Photographing while travelling is a joy, and you'll make many of your best pictures when you're visiting somewhere new and are inspired by the culture and events. You may also have the opportunity to travel and shoot for clients. Either way, you need to make sure you get your photos home and keep them safe along the way. Here are some ideas to help you get it done without a big hassle. Keep It Simple There are volumes written on data management and backup, and you should read those. The most important thing about data management is keeping … [Read more...] about Two Simple Ways to Protect Photos on Travels
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The Super-Safe Quadruple Backup Workflow
We received a great question from a reader named Brent lately, all about backing up his digital life. The Question Hi Photofocus, After your repeated suggestion to backup, backup, backup, I'm finally ready to make the online plunge. I would greatly appreciate your recommendation for an online backup service. I work on a 27" iMac with 2.93 GHz Intel Core i7 processor and 2T hard drive. That's my home/freelance machine and the machine all my music and my Lightroom catalog is stored on. I want to backup all this data to the cloud so that I … [Read more...] about The Super-Safe Quadruple Backup Workflow
How to Help Avoid Memory Card Data Loss – Part III
Post by In Part I and Part II of this series I covered tips for helping avoid memory card data loss. In this article, I will continue the discussion with a few more suggestions. 1. Safely eject and observe the "Five-Second Card Eject Rule." As with external hard drives or USB flash drives (a.k.a. Thumb Drives), an icon for a memory card will appear on your computer when you insert it into a standalone or built-in card reader. It should pop up either on the desktop (Mac OS), or when viewing the file directory when you select "Computer" on … [Read more...] about How to Help Avoid Memory Card Data Loss – Part III
