digital photos, should allow random access to any sighting. Using albums, like passerine birds, waterfowl, waders, locations and predators, would provide some opportunities for browsing.
Happy bird watching,
Arthur
Hi eallen and a warm welcome to you from all the Staff and Moderators.
Keywords, or tagging, all your pictures, as Steve says, is the key to what you want to do. Different applications probably do this in different ways; with Windows File Explorer you can add them on the Properties menu.
As for creating a website, you should get some help in our Computers, Birding Software And The Internet
I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I look forward to hearing your news.
Keywords, or tagging, all your pictures, as Steve says, is the key to what you want to do. Different applications probably do this in different ways; with Windows File Explorer you can add them on the Properties menu.
As for creating a website, you should get some help in our Computers, Birding Software And The Internet
I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I look forward to hearing your news.
Hello and welcome to the forum, enjoy and all the best.
MiddleRiver
Well-known member
Agree: tags/kewords.
Also by workflow/file naming:
I use Lightroom. Images all get dumped in ‘unedited’ folder. As I edit, I tag and flag (color code, rate 1-5, flag for deletion…). The ‘good’ ones are ‘exported’ to a folder and once there, renamed with species +date+location+originalfilename. That makes it easy to search or select accordingly.
Also by workflow/file naming:
I use Lightroom. Images all get dumped in ‘unedited’ folder. As I edit, I tag and flag (color code, rate 1-5, flag for deletion…). The ‘good’ ones are ‘exported’ to a folder and once there, renamed with species +date+location+originalfilename. That makes it easy to search or select accordingly.
Use Piwigo, there is a self-hosting one at piwigo.org or paid one at piwigo.com. Check out my Aviceda's Wild Bird Gallery it's easy to set-up Albums using folders.
MiddleRiver
Well-known member
Very interesting! Where are images stored? I assume you pay for storage?
