AboutDon Wood Expertise I have been a professional photographer for 26 years. Wedding, portraits, passports, copies, groups pix, reunions, etc. Specialty in photography of large groups. I also have worked in newspaper photography for most of my photographic years. I have built and maintained a b/w darkroom, and a color darkroom.
Experience I have been a professional photographer for 35 years. I am transitioning to digital photography so I might be able to help in that field. I'm retired now but am still able to be helpful in the field. I have built a b/w, color darkroom, worked in a color lab, worked in the newspaper field both in darkroom and as a shooter.
Question Hey I work in a photo studio where the photographers shoot with latest canons and nikons and they use sd or compact flash. Now we transfer everything to an external hdd and we then burn each wedding or w/e to dvds to back it up, this system though is very complicated, he ext. HDD is becoming full, im scared it will crash and etc. Is there a better choice, because we are always busy on jobs and can't afford to loose everything. Is it good to back up online or is it even more risky, do you have any recommendations? Thanks alot
Answer With the price of external hd's so low, I think I would invest in another external hd, disconnect the existing one, The material would still be on it. Actually if you are backing up each wedding and pics to DVDs already, Burn an extra one for your archives. You could then file it in a book. It would then be easy to get it for the occasional reprint request later on in the timeline. Have you thought of eliminating the images from the HD after you've burned your archival copy? You could wait 6 months-1 year to do so.
Sounds like you got a good system already.
Thanks for writing.
