{"id":38439,"date":"2021-06-02T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=38439"},"modified":"2021-05-25T10:21:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:21:15","slug":"whats-in-my-bag-steve-pellegrino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-bag-steve-pellegrino\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in my bag? \u2014 Steve Pellegrino"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m an internationally published freelance photojournalist. I\u2019ve covered protests in Ferguson, the fight for abortion rights in Missouri, and too many political races! My photos have been published in prominent news outlets, in a book about policing in Ferguson and last year in the documentary \u201cWhat Killed Michael Brown?\u201d \u2014\u00a0Steve Pellegrino<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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About the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

I looked at a lot of sling bags before choosing the\u00a0Waterfly Sling<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($22)<\/strong>. It\u2019s large enough to carry what I need, but not too large that I would feel uncomfortable carrying it everywhere. It\u2019s on me whenever I leave the house. I like that I no longer carry things in my pockets!<\/p>\n

What’s inside the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a photojournalist I always need to be prepared to shoot a news story. When I\u2019m not on an assignment, I don\u2019t carry my Nikon cameras. But sometimes news stories happen when you least expect them to. My every day set up allows me to have the tools I need to shoot without the bulky gear. Smartphone photography is astonishingly advanced. At the center of my mobile workflow is aniPhone 8+<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($279)<\/strong>. I can shoot stills and video from the same device and also transmit those images to media outlets. It\u2019s a few generations behind the current iPhone, but that doesn\u2019t impact the quality of the images.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Moment iPhone Case<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($50)<\/strong>\u00a0not only protects the phone, but also provides the lens mount for the 58mm telephoto lens. Using an external lens with a smartphone can be frustrating when aligning it in front of the camera\u2019s native lens. The Moment case takes away that frustration with a perfect alignment every time you attach it to the case. The case allows me to mount the lens in front of either the iPhone\u2019s wide or telephoto lenses.<\/p>\n

Moment lenses<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($130)<\/strong>\u00a0are a bit pricey, but they are some of the sharpest lenses you\u2019ll find for smartphones. Mounting the 58mm lens in front of either the iPhone\u2019s native wide or telephoto lenses gives me a lot of versatility in a breaking news situation.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of information that has to be added to a news photograph. Description, caption, keywords and other meta data. The\u00a0Portage Reporter\u2019s Notebook<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($22, 12pk)<\/strong> is the perfect size to gather that data on the scene. Prior to using my bag, the notebook fit perfectly in my back pocket.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s in my desk? issue #104<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2303],"tags":[1553],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38443,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38439\/revisions\/38443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}