When we talk about organizing our images – print or digital, its difficult no to broach the area of archiving and looking after our photographs.
As great as it is to make sure that everything can be easily found, it’s important for photographers to perform regular backups and find ways to prevent images that are not always easy to find once they are lost.
1. Prints
When dealing with prints, as we mentioned in an earlier post – it’s important to make sure they are left out of the sun and humidity and stored in a dark cool area in archival friendly conditions wherever possible.
Many digital photographers are finding that their image collection is growing faster than ever – when you have a memory card and no processing costs (as we once had with film) it’s tempting to shoot away to our hearts content.
Sooner or later, any budding photographer is going to end up with a large and constantly growing collection of images.
Professional photographers must be organized. Quite often, as a freelancer, you will be juggling new clients and coming up with quotes, you will be getting new work, you will be dealing with exiting clients, sending off invoices, and of course all the other things you may do in your personal life. Staying on top of things means you will able to work productively without distractions.