Apologies for the clickbait title, but I’d like to determine if micro.blog photos is servicable for the many photos I have and will remove from flickr.
For context, several years ago I embarked on documenting all the local trail / ultratrail races and after 6 or 7 years, I ended up with 10K+ photos organised by event. I’d published them within hours of the race each on flickr, and I kept all the originals from Aperture and imported them to photos.
I no longer pay for flickr and they keep threatening to boot me off (its been a couple of years) and I’d like to comply eventually. But i want to publish the photos, as they are still referenced by the runners / clubs.
Essentually, I’d like to have an album per race that would contain anything from a few hundred photos to about a thousand or so (lots of runners / places). Each race is from a year, and has a title (example: La Mythik - Oct 2020).
Firstly, is this too many photos for MB to handle? What would the best strategy to categorise these photos by event? Any other tips, size/ formats etc (they are all RAW in their original form bu twill export as necessary).
Can it be done? Yes. Do I think it’s the ideal tool for the job? Probably not, IMO. I think the organizational tools that exist are not going to be sufficient for a project of that size.
Micro.blog would be great for a site for one particular race (and maybe that’s how I’d do it? A blog per race maybe?). I might use it for a race or two to build up a Hugo setup that works well, then just setup my own Hugo site, but that comes with technology knowledge to do this.
Very few things that I know of are built well to handle 10,000 photos on the web like that– most will work, but if not purpose built, won’t have the organization you’d need/want.
As a comparison, I checked my own blog and I have a little over 2000 photos. I’m sure some people have more. You could use Micro.blog photo collections to organize photos (or even separate blogs like @jsonbecker suggested) but it would be a little clunky without a dedicated workflow that is just for this. Lots of clicking and dragging photos around.
So I think the Micro.blog backend could handle this fine because it can hand off all the photos to the CDN, but getting all the photos organized might be tricky. We have cross-posting to Flickr, but not the opposite to pull them in.
In an ideal world, there would be an Aperture or Lightroom plug-in that could publish directly to Micro.blog.
My photos are all organised already so that’s not an issue for me. I’m wondering what I’d need to put in place in MB to have pages dedicated to each race and how the photos would be selected from the library. I’m asuming you meant Photos.app … I too lament the death of Aperture
If I went through with the idea, should I create a page per event, then create categories (each event) and tag each photo to the correct category (is this possible? … Nope!) ? Does this make sense?
Ah… I see. I’ve created a collection and there’s no way I can to multi select photos to add to a collection! It has to be done one by one (Feature request). Also, there’s no upload button when you’re in a collection! (Feature request).
It would make life so much easier for multiple photo management if those features were possible. Anyihign over about 10 or photos is going to get annoyingly repetetive to organise collections otherwise.
This is essentially what I mean by “organization” – the “media management” in general is not geared toward keeping such a large number of photos in a large number of collections. There are improvements that maybe will be made! But it’s not really built with that in mind right now.
(Feature request). Also, there’s no upload button when you’re in a collection! (Feature request).