Portrait Photography

Hard Drive–Hard Drive (back-up)

Yourharddrivesshouldbeinseparatelocationstocover
alleventualities.Ifone isdamagedor corruptedyouare
abletoretrievetheinformationfromtheidenticalback-up.
Rememberthateventhissystemwillnotprotectyourfiles
forever;itisthoughtthattheaveragelifespanofahard
drivewillbearoundfiveyears,anditshouldbereplaced
regularly.Whenpurchasingyourexternaldrivesmakesure
that you buy the most stable one you can afford.

Organizing the hard drives so that information can be
easilyretrievedisveryimportant.Youmaywishtodothis
bydate, witheachshoot archivedintothemonthitwas
taken, orwith folders a-z,with each shootlabelled and
archived within their corresponding folder.

Tosyncthesetwoharddrivesonaregularbasis(normally
attheendofeachshootingday)youmaywishtouseone
of thefollowingsystems: if workingon a Mac, Chrono
Sync.orifonaPC,Secondcopy.Botharedownloadable
from the internet.

AsweareshootinginRAWthespacetakenwillbelarger
thanthatofasimilaramountofJPEGs,soitisagoodidea
tokeepacloseeyeonthespaceavailableonboththehard
drives and computers that you will be working from.

KEYWORDS

Whenorganizing theirimagesmanyphotographerswill

keywordtheimagestomakeasearchfaster(thiscanbe

done in either Lightroom or Photoshop). Using words