http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/ This is an XML content feed of; Photography Tips Forums : File Formats : Last 10 Posts Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:48:35 +0000 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:31:47 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.65 30 www.photography-tips-forum.com/RSS_topic_feed.asp?FID=21 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/custom/karl-taylor-logo_white.jpg http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/ http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4532&PID=19914#19914 Author: Bluesman1986
Subject: Storing Photo's
Posted: 29 Apr 2013 at 2:31pm

Thanks for the idea's guys]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:31:47 +0000 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4532&PID=19914#19914 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4532&PID=19913#19913 Author: horizon
Subject: Storing Photo's
Posted: 29 Apr 2013 at 1:08pm

G'day Tony,

I spent 15 years in I.T and I know how often drives fail so I have multiple backups in multiple locations. I keep RAW files, Tiff, jpeg and for my gallery, full size Tiffs for printing and jpegs for reference in case I need to re-upload plus backups of my gallery.

I dont use RAID for data, due to most times when a RAID fails, its a pretty good chance that the Array also fails and wont rebuild without data loss (seen it many times), so I wrote my own batch script that does all my work for me to the multiple locations in one batch.

However, housekeeping is something that needs to be done everytime you import your files. I have setup for myself a folder / file naming convention and I keep to that, and I worked out that I might need to store up to 15 - 20 years of files and the file naming should continue that long before the numbering convention needs redoing. I dont use Lightroom for a gallery, as I dont like computers thinking for me.

I use a program called 1-4Rename to batch rename 1000's of files at once and it also can undo a rename if an error was made.

If you have good documentation habits for work, then the housekeeping for your photo's should not be too difficult. Make a file / folder naming convention and stick with it.

Storage is not as expensive as it was back in the 90's, so keeping RAWs and Tiff's for me is not a problem.

I hope it helps.

Regards,
Craig]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:08:01 +0000 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4532&PID=19913#19913 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4532&PID=19912#19912 Author: JT
Subject: Storing Photo's
Posted: 29 Apr 2013 at 12:07pm

I use Lightroom which I use to develope my shots which are in RAW.
I can then publish my photos directly to Flickr/Facebook etc. in a lower quality with stamp which leaves you with 1 photo in RAW on you computer.

I had a lot of clutter using iphoto especially when archiving to external drives but now with Lightroom I import photos directly to folders by date and add metadata to the photo when I import (for example: location, occation etc.)

Not perfect but better than I had before. ]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:07:27 +0000 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4532&PID=19912#19912 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4532&PID=19911#19911 Author: Bluesman1986
Subject: Storing Photo's
Posted: 29 Apr 2013 at 11:54am

Hey all,

My Library of photos are all over the place and very unorganized. They differ between formats.. mainly between RAW and JPEG.

I tend to shoot in raw most of the time simply because i enjoy tweaking the fine detail before it gets flattened into JPG. I put most of my stuff on flicker and my problem is i'm left with a lot of clutter. It goes like this.

I shoot in raw and then process the photos i want in CS6. I discard the wastage. I still have the original raw file and now a finished jpg.. I also take that jpg down to 1000px on the longest edge and put my stamp on it. I do this because you can save photos from flickr so if anyone intends using them which i don't really mind as this is a hobby then they get the lower quality photo with my name on. I will keep the original for any possible prints (that will be the day) and thus leaving me with 3 copy's of a photo.

My problem is i don't know what to keep, Storage isn't an issue working in the IT sector i have to back everything up by habit so i am in possession of a mirrored 4TB NAS drive. I don't have a lot of originals to the most of the work iv done and only have some of my finished work.

Do i keep the origonal raw and compress it to JPG and store on my Hard drive?

What does everyone else do?

Cheers Tony]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:54:31 +0000 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4532&PID=19911#19911 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1&PID=16459#16459 Author: olayiny
Subject: explanation about RAW?
Posted: 14 Sep 2012 at 11:09am

I want to thank the first person that asked this question because I really dont undertand the difference but after reading Karl comment,I'm pretty okay.]]> Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:09:31 +0000 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1&PID=16459#16459 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1&PID=16222#16222 Author: horizon
Subject: explanation about RAW?
Posted: 28 Aug 2012 at 4:47am

G'day Hammad,

Most times when you PP a RAW file, the editor makes a secondary file XML that records those changes that were made during the PP. When you save the processed file as a jpg, those changes are in the jpg and not as part of the RAW file, but the editor, such as lightroom and photoshop using ACR will make an XML file that holds those changes.

If you reopen the RAW file in the same editor it will apply those changes that are held in the XML file. If you delete the XML file, then the RAW file is back to default out of camera.

This type of PP / editing is referred to as Non-Destructive, meaning the RAW file is actually unedited.

To my understanding the RAW file PP can not have the changes saved back into the RAW file, which is a destructive edit, however jpg out of camera can have those PP changes saved back to the original.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Craig]]> Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:47:56 +0000 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1&PID=16222#16222 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1&PID=16221#16221 Author: Hammad
Subject: explanation about RAW?
Posted: 28 Aug 2012 at 4:16am

Say I make an adjustment to a RAW file and save it as a jpeg, will I have lost what I had in the RAW after saving as jpeg?]]> Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:16:54 +0000 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1&PID=16221#16221 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2828&PID=13506#13506 Author: horizon
Subject: Question
Posted: 14 Mar 2012 at 1:41pm

G'day Phil,

The best and most reliable way to transfer the files from your camera to computer is to remove the storage card from the camera and using a USB card reader (either inbuilt or cable) and copy the files from the flash card to your computer manually.

If you try and allow some peice of software to do it for you, you may end up with either losing where they have been put or converted to some other edited version without your say so.

I've done I.T long enough to not trust computers and I do everything myself manually.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Craig]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:41:34 +0000 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2828&PID=13506#13506 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2828&PID=13505#13505 Author: phil 63
Subject: Question
Posted: 14 Mar 2012 at 8:53am

I have a canon 10D and i am recording my images in RAW and large JPG and would like to know how to download the files on my computer,I have a file converter but i'm getting stuck when it comes to saving the images.
sorry to ask a silly question.]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:53:59 +0000 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2828&PID=13505#13505 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1&PID=12870#12870 Author: lukeob
Subject: explanation about RAW?
Posted: 07 Feb 2012 at 9:28pm

ya i agree i dont like editing photos , like in photoshop, i like to get the photo then and there , but it is handy if u mess up your exposure :P]]> Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:28:25 +0000 http://www.photography-tips-forum.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1&PID=12870#12870