hey what's up it's Jerad would Ditch Auto and I wanted to teach you today how to
backup photos from your camera to your iPhone
now iPhones have a lot of storage typically and there are options like for
example with the iPhone 10 which comes at a 256 gigabyte option which makes for
a lot of space for backing up images alternatively if you have an iPad ipads
you can get up to 512 gigs so tons of internal storage that make it great as a
backup solution now why would you want to backup your photos to one of these
devices well even though these cameras are super solid and the SD cards these
days are really good we don't typically have too many issues with our stuff
there is the potential of you losing something and now your phone is
something that you typically keep on you all the time and I did a video about
doing this on Android because for us with Android phones as well it's a
slightly different process but nonetheless still is super easy but
iPhone here Apple makes it pretty easy with their camera connection adapter
this is a simple purchase you can make from your Apple store or online Amazon
has them I'll make sure there are some links in the description below so you
can pick one of these up and essentially what this is is a lightning adapter and
then a SD card slot so it gives your phone that capability and in the past
this actually didn't work with iPhones that only worked with the iPad which was
really annoying to me because if I want something that's super mobile I want to
carry my phone around with me and back up to my phone so Apple has allowed that
and they probably did a while ago but because I didn't think it was possible I
just haven't really tried it again but I was pleasantly surprised when I plug
this into my iPhone that I can copy over images and back everything up from my
camera and also edit photos and do all that stuff which I was doing I was just
having to do that with JPEG images so another thing that the iPhone allows and
the iPad is for editing of RAW images and what's great about that is that you
can edit your RAW images and lightroom mobile
and produce some fantastic looking images without ever even having to plug
into a camera so we're gonna look at how to do that
so we're gonna take the SD card out of my camera here now keep in mind this
this process here you have to be shooting raw only images if you're using
raw plus JPEG which is a typical practice of mine because I like to have
that JPEG image and I'm starting to believe it's something that I might need
to get over I shoot raw plus JPEG but if you shoot raw plus JPEG and then you
plug your SD card into your phone it's only gonna want to copy the JPEGs and
not the RAW images so I recommend if you're gonna use this process if you
have a camera that shoots that has dual SD card slots like this one and you want
to shoot raw plus JPEG you shoot your RAW images to one card and your JPEG
images to another card this way the SD card that you're gonna plug into your
phone has just RAW images on it only that's what you're gonna have to do so
this card here has a couple of RAW images I'm gonna put the SD card into
the little adapter I'm going to unlock my phone here and my phone is just on
the home screen and I'm gonna go ahead and plug this in it's gonna power up
that SD card and then it's going to go to the import screen where I will see
images so they're going to take a second because these images were taken with the
Sony a7r 3 those are like 42 and a half megapixel
images so we're talking like 40 plus megabyte images so I have a few of those
and these are actually images of the a7 or the a7 3 that just came out so all I
have to do is select my images so I can go ahead and select all of them I'm just
gonna select like two of them right now just to get these imported quickly for
you here we'll tap on import I'm gonna tap import selected and it's gonna go
ahead and import these two images now it's really hard to tell whether or not
they are RAW images unless you open them up in software that allows you to edit
raw images it's going to ask me if I want to keep or
delete the images I'm always gonna tap keep because later on I'm still gonna go
and import my images into Adobe Lightroom like I normally would so I'll
go ahead and unplug this now and you can see it takes me to the last import
screen and on the last import screen it's going to show me the images that
were just imported and so I can tap on these and take a look and of course you
know there are the typical you know options here like sharing the image or I
can go in and edit the image right within Apple or Apple's Photos app here
but I'm gonna go ahead and go into Lightroom cc and I'm going to let's see
I need to update my camera role here so I'm just gonna close out my camera roll
and then tap on this little icon to import images and I don't know if you
could see this here but it shows that those are RAW images so if I come in and
select one of my images to edit I can edit this just like it's a raw image in
Lightroom cc so I get all these great options here I can choose from profile
