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From import to the finished picture: editing, naming, archiving and backing up your shots.
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The difference between an archive and a folder full of files is made at import, not later. If you name your shots according to a fixed scheme as you import them – date, location, vehicle – you will find a picture again in seconds three years on. If you don’t, you end up scrolling through thumbnails.
RAW is especially worthwhile for vehicle shots because the contrasts are extreme: dark liveries against a bright sky, shadows under platform canopies, specular highlights on metal. In these situations a RAW file lets you recover two to three stops that are lost for good in a JPEG.
Backing up is the part almost everyone puts off. The usual rule is three copies on two different media, one of them kept off-site. For a spotting archive that grows over the years and cannot be reshot, that is not overcautious.
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