SINCE 1988

OWC Creator

Elia Locardi

Photograph by Elia Locardi of the Dubai skyline at sunrise, with tall skyscrapers, including the Burj Khalifa, emerging through a dense layer of fog and illuminated streets below.

Who Am I? How Did I Get My Start. What Are My Interests?

Elia Locardi is an acclaimed world travel photographer, keynote speaker, and experienced educator. He has developed a highly recognized style of photography that has been widely circulated in significant publications, including National Geographic, Elle, and Travel + Leisure. His work is frequently displayed in fine art galleries and venues worldwide.

Elia's passion for photography and education has led him to work in over 70 countries and collaborate with major companies, countries, and tourism organizations worldwide. With over 20 years of experience in photography, production, and education, Elia has given more than 200 keynotes and lectures. He has spoken at venues including Photokina, Photo Plus Expo, InterBee, Visual Storytellers Conference, NAB, Post-production World, Adobe Max, B&H Optic, Fujifilm Festival, Gulf Photo Plus, Kelby Media, HIPA Dubai, National Geographic Aveiro Fest, and Xposure International Photography Festival. Additionally, he has worked with clients and companies, including Instagram, Google, Fujifilm, Nikon, Adobe, Skylum, Wacom, CNet, and DJI Global. And, because he doesn't sleep, Elia is also known for developing and on-camera hosting various episodic travel shows, including Moments in Time and Kentucky in Focus.

In 2022, Elia became the co-founder and CEO of Radiant Imaging Labs. He helped create Radiant Photo, a desktop, plugin, and mobile application that uses Adaptive AI to detect the content of a photo to correct and optimize the tone and color in 16-bit without any masking. Radiant Photo is the first true-to-life editing software to bring out the best of every photo without making it look over-processed.

Photograph by Elia Locardi of Kotor Bay in Montenegro at dusk, with illuminated streets and buildings along the coastline, surrounded by mountains and a view of a church tower in the foreground.

Field Gear

Workstation Gear

This is something I desperately need to address! My RAID system is aging and part of my legacy items in past work with SanDisk GTech.

Tips, Tricks, and Gear

I am going from location independent to having a home base while traveling full-time. How do I convert from a fully mobile backup solution to a mobile plus RAID archiving solution? This is something I both need to do and would love to write about doing.

Memory Cards + Readers

Memory Cards + Readers

High-performance, premium solutions designed for professionals.

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Envoy

Envoy

Ultra-portable USB-C NVMe SSD with the perfect blend of performance, reliability, and affordability for content creators, business professionals, students, families, and more.

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Atlas CFexpress Card Reader

Atlas CFexpress Card Reader

Ultra-fast compact USB4 (40Gb/s) CFexpress 4.0 Type B card reader for creative professionals with transfer speeds up to 5000MB/s.

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Photograph by Elia Locardi of a medieval castle perched on a cliff in San Marino at sunrise, with mist rolling over the landscape and a pink and purple sky.

Workflow

Fujifilm GFX 100s or Fujifilm X-H2 to Atlas Ultra cards, import to MacBook Pro to a local drive, backed up to an OWC Envoy.

When I'm working on a TV show or video project that requires traveling with a crew, I use the same workflow but also shoot in backup mode to capture the data to two OWC Atlas Memory Cards at once. At the end of each day, I capture the images from card 1 and hand card 2 to the video team to create a parallel backup. If we're trying to produce dailies and/or rough cuts, I shoot Raw + Jpeg so they can cut in the jpeg images right away and we can replace them with the edited versions later.