How do you store the taken pictures?

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(This is for people who shoot RAW)

Do you just leave the unprocessed RAW files in the folder for the days shooting or do you process every one and keep a JPEG of it etc, or do you do both?

Personally I prefer leaving the unprocessed RAW file in the folder. If I prepare a print image I always delete it when I don't need it any more. Plus, it's always nice to come back to old pictures and try PS'ing it a different way or trying a new look for it.
 
I keep all my JPEGs but I have a folder of RAWs lurking on my hard drive that gets periodically deleted as I run out of space. I've never known myself to go back to reprocess already-processed RAWs, so I see no real point in keeping them except that I am horrible at deleting stuff.
 
I keep RAW and any PSD files if I have had to severely PP the shot. I cannot see any point in keeping JPEG as you can get them "on the fly" whenever you want them.
 
I keep most of my RAW's and certainly any weddings are backed up on an external HD and written to DVD before I touch any of the images. It depends on the output what file format I then choose. TIFF's for big prints and JPEG's where required for albums. (Some album companies like TIFF's too) Once they are all processed the whole folder get's backed up again and a new DVD written with both the original files and the PP'd ones on it. Only then can I even contemplate getting it off my PC but still keep a folder on the external HD too.

A few times a year I'll go over my personal stuff and either write it to DVD or delete the unwanted files and just archive what I want to keep, generally in three monthly chunks. Shooting with the 1Ds has made me a bit tidier with files. Have to when the TIFF's are 50MB!
 
I put them all onto another HDD and keep the ones I have converted on my main HDD so far I have about 1TB of photos.....gotta free some space lol
 
Important images always backed up to DVD, pretty cheap archive method these days.
 
I do :-

1) Go thorugh the RAWs and delete all the cr*p
2) Process all the remaining RAW's and create a max quality JPEG for each one
3) Keep the JPEGs in folders in Elements Organiser and My Pictures and backed up to 2 HDD's (one at home and one at work)
4) Move all RAWs to external HDD and copied to the other HDD

This is done to save disk space on the laptop and the JPEGs are much quicker to view on the laptop than the larger RAW images.

If I want to print anything I go back to the RAW and redo a JPEG as I want it.
 
For me:

Open a folder for the RAWs and use Capture NX/Lightroom to eidt to JPEG
and process to max quality and save into the same folder.
As I just started photography using DSLR currently only used 80GB and saved in a Freeagent.
 
Every month I burn all of my DSLR RAW and bridge camera JPEG files to CD. The CD's are then printed on with the month, year and locations. Then I store them in my CD case, which holds up to 500 CD's. I do not want to lose any of my old photo's because I want them to look back on and see my progress.
 
voodoochild said:
Every month I burn all of my DSLR RAW and bridge camera JPEG files to CD. The CD's are then printed on with the month, year and locations. Then I store them in my CD case, which holds up to 500 CD's. I do not want to lose any of my old photo's because I want them to look back on and see my progress.
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Just make sure you re burn the CDs every so often as they only have a certain lifespan ;)

My workflow is keep every RAW taken on an external drive, RAWs from all keepers on my laptop drive. I do not keep any jpegs as I create them from the RAW file as they are needed. For instance a jpeg for uploading online would be very different to a jpeg for getting printed...
 
Having lost everything (before digital photography thank goodness), I will never run that risk again.

Now I use a NAS with a four disks array and can lose a drive without losing any data. This is linked to a UPS too. They are also on my desktop machine as well.

I have pics of my kids growing up and they are irreplaceable. I did backup onto optical media, but my drive went awol and some of the disks became unreadable.

I used to have 44mb syquest drives and they always played up. Then I moved onto 230mb optical and went through three drives before I gave up and destroyed something like 50 disks (they were something like £30 each!).

The only technology that has remained largely unchanged is hard drives.

It's hard to justify spending a lot on something that doesn't immediately give you any benefit, but when things go wrong, you'll sure be glad you spend the money.

Graham
 
Guys, don't forget to think about things like a fire :(.

