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- Jan 23, 2014
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Background - I have approx 20,000 BW negatives stored in 8 ring binder files.... approx 40 negatives per page.....approx 65 pages per file. My father transferred all the negatives into those files about 40 years ago... they were inherited from his father 20 years before that......I have exhibited my Grandfather’s original vintage prints at a few exhibitions with some degree of success so I am considering making Estate Prints from some of the material that has not seen the light of day for 60-80 years....
Current situation - I am in the process of photographing each page to make a contact sheet, using a light pad and DSLR.. So when I am finished, I will have approx 500 new “photos”, but each photo has 40 images on it. Is there something clever that I could do within LR that will enable me to home in on particular images.. .. Some photos have the same subject matter for all the 40 images... some have several subjects... I am happy to keyword all the 500 photos..... but before I do it, I thought I would just ask if someone has any left-field idea that could help in this situation.
I only have one catalog (following the advice I read in here) but if this scenario warranted an extra catalog just for those images (which would presumably allow a new set of keywords) I would be happy to do that.
Thank you very much for any input or suggestions.
Current situation - I am in the process of photographing each page to make a contact sheet, using a light pad and DSLR.. So when I am finished, I will have approx 500 new “photos”, but each photo has 40 images on it. Is there something clever that I could do within LR that will enable me to home in on particular images.. .. Some photos have the same subject matter for all the 40 images... some have several subjects... I am happy to keyword all the 500 photos..... but before I do it, I thought I would just ask if someone has any left-field idea that could help in this situation.
I only have one catalog (following the advice I read in here) but if this scenario warranted an extra catalog just for those images (which would presumably allow a new set of keywords) I would be happy to do that.
Thank you very much for any input or suggestions.