Digital Workflow: Downloading
Written by admin on April 10th, 2007 in Workflow.
With digital photography comes the opportunity to amass a huge collection of image files. It is just so easy to push the shutter button knowing that you won’t have to pay for the lab processing costs. What we digital photographers seem to forget are the costs associated with handling the many gigabytes worth of data. I believe it is very important to start as early as possible when it comes to proper management of digital images. This is part 1 of a series of articles that I will be sharing on my digital photo workflow. In this segment I will share my first step in going from my camera to my computer.
I will begin by discussing how I arrange my images on my computer. I use a
folder naming scheme that is based on the shooting date. I use the format ‘2006-01-01” so the folders will show up in chronological order in my directory structure. I always keep the original filename somewhere within the filename so my RAW file backup can be associated with my working copy if need be.
I only use a card reader to transfer the images from the cards to my computer. I just haven’t had much luck with directly connecting my Canon 20D to my computer. I have my computer setup to automatically launch Downloader Pro, from Breezesys. Downloader Pro prompts me for a “job code” that I append to the file name, in this case “Cali_Beach”.
I have Downloader Pro set up to create the directory structure that I discuss above and to copy the files into a backup folder with the file attributes set to “Read Only”.
After giving the software my Job Code and clicking on the “Download” button, Downloader Pro takes care of the rest.
Once it’s complete, I have a folder with all the files that I can begin working on as well as a backup copy of the RAW files that I can send to my CD/DVD burner.
My next step is to take care of captioning and keywords since I haven’t been able to get Downloader Pro to add these to my Canon RAW files (If you know how, please let me know). My next installment to my Digital Photo Workflow series will cover my process of the beginning stages of Asset Management.
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