
the new print and stock site is here
For a while now I've been looking for a client site to augment my online portfolio, a place for a client to preview images from a shoot and download the final files. E-commerce is secondary to me but still important. There are a few sites out there that do this. PhotoShelter is very popular and for a year I had a SmugMug account. In the end I elected to go with PhotoDeck. The decision came down to three things.
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I got a call from a fiend's office the other day. Their archive had been on 2 mirrored Drobo drives. They bought a new mac pro and suddenly the entire archive was unreadable. That is a very scary place to be. Years of work can be wiped out instantly.
I've written about archiving and backing up before, but since all most photographers produce are 1s and 0s it bears repeating.
the system protects against 3 things
- Mechanical failure
- File corruption and deletion
- Physical catastrophe
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I am about to start a busy fall travel season. I leave for Paris this weekend, then an long series of little trips until mid November. One of my great concerns when I'm on the road is that my laptop will crater. I'm not worried about the machine so much, laptops come and go for photographers, we are hard on them. My concern is that I'll be stuck without some way to recover my data if the macbook augers in.
There are 2 things that I use to make my life -a little- more secure.
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A couple of people have asked me -both in email and personally- about my workflow. It is a good question. A bad workflow can sink your business, a good workflow makes your life easier. So here is a down and dirty explanation of mine.
I do all the archiving and editing on Expression Media (about $200 here
). It is a microsoft product I know, but it works well with canon raw files. Most of the raw conversions are done with Photoshop (student addition $200 here
) or DPP.
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Review by National Geographic Photographer
IRA BLOCK
UPDATE READ 7D at high iso HERE and video first impression HERE
As a photo journalist, my cameras of choice have been the Canon
5DMark II, and the 50 D when I needed high frames per second.. When I learned
that Canon was debuting its 7D though, I decided it was time to move up.
A decent check from stock sales this month enabled me to
make my move today. Good by 50 D: Hello 7D.
Canon promised better focusing, high frame rate and a superior
auto focusing system on its 7D and so far it seems to have delivered.
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