Changing how I process photographic images on the road

One of the reason I chose my mirrorless Canon EOS R is that it features its own built in Wifi network so I can select photos I take in RAW at 33MB full frame to auto save to JPG and sync to any device I pair it with - even when offline out in the bush. eg. my Samsung phone, or Apple iPad, or even an smart TV.

That way, I can prepare any social media posts whilst I'm offline and get them ready to publish without having to wait for service to do the post production.

For social media/quick updates I find that most of my photos are good enough without any editing to work for that purpose and its very convenient when travelling to do a super quick Instagram Story or Post with a few good pics.

The other reason I chose this camera is that is shoots 4K video and there are a few options, one of which is the ability to select the option that allows frame captures at 8MB jpg which is still sufficient clarity to post quickly to Instagram/Facebook etc.

I use these features heavily both with family/lifestyle stuff and when travelling.

When I'm ready to go back to do my editting, I take the SD out of the camera and insert into a USB card reader plugged into to my Windows laptop that I can run on battery for a day or so, or plug into the 2000W invertor if I'm sitting at a camp with the solar panels out. I run the full Adobe suite on the laptop so I don't bother with the mobile versions. I also edit the Drone footage at the same sitting - we use the HDR setting when taking still photos on the drone and I use the settings in Lightroom to merge the 3 HDR images together and find that works well. I never keep or use the Drones own inbuilt merge JPG file.

Hope that helps?
Always interesting to read what other photographers are doing.
Michelle

PS the photo in our signature is one such example. After taking the photo, I immediately synced it to my phone where it sat in the phone's gallery. I then had easy access to use it for updating this in our profile pic, and also used it in the next social media post I prepared. All without using Lightroom etc. Good enough for this type of use.

I just use Lightroom and Panorama for stitching, and I may use Topaz AI Clear if I have noise problems. Question for you, why such large capacity SD cards? If one is corrupted or gets lost that is a lot of memory lost and maybe work & $, why not stick to 8Gb cards and have more of them?

I just use my Macbook Air, nought with 16Gb Ram. I used to have all my photos on external hard drives (still do for back ups) , but because I frequently access my entire collection of photo libraries I was finding it a pain to have to retrieve & plug in the external drives so often. (I have a collection of 500Mb to 2 TB samsung drives - nice & small for travelling, & fast). Now have all my phot libraries on my laptop again, but with a 1 TB drive, the time is approaching where I will need to offload some libraries, a shame because it is just so convenient having them all at my fingertips.

I use Mac Photos for storage & have Luminar 4 for processing. It's been a love/hate relationship with Luminar since it's first version was released. Frequently buggy, using customers as the test bed, making promises & not delivering, but was easier & quicker to learn than LR & PS. In hindsight I think LR would have been a better option, but their move to ongoing fees put me off.To expensive for this little hobbyist.

Recently I splurged out on the Topaz photo suite & have found it to be quite impressive, not perfect, but pretty good. Tend to use Denoise AI the most. Will make a good photo a great photo. Topaz Photo AI is improving , with regular updates, (recently became useable as a plugin for Mac Photos which is great).The others in the suite are still standalone only. Gigapixel is useful now & then, but less keen on the Sharpen AI.

I had a Sony A6500 (APS-C crop sensor) which I loved, but 5 tropical wet seasons worth of humidity killed it late last year. I now have a full frame Sony A7iii, but managing with my crop sensor lenses (except for my 150-600 zoom which does full frame) for the time being.

Sounds like you are at a rather more sophisticated level of processing to me.

Interesting seeing this. I am somewhat different.

I have a Canon 60D since 2010 and a Canon 400D before that. We bought an Olympus E-M5II a couple of years back so the cook could take pictures of the bugs, lizards and flowers. I love taking panoramas, odd shaped formations and trees etc.. The cook also uses her old Canon IXUS as a video camera.

I have a Dell Inspiron laptop on which I run Ubuntu Linux and do my initial review and processing on it, generally in that evening. I make a point of downloading the images to the laptop and do a backup to a separate hard disk which is stored in the camper (the cameras go in the Ranger) so I have 2 copies of the images. I do final processing when I get home.

I use Rapid Photo Downloader to download the images off the SD cards (including any video the cook takes) and then use XnView as my initial reviewer so I can quickly get rid of duplicates, out of focus etc.. I use Darktable as my image processor and Gimp any editing ("photo-shopping" ) that I might want to do. For panorama stitching I have been using Hugin for the last 20 years. When we get home I back up the images and videos to our home network. Every 6 months or so I do a whole backup onto a HDD and swap the HDD with another one that my married son keeps at his place.

The software that I mentioned is opensource and free to download and use. Darktable, XnView and Hugin have Windows, MacOS versions.

Bart