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Guest blogger, Tina from Mummified TIMES FIVE

Photography is my passion. Being a busy mum of 5 meant that extending my photographic training had to be put on hold for a number of years but now that the kids are older and I am able to take some time for me, I've finally started working on achieving my goal - which is to become a professional photographer, specialising in portraiture and landscape - by enrolling into photo imaging courses through TAFE.

Practise makes perfect and practise means taking lots of photos. Having lots of photos means needs an efficient way to store them on your computer. I've tried a few different methods but this way seems to work for me.
Click here to read more-> Organising my photos

Another creative posts by Tina, I got some Cloning skills

                                  by Tina, autor of -Mummified TIMES FIVE blog.

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Check out Tina’s Mummified TIMES FIVE, blog for more, creative photography ideas.  I think Tina  (see photo above),has a great artist’s ‘eye’, behind the camera. J.

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How I organize my photos, by Kathy Shell.

I also download a day’s photo shoot, at the end of each day. I love digital photography as I usually take about 100 to 200 photos on a day out with the camera. I file these under the day’s date.

When I am ready to edit these pictures, I rarely use more than 2% from a day’s shoot and I delete the remainder.

My edited photos are filed according to the picture quality I am saving the image as. The highest being my print quality images and I save these off my computer where they cannot be lost nor take up excessive space in my computer memory. I back this up with a second copy stored on line in a password protected area; I value my print quality images too much to lose them in a computer crash.

All web ready images are saved according to whether it is a photo of a subject I might use as it is or if it is a photo of my own art works.  Then within these two groupings, I will have a portrait folder that has sub folders of bears, birds, dogs, flowers, horses, people, etc and a landscapes folder with sub folders of regions, for example, ‘top end’, ‘outback WA’.

However you store your images, try to make time to back up copies of your most important ones and delete those you will not be using, to save space on your computer, and happy photographing J

                                                                                         by  Kathy Shell Author of  Fridge magnet art-Words and works blog,
gray-nomad-Gone Bush blog, 
Artslim-The art of healthy living and natural slimming blog,
Art of kathy Shell- A Creative Life, blog
and through the eyes of a dog, Indigo’s dog blog
 


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Tina @ Mummified Times Five link
10/14/2009 12:12pm

One of the things I find difficult is deleting the photos I probably won't use. But I'm working on this!

Backing up your photos is extremely important. It wasn't that long ago that my laptop crashed and I lost about 6 months worth of photos. It's heartbreaking!

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Kathy Shell link
10/14/2009 12:42pm

lol, Oh Tina, why do we have to learn by our mistakes?
I made the mistake of not even photographing at print quality, forty years worth of original art works, I made and sold, never thinking I would be wanting to make prints at this stage of my life.
I now love combining the print images of my work with motivational words and I could have used all those, now lost to me, images of early works.

Thank you once more for your guest post, Tina :-).

Cheers Kathy

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