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wdcarrier Loc: Eureka, California

I recently revisited my images from a South African trip I took a number of years ago that I had originally edited and saved the best to TIFF. I had saved the RAW files to disc and was amazed at how much better my editing was now than it was then (still using PS CR6). Unfortunately, discs tend to deteriorate and on some the files could not be retrieved. I now save all my RAW (after culling) to a portable hard drive. Re-editing is a pleasant past-time on cold rainy winter days.

charles tabb Loc: Richmond VA.

Busbum wrote:

Ever notice how someone comes on and stirs the pot with a controversial statement and never comes back and explains his or hers reasoning!!!

Canisdirus

wdcarrier wrote:

I recently revisited my images from a South African trip I took a number of years ago that I had originally edited and saved the best to TIFF. I had saved the RAW files to disc and was amazed at how much better my editing was now than it was then (still using PS CR6). Unfortunately, discs tend to deteriorate and on some the files could not be retrieved. I now save all my RAW (after culling) to a portable hard drive. Re-editing is a pleasant past-time on cold rainy winter days.

I lost some very good images to a corrupted hard drive. Got some of them back, but lost some as well.
Now I have a 3 point backup system.
1.) I installed an extra large disc drive in my computer (2TB).
2.) I purchased a portable ssd drive and keep all copies there as well.
3.) I don't ever erase my cards. When they fill up, they go into a dry box, and I buy another to replace it.

charles tabb Loc: Richmond VA.

Canisdirus wrote:

I lost some very good images to a corrupted hard drive. Got some of them back, but lost some as well.
Now I have a 3 point backup system.
1.) I installed an extra large disc drive in my computer (2TB).
2.) I purchased a portable ssd drive and keep all copies there as well.
3.) I don't ever erase my cards. When they fill up, they go into a dry box, and I buy another to replace it.

Cheaper to just buy a external drive to store them.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

charles tabb wrote:

Cheaper to just buy a external drive to store them.

Internal drives are faster transferring data. (Primary use)
An external backup drive can be grabbed in an emergency (if unmounted).
Hopefully you are using a third place to backup images (and documents), and do not have them only in one place.

charles tabb Loc: Richmond VA.

Longshadow wrote:

Internal drives are faster transferring data. (Primary use)
An external backup drive can be grabbed in an emergency (if unmounted).
Hopefully you are using a third place to backup images (and documents), and do not have them only in one place.

I myself have 12 T/Bs of external drives plus everything is on DVDs in another location.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

charles tabb wrote:

I myself have 12 T/Bs of external drives plus everything is on DVDs in another location.

Too many people do NOT backup files.....

wdcarrier Loc: Eureka, California

…and then there’s the question we all fail to ask ourselves: When we’re gone, what happens to the hundreds of thousands of images we have saved? I’m certain my kids aren’t going to go through them nor is anyone else. When digital replaced film I tried digitizing some of my transparencies and found them lacking. So, I donated about 20K of them to a University who gave me an $8K donation credit for tax purposes (I still have as many in banker’s boxes in the storeroom). No more. I had a hard time donating framed images of American raptors to an Audubon nature center when we recently moved. Occasionally I go back and bring up an image of the past but more often just get new ones. In essence…lots of future fodder for the landfill!

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

Rich1939 wrote:

I think that for the most part the SOOC group believe they are more skilled because they only show images that aren’t a deviation from what was there when the shutter was squeezed. That doesn’t show skill, it’s a demonstration of a technical ability. What they do show (again for the most part) instead is a lack of imagination and post processing skills with a high tolerance for the boring.

Many who post process produce SOOC images equal to or better than the SOOC crowd. They just do see the limitations of a given camera and lens as the limit to their vision or capabilities.

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

Busbum wrote:

Ever notice how someone comes on and stirs the pot with a controversial statement and never comes back and explains his or hers reasoning!!!

Ever notice how someone comes on and comments on what someone else has said but chooses not to use "Quote Reply" so they cannot be held accountable, and also uses a "!" at the end of what is otherwise a question in a weak attempt to make it rhetorical and further avoid accountability?

charles tabb Loc: Richmond VA.

dsmeltz wrote:

Ever notice how someone comes on and comments on what someone else has said but chooses not to use "Quote Reply" so they cannot be held accountable, and also uses a "!" at the end of what is otherwise a question in a weak attempt to make it rhetorical and further avoid accountability?

Get a life!

camerauser78

If you ever can remember exactly what you've seen, and you can exactly show someone the beauty or ugliness or meaning of the scene you've encountered, then you do not need a photograph. And you are perfect.

Canisdirus

wdcarrier wrote:

…and then there’s the question we all fail to ask ... (show quote)

In the future..... Hey, want to see 100k pics of my grandfather?

Canisdirus

charles tabb wrote:

Cheaper to just buy a external drive to store them.

Number 2 is the external drive.

shoelessjoe

Even talking about documentary or photojournalism it isn't what it may seem to be. Bodies were arrange for photos of the dead by photographers during the civil war while the famous flag raising on Iwo Jima was done a second time latter in the day for the photographer so you could say that it was staged. They were trying to convey an image of in the first example the carnage of war and the other a patriotic moment.