How do you store and find photos you have stored?

Ed Fowler

Ed Fowler

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This seems to be the place for those most interested in photography, I hope this is the place to ask:
How do you store and index photos?
I know the in the computer stuff it is kind of easy, but I have close to 20 large snap tubs filled with photographs of knives and ranch stuff. I need photos for my new book and have spent many hours searching through envelope after envelope of phtos, finding some that would come in handy on down the line and placing them back in the uncharted regions.to be searched for again, and again.

I have thought about fileing cabinates, and see a lot of wasted space. Looked around town and havent seen anything of supreme function to my thoughts.

Any suggestions will be welcome.
 
Ed...

You need a secretary!!!! LOL!!!!

And if I'd had the time to swing by a couple of weeks ago... I'd have loved to have tackeled a project like that! The history there...

Good luck!
 
I'm not a tech savy guy. However, I think there are services out there that will take paper photoes and digitize them for you.

May be something to look into.

Good Luck with it.
 
Ed,
I assume you have the negatives still. You can get a scanner for 35mm negs that do great jobs.

Here is a highly rated one at down to Earth prices.

http://www.shutterbug.net/test_reports/0402sb_pacific/

http://www.scanace.com/en/index.php

Then get yourself an nice, easy to use digital photo album (Adobe gives one away but I think there would be one bundled with the scanner)

You can scan it all into your PC and then keep the originals in a safe place.

Hope this helps
 
First, transfer digital images from camera to computer hard disk via USB port.

Keep all those digital pictures in a folder marked DIGI-PIXS (or whatever you want to call it).

Then burn those pictures into a CD-ROM. Of course, this means you need to have a CD burner in your computer system.

This way you will never need to search for pictures again.

If all fails, get someone to do the above for you. :)
 
Joeshredd: you should have stopped by, all kinds of stuff here to play with. I cannot believe how many photos I took, and forgot about. Lots of them were for articles I have yet to write, at least now I have photos ready.

Owen: I should have posted here a couple of months ago.

Temper: Thanks for the information, I already have 6 steel boxes of slides getting scanned, the price of two of the boxes would have paid for the scanner. Live and learn!

Thanks Gentlemen
 
Golok: If you know of any workaholics looking for this kind of work, I have all necessary but the scanner. Will trade photo work for knife lessons.
 
Ed, it suddenly dawned on me that what you have are photos already taken and in paper form, and not digital photos.

In your case, a scanner is essential. Actually, scanning pictures and moving those pictures to a hard disk and then transferring them to a CD-rom is a fairly simple process. It just takes time.

Unfortunately, I am just a bit too far away from you (like a couple of thousand miles). Otherwise, you could just pop over to my place and have them done. No charge. What are friends for!

I am sure some guys within driving distance from your place can render this kind of service.

A bit of advice here: in future capture all those moments digitally. It will save you a lot of headache. Better still, make two copies of the same stuff. CD-roms, I was told, have a life-span of 10 years. That's when some deterioration may set in.

But CDs which store digital pictures are definitely far better than photographs as far as storage is concerned.
 
Golok: Some of the slides that are being worked on at Wall Mart are over 35 years old, they were kept in a dry - dark no air circulation place in steel trays. The photos, some are older than that and also in pretty good condition. Some have faded badly, most still excellent some older are great, some younger are bad. When I have time I am going to try to trace back why some survived while others did not fair so well.

One thing nice, a girl who does computer stuff pretty well can copy a CD in a few minutes. That makes it pretty nice, copy hundreds of photos while doing something else.

I dug out my digital camera and worked with it today. I guess that I need to develop my abilities along these lines. But---I still like making knives and time
is kind of hard to come up with.

I have an HP2175v all-in-one. Maybe it could do the paper photos?

Thanks for the thoughts! and take care.
 
Ed, like most photographic equipment, slides and cameras are prone to fungi growth and attack. So for slides to last a long time, they are usually kept in an air-tight container with silica gel or some drying agent to absorb all minute traces of water.

And occasionally (for cameras), the equipment has to be taken out and exposed to indirect sunlight so as to ward off fungi. Quite troublesome, if one tends to be forgetful, or not inclined to be methodical.

These are some of the tips told to me by a professional photographer friend.
 
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