Complete Mobile Photography Workflow | Adobe Lightroom Mobile + Lightroom Classic

In this video, I cover my complete mobile photography workflow. After over a decade of dealing with the challenges of backing up and importing photos to my Adobe Lightroom catalog, I've settled on this simple workflow, which relies on an iPad Pro and Adobe Lightroom Mobile. This workflow allows me to backup, edit, and transfer photos to my main Lightroom catalog from anywhere. I love this workflow so much that sometimes I implement it from my couch!

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[TaoCovillault]

Nice content, nice workflow 😊
I just always wonder, why Lightroom CC has all functions of lightroom Classic, except the color coding -_-

This is so annoying for me, because I use colors to say if a picture is done editing (green), In progress (yellow), if it's just a memory (bleu), memory with editing done (purple), or NSFW/nudity etc (red).

This way I can go through my library really fast, all the pictures without color label haven't been sort out or worked on, and I can hide RED pictures when showing stuff to clients or friends 🤪

[frankb]

Hi Brendan, many thanks for your video, very helpful. I travel a lot with photographing. Coming from the field with hundreds or thousands (wildlife!) of photos so far I backup with the hep of a MacBook Air on ssd´s. Being the happy owner of the latest iPad I will test your workflow very soon. My only concern is step 2: syncing in a hotel etc hundreds of MB. Even over night that doesn’t work reliable from my experience. Option: So - if I download my photos into my iPad (1 Tb as well :-) with LR and disable syncing until I am at home - what happens? Need to test that … Frank

[isaacmeyerodell]

Thanks. I have a similar workflow although I often shoot in studio. I use an iPad app called Cascable that allows me to shoot tethered to my iPad. My clients love it since they can easily review the shots on the touchscreen. Once I have the clients selects I transfer the files to Lightroom Mobile and eventually to LrC.

I only wish that Adobe would make LR for iPad with the same feature set as LrC. The most annoying one is that I can’t import presets on the iPad, I have to open up LR creative cloud on a spare computer and load the preset there so they sync with LR for iPad.

[GeoffGrant]

I would appreciate a list of steps that you outlined. Also, did you eliminate the uploaded images to the LR Cloud every day while away to avoid the 100 GB limit? You seem to imply that you did, if so, how? Thanks. Geoff

[JasperGroot]

Thanks for your video man. I’m still doing a bit of both; and importing on my laptop and storing files on local external drive, and sync in cloud with easy edits on iPad. I’m leaning more and more towards just doing the last.

[christopherbrown]

So, if your gone for a week or more, your laptop at home running the whole time?

[muserbellamy]

Hi do they sync at full resolution back to your Mac

[marcrjacobs]

I understood that copying from the a7RIV to an iPad via wire will not import RAW. Is the correct?

[TV-Inkorgen]

Can you tether like Capture One in Lightroom ?

[RighteousNacho]

First step, shoot on a $2, 000 camera like me. 🙄