Photography for the Web

Chapter 4 Storing and Managing Your Images

A modest-size memory card in a modest digital camera—say a four gigabyte card in an eight megapixel camera—can hold over 400 photos if you’re shooting raw and hundreds more if you only save as JPEG. Yet, this could be less room than needed for one afternoon’s work if you’re a wedding photographer. If you’re new to photography and you remember what we said earlier about the best way to learn to take one good photo,^[4]it could be too little for you too. You probably won’t want to keep every single image—even the best event photographers toss out more shots than they keep—but at some point storing, sorting, evaluating, and filing those images will be necessary. And it’s a very good idea to plan for ...