File Management and Protection
Lesson 11 from: FAST CLASS: Business of Commercial Food PhotographyAndrew Scrivani
File Management and Protection
Lesson 11 from: FAST CLASS: Business of Commercial Food PhotographyAndrew Scrivani
Lesson Info
11. File Management and Protection
Lessons
Class Introduction
05:06 2How To Get Work As A Food Photographer
02:54 3Understanding Your Skill Level and Your Market
03:20 4How To Grow Your Business
01:28 5Opportunities In Commercial Food Photography
08:17 6How Do You Market Yourself
08:23 7The Importance of Attitude and Communication
03:30 8Understanding Insurance Responsibilities and Liability
05:38Understanding Taxes and Accounting
03:11 10The Importance of Representation and How To Get It
09:59 11File Management and Protection
02:40 12Understanding Stock Photography as a Business
04:59 13Contracts: The Law and Your Rights
03:18 14Negotiating with Clients: 10 Questions you Need to Ask–Part 1
06:57 15Negotiating with Clients: 10 Questions you Need to Ask–Part 2
05:16 16Negotiating and Talking Money with Clients
02:31 17Who are the Players in Commercial Food Photography
09:43 18How to Manage Client Expectations
02:38 19How to Assemble a Team
04:11 20The Production Team
04:48 21On Set Support
04:51 22Editors and Post Production
02:47 23What Expenses are Associated with a Shoot
04:01 24What is Usage?
05:35 25How to Anticipate Expenses
02:56 26Calculating Price Based on Rates, Usage and Expenses
03:35 27Where do You Go Next?
03:17 28Continuing Education and Research
06:28 29How to Get your Work Out There and Get Noticed
02:47 30Treatments and Final Wrap-Up
06:23Lesson Info
File Management and Protection
back it up. Back it up. I cannot be more forceful about this. I said it earlier. There is nothing more heart wrenching and destructive to your process than losing files, whether it be losing them on set or losing them later. Being a professional means having your work backed up in a sensible order that you can access on or off site and is repeatable over and over and over again. So that five years from now you're looking for an image. You know how to find it. I go into my archive, everything is organized. I knew I shot that in 2015. I knew I shot it for The New York Times. I knew I shot it in November. Click the button. There's the picture, that kind of organization on your files. I have copies in three places, and the cloud stock integration and we're gonna Segway into stock Is that you know, having an organized system of backed up files. There are certain agencies now where you can actually flip your archive right into theirs and its integrated. So if you're your system is organized ...
and you can access it really easily, you can any and your represented by a big agency. You may be able to just dump your files right into theirs, because if there really organized and then all of a sudden you have several 1000 images in stock and it's earning for you, we don't cloud back up until would done with shoot because it has to be edited. Because if you tried to cloud all of your CR two files, it would you basically spend your whole life doing that because it's just too big to transmit like that unless you have some kind of a crazy t one line in your house. But, um, once it's edited, then it will go up on the cloud or in the stock, and the stock essentially is the cloud. So for me, a lot of my work it's up uploaded into my stock account so that it's living there in the cloud. But once we shoot with shooting two cards and tethered and that is going from not into my laptop, but into ah ah, solid state hard drive, I don't I don't use anything that has any more that spins. Everything is solid state and it's much more stable. So I have a solid state CF card in the car. In the in the camera, I'm tethered to a computer, which is backing up on a solid state hard drive. So I'm getting to solid state copies with every shutter poll. And then as soon as the job is over, we back it up one more time on a separate computer and then send them up to the cloud. So we caught were on set with two copies, and then we finish and we finish with. Once we have finished files, we finish with 33 backups.