I was just wondering what do you all do with the 1000s and 1000s of Nudie and Squid and Octo pictures you have eatting up massive amounts of space on your hard drive .
I have only had the chance to make a bout 3 or 4 dives with my new digital camara and I all ready have a ton of pictures on my hard drve Ihave made a slide show or two nothing as nice as Gratefull fiver makes but im still getting it figured out
I have a large familey and I was thinking of makeing clanderes for my brother and sisters for Xmas this year
I have 3 or 4 shots I am verry proud of and would like to have printed in say a 8x10 or a couple 5x7s to hang around the house
just wondering does any one else do this sort of thing with there pictures or not
Sparky
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Hey Sparky. I shot film so I did not have nearly as many pics as the digital shooters had but I still had 1000's collected over the last 9 years. What I did was sorted through all of them, scanned the ones I want to keep, burned onto cd's and donated the others to dives shop classes. I am down to about 18" of printed pictures. I have several that I have printed and framed in the house. If you really go through and organize the different pictures by title it is easier to then sort by title and delete the just so so ones.
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Hey sparky,
I frame a select few photos for my house. A cool Idea, if you have a few prints you are proud of, is to make a calander and give to people with your photos in it! You can make them at Walgreens or Riteaid and that way you can show off you cool photos, in a useful way, and give them as gifts!!
I frame a select few photos for my house. A cool Idea, if you have a few prints you are proud of, is to make a calander and give to people with your photos in it! You can make them at Walgreens or Riteaid and that way you can show off you cool photos, in a useful way, and give them as gifts!!
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Hi Sparky,sparky wrote:I was just wondering what do you all do with the 1000s and 1000s of Nudie and Squid and Octo pictures you have eatting up massive amounts of space on your hard drive .
Sparky
I have more than 10,000 images stored and cataloged on my computer (RAW files so they are quite large). I use Adobe Lightroom to tag the pictures with keyword Metadata so I can manage and find the images that I am looking for later (for example, my PB4Y photos are tagged with the keywords Wreck and PB4Y).
Burning images to DVD's for storing is a good option, but I use several portable hard drives to back up my pictures (at least one is always off site). Do back up your images. Hard drives are mechanical devices that will fail. Its only a matter of time, so if you get into a habit of always copying your photos to your computer, then to a backup disk before you even look at them, a disk failure will just be a mild annoyance (not a catastrophe).
As far as showing your work, I print calendars, fine art prints, notecards, and show them off on my web site. Every once in a while, they even show up in Magazines, Newspapers and Books. Underwater Photography is a great hobby. Too bad its so darn expensive....
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I'll leave that to your imaginationsparky wrote:I was just wondering what do you all do with the 1000s and 1000s of Nudie [.....] pictures you have eatting up massive amounts of space on your hard drive .
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Yeah, what Aquanut said. When I had a camera (film) I went through each shooting session and kept only the really good ones. The keepers were scanned and burned onto a CD, the rest were shredded. More often than not, it meant only 1 keeper per roll, if I was lucky. I used LView Pro to crop and size the good ones. Don't digitals let you view/delete the pics right after you take it?
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i'm glad you asked that because i am accumulating lots of photos, too, and it is eating up a lot of my hard drive. i also use an external drive but it is "only" 80GB and i had to delete some things the other day because it was full. i keep the original files, and then i also keep any number of edited versions that i use to post to flickr and whatnot, so that's even more space. i was thinking of getting another hard drive, shying away from putting them onto cd's because i wasn't sure how safe they were. after what boydski said, though, i guess maybe i should do both. the good thing is that the bigger external drives are getting cheaper, so i've definitely been looking for potential good deals on a buy ...
btw, you can actually store photos on flickr, but i don't know how much space you get and how feasible it is once you start accumulating large numbers of photos ...
btw, you can actually store photos on flickr, but i don't know how much space you get and how feasible it is once you start accumulating large numbers of photos ...
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