[Dabhand16]

You hit the nail on the head when you said that it's a personal choice.

I tend to open a new folder for a batch of photos and name it with something meaningful. In this folder I then create a sub-folders 'edits', and 'mono', and any other ones that I need. This way I only have one main photos folder with the edits being kept in the master folder. I rename the edited file with a suffix - la for Licis art, m for mono, b for border etc.

Sometimes I will have collections of photos from more than one folder, photos for printing, for instance. These files I rename to an actual name of what they are.

Now I have Lightroom, I'm trying to adopt the keywording system that it uses, but I am not using it often enough to be able to do it automatically yet.

I think the underscores are what some software recognises as a space.