BenRiceMHaving Lots of Photos is a F**king Nightmare
https://www.benricemccarthy.com/having-lots-of-photos-is-a-f-king-nightmare/
phongg@BenRiceM My solution is to store RAWs on a separate external SSD to use in Lightroom. They are simply too large (and expensive!) to store in iCloud.
Finalized JPGs will go into iCloud Photos and added into their own album if from a camera (If shot on my Sony camera, they will go into the "Sony" album group. Sub folders within the album separated by year. Very easy to set up on the mac with smart albums)
@phongg the problem is I never find myself sitting down at my desktop to do that processing, and the photos stay stuck in Lightroom
@BenRiceM I hear ya, I too have gotten lazy to edit photos over the years.
So what I've been doing is shooting in RAW+Jpeg and putting the (large/high quality) jpegs into iCloud. The quality is surprisingly good enough for just regular snapshots and anything that needs processing can always be added in later.
@phongg oh that’s a clever approach, I’ll have to consider that going forward
RJBME@phongg @BenRiceM I agree but I have found Lightroom, while not as feature rich as classic, to allow me the ability to do that editing that I wouldn’t or didn’t want to sit down at my computer to do. I often find myself doing some editing on an iPad and being happier with it than the jpeg. Replacing the SOOC jpeg in Photos with the edited and exporeted version is trivial.