I do photography as a side job. 100% self taught, and I think my lack of education when it comes to photo organization is going to catch up to me.

My current process is:

• Back up photos on hard drive

• Cull photos on my Mac by “tagging” them, and moving the tagged photos to Lightroom

• Move them to the appropriate file in Lightroom. Photos are organized by subject > year > name/date. This also serves as a backup.

• When I send photos to clients, I copy the photos to a floating file on my desktop and share them on a Google drive file. I do this because it (was) free and easy, except now I’m paying 9.99 a month for for more storage

This doesn’t seem like an ideal process to me. I don’t know what I don’t even know. Does anyone have a streamlined process they want to brag about?