How I Backup my Landscape Photographs

Every Landscape Photograph Is Unique

Every landscape photograph you take is unique and can't be recreated.  Each time you press that shutter button it is a unique point in time.  The light, the weather, and the conditions will likely never be exactly the same again.  So how much care do you take to protect your images from virus outbreaks, deletion, corruption or hardware failure?

To me, every photograph or video I create is important and needs to be protected.  Some of the content is priceless, such as photographs of my children, or it might represent an investment of time and money, such as one of my landscape photographs.  No matter the content though, to me it has value.

My Backup Workflow

For some people backup is something they think about rather than do.  Something to do at some point   Maybe.  For me, though it's become such an integral part of my workflow now that it's just something I do automatically each time I upload new content to my computer.

So if you've been looking to start putting together a proper backup routine for your workflow or you are simply looking for some tips to improve your existing backup routine, I've created this video which lays out, step by step, how I backup and protect my images.

Every landscape photography I take is unique to me and I want to minimise the risk of data loss at every step. So in this video, I'll share with you my backup workflow. I show you how I protect my data from the moment I press the shutter button up until the point I'm ready to format my memory cards again.

Backup Products

If you are interested these are some of the products I used in the video as part of my backup workflow:

• Kingston HyperX Savage 64 GB USB 3.1

• StarTech.com USB 3.1 (10Gbps) Single-Bay Dock for SATA SSD/HDDs

• Toshiba X300 6TB

• ORICO PHX-35 Hard Shell 3.5 " HDD Protector

• Acronis True Image 2018

• Carbonite

So do you have a robust and complete backup workflow?  Do you backup on occasion?  What tools and products do you use?  Let me know in the comments below.

My Other Workflow Videos

I've been using Adobe Lightroom since version 3 and over the years I developed a workflow to manage my photographs from import to export. In this video I share with you that workflow so you can see how I use Lightroom to import my photographs, select them for processing, keyword them, rate them and prepare them for export.

In my latest video I show you how I edit my landscape images using Adobe Lightroom. In the video I process 3 images, each one using slightly different techniques and I use features / tools such as contrast, dehaze, spot removal, graduated filters, transform, colour / range mask, and sharpening.

How do I calibrate my monitor? How do I profile my printer? How do I improve the quality of the photographs I print? You don't need to be a colour expert to improve the way your images look on screen and in print.

In this video I expand my printing skills by printing a panoramic image on panoramic paper and then mounting it into a custom-made panoramic frame. I also take a look at some different paper types to try and see what impact each one has on an image.

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