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What's your travel workflow?

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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · What's your travel workflow?

How do you guys manage photos when you're traveling? Do you import images when you go to the hotel? Do you import periodically throughout the day? Do you use mobile apps?

Aug 13, 2023 at 01:10 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · What's your travel workflow?

I do this on travel, but am a heavy RAW file creator (150-300 GB/day) for landscape/wildlfie. I avoid cities and "travel photography" like the plague.

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Aug 13, 2023 at 01:34 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · What's your travel workflow?

I leave most of my photo stuff and my laptop at my local "base camp" and only take what I think I will need for the day's shoot. At the end of the day I upload my files to the computer and take a quick look at the images to determine if I need to revisit some of the sites. I also have a 4Tb portable SSD for backup.

Aug 13, 2023 at 05:45 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · What's your travel workflow?

I'm on the Adobe subscription plan and only use LrC and PS on a desktop computer. At home I store my files on a powered external drive. I only have one catalogue.

I travel with a laptop and a portable external drive. I create a new catalogue which is named based on the trip. After each shoot I import my files. I edit as I have time which is probably about once a day.

When I get home from the trip I copy my catalogue to the external drive, plug it into the desktop and use the Import From Another Catalogue command. It merges the travel catalogue into the desktop catalogue and moves the files. All edits are retained.

I do not use mobile devices and I lose access to all my files when travel. It makes me get out there and shoot. Last time I did not have access to all my old files for two months.

Aug 13, 2023 at 10:08 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · What's your travel workflow?

Same as Zenon both while travelling and when I get home. I travel with 3 drives and back up to the extras (they are all 4TB now). Also travel with loads of cards and do not format any.

Aug 14, 2023 at 02:56 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · What's your travel workflow?

I keep things simple when traveling. I have enough cards so I don’t need to reuse them. I backup my images at the end of the day to a stand alone drive. I might transfer a few images to my phone and use LR to edit so I could send them out to family and friends. When I get home I transfer all the images to my computer and import to my LR catalog. I don’t do any processing when traveling…plenty of time for that at home.

Aug 14, 2023 at 06:57 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · What's your travel workflow?

chez wrote:
I keep things simple when traveling. I have enough cards so I don’t need to reuse them. I backup my images at the end of the day to a stand alone drive. I might transfer a few images to my phone and use LR to edit so I could send them out to family and friends. When I get home I transfer all the images to my computer and import to my LR catalog. I don’t do any processing when traveling…plenty of time for that at home.

This.
I try to have enough cards, even 1902GB top grade CFE Type B, but now the Type A cards are insanely priced. That amount in CFe Type A is $3500, basically the cost of a good camera!

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Aug 14, 2023 at 07:04 AM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · What's your travel workflow?

Carry MacBook Pro. Decant (and process) photos in cafe /bar / pub en route, or train journey home, copied onto external SSD for backup. Upload to Amazon Photos and processed photos to Flickr for further backup. Backup onto NAS when return home.

Aug 14, 2023 at 11:55 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · What's your travel workflow?

Only SD cards. Nothing else. Surely no editing while travelling.
Only at home I'll see images on a larger screen.
In future I might get one of these external SSD (maybe a Samsung T7 variant). Not sure yet.

Aug 14, 2023 at 12:20 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · What's your travel workflow?

Mujabad123 wrote:
Only SD cards. Nothing else. Surely no editing while travelling.
Only at home I'll see images on a larger screen.
In future I might get one of these external SSD (maybe a Samsung T7 variant). Not sure yet.

Yes I really hate viewing on my 13” laptop compared to the 27” screen at home.

Aug 14, 2023 at 04:05 PM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · What's your travel workflow?

Mujabad123 wrote:
Only SD cards. Nothing else. Surely no editing while travelling.
Only at home I'll see images on a larger screen.
In future I might get one of these external SSD (maybe a Samsung T7 variant). Not sure yet.

Ditto, just lots of cards. Touch wood, I've never had a card go bad on me, I hope I've haven't just jinxed myself.

I only use 16/32GB cards, so I don't have all my eggs in the same basket.

Aug 15, 2023 at 07:15 AM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · What's your travel workflow?

I have two cards. One for my R7 and one card for my R6II.

Aug 15, 2023 at 07:32 AM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · What's your travel workflow?

Travel with many cards but generally only use one. Delete only trial exposures on the trip. When home download all onto my desktop and do a cull aiming to delete around half or more images. Then back up these to external hard drives. Then do a much deeper cull only keeping the keepers on the computer. On a recent trip I took around 1000 images, that will reduce down to 50 keepers. Then when these become 'stale' I download them onto two 'Keepers' hard drives and delete them from the desktop.
In 15 years only had one card failure and that was physical damage, managed to retrieve all images on it.

Aug 16, 2023 at 08:23 AM


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