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Sep 16Liked by Richard Partridge

Curious how these photos are tagged. Was it easy to curate or do you have to painstakingly scour through your archives?

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All my film stuff is tagged - took an age - but manageable. The stuff shot on d750 I try to tag as I go but usually only generically so that I can know the 'areas' to search when curating these ...

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Sep 17Liked by Richard Partridge

Thanks! What software do you use to organise everything?

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Lightroom all the way - so I use general tags like ‘street’ or ‘London’ and as I find things that interest me overtime I tag those - e.g ‘photographer’ or ‘stare’ (people who look into my camera) I then create smart collections with those keywords, which helps me organise those for these newsletters …. It’s impossible to sit in front of a photo and tag for all the possibilities you might want so I go as generic as I can which helps me to narrow down when I do groupings …

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Sep 17Liked by Richard Partridge

Thanks. Sounds v sensible. Things are getting out of control here!

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Yeh - I felt the same - whether you like lightroom for editing or not the catalogue side of it works great

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Banksy's been a BUSY LITTLE BEAVER in a few of these, I would say.....& I think that I may have had another idea for a project.

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One day i'll bring out the collection of early Banksy's I have in the archives !

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By all means. I have a homecare person that I have to babysit.....

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This is that random shit I absolutely love. Design in places we overlook sometimes, due to familiarity. Well done.

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Buzz buzz buzz...

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