Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn

Re:Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn by mikewarot on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:29AM (#31701934)

There are some subjects I do not feel appropriate photographing. I prefer to remember friends and family as I knew them. I understand the logistics of the past were different... but it's a line I've never crossed.

It's also true that many of the people I've photographed have since died. Some day my family will be left to decided the fate of these photos. I've done face tagging (more than once... grrrrr)

I do need to prune them down a bit. 350,000 photos is a bit much.

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Re:Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn by iforgotpassword on Saturday June 11, 2022 @03:55AM (#31702772)

> I understand the logistics of the past were different... but it's a line I've never crossed.

I guess even back then this might very well have been what most people thought. We are obviously only left with the photos of those who didn't think that way.

An important factor probably was that these people might have never taken a photo of their loved ones at all before, an then suddenly you find yourself in this "now or never" situation while you're not in the best psychological condition ever.

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Re:Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn by gsich on Saturday June 11, 2022 @09:00AM (#31704125)

If you want fun and usable face tagging use Picasa. It's still the best software for this.

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Re:Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn by mikewarot on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:39AM (#31705309)

Picasa's last release has a bug, in photos with multiple faces, it sometimes swaps them. 8(

This then corrupts the database for all other tagging.

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Re:Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn by gsich on Sunday June 12, 2022 @07:05PM (#31719096)

Haven't encountered that, but I only use 1 PC for tagging.

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