I keep a photographic archive in a very strange way. I will not go into the details of the numbering, I will focus at only one. I used to (and still) separate pictures taken in my free time for myself and taken at work immediately in jpeg.
I have a question to myself, why? After all, this was done by the same me and all on the same camera.
Yes, I used to have different cameras: my own - Canon, work - Nikon.
Now I shoot everything with one single camera, but I still separate the shots.
You probably still do not understand what the problem is.
At first, I divided the pictures into my own and working ones, as first grade and second grade.
And now I feel a little sorry for the old working pictures, since they are almost better in terms of the value of the material and the plot than those taken for myself.
I can explain why it happened. The fact is that I was shooting for myself all the time and in a certain way I was maintaining an archive of photographs.
And then suddenly a job appeared, and, accordingly, a new genre for me, which was very different from what I shot for myself.
Yes, and the cameras were different - it was definitely impossible to mix pictures!
Then, out of habit, I continued to keep the archive in an already formed way.
Now I began to mix in the pictures converted from raw to the pictures taken directly in jpeg.
In general, I have long had a desire to completely restructure my photo archive.
Make it simple and understandable, and not as it is now. Although now I'm just used to it.
I want the archive to be sorted by year, month and date of shooting.
If absolutely ideally, then I would leave everything as it is, and would sort it in a new way already on a separate duplicated hard drive.
I now have something like this, but not the entire archive, but only a part.
And the duplicate photos are on the work computer.
By the way, to make it more interesting to go to work, you should have a more powerful computer there than at home.
I process all the pictures in almost 95% of cases at work.
The home computer has become more for storing and sorting material.
It is absolutely necessary to go forward and not bad, if by leaps and bounds... but sometimes you need to look back in order to evaluate the path traveled, to analyze it.