{"id":354,"date":"2009-06-27T00:26:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T22:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2009-06-27T00:26:24","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T22:26:24","slug":"how-where-stor-photos-digital-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/technical-tips\/how-where-stor-photos-digital-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How and Where to Store your Photos in a Digital World?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monica Castillo in Divine Inspiration \u00a9 Benjamin Kanarek<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
“Better Safe than Sorry”<\/span><\/h5>\n

Being that we are living profoundly in a digital age, it is imperative that I share with you my concerns about how to store your images safe for future generations to have the opportunity of viewing your catalog of work.<\/p>\n

In the past there were negatives, positives films (slides) and prints which, if taken care of and stored properly, could survive several decades without serious degradation. Today we are hit by a number of possible dangers that could erase for eternity any of those images that were captured for posterity and meant so much to you, your loved ones, businesses and archives wishing to preserve the image which mirrors the social fabric of the day.<\/p>\n

I became keenly aware of this problem when I converted to digital image capture. It is not practical for me to print all of the work I have done and thus had to find a way of minimizing the possibility of losing my works. There are many ways ones could safeguard their images. There is CD, which I find very problematic to say the least. DVDs which I find equally troublesome, DAT, which is a wonderful medium, but, try to find a DAT player today. I archive my work on about 8 (eight), yes 8 external and internal hard drives in two different locations. I make it a practice to save all of the final retouched published images of mine on all of these devices and store to all of them religiously when a job has been completed. I.e. post production included. I save my Raw images on to at least 3 to 4 external hard drives as well.<\/p>\n

Many consider this as over kill. But imagine the thought of losing your archives to some electrical anomaly. In some ways it would be akin to losing your identity. All of those images that were an expression of your world view, lost for ever.<\/p>\n

It is for this reason that I HIGHLY recommend that you save your images and any other important files to at least 2 hard drives, or 3\u00a0 for that\u00a0 extra measure of security. Eventually “Cloud Systems” might be the way to go, but imagine for some reason that the internet is down for an extended period of time and access to your precious files is impossible. So for now, until Crystal Quartz storage becomes the norm, I sincerely hope that you take my advice. As the old adage states; “Better Safe than Sorry.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being that we are living profoundly in a digital age, it is imperative that I share with you my concerns about how to store your images safe for future generations to have the opportunity of viewing your catalog of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[654],"tags":[659,672],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG8MM-5I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":299,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/photography\/image-bank-stock-photo-photo-library\/","url_meta":{"origin":354,"position":0},"title":"Image Bank, Stock Photo and Photo Library","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"June 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Have you ever thought of how you might generate a bit more income to buy that new laptop or electric bicycle but don't have enough available cash to do so? 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