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All of my photography - the raw images, the photoshop files, everything from when I first started in 2007 to the most recent strawberry photo - they're gone. The external hard drive that held everything was knocked off my desk and broken. The files are probably retrievable, but I don't have a spare $1,000 sitting around to pay for it.
I'm still not sure how to react. Five years of photo work, gone in the space of a few seconds.
Stuff is still online here and elsewhere in small, low-res form, which is good. Little windows of the real thing.
EDIT
I did some digging on my computer hard drive, and I discovered that all of the PSD files - which have the full-res images - were hidden in a dusty little corner. So all that was lost was the raw images.
While it's still a blow to lose the raw images, it's a HUGE relief to find most of my work still intact. I've gotten Dropbox and plan on keeping things there for digital safekeeping.
I'm still not sure how to react. Five years of photo work, gone in the space of a few seconds.
Stuff is still online here and elsewhere in small, low-res form, which is good. Little windows of the real thing.
EDIT
I did some digging on my computer hard drive, and I discovered that all of the PSD files - which have the full-res images - were hidden in a dusty little corner. So all that was lost was the raw images.
While it's still a blow to lose the raw images, it's a HUGE relief to find most of my work still intact. I've gotten Dropbox and plan on keeping things there for digital safekeeping.
Hermiting
It's been quiet here on my little dA page. I've been lurking, I'm here every day, but I haven't submitted a photo in almost a year, nevermind been at all social. I don't even browse much anymore.
I took some photos over New Year's when I was in a beautiful mountain cabin in the middle of nowhere. Those photos are still on my memory card, which has not been removed from my camera. I tried to get my website nailed down and functional, and that simply slipped out of my grasp. The idea of picking up my cameras seems more a chore than a delight. I've tried everything I can think of to renew my interest - browsing inspiring artwork, buying equipme
Infrared!
I just purchased a shiny new infrared Nikon D200! I AM SO EXCITED OMG
DELETING EVERYTHING
Not my gallery or whatever. My inbox. :paranoid: There's stuff in there two years old that I've always meant to read/view/comment on, and it's just not gonna happen at this point. I hate doing this sort of thing because everything there deserves comments, but I just don't have the energy for it.
In other news, now that I've graduated, moved, and the new job is starting to not be 12-hour days of mind-numbing busy-ness, I might actually be able to start with the photography again. Specifically, getting with the program of the New York Institute of Photography, which I signed up for almost a year ago and have done almost nothing with (:doh
Dear Colorado:
PLEASE STOP BURNING.
© 2012 - 2024 Shelagnoa
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I lost almost all of my photos, at the time I was in a pinch for hardrive space, so I had most of the 'eggs in the same basket' ... 1800€ for the data recovery, the drive is currently at a corner catching dust till I win the lottery or something...
Like yourself, I managed to recover some stuff in a ancient corner of my laptop hardrive, but I would say 95% of everything is lost till I recover that hardrive.
Currently I have 2 mirrored 3TB hardrives for storage. I can't use a cloud storage solution as I have at least 2TB in stuff (and my paycheck is not that great)...
I'm thinking in add a third 3TB drive for random stuff backups as I don't really trust RAID solutions...
Oh... and most data recovery companies simply rip people off... the real cost of data recovery for a standard hardrive is usually (there are exceptions) much, much lower (considering time taken, materials used and expenses needed). Usually for logical data loss (partition corrupted/inaccessible) they charge around 400€, when I've recovered many hardrives data in that state for free.
Lets just hope that it doesn't happen again :/
Like yourself, I managed to recover some stuff in a ancient corner of my laptop hardrive, but I would say 95% of everything is lost till I recover that hardrive.
Currently I have 2 mirrored 3TB hardrives for storage. I can't use a cloud storage solution as I have at least 2TB in stuff (and my paycheck is not that great)...
I'm thinking in add a third 3TB drive for random stuff backups as I don't really trust RAID solutions...
Oh... and most data recovery companies simply rip people off... the real cost of data recovery for a standard hardrive is usually (there are exceptions) much, much lower (considering time taken, materials used and expenses needed). Usually for logical data loss (partition corrupted/inaccessible) they charge around 400€, when I've recovered many hardrives data in that state for free.
Lets just hope that it doesn't happen again :/