When Plans Change
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| Dead Creek East Branch 2018 (?) digital photo The Golden Hour on Dead Creek |
Change of plan. Mr. Cedar Waxwing in watercolor will have to wait.
The above photo is being used for a watercolor in progress. I remember posting it here years ago thinking I would do an acrylic. Thus far, I'm still considering a large acrylic. The sky in acrylic will be a deeper powder blue like you see in the autumn.
It took me a while to find the picture in my folders. My photo library is a mess. I estimate it will take a few days dedicating a few hours per day to straighten it all out. I kept wondering where several photo session folders are. I thought they're on a memory stick. Not. They're on my old laptop.
If you have a photo library program, then please share how you like it. My homemade photo library doesn't work well for me. I keep a written log, and still it gets a mess finding things.
My photos files are alphabetized first off. I lost all my pictures, so am slowly taking more and creating photo files for them. I have my town in one file, winter, spring, summer, fall, and my town (in the home) file. I have a Christmas and Easter file, and file for each grandchild to put pictures in there as they grow. I hope you get yours organized. It makes all the difference in the world. This is a lovely photo, and I can see why you want to use it for one of your paintings.
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Sheri,
ReplyDeleteYour system sounds similar to mine, but yours is more organized.
Phones and cameras transfer photos differently. Sometimes I have to hunt to find where they are. I don't always go back and organzied them. If I kept up monthly maintenance, I think it would help a lot.
My photo filing system simply means I print what I will want to refer to and those are mounted in a photo book. Once I use a photo as inspiration for a landscape, I take the photo out of the book and move it to another book alongside a photo of the piece I made from it.
ReplyDeleteMaryanne,
ReplyDeleteThat's a good system.
I can do that with the photographs I paint from.
In the early days, I printed out nearly everything. That would be great to have, but ink is now so expensive, and runs out so fast, it isn't practical for me to have a printed photo library of every photo.
That is a beautiful photo! I look forward to your art!
ReplyDeleteYou recently read my blog so you now know how my photos are saved. It is now a flash drive with another back up, lol. Hope you find a way to securely save yours.
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Cannot wait to see this pic as a watercolor. Janice
ReplyDeleteSaundra,
ReplyDeleteThank you! I was calling them memory sticks.
I have a couple of flash drives with photos on them. . Need to get all the older pictures stored away from the old laptop. Labeling flash drives to organize will make it easier to find photos.
Janice,
ReplyDeleteThe creek patercolor should be finished tomorrow, actually today because it is just after midnight. lol
Have a fun weekend!
Marie,
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to get back to doing watercolors. I forgot how much fun it is.
Have a nice weekend!
What a beautiful scene. I have mine backed up in the cloud but it's still hard to find a particular photo...I have so many! I do better finding something that I've shown on my blog. Enjoy your weekend!
ReplyDeleteDiane,
ReplyDeleteYes! Good point.The blog does hold good photos that are fairly easy to find.
If I hadn't posted the creek picture, then I am sure I would still be looking for it. I wish there is a way to download all the Blogger photos as one folder without the posts.
Diane,
ReplyDeleteI found it! On blogger.com/mediamanager/
I don't have an official program but what I do is have (in my computer pictures section) files by category -- autumn images, winter, Michigan, Travel-Internation, travel-domestic, along with things like family, friends, etc.
ReplyDeleteAt the end of the month (or so) I either move or copy photos into the various subfolders. Then if I want to find a photo from autumn, for example, I look in that file. Sometimes I subdivide the file, too -- trees and foliage, up-north, fields, etc. Flowers are subdivided by type of flower. Animals/birds has folders for ducks, geese, squirrels, rabbits, deer, etc. Once a year I back them up on an external hard drive. I periodically go through and delete the ones I know I'll never use on the blog or paint. Once you get the system going it is easy to maintain.
Jeanie,
ReplyDeleteThe more I think about it, the more I think I'm just a lazy photo filer person.
I did find how to download all blog photos on Blogger. That is a help. Now I can set up a flash drive aka memory stick, with back up, for my photo library.
what a beautiful image, this would great painted in any medium!! i have a photo library on my computer, folders with names. i back up my computer with an external hard drive but i have never needed to use it. it's just a comfort knowing i have it!!
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