Red headed woodpecker
There are probably a number of articles about smart collections to be found on the web so I won’t go into that here, save to say that I’ll be using them to manage my SoFoBoMo images. Right now, my smart collection picks up the following images:
keywords contain sofobomo09 AND
flag is not rejected AND
aspect ratio is landscape AND
rating >=2
This may, at the beginning, be a bit too rigid, or not. Initially, i want to work with all horizontal photos, but this could change. Also, I want to give them a quick rating. If it is out of focus or doesn’t appeal to me at all, it will get rejected. If I like it and think that I ‘might’ include it, I’ll rank it a 2. On the first morning, Friday, I took 50 pictures, of which about 28 made the first cut. I just rated everything a 2, but will go back and really have a better look to see which I might want to include. I took a lot of vertical pictures, too, which may or may not be used.
Later, if I want to include verticals, all that I need to do is remove that criterion and the pictures will magically appear, then rank them. Last year, smart collections weren’t there. Just another tool to try to make life a bit easier and the pictures more manageable.
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You amaze me. You’ve got this great image sittin’ at the top of your post, and you don’t even mention it. What a great image!
I agree 100% about Lightroom’s collections, though. They work great. I don’t know if I could exist these days without Lightroom.
@Chris: Thanks for the compliment about the photo. I was across the street, shooting with my 50mm lens and heard this tapping above my head and there he was, so I took a few shots of him. I wish that I had my 500mm lens on, but the 50 did in pinch.