** UPDATE.. here is a new video with my new system.. **
If you are a photographer, or anyone else that processes very important data… this educational / workshop video on my data workflow maybe inspiring.
Join me in this complete, in-depth look at the data process starting at the point of capture, all the way to archive and everything in between.
Without doubt this is the most important thing inside of my business, and I am excited to share this with all of you. It has been comprised of over 6 years of practice, processing over 1-Million RAW images to date!
If you enjoy videos like this, please subscribe to my channel as this motivates me to continue to make more content in the future.
Thanks for watching!
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Does it require wearing sunglasses at night? 😆
I would never the photos to different cards. I use card 1 for stills and card 2 for B-roll.
I usually have a 2nd shooter and dedicated video person.
Amazing…
How much you spent for all that things? )))
Very helpful video, but you can drop the sunglasses/cool guy act lol. But thank you for the info. Lol
great information and i wish i had seen this before i invested in my full frame world..
I've been looking for this detail of a video about storage for the entire 3 years of my photography career!!
Thanks a million man! I have a ton of restructuring to do with my data.
Number one problem with your workflow: sometimes you/we are just too lazy to travel across town just to swap some drives. It's a manual process and manual processes are always subject to us becoming lazy and not following through. Everything should be automatic and automated
Hi Travis, I recently tried using the technique of using a larger SD card 64gb in combination with the smaller CF cards 32gb and 32gb to break up the risk of a 64gb CF card. And all seemed to go well during the wedding, but when I went to back up my files later that evening the 64gb SD card which had all the files was corrupt. Do you think that I did something wrong when I added the second 32gb CF card? I am pretty sure I turned off the camera when I went to switch the cards. Also, can you trust the SD card after it becomes corrupt by just formatting it? Its still a relatively new card (2yrs old?). Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
I think you should be running the NSA. BTW, I didn't go to Casey when I saw the glasses…I saw a deep CIA operative giving us add'l information. Great video.
Star Lord..
Which CRM are you using? Any videos on that?
Still good Travis 👍
This was awesome, thanks! Moving collections into their own managed catalog and archiving them makes perfect sense for professional projects that are completed. But how do you handle all of the "personal" pictures that you take that, over the course of many years, will grow quite large and could compromise the speed of lightroom and take up space on your hard drive? Moving older pictures into their own catalog for archiving means you can no longer search across all pictures for "best shots of my son playing soccer" for example. You could certainly move older pictures to an external drive to free up space, but that still leaves the master catalog growing. Would love your thoughts…thanks!
2 minutes into the video and I don't what the hell are you talking about, ever heard about being short and crisp?
YouTube searched: "Photography workflow" > Clicked your video > watched through entirety > left very satisfied! Thank you! > THUMBS UP
WOW… that was serious data workflow set-up! I see why you have so much going on there… I'm sure that system was very costly to build….Thanks for sharing with us…. Just shows how fragile electronic DATA can be. Can you diagram that workflow… LOL. JK
your organization is all I want to learn people in my job. You concentrate everything in one video. Thanks and keep on in this way.
Wow that was by far the most helpful video on the topic! Thank you!
This is the best video so far on this topic on YouTube. Thank you.
for me this is sick
Excellent tutorial and great delivery Travis. Might like to have seen the computer and all the different drives in longer shots and the size of drives. Very thorough backup to military level.
Thank you very much for sharing this workflow! Subscribed!
My backup regimen is "ok" given my budget…the problem is how do you do a validity check on the data files over a long period of time? I have discovered a gap (all photos of a whole branch of my family) missing the images, but the folders are still there, nested in their proper locations. Since I only found it recently, and am already at 1T of data (aka 3T storage), I had already reused the space and copied nothing. Just wondering if you have run into that, and can speculate why just the files would have gone…would love to know what happened, so I am not wondering if I have been sabotaged. Thanks.
Love that you are in Miami<3 Grew up in Coconut Grove. Sitting here in cooold Canada enjoying the learning and the sights.
Just ran across your video looking for effective photography workflow. Just had to say thank you for taking the time to share all this information. You have inspired me to improve my workflow, eventought at the time, I'm only a hobbyist but have plans of doing this professionally. Great work!
I feel really educated now! Thank you!!
Phrase to live by: the cloud is just someone else’s computer.
ok.. i can't tell how much it helps. simply put, you are amazing .
Hey Travis. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain your work flow so thoroughly. I am one of those who unfortunately has been ingesting all raw images straight from card to Lightroom. I was wondering if there's any way that you could explain how to bring everything back to a state of organization like you have?
Thank you for sharing your – refined – workflow.
The 128gb in slot 2 is an eye-opener for me. I just ordered 2 for both of my camera's and the 32gb cards will be from now on reserved for slot 1.
worked of one memory card and one Drive for years …nerver lost a file
Would love to see your new system upgrade. Hopefully you will post it soon.
Hi Travis, just saw your video and it is amazing to see your level of organization and attention to detail. You have really thought out every aspect of your photography business. Do you have videos on the other 3 workflows (creative, business, and marketing) or have you thought about making some youtube videos on those subjects? Just curious, do you shoot mostly JPEG, RAW? Thank you for sharing your photo shoots and all the insights as to how you manage data flow. You sir, are a rock star.
Great post! I've learned lots from it. Would you recommend any other auto backup software at all?