Not the best view in town, but fair enough for me
Hello everyone from Vegas, yes, as in Las Vegas, Nevada
This might sound like a very odd place for me to be in the middle of a photography road
trip
But there are a few good reasons for me to be here
and no, I'm not here to gamble, at all, I'm not doing that, no no
I'm not here to do any photography either, I think like 3 photos literally in the last
2 days
I've been here for the last 2 days because Vegas is in a surprisingly amazing location
for landscape photography, in between my previous destination, Death Valley, and my next one,
Zion
It's also a place where it's relatively affordable to stay, most hotels here are also casinos,
they make money that way, they expect you to gamble
that's why they can offer you lower rates
I've been working on videos, as well, so I can keep them coming out
Also, I needed to back everything up, all the photos and videos that I've been taking
for the last 7-8 days that I hadn't backed up
And that is what I wanted to talk about in today's video, how I manage and how I deal
with all the photos and videos, how I store them, how I organize them
I'm going to very quick because my approach is very simple
This approach is not for everyone, it's the one that makes the most sense for me, and
it might work for you as well
I rely heavily on the cloud, every single photo and video goes to the cloud
I do this because I'm always on the move, even if I'm not on a road trip like right
now, I spend a few months a year in Spain, and a few months a year in the US
if I had a bunch of hard drives to store all this information every day
it'd be a mess to be moving all that stuff overseas all the time
I use Adobe's cloud solution for my photography work, I import all my photos into Adobe Lightroom,
the app, on my iPad, and they get backed up to the cloud once I get wifi
That's it
I realize that this is placing a lot of trust on Adobe, if they mess up they might erase
my work forever
but I trust them more than I trust myself handling hard drives, I've had plenty of hard
drives failing on me in the past
I don't want to deal with that anymore
And in any case, every once in a while, I export my best images, the ones I have on
my website and some others, to iCloud, Apple's cloud service
So I have at least an extra copy for those images that I think are the best
And that makes me feel confident enough about those images
I have all my photos accesible at any time from any of my devices
And even if my camera bag gets stolen tomorrow, or I lose on a hike, or whatever, a bear gets
it
I know that all my work that was so hard to create is safely stored and that I'm going
to be able to retrieve at any moment
So I've backed everything up here in Vegas, I can empty my memory cards so I have plenty
of space in them for the trips to come in the next few days
Luckily, the Internet connection here was pretty good and I was able to back everything
up in just a few hours
The photography side of my work is very simple but video is the thing that complicates everything,
as usual
It complicates my workflow in the field, it complicates the gear that I need, it complicates
my workflow when it comes to store all the videos
I've been recording these videos in 4k for a while, they take a lot of space
Just in the last 2 and a half months of this road trip I've recorded over 24 hours of raw
footage coming up to more than 1TB
I think I'm producing around 2TB of 4k video every year
What I've been doing with my videos until yesterday, was to upload them to Google Photos
Google Photos is a very good service and it offers you a free option to upload your videos
and photos in what Google calls "high quality"
They compress your photos down to 16MP and your videos down to 1080p, so my 4k videos
get converted to 1080p
but hey, it's for free, I have them in the cloud available anywhere and I don't have
to deal or to worry about to manage and store them
That was until yesterday, because Google announced that they are terminating that option, they
are not offering that free storage, unlimited, high-quality storage anymore
I'm going to have to rethink what to do with my videos
I don't really need to keep them, but it's nice to have
I was thinking about doing in a few weeks a recap video for this very strange and weird
2020, with some of the highlights of my trips, and my photography work
So it's nice to have all of those videos in Google Photos even if they are in 1080p
I can see only two options here:
one, delete those videos, maybe I don't need to do those recap videos
the other one is to use local hard drives, if I produce 2TB a year, I can buy a 2TB hard
drive every year, store the videos there, no backups, no anything, if they fail, they
fail, it is what it is
I'd love to hear about you, about what you do
If you have a whole system at home with redundant hard drives, if you use the cloud, if you
use a mix of both local copies and cloud
Please share your solution in the comments down below
I'm not going downstairs to gamble now at all
Thank you so much for watching and you see in the next one from Zion National Park in
Utah!