Amateur Photographer - UK (2019-10-05)

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Editing and workfl ow
Editing is a word that’s become
synonymous with image processing,
and today is most often used to describe
this part of a photographers’ workfl ow.
However, editing as a word is much more
suited to its original photographic usage
to describe selecting which images to keep
and which to delete; in the digital age, this
means to avoid using storage space for
images that you would never need or use
in the future.
Once you’ve dragged and dropped the
image folder from the memory card into
the folder where you store images, the
next job is to name the folder based on
date and/or description to make it easy
to fi nd quickly. Having a folder named
something like ‘Photography 2019’, and
naming the individual folders within by
year, month, day and then a description
will mean that in cataloguing and editing
software such as Lightroom, your image
folders will be displayed chronologically.
So, for images taken of wildlife in
Richmond Park in November, you might
name it ‘2019-11-07 Richmond Deer’.
Once images have been opened or
loaded into raw-processing and
cataloguing software such as Adobe
Lightroom, Skylum Luminar, ON1 Photo
RAW or Capture One Pro, etc. the next

DVDs are dead
Around 10 years ago you may have read an
article like this in a photography magazine
and DVDs were offered as a suitable backup
solution beyond your hard drive. Back then,
hard-drive capacity was much lower than what
is available now; hard drives were also much
more expensive and camera/sensor resolution
was generally much lower. This made backing
up images to a number of 7.5GB DVDs a
highly cost-effective option.
These days, the humble DVD as a storage
solution isn’t worth considering; storage of the
disks, risk of damage and even cost when you
consider the fact it would take 137 DVDs to
save 1TB of images make their use prohibitive.
In fact, that many DVDs wouldn’t cost that
much less than a 1TB 2.5in hard drive, and
with free fi le-sharing sites such as Filemail and
WeTransfer, you don’t even need disks these
days to share images with other people. © GETT Y IMAGES

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