Why a quality photography backup workflow is so important

In this episode of Workflows, host Scott Wyden Kivowitz shares his personal experiences of losing his precious photos not once, but three times. These stories serve as lessons on the importance of having a quality photography backup workflow in place. From his camera's memory cards being corrupted to an external drive crash, Scott learned the hard way about the significance of safeguarding his images. Join him as he reveals the steps he took to improve his backup workflow and how he ensures the safety of his photos today.Key Lessons:1. Travel Backups: If traveling, backup your memory card to multiple places before returning home. Scott's experience with incompatible memory cards highlights the importance of selecting devices and types less vulnerable to corruption, ensuring the safety of your photos.2. Invest in multiple backups: Losing all his band photographs due to a single external drive failure taught Scott the lesson of investing in backups. Having multiple physical and cloud backups is crucial to protect your images from permanent loss.3. Develop a cloning system: Scott's backup workflow involves cloning his local drive to an identical RAID drive, which is then cloned to an offsite location. This system ensures redundancy and safeguards against hardware failures or disasters.4. Utilize backup software: Using reliable backup software, like Carbon Copy Cloner, can simplify the cloning process and ensure that all your files and external drives are backed up consistently.5. Combine high-resolution and low-resolution backups: Incorporating software like Imagen allows you to have high-resolution backups of your RAW files while also saving storage space by having low-resolution JPEG backups. This provides flexibility for editing, culling, and preserving your images.Join the Imagen Community and share your own disaster stories and current backup workflows. Learn from each other's experiences and enhance your photography backup workflows. (00:00) - 025 (01:46) - A mistake I couldn't avoid (03:30) - This mistake was totally my fault (04:51) - I hope you never make this mistake (05:56) - My photography backup workflow Join the Imagen Community on Facebook to continue the discussions between episodes.If you want to smooth the skin of your photos within Imagen, the time has come. Smooth Skin is here. You can craft the perfect balance of natural beauty with discreet adjustments until you reach your desired goal. As always, you're in complete control; adjust and customize smoothness, texture, clarity, and sharpness to reflect your unique style. It seamlessly integrates into your editing process with a single click to ensure a quick and efficient path to flawless polished complexions. Open the Imagener app to try Smooth Skin today.  

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The photography podcast for those who'd rather be behind the lens than behind a desk. In pursuing professional photography excellence, have you wondered about optimizing your photo workflows to save precious time and resources in your photography business? Welcome to Workflows, a podcast designed for photographers to be your guiding star in your professional journey. Listen today for insights into photography business growth, automation, innovation, and creativity. Our host, Scott Wyden Kivowitz, a seasoned photographer, battles dyslexia, color blindness, introversion, and anxiety by harnessing the power of structured workflows in his life and photography business. His story epitomizes the transformative potential of efficient workflows in personal and professional challenges within the photography business. Workflows is presented by Imagen, an AI-based post-production company for photographers. The Workflows podcast aims to simplify the life of professional photographers. Imagen is committed to enriching the conversation around effective workflows and automation, recognizing their crucial role in the success of any photography business. The Workflows podcast presents many narratives, practical strategies, automation, and innovative tools to revolutionize photographers' operations. Our engaging content derives from professionals' experiences who've battled industry hurdles in their photography businesses and emerged victorious. So, leave your camera aside, plug in your headphones, and allow Workflows to guide photographers like you toward an optimized, profitable photography business through inspiring stories and insightful strategies. Additionally, we welcome photographers to the Imagen Community, an active platform to share photo stories, and ideas, and provide mutual support. By joining, you gain access to unique resources, expert guidance, and a community familiar with your challenges in running a photography business. Don't let valuable time and resources go to waste. Tune in to Workflows today and embark on your journey towards a streamlined, thriving photography business with automation techniques. Transform your photo dreams into reality with Workflows and Imagen, your partners in achieving excellence in your photography business. Picture eliminating post-production hassles in photography today! Visit https://bit.ly/45i26ko and explore our innovative backup, photo selection (photo culling), and editing solutions to unleash your creative potential within the photography business. For photographers who'd rather be out making photos than stuck at a desk: this podcast's for you. Be on the lookout for the video version of each episode which drops on YouTube a month after airing here. Visit youtube.com/@imagenai. The show will provide answers to questions like: - What are the critical elements of a successful photographer's workflow in a photography business? - How can photographers ensure their photography business workflow, including photo editing, is efficient? - What types of software can help automate and streamline workflow for photographers and photography businesses? - What are the benefits of having a consistent photography workflow in a photography business? - How can photographers use post-processing techniques to improve their photo workflow in a photography business? - What tips can photographers use to organize their photography business workflow with automation? - How do you manage your workflow in a photography business to ensure clients receive their pictures on time? - What processes are essential to improve the efficiency and automation of your photography business workflow? - How do you manage client communication for a smooth photography business workflow? - How important is using software to automate tasks in managing your photography business workflow, including picture editing? - How do you ensure the quality and consistency of your photographs in your photography business?