Daunting Tasks

Over the last week, I've taken a lot of pictures. It seems I'm making up for those four lost weeks during which I completely ignored the love of my life: my camera. Unfortunately, Hubs and I have had so much going on that I haven't had a chance to do more than just take a quick glance at them.

My process when it comes to photos is quite long and time consuming, but necessary as far as I'm concerned.

1. Upload all pictures from camera to computer.
2. Before any editing takes place, burn all pictures to a CD for safe keeping.
3. Create contact sheet to be able to quickly identify said CD in the future.
4. After verifying that all photos have been safely copied, delete from camera.
5. Move photos from computer's hard drive to external hard drive and organize into appropriate folders.
6. Only after all photos have been titled correctly can any editing take place.

Every once in a while, like now, I find myself facing so many photos that I just want to chuck my computer out the window and pretend nothing happened.

It's times like these that I'm grateful I only have two 1GB memory cards and haven't yet purchased the 4GB monster that's been tempting me. At least with these cards, there's a limit on how many pictures I can take. Until I upload them and free up the space, that is.

See, I shoot in RAW and JPEG format which reduces the amount of pictures I can take to approximately 75 per 1GB memory card. If I find myself in a situation where I know I'm going to want to snap a lot of pictures, I have to carefully choose my moments, otherwise, before I know it, both cards are full.

Could you imagine if the amount of space suddenly doubled and I came home with twice the amount of photos? Holy shit. May I just say that indecisive people like myself should be warned away from photography as a hobby. First it took my a full month to finally decide on a camera. Me! The Queen of Impulse Buying! Now I come home with 8,000 pictures and I have to decide which ones I want to edit, print, upload, etc!

It's just too damn much and sometimes all I want to do is sit in a dark corner and play video games.