When taking photos is not an option, there are plenty of useful things you can do with your photography.
How to organise and archive your photos
A basic guide to ensuring your images are secure, backed up, and easily found.
Memory card tech update and buying tips
We investigate recent developments in memory cards and show you how to work out the right storage option for your camera…
Portable storage round-up
The latest options for storing images and movie clips when you’re on the move…
Scanning hard copy photos
Tips and options for digitising your film and photographic prints…
Image storage reliability
You’ve just returned from a stunning photo shoot and the images are safely captured on memory card. The most common next step in the life of digital image files is transfer to computer hard disk. This is where most images remain, and also where they are most vulnerable…
Travel photo and backup tips
Photographer Rachel Devine shares her tips on travel photography, backup on the run, wi-fi and immediate sharing of your images.
Image management while you travel
What do you do with the images and movie clips you record while you’re travelling? Most photographers like to download each day’s shots to a portable computer and cull any obvious failures (blurred and out-of-focus images, for example). Having a laptop also allows you to back up shots on an external drive or upload them to ‘cloud’ storage.
Memory card speeds and capacities
Your camera will determine the type of memory card you need. The camera’s resolution, video capabilities and the extent to which you use continuous shooting will dictate the card speed required.
This article will help ensure you choose a memory card that perfectly suits your photography.
The digital dark age dilemma
[August 2015] By breaking the nexus between analogue cameras and photos (the film era forced photographers to create hard copy images), digital photography created a problem which is yet to be fully addressed: the essentially ephemeral nature of digital image files.
