Feb 16, 2006, 21:50
An interesting article.
I try to remember two useful pieces of advice when it comes to saving my photos. One is to stop looking at my photographs as children, and start looking at them as teachers. The other is that, when I can't identify the outstanding photo of a series, to be willing to consider that all of them may be trash.
I'm bad. I never delete anything, but just occasionally back up my laptop to an external hard drive. That means that I have reams of trash, and nothing's sorted. Instead, I keep the exposure number in the file name ("griffin-photo-9201.jpg") when I save photos for the web, and use that number to search for the original if I ever want to use it again.
I try to remember two useful pieces of advice when it comes to saving my photos. One is to stop looking at my photographs as children, and start looking at them as teachers. The other is that, when I can't identify the outstanding photo of a series, to be willing to consider that all of them may be trash.
I'm bad. I never delete anything, but just occasionally back up my laptop to an external hard drive. That means that I have reams of trash, and nothing's sorted. Instead, I keep the exposure number in the file name ("griffin-photo-9201.jpg") when I save photos for the web, and use that number to search for the original if I ever want to use it again.
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