I can swap cards for sure but have never been involved with images going straight to a results type page and though for simplicity I would like to just have all the JPG images on one card. I didn’t think about just swapping the RAW card so that will be my plan. I don’t want 5000 RAW images but I can delete what I don’t want.

As for your last question, I’m good with the assignment for sure but will want to have some RAW images of the top runners in the country winning a National Championship for my own social media/web page.

Saturday I’m photographing a National championship race which is being held at the same time as a big yearly race. I’m guessing 4000 runners total. The lead guy gave me the settings for my camera today so it can be synced to the race directors Chronotrack and I’m to shoot in JPG with a medium file size which is fine. I’m on the finish line and all photos are loaded into the directors system so runners can find there photos based on time. Now for my question.

I’m wanting to record to my first card in the JPG format and record RAW to my second card for my use. When I choose JPG on the first card it shows I can take 9999 photos but when I add RAW to my second card it now shows both cards can only hold around 2500 photos. I’m only really want RAW for the first large group of finishers, the winners but I’m afraid I won’t have time to do setting changes once the runners start crossing the line. I’m wondering if my JPG card will keep recording or is my camera gonna stop recording anything once my RAW card is full? Any advice?

I just got started with Smugmug and really like it. I photograph a lot of 5k type races and can just share a gallery link to Facebook so runners can view/download there photos. My site will get its biggest test to date as my next race is a National Championship event and I’m guessing I will be taking several thousand photos which will all be uploaded to my site. Excited to see how that goes.

Good to see a somewhat local on here. We love our trail.

I agree that most do this to much. I did this shot handheld and I was surprised at how it turned out. I was up in the mountains with just my bike and my camera.

The first one was awarded the cover spot of the groups annual calendar and the second one was featured on one of the months of the calendar. This is the Virginia Creeper Trail in Abingdon, Va.

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My “Couldn’t do this one again if I tried shot“ Shooting an awards ceremony & this young lady came out with a crown. Her hair lined up perfectly with a Kings Crown that was on the far wall. I had a couple seconds for each shot and never even noticed the back wall.

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On another topic, how do you handle a very large event with what I’m guessing will be well over a thousand runners and maybe a lot more? I just found out yesterday that I was selected to help cover the USA Track & Field 8k Mens National Championship race. The race is during a week long festival that already attracted a very large running field. I always try to get each runner a good finish line photo but can’t see that happening with that amount of people lol.

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I see that’s where I’m messing up to begin with. I’m only using my IPad Pro and rarely turn my PC on. I need to look at LR Classic more.

I need to look at it better but wondered if storage space would be an issue

My only issue with LR is storage, right now I have a 20GB plan and 500 pics takes up 65% of my storage. I will have to delete these to work on my next event. Even going up to the 1TB plan I’d still run out if I tried to leave 6-8 events in LR. I wish they had an unlimited plan but it would probably be very expensive.

I do have the Free Flicker account and I’m already at my limit and figured if I have to pay then I wanted to look at other options that’s in the same range. Y’all have given me lots of great info as usual and I’m going to explore each.

I do 90% of my work on an IPad Pro but do have a pretty good desktop system but honestly it sits idle most of the time since LumaFusion on the IPad works so good for my video needs.

Free is always great but now days anything that works cost. I did the 14 day trial at SmugMug and I think the $13 a month package may work great.

Is the learning curve very hard for someone with zero website development experience? I have a pretty basic site through WIX and it’s just to hard to get photos into, at least for me anyways.