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!