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by Brett Florens Published 01/10/2016
PACKING YOUR GEAR
I’d recommend that for the big, cumbersome gear such as light stands, studio lights and tripods , you find out where you can hire the equipment. Apart from remote, exotic islands, you can almost always hire photographic gear and this will make your baggage a fair bit lighter and much easier for you to travel with!
I like to pack two days before, not necessarily my clothing, but definitely my camera gear, making sure that all the batteries are fully-charged, memory cards are ready to go, and then I go through the process of packing my camera bags. Every time I fly, I follow the same process; this pretty much ensures success every single time and I have a travel checklist that I created to make sure that I pack everything that I need.
I simply print it out, and tick off each item as it is checked and packed.
So, to go through the travel checklist, I start off with my main camera body, which would be the Nikon D5, spare batteries and charger. My back-up body is the Nikon D750 with batteries and charger. Then, I carry the Nikon 1AW; this I use for behind the scenes and if the bride and groom want to do a 'drown the gown' session (which could involve some underwater photography at a later stage).
In terms of my lenses, I start off with my 55mm macro lens; it is a very old lens with the aperture ring on the outside, it’s manual focus and it was the first Nikon lens that I ever owned. Then I take the 10.5mm fisheye lens, the 14-24 mm f2.8, the 24-70mm f2.8, the 85mm f1.4 and the 70-200mm f2.8.
I take two Nikon speed lights - at the moment I’m using the SB910s and I take a TTL extension cord with me as well (that is the SB29). With that, I pack different coloured gels for the speed lights.
I pack my memory cards, taking three XQD Lexar professional cards with me, the 64GB x2933 cards, as well as SD memory for the Nikon D750.
I make sure that I take card readers with me, because I need to either back-up on site, or use them for the same day slide show, or for when we shoot pictures of the guests arriving and then do printing on-site.
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