Uploading Photographs to a Fragmented Hardrive

I have my little photo editing setup for my computer running like clockwork. I have everything down to a science even. I have specific files for like photographs, a defragmentation routine, favorite photo editing software. The whole nine. I even have a camera I’m in love with.

I have something of a reputation with friends and family for being pretty handy with a camera. That’s totally fine with me because I really do love to take pictures. I’ve taken pictures of my little brother and sister (teenagers) that everyone in the family loved. I took pictures of him and his date for prom which both families loved. I’ve taken baby pictures for friends, and of course baby pictures for me. Landscapes, portraits, stills, abstract…you name it I’ll take a picture of it (well, within reason). Then I edit them and, if I do say so myself, they look pretty darn stunning.

Now here is the bad part. People think I just point click and print. That it’s all in the shot. Uhm…not so much. I have a great camera, cool editing software, and tons of patience to get the pictures to look just right. I tweek without making it obvious and make people and places look like themselves except better. Why is this a problem? Because people (family) want it instantly. My dad wanted some pictures of his grandson (aww, they are sooo cute together). So he had us come over and gave me his camera and he wanted me to take the pictures and upload them to his computer. . . and he wanted them to look as good as the ones I usually give him. You know…the ones I spend hours on.

Riiiiight. So my dad has a starter camera and an older computer and no editing software. Oh my. So I start to load the pictures onto the computer, after all I am capable of taking good shots, regardless of the equipment. I only wanted to upload a few pictures so I could put them on his desktop (I like to make it easy for him) but oh no. Nothing simple. His computer was so slow it was taking ages to upload a single picture so I canceled the upload and started to defrag his computer. ::sigh:: I don’t know if the thing had ever been defragmented before, because the time estimate was in the hours. Yeah. I explained the upload would have to wait.

Do you have any nightmare stories involving photography and a fragmented hard drive? Please share so I won’t feel so alone.

Photo Credit Eurleif

May 29th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Photo Software | (0)