this might not be the most creative and exciting part of a photographer
workflow but it's still super super important in fact today we are going to
talk about photo storage and the backup workflow
in landscape photography
welcome to my channel here I talk about photography
and I make videos just like this one where I share some tips on how I store
and backup my photos so if you're here for the very first time it might be a
good idea to subscribe did you notice the new lighting what do you think
constructive comments are always welcome now I would like to know if there is
anybody out there that doesn't have a backup system for
their photos end and never lost a single image I will tell you that that will not
be me and I will also tell you that if you are so lucky that you never lost a
single photo without a backup system it is just a matter of time so be smart and
set up some kind of backup system of course you don't need to do exactly what
I'm going to tell you but right now I'm going to share my own system as you saw
in the title this workflow is mainly addressed to landscape photography as
this is what I do and also because if you work in a studio as a portrait or
product photographer you will still need to backup your photos but things will
work in a slightly different way so let's talk about landscape photography
and let's start from when I am on the field let's say that I am on a
photography trip somewhere when I come back to my hotel room or Arbnb or
whatever it is the very first thing I will do is to make sure that I always
have two copies in two different places of all the contents of my camera memory
card so I will create a first duplicate on my laptop and a second one on an
external hard drive only only when I have these two copies I
will eventually erase the images from my memory card and actually as far as it
concerns my photos because I mainly take as you know long exposure photography
and I have multiples memory cards I don't come back with tons of folders and
most of the time I don't even need to erase my memory cards until I come back
home so what do I use when I am on the field to back up my photos this Rugged
Lacie hard drive comes always with me on my photography trips it is solid and it
can resist some little accidents that can happen on the field but recently I
received from Western Digital a new hard drive also portable also rugged very
very solid but this is very special because it's a solid state drive which
means it's super fast and the other awesome part about this is that I don't
even need a computer to upload my photos in here as a matter of fact I can insert
my memory card right in here directly unbelievable so I can backup all my
contents right after the shoot on location and I can even review them on
my iPhone or on my tablet I know already that this is going to be super super
helpful for my drone footage from my GoPro footage as a matter of fact for
all my video contents because I can immediately see if I've got all I need
and because it is a solid-state drive its speed will allow me to start editing
my video project while flying back home for this scope until now I have been
using these 500 gigabytes SSD from Samsung the t5 which is great is super
small super fast I can put in my pocket but of course this needs a computer and
it is not rugged so you need to protect this a little more now let's talk about
what happens once I'm back home here in my studio and
the very first thing I will do is to copy all my photos into this western
digital my book 10 terabyte raid hard drive this hard drive is pretty awesome
since it will automatically create an identical copy in a second 10 Tera
hard drive so if one of the drives will ever fail I have the exact same copy
right in it and because of the huge space I also set this as my time machine
so all the contents of my computer including my Lightroom catalogs are
backed up every single day then I have a second copy of all my photos in a 3
terabyte g-technology hard drive that I keep home as it is always a good idea to
have a backup copy of all your work in a different location as not only hard
drives can fail but also bad things can happen in a studio like this and the
last thing that I have set up is to have a copy on the cloud this is a service
that is available from different providers in my case I use a Backblaze
that with 50 dollars per year per computer gives me unlimited space and
especially unlimited peace of mind so in the end my main recommendation here is
to always always have at least two backups of all your photos possibly in
separate locations and ideally a third on the cloud
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