The “sort” folder
I have this very bad habit of not editing out my fun photos after I shoot them. This isn’t a new habit either, I have been doing this for at least 5 years now. The result is a 500 GB hard drive nearly full with images that I sorta forgot about. Since I shoot in raw file format almost 100% of the time, it is not as simple as viewing them in thumbnail and doing a quick sort. I literally have no clue what they are. They just carry a date and sometimes a folder name. Sometimes I may not even go as far as that. I bet I have at least 40 folders in there that have a “new folder” in the title and I just dumped the photos in there.
Most of my editing time in the warmer months is spent editing out wedding/engagement photos. This means I am sorting/editing/backing up around 4,000 client related photos a week. To give myself a little break from those photos, I have been searching for some hidden treasure by randomly importing photos into Lightroom. Some of these date back to 2005 and it’s pretty interesting to see how my style and eye has drifted since then.
Here are a couple from 2007. Nothing mind blowing, but I figured it was fitting for the time of year we are coming up on. I am going to eventually expand out my webpage to feature more of my fun photos that I do in my off time.
~Ben
