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12 years 1 month ago #210483 by d0wn
I am wondering possible solutions people have found to backing-up and editing photos while on the move around the world but ideally without taking a laptop. I've looked over some of the online photo editors and, being used to using lightroom they aren't quite there yet. I thought maybe about accessing my computer or a server at home via logmein or similar - which would give full editing in lightroom, but the slight problem is getting the pics onto that computer in the first place. You could upload to internet wherever you are and then download to your computer at home potentially (controlling it via logmein). can anyone recommend a site to upload the photos to? or is anyone using an ftp? Anyone else been experimenting with this kind of setup??
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12 years 1 month ago #210484 by ChrisPenn
It's not difficult to setup your own FTP server at home assuming your ISP doesn't complain. It's going to be a headache because of the size of your files (assuming raw) and unknown service quality while out and about.

Lets not forget that working on a remote session isn't always ideal either. Youll still need a computer to send and remote with... so why not just bring a laptop at that point.
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12 years 1 month ago #210485 by d0wn
its just the weight and size thing - not to mention the stress of having an expensive laptop. Basically, anywhere I can get power for a laptop, there's an internet connection and computer anyway.
Actually I think VPS hosting is the next step with all this (and probably the future of computing) - so your software is running off exactly the same web-server as you're uploading to files to. So lightroom would be installed on a VPS which you can use over the internet and which works at the same speed as if you were running it locally (assuming a good VPS package).

I was just interested to know if any other early adopters out there are experimenting with any of this yet?
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12 years 1 month ago #210486 by Hip Hop3
I haven't really had to do this yet but I can use a USB adapter to transfer pictures from the camera to my Ipad. I bought a neat piece of software that does a good job at quick basic editing. The space is limited so you can't do this on a really big scale but it works in a pinch. This app also has the ability to upload to my Flickr page. It's a lightweight solution for say a vacation etc but I wouldn't use that if I was a pro.
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12 years 1 month ago #210510 by geoffellis
like 300$ will get you a basic netbook.

These are relatively light, yet compared to paying for a VPS which can easily be over 100$ a month for the type of specs you want... its actually quite a steal.

As for services like LogMeIn... i guarantee you wont like using it over the internet for resource intensive applications. It will also be laggy and unresponsive on all but the faster internet connections. This means both the internet connection of your home computer, and whatever your using where you are (and everything in between). There is no issue with getting the pictures onto the computer. As stated FTP is quite basic.

My recommendation is a basic Netbook... do your basic editing on that... and set up an FTP server so that you can transfer images to your home computer as a backup. It will save you so much more money and frustration than any of your other ideas.

And just so we're clear... I have years of experience with renting/running Dedicated Servers, and VPS's, as well as remote administration tools and services, setting up FTP servers, and much much more. Not to mention im a bit of a traveller. Im not just pulling opinions out of my ass...
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