Your photography workflow – mobile

Whether photography is your living, your passion, or both, managing the multitude of photos you shoot can be quite a chore. Adobe Lightroom makes light work of it, but you don’t always have your catalog with you, and even a slim notebook is unwieldy when you’re hiding from the rain under an awning in Bogotá. As a photographer, you spend a lot of time on the road. You spend a lot of time waiting and preparing. Being able to organize your photos while you’re in the field or traveling would save precious time. Likewise, sorting through the backlog of disorganized photos would be a lot more comfortable from the couch than your desk. The iPad is the perfect tool for the job. A large, bright screen on a light, touch-­sensitive device. And Photosmith makes the most of it. Photosmith’s fundamental purpose is to enable you to move your photos seamlessly and safely between your camera, your iPad, and your Lightroom catalog. Photosmith 2 lets you send your existing photos from Lightroom to your iPad so you can sort, rate, tag, label and group your photos from the comfort of your couch, a bus stop or a beach-side hammock. All metadata is beamed over as well, including GPS location, copyright info, keywords, and even your camera’s exposure settings at the time you took the picture. And when you’re back home, just tap the sync button and your Lightroom catalog is updated – wirelessly.

After you’ve finished a shoot (or even in the middle of it if there’s a break) you can import your photos to your iPad by plugging in Apple’s Camera Connection Kit. In addition to photos you imported from a camera’s memory card, Photosmith naturally supports both the Camera Roll and Photo Stream. For more information see the Photosmith 2 intro guide.

Source – Photosmith 2