By MidgePhoto, 1653746584
I have several albums[1], and find them useful and congenial, I have the same feeling about other people's albums, usually. I am by nature a splitter, a classifier, a linker.
The first thing, is that many images would fit very well into more than one, or several albums. So put them in all those. Does no harm. It isn't a file cabinet, more akin to clipping out the holes on the edge of a Cope-Chat card.
Second, is that I suggest that whatever other albums exist, having one called "All" in which every image is placed in addition to whatever specific albums it goes in is handy, or may be in your future. For the lumpers, its effect is almost the same as having all your images spilled out in a single heap across your page, which don't get me wrong, is an absolutely wonderful way to do it, if that's how you like. But neater.
Third is that the naming of albums is a difficult thing. To have an album for one person you've shot with is an obvious thought, but just occasionally I see an album with a model's previous name, which they have presumably discarded for some reason, so this seems unhelpful; and sometimes I see an album which names the model, which contains images the model has not permitted to be tagged to them. Again, this seems capable of being an action against the intent and interest of the model, which is potentially unkind. Some of my albums are named for one or more model. One is named "Other models" and is for anyone else.
Fourth is that among the various reasons why your wonderful picture is not showing the tag of the model or the photographer, stylist, studio etc in it to anyone but you is that they really don't like it, see above, but also they might have left PP. You may not know that, but if you did, you might find answering the question "Why didn't you tag the model/credit the photographer/etc" pre-emptively by putting the image in an album called "Models (or whatever) not on PP". Or not. It's fine. Just an idea.
Fifth is that if you are a wordy type, of whom I cannot think of an example, you might care to keep the words down on your profile page, where some users are troubled by them and want to get to (a few of*) the pictures as immediately as possible, by devoting the explanatory notes and commentary section of an album to words. It really needs no, or no more than one, image in it, and I used a picture of the word "Words" as that image, and called the album "Words". There is no reason why you should do the same, or anything similar, or even anything much much cleverer, unless you want to. I put links in it to articles and even a thread or so. Odd, I know. Even a bit Web 1.1
Sixth is that you might use the notes, explanatory and commentary piece of an album to put notes, explanations and comments on what is in it, and in order to amuse people who don't want to read far before seeing an image, you could embed one, two, or a few images in that panel as has been done very effectively by some of the more graphically aware of us. You can make it conveniently small, but larger than the icons, and link it to the image page.
Seven ... would be too many for now.
* see [1] below.
[1] This saves those users who, as is entirely their right and no doubt the best thing for them in this best of all possible worlds, time, as they can now ignore all my pictures in a single glance, or couple or three pages. Probably they don't scroll, either, because who would.
