iPad Pro 11" + Lightroom CC Travel Photography Workflow // I should have been doing this sooner!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- I've long been looking for a secondary / back-up / personal travel workstation for a while that is light, intuitive, responsive, fast, and powerful BUT is not another Macbook Pro. I found this in the iPad Pro 11" (3rd Gen). The M1 chip has truly elevated the iPad to a portable workstation capable of handling heavy, professional-level post-production photography work for a fraction of the size and weight of a desktop. I tested this new setup and workflow during a recent personal trip to Club Paradise in Coron, Palawan, and it's truly a game-changer. iPad Pro 11" + Lightroom CC Travel Photography Workflow // I should have been doing this sooner!
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:42 iPad Pro 11" Setup
05:06 The Perfect Trip
05:32 Importing
08:13 Editing Workflow
11:28 iPhone Sync
14:13 Ingesting Files
15:36 Verdict
17:57 The Wrap
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Did I miss out on any tips in this workflow? Comment your hacks and shortcuts! I want to explore this setup more
Been musing about using an iPad Pro for my travel workflow, this answered pretty much all of my questions. Great review Direk!
Thanks buds! For travel it works perfectly. For underwater, you could do the same things as with lightroom desktop, but not the other tasks that require photoshop. Appreciate it!
My original iPad is second generation so I waited a bit to upgrade. My original still works th-cam.com/users/postUgkxUGaHtKW8MwCql2fPyIm9-ftTqSMzKFFA , but the battery is bad and won't stay charged so it always has to be plugged into a power source. The new 10th generation was a great bargain for Prime Day that I couldn't pass up. It was easy enough to set up: everything came down from iCloud with no issues.
Glad you love it! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video. I've been using an iPad Pro for many years now and to be honest, it's the best computer I've ever had the pleasure of working with (and I've been using computers since 1980). The software's getting more professional by the day, thanks to programmers who dare take the iPad serious. I used the free version of Lightroom Mobile for some time now to edit some photos (learning), and this week I finally took a subscription. Now all my photo's are easily available on my iPhone, my iPad and online, instead of on my old iPhones, on my Mac, on my iPad, my old Windows computer, on some drives, cards, etc. I didn't even know what I had, but now I have it all available on my iPhone and iPad and I really love it ✍️😂👍
I know the feeling. I had the same realization after months of dismissing the iPad as a serious workstation. Happy as a clam now that I know what I have. Thanks for watching and enjoy!
great video, answered all my Q's about using the ipad pro, now an M-2, as a travel workstation! TY!
Thank you for the kind words!
I love how you explains things so clear and i understand everything you say, step by step. As i am new to this when is coming to edit on the ipad..what would you recommend for a band ipad for a new user? and budget as well. Thank you
That looks like a great travel set up!
Thank you, it is! Very light yet robust and powerful!
Thank you-especially liked the part about sharing with wifey
Oh she loves it! Thanks for watching!
I also work with a 16 inch MacBook Pro and an 11 inch iPad Pro. The real deal killer of this workflow for me is the fact that Lightroom won’t let me work off of external drives. This means that my Lr catalog can only be as large as the available storage on the iPad Pro-fine for a weekend trip with cellular connectivity but far less feasible for a six week trip with limited connectivity by either cellular or wifi. Since other apps seem to be able to work off of external drives, it is hard not to conclude that the issue is Adobe trying to extort people into buying cloud storage space while completely disregarding this particular use case.
I share the same sentiments. I’ve resorted to culling libraries to make photos fit.
@@NoelGuevara Indeed. I wish there was a good image culling program for iPad like Photo Mechanic that would make it easier to choose what to import into Lightroom on iPad without having to do it.
Has this changed with the newer iPad Pro model?
@@askpauld Unfortunately, no. It’s not a hardware limitation. It is Adobe being Adobe.
@@timothylinn thanks! I wanted to bring an iPad instead of my laptop on vacation to edit photos.
