Bonjour Mesdames et Messieurs. In this video, I want to share with you some of my favorite gear
for cityscape and landscape in 2023.
Alright. So Without any further ado, let's start with the camera.
I love the Sony system. I have now the Sony 7r IV.
I used to have the GFX 100S from Fuji,
but I got it stolen. My assistant and me,
we didn't care for it. It was almost in the street, and I got it stolen.
I got all the money back from insurance. I love the GFX, here
is some of the shots that I got with it.
It's really a better camera than Sony, but it's very heavy.
It's very expensive. Every lens costs a lot of money.
And I like to change lens a lot
So I decided when I got the money from the insurance to buy the Sony 7r IV
as my main system because it's just easier for me.
Although it's probably not as good as a Fuji GFX100S.
You know, it doesn't have as much pixel. Colors is not as great.
I still love the Sony. So the main lens that I use is a 24-105 mm
24-105 mm is really
what I do,
90 percent of my photography with. I love to do panos,
you can zoom in and really get like some good shots you can zoom out
and do some really nice wide cityscape.
Also on the camera, I have this little L bracket.
I actually love the L bracket because you can go like this and like this really fast.
I bought this one on Amazon for very cheap. You have all the gear list in the description.
Also, I have this Peak design here, and I'm not sponsored by anybody,
by the way. But if you do want to sponsor me, please contact me.
This is not sponsored. This is just a gear that I use. This is a Peak design lanyard.
I think that's how we call it.
And I kind of like it because even sometimes I use it like to stabilize my camera like this,
it's pretty cool. I like it because it's very heavy.
If it's too thin, it can hurt your your back after one you know,
after a while. Now Because I have the Sony system, that's also one of the reason I'm about to go on,
like, four months tour to take photos. I'm gonna start with Yosemite in California.
I have my workshops in Venice, in Tuscany,
in Florence, and then I'm going to spend a lot of time in Paris.
It has happened to me many times that I broke a camera while doing the workshops,
so you need to always have a backup when you do it professionally.
So I got the Sony 7r III as a back up to the IV because it's the same system.
It's a great camera. Actually, my books were done with the III.
So now let's talk about lances. My second favorite lenses,
especially when I do landscapes like Tuscany or Iceland or
in the wild is this one. 12-24.
With the 12-24, I do. So this is a photo I took with the 24-105 mm.
That's a pano with the 24-105 mm.
But this is something I shot with the 12-24 mm.
Okay. Northen Lights in Iceland, I did this a couple of months ago,
or Diamond Beach in the morning, you wanna get that rock as a foreground element.
You know, 12-24 mm. 12-24 mm is really amazing for landscape
because I find it's very important to find like a foreground element that you can really
have as an anchor point and the 12-24 mm really helps me with that.
The other Lens that I use very occasionally is this one.
The 70-300 mm. Now the 70-300 mm from Sony is really good
and I use it to compress landscapes or cityscape.
Look at this photo of the Eiffel Tower. I compress the Bir-Hakeim bridge with the Eiffel Tower
and I shot this at 116 mm.
My 105 mm was too short to really compress the photo.
I really, really, really like that. The other lens that I use is this one,
this is a Rokinon 14 mm, f/1.4,
one purpose, and one purpose only is; Sky, Milky Way shots.
It's a very non expensive lens because it's a manual lens.
But you do not need an autofocus lens to shoot the Milky Way.
And I always have it because it's 40 mm.
It's very wide. I'm manually focus on the stars.
I did a video about the Milky Way shoot. You can see it in my description if you want to.
It's an older video, but it's kinda cool. So that's basically it.
All I use for lenses, you know, very wide 24-105 mm and then very zoomed in.
I don't do much portrait when I'm traveling. This is gonna be a cityscape and landscape adventure.
Now, a couple of other gears that I use is mostly this ND 1000 filter.
Let me show you, I love to do like very low exposure,
like for example, this is a 95 second exposure I did using an ND 1000 filter.
I have changed brands over the years. The one that I use now is Kaze.
Again, not being sponsored. Again, I would love to get sponsored,
and this one is actually really cool. This is a variable filter from Tiffen that
I use when I let's say I want just,
like, on this photo, for example, I just want a little bit of extra.
I wanna go to 20 second and it's already getting dark.
ND 1000 is gonna be too much
so I use an ND variable and this one I really love It's from Tiffen.
