To be honest, it sounded too good to be true. We would take pictures (all of us are photographers), enjoy some wine and laughs, and also edit the images… all while kicking back in the sand taking in the sunset. I decided to test this out by heading to the beach with my wife and some of my close friends.
What the Surface Pro allows is the ability to view, select and retouch images in the field possibility now more than ever. This brings me back to the beginning of this article… Photography has always been a result of many factors that lead into the images we create. Already, photography felt different, as the entire travel kit for a photoshoot, from negotiating to shooting to retouching all fit in a small handbag. In my bag I had the Hasselblad X1D, the Surface Pro, and my BlackBerry. This trip felt a bit different though, for I was also going to do a photo shoot while I was there, but I didn’t have a single Apple product with me for the first time since 2005. That evening I set it up (read: installed Photoshop CC and Phocus) and the following morning flew out with my wife to Orange County to escape the heat of Arizona. A text from Microsoft quickly ensued that said, “please enjoy it and we hope that it helps you approach photography in a way that makes your life easier.” One day a package arrived at my house, in it was the new Surface Pro, a blue Alcantara keyboard and the new Surface Pen. It was the latest in the Surface tablet line, but this one was different as it seemed to have the creative community in its sights, as Microsoft did with the Surface Studio. This product would become the Surface Pro. Over the next few weeks we traded calls, texts, and emails about a new “mystery” product that was releasing in the near future. On the line a Microsoft representative said, “We want to talk to you about a new product, and how we can help make photographer’s lives better.” I paused and then responded, “By actively reaching out to creatives like this, you are already improving our experience.”
Then, in what seemed to be either convenient timing or fate, not only did Microsoft release the Surface Laptop, but also called me out of the blue. I had honestly looked at a return to Apple as I was positive that this was the year that we would finally get the Macbook Air we had all been asking for… At first I grabbed the Dell XPS 13 to use as a travel laptop, and while I liked it, there were drawbacks that made it feel as though I was constantly working around a problem that was a simple fix on an Apple product.
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