I know this dawned on me one day, and sorta forgot about it, but I'm hoping to come up a good system soon...
For those of us that take railroad photos, how do you keep record of what train it is that's in your photo, for down the road when you can't remember what happened a year ago. I leave captions on each of the photos that I upload to this site, but god forbid if something happens here, I need a system to keep all my personal photo captions safe. The backups should get the gallery and photos/captions going again, but as I know a number of people put photos on other sites instead, and they could fold shop someday, and there go your captions.
I'm thinking a master text file of each photo name, along with the caption next to each, or a master Excel file. Any ideas?
Photo information archive
- ~Z~
- Sofa King Admin
- Posts: 12948
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:14 pm
- Location: Grand Rapids, MI
- Contact:
Photo information archive
Webmaster
Railroad photos on Railroadfan.com
Railroad photos on Railroadfan.com
-
- Railroadfan...fan
- Posts: 4828
- Joined: Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:28 am
- Location: Marysville, Michigan
- conrailmike
- Signal Maintainer
- Posts: 2832
- Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:59 pm
- Location: Less than 100' from CSX (LSRC) Saginaw Sub. MP 61.4 in Highland, MI
- ~Z~
- Sofa King Admin
- Posts: 12948
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:14 pm
- Location: Grand Rapids, MI
- Contact:
A scan probably would help...then i can try to make my form similar to it.. please email it to webmaster@railroadfan.comconrailmike wrote:Zack, not sure if it will help you or not, but I have a form that I was able to use from the late Gary J. Benson's book "The Art of Railroad Photography" I can send you a scan of it if you want.
Thanks!
Webmaster
Railroad photos on Railroadfan.com
Railroad photos on Railroadfan.com
-
- Sofa King follower
- Posts: 6159
- Joined: Sat Apr 23, 2005 1:59 pm
- Location: Toledo, OH.
Zack the way Wayne and my self do it is just get a sprial note book, preferably one with out the rip out pages, and have at it. I like to start out going across with, Time, Loco numbers, and how many cars.
https://flic.kr/ps/jSuAb My Flickr photos!
- conrailmike
- Signal Maintainer
- Posts: 2832
- Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:59 pm
- Location: Less than 100' from CSX (LSRC) Saginaw Sub. MP 61.4 in Highland, MI
- conrailmike
- Signal Maintainer
- Posts: 2832
- Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:59 pm
- Location: Less than 100' from CSX (LSRC) Saginaw Sub. MP 61.4 in Highland, MI