Are you able to body shape subjects on the iPad? I’m having trouble with that and skin smoothing on my iPad Pro. I have both Lightroom and photoshop apps
Great content!!
Thank you for watching!
Hello!I have been using an ipad air 5 and I want to follow your workflow. Do you use a default power adapter or you use a third party with higher wattage? Ad is not enough. May you recommend one, if ever you use one? Thanks!
What a surprise!
I know, right?! Thanks for watching!
1 what happen is you don’t have internet while travelling? Cloud solution can only works with wifi. 2. I am using iPad Pro 12.9, there is not ‘import’ button. 3. Lightroom in ipad does not have auto naming function while importing photos? Thanks
what is your backup workflow? at some point that external drive is going to run out of space, so when you get home, you transfer all of that into more external harddrives? once those are full you pack them away and buy new ones? i'm trying to figure out what the best way to back everything up. i was thinking of getting an ssd, do all my edits of video/photos off of that, but before doing so, copy all the content into 2 identical hard drives. that way in case one hard drive fails, i can buy a new one, and copy the first one over. when i finish with my project on the ssd, i was thinking of copying the project files and final exported content onto the 2 external drives as well. now that the project is done, i delete everything off my working ssd. finally, once my external hard drives are full, i store them away. that's what i have been thinking so far, what do you think about that workflow and backup flow? (i don't want to pay for cloud subscriptions because those would fill up in the future too).
Hello! Thanks for the question. For my professional assignments, I have two HDDs: a work drive and a back-up. I use photo mechanic to automatically duplicate files when I ingest from camera. When I get home, I transfer the work drive to my RAID thunderbolt drive. Past projects I store in a NAS, cloud, and offsite HDD. I based this on Dan Carr's 2019 version of this article (shuttermuse.com/photo-backup-routine-early-2021/) and has worked well for me ever since.
Great video: just subscribed.
Indeed (same workflow on the go so far), but iPad screen is not calibrated… ans iPad OS softwares are less powerful than desktop versions:
Waiting for a M2 MBAir, with 10-bit display and possibility to calibrate it, with full version of C1. Voilà
Absolutely agree 100%. Can't wait for M2 iPad as well! Thanks for watching and for the sub!
Great video. Do you leave your brightness on full power when editing on the iPad?
Thanks! Yes I do! I'l be doing a live demo of editing on an iPad for my next episode of Watch Me Work next week. 9pm PH time, Wednesdays.
@@NoelGuevara Awesome. Gonna click the bell so that I can get notified.
Thanks! Just finished streaming an episode on how I enhance golden hour: th-cam.com/video/W_Z20jYrcwQ/w-d-xo.html
Great video. Is it a lot of different between 12.9 screen? Because it is better than 11". Also i want to ask you. Do you pay for lightroom to have ot on ipad or is free app? Thanks
You can also use Lightroom on the iPhone to take the photos. I use this as my iPhone XS doesn’t shoot raw with the native camera.
Salut-Noel. that's great - :))
Thank you! Appreciate the support!
hanging to get my new iphone 15PM and to just be able to plug it into my ipad pro and instantly pull in all the new prores apple log and 48mp files...finally apple joins current tech !
Haha never too late!
Isn't overheat an issue during using Lightroom?
Can you use an iPad as a primary Lightroom/photoshop platform! I never use a laptop so only want to use one piece of equipment
I'd say no. There are sitll some features that are only available on the desktop version.
Hello Noel, what happens with the raw files, the originals from the camera?
When I work like this, I upload directly to the iPad and synchronize with the cloud. I am used to using Lightroom Classic as a header on a PC and having it saved automatically. Thank you so much.
Hello, the RAW is uploaded to the cloud. When you work on a photo, the specific RAW is downloaded so you can access it directly.
Great video! But one question.. do you have one catalog for all photos?
thanks for watching! so far, yes. to be honest I haven't gotten to the point that I need to make another catalog. For reference, I make 1 catalog per year in Lightroom Classic. This is so that I can backup previous years and only carry around the current year's catalog.
