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Comment on Product Photography : G-Drive by Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:02:22 +0000

I’ve had the G-Drive 500 Gb micro drive for over a year for storing my working library of photos (I use Aperture, but sounds similar, the master files are stored as reference files on the external drive). This was recommended by a colleague who is a top notch photographer (and works for Apple).

The drive has been great for speed and portability; when I travel, it fits on a slot in one of my Lowepack bags. It did fail on me a few weeks ago- it was showing signs of trouble, but I was trying to clean up the library, and the who drive tanked. The folks at G-Drive were able to recover it, which was not strictly needed as I do have it backed up.

My backup strategy is using a little free app called arRsync, which gives a mac interface to the unix rsync program, so I can on a regular basis (I try for weekly), to sync the photos on my working drive to another larger 2 TB drive in my office I use for backup– and I was fortunate in that when my little drive crashed, I had just run a backup the night before.

I also run TimeMachine on a weekly basis too- I just hook it up via Firewire and let it work while I am away from the computer (I dont have it backing up all the time; it was too slow over wireless)

I do use firewire 800 for all my connections.

I’ve bought the larger 2 TB G-Drive for storing my video collection, it too is well designed (my others are various LaCie drives- you read raves and groans about them, but I’ve had more than 10 over the years at home and work and all have done well).

Another tool that comes in handy is something to recover photos from your camera cards in case you delete them and realize you want some of them back. There are a few- I use Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery and ti has saved me from my own erasing stupidity.

Happy photo organizing

Comment on Geek Notes by Edmonton Wedding Photographer

Edmonton Wedding Photographer — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:51:32 +0000

I love these! And truth be known I still love having stickies on things….I’m holding on to paper with a death grip before it’s gone for ever!lol

Comment on State of the Union by Chris Osborne

Chris Osborne — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:10:12 +0000

I really like how the flag stands out. But you’re right, those “accidental” shots usually end up being keepers.

Comment on To The Temple by Peter Hufe

Peter Hufe — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:28:04 +0000

Now that’s a fine photo.
I have the iPhone 3gs live in Long Beach, on Long Island, and love the early mornings for walks with my iPhone. Not as good as the iPhone4, but does render the moment.
I can’t do websites so I use facebook.
Again, a very nice photo!

Comment on A Northern Mix by Jonas (americanvirus)

Jonas (americanvirus) — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:24:52 +0000

Ahhhh, the sweet sweet Bokeh.

Comment on Six Applications of Photography in Education by Amy Unwin

Amy Unwin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:00:06 +0000

Excellent Post! …. Just to add, I’ve just done my dissertation on the use of Digital Images & Photography as a recording and assessment tool in school (I concentrated on science specifically) & found it enhanced childrens cummalative talk & gave them a meaningful record of their learning that they could easily look back on.

Comment on Installing Presets in Aperture 3 by Dave Fitch

Dave Fitch — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:40:28 +0000

Or you could just double click the preset in the Finder, that’ll automagically install it

Comment on Summer Flight Path by Jony

Jony — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:17:33 +0000

Awesome photo.. you should be pleased with that one! I know I would be!

Jony

Comment on Lisburn Mayor’s Parade 2010 by Dave

Dave — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:37:17 +0000

Love the top blue/yellow pic!

Comment on My Tree by Julie McLeod

Julie McLeod — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:18:59 +0000

I think I want to get an iPhone just for the Hipstamtic app.

I have a tree like that too! Here’s mine…

http://tinyurl.com/2vuqays