Article DetailsUltimate Travel Photography |
| Date Added: November 05, 2009 11:17:08 AM |
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| Category: World and Travel Photography |
Beryl Markham begins West with the Night, her wonderful and enthralling book about her adventures as a bush pilot in East Africa in the mid-1930s, with the question, "How is it possible to bring order to memory?" Well, having recently returned from coleading a weeklong photography workshop in Kenya with nature photographer and past president of the North American Nature Photography Association, Darrell Gulin, I completely understand that feeling of "bringing order." Now I have almost 2,000 more RAW files, captured on my 2 GB and 4 GB memory cards, to sort through on my hard drives. (I back up my files on hard drives in my office and in my home, and I start up those drives every few months to keep them in good working order.) Fortunately for me, as a totally digital photographer since 2001, digital technology has made it easy for me to bring order to my pictures-on site (whether local or abroad), on my laptop and at home on my desktop system.1 Stay Organized In The Field While in Kenya, after each morning and afternoon game drive, I powered up my Mac PowerBook G4 and used Adobe Bridge to view and sort my images. So, at the end of each day when I zipped my tent closed (to keep out curious wildlife) and was asleep before my head hit the pillow, I had already selected my "keepers," located in folders named "Day 1," "Day 2," etc., and was ready to start fresh the next morning at 5 a.m., when our group was awakened for its next adventure. Read the rest of the article here. |
