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By: Personal Finance Resource Links 09-13-09 | Free From Broke

Personal Finance Resource Links 09-13-09 | Free From Broke — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:06:57 +0000

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By: from the desk of ...me

from the desk of ...me — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:38:14 +0000

i totally agree. i delete pictures before uploading them to my external hard drive. i have even taken it a step further. since i scrapbook, when i upload photos now, i immediately use my photo printer to print the pictures. this has been great. so now when i want to scrapbook, i don't waste time deciding which pics to print, instead i can just start scrapbooking. .-= from the desk of ...me´s last blog ..Day One In the Lap of Luxury =-.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:08:59 +0000

@Michele – Eventually I hope to have a system like yours. For now our 120GB external hard drive is big enough, but eventually we’ll have to upgrade. I love that you keep an archive and a backup. That’s how I’d like to do it! I haven’t started experimenting with RAW yet, but I can’t wait to try it once I get more familiar with my camera and photography in general! Thanks for sharing your method.

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:14:09 +0000

Since I love photography, I have the same problem. Over time, the number of pictures I take for one “event” has decreased (practice means it takes less shots to get what you want) but my Nikon D70 creates 5mb images. Shooting for a day might give me 80-120 images. They add up in a hurry.

My system is similar to yours. I group mine by year, and then by folder for each event with the date in it. When I download the images, I rename them to match the event. So my file names look something like 2009 09 09 ColumbiaRiverGorge1010. Since I shoot in RAW format, I also have to process the image in Photoshop before I have a final image. I save that with the same file name changing the extension. And I also have a FlickrPro account, so anything I want to post online gets resized and saved as a JPG file in a separate folder. It sounds a little complicated, but I can find everything fairly easily, and with the date format, I have an instant timeline of what I’ve done and where I’ve gone. I also have external storage (250gig, 500gig and 1terrabye). I have only the current year of photos on my computer, the rest are on both the 500gig and the 1terrabyte. The current year gets backed up to all three once a week. External storage is inexpensive. The memories I’ve created in taking pictures is worth the price to me.

Enjoy your camera! I’m enjoying all your puppy pictures!

By: Christina @ Northern Cheapskate

Christina @ Northern Cheapskate — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:44:47 +0000

I wish I had the discipline to delete photos… I love them all… even if there are 15 shots of the same thing. I only print the photos I truly love the best, but I save almost all of them.

I, too, back them up to an external hard drive. I’ve recently purchased a pro Flickr account and have started uploading photos there as well – If anything were to happen to your home, an external hard drive sitting in that home won’t help you…. in that situation it would be comforting to know that you could at least get your photographs back… Mind you, I’m not uploading every photo ever – that would take too much time – but I’ve backed up photos that are especially important to me and will back them up regularly from now on.
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