FileFortress for Photographers

Organize your photo library with metadata search

What You'll Learn
  • Setting up FileFortress for photo management
  • Extracting EXIF metadata with ExifTool
  • Searching by camera, lens, and settings
  • Finding photos by location
  • Managing RAW + JPEG pairs

Why FileFortress for Photographers?

Photographers accumulate thousands of images across multiple storage locations. FileFortress helps you:

  • Search by camera - Find all photos from a specific body
  • Search by lens - Find shots from your favorite glass
  • Search by location - Find geotagged photos from trips
  • Find duplicates - Identify RAW+JPEG pairs or true duplicates
  • Organize across clouds - Search Google Photos, S3, and local storage together

Setting Up

1. Connect Your Photo Storage

# Add Google Photos
filefortress remotes add photos --provider google-photos

# Add S3 bucket for archives
filefortress remotes add archive --provider s3

# Scan to index
filefortress remotes scan --all

2. Extract EXIF Metadata

# Run ExifTool on photo files
filefortress tools run --filter "extension:jpg,jpeg,cr2,nef,arw,dng" --tool exiftool

Search Examples

By Camera

# All Canon photos
filefortress search --filter "cameraMake:Canon"

# Specific model
filefortress search --filter "cameraModel:*5D*Mark*IV*"

# All mirrorless (Sony a7 series)
filefortress search --filter "cameraModel:*ILCE-7*"

By Lens

# 85mm portraits
filefortress search --filter "focalLength:85"

# Wide angle (under 35mm)
filefortress search --filter "focalLength:<35"

# Telephoto (over 200mm)
filefortress search --filter "focalLength:>200"

By Settings

# Low light shots (high ISO)
filefortress search --filter "iso:>3200"

# Wide aperture (bokeh)
filefortress search --filter "aperture:<2.8"

# Long exposures
filefortress search --filter "shutterSpeed:>1"

By Location

# Photos with GPS data
filefortress search --filter "gpsLatitude:*"

# Photos from Italy (approximate area)
filefortress search --filter "gpsLatitude:>36 AND gpsLatitude:<47 AND gpsLongitude:>6 AND gpsLongitude:<19"

Finding Duplicates

# Find duplicate files by hash
filefortress duplicates

# Show locations of duplicates
filefortress duplicates --show-locations
Pro Tip

Combine filters to find specific shots: --filter "cameraMake:Canon AND focalLength:85 AND aperture:<2.0" finds portrait shots with beautiful bokeh.

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