Here are some thoughts about digital photography from the editor of foto8.
Put simply, in order to make better images, take more pictures and edit, print and publish them so that you are sharing and showing your work to more people.Receiving their feedback, be they family, friends or colleagues, can help you understand how your images are read and how you can make them more effective in future. In addition it must be noted that good photographers appreciate good photography and nurturing your interest by looking at other people's images can be an powerful and positive influence on your own work.
He comes out strongly against image deletion and strongly in favor of archiving, which I find interesting.
A roll of film was a permanent record - one literally had a physical document of all the images from a shoot or collected over a number of days. Today though there is an obvious temptation to delete files and just keep the images one thinks are worth saving.He's got a point, but practically, unless you've got unlimited disk or web capacity, you have to do that on storage media like CDs or DVDs, which I'd argue you should do anyway. Not that I do, but then I don't have more than about fifty digital photos anyway. Posted by Linkmeister at July 28, 2005 03:04 PM | TrackBack
The 40 gig drive got full, so I moved things to the 80 gig drive. The 80 gig drive got full, so I moved things to the 160 gig drive.
The 160 gig drive is getting full, so I'm moving to Network Attached Storage...
At one gig per card on the main camera I don't see many options.
...and as to deletions? I don't. I've found that many of my 'blown' shots are more than usable by others for web designs, artist renderings or faded out as backgrounds.
But, man, it sure seems exponential <g>!
Posted by: dan at July 28, 2005 09:25 PMHey, Steve, Hit <rebuild>: the "next" link in 'previous-main-next' is wrapping around to your very first post in MT from 2002!
Posted by: dan at July 28, 2005 09:29 PM