Transcript Saving Photos - Sudbury Shutterbugs

Storing Photos
“What to Consider when Storing your
Digital Photos
Sudbury Shutterbugs
Feb 2015
What’s Important when Saving
Digital Photos?
• You must have a computer
• Safety
– Is the media robust?
– Is the media resistant to aging?
– Is the media portable?
• Fire
• Theft
– Can the media be easily duplicated/backed up?
What’s Important when Saving
Digital Photos? (cont’d)
• Ease of Access
– Can you access from anywhere?
– Are you confined to your computer work station?
• Support
– Will the media be supported over the near/long term?
– Indeed does the media need support?
• Cost
– For the purposes of this presentation, we’ll refer to
the cost of saving 100 photos of 10 Megs in size each
(in other words, 1 gigabyte).
What’s Important when Saving
Digital Photos? (cont’d)
• Indexable
– How do you find a photo quickly?
• Typical index variables might include:
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Why the photo was taken
Where it was taken
When it was taken
Who is in it
Type of file (JPEG, GIF, RAW etc.)
Quality of photo
Is it adjusted (edited) or is it an original
– A sample index method is included at the end of this
presentation
Methods and Media
• The following slide identifies methods and media
currently available for use when saving your
digital photo files. It is important to remember
that multiple copies in multiple locations is highly
recommended to offset the possibilities of fire,
theft, catastrophic failure etc.
• Each dimension has arbitrarily been assigned a
value out of a possible 5 points (being ‘the best’)
with the exception of cost which is expressed as
the cost of storing 100 photos of 10 megs each.
Storage Comparison
Cost of storing 1 Gigabyte of data (100 10 meg photos)
Method
Safety
Ease
Support
Index
Cost
Floppy Disk
2
4
0
0
n/a
CD/DVD
4
4
3
0
$0.25
Memory Card
4
2
3
0
$1.50
Computer Hard Drive
4
3
5
5
$0.04
External Hard Drive
4
4
5
5
$0.045
Cloud Drive
5
5
5
5
$0.47/yr*
* highly
variable
depending
on
supplier
My Indexing Method
• C:\Users\Ron\My Pictures\
– Next Level Folder
• 1Costco (place copies all of the pictures I want printed
here – the ‘1’ places the folder at the top)
• 2015-02-09 Sportsmens (Date taken and Place)
• Big50 (My favorites)
• Europe1 (pictures for Europe slide show)
My Indexing Method
• C:\Users\Ron\My Pictures\
– Next Level Folder
• 1Costco (place copies all of the pictures I want printed here
– the ‘1’ places the folder at the top)
• 2015-02-09 Sportsmens (Date taken and Place)
• Big50 (My favorites)
• Europe1 (pictures for Europe slide show)
– Inside These Folders
• DSC_0115.JPG (downloaded from camera)
• DSC_0115.NEF (downloaded from camera)
• Sport0010.jpg (Edited picture)
Additional Indexing Tools
• If I want to select pictures of a certain person…
– Use Picasa software…it indexes pictures and does a
pretty good job of identifying faces
• If I want to identify ‘best photos’
– Picasa or other post production software normally
have a ‘star system’ to attach to photos…usually 1 to 5
stars
– Usually the adjusted photos are best so, my naming
convention separates those in each folder
– Special folder (Big 50, Europe, etc)
Bottom Line
• Safekeeping is Job #1
• Familiarity with the Operating System’s file
management scheme is a necessity
• There are common methods to index files,
but, in the end, it is a personal choice (maybe
that’s why they call it a personal computer?)