You’re walking out the door to your next outfit shoot. You’re in a hurry…you grab your camera, all your accessories for your outfit and your sunglasses. You’ve got everything. Check. You get to the location, whip out the camera and start to fire away. Then, all of a sudden the worst thing ever happens that you never even thought to check for. Your camera’s memory card is full.

Make sure the first thing you check for before you leave for a shoot is how much memory there is left on your memory card. Check the digital display usually located in the top right corner of your camera next to the shutter release button. There should be a number {along with the displayed aperture, shutter speed and ISO} enclosed in brackets which represents the number of pictures that your camera can take in the selected file format that you’re using. Grace and I usually average about 110 photos per outfit and I always try to download the pictures from camera to my computer every three outfits just to be safe. Make sure to do the same. You don’t want to get to location and find out that you’ve wasted a perfect outfit photo opportunity because you didn’t have enough memory on your memory card.