How do you get the Mastin Labs profiles to work on the ipad? It looks like it's not the mobile version but the desktop version?
I loaded the profiles in Lightroom CC on desktop. It reflects automatically in the ipad version
@@NoelGuevara was is the mobile versions or the ones for the desktop version? Do you use the classic version for desktop or the other one?
desktop version mastin labs on the lightroom CC (cloud, not classic) version
The BIG issue with this is that it consumes a ton of cloud space. Typically, I keep my originals local and have only previews synced to the cloud. As far as I can see, that does NOT work with the iPad version. Is that true or is there a way to keep originals local and sync only previews?
100% agree. I have actually stopped using this workflow. The only way I can sustain this is bby deleting RAW files that aren't shortlisted.
Does this works in any Android device?
How do I get my LRC presets into mobile version??
You'll have to load them into LR CC.
Which camera app do you use on your iPhone
Just the standard issue camera app!
How is it possible to work with big quantity of big images when ipad only has 512Gb capacity. Is it possible to work directly on the memory card, like in Adobe Bridge?
Lightroom CC doesn't save the RAW images locally, but in a cloud. It just keeps previews on your iPad, and only downloads the full file when you start editing. You can override this feature and have them save locally or in an external hard disk.
@@NoelGuevara Thanks 👌
I am a Bridge user. Since it is not supported on mobile devices, I may have to use Lightroom or something similar, whatever that will be.
It is still not possible to merge panoramas and hdr on lightroom for mobile. How do you get around that? And, have noticed any other missing functions?
@@semkobalcerski Sadly no. I have been screaming and pleading with Adobe to add this feature for iOS for over 4 years, regrettably, Adobe does not see this as a high priority.
@@NoelGuevara But you can't work with the files directly on the external, correct?
Hi Noel I'm a lightroom user but how I going to use on my lightroom cc on ipad coz my mac is all cracked version
Might be time to get a plan. Lightroom is now P499 only per month. Think about this, you have al these great photos but rely on an unstable, cracked version to catalog and edit them?
How do you resync the device to lightroom classic?
It doesn't. Only works with Lightroom CC.
How is this any different than Lightroom for iPad? Same thing?
same thing!
How did you load your presets into Lightroom Mobile?
I loaded them on LR desktop and they synced with Mobile.
Do you know if it’s possible to use Photomecanic on Ipad 11?
Hello! Isn't photomechanic limited to win and osx platforms?
@@NoelGuevara It seems so. What I need is to use IPAD just for the selection and then transfer all the files with selected and not selected to LR of my MacBookPro? Do you know if it’s possibile and if it’s easy to do a LR catalogue just wit the selected photos “signed”? I’ve to decide before to buy Ipad 11. Thanks
Do you have the base model?
I believe so, yes.
is it possible to edit photos on a hard drive in lightroom mobile and not let the photos sit on the ipad?
Unfortunately no it's not.
No, you can't, unfortunately.
@@ianmearsphoto ugh....
@@NoelGuevara cool thanks. that's a bummer. funny how on 4k video editing you can use an external hard drive on lumafusion or davinci resolve but not on lightroom.
Yeah it's a subscription thing. This was an enjoyable workflow but it doesn't work for me anymore because of that cloud limitation.
I'm so over paying Adobe a monthly subscription. Unfortunately, they're the ONLY game in town that offers cloud service and syncing between all your devices; computer, iphone, ipad, web. I REALLY wish Apple would bring back Aperture with iCloud integration/syncing. I've come close to dumping Adobe and just using Photos + RAW Power, but Photos falls way short with the lack of brushes/smart selection. Otherwise I LOVE the fact that you can edit RAW images with RAW Power non-destructively and while keeping the file as RAW with your changes. IF Photos or RAW Power gave us brushes/selections, it would be game over for Adobe.
Too long of a video... Just to the point.
Video too long
mediocre demo. you barely edit your photos and didn't show important features like culling, masking, keyboard shortcuts, etc or compare the ipad experience with the macbook/laptop experience
worst quality video