I’m a casual photographer—mostly family, travel, and everyday moments. One thing I’ve noticed is how fantastic the Leica JPEGs look straight out of the camera.
A few questions:
* If you shoot JPEG, do you use Leica Looks in-camera or apply them afterward?
* If you shoot RAW, what’s your workflow?
* If you use Lightroom/Photoshop, do you see editing as part of the creative process, or do you prefer getting it right in-camera?
I sometimes feel the art is making the best image with the camera and available light rather than relying heavily on post-processing—but I’m curious how others view it.
* Where do you store your photos? I have 8 TB of iCloud, but it’s getting expensive. Thinking about moving to a home storage solution. What do you recommend?
Always RAW. I could shoot jpeg if I needed to shoot & deliver very quickly like when I was working for a newspaper. But those days are long gone and now, I shoot and wait for days, weeks or even more before I post-process.
Raw gives me more options.
lens_payoff_0l wrote:
* Where do you store your photos? I have 8 TB of iCloud, but it’s getting expensive. Thinking about moving to a home storage solution. What do you recommend?
I use hard disk drives with backup drives. That's still the cheapest solution apart from tape; I do have a fast SSD for video (and a RAID for editing video) but my photos live on hard drives with backups to other hard drives.
If you are indeed a casual photographer, you could just use Google Photos for your offsite backup. It compresses them (I think you can choose compression settings) so the quality is never as good as your originals, but everything will be there and Google's search tools are really amazing. You can type "child" and it'll find all or at least the vast majority of your photos that have children in them; it also has face recognition so you can use it to instantly find most of the photos you've ever taken of a person even if you've taken them over decades and that person's face has changed.
I post most of my good photos to Flickr (thousands of them are in private albums) and I treat that as an offsite backup as well. I don't backup my raw files offsite; if my house burns down or someone steals all my hard drives I'm willing to lose the raws.
