Digital Photography Workflow

Ask Photo Guy on workflow:

Digital image files are easy to create and just as easy to lose. Your memory card is not meant for permanent storage however for lots of people it is. Memory cards these days are very reliable but at the very least your images should be downloaded to a hard drive for permanent storage. Hard drives can fail so extra backup is needed.

I get a little nuts about backup of my images. My workflow is as follows:
1. Shoot.
2. Download to a computer hard drive. I use dedicated servers for my storage with many terrabytes of capacity.
3. Burn 2 dvd's of the original images prior to any editing.
4. Rename the images by appending descriptive text to the beginning of the filename without removing the number at the end.
5. Deleted the bad images from the hard drive.
6. Tweak the images so they will look their best.
7. Burn another set of dvd's of the now edited images.