Loading...Images from the Id – The Importance of Being…or Backup Backup, Backup
I entered the week with the sincere belief that things would be different this. The best plans of men and gods bend at the whims of fate. Sunday, the MacBook Pro crashed. It had served well for 4 years of extensive work, but the point really is, how well prepared are you for the worst computer meltdown? I back up all the time at least twice a week for the system and every shoot or Lightroom session. Have a plan and stick to it. Being an Apple product user this is all very easy. The Mac OSX has a function called “Time Machine” which is absolutely amazing with the ability to keep even hourly backups if needed . These are not just data backups but complete system backups. I do this about twice a week and before any major work session. I back up all of the image files at the conclusion of each session. I use backup software called Goodsync and have also used Chronosync. Both are good with not too steep learning curves. This means I have three up to date copies of all my images and Lightroom catalogs.
After catastrophe
Other than the pain of getting a new computer things have gone well. The initial setting up of the hard drive was completely automatic and Time Machine did it in two hours. I now have a computer setup exactly like the last one. Well almost. The “old” computer had to drives and setting up there single SSD drive on the new one was the easy part. Even reauthorizing the Adobe apps and, luckily, this was a big worry from past Microsoft experiences, I got MS Office up and running. Now how to get this year’s image files, which were on the second HD, on the new computer and link to Lightroom? I move the files to the system (SSD) drive and sync to Lightroom in the Library Module. They are still a little bit out of sync but in a few days I’ll get it how I want it. I am going to miss that 300 Gb of extra HD. In the meantime let’s look at a photo
Mueller State Park on the west side of Pike’s Peak is one of my favorite camping areas. It’s quiet. The hiking trails are shorter and easier than most. It has beautiful scenery but not a lot of wildlife action. Actual there is one thing that has become my favorite place to shoot. It’s a little pond called Dragonfly Pond and it is exactly that, a great concentration of dragonflies. These guys are extremely difficult to shoot but practice makes perfect, well almost in this case. Just try to track and focus on a fast flying 2-3 inch dragonfly.
Dragonfly 1/2000 se. f/6.7 ISO 800 400 mm/600 mm -1/2 EV
