The Importance of Backup

By Matthew Rivers


Employing shutter zoom can be a enjoyable method to try on any composition where you want to create drama or action. For this to work well, you will require a DSLR or hybrid camera with a zoom lens. First of all, set your ISO as low as you possibly can and dial inside a little aperture of around f22 to get a longer exposure. Isolate a subject - as an example a willing model, a gorgeously blooming flower, an insect, etc and concentrate on and meter from this. Subsequently, compose your shot so that the subject is positioned within the center of your frame. We human beings are essentially unable to understand the depth of an object until we get up close to it.

Zoom lenses are generally described by the ratio of their longest to shortest focal lengths. As an example, a zoom lens with focal lengths ranging from 100 mm to 400 mm can be described as a 4:1 or "4" zoom. The title super zoom or hyperzoom is utilized to describe photographic zoom lenses with really substantial focal length aspects, typically more than four times and ranging up to fifteen times magnification in SLR camera lenses and 35x in amateur digital cameras. Not surprisingly, this ratio might be as high as one hundred times in professional television cameras.

Saving Your Zoom Photos

But, in order to protect all of your work with zoom photography, remember that drives fail. Thus, the best backups are on RAID-type systems that can tolerate and recover from a drive failure. Even this can be messy. Recently, I had both a main drive and a backup drive fail. Getting everything recovered and back to where it should be wasn't easy, as I had to deal with the problems separately and sequentially, and rebuilding RAIDs isn't always as easy as some vendors tell you it is. For instance, in some circumstances, a Drobo drive failure can put your data at risk until the entire structure is rebuilt, and that can take 12 hours or more. Your system better be on a USB during that time, because a power failure can be problematic. To put that in perspective, my USB has been my backup eight times already this week. This is one reason why I have backups for backups.

A UPS (uninterrupted power supply) is as useful in urban environments as it is where the power fails often. This device will absorb power spikes or buy you a few minutes to shut down your computer safely if your power goes out. Manage your images only from the image management software. Once you move image files at the desktop level of your computer, you're going to be in a world of hurt. Use your image management program to move, copy and delete your images, or risk the software loosing track of where your images are. Also, consider centralizing where your images are physically stored on your computer system. Backing up from one location is a time saver, and keeping everything on an external hard drive is handy if you need to grab and go.

iPhoto is a 100% Mac-integrated solution and it is therefore easy to drop an image into a document, an e-mail, or any other program you might be working in. It has face recognition that helps the user to build simple and logical cataloging rules. Then, it also has GPS functionality that helps the user categorize an image based on where it was taken.

Mac's basic image software, iPhoto, has great editing functions plus the ability to do simply but effectively use RAW editing. It's very fast to work with even when the image collection gets larger. The above are basic functions, but there are many more functions in iPhoto. It's easier than ever to convert your images into digital files using HP photo scanners and HP Photosmart also. With All-in-Ones, the ability to scan slides or negatives is also a special feature included on several HP photo scanners.




About the Author:



0 comments:

Post a Comment

Archives