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What do you use to organize your photos?I'm not nearly as organized as the folks who posted in that thread which has given me some food for thought.
In general, though, here's the process I've used for my recent river cruise through Eastern/Central Europe:
I used a DSLR with one regular SD card and one wireless SD card (primary). I had also brought along a wireless external drive, an iPhone (for day use) and an iPad (for evening use, instead of a laptop).
The general idea was that each evening I would offload the pix from the wireless SD card to the iPad and then up to the external 1TB drive, deleting photos from the wireless SD card at the end of the process. (The drive also had music and video to enjoy during the trip).
What really happened:
I shot most photos with my Canon Rebel T2i (RAW) and a quite a few candid/casual shots with my iPhone 5 (convenient). Many shots from my iPhone went directly to Facebook for friends to view while I was still traveling.
The external drive became inaccessible after uploading photos the first night (of a 12 day trip so it was returned to Amazon for a full refund the day I got back) so everything that was moved to my iPad and/or iPhone from the wireless SD card stayed there. I was not amused, I had to delete a lot of other content to make room. And annoyingly, the app to do this worked much better on the iPhone than it did on the iPad. Because I was a little short on space towards the end of the trip, I did start deleting the less than great shots from camera and iPhone before transferring at the end of the day (though that was not my first choice).
Some of the photos (about 10% at a guess) made it to Flickr during the trip to give wider access to them while we were still traveling.
Once I got home, I transferred everything to my main PC under one folder, then one subfolder for each day, including the name of the one or two towns visited that day. Then I used PSE v11 to adjust/crop/resize/convert to jpg selected photos (not all of them by far) and these have been uploaded to Flickr (well, I'm not done but just over half way).
So far, I've got about 140 posted to Flickr just for this trip but that's pretty special, only for trips I take once or twice a year. (We're head back to Sweden to visit my husband's family this Christmas and I expect there will be lots of people photos to take
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In general:
I'm a fairly casual photographer (though I'm exploring getting more serious about it) so I shoot photos (with my iPhone) nearly every day of flowers (I work near a state park with lots of flowers throughout the spring/summer/fall, fountains, the capitol building etc) and quite often of food that I prepare (my previously vegetarian husband and I, primarily "flexitarian" have switched to oil free, whole plant foods eating habits). All these go to Instagram and then (automatically) to Facebook/Flickr/Tumblr, usually after applying some filters via Camera+ and cropping in square format for Instagram.
About every three months or so, I transfer everything off the iPhone using Windows Gallery so the pictures are automatically placed into folders/subfolders based on the year/month they were taken. Since the vast majority of the pictures were already posted online, I usually don't do anything more with them.
Other times that I go out specifically to shoot (e.g. time spent at a nearby wetlands or driving around the country-side or the day we picked out our kittens from the shelter) get similar treatment as trip photos. These are all organized by "sets" on Flickr for public consumption.
I occasionally delete photos in advance but it's rare; similarly for photos that get transferred -- I pretty much save everything. Eventually the photos make their to the WHS photos folder which is duplicated by the OS. I have yet to make arrangements for offsite storagebackup though it's been on my to-do list for quite some time.
I enjoy sharing the photos with friends, either on their own or occasionally with friends on our TV, their TV, my iPad, etc. It's rare that I go back and look at them, for me the enjoyment is more in taking the photos, reviewing them (hopefully to improve over time), and "processing" them.
(Uhm, wow, that was long, sorry! But it did get me to thinking, so thanks for that!)