Gear

The photographer takes the picture, not the camera. But, I don’t skimp on equipment. My roots are in Nikon cameras and good glass I trust. Below is a list of “what’s in my bag.”

Nikon digital camera equipment:

- Nikon D-700 (w/vertical grip)

- Nikon D-300 (w/vertical grip)

- Nikon 14-24mm AF-S f/2.8 G ED (a favorite)

- Nikon 24mm AF-S f/1.4 G ED (a favorite)

- Nikon 28-70mm f/2.8 D ED-IF S AF zoom

- Nikon 60mm f/2.8  AF-S macro (for rings and details)

- Nikon 85mm f/1.4 D AF (for portraits)

- Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 G VR II

Lighting equipment:

- Nikon SB-800, SB-600, sb-28 speedlights

- Alien Bees AB 1600 & 800 w/ Vagabond II Portable Power

- Creative Light 5′ Octabank softbox

- Creative Light 13″ Lightstand w/boom

- Avenger AVA630B Black Light Stand (2)

- Pocketwizard II (4)

Hardware:

- 17” Apple MacBook Pro, 24″ iMac

- 23” Apple cinema display

- Western digital external hard-drives, LaCie firewire external hard-drive

Software:

- Adobe CS3 Design Premium - Adobe Lightroom 3 - Kevin Kubota & Totally Rad Actions

Necessities:

- A slew 8 GB compact flash digital media cards

- Rechargable AAA & AA batteries (dozens)

- Tripod: Gitzo carbon fiber G1128 MK2 and Manfrotto ball head 486RC2

- sk8 hard plastic cases for lighting equipment & 23″ monitor

- Crumpler seven million dollar home (to lug 6 lenses, flash, and one camera body)