iPad Pro 11" + Lightroom CC Travel Photography Workflow // I should have been doing this sooner!

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Published 2022-06-28
I've long been looking for a secondary / back-up / personal travel workstation for a while that is light, intuitive, responsive, fast, and powerful BUT is not another Macbook Pro. I found this in the iPad Pro 11" (3rd Gen). The M1 chip has truly elevated the iPad to a portable workstation capable of handling heavy, professional-level post-production photography work for a fraction of the size and weight of a desktop. I tested this new setup and workflow during a recent personal trip to Club Paradise in Coron, Palawan, and it's truly a game-changer. iPad Pro 11" + Lightroom CC Travel Photography Workflow // I should have been doing this sooner!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:42 iPad Pro 11" Setup
05:06 The Perfect Trip
05:32 Importing
08:13 Editing Workflow
11:28 iPhone Sync
14:13 Ingesting Files
15:36 Verdict
17:57 The Wrap

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All Comments (21)
  • @NoelGuevara
    Did I miss out on any tips in this workflow? Comment your hacks and shortcuts! I want to explore this setup more
  • @ramyoro5765
    Been musing about using an iPad Pro for my travel workflow, this answered pretty much all of my questions. Great review Direk!
  • @BommeltjeNL
    Thanks for the video. I've been using an iPad Pro for many years now and to be honest, it's the best computer I've ever had the pleasure of working with (and I've been using computers since 1980). The software's getting more professional by the day, thanks to programmers who dare take the iPad serious. I used the free version of Lightroom Mobile for some time now to edit some photos (learning), and this week I finally took a subscription. Now all my photo's are easily available on my iPhone, my iPad and online, instead of on my old iPhones, on my Mac, on my iPad, my old Windows computer, on some drives, cards, etc. I didn't even know what I had, but now I have it all available on my iPhone and iPad and I really love it ✍️😂👍
  • @bimmerfan2126
    great video, answered all my Q's about using the ipad pro, now an M-2, as a travel workstation! TY!
  • @timothylinn
    I also work with a 16 inch MacBook Pro and an 11 inch iPad Pro. The real deal killer of this workflow for me is the fact that Lightroom won’t let me work off of external drives. This means that my Lr catalog can only be as large as the available storage on the iPad Pro—fine for a weekend trip with cellular connectivity but far less feasible for a six week trip with limited connectivity by either cellular or wifi. Since other apps seem to be able to work off of external drives, it is hard not to conclude that the issue is Adobe trying to extort people into buying cloud storage space while completely disregarding this particular use case.
  • My original iPad is second generation so I waited a bit to upgrade. My original still works youtube.com/post/UgkxUGaHtKW8MwCql2fPyIm9-ftTqSMzK… , but the battery is bad and won't stay charged so it always has to be plugged into a power source. The new 10th generation was a great bargain for Prime Day that I couldn't pass up. It was easy enough to set up: everything came down from iCloud with no issues.
  • @user-xt4oh7bo7c
    I love how you explains things so clear and i understand everything you say, step by step. As i am new to this when is coming to edit on the ipad..what would you recommend for a band ipad for a new user? and budget as well. Thank you
  • Are you able to body shape subjects on the iPad? I’m having trouble with that and skin smoothing on my iPad Pro. I have both Lightroom and photoshop apps
  • @vynedvyne59
    Thank you-especially liked the part about sharing with wifey
  • @Badong2713
    Hello!I have been using an ipad air 5 and I want to follow your workflow. Do you use a default power adapter or you use a third party with higher wattage? Ad is not enough. May you recommend one, if ever you use one? Thanks!
  • @hannahyun0
    1 what happen is you don’t have internet while travelling? Cloud solution can only works with wifi. 2. I am using iPad Pro 12.9, there is not ‘import’ button. 3. Lightroom in ipad does not have auto naming function while importing photos? Thanks
  • @tau_tv
    what is your backup workflow? at some point that external drive is going to run out of space, so when you get home, you transfer all of that into more external harddrives? once those are full you pack them away and buy new ones? i'm trying to figure out what the best way to back everything up. i was thinking of getting an ssd, do all my edits of video/photos off of that, but before doing so, copy all the content into 2 identical hard drives. that way in case one hard drive fails, i can buy a new one, and copy the first one over. when i finish with my project on the ssd, i was thinking of copying the project files and final exported content onto the 2 external drives as well. now that the project is done, i delete everything off my working ssd. finally, once my external hard drives are full, i store them away. that's what i have been thinking so far, what do you think about that workflow and backup flow? (i don't want to pay for cloud subscriptions because those would fill up in the future too).
  • Great video. Do you leave your brightness on full power when editing on the iPad?
  • @jaimel2037
    hanging to get my new iphone 15PM and to just be able to plug it into my ipad pro and instantly pull in all the new prores apple log and 48mp files...finally apple joins current tech !
  • Great video! But one question.. do you have one catalog for all photos?
  • Great video: just subscribed. Indeed (same workflow on the go so far), but iPad screen is not calibrated… ans iPad OS softwares are less powerful than desktop versions: Waiting for a M2 MBAir, with 10-bit display and possibility to calibrate it, with full version of C1. Voilà