Organization and workflow in Lightroom on 2 computers – ideas?

[jim_thomsen]

Hello,

I live and travel by sailboat and store/edit my photos using Lightroom on a laptop with backup on an external hard drive. Currently I have about 40,000 photos stored in RAW on that laptop as a single catalog.

I just purchased another laptop (newer and faster) and I’m trying to decide how to organize my pictures. I don’t really want to put all the current and future photos on both computers, but I would like to be able to edit the old photos on the new computer.

My first thought is to leave the 40k photos on the old laptop and the external drive and start a new catalog on the new laptop. Then use the external drive with the new laptop for additional editing.

If you had to set this up, how would you do it?

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Jim

 

[KmH]

I highly recommend the inexpensive book - The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers

One of Lightroom's short comings is that it can only work with one catalog at a time.

 

[jim_thomsen]

Thanks! The preview of the book looks good on Amazon. As a traveler with no US home I really wish it was available for my kindle or iPad. But I will order it even if I can't see it for awhile.
Thank you for the suggestion.
Jim