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The finale makes it the end of Amphibia, but this AU won’t end!

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For all you gear-heads out there... 🔧🤖 New article, up now on GottaLightMyFire.com—check it out! (bit.ly/gunas-drobofix) 👨‍💻💭

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Diploma of Photo Imaging - DIM103 - Module 2 - Digital Asset Management

I’m not really a studio type shooter and I don’t see myself ever being one. I much prefer being outside with my camera. As photography is not my day job I’ve never really put much thought into a strategy for my workflow. I just kind of take photos and come home and then a few days later I’ll get the SD card out and look at the photos. Edit a few and post them to social media. 

This week I learned a lot about the workflows of photographers in the industry. The common workflow essentially goes like this:

Setting up the camera and taking photos

Transferring the images to a computer

Importing images into an application.

Organising and sorting images

Post-processing images

Exporting images

Backing up images

Publishing, printing, or distributing images.

There are a few different types of storage available for photographers to use as backups.

RAID

RAID 0

Striping - Data split into blocks and written across both drives.

Good performance with read/write operations.

Zero redundancy.

RAID 1

Mirroring

Redundancy if one drive fails.

RAID 2,3,4,5,7

No longer commonly used.

RAID 5

Striping with Parity.

Very fast read operations.

Slightly slower write operations.

Still have access to the data while failed drive is being replaced.

Can have a maximum of one drive fail before all data is lost.

RAID 6

Striping with Double Parity.

Very fast read operations.

Slower write operations than RAID 5 due to the double parity calculations.

Can have a maximum of two drives fail before all data is lost.

RAID 10

Combining Mirroring & Striping.

Combining RAID 1 & RAID 0.

Very fast rebuild time.

Half the storage is dedicated to mirroring.

Very expensive method.

External Portable Hard Drive

Portable.

Easy to use and manage.

Much cheaper than a RAID system.

Cloud Storage

Online storage managed by a third party.

Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud are some popular platforms.

As I only take photos about once a month. My strategy is non-existent, but my method is as follows.

Current:

Take Photos.

Transfer RAW files onto computer.

Edit files using LR and PS.

Copy RAW and Edited files onto external hard drive.

Publish edited photos onto my personal FB and Instagram accounts.

Below is my ideal strategy with minimal cost being a large factor. More money for glass :)

Take photos and save to dual card system.

Transfer files to computer.

Transfer files to external hard drive.

Import photos into LR from files on computer.

Post-processing using LR and PS.

Copy edited photos to a new folder on external hard drive.

Copy edited photos to cloud storage.

Publish or distribue photos.

Clone external hard drive A to external hard drive B every 7 days.

Clone external hard drive B to external hard drive C every 30 days.

External hard drive A and B are kept on-site.

External hard drive C kept off-site.

I can justify purchasing a few external hard drives but I think a RAID system would be overkill for me at this present stage.

I look forward to practicing and hopefully perfecting my workflow.

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New art! Here’s Hiroyuki-Mitsume Takahashi’s (@3eyestakahashi) main visual for the Drobo JP company!

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I just upgraded my #UPS for my computer today. I’ve got my iMac 27″, Drobo 5D fully loaded, my Western Digital 3TB external, my airport Extreme and my 5 port switch all running off the battery now. If the power goes out, I will have network and a fully functional computer plus wifi for 50+ minutes at the current load, this goes up to nearly an hour in idle mode and down to no less then 40minutes if I am doing heavy work on the iMac.

The above photos are a full load with me working in Photoshop while iTunes runs serving video out to the AppleTV, while I type on Tumblr. And the run time it approximates for this load.

I’d like to also get my cable modem plugged in but its got a wall wart and there’s only one spot left so I need to convert it to a regular plug, when I do that, Ill have 45 minutes of internet, computer etc during power outages.

I have at least a few brownouts every few months and the power goes out maybe 2-3x a year, with 2 of those usually being under 5 minutes, the longest are outages like power lines down etc.

Best $200 I’ve spent this year!

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Amphibia AU at its climax!

Rachel and Zaytun belongs to @kidcorejibanyan and @twinklnyan4life

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This influence made me so inspired!

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Cutting Over

After replacing my Drobo with a Synology NAS, I learned that iMovie won't open movie libraries on NAS. That's annoying, but I understand that there's a lot involved in ensuring integrity of video edited over a wireless network. It makes sense for that to be considered a pro-level feature. I purchased Final Cut Pro when I got my Mac Studio. I'm now in the process of converting all of my iMovie libraries.

I first assumed that I would be able to open them directly in Final Cut, but it wouldn't do that. So, I figured I could import them into Final Cut, but that wasn't possible either. After a little Googling, I learned that you have to open the libraries in iMovie and select "Move to Final Cut Pro" from the File menu. This means that I have to copy every library from the NAS to my local drive, open it in iMovie, and send it to Final Cut, which creates a new library file on my local drive that I then copy back to my NAS. I have one library per year since 2003. Several of them are hundreds of GBs. I'm talking about many terabytes of data here. Even on my gigabit WiFi network, it can take over an hour to copy a single library.

Would it really have been so hard for Final Cut to just open and convert the libraries?