Downtime?
September 21st, 2025
There was not always whales and spectacular scenery to photograph. The excitement of photographing required pauses as we traveled to new areas. We had a comfortable space where we sat down to select and edit images. This was no easy task to find the best images and get rid of the inevitable out of focus and less pleasing captures.
I almost always end up with a large number of images when photographing wildlife. The rapid frame rate allows photographers to capture images that were difficult before. We can have images to choose from that have subtle differences. Having choices makes the difference between good and excellent images much easier.
In order to work through all these images, I have had to adjust my process. I now copy my images to a small Crucial SSD card with capacity of 2 Terabytes. I then select the images I want for editing and copy them to my laptop hard drive. I back up the files on a separate SSD drive so any catastrophic issues don’t affect me. I gain two benefits with this new process. First, I keep the rejected files in case there is an issue with focus that I spot later. Second, I don’t have my laptop hard drive go through the process of first copying a large number of file and then delete them.
The pictures below show my fellow photographers editing and collaborating on images that we took. This was inspirational because you got ideas for different approaches to the same subject. Also hands on experience seeing how others handled the same file image process.
