Future
Be honest –do you have a bombproof system for archiving your images, and locating them at a later date should you choose to make some retrospective edits? You might find that some of the actions and presets we give away in every issue of DigitalCamerawould bestow a new lease of life on pictures you took in the past and have consigned to some form of digital storage… if only you could find them! As different people’s minds work in different ways, we all have contrasting approaches to how we catalogue and store our photos. And the middle of winter, when it’s probably safe to argue that we’re taking fewer photos than usual, is a great time to go over the previous year’s captures and make sure that your archive system works for you.
Pro tip – a drive for every year
Photographers who shoot large volumes of images will often store a year’s worth of pictures on an external hard drive, with a different drive allocated to a particular year. This is a logical way of storing digital files: if you can recall the year of capture, locating individual images will be straightforward. This approach works even better if your image filenames contain numbers to identify a year – easily added using Batch Rename in Adobe Bridge, for example – or if your images are kept in the dated folders created by some camera software.
Pro tip – a drive for every year
Photographers who shoot large volumes of images will often store a year’s worth of pictures on an external hard drive, with a different drive allocated to a particular year. This is a logical way of storing digital files: if you can recall the year of capture, locating individual images will be straightforward. This approach works even better if your image filenames contain numbers to identify a year – easily added using Batch Rename in Adobe Bridge, for example – or if your images are kept in the dated folders created by some camera software.