How to pack light for short trips (camera gear)

How to pack light for short trips. Click here to check out the full updated list of my camera gear.

I’m out my door to Brazil and I was going through my emails and someone asked me how I pack when I travel for a couple weeks. Here it goes.

If there is anything I have learned in all my travels is to pack light. I know, I know, you have all these lenses, filters, tripods, cameras, and extra gear you want to bring along, but why??? I mean are you really going to use it? I learned this the hard way, but I learned.

Think about the stuff you use most often around your neighborhood, I mean do you carry all that and some when going for a photo walk with your friends? Probably not, in fact, I doubt you use any of the extra shit you have laying around your house you purchased out of impulse. Leave everything behind except what you are going to use for sure. Like a camera and a lens, that’s really all you need.

Back in the day, I used to carry this massive case full of gear only to realize that I never used any of it, a complete waste of time and effort.

Now, this is what I bring with me on short term trips. (unless I get hired by someone and need all kinds of gear there is no need to carry all this extra weight).

The most important to me is my most used setup. My Nikon D800e and my 14-24mm lens. One extra body and one extra lens. (just incase something happens, but this usually stays back in the hotel in a safe place)

A couple batteries, a tripod, a mini tripod (this one never leaves my bag), memory cards, a card reader, battery charger, a remote for long exposures, a 10 stop ND filter, and that’s really it. My laptop for keeping in touch with you guys and a HD to back up and save all my photos.

Traveling light is important for 2 reasons, one you don’t have to carry a bunch of stuff, and 2 you don’t have to worry about a damaging or loosing any of your gear. I promise you if you bring what you truly use, you won’t ever think about any of the other gear you have laying around.

I hope this short read was helpful, I am now in Rio and it’s amazing here. One day down lots more to go. Click on the pic to see all of my gear. The photo below shows you the gear I actually brought to Brazil.

My gear

How to fix leaning buildings

How to fix leaning buildings:

Good morning people, here is a shot of Miami taken a bit after sunset from Brikell Key. I love shooting from this place, just like any other place here in Miami, its just beautiful. You can walk around the entire island and just have an amazing relaxing time watching the sunset.

Below is a video I made on how to straighten out leaning buildings. If you look at my photos a lot of them have this leaning distorted look to them, I do that on purpose because I really like that look, I think it looks cool, almost comic bookish. If you hate that look, and I know lots of people do, its easy to fix. You can fix it in the field by adjusting your position, either going up or down or by doing this on post. Do you like this look? Let me know in the comments below.
Check out the vid:

Miami Sunset

Lightroom Edit Lake Tahoe

Lightroom Edit Lake Tahoe:
Good morning people, here is another Lightroom edit. This time I use an underexposed photo and bring out all the shadows, colors and clean it up. Lightroom really is an amazing piece of software, you can get just about anything done on it with a few simple, sliders. If you have any questions drop me a line or a message and please help me spread the love peeps. Have a good Monday and I will see you on the next one.

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