The advent of digital photography has brought the pastime into the range of many more people than was the case in the old film days. I know I couldn't sustain the cost when I first tried photography in the 1980s and the levels to which we can, and do go to these days was unthought of.
But there comes with it the problem of storage, unless you can be very disciplined in what you keep and ruthless in what you discard. Rose and I are not good at that, so I've had to work on a system to keep all our precious pictures safe. I'm just about there now and pleased the hard work is behind me.
I took the opportunity to look back at some of the images I've made in the past few years and discovered two things. The early images that I thought were good at the time would these days probably go straight to the Recycle Bin and secondly, in amongst the files are some images that I either forgot, or worse didn't know, I had. This Siskin from January 2014 at Blashford Lakes is a case in point, even though I did post it to my Flickr account.
Storage sorted, hopefully I can get out and shoot some new images in the next week.
Glad your storage woes are behind you Ian, i've no trouble with discarding myself, as opposed to young Den who gets rid of nothing. I store each image twice, on two separate external drives. I make sure that the raw file, and the jpeg are side by side, and i have as few categories as possible, much the same as my Flickr stream is organised. Each image is stored alphabetically using the common name of the creature, i don't bring dates into my system at all (like a lot do) as this is easily accessed from the exif data anyway. I get rid of a lot of rubbish in the field, and make sure that anything that is hanging around un-processed goes into my un-processed folders. Everyone has different methods, this is my preference. Happy processing in this awful weather,,, when do you retire?
ReplyDeleteYou raise some good points Frank, but as with images one person's like is another's dislike. Not much time for processing at the moment, still having to go to work. Retirement, what a good idea, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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