sabo
7th December 2006, 01:07 PM
O my God!!! While I love the digital era it is also a big pain in the arse! Let me give you a run down of what we have/do and maybe someone can help me.
At the moment, when we do a shoot whether it be a wedding, portrait, commercial whatever, we burn the raw ASAP. We then load it onto one of our many portable drives, they can each hold around 320gig (sorry not up with the mg, gig, talk just relaying what my husband has told me). Once they are on the drive we begin to process the images into JPEG/TIFF usually JPEG though, and place them into a print folder (in their assigned folder). Then from that print folder we retouch/create album (using photojunction), basically whatever we need to do before showing the client. Occasionally we will show the untouched JPEG if necessary. If everything is wrapped up with this client we will burn it and archive the disc, generally though our clients can take a little while so the folder stays on the drive for a long period of time, or sometimes we get too busy and just forget to take it off. Apart from the portable drives we also have another drive that holds 1 terrabite (hope this is making sense so far), this was ment to be for just backups but has gradually turned into just another portable drive that comes with us everywhere (home to office etc).
Our major problem is that over the past year we have had around 3 or 4 of these portable drives fail on us. Basically if its a wedding we have lost a good weeks even 2 weeks of solid work. We have never lost anyones work completely as we usually always have the raw but as you can imagine alot of time is wasted not to mention the embaressment of having to tell a client that we have had technical errors can I get the images to them in another week or so. We have been getting these drives recovered for us, but not everything is recovered successfully and completely...cost lots of money too! Usually I have to go back to the raw and recreate whatever it is the client wants again..heaps of wasted, doubling up time.
Oh and I have had a disc that has been burnt not work either, wont read or load etc...luckily enough my husband usually does 2 back ups on disc.
My question is if you shoot full digital...how do you cope in regards to archiving, having enough memory etc. We are so lost and everyday I we get by now without any 'technical problems', i feel as though we have just scraped in...almost like our luck is going to run out one day if we don't get this sorted.
Any suggestion/advice on the best way to stay above all of this.
I know you are all probably thinking that we have been pretty slack and yes i would agree with you. While we do do the best we can, and know how it seems that we are like I said just scraping in.
PLEASE PLEASE HELP! just tonight we had a scare with one of the drives that I have been using this last week or so (all of my recent wedding are on there). Luckily for some reason my husbands computer is reading the drive fine so he is in the process at the moment of transfering everything onto another drive on his computer. If that drive went thats a whole months worth of work at least...and just before Christmas too :(
At the moment, when we do a shoot whether it be a wedding, portrait, commercial whatever, we burn the raw ASAP. We then load it onto one of our many portable drives, they can each hold around 320gig (sorry not up with the mg, gig, talk just relaying what my husband has told me). Once they are on the drive we begin to process the images into JPEG/TIFF usually JPEG though, and place them into a print folder (in their assigned folder). Then from that print folder we retouch/create album (using photojunction), basically whatever we need to do before showing the client. Occasionally we will show the untouched JPEG if necessary. If everything is wrapped up with this client we will burn it and archive the disc, generally though our clients can take a little while so the folder stays on the drive for a long period of time, or sometimes we get too busy and just forget to take it off. Apart from the portable drives we also have another drive that holds 1 terrabite (hope this is making sense so far), this was ment to be for just backups but has gradually turned into just another portable drive that comes with us everywhere (home to office etc).
Our major problem is that over the past year we have had around 3 or 4 of these portable drives fail on us. Basically if its a wedding we have lost a good weeks even 2 weeks of solid work. We have never lost anyones work completely as we usually always have the raw but as you can imagine alot of time is wasted not to mention the embaressment of having to tell a client that we have had technical errors can I get the images to them in another week or so. We have been getting these drives recovered for us, but not everything is recovered successfully and completely...cost lots of money too! Usually I have to go back to the raw and recreate whatever it is the client wants again..heaps of wasted, doubling up time.
Oh and I have had a disc that has been burnt not work either, wont read or load etc...luckily enough my husband usually does 2 back ups on disc.
My question is if you shoot full digital...how do you cope in regards to archiving, having enough memory etc. We are so lost and everyday I we get by now without any 'technical problems', i feel as though we have just scraped in...almost like our luck is going to run out one day if we don't get this sorted.
Any suggestion/advice on the best way to stay above all of this.
I know you are all probably thinking that we have been pretty slack and yes i would agree with you. While we do do the best we can, and know how it seems that we are like I said just scraping in.
PLEASE PLEASE HELP! just tonight we had a scare with one of the drives that I have been using this last week or so (all of my recent wedding are on there). Luckily for some reason my husbands computer is reading the drive fine so he is in the process at the moment of transfering everything onto another drive on his computer. If that drive went thats a whole months worth of work at least...and just before Christmas too :(