Making a little detour on the way to work. Someone I set up a web site for is in town at her storage facility (which is only a few blocks from my apartment) and needs help recycling her three old PCs. I'll frag the hard drives and then bring them down to the recycling center, Saturday if I'm lucky. And she needs a hug, too.
Work has gone into high gear with our final phase testing, so I won't be able to duck out early any more. Rehearsal/show call time is a ridiculous 6:30 - 90 minutes before curtain. I've told the stage manager to expect me at 7. It only takes 10 minutes to get into costume and makeup for this show, there's no piano so no formal vocal warm-ups (I don't sing for the first hour so it would be a waste for me anyway). The set needs to be put back up but the part I'm needed for usually happens around 7.
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Besides, it's always been a non-exclusive license with the convention. You retain the rights to all the photos. Many of the photographers who submitted their pics have posted their own collections already.
:-)
But seriously:
1. I had not thought of culling - One person's crap is another person's frameable art. Though I admit I lean towards pre-nuking the blatantly blurred.
2. How long did it take for us to do half as many images for the rodeo?
What we're trying to to differently here is to make it a useful archive. It's a daunting task to put names on a hundred photos, let alone over hundred times as many as that, but that's exactly what we're trying to do.
So, for example, if you just want to find a picture of
But there's no way to tell, unless you already know what Kevin looks like, that it's him.
Your response to the Rodeo comparison was unfair to you - all the rodeo participants wore huge numbers and Andy & Kevin had the master list. Had I wanted to, it would have taken me maybe an hour to tag my 5,000 or so rodeo photos with participant names. You did not have that luxury.
Please don't take my comments as denegrating your hard work. Take them as my personal preference for instant gratification.
Perhaps I'm too close to the situation to not take that personally...
And that's what gets me wondering, for you and everyone else putting photos online: if you don't want to index them, why are you archiving them at all?
I broadcast the fact that the photos are online, and anyone who is in them is free to use them. You would be amazed at how doggedly people will plow through thousands of images to find the one they, and their friends, are in.
I used to be a newspaper photographer, jotting down names and times and dates and such. For CC26's official purposes, that's the way it needs to be done. But when you go to an art gallery and see a beautiful painting or photo of a woman in a stunning Victorian dress, it doesn't make the art any less beautiful if the description tag doesn't identify the model or the costume.