The
Bridal Sitting:
Bring comfortable walking shoes. A bathing suit can work as a substitute for a dressing room while on location. Textures shows very nice like loose features or curls added into your hair
because this style looks supper on camera. And if possible, please bring someone to carry
your stuff and help with the dress.












Storing Digital Photos
I was fortunate to have a mentor who taught me on the day he took me under his wing all about the importance of caring for negatives. Pictures can get vary damaged. As long as you have a good negative to work from, the world would not end when your work of art meets it's ill fate.”
Every time I developed film or picked it up from a lab (I would never, but never ever, send them through the post office, too many opportunities to be lost or damaged, no I faithfully put the negatives in protective, archival sleeves inside books. Then I dated and stored them in a dry place. To this day I can find negatives and slides from 20 years ago. I was even a proud with how well I had everything.
However when I began shooting digital I was intent on learning new technology, exploring possibilities and limits I would simply downloaded images onto the hard drive and got to work. Working in PhotoShop not even considering how to protect the images. At that time, I wasnt’t sold on digital so I was just playing around a little point and shoot, so I did not consider things like organizing or storing the images.
A few months into digital, I began to noticed my computer become very slow. It took hours before it hit me, the digital images are real space pigs! Following that realization was a frightening thought. If my computer did crash, if a virus attacked, I could lose months of pictures.
I started to look for solutions. Now I am not totally satisfied with these solutions, in the right combination, these steps will help you protect your digital images.
#1 Make sure you save original files. Never change that same file. Do a 'save as, then just edit the 'saved as' image. Learned this one the hard way. I was in such a rush for a client getting an mage for her Web site and resized the image. I was used to being able to change sizes with negatives, I did not think about changing a size with a digital image. When the client asked for the same image for a brochure, I could not provide her with the high quality print image she wanted. Learn from my mistake.
#2 Back up every image you want to keep. There are numbers of ways to do this.
Keep them on a flash drive or memory card. Be aware, choosing this option it can be pricey, and those small cards are early lost. They can also get damaged.
Back up every image on a CD or D.V.D. and make two copies. Store one in a handy place, the second copy somewhere safe off site. Space is limited on a CD. I have found them less than adequate for the amount of photography I shoot.
Back up every image on a D.V.D. and make two copies. DVDs have much more memory than a CD, if you have lots of images, it is worth investing in a D.V.D. burner.
#3 Make high quality prints of your images. This is not ideal, scanning an image sacrifices some degree of quality, but it will provide some level of protection.
#4 Use online storage. There are numerous websites that allow you to download photos to their server and you can share your image with others. Sounds like a good solution. You will not need to invest in CD or DVD burners or writable discs. However, size limits may apply. I also advise only going with a web site that has a proven track record. Remember, that their server could also get a virus. The site could go out of business. And security issues are some concern.
#5 External drives, there are a number of these, from very small, but big on memory, thumb drives to external USB hard drives, some which can hold up to 40 gigs.
Things to keep in mind if choosing a storage method:
1. Technology can change rapidly, be prepared to change with it. CDs and DVDs may well be obsolete in ten years, so all that downloading and burning will likely have to be redone. Expect change.
2. Using more than one backup method is always a good idea. External hard drives can get viruses too. They can get broken. They can crash. CDs and DVDs can get scratched. It is a lot of work to have multiple backup sources, but if you value your images, it is worth the investment.
3. Do not buy off brand CDs or DVDs. Go with a well known name you can trust. Same with external or portable drives.
4. Remember that you should never ever edit your original image. And that is the image you will want to back up. Although if you have spent hours creating special effects on an image, certainly worth backing it up as well.
I hope this helps all my brides hold on to there wedding memories and always be able to share those images with the ones you love.