With Mylio, everything I capture - no matter which device I use -gets backed up on my desktop. I don’t use iCloud for photos it’s just not something I want to work with. We each have an iMac I know that if I’ve looked at a set of images for so long that I can’t make a decision, they will show up on her machine right away, and she can take things from there. I do image culling and tending, and she does things like our blog. The other bonus is that Caroline and I are able to work really efficiently, because we can work in tandem. I don’t get slowed down by seeing what I don’t need. I can reference images in Mylio when I want to work on them, then set things so that I don’t see them after I’ve delivered the finished product. I archive client work so that it doesn’t distract me as I do other projects. I have close to 50,000 personal images and 150,000 professional images, and I’m creating more each day. I can even be out of town when I finish an edit, and my wife can pull the images from Mylio while I continue to do other work. If I want to access images for our blog or for a slide show to present to clients, I can do that. Once I’m happy with the finished product - including versions of everything in black and white - I use Mylio as a photo organizer to manage what goes where, and when. When the photos come back, I merge the two catalogues, and fine-tune things in Lightroom. After shooting a wedding, I’ll have 3,000 to 4,000 images so first I’ll cull through the images using Photo Mechanic, then drop what I keep into a Lightroom catalog before sending them off to ShootDotEdit for white balance, color control, and so on. Mylio is an integral part of my workflow. I’ve been using Mylio since it was in beta, so I’ve seen how it’s developed and grown. Having one central place to view all your photos no matter where they are - and knowing they’re backed up in several locations - is phenomenal. I found a blog post by Chase Jarvis inviting folks to check out Mylio. Trying to manage it all was draining some of my joy in photograph. I was culling my personal images less and less. The chaos was so difficult to work with that I wasn’t motivated to try to fix it. But as our business grew, I realized I had a photo management problem: My personal photos were in iPhoto and Aperture, and our wedding and commercial work was in Lightroom. We were using iPhoto before we started the business, then Aperture and Lightroom as we got more serious about photography. My family has always been an Apple family - iPads, MacBooks, iPhones. Well, initially because Apple killed Aperture. If you’d asked me then to take pictures of pets, I would have said yes. We jumped right in, opening a gallery and offering `lifestyle’ sessions - basically chasing around two- and three-year-olds in the humidity, trying to capture something. Fortunately, a professional photographer invited me to be a second-shooter for a wedding, and on the strength of that experience, my wife and I decided to start Quiver Tree. I needed to make something work to put food on the table for my family. How did you decide to start a proper photo business?īy the time we moved back to North Carolina, we were, to be honest, struggling financially. That’s actually when taking pictures became more than just snapshots of the kids, because when you run a nonprofit, you’re the CEO, you’re the secretary, and unless someone else steps up to do it, you’re the photographer, too. We were doing missionary work but moved back to my native South Africa to start a nonprofit. Have you always been in the photo business? So in terms of tools that give us more speed and efficiency, yeah, we’re looking for any advantage we can get. Caroline looks after the kids, including homeschooling. And, yes, we have a busy household with four children - eight, five, three, and almost one year-old. It started as a wedding business and now we also shoot for a number of commercial clients. My wife Caroline and I run Quiver Tree Photography, based in Washington, North Carolina. You have a thriving business and a large family. Here, he talks about the technology challengers a commercial photographer faces - and how Mylio’s user-friendly features made his life easier. Photography wasn’t Mark Collie’s first act, but when his talents proved highly marketable, he jumped in feet first, starting Quiver Tree Photography in Washington, North Carolina.
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