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Most, no wait, all my shots up to now have been as pictures, no copyright marks/logos etc.


What are peoples thoughts on whether to include one or not (my next load of uploads will have a copyright logo in...) ?

I think it spoils the pic (as intended) but my concern was if flickr is the only place with the pic say a disaster at home wipes the rest, I would lose the clean pic and probably be upset... a bit.

So, generally waffling now, thoughts please?
 
I have a great system at the moment where my mac backs up to a NAS hard drive using time machine and every night that NAS mirrors itself to one in my parents house (they dot know what it is but they know not to turn it off! :-) )
 
Rmacleod90 said:
And related to the original question, ALWAYS watermark or use low res files online if you intend to sell the image!
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I only ever upload low res files to he internet, be it my own website or the likes of Flickr/Photobucket. I then always back up my files to two independent external hard drives.
 
I only upload low res files to the internet, usually around 800 pixels on the long side.

I use the idea that if a digital file isn't backed up in at least three places it doesn't exist. So I have my working drive, use time machine to backup the working drive to an external drive every hour, and have a 3rd drive that has my image folders backed up to it manually after every job.

I am looking into a RAID set up at home and a RAID in an off site location that I can backup to over a broadband connection. It's just part of doing business with digital these days.
 
Surely you have the original raw file safe x 2?

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nah they reside on a 1tb external hd - usb.

Haven't put onto dvd... gonna take loads of space.
Home disaster would wipe hd and destroy dvd anyway...

Liking the thought of private pics on flickr - would you post twice, the lower res (800px) and the hi res and hide the hi res ?


How does that affect the photostream - does it disappear?
 
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At the very least back up to cd/dvd, they are cheap enough and most computers have a built in one anyway.
Ideally you want 2 external hard drives, one kept off site (at mums/work etc) if not what about a long usb to a garden shed? it's better than nothing, no way I'd rely on flickr as backup.
 
ecniv said:
Haven't put onto dvd... gonna take loads of space.
Home disaster would wipe hd and destroy dvd anyway...
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Crikey! It is shocking that you place such a low value on your images.

A home disaster happens to very few. A hard-drive failure on the other hand...... :'(

Backing up is easy, recovery may not be!
 
chip said:
Crikey! It is shocking that you place such a low value on your images.

A home disaster happens to very few. A hard-drive failure on the other hand...... :'(

Backing up is easy, recovery may not be!
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Worst case scenario...

Whats the worst that could happen.... hmmmm fire? mixed with water from fire engine...

Yeah really must dvd them ;) but now that I'm shooting a fair amount I guess I am going to have to trim off the waste or burn all night (not with fire btw) :)
 
i normally export in LR using a high res setting without watermark, for filing, then i have a low-res (800px, 170kb max) file with my watermark on it.

i use my macbook pro, my desktop, and my external hard drive to store my files.
 
An additional hard drive backup and Blu-ray backups periodically.

I keep multiple copies of the really important things on several drives across multiple computers and on optical disc as well.

When it comes to backups, you can't be paranoid enough.
 
Optical media should never be considered a truly safe form of backup. They degrade over time.
 
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