From the course: The Traveling Photographer: The Basics
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One approach to managing photos on a trip
From the course: The Traveling Photographer: The Basics
One approach to managing photos on a trip
Okay, I wanted to talk to you for a couple of minutes about digital asset management on the road. That's kind of a fancy way for just saying keeping your files safe, and keeping the important files really, really safe. so, I think everybody has a different way of looking at it. I've evolved to what I think is a pretty simple way and it seems to be very, very safe for me. I've never lost any critical pictures. Here's what I do. I shoot everyday. I try to take as much card space as I'm going to need for the trip. I tend to shoot on 16-gigabyte cards, just because I've lost a 64-gig card, and that's a lot of pictures, like, over a lot of time, and that hurt. But fortunately, I was backed up and double backed up on my important pictures. So here's the way I do it. I, I carry a stack of 16-gig cards, and those are really cheap, I mean, I just picked up three for ten bucks, and by the time you're looking at this, they'll probably be next to free. So, everything kind of stays on those cards…
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