Comments on: Photography: Hard Drives & Online Sharing http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/2013/09/photography-hard-drives-online-sharing.html An Expat Lifestyle & Photography blog Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Bonnie Rose http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/2013/09/photography-hard-drives-online-sharing.html#comment-3667 Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:11:45 +0000 http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/?p=56#comment-3667 Have you ever seen Project Life? I really want to spouse it to make billions of albums – nothing like a proper photo album!

]]> By: Bonnie Rose http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/2013/09/photography-hard-drives-online-sharing.html#comment-3663 Sat, 28 Sep 2013 03:24:12 +0000 http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/?p=56#comment-3663 Have you tried Blurb? I seriously love them. They make it so easy to make photobooks. They’ll even help you turn blog posts into a collectable book, so you can keep your favorite series and comments!

]]> By: Bonnie Rose http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/2013/09/photography-hard-drives-online-sharing.html#comment-3662 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:34:31 +0000 http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/?p=56#comment-3662 Photobooks are great! I make a photobook for every big trip we take, and it encapsulates and pays tribute to our memories so well. The trick is to get it done early or else it just gets harder and harder to put together!

http://liveitinerantly.com

]]> By: Bonnie Rose http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/2013/09/photography-hard-drives-online-sharing.html#comment-3661 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:09:42 +0000 http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/?p=56#comment-3661 Great photo of your son!

A friend and I have just recently been talking about working together to get our digital photos made into books.

My husband has made a few in the past for gifts using IPhoto’s program, but have yet to make one for us! It take some time and effort! The quality of the IPhoto program is really good, but they rarely have discounts. I’ve heard good things about blurb, but haven’t personally tried it. And I just saw where Photobox has a 50% discount off of photo books until Sept 30. That’s the thing with those specials, you have to act fast!!
I’ve recently been going through photos and have also found some good ones that I completely forgot about!! So far we’ve only lost a days worth when our camera was stolen. I have some from the day that my MIL took and our ITouch (which wasn’t the quality it is today). Most were grainy but at least I have them!

]]> By: Bonnie Rose http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/2013/09/photography-hard-drives-online-sharing.html#comment-3660 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:16:04 +0000 http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/?p=56#comment-3660 I used photobox after getting a groupon voucher for £25 for a 100 page photo book. I then used it to make a book of part of our time in New Zealand to see how it would turn out. It was amazing and I quickly bought up the next voucher I found and made a second one. Now we can share our adventures with family and friends and the quality is fantastic. I had a similar heart sinking moment when my computer crashed in college and I lost allllll of our family vacation pictures from our cross country road trip. I was the only one that had them. The memories will always be there, but that was devastating. I’m not a serial backer-upper in numerous places.

]]> By: Bonnie Rose http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/2013/09/photography-hard-drives-online-sharing.html#comment-3659 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:14:13 +0000 http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/?p=56#comment-3659 It’s so sad losing photos!!
I love printing photos out, and I love looking through a file on an external hard drive and finding a forgotten photo. We have our wedding photos in a photo book and I love it, but it is quite heavy and keeping it in good condition isn’t so easy, but it’s worth it :) I really look forward to finally owning a wall that we’re allowed to hang a BIG frame on 😉

]]> By: Bonnie Rose http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/2013/09/photography-hard-drives-online-sharing.html#comment-3658 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:33:25 +0000 http://bonnieroseblog.co.uk/?p=56#comment-3658 Photo books are only really a solution if you’re a) not on a budget and b) not planning to move. I mean, what happened to your CDs could happen to a photo book, too, and books are heavy.

It’s something I’ve thought about, though, backing up my photography. I have most of it on an external hard drive that actually belongs to my sister, some of it (the 14 GB of pics from July 2008 + recent ones) there as well as on my laptop, and a lot of older ones on CDs that are no longer convenient now I have a MacBook Air and no optical drive (though my old laptop has one, so I can get around that somewhat and should at some point transfer all those pics to the external for ease of browsing). If you have online hosting, you could try uploading stuff into your ftp servers. There are sites like box.net too for that kind of backup. Even the photos we do share online aren’t really backing anything up, because – at least in my case – I share low-res edited-for-web pngs on my blog, not original files.

I’ve yet to lose any photos (short of the one CD that got corrupted, but I really only lost a bunch of selfies), but it’s definitely not because of any effort on my part. Should probs think about that.

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