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Johnny|lucidcomposure

Johnny|lucidcomposure

Johnny|lucidcomposure

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So I'm not doing anything today so I decided to go through my "photography" hard drive.
120gig drive full of everything picture wise.

Man I have taken some junk and just kept it. Trying to again sort out the portfolio into something that works flawlessly for me and it never really does. However this one is the closest as far as working for me goes.

Am I the only person that photographs something and leaves it weeks/months before I sort and edit (unless its a client service obviously) I swear I can clear up to 30gig of just unwanted raw's and converted Tiffs (its them tiffs that are the worst!..upto 30mb in size)

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No i'm the same, plus when you have more than one version of converted tiff!!!!

I bought my 250GB external hard drive for this very purpose
 
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PaulStat said:
No i'm the same, plus one you have more than one version of converted tiff!!!!

I bought my 250GB external hard drive for this very purpose
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Thats it, Im too quick to convert a raw me, so every now and then I will want to make a change and convert it again.. no overwrite, new copy.. all of a sudden a single shot is storing over 100mb.
 
I do the same, found pics off months ago recently and just got round to process them after a good look through the hard drive. Plus some utter crap that i should really delete :p
 
You have to be brutal when it comes to storing/organizing your photographs. When I moved to Apples Aperture software it helped a lot becasue when shooting sports you end up with a load of images that look the same. Aperture can combine these to one organized file with your choice of 'header'. Saved my workflow life really. However, I find myself deleting/removing shots I just dont want. Saving sapce, time and effort organizing and editing them. But you are always going to have those point a click ones that you want to keep, what do you do with them? Well, my answer was to have a CBA (Cant be arsed) folder sub organized to the event.
 
Thats it. Aperture sorted me out but its only on a laptop so its not my prime machine due to performance sake. I have made a a folder labeled good photography, professional photography.. that kinda thing.. Inside there are two folders labeled
1, 1, New From CF Reader - Epson P2000

and

2, portfolio

From now on I will before I view anything (my biggest problem, I just work straight from CF sometimes) move it into the number 1 folder. From there I filter through it deleting what I don't like. Renaming the stuff by category and then edit it in there if I want. It doesn't matter coz once its in there the RAW presets will move with it where I decide to place it within the number 2, portfolio folder.

I have only just set this up but I tried it with one Cf card of data and I found that if I stick to it. Its going to be very effective.

Thanks Morgan. I will try to :)
 
I tend to be quite good at what filtering the carp that i take quite early on... But alas im building a mass storage server over christmas consisting of 5 320GB SATA disks in raid3. Should do the job for.... a damn long time! :D
 
After realising that I had 250gb of images from my 10D I'm trying to be tidier with my 30D. Properly organising things and backing up images. Ratings, keywords, copyrighting images etc. I go through and delete anything I feel I can't use these days to try and minimize the wasted space.
 
cyKey said:
After realising that I had 250gb of images from my 10D I'm trying to be tidier with my 30D. Properly organising things and backing up images. Ratings, keywords, copyrighting images etc. I go through and delete anything I feel I can't use these days to try and minimize the wasted space.
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Pretty much my deal. Majority of my waste from from the 20D days. Since 30D there is more care taken. The larger LCD actually helps for this matter.

woodsy2k said:
I tend to be quite good at what filtering the carp that i take quite early on... But alas im building a mass storage server over christmas consisting of 5 320GB SATA disks in raid3. Should do the job for.... a damn long time! :D
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Raid for storage? Bad idea that.
 
Use raid 5 if you can... it's more efficient. I'm also building a file server, 4 x 320gb hard disk which should give me almost 1tb with redundancy. :)
 
Its a raid 3 card only and i have already bought it... Its the XFX 5 port raid 3 card. It is more efficient, you're right, but this card was £60 down from £160! so its a bargain.

It does 4 storage and 1 parity disk. giving my (after formatting etc) 297GB per 320GB (rated) disk.... So just under 1.2TB :)
 
Fstop11 said:
Am I the only person that photographs something and leaves it weeks/months before I sort and edit (unless its a client service obviously)
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Nope, I've got over 300 Gig's worth here. I'd reckon at least 30 could be binned too.
 
Blimey sometimes i think i dont take enough, i have half good shots, half wasted, im happy with the amount of shots i have and i only have about 10gb.
Do you not look at half of them and think they arent anywhere near perfect/professional, or are we talking clubbing, friends, and fun shots?
 
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