From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture

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Packing the essential gear for a shoot

Packing the essential gear for a shoot

From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture

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Packing the essential gear for a shoot

So far we have taken a few minutes to talk conceptually about gear. Here I want to do something a little bit different. You know previously we had all the gears set out on that table. Well, what are the essential elements that you really want to bring with you when you're going on a shoot and when you are packing your bags? So here I want to open my bag pack and show you my essential gear items. One of the things that you will notice with this is that my pack is pretty small and I'm just going to bring the absolute essentials. On this camera body, I have a 50 mm lens. Next I have 70-200 and 85 and 16-35. Well if you ever heard one of those questions where someone says, if you're going to be deserted on an island and could only bring one item what would it be? Well, if I were to apply that say to my essential gear bag and perhaps spin it in a different way and if the question was, if you could only bring three lenses what would they be, well, I think the first lens that I would remove…

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