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08/12/2006 06:35:54 PM · #1 |
I've been putting this off for a long time, but the day of reckoning has come!
Up until now, I have kept all of my pictures on my hard drives (an ever increasing array of hard drives (!), but still, always available at a moment's notice).
I had one internal 300G and one external 300G drive dedicated to nothing but business photos (the external functions as a backup to the internal drive). I had other images on there as well, but gradually kicked them off onto other drives as it, at first slowly, then later rapidly filled up (a Canon 5D aided the acceleration, as did the addition of a second shooter at many of my events).
Then, even though this bothered me tremendously, I began flattening and converting my older PSDs and TIFs to jpegs, figuring that I was never going to edit them again. And that bought me some space and time...
Until this week!
I had one engagement shoot, a wedding dinner, a wedding and a reception. All together, totally 24.2G worth of raw files (and I haven't even converted to jpegs yet). And ya know what?!? They just don't fit!!!!
So, I bought a DVD Storage Box with numbered sleeves and a bunch of DVDs and I've finally taken the step of writing my images off to CDs and DVDs. For now, just the older shoots. But ... I finally have essentially unlimited storage and can continue to grow without concerns for my hard drive storage.
I've put this off for so long because I wanted all of my images available at a moment's notice. But I decided that having to buy hard drives in pairs (one main, one backup) was ultimately going to be a losing proposition.
It's a brave new world out there....
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08/12/2006 06:40:10 PM · #2 |
| in the long run, you'll be glod you did it. now, once you get caught up, all you have to do is get in the habit of burning a dvd periodically, and you'll be right where you need to be. have fun ;-) |
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08/12/2006 07:20:47 PM · #3 |
Hey,
just a quick note on cds vs dvds. I have 2 laptops, one just bought new a couple of months ago. I would advice to burn cds instead of dvds as the lag time to process previews of images (particularly larger images) from dvd is far more than if it were cd. I have about 10 dvds loaded with images, raw, tif & jpeg. In adobe bridge, it takes forever to preview the pictures. I really wish I hadnt save them on dvds.
Hwever, if you do save to dvd, I would also recommend printing contact sheets for each disk so you at least know where to look for your shots instead of previewing all of them. I actually did this by chance & while painstaking it may be, the sheets help make it just a tad less painless.
Hope this helps & good luck rippin' it!
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08/12/2006 07:34:34 PM · #4 |
I'm trying to keep projects as separate as possible. Most of my older shoots fit on a single DVD (and in some cases, a single CD). So I'm leaning more towards DVDs just so that I don't have disks coming out of my ears.
I figure, even with DVDs, some of my projects are going to span a lot of disks. For instance, the wedding this week ... if you count all of the images in the engagement pictures, the bridals, the dinner, the wedding, and the reception (the latter two, I don't even have jpegs for yet), all together they currently total aprox 37G. That's already 8 DVDs. If I were doing CDs, I'd need 52 CDs and a whole new storage box just to hold that one project. So I'm afraid CDs are out. I might even go to Dual Layer DVDs just to slow down the sprawl of DVDs!
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08/12/2006 07:36:01 PM · #5 |
Good advice though on the contact prints - not all of the images though ... maybe just a select few to remind me of what the shoot was about.
Thanks for your input.
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