Jan 20, 2016, 01:58
Philip. The saving function on your camera sounds a great idea. I save my images to a folder on my laptop, to a folder on my external hard drive, to a rolling camera specific set of CD's (both an Archive copy and a Backup copy), and to a rolling set of DVD's (Archive and Backup). By rolling I mean Vol 1, 2, 3 etc. Once one is full I move onto the next.
I call all images by the location, person (in groups I name them left to right), description etc, followed by the date. So that would be "Tom, Dick and Harry, Somewhere 20-1-16". This protocol stems from when I came to scan old family photographs. I was finding family groups with people I didn't recognise and in locations that were strange to me. The people who could have told me who they were, were long dead. I then found a set of prints my father had sent his parents from wartime Ceylon, and on the back, in tiny neat writing was all the information I needed. That made me decide to notate my work. After all, what I am producing is a historical archive, if only for the family.
With Exif data and now, in some devices GPS positioning, modern cameras record so much data without the casual photographer even knowing.
One final word on data storage. You have to continually update and refresh your stored material. How many people have data stored on 5.25" floppy disks, or 3.5" diskettes, which they can no longer readily access?
I call all images by the location, person (in groups I name them left to right), description etc, followed by the date. So that would be "Tom, Dick and Harry, Somewhere 20-1-16". This protocol stems from when I came to scan old family photographs. I was finding family groups with people I didn't recognise and in locations that were strange to me. The people who could have told me who they were, were long dead. I then found a set of prints my father had sent his parents from wartime Ceylon, and on the back, in tiny neat writing was all the information I needed. That made me decide to notate my work. After all, what I am producing is a historical archive, if only for the family.
With Exif data and now, in some devices GPS positioning, modern cameras record so much data without the casual photographer even knowing.
One final word on data storage. You have to continually update and refresh your stored material. How many people have data stored on 5.25" floppy disks, or 3.5" diskettes, which they can no longer readily access?
Ask yourself, "What's most important for the final image?".