After I had a couple clients ask me about USB drives, I decided to offer them in addition to the online gallery. I love online galleries because they’re free for my clients and they can easily download their images and share them with their families. But there’s definitely some good reasons to purchase an USB stick with all your images from your session:
1. EASY ACESS
If you have multiple hard drives or flash drives with your images you can easily find the ones from our session because this flash drive has my name and logo written on it.
2. BACKUP
I personally have several hard drives to backup my images and documents. When we travel I always take one with me just in case of a house fire or break in. It’s always good to have multiple backups and not to store all your files in one place. If you somehow lose access to the one source where you store your images, you still have a backup on your flash drive.
Also, I usually keep the gallery link up for a week which give your plenty of time to download your images and share them with your family. If for whatever reason you lose your images, I can re-upload them through that online gallery. Right now I charge a re-upload fee which is pretty much the same as what you would pay for a USB stick.
3. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE
Right now I deliver my images through an online gallery and my videos through a different website. I just haven’t been able to find a good website that lets you upload both. If you book a session with a short video in addition to your images, a USB flash drive is a great way to have everything in one place for easy access.
I had some custom made from a local shop in Aberdeen, NC called Freedom Fox Ltd. and I love how they turned out. Starting this summer they’re available to purchase in addition to the download link.
