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One of the most important aspects of our work as photographers is the storage of our photos and videos. Not only do our businesses regularly depend on our images and videos remaining safe until final delivery, many of us keep years of personal memories backed up for safe keeping. A few weeks ago, our own Alex Cooke wrote a review on one of the most dependable ways to back up what's important to you, the new My Cloud Mirror 2. As a follow up to his article, Fstoppers and WD would like make sure you have the option to keep your back ups secure by giving away three My Cloud Mirror 2 units. Check out the details below.
When it comes to backing up files, all of us place importance on different things. I personally have hundreds of thousands of wedding images I've taken for clients over the years stored on multiple hard drives. The story of these images show my progress as a photographer, and also guarantee that in a dire situation, my clients can retain access to their pictures. Outside of my business, I place the most value on the many travel pictures I've taken in over a dozen countries with my wife. These are some of my most treasured moments and memories in my life. I love to look back on them from time to time to remember the many rich life experiences we've shared together.
What are the most important items you store digitally? Fstoppers and WD would like to hear from you and give you the chance to safely store the precious aspects of your lives with a new 4TB My Cloud Mirror (Gen 2).
To be eligible to receive one of the three giveaway units, simply leave a comment below this article describing the most important items you back up. Fstoppers will randomly select three winners from the comments to receive a 4TB My Cloud Mirror (Gen 2). For a full list of sweepstakes rules and eligibility, click HERE.
The easy answer is all my photos, but in addition to that, I have collected a fair amount of historical records in scans and photos that either no longer exist in their original form or are no longer accessible. Losing those would be disastrous to many projects, so backups are essential.
My pictures of my family and videos of kids growing up from my cell phones and video camera.
Photos of my family and friends are the most important to me (shocker). But it wasn't until my father's recent passing that I realized how precious those photos could be. I've now started to make a habit of bringing my camera to all events instead of relying on poor quality photos from everyone's phones.
Im a biologist and use the photography to teach people about the richness of our natural resources. I have the most extensive library of mammals pictures in my country several of them (mostly bats) are the only alive photographs of those species. I keep a backup of this pictures for scientific and educational use.
Lots of digital content between architectural drawings, TBs of photos and personal documents would love fast local RAID backup.
I often work on multiple videos at the same time. I need a hard drive that is reliable and has enough room to store all the files involved in the productions.
Photos, music, and business documents.
The moments I can't afford to forget.
My photos from my trips with my dad, to see my family out of country, and photos of my sisters and their new children.
I have a YouTube channel where I document my travels with my pets, so just for the channel itself being able to store videos and photos is important........... BUT...... after my oldest cat recently passed and with my oldest dog nearing his end, I've been going through old photos and the few old videos I have and wishing I had taken more,,,,,, my newer younger pets I've got lots of photos and videos of them. , but my 15 year old dog and my 18 year old cat : ( .....data storage for videos of any length was just out of my reach back in those days when they were younger.................. So my answer is MEMORIES they are most important. This photo is of BooBoo back in 2008 our first year travelling full time back when we had just a Volkswagen camper van ;). before we became all fancy with a motorhome and solar, and cameras and such
Raw photos and videos of my family, NBA players, snowboarding, landscapes, skateboarding, weddings and more.
I am graduating with my degree and about to start trying to build my photography business. I'm going to start backing up my initial portfolio and my first set of work.
Since I am a Photojournalist my photos are very valuable to me including the ones I take for my personal projects and Exhibitions.
The photos I take will be my reminders when my memory fades. My family, my adventures will still be there for me.
Number one to save and back up would be personal family images. Second would be each and every client in a redundant system. Things happen and having multiple back ups is important.
The most important items I back up are the photos I take for not only clients, but just as importantly, family photos from over the years.
I am a traveler, I've been away from home for exactly 2 years today, and every picture that I take is important, places, people, small and big memories, I back up everything, usually online and on a physical device.
All my work and travel of 10 years +.
I save my memories. I recently had two hard drives go out together, and along with it 10000 photos I took in Iraq. I was able to recover some, but now I have copies saved on thumb drives, hard drives, laptops and desktops. Not going through that again.
