Low-level card formatting
I’ve added another section to last week’s article on deleting photos in-camera, talking about the “low level” format option when using SD cards. Most of the time you’ll want to have this off!
Tag: workflow
It’s a New Year. Update your metadata presets!
Having useful metadata associated with your images makes a lot of things simpler.
Deleting images in-camera
I occasionally get asked whether I delete images from the back of my cameras, but like most other questions relating to photography: the answer is usually both “yes” and “no”.
How I use Time Machine backups
The computer systems we rely on so much for everything from email to processing our photos are inherently fragile. We store large amounts of precious data on them, and having backups is important so we don’t lose things when (not if) the storage devices fail. This article talks about how …
Importing into Lightroom: Follow the arc!
A fundamental part of any photographer’s workflow should be how they organise and file their photos. Lightroom (OK, the proper name is “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom”) provides a great framework to integrate this into your workflow, but it’s imperative that you understand what’s going on. Too many Lightroom beginners try to …
One big memory card, or multiples?
Some photographers prefer to use many “small” memory cards in their cameras (“small” these days is probably 4 GB!) whereas some photographers are happier using cards as large as they can afford. There are many reasons for each approach, some of which should be obvious to everyone and some of …
Keep your backups safe!
As outlined in my earlier articles (including the recent one about my field image-processing workflow) I’ve put some thought into maintaining efficient and safe backups as part of my routine workflow. While travelling I generate a lot of valuable files, and if I lost them I would only have the …