The new PictureProApps is a game changer for working photographers on the run and on deadline. 

Two hours before a recent sporting event I found myself staring into the computer screen. I’m wondering how best to utilize my iPad mini, besides surfing the web and checking email. So I googled, ‘transmitting with your iPad’. Holy cow, there it is! I found, www.pictureproapps.com  An app built for the working photojournalist. 

After downloading the app I quickly noticed a few changes that would help improve some of the app’s features for my style of editing. For starters, the 0 to 100 scale for compressing the size of photos had no indicator for the resulting megabyte size of the image. 

As a working photojournalist who is constantly working on a very tight deadline the 0 to 100 scale would not work for me. Even though I was extremely excited about this app. I decided to contact the software developer David Shields about changing some of the existing features and adding a few.  

A few tweaks here and there made all the difference in the world. David came up with a design based on the browsers many photojournalists use on computers in the field.  

Here is one photo I shot of Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade in action. Now I had to make a quick decision. Do I run back to the media center with all my gear to transmit the key play or do it faster using the new PictureProApps? 

Since that day it’s now an easy choice with the iPad mini always tucked away in my Think Tank Photo Slim Changer belt pouch. I download the photos and tweak the captions using code replacement on assignment information already set up in the ITPC field. 

This is the card reader (below) that I found works best with the iPad.  Also I use Apple's "Lightning to USB camera adapter" to upload my photos to the iPad.

Code replacement is an automated tool that generates various collegiate and professional sporting rosters so photographers can upload the teams names and numbers quickly. Yes, the app includes this feature.