File Name Protocol

There is a code system for naming the images in this Photo Gallery.  The names of individual images are explained below.  The actual images, showing their specific file name, are found by clicking on either the "Enhanced Image" or the "Raw Image" link above.

All images have a "file name" that starts with a "P."

After that letter, there are three spaces that indicate the "date" the photo was taken.  The first of these spaces usually, for this wedding series, has a "3" in it -- indicating that the image was originally taken in "March."

The next two spaces indicate the day of the month.  If the next two spaces are "18" that would mean the "18th of the month."

When the first three spaces are "318" that indicates that the images was taken on "March 18, 2005."  The date system does NOT include the year -- assuming that the person handling the camera and the files knows that information.

There next follows FOUR spaces, containing a number from "0001" to "9999."  These are the consecutive numbers for one batch of images, where the image was stored on one memory card.

There next follows ONE space, containing a letter, from "a" through "d" indicating WHICH memory card the original image was stored on.  Finally there may or may not be further spaces indicating which "version" of that photo you are looking at.  If there is nothing following the "letter designation" then you are looking at a condensed version of the original image, without any photo editing or change.  In most cases these images are OK to look at, but are not as satisfactory as those which have been edited or enhanced.  Those which have been changed from the original carry a number (from "1" to "9") indicating that it is an image that has been changed or edited from the original.

All images on this web are condensed from the original image stored on the memory card.  In other words the original images are "JPG" files which might take "one megabyte" of memory space -- this would make the image extremely slow to download.  Generally images used on the web are "condensed."  There are many levels of "condensing" that make for higher quality (slower download time) or poorer quality (faster download time).  The "compression factor" for the images on this web site are a typical choice that gives good quality with fairly fast download time.

If you are interested in downloading, copying any image, the best place is probably the folder labeled "Enhanced Images."  When you click on that link, at the top of the page, you come to a LIST of images showing the file name as described in the above text.  In this folder you'll also see the size of the file.

I have placed SOME of these images in the "raw image" folder -- but they generally take up so much memory that they are difficult to download -- after the initial batch I discontinued placing ALL images in both the "Enhanced" and the "Raw" folders --- only in the "Enhanced" folder.

The actual original images, as stored on the memory card in the digital camera, are found ONLY on the local hard disk of the photographer, Loren C. Troescher.