Managing Photo Libraries

About this Episode

Jeff Carlson and Kirk McElhearn discuss why you want some sort of photo library in place, such as Photos or Lightroom, and their different approaches to managing their images. We dig into software, keywords, machine learning-based search, and the advantages (and annoyances) of cloud-based libraries.

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Hosts:

• Jeff's website, Jeff's photos, Jeff on Instagram
• Kirk's website, Kirk's photos, Kirk on Instagram

Show notes:

See the full show notes, including photos, screenshots, and more, here.

• Jeff's book Take Control of Your Digital Photos
• Jeff's book Take Control of Lightroom CC
• iCloud Photo Library
• “I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.” William Eggelston
• The Next Track: a podcast about how people listen to music today
• iCloud storage plans and pricing
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• Luminar 2018

• Affinity Photo

• PhotoActive Facebook group; find the secret word you need to join the group at the end of the podcast

Our snapshots:

• William Eggleston: Los Alamos exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (now closed) “I am at war with the obvious."
• Kirk's review of Los Alamos Revisited
• Todd Hido, Intimate Distance

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