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05/28/2004 02:26:32 PM · #1 |
I tend to shoot lots (and I mean lots) of pics of my fishies. I normally wait till I have about 650mb worth and burn them to CD but its becoming a pain to try and find particular pics. My current 'fish' folder had 367 images and rather than delete the obvious poor pics I maybe went overboard and deleted 346 of them.
Now deleted from my hd, here is a pic of one of my Corydoras Sterbai, I'm considering this my benchmark for keepies
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05/28/2004 02:59:26 PM · #2 |
If you have a typical CD-RW drive, why not get a CD-RW disc and add your "throw-aways" to that incrementally*. When it's full, restore them to the hard drive and burn to regular CR-R, and re-use the CD-RW.
*Most CD software comes with "packet-writing" capability designed for this purpose. |
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05/28/2004 03:48:06 PM · #3 |
Thanks, I don't have CD-RW ability but should really be more critical of my pics when downloading. I used to have a 'downloaded', 'look at again' and 'to be saved' file structure. I think I'll go along with that again :)
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05/28/2004 04:33:04 PM · #4 |
A handsome fish, I must say. Keep that ph just right, and he'll live a good long time!
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05/28/2004 04:34:29 PM · #5 |
| Actually, I just burn them all to CD-R by month, regardless of how much data that is. At less than $1/disc why throw out anything? |
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05/28/2004 04:53:16 PM · #6 |
I've taken a lot of fish tank shots as well and I know what you're going through (Why are all my shors out of focus? There is too much purple fringing...etc)
To cut down on the amount of sorting and deleting of your pictures, it can pay to just add more light to the tank whilst shooting. You might suffer, as I did, from extremely dark conditions which force you to use f2 and a long, blurry exposure. If your flash works well for closeups, you might as well try that. (When I used flash, I tried to artificially restore the strange colours by taking a second shot without flash, then matching up colours until it looked realistic.)
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05/28/2004 06:03:41 PM · #7 |
This may be a bit obvious, but I do the following 3 things to keep track of my photos:
1. I label all of my folders by date and sometimes general subject as well, then use an image browser that shows thumbnails of all of the images in a folder at once to quickly pick which ones I want.
2. I print out contact sheets of CDs as I burn them so I know what's on them.
3. Most importantly, I make duplicates of the photos that I like best as I pull them off of the camera and store them in a separate folder so that I can find the best pictures more quickly.
Hope this helps.
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05/29/2004 01:34:22 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by PhilipDyer:
3. Most importantly, I make duplicates of the photos that I like best as I pull them off of the camera and store them in a separate folder so that I can find the best pictures more quickly.
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Thanks for your tips peeps. no3, seems an excellent way to go, that was I'll always have 2 copies of important pics.
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