Sometimes, what I do, I also have this crazy filter here to do infrared.
I don't do it often, but this is a photo I got out of it.
This is the Hoya. Hoya. Infrared R72 for this kind of infrared effect.
I'm actually gonna do a video on this one day.
And sometime what I do is I I take both of my filter and I combine them together.
Meaning, I take the ND 10
and the variable and I put them together
and I did this 149 seconds exposure of this View of Venice.
I did a whole video on how I did that photo if you're interested in extra long exposure.
The link is going to be maybe at the end of this video or in the description,
you gotta check it out. I don't know where I'm gonna put the link yet.
Very important, a remote. I have like a twenty dollar remote for Sony.
Very cool. Again, you have all the links under this video.
The reason why you have a remote is to do exposure like this one over 30 seconds.
Because that's one thing I love with the GFX 100S system is you
could do long exposure in camera without a remote.
You could do like a four minutes, twenty minutes exposure in camera.
With Sony, if you go above thirty seconds, you have to use remote.
That's kind of annoying, but it
is what it is. I also have this little box here where I put all my SD cards.
Got a tons of SD cards. A little trick on SD cards.
You don't need to buy expensive SD cards. I would advise you to get 128GB.
You get 256, they are very expensive.
And if you lose it, you lose everything. The way I do my backups is when I'm on the road,
I have all my cards, I never erased them,
I load everything on my MacBook Pro, and then it all goes to Dropbox.
While I'm on the road. This way, if I lose my laptop,
lose my SD cards, everything's on Dropbox. So that's why I like to go to Airbnb's,
that I have a good Internet because often the WiFi is really bad in hotels.
And backing up is very important. I remember years ago when I did my New York book,
I almost lost everything. Thankfully, I had something called Backblades at the time.
I used Dropbox now. It's better. More expensive,
but better. And Backblades saved completing my trip because I lost everything.
I had everything on an extra hard drive,
but it was backing up at night
and I lost a hard drive at the end of this day and I would have lost my entire New York book,
which was like a twenty thousand dollar investment, all the travel,
the hotel, the guide, the authorization,
everything. So backup is important. Now,
tripod, this is my favorite tripod right now.
It's called the Sirui ST- 124. I used to use gitzo tripod for many,
many years. They were like seven hundred dollars a tripod and I used to burn them all the time at the beach.
This one is actually waterproof.
Although, I'm probably gonna burn it in a couple of years,
it's only like two hundred dollars instead of eight hundred dollars because I shoot the water,
you know, at the beach all the time. I have water coming up.
I know I should put a protection. I don't. I just buy a tripod every two,
three years. Now, this, on the other end, this is the really right stuff ball head h30.
This ball head, I've had it for, I think,
now, twelve or thirteen years. I have two models.
Very expensive ball head, but I love it because it's got a clamp I have to tell you the story.
I I used, you know, the system where you have like a screw.
I have broken three cameras because with the clamp,
you're really sure that the camera is really sealed to your tripod.
And with the screws three times, I've lost cameras.
They fall down. One time I was in Los Angeles and the camera broke on rocks because of the screw.
So I was like, I'm done with screws. I only use the clamp system.
Now the bag that I use is Peter MacKinnon Peak design bag I am in love,
that with that bag, it's a bit of a heavy bag, but you can put so much stuff in it.
It's incredible. When you travel for such long, I'm gonna be on the road for months.
You need a big bag where you can have everything.
You know, I have another bag where I have my laptop and all my video gear,
but that will be a different video on video gear.
Last not least, the treasure of all.
My favorite gear of all time right now, the DGI Mavic Pro III,
I do more and more drone shots. In Europe,
it's kinda hard. I'm only gonna use it in Tuscany,
and I'm gonna go to Croatia to do some drones. You know,
you can't drone in Paris, you can't drone in main cities,
but I did a few drones in Iceland that was really fun.
And I just love the DJI Mavic Pro III.
I've used it in very heavy wind in Iceland and it really has been stable.
So, voila, that's the gear that I have. Now, I made this video of the 10 best hacks in Lightroom.
I don't know if you've seen it, but you can click the video here.
I would I recommend you to watch it. Also, leave me in the comments,
waht kind of videos you would like to learn, and what is your favorite gear I would love to see that also.
What is your recommendation? I'll see you in another video.
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