Even though I try to avoid post processing on my laptop, I regularly find myself having to do it anyway. When I’m on a trip, I like to keep all the images of that trip on my laptop for quick and easy access. My MacBook has a 1TB SSD – that’s a lot of space, but I actually use it. If I can save an ounce here or there, I will. Size and weight are important as I typically use more than one external drive, and my camera gear already weighs a ton.
There are plenty of portable external drives to choose from, but I like mine to be compact, light, at least 500GB, reliable, and offer Thunderbolt. I know from experience that hard drives can crash or can get corrupted, so I make a backup after each image dump.
At the end of each shooting day, I dump the cards onto my MacBook and rename and keyword the images. Check out his website for spectacular images, videos and photo tours: On all my travels I bring a laptop – a 15” MacBook Pro. Marsel won the grand title ‘International Nature Photographer of the Year’ twice in a row, and he won several First Prizes in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards and the Travel Photographer of the Year Awards. Together with his wife Daniella he runs Squiver, a company that offers specialized nature photography tours, for small groups of all experience levels, to exciting destinations worldwide. Marsel van Oosten is a professional nature photographer from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.