Gear & Equipment

Here is a brief rundown of the gear and equipment I use and recommend to others. If you have any questions about the gear I use, or about my feelings or experiences with any other gear, please contact me.

 
 

Camera Gear

I shoot Canon, along with various lenses from Canon, Sigma and Tamron.

Camera Bodies:

  • Canon 1DX Mark III

  • Canon 1DX Mark II

  • Canon EOS R6

  • Canon 1DMkIV

  • Canon 7DMkII

Lenses:

  • Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 IS USM

  • Canon EF 500mm f/4 IS USM

  • Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 DG OS HSM | Sport

  • Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II USM

  • Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD

  • Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM

  • Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

 
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Lighting

I use a combination of Dynalite Baja 4 portable battery powered monolights and Dynalite Uni400JRg and Phottix Mitros + TTL speedlights in the field. The studio I use in Austin has a number of Paul C. Buff Einstein E640 heads. 

 
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Accessories

My camera gear is usually in a ThinkTank Airport Accelerator backpack or a Pelican 1535 Air watertight case. Lighting equipment is transported in an SKB Injection Molded Waterproof Case with Wheels. In the field, I’m usually wearing a BlackRapid Harness and use Manfrotto monopods and stands, though my C-Stand is made by Kupo. Always a lens protector by Hoya and the fastest Hoodman Steel cards my cameras can use.

 

Miscellaneous

For hearing protection, I prefer Earasers Musicians Hi-Fi Earplugs. When shooting outdoors in the heat or on a long day of shooting, I will use a Camelbak Hydration Backpack and highly recommend the same thing to other shooters. 

 

Software

Culling, captioning and transmitting wouldn't be the same without Photo Mechanic. It's on virtually every computer in college and pro photo workrooms for a reason. Captioning would be a real pain without Code Replacements, another genius tool that has made a huge difference in my workflow. I use Adobe Creative Cloud, with most of the post-production work in Lightroom. I do use Photoshop occasionally, but find that Lightroom will do most of what I need in my image processing workflow on a day-to-day basis.