These external SSD drives over USB-C 3.1 Gen2 are incredibly fast though, and remove any and all stress related to running your image catalog and images on an external drive. These are expensive drives though, currently retailing at $787 on B&H.
#CHRONOSYNC VS GOODSYNC PORTABLE#
I used a Drobo Mini over Thunderbolt, and then 4TB Western Digital Thunderbolt drive a long time, but as I bought a new MacBook Pro with USB-C ports at the end of last year, I picked up a Sandisk Extreme 900 portable SSD drive, and have been very happy with it. I’ve actually changed my hard drive twice since my fist post. A USB 3.0 hard drive generally won’t cut it. The important thing is that I keep my catalog on an external hard drive, and this needs to be relatively fast. But, I’ve found that keeping track of multiple catalogs and keeping them backed up has not been a problem. The cornerstone of our digital workflow is our image catalog, or now that I’m using Capture One Pro, catalogs, in the plural. Move Catalog Drive Rather Than Synching Computers
#CHRONOSYNC VS GOODSYNC SOFTWARE#
The details regarding what I did in Lightroom are still in the original post, so you can certainly still reference that post for details, and as you’ll see, most of what we’ll cover doesn’t really change depending on the software you are using in your workflow. One other major change over the last few years, is that I’m now using Phase One’s Capture One Pro as my raw processing and image management software. Having everything under one roof could be a recipe for disaster, if indeed, disaster should strike. Should something catastrophic happen to your house or business premises containing all of your local backups, having the ability to contact someone to receive a backup of all your data could be the only possible way to rebuild your image library, as you rebuild your life. If you work on images in separate locations it soon becomes a real pain to keep them synchronized, so we build this into our strategy.įinally, I think it’s vitally important that we have a multiple backups of our precious photos at home, as well as a copy in the cloud. I’ve found that it’s very important to decide which hard disk contains your working data, and which hard disks are just a backup.
I literally transition between my laptop and desktop computer with zero effort, as I’ll explain.Īnother problem people often come up against, is keeping track of what is backed up to where. In fact, I have to click that same button whenever I go to my desktop computer, so nothing changes. I’ll go into details shortly, but basically I have to click one button when I get home after a trip, to initiate a backup of my images, and I’m done. The good news is, if you build your workflow around the premise that you will travel, you don’t have to do anything special. People tend to make the process of getting images from a trip back into their main library a very painful process. One question I get asked about a lot, and why I often send people to this post, is how do I move smoothly between computers when I get back from a trip.
It’s been two years since I explained my image management strategy as a traveling photographer, and I’m finding myself explaining what’s changed a lot in email conversations, so today, I’m going to walk through this with you again, and update you on the changes I’ve made.įirst of all, allow me to explain the problems that I’m overcoming with my workflow, so that this all makes sense as we work through my thinking.
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