Posts tagged ‘storage and backup’

Reviews

Protect My Photos?

A while back I wrote a review of Protect My Photos, an online photo backup service. In the past few months I've received a few emails and some comments on the original post indicating that some people have had a few problems. Protect My Photos worked fine in my testing [...]

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Essays

The Things I Carry: Tips for the Traveling Photographer

Good photos favor the well-prepared

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Reviews

Review: ProtectMyPhotos.com online photo backup service

I've been testing out an online photo backup service called ProtectMyPhotos.com. The idea is simple: upload your photos to their service and they'll store them for you securely for as long as you like. Then if anything happens to your originals, you can use the service to retrieve the backups. There [...]

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Surveys

How do you name your digital photographs?

Each photograph I download from a memory card is automatically renamed with the date and time the image was shot. For example: 20060623_140123.jpg says that the photo was taken on June 23, 2006 at 2:01 PM (and 23 seconds). Each time photos are downloaded from a card, they're put into [...]

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Photography 101

Backing up your photos: why and how

I recently finished a task that turned out to be undeserving of my procrastination and left me with a welcome sense of relief. I made a backup of every digital photograph in my collection, over 15,000 images, spanning nearly 6 years from early 2000. It had been far [...]

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