I store the xmp-files to all my edited photos, if I want to re-edit some older photos, I just import them to my current LR catalog, and all the previous edits are available
Low tech method, my R6s have two memory card slots. When I'm out in the world (vs home at the studio), after a shoot I just put one card from each camera in a cheap plastic holder and put it in my pocket.
I use the 3-2-1 backup philosophy - 3 copies of my my data with 2 backups of which 1 is offsite. For me this is an 8TB NVME drive in my laptop as my working drive. This backs up periodically to a local NAS (with RAID so there is drive redundancy). Finally the NAS periodically backs up to the cloud (I use iCloud as it offerd me the best value for the services I needed and works well with my Synology NAS). When out in the field I do the same as you and shoot to dual cards. I also have a second laptop which I sometimes take out with me if I need to create a backup straight away (this is just a cheap thin and light laptop purely for backups in the field). Alternatively, I have recently started using an SD card reader in my phone and backing up images into the phone storage - capacity is a limitation, but it's quick and doesn't require me to carry a laptop around. The phone can then also send those images direct to cloud storage to free up space in the phone for the next batch. There are many ways to back up, this is just how I do it. The most important thing is that you do backup.
When travelling, once the files are on my Laptop, I back them up to a Samsung T7 Shield 2TB version. The drive is rubber padded, size of a stack of credit cards. I can put it into my pocket and always have the drive on my person or a different location to my Laptop. At Home, I have a desktop PC and all the files go onto it, then to a backup drive on my LAN. Data is also copied to a hard drive that is then moved offsite. 3 copies and always one is offsite.
The only thing find wrong with any cloud if you delete from the cloud you also delete from your laptop, it also works the other way around. You have to have a big internal hard drive to cope. If you know of any cloud that does do that please let me know. I use sdd cards.
Hi Rob, I’m wondering if you could give me some advice please. I’m just starting out with sports photography. I’m finding almost all my photos aren’t in focus/appear blurry. Shooting in good light and even with a high shutter speed (minimum 1/1250) and low ISO (1-200) and aperture wide open (f2.8) Is it a case of using the viewfinder to try and focus on players faces or am I missing something? Currently using the middle zone AF points. Not sure if I should try single point focus…If it could be anything else please can you let me know as it’s so disheartening! Thanks a lot
I've made some videos specifically about this so well worth looking back on my channel for those. Most importantly though yes use single point focus on the central point, don't use zone af areas
Holy cow why on earth would you need unedited photos on 2 hard drives and 2 memory cards? 2 memory cards is plenty. I save my keepers on my computer and an external harddrive. Client photos are in the cloud, on my harddrive for 1 year and on an external harddrive. I have realized for the years that once a photo is more than 6 months old it rarely will be looked at again and at 1 year the chances are less than 1%.
Once they're on two hard drives they can then come off the memory cards. But to answer your question of why.. because I refuse to ever be in a situation where I have to tell a paying client that I don't have any photos for them
Don't forget to also backup your Lightroom cataloging addition to the raw files
Good shout this, unfortunately I learned this the hard way!
I store the xmp-files to all my edited photos, if I want to re-edit some older photos, I just import them to my current LR catalog, and all the previous edits are available
Low tech method, my R6s have two memory card slots. When I'm out in the world (vs home at the studio), after a shoot I just put one card from each camera in a cheap plastic holder and put it in my pocket.
I use the 3-2-1 backup philosophy - 3 copies of my my data with 2 backups of which 1 is offsite.
For me this is an 8TB NVME drive in my laptop as my working drive. This backs up periodically to a local NAS (with RAID so there is drive redundancy). Finally the NAS periodically backs up to the cloud (I use iCloud as it offerd me the best value for the services I needed and works well with my Synology NAS).
When out in the field I do the same as you and shoot to dual cards. I also have a second laptop which I sometimes take out with me if I need to create a backup straight away (this is just a cheap thin and light laptop purely for backups in the field). Alternatively, I have recently started using an SD card reader in my phone and backing up images into the phone storage - capacity is a limitation, but it's quick and doesn't require me to carry a laptop around. The phone can then also send those images direct to cloud storage to free up space in the phone for the next batch.
There are many ways to back up, this is just how I do it. The most important thing is that you do backup.
When travelling, once the files are on my Laptop, I back them up to a Samsung T7 Shield 2TB version. The drive is rubber padded, size of a stack of credit cards. I can put it into my pocket and always have the drive on my person or a different location to my Laptop.
At Home, I have a desktop PC and all the files go onto it, then to a backup drive on my LAN. Data is also copied to a hard drive that is then moved offsite.
3 copies and always one is offsite.
Funnily enough guess who’s 1tb scandisk crashed! Lucky for me I had backed the 1tb to the 5tb one, phew so still have two copies
Interested on how you "filename" your files, I shoot Non league, Do you save per game, per player, per date, so you can find an image some time later.
Very simply for me mate. E.g Fulham v Arsenal 300623 001 I can search by player and team etc because I include that into the metadata in Photomechanic
The only thing find wrong with any cloud if you delete from the cloud you also delete from your laptop, it also works the other way around. You have to have a big internal hard drive to cope. If you know of any cloud that does do that please let me know. I use sdd cards.
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Hi Rob, I’m wondering if you could give me some advice please. I’m just starting out with sports photography. I’m finding almost all my photos aren’t in focus/appear blurry. Shooting in good light and even with a high shutter speed (minimum 1/1250) and low ISO (1-200) and aperture wide open (f2.8)
Is it a case of using the viewfinder to try and focus on players faces or am I missing something? Currently using the middle zone AF points. Not sure if I should try single point focus…If it could be anything else please can you let me know as it’s so disheartening!
Thanks a lot
I've made some videos specifically about this so well worth looking back on my channel for those. Most importantly though yes use single point focus on the central point, don't use zone af areas
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Holy cow why on earth would you need unedited photos on 2 hard drives and 2 memory cards? 2 memory cards is plenty. I save my keepers on my computer and an external harddrive. Client photos are in the cloud, on my harddrive for 1 year and on an external harddrive. I have realized for the years that once a photo is more than 6 months old it rarely will be looked at again and at 1 year the chances are less than 1%.
Once they're on two hard drives they can then come off the memory cards. But to answer your question of why.. because I refuse to ever be in a situation where I have to tell a paying client that I don't have any photos for them