Hey everybody today we are talking
travel photography and one of the most
frequent questions that we get is what
kind of gear do you carry and what kind
of gear do you use while you're out
there on the road
well let's take a look at what I i
actually have in my bag and what I use it for.
first the sony rx100 IV
perfect to throw in your pocket take anywhere shoot
incredible 4k video as well as it has
that stabilization a lot of other
features that comes with a very fast 1.8
Zeiss lens so for low light stuff that's
fantastic
If you're on the run this is the camera for you.
I also carry two other bodies my
main body is the sony a7r2 to and my
secondary body is the sony a7s2 to these
are great both full frame cameras I
use the a7r2 as my main body
42 megapixel five axis in-body image
stabilisation it has everything you need
as a high-end camera as a professional photographer
The a7s to i use as my
second body or for any low light
situations 12 megapixel camera again a
hundred sixty-five point autofocus
in-body stabilization both great for video
and for sort of any low light or
astrophotography. As far as lenses go i
carry four lenses are three main lenses
are the 16 to 35 f4 zeiss the 24-70 f4 Zeiss
and the 70-200 f4 sony. This gammet it
has really been with me for a very long
time even when I shot canon this was
the range of lenses that i use it covers
everything from architectural photography,
and landscape photography
all the way up to portraiture so with
these three lenses you you're set for
any kind of situation when you're out
there traveling I've recently added the
rokinon 14 mil 2.8 to my arsenal mainly
just for astrophotography i'm starting
to get into that this is quite
economical it like 250 bucks its sharp
from edge to edge 14 mil gives me a
better field of view
So, with all of this stuff i can shoot
all my travel photography I can to
portraiture as well as astrophotography
so this kit sort of includes everything
that you need to shoot while you're on
the road. And you may be thinking oh you
know if you're a professional photographer
you want that extra
stop of light with a you know a much
faster glass at 2.8 but i have found
with the with the iso performance in
low-light performance of both cameras
that it's negligible.
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so what do I carry all this gear in? well
i've been using the same bag for about
four years now and i absolutely love it
it's the f-stop Loka. h
Here's what she looks like right here
what I love about this bag is that the
front part is not how you access the bag
it's from the back so it prevents for
any theft or anything like that and
especially for doing
adventure photography
what is great about it is that you can
lay this part down on the snow or
wherever you are wet ground and access
all your camera gear from the back so
that when you actually put it back on
your back to take off your back not all
wet
so the inside of this is great you can
see opened up like this and it runs on a
insert system so you can buy three
different-sized inserts so that
depending on what kind of camera system
you have and you can these inserts come
in and out so if you have you know just
a small set of that you're taking with
you can have another insert put it in
here there's still room for a coat and a
bunch of other things in the top it's a
it's very comfortable and you can throw
a water holder in there as well as got
you know for a camelbak or something
like that for an adventure photographer
travel photographer
excellent excellent bag
you can't talk travel photography and
not talk a little bit about filters i
should a lot of long exposure
photographs you know to get that streaky
water or those streaky clouds in the sky
and there's certain tools that allow me
to do that I use a particular filter
system which is the format hitech
system i recommend you check them out
it's a it's a it's a square filter
system is very quick to implement and
very versatile comes with a holder you
have different mounts like this for
different-size lenses and also mounts for
circular polarizers. For me i carry a
range of filters i have graduated ND filters
a 3, a 6 and a 9 which allows me to
actually keep the sky dark where the
foreground can stay properly exposed it
allows me to balance out those exposures
now when you're looking for that streaky effect
or you know that is a very
smooth water than ND filters are what
you're looking for
I carry two I carry a 10 stop ND
which allows me to actually get that
effect during the day. It stops a lot
of light coming in which allows me to
slow down the shutter speed and I also
carry a 6-stop ND which is more for
maybe dusk or something like that if i
want to streak lights, or if I'm shooting
where I want to slow down the water in a
cloudy situation. I use the Firecrest Model
of their filters there's almost no
color cast their little bit expensive
but well worth it once you see if you're
getting into the the heavier ND filters
like this you really want to look for
something that doesn't have a color cast
because you don't want to have to be
dealing with that in Photoshop in post
another little thing I like to carry is
a polarizer this is a circular polarizer
which fits on the front of this mount so
the whole system goes together
this allows me to punch up the colors a
little bit more or even give me a stop
and a half more neutral density if I'm
using it in combination with one of
these
so if you're into landscape photography
and looking for those kind of effects,
I highly recommend a filter system like
the formatt hitech system
I can't talk about travel photography
and not talk about tripods I've used
quite a few tripods in my days and
found that it's worth paying extra money
for a piece of gear that you're going to
have for a longer amount of time I've
recently purchased last year
The Gitzo GT 2542 mountaineer series it's a
carbon fiber tripod again quite
expensive at like 800 bucks but when i
look at all the money that i spent on
other tripod that I've had to go through
and they haven't really cut the mustard
then spending the money on a quality
product like this really has its
advantages i'll probably have this
forever has a lifetime warranty it's
super durable at excellent excellent
tripod and I use that in combination
with a manfrotto head this is the MH 54 Q5 Head
I like to use a ball head just
because it's so much more versatile in
any situation i can use for quick
framing anything like that ball has
really good it's made of magnesium so
it's super durable put these two
together and they are a little bit the
head is a little bit heavy
definitely but it's worth carrying a
little bit extra weight to get those
super steady shot.
I just wanted to quickly touch on accessories
these are not necessary things but they're
things that I carry. I have an underwater
housing for the sony rx100 IV. Fantastic
forr kayaking or any kind of water
activities
I also carry a cable release i know that
Sony has you can do this through apps
but i find using the release is what I'm
used to it does a really great job and
it's this is this is quite cheap it's
the Vello Shutterboss II fits right in
there allows you to timelapses and long
exposures and things like that without
having to touch the shutter button i
should also look into if you're looking
for straps the blackrapid system these
are the top-of-the-line almost everybody
i know uses them they're versatile they
screw right into the tripod mount in the
bottom of your camera and they're very
very comfortable
when you're talking memory cards we carry
quite a ton i would say i wouldn't
travel with any less than 10 just
because they're so we have so many
different cameras and such this little
case here hard case I recommend for
carrying all your memory cards in keeps
them safe keep them from getting lost
which I have lost mine
many many times so these accessories are
again not things that you necessarily
need but they make your photography a
little more comfortable and more
convenient a little bit more safe and
keep your equipment actually safe so
that should do it that's a look at our
travel photography gear and what we
carry while we're on the road if you
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