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Five tips for efficient storage and filing systems when shooting in bulk |
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Written by Kathryn M. D'Imperio
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
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If you don’t like a particular shot that you’ve captured, merely delete it and shoot it all over again, or find a new subject.  You can enjoy hours of photography, shooting with reckless abandon, for as long as your memory card has storage remaining. Once you’ve shot a collection of photos, you’ll want to catalog them and create some system of order for effortless location and organization of files. Below are a number of tips for different storage methods for your photos:
Who says you can’t be connected at the face to your camera all day long? If you’re anything like me, you’ve recently become inseparable with your new camera, taking photos at every twist and turn. Who cares if we’re in the airport, the car, the garage? Good photographic opportunities exist everywhere. The greatest thing – no wasted film!
If you don’t like a particular shot that you’ve captured, merely delete it and shoot it all over again, or find a new subject. You can enjoy hours of photography, shooting with reckless abandon, for as long as your memory card has storage remaining. Once you’ve shot a collection of photos, you’ll want to catalog them and create some system of order for effortless location and organization of files. Below are a number of tips for different storage methods for your photos:
1. Be sure you own several memory cards. If you decide to shoot pictures of your pets for a half hour one day and then choose to go to the park on a whim, you will probably want at least two separate memory cards.
2. Stock up on CDs. The most convenient method of storing your images involves burning them to compact disk, labeling them and filing them away for future use.
3. Get a little savvy when it comes to the Internet. You can also post your favorite shots online at Webshots, Kodak Online Gallery, Snapfish or other photo sharing sites to show them to family and friends.
4. Organize your personal computer. It also makes sense to store your most important and favorite photos on your own computer. Create a file for “Photos” and within that, create subfolders for each subject or each date that you’re storing.
5. Invest in a filing cabinet, a plastic bin or other storage container. Once you burn your images to CD, you’ll want to label each disk as descriptively as you can. You can insert each disk into a small envelope or a CD case, label the outside and file it inside your filing cabinet or container according to date, subject or both.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 21 February 2006 )
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