Storing and Archiving Digital Photos

Photographer and “Naturfoto” magazine editor Hans-Peter Schaub discusses the steps and the pitfalls to creating and maintaining a digital and analog image archive. Schaub focuses on the workflow involved and how to optimize photographic images so that archiving images runs as smoothly as possible.

Starting with the basic tools necessary to begin an analog image archive, Schaub shows viewers the different materials and equipment needed, such as the right archival sleeves, scanners and data storage software and devices. One main point of the video is definitely data back-up, data storage and data security. Schaub list several different methods to store analog material and several different methods to safely store and back-up complete archives and data files to prevent loss or damage.

Many photographers will benefit from Schaub’s experience and comprehensive examples, as well as his useful tips and information. One thing Schaub recommends is creating a clear and concise method of assigning keywords for the images to be archived. This is one piece of advice a photographer preparing to archive his images cannot do without.

In the long run Schaub’s methods will save photographers lots of time and undoubtedly stress, when searching for images or sending the images out to prospective clients for viewing.