edit profiles that I already have it's gonna go ahead and load for a second and
show me those different editing profiles and I can have those saved to my
favorites I can go in and adjust my exposure and my contrast so let's go
ahead and do that I'm gonna maybe take the highlights down just a little bit
and this option will go ahead and go into color I'm gonna bring the
saturation down a bit and the vibrance up just a little bit we'll go over to
effects I'm going to boost the clarity here and I think that's probably it
under that section so as you can see I mean there's just lots of stuff that I
can go ahead and edit I can enable well lens profile Corrections was already
enabled on import so that's awesome you can also choose from some presets here
that are already saved and pretty cool so if I tap and hold on the screen I can
see my before and after I know it's a little a little hard to see here but
before kind of a flatter image and after nice dynamic image okay so now if I
wanted to save this image I tap here and I can save it another cool feature and
this is for if you're gonna be editing a lot of images is now we made the changes
to that image I'm gonna go and copy settings and it's going to show me a
whole list of settings to copy I'll hit OK we'll go back to that other image
that I imported so or I guess I didn't import it yet but we'll go ahead and
import that other image and then I can hit the check mark because I did import
it but I want it to I wanted to get the three little icons there I'll tap on
that and paste settings and now it went ahead and pasted the settings from the
last image to this image so it makes editing photos and Lightroom amazing and
now my images are are backed up to my phone and I've been able to edit them so
pretty darn cool now I also use Google photos on my phone here and so when I
upload images or when I import images into my phone it's actually going to
back those up to Google photos and the Google Photos app as well if you have
the iCloud option turned on to backup your images from your phone to to your
iCloud account it's gonna back those up as well and so that might be something
that you might want to turn off if you're gonna load say a ton of images
say you took like a hundred couple hundred images and you're backing those
up onto your phone to have a nice safe backup
you might want to turn off those cloud settings temporarily to prevent all of
that from backing up you especially want to turn off the option of it backing up
over cellular because if you think about it like a couple hundred images might
end up being like you know 15 or 20 gigabytes and if that's gonna take a
while to copy over to your phone and if 15 to 20 gigabytes backs up over your
your LTE plan or your phone's plan you're gonna run out of data and incur
some charges so you want to make sure that you disable that if you have that
option turned on for me I have that option turned on only when connected to
a Wi-Fi connection so it's nice about that is that it's not going to affect my
my actual data plan when I get home or when I get back to
the office and my phone connects to Wi-Fi like it is now it'll start backing
those images up to a cloud service so that's cool because then you have two
options for your backup you're not only backing up your card from your camera to
your phone so you don't have to carry around your camera or the SD card with
you until you get to a safe place to backup you just have your photos on your
phone and then if you actually have a connection to Wi-Fi or a way to backup
your images to the cloud you back them up and they're backed up to the cloud as
well so worst case scenario if you lose your camera and your SD card you've got
to back up on your phone and you can go ahead and download those images to your
computer and edit them so that's a tutorial on how to backup to your phone
and then also do some editing in Lightroom that was a kind of a little
bonus tip that I threw in here but definitely an awesome option so if
you're not an iPhone user you're an Android user I'll link to the Android
video down below on how you can backup directly to your Android what's cool
about doing that with an Android is you can actually plug the camera directly
into the phone so you just have to have a cable instead of course there's apps
for Sony and I think I mentioned this in the other video there are apps to
wirelessly copy but the problem is is that wirelessly copying from your camera
to the phone does not give you the raw file it gives you a JPEG file and so
this is the only way to copy over RAW files is to do a direct connection
either with your SD card into an iPhone or a cable going from your camera to
your Android phone so definitely check out some links I put in the description
below including some of the SD cards that I use this little adapter here that
you will need if you want to backup your images to your phone or your iPad if you
have any questions go ahead and ask them down in the comment section below
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