Whats the best practice on the Move

[Iris]

February 24, 2011 at 7:48 pm

Hi All, its being a while since i have posted anything here. i am heading off for a few weeks to Spain with my camera, and i need some advice.
I am going to take as many photos as i can on my trip and edit them when i return home. I am buying my first laptop tomorrow ( any suggestions) budget €450-€500 and i am going to take along an external hard drive.

This is my proposed “Modus Operandi”. which i have never done before. First take the pictures Obviously, and upload to the laptop.
View images and maybe tag, Location name, etc. Export images to external hard drive and just to be safe to be safe, Burn to CD. And on my return to Ireland Edit images in PS.
I intend exhibiting these images at some stage when i get home.

Any suggestions hints or tips would be great.

[edg3]

February 27, 2011 at 11:28 pm

I travel a fair bit to but i dont bring my laptop, anywhere i go though i do bring my 250gb external. When i get to my girlfriends (we travel together she lives in germany) we always bring her EEEPC and i copy my pictures off my camera onto the laptop and then onto the external, so she always has a copy incase something catastrophic happens here. Normally when I export off the SD card i’ll name the folder the place and date if not just the date (if im in a rush). I keep a small notepad with me and i just jot down the names of the places i’d been on that date and where they correspond to in the place we visited that day.

As for laptops, i got an brilliant HP Pavilion something or other in Harvey Normans a while back for a mint 500euro! 2gb of ram a 512 ATI graphics card and a 500gb hard drive. (was 250 but i upgraded it myself) so i’d say, if you can get to one, harvey normans. you can bargain them down or sometimes, like myself, get a bag and an extended 3 year warranty :) you want something with at least 2gb of ram and a decent graphics card, intel avoid, ati or nvidia is what you want for pictures especially. I edit with PS on mine all the time though my desktop is the main edit station.

If you need any more info throw me a PM, i’m not a pro or anything but i know about the heartbreak of losing pictures from holidays! and how to avoid it!