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spring is coming, today was good and bad

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jim mij Senior Member • Posts: 1,027
spring is coming, today was good and bad
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Spring is around the corner, thats obviously the good part, and today i found a ladybird so i dug out the macro lens flash and diffuser and did a shoot, and i got a pic of the ladybird taking off from a orchid, result...

Now for the bad... for some reason when i was culling the pics i managed to delete everything on the sd card, i tried cntrl z and even looked in the recycle bin (empty)

Panic set in. I downloaded a data recovery app and ran that, it pulled 150 images, but the one i was really after was corrupt (so were 10 others). I tried again, same result

I downloaded a second data recovery app and ran that, it also pulled 150 images, but again the one i was after was corrupt

In despair i tried again using a deep scan, this pulled 600 images, you can guess the one of interest was still corrupt

Dejected by now  I decided to see what else was restored, and as it happens a complete second copy of ALL of todays images, what joy

It wasnt till i tried to zoom in that i saw these were actually just thumbnails, with a much much reduced  file size, and no chance of post processing

Still it enough for a memory of what got away, and a very important lesson for implementing a better workflow

And another good thing, I saved a bee by giving it a drink, no photos though

roll on spring

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macrouser Senior Member • Posts: 3,979
Re: spring is coming, today was good and bad

The unfolding of the wings happens very quickly.  Congratulations on getting that.

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OP jim mij Senior Member • Posts: 1,027
Re: spring is coming, today was good and bad

macrouser wrote:

The unfolding of the wings happens very quickly. Congratulations on getting that.

Thanks, I’d like to say it was experience expertise and patience but we both know it was just luck with unusable shots either side of the launch, but I’ll keep trying…

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