Grab bag

[pecunium]

I was tired yesterday, and forgot to upload some of the picture I meant to put in the Grab Bag so that's been done.

I also forgot to mention one of the features of Noise Ninja. When told to batch process folders, it adds a new sub-folder with the changed files. It doesn't overwrite them, it makes copies, with "filtered" added to the name. Since the new files are in a folder, in the old folder, they are easy to find.

But it does use space. Not a big deal if one is editing images and then correcting them, and not a big deal if one is only shooting a few hundred pictures a month. For me, well it means I have to go back and decide about keeping the originals (when using nothing but JPG as the original format) and I need to get more storage, for keeping the RAW files, and the, secondary, files; after corrections.

Comments

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

A DVD burner and a copy of Archive Creator (http://www.rawworkflow.com/ArchiveCreator/Pages/AC-Main.html) might be worth looking into.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Yep.

That doesn't really solve all the problems of storage, since a good stock arrangement (which is what I'm working on) needs something a bit more fluid than disks, but then again it might be handy for sending clients low-res images in the categories they're interested in.

TK

[geekchick]

Disk space is relatively cheap these days; you could snag a bunch of 250GB drives and get a terabyte of storage space for under $600.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's the general plan. That and some (organized) means of secondary storage (lest the drive crap out) is probably the best idea.

The killer is the scans, (when a scan of a 1x1/12 inch slide = 400mb, and I have at least a few hundred of those I'll want to scan, it can still fill a lot of space. If I elect to scan all of the one I like [as opposed to those I think salable) it could take a LOT of space).

TK

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I keep the off the camera pics at home/on hard drive, and finished ones on Smugmug (because they give me unlimited space) and I should order backups of the smugmug photos. They do that, for a fee.

Yes, I know I could do it all myself, but I can also change the oil in a car but I had people do that for me, too.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Since I am looking at this from a professional standpoint (the on computer version of the Kelp Bubble is 399mb. I'm not sure how willing they are to keep several thousand images of that size.

More to the point, I am not willing to trust a remote service to 1: store my images and 2: prevent my copyright from being lost.

This is more important than the oil in my car, which for reasons of hassle I am about 50/50 for getting other to do vs. doing it myself.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I think the smugmug thing is 8MB max per photo/video. I wonder how much I have up there now (Its a lot).

I do understand the copyright thing. Smugmug does have it to disable right mouse click, put a watermark on, let people view only small versions, but yeah I can understand being worried about a remote source. That's why I really should whip out the credit card RIGHT NOW and order those #$%! backups.

I just wish I paid attention to my backups I made myself, I had a CD deteriorate and now I cant get the pictures off it.