Hello today I'm still in Snowdonia so I thought I would take a moment to talk
about what's in my landscape photography bag for 2017. Today as well
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absolutely incredibly beautiful so it's been a good trip here I'm gonna be
heading home at the end of today I just wanted to show you a little bit of this
beautiful area and then we'll talk about the stuff I've been using to capture it.
Okay so first up we have the bag.... and this is the F-stop Sukha bag it is
probably one of the best bags I have ever owned. It is so well built and it
just carries everything you need this is quite a big bag probably too big for
most people's needs but because I'm doing video because I'm
doing stills as well I want to have something that will carry it all as well
as a little bit of extra gear like food and that sort of thing so F-stop Gear
bag this the first thing, absolutely brilliant, it's waterproof as well which
is perfect for some of these mountainous conditions that I'm dealing with so you
just put the bag flat down here and they call this the workstation so we just
open the bag up like this and then you have access to all your gear first thing
my main shooting camera is the Canon 5d Mark IV this is an absolutely
spectacular camera undoubtedly the best camera I have ever owned it's perfect
for landscape photography as well as pretty much everything else it's a real
all-rounder but for landscape photography it is got it's got high high
image quality the resolution is very large as well it's got a great big
dynamic range as well which is very helpful for those sunny contrasty
situations so I'm very happy with this the main lens that I use for landscaping
is this canon 17-40mm, it's not the best lens in the world but it does
do a very good job for what I need it for and that is my sort of wider angle
landscapes and it's still really sharp it's still very good so I've just found
no reason to upgrade to one of the newer and slightly higher quality 16-35mm
lenses so that is the lens I'm using at the moment the Canon 17-40mm
the other main lens I use is the Tamron 24-70 lens. I use this Tamron
one because it comes with image stabilisation I have been using this for
a long time now and it's just a great lens in terms of image quality it sort
of compares to the old Canon version there is a mark 2 Canon version out
which is slightly better on image quality and things but I really wanted
image stabilization particularly when you shooting video and then third and
final lens that I generally will carry with me is the Canon 70-200mm f/4 lens this
is the cheapest version of the lot it's not the 2.8 version it's just the f4
version and it also doesn't have image stabilization on this. The reason I've
gone for this one is because it's the lightest and when you're lugging all this
gear up mountains and things like I am weight is a big factor. This is a heavy
bag there's no doubt about it but I like to keep the weight down as much as I
possibly can. Okay what else? I have filters that's the main thing
next and as you know I don't really use ND grads. I use screw on filters so I have 2
ND solid filters there, they are a 10 stop and a 6 stop. Sometimes I combine
them together to give me 16 stops of light reduction. I then have a infrared
filter........ not done a lot of infrared photography recently but it is something
I like to do now and again so I still carry that around for when the time is
right. I then have three different Hoya circular polarisers just for the
different size filter threads I don't use a filter system either that's just
my personal choice I like to use the screw on ones because if you look at
this lens here I just leave it screwed on and then I've still got it ready on
this lens as well so I don't need to keep taking it off and putting it on, that
just works for me. So tripod wise I have just upgraded to
the Manfrotto 055 carbon version. Again, I'm thinking a lot about lightness
with the bad back I've been suffering I want to get as light as possible so I've
upgraded to 055, it's much lighter it's about 500 grams lighter than the
aluminium version and while that doesn't sound like a lot when you're
carrying it up these mountains that really does make a difference. I've then
got a slightly older ball head on top of there but it does the job for me so I've
seen no reason to upgrade that up to this point. I've then been carrying around a
few lens hoods and things like that don't often use that but now and again
they're pretty good and I've stopped carrying around a intervalometer and
also a shutter release cable because Canon 5d Mark 4 has that built-in so
when I'm trying to avoid camera shake and things I'll just use the two second
timer I just find it a lot easier it speeds up my workflow it's just one less
bit of gear that I need to bring with me so that is pretty much my landscape
still setup. I do also shoot a lot of video which is
why I've got this bag here, at the moment I'm filming this on the Canon 800d (T7i), I
reviewed that not so long ago that it's also a really great camera for doing
landscapes as well so if you're looking for a crop sensor camera you might want
to check that one out I have the Rode Videomic Pro here as well I use that
when it's not as windy and then to record the audio at the moment I'm using
the rode filmmaker kit which is...... loads of planes going across today...... That's the
overall setup and do carry an extra couple of things which this bag holds
I've got my food and first-aid kits and torch when I'm walking home in the dark
which I do a lot. Other safety bits and pieces...... compass, map, whistle, knife that
kind of thing, all those sorts of things you need when you're going to be
isolated in these locations and then I've just got spare cards, batteries
things like that which are an absolute must because stuff goes wrong
all the time so you need to have backups for those types of things. So that's
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your first purchase. Okay I hope you've enjoyed this video I hope it's been
useful you get an idea of what I'm using leave a comment down below and let me
know what you think I'll see you on another video very very soon
I'm Adam this is First Man Photography in the amazing Snowdonia
Out!!!