When I first started on Substack about a year ago I made a few posts called From My Archive because I had come across a bunch of photos I took in the 1990s and 2000s on film. I really enjoyed curating them into small collections. It also showed me that my taste in composition and subject hasn't really changed much over the years.
When I join a new social media site, I generally only post new work. Substack is a little different because I need to go into the archives to find images that illustrate the points I want to make. I'm the same, in that my tastes haven't changed much. But my photos are much better now than they were then. :-)
Archives can easily feel very time consuming, when you really want to do something else! But later, one day, when you type in a couple of words and the right photograph pops up immediately… there is deep satisfaction! I keep them all.
I try to make a decent selection of my digital photos every month, so that I can move the rest to the archive. Sometimes I go back to cull further, but generally I am happy with keeping some bad ones too, after all they are all part of a journey.
Not exactly; I share very few of my photos on social networks. I don't work as a professional photographer per se, although I get paid for portrait sessions, but everything else is personal,so to speak. I try to keep my archive tidy-ish, so I can come back to my older photos and enjoy and recall those moments as accurately as possible. It doesn't always work, but it's a habit I've cultivated especially since the pandemic.
I always find it interesting what photos in my archives stick to my mind. Others I forget.
When I first started on Substack about a year ago I made a few posts called From My Archive because I had come across a bunch of photos I took in the 1990s and 2000s on film. I really enjoyed curating them into small collections. It also showed me that my taste in composition and subject hasn't really changed much over the years.
When I join a new social media site, I generally only post new work. Substack is a little different because I need to go into the archives to find images that illustrate the points I want to make. I'm the same, in that my tastes haven't changed much. But my photos are much better now than they were then. :-)
Archives can easily feel very time consuming, when you really want to do something else! But later, one day, when you type in a couple of words and the right photograph pops up immediately… there is deep satisfaction! I keep them all.
Yeah, the most time consuming part is coming up with the tags.
Me too Kevin. I keep most of my photographs and once in a while enjoy going through my archive.
I try to make a decent selection of my digital photos every month, so that I can move the rest to the archive. Sometimes I go back to cull further, but generally I am happy with keeping some bad ones too, after all they are all part of a journey.
By "selection" do you mean sharing publicly? And then archive is for long term storage?
All the photos that I fix up go to a folder called "to upload." Then, after I've shared them on whatever network I feel like, they go to storage.
Not exactly; I share very few of my photos on social networks. I don't work as a professional photographer per se, although I get paid for portrait sessions, but everything else is personal,so to speak. I try to keep my archive tidy-ish, so I can come back to my older photos and enjoy and recall those moments as accurately as possible. It doesn't always work, but it's a habit I've cultivated especially since the pandemic.
That's a good habit