GoingCandid

Balancing your work
It’s not a good idea to shoot and not sort out. You will lose track of your work,
while you create new photos. This might be fine, when you are on a trip and
shoot a lot without having the time to process. Right after your return there
must be done some post processing. I’m still suffering from my New York trip
one month ago. There I took 4’500 photos, which still are unprocessed. I mean
there are about 400 keepers waiting to be touched. I’m working on it. Losing
track is the worst thing you can do. You may forget about some good shots.
Backup your work
Although you should think that backup is a common task, there are still a lot
of people not really having a good concept. At least your keepers you should
back up regularly. There are several ways. You can use an external hard drive
and copy them with a backup job.
There is software available like
Time Machine for the Mac OS.
There is also only storage available
for backup. And another simple
way is the use of a photo
community like Flickr. There you
can get the original file of every
photo uploaded. Sure the RAW
file is not there, but this feature
can still be useful. Especially if
you need one of your photos to
send in for a contest, to print it
or whatever needs to be done
immediately. Then you just pull it
of Flickr. Maybe the best keepers
(top 10 of the year) you should
burn to a CD and store it off-site
of your apartment or online (e.g.
encrypted on your web server).