i am backing up and cleaning out 130gb worth of photographs from the past 5 years that are all unbacked-up. (well, that has improved considerably – japan, NZ and australia are now burned). going through INCREDIBLY old archives (back when i was finishing high school, dating dima, living at home…) i found photographs of my room after yet another moving around. it was cute! and, in those photographs i found a photo of this teddy bear. who got lost in a suitcase shipped from netherlands 2 years later.
i miss my teddy bear. i’m glad i found this photograph of him.
You “burned” 130gbs worth of pictures ? That’s an assload of discs. External hard drives for teh win!!
i’m burnING.
i know its an assload of discs, but i don’t trust hard drives. i do intend on getting some h/ds anyway to keep the photographs within easy reach, but i’d like to have the special ones stored somewhere.
i already had the whole “i think i lost all the photographs i had from russia” scare. and then a few days ago “i think i lost all the photographs from europe” scare.
better safe than sorry right? :P
I suppose there’s a certain logic in choosing media over hard drives. Hard drives can fail, media cannot (if stored properly and not written with markers that eat through them).
And yes, it takes a scare (or two) to really get started on back ups.
See but then with all the backups, it goes back to the “shit we don’t need” subject :P
yeah, dunno about the marker. :P
regardless; i didn’t delete anything yet; it’ll all get backed up on another hard drive anyway. plus i intend on renewing all burned media in about 5 years anyway.
arguable if backups are not needed. i still go back to european photographs from 2 years ago because of my insane laziness in processing EVERYTHING right away. same with australia. same with NZ. same with russia, and even london from 4 years ago. i’m a lazy person!
plus, i have all this blackmail. gotta save it.
How do you process yours? I make a folder and subfolders for the RAW files, and then another folder (and subfolders) for all the processed TIFFs. Subfolders are organized by theme like (fishing, NYC, Upstate, etc). Sometimes I make subfolders in the subfolders themselves sorted by time, like “NYC 2005, NYC 2006.”
And I make separate folders for different cameras, too.
c:\@d70
c:\@sd500
c:\edited
within each its:
\070423 whatever i shot here\
and raws go just within that folder.
edited things go into edited folder.
its not perfect. i still need to be able to split into things i want to save as prints (right now its @d70\prints\), and just random edits (which go into edited).
i tried saving edits in subfolders of the main photoshoot (i.e. @d70\070423 studying photos\edits\
but then for some reason i get lost and forget. plus, sometimes i pick and choose random photos from three days.
dunno.
anyone else who’s still reading?