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Hi, everyone. A newbie here, looking for some storage advice.


I had recently purchased a Canon EOS 800D and given the enthusiasm with which I make a thousand photos per day and the size of each of these photos, I quickly ran out of disc space on my rather old MacBook Pro.

So I started looking at other options to store my creations. Since there is so much info out there & it's difficult to process everything, I decided to ask you guys for help. Which are the solutions you find optimal in terms of pricing, ease of use, etc. I would prefer a cloud solution, I don’t want to purchase any hardware. I would really appreciate it if you could share the reasons behind your decision so that I can make an informed choice.


All advice welcome and appreciated.
 
Flickr paid account and store your RAW files in Amazon prime photo?
I like Flickr as the jpg's always look so nice in their full size
 
Hi Lucia and welcome to TP

Isn't it great that digital photography means you can take oh so many pictures in one day........but the novelty soon mellows and then you take many fewer.

Setting aside "storage solutions......and only cloud based....."

Can I ask:-
What file types are you shooting i.e. CR2 or jpeg and if jpeg which quality setting.......in other words, just how big is each file and what is your intended usage for them?

Why, do I ask......well the significant hurdle all photographers gave is culling! In case I state the obvious, though as I beginner maybe not. Culling is deleting any images that do not meet your criteria for why you took that photo e.g. out of focus, the person blinked meaning eyes shut compared to the frame just before & after that shot.... etc

If you are shooting 1000 per day every day, just what is/are your subjects......and why so many pictures every day that once examined on the computer that you are planning on keeping every one of them!
 
You wont get an answer.. None of the other forums with exactly the same one message on who have given replies have had any answer yet ...
 
KIPAX said:
You wont get an answer.. None of the other forums with exactly the same one message on who have given replies have had any answer yet ...
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Ah! c'est la vie :lol:
 
luciafilley said:
Hi, everyone. A newbie here, looking for some storage advice.


I had recently purchased a Canon EOS 800D and given the enthusiasm with which I make a thousand photos per day and the size of each of these photos, I quickly ran out of disc space on my rather old MacBook Pro.

So I started looking at other options to store my creations. Since there is so much info out there & it's difficult to process everything, I decided to ask you guys for help. Which are the solutions you find optimal in terms of pricing, ease of use, etc. I would prefer a cloud solution, I don’t want to purchase any hardware. I would really appreciate it if you could share the reasons behind your decision so that I can make an informed choice.


All advice welcome and appreciated.
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How are you taking 1000 a day? That is a lot - even if you don't delete anything.
 
luciafilley said:
Hi, everyone. A newbie here, looking for some storage advice.


I had recently purchased a Canon EOS 800D and given the enthusiasm with which I make a thousand photos per day and the size of each of these photos, I quickly ran out of disc space on my rather old MacBook Pro.

So I started looking at other options to store my creations. Since there is so much info out there & it's difficult to process everything, I decided to ask you guys for help. Which are the solutions you find optimal in terms of pricing, ease of use, etc. I would prefer a cloud solution, I don’t want to purchase any hardware. I would really appreciate it if you could share the reasons behind your decision so that I can make an informed choice.


All advice welcome and appreciated.
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First of all: Edit your photos. You could delete any photos you don't need, like the photos of your feet when you accidently pressed the shutter release button, or photos that are too blurry, etc. Or if you're the kind of photographer who tend to take three or four or five photos of the same subject in case one or two ends up as camera shake, or you left your camera on continues frame rate setting instead of single frame rate, and you ended up with half a dozen of same photos. Then you could decide to keep one and discard the rest.

That will cut down on the numbers, freeing up some more space, by getting rid of unwanted or spare photos.
 
I have to agree with people, the most important is to get comfortable with actually deleting - a lot - of the pictures you take.

I usually pass over my photos of a shoot 3 times. First pass, rule everything out that’s rubbish (out of focus, horrible cut, etc). Delete. Then go through it again and mark any that you think are quite decent (but it could be multiple of the same subject). Then decide on one of those in a third pass.

finally I offload to 2 external hard drives as a backup and that’s that... from time to time I go through old shoots and just delete the raw files if I think I’ll not re edit them anyway. (Since I’m a hobbyist that’s highly likely)


Also, if you’re taking 1000 a day, then as others say... maybe even start deleting right on the camera whenever you realise “that was nothing”. But don’t limit yourself too much in the beginning, just while you delete, think about what wen “wrong” with this picture and learn from it. Like that you’ll get more confident and take less pictures in future shoots.
 
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