Video Blog #1 "What's in my bag"... and an iPhone 3GS...

I like to carry my camera bag with me everywhere. I take it to work, when my family and I go to the shops, it even comes with me to the odd restaurant or three. Why you ask? Well mostly because I live in a slightly dodgy suburb and I have had the unpleasant experience of being broken into more than once before. But there is another reason. I never miss a cool looking shot; a sunrise on the way to work, an evening sunset – that kind of thing.

One thing that stands out though is that it is a rather large camera bag, not a small little inconspicuous thing. And it weighs about 14kg! At least twice a week I get asked why I carry such a large bag with me. Obviously Joe Public doesn’t understand the inner-workings of a photographer so I make light of the subject, it’s not worth trying to explain myself. But I do like to carry all this stuff around with me.

So, with the help of my good mate John, I made this little video blog about the contents of my camera bag. Click on the window below to watch it.

Timography Blog - Camera Bag from Tim Watson on Vimeo.

Please let me know what you think of this video. I plan to make a few more video blogs in the near future. You don’t need to tell me that there are already “X” number of photography tutorials on the web. A You Tube search for [photography] will give you enough videos to watch for a week – and then some. So I want to do something a little different. I'll demonstrate some more specific light-shaping tools other than umbrellas or soft boxes. We plan to video a location shoot or two, using wireless triggers and battery packs for the studio strobes. Also a video explaining how to use that fantastic little WhiBal card you just saw in my camera bag.

But most importantly – if there is something you would like to see demonstrated then I would really love to hear about that; so let me know.

And finally, as the title of this blog post alluded to – I could not wait any longer so I got myself an iPhone 3GS this week. O.M.G. My workstation is PC based. I have a very cool little HTC Touch Pro windows based mobile for my business. But they have faded into obscurity now I found Apple. I love this little device. It is missing one or two features that I really like on the HTC but overall, it is awesome. I am slowly filling it up with all sorts of apps. Photography apps. Networking apps. GPS apps. I’m in love.

Get yourself one – at whatever the cost!