Safeguard Those Photography Images
Safeguard Those Photography Images By Eric Hartwell
You really need to organise yourself if you are going to keep abreast of your photographic activities. If, like me, you tend to take between 200 and 300 images in a session, you must have a system for storage and retrieval and to prevent accidental losses. Nothing is more valuable than the last images you took.
Make sure, first of all, that you have sufficient memory card space before you start your shoot. Delete or transfer old images. Take care what you delete – it is so easy to trash ones that are important. Some people would keep everything – you never know when they could come in handy. Some photographers will take several smaller cards rather than one big one so that if one is lost or damaged, it won’t ruin all your images.
When you have taken your images, upload them to the computer at your earliest reasonable opportunity. This should be your priority. Images are so easily forgotten and left on the card. If this is the case, either you will have less space for future shoots or you will find yourself deleting something that you really wanted to keep at some stage.
Uploading whilst they are still fresh also makes it easier to organize your images and your thoughts. You can name them in groups either by subject (e.g. seaside, park shoot, zoo) or date order. You can, of course, assign your own special descriptions. By doing this you can safeguard you images and have them stored in a sensible and logical way. This helps for retrieval.
Consider making a backup copy of everything. You can either copy the images to an external hard drive or you can copy onto DVDs or CDs. Consider making more than one backup copy of everything. Once this process is completed, delete the files from your memory card ready for the next session.
Eric Hartwell runs the photography resource site http://www.theshutter.co.uk and the associated discussion forums as well as the regular weblog at http://thephotographysite.blogspot.com.
You really need to organise yourself if you are going to keep abreast of your photographic activities. If, like me, you tend to take between 200 and 300 images in a session, you must have a system for storage and retrieval and to prevent accidental losses. Nothing is more valuable than the last images you took.
Make sure, first of all, that you have sufficient memory card space before you start your shoot. Delete or transfer old images. Take care what you delete – it is so easy to trash ones that are important. Some people would keep everything – you never know when they could come in handy. Some photographers will take several smaller cards rather than one big one so that if one is lost or damaged, it won’t ruin all your images.
When you have taken your images, upload them to the computer at your earliest reasonable opportunity. This should be your priority. Images are so easily forgotten and left on the card. If this is the case, either you will have less space for future shoots or you will find yourself deleting something that you really wanted to keep at some stage.
Uploading whilst they are still fresh also makes it easier to organize your images and your thoughts. You can name them in groups either by subject (e.g. seaside, park shoot, zoo) or date order. You can, of course, assign your own special descriptions. By doing this you can safeguard you images and have them stored in a sensible and logical way. This helps for retrieval.
Consider making a backup copy of everything. You can either copy the images to an external hard drive or you can copy onto DVDs or CDs. Consider making more than one backup copy of everything. Once this process is completed, delete the files from your memory card ready for the next session.
Eric Hartwell runs the photography resource site http://www.theshutter.co.uk and the associated discussion forums as well as the regular weblog at http://thephotographysite.blogspot.com.
posted by Richard's Photography | Monday, January 16, 2006
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