How often do you go through your old photos?

[BEGM83]

Due to my blackberry being sent for repair and said repairs due to take up to 4 weeks im reduced to using one of my huge collection of old phones that haven't been trashed by my daughter and as a result im finding all the old photos stored on them (and subsequently salvaging them!) and as some of these are as old and older than my daughter they include pictures of her scans, her as a newborn the works.

It's quite emotional going through them in all honesty.

So how often do you go through your photos, and more to the point how often do you back up your phone photos?

Im pretty upset right now as doing this has made me cross the phone shop lost my blackberry memory card and with it my years worth of photos - gigs, dates with my boyfriend and nights out with the girls etc etc.

Makes you think really.

[Woody]

Well as an old photographer, we have famly albums going back to the sixties. I'm looking at 15 of these right now each with about 50 pages each page with about 6 100x150 photos. There's another box of them under the stairs.

My wife has been scanning them for the past couple of years and has done probably a thousand so far. I generally put them up as a screen saver, so that every so often up comes a photo from the sixties or eighties or when ever. It sure brings back memories.

My Nokia 6500 takes an average photo, but is handy when cought out. However, I down load them almost straight away. I try not to loose nor misplace my photos.

Cheers,

John W

[AnonymousKiwi1]

I flick through my digital files every now and then. When we got a scanner a few years ago I went through all our old prints and scanned a bunch of the best ones. I went through the whole lot last week because my father-in-law was given a digital photo frame and wanted me to put some pics of our kids on to it for him. So that was a wander down memory lane.

And in the very near future (may be this evening!) I will be continuing the project I started a while back to get all the prints in our 'photo drawer' in to albums. I bought a couple more albums at the weekend.

[Photologyst]

Going through old photos is one of my current projects. I am trying to finally cull the “garbage” which is difficult because I don’t like throwing them out. Scanning “everything” is on the agenda as well. I’ll never live that long.

However, I virtually never use the phone camera for anything because the quality of those is so poor. I do carry a small pocket camera at all times in addition to the SLR. Both are set at highest quality although the small one will not shoot RAW.

Backing up is done regularly to DVDs and external drives because, data cards go bad as do all other media.

[Izzy]

I go through mine regularly. To be specific mine are mirrored on two 1TB drives. I have them set to synch once a week. Anything shot for that day is usually offloaded that same evening.

I know I am anal.

[candidrachel]

I've got a huge stack of CD's where my husband has backed up the photos dated by year so its really cute going back to Christmas 2004 when my daughter was 2 for example.

I've only had a digital camera since around 2003 so I have a huge pile of albums piled up in the downstairs cloakroom and now and again I go and flick through. I'd like to get a scanner at some point.

Nowadays I use an external hard drive to backup my photos

[meganea84]

Actually that is quite funny that you bring this up. My soon to be father in law just bought a slide scanner and we have been starting to upload 1960-1980 onto a few hard drives and seeing pictures of my fiance and his family from way back when is great! My boyfriend was probably one of the cutest babies there was, I don't think my mom in law has changed her hair style since the 50's, but seeing the changes my dad in law has changed is amazing.

[BCampbell]

Originally Posted by BEGM83

Due So how often do you go through your photos, and more to the point how often do you back up your phone photos?

I don't use my cameraphone often -- my phone is about five years old now.

But after some good feedback I'm planning to put together a photobook at the end of the year, covering my photos from 2010. Going through just that archive is relaly interesting, and probably the biggest difference is my post production workflow and techniques I've learned over that time period. And there are definitely shots I can now salvage that I passed up earlier, or things that I find aesthetically appealing now that I didn't at the time.