My iPad workflow

16 09 2010

This summer I bought an iPad and here I will tell you how I use it with my photography.

I like to travel and I like to make photos. Many photos. After a weeks trip I easily have over a thousand images. The problem often is that it takes a long time for me to process them all e.g. Select the best ones, do some post processing and share them or make a book. It often doesn’t get done.
And here is were the iPad comes in; it takes part of the work I would do after the trip to during the trip.
Say at the end of a day I have some down time. I upload the images from my sd card to photos. The size of the display is large enough to determine if the images are good or not. If they are not I delete them.
After the selection I can given enough time pull some of them in Photo fx Ultra (iTunes) to do some post processing. If I want I can than upload directly from my iPad to Facebook flick or use them in my WordPress post.
After I come home I hook my iPad to my Mac and load the images into Aperture. As the images are still in raw I can do some post processing if I want to. I have to note that the import from iPad to Aperture is not yet flawless. I sometimes have to reconnect my iPad before aperture ‘sees’ the iPad.
The flow is nice and works well the only thins still missing is a editor which keeps the raw. E.g aperture for iPad would be nice :)

Happy shooting!








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