Recovering deleted photos

victor2

bylromarha wrote: »

Please don't feel the need to justify your decision.

OH is a professional photographer and he takes amazing photos on his phone - composition and framing are the skills he uses on both his £120 phone and his work £2k camera. The raw images are similar, the work photos just get more attention post shot.

An expensive camera can't make up for a lack of skill.

Absolutely, but even a modest "bridge" camera has the ability to be used in a manual mode and allow the user to learn how simple changes affect the pictures taken.
Op, if your son wants to learn something about photography for his A level, beyond composition of shots, you could look in something like Gumtree for a digital camera that might be more flexible than a mobile phone camera without costing a fortune.

forgotmyname

Moved the photo's to another folder = the camera folder is empty so when he then deleted the photo's he must have deleted them from the new location. Because the original camera folder would now be empty.

Make sure he doesnt save anything to the phone. Was the new location a removeable SD card? Or just the internal memory?

NiftyDigits

MXW wrote: »

My son does have the use of a real camera, which is owned by the school. Unfortunately other students use the camera as well, so it is not always available. The photos that he has just taken do not require him to use the camera, which is why he has used his phone. The photography course was taken because his first option (art) was not available to him in that options block. He intends to study graphic design, and therefore needed an art subject. I don't use catalogues, and am not prepared to get into debt by buying him a camera, when he has the use of the one at school when it is required, and photography is not what he intends to study when leaving 6th form.

So...back to PhotoRec....

Once you get your Phone/Android storage recognised via Windows on your PC/laptop, download, save and then extract the TestDisk folder from the TestDisk zip file. Within will be an application named qphotorec. Run that as Admin, by right clicking on it and choosing 'Run As Administrator'.

Once the interface has opened, use the first drop down list to find the storage drive used by the phone.
Once you found and selected that, you will then choose to scan the whole drive and to select where you would like to save the recovered files. Point it to a newly created folder on the PC/laptop.
Then pop down to File Formats, click on it and when it opens, choose to Reset and then select only the formats for which you wish to search; e.g. JPEG or whatever filesystem the phone stores the pics. Once down, press Start/Search.....or pop out and take more pictures.

JohnB47

The OP seems to have gone away. Perhaps put off by some negative comments. Another thread where the outcome is unknown.

Pity. I like to know what happens.

MXW

JohnB47 wrote: »

The OP seems to have gone away. Perhaps put off by some negative comments. Another thread where the outcome is unknown.

Pity. I like to know what happens.

Thank you for all the good advice given on this thread. My son did try the suggestions given, but without success. We have been out today and taken more photographs..... Hopefully they will not go walkabout! If they do, he will be taking photographs in the back garden! 😀
Thanks again.

JohnB47

Ah well. Worth trying. Thanks for getting back to us.