Here's how our Community Manager Emmet uses Dropbox to manage photographs

[Graham]

We really want to hear all about how you use Dropbox as photographers, so I guess it's only fair that before you tell us your stories, we tell you one of ours.

Our very own @Emmet has been part of the Community team here at Dropbox for the best part of the last 2 years but in a past life, he was a photographer and had a serious process for organizing his photos and files to make sure he saved those memories for everyone else too. Check his story out below. 

For about 5 years, I worked as photographer for University College Cork, providing photos and other creative content for the student societies in the college. There were over 100 individual societies in the college, and I would photography over a dozen events each week. 

During my 5+ years working in UCC, I uploaded over 250GB of photos, videos and graphics, for students, and the college, to use and share as part of their activities. Organising that many photos, videos and more could have been a bit of a nightmare, but thankfully Dropbox was there to help keep everything organised. 

I created individual folders to house the content for each society and created sub-folders inside these for each event. I would share these folders with the society/societies involved, and they would use this content for promotion, and sharing on their social media channels. This allowed me to keep everything organised and easy to find. At the end of each year, I would create a new folder to contain all the events that year, and ensure I could easily find them in the next year. 

Dropbox proved an invaluable tool over my years as a photographer, and allowed me to quickly access all of the photos based on the host of the event, time of the event etc. At the end of each year, I would create a compilation video, celebrating the hard work of all the student societies. When I was creating this, I found the Photo tab on Dropbox invaluable, as I would be able to see the thousands of photos I took every year, and quickly pick out my favourites for the video. 

It was an amazing tool for organizing my files then - and still is today, so it’s great to be able to use it at work everyday now. 

In fact, Emmet’s filing system was so good that he managed to dig out a 10 year old photo he took of fellow Community team member @Amy on her first day of college - not knowing their paths had crossed before, Dropbox is really amazing sometimes! 

So, that's how Emmet uses Dropbox to sort his photographs, now we'd love to hear your number one tip for using Dropbox as a photographer.

[Emmet]

I really loved sharing my experience about using Dropbox in my previous work. Does anyone else use Dropbox like this to organise their photos? Or are there are any novel ways that you use Dropbox in your photography?