jimmy_scanlon Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 Wondering how long AFTER the wedding do you keep copies of people wedding images on profile? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant g Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 I plan to keep them until I die...which reminds me that I need to determine what my estate needs to do with the pictures in that event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Laur Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 Every image I don't immedidately delete, I keep. Barring disaster, until I die. Then, it's Viking Funeral time for me and the several terabytes of images I hope to have produced by then. Maybe a couple of images will outlive me, but I'm guessing not. I'm absolutely certain, of course, that it won't matter to me very much at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_hall6 Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 As soon as I shoot any event, I burn a dvd of the pictures and keep them on file. I have had customers come to me 2 years later to get reprints. I plan on keeping them FOREVER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rannbphoto Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 forever and ever . . . also just FYI, burnt DVDs go bad after a couple years, so keep re-burning from your originals on a backup hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think27 Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Just got an order for a 2 volume wedding album and two parent albums and reprints from a couple that was married 7 years ago. Thank god I keep images. (negs) Nice order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mydarkroom Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 I have 2 hard drives and server and put them on DVD and keep. You never know when you will need or want them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourfa Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 this gets into general issues of digital archiving, like the point about burned DVDs. Also don't expect to be able to read error-free from hard drives that sit on a shelf for more than 5 years (could be up to 10, the data on this is soft but in general as data density increases, data permanence decreases). Plan to migrate your data to new drives periodically, or at least format and recopy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savagesax Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 If the client doesn't buy them after 2 years I still hang on to them. Have 20 years of negs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfidaho Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Ferever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy_scanlon Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 Thanks for all your feedback guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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