I currently use portable Western Digital drives which are small, beautiful, and give a lot of storage for the price. In addition to having a copy of images on my working drive, I also have two additional external hard drives which I keep all images on. When I say “working drive”, I mean the drive that I work off of for projects that aren’t finished and have not been delivered to the client it’s the drive that I’m editing or working from. I have two of them, but my favorite is a 2 terabyte Samsung T3 for me, this external hard drive maintains the balance of not breaking the bank, while also delivering a high volume of storage, in a small and beautiful blue case. One other note about my workflow, before I get into the systems and specifics, is that I use solid state external hard drives as my working drives. You are doing a high volume of work, you need to deliver images to clients, find old projects to show potential clients, find photos to market your business across your platforms, and you need to remember why you spent all that money on prime lenses (which was very well spent). The second person I’m outlining my system for is a professional photographer. ![]() The first is the hobbyist photographer you love photography, take pictures every chance you get, and even though you’re not delivering images to a paying client, you need to be able to find them when you want them. I’m going to outline my systems for two different people. ![]() I use two different systems for my professional and personal images they’re very similar, but fit different needs for me. I have 17 external hard drives lined up on a shelf in my closet ranging from 1tb to 4tb each and at least twice a year I get that frantic email from a client where I have to go back and find and redeliver their images. ![]() I’ve photographed over 400 weddings in my career, at least that many portrait sessions, and have worked with dozens and dozens of businesses. I needed it to be simple and fast to find any of my work, whether I needed to find a photo for marketing my business, or I had gotten one of those frantic emails from a client who had lost their photos and wondered if I still had them on file – luckily I did.Īs time has gone on, my digital photo storage and organization has become even more important. I’ve been a professional photographer since 2006, and one of the earliest systems I created was a system for organizing my photos on external hard drives.
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