Where do my photos go?

by Stanley LearyDigital Workflow
Where do my photos go? You can own the greatest camera and if you haven’t established a workflow for your images you can loose all of them before you ever see them.

For the majority of my photo shoots I can capture all the images on 1 – 16GB card per camera. However, there are some photo shoots and especially when I travel overseas where I will not only fill the 2 cards in the camera I will need to download them and continue to shoot.

Nikon D3s with 2 – 16GB CF cards in the slots

 

I am using SanDisk Ultra 16GB CF cards in my cameras

When I am having to download the images and reuse the cards or use more CF cards I ingest them on site with my ColorSpace Hyperdrive memory card backup system.

For some photo shoots I will use one of the Hyperdrives through a day and then pass this along to someone to handle the post processing one day while I am shooting and putting more images onto another drive. At the end of that day I will trade out the drive with the one I first gave to the person for processing.

This lets me not only continue to shoot, but if there are problems with the images I can get a call from the person and if there is dust on a chip for example I would stop shooting and clean the sensor.

The advantage of the Hyperdrives is that I can turn one on and down load my images very quickly and then continue to shoot.

I have two ColorSpace Hyperdrives.  The older model which isn’t UDMA and the newer UDMA model.  I have a 120GB drive in the older model and a 160GB in the newer UDMA model.

For those wanting to travel light, the Hyperdrive with a tablet will let you see your images and have backup of all the images with very minimal computer equipment.

There are two major times where the speed of your cards will become very noticable.

1) When you shoot a lot of images quickly your card will come to a stopping point until the images can be written to the cards. This is when the cheapest, which is usually not the fastest cards, will affect your ability to continue to work.

2) When you are ingesting your cards to either your computer or the ColorSpace Hyperdrives the speed of the cards will determine how long it takes for the transfer.

For the most part unless these are critical to you, you can shoot a slower card that costs much less.

One last suggestion: Always format your cards in your camera and not on you computer. The cameras format in a different way and will give you better performance.