Where do you store your photos?

[ChrisinMI]

Wondering what everyone does with their pictures. I scrapbook. I also store my pics on computer and CD's. But I make sure all my favorite pics get into scrapbook photo albums so we can look at them and remember the stories that go with them.

 

[ashes2beauty]

I'm going to start scrapbooking all my family's old photos... but anything I take, I store on CD and my hard drive.

 

[MadeInOz]

I have one big folder on my hard drive where I classify all of my photos by time period, and have started to put them into other classifications. I recently purchased a laptop which has a built in card reader, which is very nice. My camera fits nicely into my laptop bag, so it's all good.

 

[ChrisinMI]

I have one big folder on my hard drive where I classify all of my photos by time period, and have started to put them into other classifications. I recently purchased a laptop which has a built in card reader, which is very nice. My camera fits nicely into my laptop bag, so it's all good.

Word of caution if you don't print those photos...BACK THEM UP ON CD!!! If you computer hard drive crashes...YOU LOSE ALL YOU MEMORIES!!

This has happened to people I know! I always print mine then store on CD.

 

[Boss_BlueAngels]

Most of my pictures are on 35mm film and I have WAY too many for albums. When I got started with airshow photography I did get one that holds 200 pics... but that got filled up with all the "good" shots from only ONE airshow! haha I've been to about 6 (2,300 pics) since then.

But i do have some very nice little boxes for holding pics so I can lable/organize according to exact time/location they were taken. Quite handy.

 

[CountryLady]

I have some in photo albums, some on cd's, some on computer.

 

[ChrisinMI]

Okay... How are you expressing your memories of those photos???? Do you have pictures that represent a way God has been at work in your life?

 

[ceres]

I keep my pictures on CD's after my memory card gets filled... but also print almost all of them to put in a photo album book, and a couple of them a second time to scrapbook with

 

[Boss_BlueAngels]

Okay... How are you expressing your memories of those photos???? Do you have pictures that represent a way God has been at work in your life?

Look no farther than my signature. They're all mine.

I also have made several music videos using some of my own videography and photography set to Christian songs... I also print out 8 1/2 x 11 copys of pictures that I have added Bible verses to.

 

[ChrisinMI]

Look no farther than my signature. They're all mine.

I also have made several music videos using some of my own videography and photography set to Christian songs... I also print out 8 1/2 x 11 copys of pictures that I have added Bible verses to.

Thats Awesome!

 

[RealitySocket]

I have one big folder on my hard drive where I classify all of my photos by time period, and have started to put them into other classifications. I recently purchased a laptop which has a built in card reader, which is very nice. My camera fits nicely into my laptop bag, so it's all good.

Same here. I don't worry about my hard drives crashing since I upgrade once a year, at least. Always needing more space, so I keep buying more hard drives and transfer the data.

Also, I put the "good" pictures I've taken on albums online. That helps a bit, I suppose.

 

[Hitokiri Battousai]

I put all of them on my PSP. (it's like a gameboy but it's 250$ and can play movies 3d games surf the web and play music and lots of other things)

 

[Southern Cross]

From a professional's point of view - back up your photos. Don't wait to do it! While digital is a great thing (I shoot 100% digital), hard drives DO crash, CDs DO degrade, and you would be surprised at how one virus or damaged partition can destroy entire folders of images. I store terbytes of image data, and thank goodness the backups are in place. You don't realize how utterly important your own images are until you lose them. Or until you have to pay a company several hundred dollars to retrieve data off of a bad drive.

We back everything up to CDs or DVDs, and then we back it up again to stand alone hard drives (which run less than $1 per gig of storage space these days). Once a drive is full - for instance, I'll have 25-30 weddings on a drive - it goes to storage.

I guess I've just seen too many people in tears who have lost generations of photos due to sloppy storage methods. One of the best things you can do is have all the important photos scanned, and place those CDs and DVDs and negatives into a safety deposit box.

 

[AndyB]

I have started using digital photography. So I now use this protable hard drive. I into digital art these days.


What about you guys?

 

[ChrisinMI]

From a professional's point of view - back up your photos. Don't wait to do it! While digital is a great thing (I shoot 100% digital), hard drives DO crash, CDs DO degrade, and you would be surprised at how one virus or damaged partition can destroy entire folders of images. I store terbytes of image data, and thank goodness the backups are in place. You don't realize how utterly important your own images are until you lose them. Or until you have to pay a company several hundred dollars to retrieve data off of a bad drive.

We back everything up to CDs or DVDs, and then we back it up again to stand alone hard drives (which run less than $1 per gig of storage space these days). Once a drive is full - for instance, I'll have 25-30 weddings on a drive - it goes to storage.

I guess I've just seen too many people in tears who have lost generations of photos due to sloppy storage methods. One of the best things you can do is have all the important photos scanned, and place those CDs and DVDs and negatives into a safety deposit box.

It is relatively new news to me that CD's degrade. Which brand do you recommend?? I print all my photos and store them in top of the line scrapbooks but I want mine backed up on reliable media. Wondering if I need to buy a different brand than I use. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Southern Cross]

I use Fuji for my CDs, and Maxell Gold for my DVDs. I think Maxell just came out with the latest generation top end DVDs for storage and my colleagues feel safe using those. You'll have to do a bit of research.

CDs are generally thought to be more stable than DVDs for long term storage. Keeping them in cases in a cool, dry dark location (like a safety deposit box or safe closet) will protect them for decades. The problem seems to be that the outer coating degrades, creating problems when your peripherals try to read the data on the CD/DVD.

We've seen CDs go bad for no discernable reason after only 3-4 years. We're covered because we back files up in multiple locations.

To keep things even safer, we don't write on our CDs or attach labels. The case gets the contents label instead.

The marketplace is demanding better data (image) storage solutions with extended longevity, so we'll see higher capacity storage devices hit the market soon enough. Just make sure you transfer your data from time to time to keep up with new tools.

 

[jdw4jesus]

I burn them onto a CD right away so if my computer dies on me (again) I will not lose them all! Also, I have an external hard drive to store them onto!

 

[ChrisinMI]

I keep my pictures on CD's after my memory card gets filled... but also print almost all of them to put in a photo album book, and a couple of them a second time to scrapbook with

Great Minds think/do alike! I do almost the same thing. Except I scrapbook all the pics except the duplicate and blurry ones! But scrapbooking is my 'thing' so it is a hobby as well as a historian thing for me.

 

[ChrisinMI]

I use Fuji for my CDs, and Maxell Gold for my DVDs. I think Maxell just came out with the latest generation top end DVDs for storage and my colleagues feel safe using those. You'll have to do a bit of research.

CDs are generally thought to be more stable than DVDs for long term storage. Keeping them in cases in a cool, dry dark location (like a safety deposit box or safe closet) will protect them for decades. The problem seems to be that the outer coating degrades, creating problems when your peripherals try to read the data on the CD/DVD.

We've seen CDs go bad for no discernable reason after only 3-4 years. We're covered because we back files up in multiple locations.

To keep things even safer, we don't write on our CDs or attach labels. The case gets the contents label instead.

The marketplace is demanding better data (image) storage solutions with extended longevity, so we'll see higher capacity storage devices hit the market soon enough. Just make sure you transfer your data from time to time to keep up with new tools.

Isn't there an issue with losing quality each time you transfer the data too? How often is wise to transfer?