It’s all well and good having a 36 megapixel camera but unless you have the processing power and bandwidth with which to edit and upload, you’re going to spend more time fiddling with your photos on a screen than actually taking them.The above image what shot in an allotment with the Nikon D800 set to shoot and record Raw to Compact Flash and jpegs to the SD. I used the camera connection kit to import this one image into the iPad 3 and first attempted to edit in PhotoPad. A popup on PhotoPad told me the file size was too large and would be reduced so I switched to PhotoForge2. PhotoForge2 may still reduce the image size but it didn’t tell me so and would take about 20 seconds rendering between each operation.
It wasn’t a quick edit. There was some finger drumming time delay between adjusting levels and vibrance before uploading straight from the app into Flickr. About seven minutes from camera to Flickr.
I then opened the app Blogsy and wrote this post. Adding the Flickr image from the sidebar options with the drag and drop.
When speed is of the essence I’ll still be working with iPhone images but there’ve been more than a few times, especially when capturing low light, fast moving, or distant subjects where the iPhone 4s has shown me its limitations.
Its certainly interesting experimenting but I think it may take some time to find a swift efficient workflow if I choose to blog with high quality images.
If you are reading this and have experimented with editing and uploading high res images using mobile devices, (especially iOS devices) please let me know your findings. Particularly if you are wirelessly transferring images using the ‘AirStash’ or have found photo editing apps capable of working with large images.
I post more findings in the coming weeks.
Did you go for the 4G (not here it ain’t) iPad or are you connecting with wifi to your mifi for mobile uploading?
Hi Rob,
I do have the 4G iPad but rarely use the sim as I have a MiFi on me most of the time.
Are you uploading the images to then print or just to display on web?
One simple solution if just uploading to display is shoot two images as you have but on the Sd card shoot jpeg at a lower quality level than jpeg fine. You will still have the raw should anyone click on it and want a print.
When loading camera through connection kit take CF card out of camera, so no question of which image is uploaded.
Hi Mark,
Yes, i have the D800 set to record raw to CF card and jpeg to the SD card. I am in the habit of recording the maximum jpeg. As i am mainly shooting for fun at the moment I am tempted to ignore the raw. They are taking up epic amounts of drive space. For my more serious projects I’m tempted to shoot Raw only and until flickr upgrades it’s top end parameters, I’m also tempted to shoot lower res jpeg to the SD card to speed up the shoot-upload process. If i shoot medium sized jpeg it’s still huge.. 5580×3620 at 20.03meg per shot. That just tops the maximum upload for flickr but after my initial ‘experiment’ I downsized the jpeg to medium and will see how this goes.
I am hoping the next generation of Macbook Pro/Air comes with some serious oomph, as a camera shooting this amount of pixels really needs a maxed out editing tool. Combined with a 2TB HDD as standard. Yes i’m living in cloud cuckoo land.
Thanks for the comment.
It’ll be similar to when I tried the Hasselblad H3D-31, took ages to upload and save images but was a great image. Looking forward to getting my hands on the D800, I had reverted to film last year as did not want to get D700 knowing something new was round the corner.
Have you looked into the eye fi sd card. Not ultra quick but very good as you don’t need to remove the ca from the camera. The pro version works with raw too, although you may be better off just uploading jpegs and saving raw for shed based editing.
Hi, I have the pro. I think i first blogged about the eye-fi card back in 2008.. http://ourmaninside.com/2008/07/08/protect-your-content-stream-it-live/
There are a few issues with capacity and useing the card in metal camera bodies reduces the efficiency somewhat. There is also the option of the WT-4 wireless unit. I have not looked into it but I believe it’s comparable with the D800 and would create great streaming solutions to any wirelessly enabled device as well as slow someone with a login to access the camera while it is being used to retrieve photos.
Have you thought about not using flickr for blogging images? I agree flickr is a great place for a backup of the image (up to a size limit as you say) but I have been using Blogsy to send my SLR images to WordPress. Obviously depending on your main WordPress settings you you will get a crunched thumbnail, medium, large and original to work with in your blog post. Plus, the images all open larger in a lightbox rather than take the visitor away from your site to view all the flickr candy.
You just drag the image from the iPad camera roll into the WordPress envelope – of course you already know this and you are now sucking eggs.
Anyway, I like the idea a keeping the RAW locally and playing in Snapseed (my photo app choice) and then uploading to my own WordPress server. I’ll probably still chuck it on flickr as a duplicate process (since Posterous died), but in my own time and maybe when I’m at a desk with BT Infinity 😉
How’d you like them apples?
Rich
PS. I’ll admit my last SLR > iPad Edit > Blogsy upload is a little too low res … http://richard.mackney.com/kedleston-hall/
Hi Richard,
I think for ease I’ll reluctantly go for the posting of images straight into my blog via Blogsy and suchlike. Is there an app or ifttt recipe to send WordPress images straight to Flick or open photo? I like the option of having an online backup but the more platforms sell out or shut down I’m finding some comfort in the apparent stability of a self hosted WordPress.
When I say use Blogsy to post images, I mean drag them from your camera roll to be uploaded direct to WordPress so the image is hosted by you. If Blogsy shuts down it’s no issue as its just a blog writing tool 🙂