{"id":17629,"date":"2019-03-02T23:53:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T07:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17629"},"modified":"2019-03-02T23:55:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T07:55:44","slug":"done-with-photo-labeling-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2019\/03\/02\/done-with-photo-labeling-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Done with photo-labeling project!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

I\u2019ve now labeled all 39,801 photos and videos in my collection. Whew.<\/p>\r\n

\u2026I don\u2018t know if I ever really explained what I mean by \u201clabeled\u201d in this project. I mean that each item now has a descriptive title (although often the titles are just things like \u201cView\u201d), and each item has one or more categorization tags, and all the people who I can identify are labeled with their names, and the time\/date stamp for each item is as accurate as I can make it.<\/p>\r\n

And any item that I especially liked is tagged as a Favorite, though this was only a first pass at Favorites. At some point, I\u2019ll probably do a further reduction pass on the Favorites, because there are 6,700 of them, which is a little unwieldy.<\/p>\r\n

And anything that I want to do further stuff with (like posting it, or finding out more about it, or deciding whether to delete it, or getting the printed version framed) is marked with a tag like TODO or TODELETE or TOFRAME.<\/p>\r\n

I haven\u2018t done any editing at all on the vast majority of these photos. In a few cases, I used Apple Photos tools to improve them slightly (usually by making dark photos a little brighter), and in a few cases, Google Photos has automatically generated enhanced versions (usually by boosting the saturation way up). But I haven\u2019t cropped them or done anything else to improve them; that would have added a huge amount of time, and would have required a lot of artistic decisions that were out of scope for this project. I don\u2019t make decisions easily or quickly, so I wanted to do as little decisionmaking as possible for this project. :)<\/p>\r\n

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\"Number<\/a>
Number of photos per year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

The dates of the photos range from about 1860 to the present. But the number of photos per year went up by a lot around 1997, when I got my first camera and went on my Wanderjahr, and then went up by a lot again around 2002, when I got my first digital camera, and then went up by a lot again around 2005 (my father\u2019s death, various weddings and trips, etc), then again in 2007 with my first iPhone. In 2009, I bought a house and sold my condo (about 1,400 photos), and copied photos Kam took of Mary Anne, Kevin, and Kavya (about 300 photos), and flew in a zeppelin, and so on, so the numbers went even further up. In 2010, more house stuff, a trip to Australia, various other trips, a wedding, etc.<\/p>\r\n

Interestingly, in 2011, the number dropped to about a third of the 2010 number, and volume has only gradually been climbing back up since then. <\/p>\r\n

\u2026Part of the increase over time is that I continue to slowly get used to the idea of taking lots of photos, especially on trips, and I continue to incorporate digital photos that other people have taken (at events we\u2019ve been at together, or posted on FB, or whatever).<\/p>\r\n

\u2026The numbers did go down somewhat in 2018, when I started labeling photos as I took them, and started to be aware of just how much work labeling them was going to be :), but it was still the sixth-largest year ever.<\/p>\r\n

So far in two months of 2019, I\u2019ve taken about 550 photos; if that continues, then 2019 will end up among the largest years ever too. But 350 of those were from the Sri Lanka trip, so it\u2019s hard to extrapolate usefully.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17633,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions\/17633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}