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I have my own approach which is home grown and based on my own requirements but I'm always interested in refining it.

I'm not asking about what software you use - unless you leave it entirely up to the software to organise your library - but more how you structure your directories (or folders).

Is the structure based on your work-flow habits? Do you keep originals separate from work-in-progress or finished images?

How do you find things later? Do you use jpeg comments or IPTC tags?

Thanks for anything you can share.

Comment by lenscape posted on How do you organise your photos? at 20/11/2007 - 13:40

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I have been so tempted by these little gems. I've heard only good reports. However, I have a 12" Dell notebook with dual processors, 2GB RAM, 120GB of disk space and a good 5 hours of battery life. It isn't as small and neat as the Asus but it's a whole lot more practical for processing photos.

So, although I think I've now been at the online checkout three times with a single Eee in my basket. Common sense (is it?) has so far prevailed and I haven't actually ordered one.

Comment by lenscape posted on Portable data storage and a Linux question (or two) at 19/12/2007 - 11:05

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Well done again Lily.

I mentioned in my entry that the picture looks better in colour so here's the proof:

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Comment by lenscape posted on Weekly Competition #19 The Monochrome Landscape at 20/11/2007 - 10:05

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Geek info
Camera: Pentax Super-A
Taken in Portugal many years ago.
Much nicer in colour .

Comment by lenscape posted on Weekly Competition #19 The Monochrome Landscape at 12/11/2007 - 19:22

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it takes a directory full of photos and picks one at random to be your background every time you start Windows. You'll never be bored of your background again

Now if I could only find an equivalent for Linux.
KDE has such a feature built in.

Comment by lenscape posted on Handy Hint #554978 Wallpapers at 16/11/2007 - 18:48

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For some time, Windows has supported using jpegs directly for wallpaper. If you save your images as BMPs you will make them 5 times larger and much slower to load without any benefits.

Also, modern TFT screens are usually around 96dpi or better, although, this figure isn't usually regarded when displaying wallpaper.

Comment by lenscape posted on Handy Hint #554978 Wallpapers at 12/11/2007 - 13:55

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Dirk, your use of english seems to have changed lately, are you writing in your native language (spanish??) and using a translator?

I ask because the english you use now isn't as good as when you first started writing to us.
Apart from a missing plural on 'school', I can't see anything other than pretty damn good English there.

Comment by lenscape posted on San Miguel de Tucumán city… at 11/11/2007 - 10:45

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I think I might finally have something to offer this forum (bit of a newbie)
I was reading this and pushed my chair back about 6 foot from the screen and took two shots of this thread with my Tamron 70-300 at 70.
in case the exif doesn't show, the camera went off at 1/6th of a second
Monitor refresh not withstanding, I think the results pretty much wrap up this debate.
That's very interesting and nice to believe but hardly scientific or conclusive. The human element influences such tests making them virtually useless. You may have just been much steadier in your second shot.

Comment by lenscape posted on whats the deal with the Shake reduction at 11/11/2007 - 11:48

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i think the bokeh is very good, and from what i've read the reviewers revkon the 18-200 has crap bokeh
The background looks some way off and I would expect that the bokeh of all lenses tends towards equality with increasing distance.

Comment by lenscape posted on Kangaroo close up with K100D at 11/11/2007 - 10:57

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Not seen anyone mention LightZone by Lightcrafts.

I've used the Linux version and I like it a lot.

Comment by lenscape posted on Alternatives to samsungs digimax raw converter? at 12/11/2007 - 14:01

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