(Part 2) Best products from r/Lightroom

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Title | Best Gaming Laptops for $1000 - Which Ones to Buy? Which to Avoid?
Description | Dave2D comparison of the best gaming laptops in 2017 that are cheaper. Comparing build quality, gaming performance, speakers, keyboard, trackpad, battery life. Dell 7567 - http://amzn.to/2oRD5aD Acer VX15 - http://amzn.to/2oUML4R Lenovo Y520 - http://amzn.to/2qp2p8S HP Omen - http://amzn.to/2pHrz6y Asus GL553 - http://amzn.to/2puG5xL MSI GE62 - http://amzn.to/2perqpU Sabre 15 - http://amzn.to/2oRnZSy Individual Reviews: Dell 7567 - https://youtu.be/ZQFn1Z-x9DQ Acer VX15 - https://youtu.be/f-...
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https://www.amazon.com/Redragon-CENTROPHORUS-2000-Gaming-Buttons-Weight/dp/B00HTK1NCS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480089044&sr=8-1&keywords=red+dragon+mouse

I just use the cheap thing.
It's ugly as hell, but it is comfortable and the being able to adjust the sensitivity on the fly is nice.

I use a small flash drive constantly in my computer to store my photos on. I'm looking into upgrading my SSD over the holidays so I don't have to do this other than for backups, but it's worked fine for about a year.

The Scott Kelby book is good.

Welcome!

Weddings are a lot of work and stress, its an all day event filled with every event from action to low light to still life to portraits and group photos. It's a lot of work.

Before I say anything this book is going to blow your mind: http://www.amazon.com/Photography-Questions-Answers-Voices-Matter/dp/0321929500

Buy that and read that front to back.

Now to answer your question, it depends on my client for what I offer them. I am an artist at heart and I believe offering my clients an album is a better way to have their lovely day remembered. The clients will see their proofs online on my site and pick the ones for the album which I design and they get those picked images for web and facebook and everything. If they want more images they can get both the album and the usb/download of images (# of images depends on hours shot so like 6 hours = 200 images because of how I shoot, and my acceptance rate is low and I can't say 100 images per hour cuz I may only get 1 during that hour). If they don't want the album they can get the set amount of images for swapping it out. Or they can get both at a discounted rate. Whew.

I print through millers lab now for all my prints and kiss.us for my albums. I've been shooting weddings since 2009 and have done a lot of traveling and shot over 50 weddings or so. not a lot if you ask me but I'm working on that too ;)

To figure out your price (something I struggled with when I started) was very hard. Do I charge based on experience or creativity or my customer service? It's all of those to be honest but one thing is you have to have a basis of knowledge to go off of. how much is it for you to run your business? upkeep and taxes and gear and cleaning and editing and ect ect. you have to know this stuff to have a good place of where to start. You also have to do market research (what I mean by this is to look around your area at what others at your level are charging). you're beginning, it's okay to make mistakes. As much as I hate making mistakes it's better that I made that mistake and I learned 80 things from it than to not make it and continue doing something wrong.

Make sense?

They already make several products like that:

http://www.amazon.com/Behringer-XTOUCHMINI-BEHRINGER-X-TOUCH-MINI/dp/B013JLZCLS

It looks like it's "exFAT" file system, showing as "USB Drive" in properties and connected via a USB 3.0 cable.

This is the drive I'm using right now: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KYK1IES/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The drive is nearly empty (I just wiped everything so I can use it as a lightroom drive) so I'm not too worried if I need to re-format or anything, if thats what it takes?

I am uploading via this card reader It seems to work fine

It's on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Behringer-X-TOUCH-MINI-BEHRINGER/dp/B013JLZCLS, at least in US. $49.

And see the youtube link I put my other comment here for a video showing it in use.

I buy 2TB regular internal PC harddrives for about $70 when they're on sale. I have a Blackx Thermolake dock that lets me access the drives. I drop the drives into that dock once every week and copy all the photos onto the drives. Then one drive goes into my firebox, one goes into a book shelf on the other side of the house and (once a month) I bring one drive to my parents house so that if my house burns down, I still have copies.

Dock is here: http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-5-0Gbps-Docking-Station-ST0019U/dp/B003ZUXXVU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1464374853&sr=8-3&keywords=blackx+docking+station

Command to copy photos to the drive looks like:
xcopy D:\Photos\ E:\Photos\ /s/d/c/y

E: is the 2TB drive. /s does all subdirectories. /d Only moves new files

If you don't mind a Tablet form factor. I have been happy with the Acer switch alpha 12 that I picked up earlier this year. I got the i5 version with 8Gb ram that retailed for $750..but has been offered at lower prices since then.

12" QHD IPS Screen that while not perfect, is pretty decent.

I'm using a Touro Mobile Pro (Hitachi) -> Amazon

• USB 3.0
  
• 7200 U/min.
  
• 1 TB

I've been looking at getting this thing, the reviews suggest it would work with Premiere and stuff, so it might also work with Lightroom.

http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Technology-NA16029-Multimedia-Controller/dp/B003VWU2WA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450299886&sr=8-1&keywords=griffin+media+controller

But, it might not really be what you're looking for.

Other takes:

https://petapixel.com/2019/05/02/adobes-10-photography-plan-gone-from-site-cheapest-is-20-month/

https://www.slashgear.com/adobe-quietly-cans-its-cheapest-creative-cloud-plan-02575386/

$9.99 plan no longer showing for me. Can still get a year through Amazon @$9.99/mo:

https://smile.amazon.com/Adobe-Creative-Photography-Subscription-Download/dp/B01CUQ10GY

I wouldn't trust only depending on the Adobe cloud option at all. Besides depending on having internet regularly plus needing the upload speed to keep up with what you're shooting, you're also limited to the 1TB plan unless you want to pay for extra. Even if you only average shooting about 8GB a day, you're looking at about 1.5TB of files created.

If it were me I would consider everything shot on this trip as irreplaceable and spend a little more on ensuring I don't lose anything. SD cards and SSDs currently are stupid cheap. On a big trip I would be buying enough SD cards to not have to delete at all until I get home plus enough SSD space to copy onto without deleting anything and not depending on one point of failure.

1. Get enough SD cards to not have to reuse for 2 weeks of shooting.
   
2. External drives enough to cover the entire trip, preferably SSD (Not all one big drive)
   
3. Cloud service independent of Adobe. I use Backblaze for $5/month, but you need to have the external drives plugged in every 30 days or they may not be kept.
   
4. Copy files from cards to external drive daily (and internal to laptop if you have space).
   
5. Upload files to cloud daily/overnight if possible
   
6. Only delete from SD card when you are SURE that there is a copy on the external AND cloud.
   
7. When an external drive is close to full, ship it back home or to a trusted person. If you trust them, they could copy to another drive and ship back to a location you know you'll be.
   
   Using a system like this you're not depending on the internet keeping up, can borrow a laptop to copy files to the external in case your laptop or a drive fails or gets lost/stolen, and limits your exposure to lost photos if something goes wrong.