I guess somewhat critically I would say memories are what I'd like to preserve digitally. Of which not at least surprisingly on this website, are my photographs and videos accumulated over a period of 12-15 years.
I've got friends in far off places that I rarely get to see. So when we do get together, those photos have great personal significance to me.
I back up everything, from client projects to personal photos, but the ones I am most careful about are the restored photos of my parents and older relatives, which make me feel a deeper connection to my family.
I am a stills photographer in the film industry, I shoot approximately 500 - 800 images per day 5-6 days per week on a project. I need lots of secure, reliable storage for my images as I edit for the Studio.
Besides my Photography for business, it is the photographs I take on vacation with family and friends. Right now I am running out of room on my current HD from WD, and am looking to add a new one to help backup and cleanup my stuff.
The most important things I backup are client content, but also family times together and we have a lot of them. From silly times to important ones.
Most important to me are my RAW files from the past two years since my foray into fashion and portraiture after doing a 180 degree turn in life and leaving my job at a Biohazard Level 3 Tuberculosis research laboratory. The many years of personal images and scans of old negatives that are beyond priceless to me also top the list of files I'd be gutted to lose.
Photos and video of my wedding, my childhood, and my library of personal and client work.
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It'd have to be my photography work, design projects and film& animation projects I'm working on
Everyday photography, more and more each day:)
I backup all my images, because most of them are captured memories!
All of my photos, private & works :)
Purely for my RAW backup.
Photos, photos, photos :)
Back up memories, work and fun
All my memories, had a disk failure a few years back and the feeling of loss was very difficult. Made me realize that the cost of paying for offline cloud based storage is worth it.
For me the most important thing to backup are the pictures i take on regular basis and esp the outdoor landscape as i like to keep them safe as i might have to use them in the future and back of mind i am always worried about loosing them if the system or hard drive fail.
The material compiled during weddings is huge, in photography and video, plus sessions in the studio, all generated a huge space that needs to be stored and certainly the 4TB My Cloud Mirror is the best option.
I think it would have to be the old family photos, I have copies going back 4 generation. I believe the originals have been lost, so they only live now in digital.
Photos from our phones and Canon 60D, receipts on important purchases, tax docs and all my music.
Childhood photos, mobile snaps from memorable moments and of course my personal / client work.
The most important things are my raw-files, lightroom catalogues and e-mails.
I take a lot of photos, and have a lot of videos, so storing them safely is important! I have dozens of USB drives and duplicates just in case I lose one!
The most important items I have are photos with family, traveling, and adventures. I also have quite a few videos to go along with those photos.
I do Fashion film and Fashion photography so if I were to stock something up. This would be it, all the great moments I had doing photography in the last few years. And, not to forget, all the moments spent with my loved ones, which I already back up in 5 places. A 6th one would be great!
I back up quite a lot of files. Music, movies, digital art work that I create for work and pleasure. But by far the most important has to be photos of the family, my oldes son is 10 now so that is 10 years of photos of his life, my youngest son is 3 and all the photos of him too, not to mention all the events of our lives so far that have been caught on video, 31 years of photos of the work I have done on clients I tattoo for a living and own my studio. I had to scan a lot of negatives in the past I think it took me almost a year to do that chipping at it weekly to get it all done. Vacation photos, well I would say I'm a back up junkie, I monthly dump my photos from my phone as well. I'm currently working with a 25tb setup for just back ups in a raid 10 setup.
I've been taking digital photos since Nokia's 7650 if anyone remembers it,and have been hooked onto photography since. Started to get more serious in 2008 with my first DSLR and have lot of memories that i'd like to backup.
I've been taking digital photos since Nokia's 7650 if anyone remembers it,and have been hooked onto photography since. Started to get more serious in 2008 with my first DSLR and have lot of memories that i'd like to backup.
I back up all of my photography work (weddings, and personal projects), family photographs, as well as cabinet cards that I restore. Having a raid 1 option would be great giving me more peace of mind knowing that there is one more backup there incase of failure.