Should I name each individual picture in an event or just name the event?

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I could use some advise from those out there that really know how to organize their photos in iPhoto.
Should I name each individual picture in an event or just name the event?  The individual photos all have the typical camera file names (ex: 134-234.jpeg) when imported and in an event, but to be more organized, do most (or some) people re-name each photo in an event AND name the event?  For example:
Bob's Birthday Party on Saturday:  25 photos uploaded into iPhoto.  I named the event "Bob's 38th Birthday" but all of the 25 photos just have random numbered names.  I'd like to know who was in the photos so 10 years from now I can remember who I was standing next to.  Keywords for the event would not help (from what I understand) in this instance because I wouldn't know which of those keyword names went with what photo (ex: people's name that were in the different photos), because the keyword is for the entire event...right?  Not the individual photo?  But aside from keywords...
1.     Should I name every single photo?  If yes,...how?  ex:  "Bob & me next to pool.jpeg" and "Bob and me in kitchen.jpeg"
2.     Is there a "rule" to how long a photo name can be or how to type it"  "Bob and me by the pool at carol's house.jpeg" seems ridiculous, but how do you get all the pertinent info for that one photo so you remember who and where.
3.     If I am naming each photo and there are different photos but with the same person do I name it "Bob and me 1.jpeg" "Bob and me 2.jpeg" so two similar photos don't have the same name?
4.      If I go to a concert and have 68 photos are people taking the time to name each one?
My main question is about actually naming photos, and how best to name if there are lots of photos in an event, not keywords, etc.  I seem to find a lot of information on keywords and naming events, but not on naming the actual individual photos.
Thanks so much for any advice.
P.S.  First time ever posting a question, so please be kind
Using iMac with Mavericks 10.9.2 & iPhoto 11

Answer 1

LarryHN wrote:
Totally wrong way to go about it
You want to use albums and folders not events
Sorry Larry, but I respectfully disagree. Events are a fine way to organize photos. And for me, organizing by event is more natural than using albums and folders.
I do agree that the OP is totally going about it the wrong way. And to that, I'll paste a response I always use for this question:
Here is how I go about using iPhoto:
Import photos.
Delete junk.
Split or combine events as needed. I tend to be an Event minimalist. For example, I don’t make the photos I took of my daughter at McDonald’s an event. Things like that get grouped into a “Winter 2014” event. Christmas photos often span a month or more, from cutting the tree to packing everything up, and they all get lumped into one of three “Christmas” events based on the branch of the family they relate to..
Set Keywords. I try to keep my keyword list to a minimum. For example, I have a keyword for “Vacation”, but I don’t use keywords for the location of the vacation (that’s taken care of with the Places feature). Another example: I have a keyword for “Birthday”, but I don’t have keywords for the person or the year (those are taken care of with the Faces feature, and the fact that all the photos are dated already).
Rate the best as 4 or 5 stars, and if I need to keep a bad photo for some reason, I rate it as 1 star. I don’t bother rating photos as 2 or 3 stars, but you can if you want.
Name the Faces. I only do this with the people I care about and delete the box around people that I don’t care about (this prevents them from showing up as suggestions when you’re viewing a person’s photos).
Set the location. This is very important for travel photos, but is also handy for others as well. If you want a really good reason to set the travel photos, pick a trip, do the work of setting the location of each photo, and then start the Travel slide show. The Travel slide show is really cool!
Now, with all this info set (called metadata in computer parlance), I can use Smart Albums to great effect.
I have a smart album that contains all photos of my daughter that I’ve rated as 5 starts. This album is automatically synched to my iPhone, my wife’s iPhone, my iPad, and our AppleTV. Every time I import a photo into iPhoto and mark my daughter’s face and rate the photo as five stars, the photo is automatically sent to all our devices when we synch. Super easy!
I have smart albums with Christmas photos for each branch of our family. So, when someone comes over for the holidays, I can easily show that part of the family’s Christmas photos on the TV. We don’t just sit around and watch the slide show all night, but the photos are there if people want to look and they add a nice touch to an otherwise empty sheet of dark glass. So, the Jones Christmas smart album has photos from 1972 to present, and only contain Jones family Christmas photos.
That's just a few things to keep in mind. I've found that combining Events and Smart Albums with Faces, Places, Keywords, and Ratings makes finding photos very easy.