In this blog, we thought it would be useful to highlight our top tips for photographers to take into account AFTER taking photographs. This blog isn’t just for professional photographers; these tips will come in handy regardless. Let us know what you think and if you have anything to add.

Printing

The advent of Facebook and other online photo sharing sites have made it so easy for us to forget about generating hard copies. Being able to share our photos so easily, digitally, has made some of us adopt the ‘no need to print these out attitude’.  However, having hard copies of images in an album which you can caption with meaningful and funny phrases can be great to look back on and share with your family in years to come.

Storage

We’ve heard so many reports of photos going astray. We recommend using more than one medium to store your images. CDs and DVDs can be good, however there is a chance that they can become corrupt so it’s always wise to choose some other options too. Portable hard drives are great too, as are online sharing sites such as Dropbox, Flickr, Picasa and Photobucket. It’s also really easy to share your photos with your friends and family through these sites.

Organisation

Good organisation is strongly recommended, especially if you have very large image libraries. Make sure you index all your photos in a way that works for you. It’s pointless storing all your images if you can’t find the one you want when it comes to it! If you organise them with keywords, people, places etc. they will be much more manageable.