Taking / Storing Picture

[iangillan]

Do you love to take photos.
The question is.
What are you doing with photos ...
-Are they made in Photo Laboratories-
-Do you keep them on the hard disk-
-Do you keep them on a portable media ... memory cards, USB sticks, CD / DVD.
What do you think is the best way to store photos.
How reliable are hard drives, what if it breaks.
I think it's safest to create pictures in the photo lab.
Paper is still longest lifetime.

Can you believe the photo lab.
Do you think they take it up copy`s of photographs and share them.What if something in the pictures are explicitly.


PLEASE
What is your opinion.
Do you have any advice.. THX

[nick]

I love photography, I've posted loads of photos on site here, and indexed them (http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71498) in my diary.

My first SLR was a 35mm film camera and I still love film but hardly ever use it these days. I think its good to learn with film because it teaches you to get the exposure right rather than correcting in photoshop afterwards.

My digital SLRs both use SD cards. I transfer the images to the hard disk of my computer and then delete them from the SD card. Occasionally I back up to DVD but like most people I'm pretty bad about doing this. Quite a few of my photos are uploaded to my flickr account so that provides additional backup.

Here in the UK if you took any illegal explicit photos the photo lab are obliged to report those to the police if they spot them. People have been reported before now for taking traditional baby bath photos of their own kids.

[iangillan]

Thank you Nick ,for sharing your photo˙s. Congratulations, excellently photographed.
My gallery is still in my room and on my room`s wall`s, Also they are in photo album.
I love Macro photography, Loving couples and wedding (I do not think the sexual) photos,Sunset and sunrise photo and portrait˙s.
I am perhaps old-fashioned, but But I like photos on papir. I prefer glanz (high glossy) Fujifilm paper,and I ask for them in photo-lab.
That UK law is excellent.I wish that was so all over the world.But it` s not.
In Ex-Yu country`s (Croatia,Bosnia,Serbia...etc Balcan) You can do whatever you want in USA and Germany also.Here im talkin about loving and some naked scenes,not any of sexual .
Sometimes very afraid bring that type of pictures in photo lab.
I know that this is not totally explicitly ,,But people are weird about kissing and some partial nudity.

[nick]

Well you cant beat photo lab prints on high quality paper but you can get those done by submitting your digital images to the lab anyway. I still love the depth of film, seems almost more 3 dimensional somehow, and used to enjoy the thrill of collecting the prints from the lab, but these days the ability to tweak the photos on line, and to only print the best ones, wins for me.

[iangillan]

I agree with you.
Films are the Best but now digitals and adobe photoshop takes my time.
I recently took my films to photo lab to convert pictures in digital form.Digital is easier to handle.Vhen i convert my dadys slides (dia-positive) to digital form with high resolution,I could not believe how analog picture can be great.

Which camera you are using. Which Digital,which analog.
Maybe we can exchange the experience.

[nick]

Which camera you are using. Which Digital,which analog.
Maybe we can exchange the experience.
I have Pentax kit.

My current digital SLR is Pentax K20D
My film SLR is Pentax MZ-6

[iangillan]

And what is your opinion on PENTAX.Which lens fix or zoom. Ja I have never used a digital Pentax,just a couple of "idiots" litle camera.Now I use the Canon 40 D and i find its a great camera.I have already Olympus c5050 with great mounted lens.
What do you like to shooting. Do you prefers Photoshop or some others image-editors programs. What is you opinion of RAW.

[nick]

Well my first SLR was a Pentax, and I loved it, and got some extra lens for it, so it just made sense to stick with Pentax. I've got a range of fixed length and zoom lenses, mainly Pentax but a couple of Sigmas too. You can pick up lenses from the SLR lens ranges for peanuts on ebay and use them on the digitals but the focal length effect is different. I tend to stick with the standard zooms on the digital SLR just out of laziness.

Its fun using different lens sometimes, these next two shots were taken from the same place probably about 1-2 miles from the castle:-

http://i28.tinypic.com/14l0zo5.jpg

http://i30.tinypic.com/2mfeu07.jpg

and my wildlife park photos like this one were taken with a bigger zoom:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2765/4052238457_91ed69f8bb_z_d.jpg

I always shoot RAW these days, you get so much more control over the post processing that way. I use a program called Phase One to perform the initial editing and to convert the images to jpg and then sometimes use Photoshop CS4 for sharpening, cropping or other tweaks afterwards.

[iangillan]

Personally I do not prefer Capture One (phase one),because they do not support much camera types. I always use adobe camera raw for opening and then importing raw photo in Photoshop.Its a good idea to use old lenses with new (digitals) camera but (like you say) must pay attention on focal lenght.I always look in the specification of digital camera which sensor is in and whats a diagonal of that sensor, and Computing the difference because I know that the diagonal of the film is cca 5 cm (4.3 cm).(offcourse if Im not too lazy,hahaha).
I hope you understand me, my English isv relatively weak and they are a lot of technical terms.
Regards.