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As was [discussed yesterday](2016/11/17/Curation), I consider the capture, curation, sharing and archiving of the photos and videos of our family's precious memories to be extremely important. Additionally, over the last decade I have worked extensively with the rich media workflows and processes for large enterprises and global retailers. Hence it's perhaps unsurprising that we've ended up establishing a fairly comprehensive home photography workflow.

The challenges to be considered:
- a family of happy snappers, taking photos on a multitude of devices: (iPhone (x2), iPod touch, iPad Mini, old HTC Android phone, Panasonic point-and-shoot camera, Canon digital SLR)  
- photos to be viewed and curated on a multitude of devices: (Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, Windows desktop machines, and iPhone (while traveling))  
- Some images (say at a kid's party) will need sharing outside of the family (i.e. with the other families)  
- Near-networking for medium-term photo and video archives, and all curated photos, as the MBP and the MBA have rather limited storage space.  
- Long term backup/archiving for pretty much everything.  

The main stages of the image asset workflow are:  
1) Capture  
2) Collate  
3) Organise  
4) Curate / Enhance   
5) Share  
6) Archive


![Home Photography Workflow](/images/posts/NaBloPoMo18-workflow.jpg)


### Capture  
This pretty much takes care of itself. The 'best' camera is the one you have with you.

## Collate  
I love the simplicity provided by Dropbox. Any of our mobile devices which support the native client are configured to 'auto-upload' any new images and videos when their on wifi. Other devices like our SLR are connected to one of the laptops by USB, and the windows/mac Dropbox app imports any new assets.
In both cases the new asset end up in the 'Camera Uploads' directory in our Dropbox account.

### Organise  
The camera uploads directory can end up containing a large number of pretty rapidly, so there is a manual step where I move images into directory called 'bigbucket', which then has sub-directories for a given month, or a specific event. These event-based directories can then be dropbox-shared with other families as needed. This also means we can use 'selective sync' to manage the amount of storage taken up on the laptops, otherwise the machines with smaller HDDs, quickly run into problems.

### Curate / Enhance   
Having previously used OSX Photos app, Google's Picasa and Adobe's Lightroom, each with their own catalogue and ways of organising them and being able to share them, I've learned the hard way, that **the simplest and safest way to maintain an order or structure to my photo collections is to use the file systems directory structure** (potentially further enhanced with image meta-data).

I am currently using Adobe Lightroom for my main weekly/monthly curation process - I love the interface and the workflows it both supports and encourages. When I have completed and collection, I have an export configuration saved, with my presets, and just have to select which directory for the assets to be exported to which is:

'Photos-Curated' then with subfolders organised by year, and then either by 'month', 'event' or 'adventure'.

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title: Home Photography Workflow
date: 2016-11-18T2:09:00+00:00
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As was [discussed yesterday](2016/11/17/Curation), I consider the capture, curation, sharing and archiving of the photos and videos of our family's precious memories to be extremely important. Additionally, over the last decade I have worked extensively with the rich media workflows and processes for large enterprises and global retailers. Hence it's perhaps unsurprising that we've ended up establishing a fairly comprehensive home photography workflow.

The challenges to be considered:
- a family of happy snappers, taking photos on a multitude of devices: (iPhone (x2), iPod touch, iPad Mini, old HTC Android phone, Panasonic point-and-shoot camera, Canon digital SLR)  
- photos to be viewed and curated on a multitude of devices: (Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, Windows desktop machines, and iPhone (while traveling))  
- Some images (say at a kid's party) will need sharing outside of the family (i.e. with the other families)  
- Near-networking for medium-term photo and video archives, and all curated photos, as the MBP and the MBA have rather limited storage space.  
- Long term backup/archiving for pretty much everything.  

The main stages of the image asset workflow are:  
1) Capture  
2) Collate  
3) Organise  
4) Curate / Enhance   
5) Share  
6) Archive


![Home Photography Workflow](/images/posts/NaBloPoMo18-workflow.jpg)


### Capture  
This pretty much takes care of itself. The 'best' camera is the one you have with you.

### Collate  
I love the simplicity provided by Dropbox. Any of our mobile devices which support the native client are configured to 'auto-upload' any new images and videos when their on wifi. Other devices like our SLR are connected to one of the laptops by USB, and the windows/mac Dropbox app imports any new assets.
In both cases the new asset end up in the 'Camera Uploads' directory in our Dropbox account.

### Organise  
The camera uploads directory can end up containing a large number of pretty rapidly, so there is a manual step where I move images into directory called 'bigbucket', which then has sub-directories for a given month, or a specific event. These event-based directories can then be dropbox-shared with other families as needed. This also means we can use 'selective sync' to manage the amount of storage taken up on the laptops, otherwise the machines with smaller HDDs, quickly run into problems.

### Curate / Enhance   
Having previously used OSX Photos app, Google's Picasa and Adobe's Lightroom, each with their own catalogue and ways of organising them and being able to share them, I've learned the hard way, that **the simplest and safest way to maintain an order or structure to my photo collections is to use the file systems directory structure** (potentially further enhanced with image meta-data).

I am currently using Adobe Lightroom for my main weekly/monthly curation process - I love the interface and the workflows it both supports and encourages. When I have completed and collection, I have an export configuration saved, with my presets, and just have to select which directory for the assets to be exported to which is:

'Photos-Curated' then with subfolders organised by year, and then either by 'month', 'event' or 'adventure'.


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