Here are some of mine.

Upper Butte Creek Falls near Scotts Mills, Oregon


Latourell Falls in Columbia River Gorge, Oregon


Multnomah Falls in Columbia River Gorge, Oregon


Middle North Falls at Silver Falls State Park, Oregon


Lower South Falls at Silver Falls State Park, Oregon

If you go into Google Drive, there is a link on the left called Storage. If you click that it will show you everything you are storing and their sizes. That will show what is eating a lot of your storage.

You probably need to empty the trash on your pictures and your email. When you delete pictures they aren't really deleted. They go into the trash. In other words Google doesn't want you to get rid of them completely so they save them hidden from you in the trashcan. In the Photos app on the phone you can go into Libraray and then to trash and empty it. Same on Gmail. You can find the trash and empty it there as well. They hide all that from you but then still let the trash use up your space.

I would consider either the Nikkor 105 Micro or the Tamron 90mm Macro lens. Both are excellent lenses and give you enough distance that you don't scare away the insects.

They no longer sell it for personal use, only for business use.

By "original hard drive" I mean my primary external hard drive. I have too many pictures to put them on my internal hard drive. It would be full. So I have four 4 gig external drives. I use one as my primary drive that I copy my pictures to and process them there with Lightroom and Photoshop. I keep the Lightroom catalog on my internal hard drive and copy it and all the preview directories to the main external drive after I'm done processing my pictures. Then I plug in my other hard drives and copy all the pictures to them. Then I tell it to back them all up to the cloud with IDrive.

I was using my D750 before so picture sizes weren't too large but not tiny either. Now I'm using my D850 and the files are pretty big.

I am always careful about this. Sometimes Windows won't allow me to eject it so I have to reboot to get it to let go of them.

Are you referring to previous versions of Windows where you can restore to a previous version? I'm not sure that would work because the pictures are stored on an external hard drive. I don't understand previous versions enough to be certain but I thought that just restored a previous version of Windows and not necessarily every file on the hard drive. Am I not understanding it correctly?

No I have 1 master external hard drive that holds all my pictures. Then I connect the other hard drives and backup the pictures to those hard drives. Then I disconnect the other hard drives. But the problem happens when the pictures on the original hard drive become corrupted (0 byte) due to losing power and I don't know it so unknowingly copy the 0 byte files out to my other hard drives and lose all copies of the pictures.

I have both the D750 and D850. The D750 has sat since I got the D850. I just keep it for backup. Both are excellent camera bodies but the auto focus is great and dynamic range on the D850 is insane. I've taken pictures that required just a single shot with the D850, without clipping either highlights or shadows, that would have definitely required at least 2 shots with the D750. I find very little value in the touch screen on the D850. I almost never use it. But the quality of pictures that come out of the D850 is amazing. But by the time you buy batteries and memory cards for it the price is fairly steep. The D750 is still a fantastic body though.

Of course I think you do need to have really good lenses, like someone else mentioned. Originally I bought the Tamron 24-70 and 70-200 and 15-30 and after 2 weeks of fighting to get them to take a decent picture I gave up. I did 3 different methods of fine tuning, even using the Tamron dock, and never could get a great picture from them. I sent them back and bought the Nikon trinity (14-24, 24-70, 70-200) and they worked perfectly out of the box and the picture quality is fantastic.

I do run on windows but I can run the commands using cygwin. That's probably what I need to do. I didn't think about the find command. My new computer is a laptop so it will stay running for at least a couple hours if we were to lose power at night or when I'm not home.

I don't have them all connected at once. But the problem is that the files get corrupted on the one that is connected so when I go to backup the drive it copies the corrupted files over the good files on the other drives. I didn't know they were corrupted until a few months down the road.

I've had this happen to me a couple times and am wondering if anyone else has had this problem and how to overcome it.

Basically, I backup my images to 4 different hard drives and also to the cloud. If we lose power or the computer somehow gets shut off while my external hard drives are attached, it apparently can corrupt files. I've had pictures that were fine originally (I edited them in Lightroom so know they were good) and then sometime down the road I found them with a 0 byte length and the picture was gone. The other problem was that I couldn't restore them because I didn't know the pictures files had gotten corrupted so it backed up the 0 byte files do my other hard drives and to the cloud. My cloud backup, IDrive, only saves versions for a month so if I don't notice within a month of when the files are corrupted then those old backups drop off and my files are gone forever.

Anyone have any ideas on how to prevent this from happening? I'm wondering if I could somehow generate some sort of checksum or something for each file and then find some software that would look at all the checksums of every file that has changed before backing it up. Or ?????

Thoughts or ideas???


Curtis

We know people that are down near the 2 minute range also and are planning to do the same. We will go down a couple days before and just stay in the trailer. Probably stay a couple days after as well as the reports are that the traffic will be the worst in the history of the US. No thanks!

I live in Oregon and not too far from the totality area of the upcoming solar eclipse in August. I plan to photograph it. I recently bought a Nikkor 200-500mm lens and have both a D7200 and a D750 bodies. I'm having difficulty figuring out where I can get an inexpensive filter that I can use on that lens. I don't really want one I have to screw on and off as I have to remove it during totality which I have less than 2 minutes to photograph. Then I have to put it back on. So it seems it would be easier to have one that can just slide on and off to give me maximum shooting time. Anyone know of where I can find a filter like this that is reasonably priced that will fit the 200-500?

My other question is would I be better off using the D7200 crop frame body or the D750 full frame body? My concern with the D7200 is noise.


Thanks,
Curtis