Coming from an IT background, no back-up is serious unless it includes an off-site backup of the data too :thumbs:

I think I pay about US$50/yr for an automatic on-line backup, about 50Gb by now.
 
Jeník;1644645 said:
Guys, don't forget to think about things like a fire :(.

Coming from an IT background, no back-up is serious unless it includes an off-site backup of the data too :thumbs:

I think I pay about US$50/yr for an automatic on-line backup, about 50Gb by now.
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I totally agree about duplicate and offsite backups, HDD's can suddenly fail and become unreadable but are more relaible then CD/DVD which I have fouds to be unreliable.

Automatic online backups are good but take a long time to upload/download large volumes.
 
I keep them in RAW also try use some kind of backup so if one hard drive die you still have a copy
 
bstonehouse said:
Automatic online backups are good but take a long time to upload/download large volumes.
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That's for sure it took about 3 weeks continuous 24hr upload for the first lot :lol: living in the sticks doesn't help

Still, I'd have to drag the PC with me every time I went out otherwise :thinking:
 
But with a NAS you can put it basically anywhere. I am in the midst of constructing a basement conversion and will make a fireproof and theftproof enclosure under the stairway. So long as it's vented and has an ethernet cable and power it can be just about anywhere.

Graham
 
Both a local copy for speed and offsite for fire/flood resistance is the best bet.
 
At the moment I keep all RAWS and process certain JPEGs.
But I need to delete a good few RAWs cos I have a habit of only processing a tiny amount of them to JPEGs because almost all the pics are the same, but with a little tiny difference - and I always think 'incase' but I never have gone back to one!

But I will still, to an extent only process some, but I do keep RAW files.
 
I shoot RAW and JPG. I don't use the JPG, I suppose I could delete them and make space, but to shoot RAW with my camera I have to shoot both. If I've shot a lot of images I initially view with Adobe Bridge, if just a few I flick through them with Preview, just tapping the space bar to view. Anything that's obviously not useable, such as out of focus, someone's walked in front of the camera etc I delete. I process the RAW files I have and save as 16 bit TIFF's, but add a proper file description and keep the RAW file name in the text. If any of these are going on the web I'll process as an 800 pixel wide JPG around 200 - 250K in size. All these files sit on my Powermac G5's data HD, a Seagate 1TB. I then back that up to a 1 TB external. I keep all my unused RAW files, they might not have use now, but may have in the future. I have started captioning all files, but most older ones aren't. They are kept in folders with good descriptions, then broken down by year. Files I class as keepers, these have been sold, sold as prints, entered into competitions are are potentially useful, are burnt to DVD as well, these I keep at work. I used to use smaller internal disks, but as they filled I'd remove them and fit in external USB drive boxes for easy access. I seem to have collected quite a few now, as I also have lots of 35mm, 6x6 and 4x5 film scanned. My wife has often said in years to come when I'm pushing up daisies she hasn't the foggiest what she'll do with all the drives and negs.
 
Graham, it's worth taking a note of what drives are are in your raid and keeping one as a spare. If one fails and it degrades, you'll need an identical drive to replace it with to rebuild. What's current now has a habit of not being easy to find a few years down the road. On the other hand you may have outgrown it by then and may want to simply replace it with a bigger one.

blue max said:
Now I use a NAS with a four disks array and can lose a drive without losing any data. This is linked to a UPS too. They are also on my desktop machine as well.

Graham
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steveb said:
Graham, it's worth taking a note of what drives are are in your raid and keeping one as a spare. If one fails and it degrades, you'll need an identical drive to replace it with to rebuild. What's current now has a habit of not being easy to find a few years down the road. On the other hand you may have outgrown it by then and may want to simply replace it with a bigger one.
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Thanks for the tip Steve,

However it is not strictly true.

Ideally for best speed, an array benefits from the same disks. However, in my case with a Netgear Readynas NV+, I can add a disk of any size or manufacturer so long as it's not smaller than the current ones. Performance may not be the same, but for backup that is not a prime concern.

I have only had the nas for something like six months and have changed all the disks twice already although the first was because I swopped the larger hard drives from my desktop machines to the nas.

Graham
 
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