Where do you work: Local Hard drive or External

[e.rose]

My workflow:

STEP ONE: Create a new Lightroom catalogue in "Photos" folder of Hard drive, named after the client and the session type.

STEP TWO: Import images into said catalogue and place image folder inside catalogue folder on local hard drive

STEP THREE: Do the work. Edit the things.

STEP FOUR: Finish the work. Finish editing the things.

STEP FIVE: Move image folder into proper folder hierarcy on external drive.

STEP SIX: Move the Lightroom catalogue into proper folder hierarchy on external drive.

STEP SEVEN: Open Lightroom catalogue and tell it where images were moved to.

STEP EIGHT: Rinse and repeat with new shoots.

PRO TIP: All the while, my external drive is plugged into my computer, so I have time machine backups off all the things I'm doing on my local drive, in case of crash.

I have a SSD in my MBP... there's no way in hell I'm NOT taking advantage of working locally on that, vs. my slower external drives, haha.