If you are saving you raw images only to your computer’s hard drive you will eventually be very upset when you run out of space or, worse yet, have a hard drive failure.
The first thing you should be doing is importing your images from your camera directly to an external hard dive.
There are several options when it comes to adding external hard drives. There are desktop models, portable drives, and more recently solid state drives (SSD)
The general structure we follow is this…. We have 2 desktop 8TB external drives per year.. a 2020 and a 2020 backup. Smaller sizes are available. Typically 4TB or 5TB. While traveling we used to carry at least one portable external drive the was 4TB. Now we have upgraded to portable SSD drives. SSD drives are more durable, shock resistant, and read/write faster than standard hard drives.
Once home, we transfer the files from the SSD to the desktop drives.
Hello
We are George and Pattie Walsh. We are a husband and wife wildlife and landscape photography team for the last 15 years. We have a passion for all things nature and love to share it with others. Whether we share a glimpse into our travels around the world through still images and videos or with an exciting photo tour and workshop, our goal is to give a moment of awe and wonder at the beauty of nature. Hopefully to offer the opportunity to capture a piece of that moment and share it with others.
So, please, join us… online or in person. We look forward to sharing the experiences with you.