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Photographers today just want to download their images and format the

card ready for the next job. It’s essential that you have an external hard drive
Hard-drives... for your work. If your as paranoid as me you’ll probably save 2 sets, one to

your computer and one to an external drive, or 2 copies to 2 separate external
You may not think an external hard-drive for your computer is that
drives and nothing on the computer, and then you can format your cards
important. However, I’ve had my own bad experiences
ready for the next job.
with loading everything onto my computer and then
having a crash. It’s a pain, and you really need your We also have cloud storage now, and some may want to save to the cloud too.

work saved separately from your main hard-drive. Then there’s drop box... another place where you can store a copy. If your

work is very private and you do not want your work to be accessed or spied
I would not want anyone starting out in this
on, then store to an external drive, but don’t leave it plugged into your main
business to go through what l went through.
computer when you don’t need to. If you photograph injuries of people and
Fortunately, due to my being unable to let go of work
accidents, or crime scenes, this is not something you want shared.
from the actual memory cards, l was able to download

my images again onto a new drive. l was around
during the days of film, long before we even had

computers, so filing was easy. I've never been Social media…
able to trust a computer or hard-drives, to save

and keep my work. When you shoot film and its Before l start on this subject, l must tell you this. I am old school, and do
in your possession, it’s something you can file. I not like social media. It’s a scary place to me and can end your career just as

could never get my head around the idea of an soon as you start. You are confident and fearless, but one thing you should
image being saved on a machine. I am not tech minded, so was always fearful know, is that some people may be jealous of your success. If you do a

of losing work. For some reason the idea of having my pictures stored on a mediocre job for someone, they may be quick to trash you in every corner of
card from my camera, was safer than my images being downloaded to a social media.

computer and saved. Keeping the cards and buying a new one for a different
Make sure that before you choose to use SM presence, you have developed
event is what saved me.
sufficient skills to show off great pictures.