Intimidating Ontologies
/I was talking to my photo buddy Eric Wyllie the other night. We were chatting over some of the things I had written in my Aperture/Lightroom comparison and were comparing our practices in Aperture, which we both use.
Eric's heavily into keywording, but I'm just...not. I've never really known why I couldn't get into it, but last night I realised: Aperture's beautiful hierarchical keywording system paralyses some part of my brain. I can't bring myself to add copious tags, Flickr-style. I have to worry about where they fit in the hierarchy, whether the "Greenock" tag really belongs in the /Travel/UK/Scotland hierarchy or somewhere else or, indeed, whether "UK/Scotland" should be under /Travel and not, say, /Home or some such.
See? I can't live with disorder and I can't cope with the demands of maintaining order. Actually, that pretty much sums up my life.
Update: A couple of commenters have mentioned how frustrating it is that FlickrExport uses the entire keyword hierarchy path to fill out a photo's Flickr keywords. That's just the default, and there's a preference: Change the "Fill Flickr Tags From:" preference from "Full Aperture Keyword Hierarchy" to "Image Tags Only" and only the leaf tags in the tree will be used.
Eric's heavily into keywording, but I'm just...not. I've never really known why I couldn't get into it, but last night I realised: Aperture's beautiful hierarchical keywording system paralyses some part of my brain. I can't bring myself to add copious tags, Flickr-style. I have to worry about where they fit in the hierarchy, whether the "Greenock" tag really belongs in the /Travel/UK/Scotland hierarchy or somewhere else or, indeed, whether "UK/Scotland" should be under /Travel and not, say, /Home or some such.
See? I can't live with disorder and I can't cope with the demands of maintaining order. Actually, that pretty much sums up my life.
Update: A couple of commenters have mentioned how frustrating it is that FlickrExport uses the entire keyword hierarchy path to fill out a photo's Flickr keywords. That's just the default, and there's a preference: Change the "Fill Flickr Tags From:" preference from "Full Aperture Keyword Hierarchy" to "Image Tags Only" and only the leaf tags in the tree will be used.
