Traveling light?
July 28, 2011 at 14:19 
Always trying to improve and simplify my time spent in post, I tried something a little different last week when I went to visit my son and family in Okinawa. I did not take a laptop, only iPad, one camera, one lens, flash, and extra cards and batteries. It's official... This is no way for me to travel as a working pro! And since everywhere I go I'm working even when I'm not, this won't be happening again!
Why? Traveling light with a camera means shooting three frames of every shot in raw. First day I shot 14 gigs and filled up rest of iPad space. That would not have mattered if there was an easy way to delete the non-winners. One at a time does not work for 1500 images. I did however fall in love with Filterstorm, an image processor for iPad. I don't like the pro version. It offers me nothing I need and like most good things people try to make better, it just gets convoluted.
Traveling light with a camera is totally working for this kind of work. I carry one D3S, a 28-300 lens and a spare battery. It's a mental stretch but I'm dealing with it.
Sometimes it's harder trying to travel light and simplify something when you already have a system that works. With this system I opted to just spend time with the family and share the photos with them on iPad instead of killing myself on this thing trying to get them online… a little slice of Okinawa!
Joe | 1 thought, give yours
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I went to the beach on Lake Michigan with my sister and her family for a week at the begining of July. 1 camera: Nikon D7000. 1 lens: Nikkor 18-200mm. Flash. Carbon fiber tripod. Extra battery. Polarizer. 4 x 8Gig cards (Dual slots on the D7000). Fuck RAW. I shot everything in large JPEG. All in a one strap compact Sling Shot bag (carry on).
1279 images. I didn't mess with them until I got home. Instead I was engaged with my family and the "Now". I started messing with the images when I got home on *Free* Google Picasa.
This is what I will do from now on. I'm an extremely happy amateur photographer. Just a little bummed JOE never "Likes" any of my photos. I'll live with it.
And that's my world,
Jim Matthias