To quote a Dylan song, “the times they are a changin'”, and I’m changing with them. Well maybe not in all ways but in the way I do my photography hobby, things certainly are changing fast and going small.
I’m going mobile. Specifically what I’m doing is pairing down my entire photography set up from cameras and accessories to the computers and laptops I do my post processing work on. I’m going small, light and mobile. I can’t really say for how long but for now this seems like a thing to do.
I want everything I shoot with, and everything I edit with, to fit in my Oskars One Day Bag . And that’s a pretty small bag. So what am I going to have in there;
iPad Air 2
iPhone 5s
Cleaning cloth and batteries
That’s it.
I have a handfull of Apps on the iPad that I like for editing including;
Snapseed
Photogene
Image Blender
and Apps to link me directly to my Smugmug web page at Tom Collins Photography
So, I’ll be missing the full size sensor of a bigger camera and I’ll be missing the fine tools I use in Lightroom and Photoshop and the use of a big screen. But will it really matter? I doubt it. I’m an amatuer photographer and have been caught up in the game of chasing gear for too many years. Now I just want to find interesting pictures to tell a story while I play in My Mobile Life. I’ll be posting photos I’m taking on the fly, day to day, on road trips and vacations here to my blog, to my Instagram @tom5620 and to My Mobile Life at Tom Collins Photography
You’re brave! 😊
Thanks Tom, it should be fun.