| Friday Rant: Garages were not designed for cars |
| Sunday, 25 May 2008 00:00 |
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I’m just wondering how many people can actually fit a modern saloon car into their garage? I’m wondering this because I have never ever managed to get my car into a garage at home. I believe that domestic garages have similarities to hard disks on a PC. No matter how big they are, you’ll always expand to fill all of the available space. Take my PC at home. I built this last year to store my beloved photo collection on. Maybe I sized the internal hard disk wrong, because after about 6 months the drive was full. This necessitated the appropriate upgrade and the 60 GB drive was replaced with a whopping 120 GB unit. What was I going to do with all this space? I bloody grew in to it, that’s what happened! Over the last year I’d somehow managed to loose some of the photographs I’d so diligently collected, probably during a machine rebuild forced on me when Windows began it’s annual slow down (something that seems to happen to me once a year), and I vowed that I’d never loose another digital image again. So with this new 120 GB hard disk I was set to collect more and more images, good enough for a couple of years … or so I thought. Two months ago the bloody thing filled up again. Back onto Ebay and I’d acquired a nice looking 500 GB SATA 2 internal drive. Instead of replacing the current 120 Gb unit, I added this and it’s now just for photo storage. The flippin things 40% full already! So what am I doing wrong? I revisited my workflow to see where the storage was going. I’m shooting raw images at 13 Mb each. I shot 14,000 images over the last 2 months (sporting events, up to 1,000 a day) and deleted about a third of them. That computes to about 122 Gb, plus all the other images I already had. That’s half a Terabyte of disk and I’m already halfway through it. Maybe I need to get tougher and delete more images? At the moment I’m deleting blurred, out of frame (subject) or incorrectly exposed photographs, but with my current gear the success rate is very high, so I have more keeps…  … and then I realised that my garage was the same!It’s absolutely full of stuff that we need (yeah rite) to keep. It’s so bad that you can’t safely walk from one end to the other. What’s worse, I’ve helped educate my kids and wife as well, and all their crap is in the garage. And the solution? I’ve ordered a skip, and it’ll be delivered on my driveway today:) Dave Add your comment |