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

After decades as a Canon shooter, I recently made a switch to Sony in June 2024.

Camera Bodies:

  • Sony Alpha a9iii

  • Sony Alpha 1

Lenses:

  • Sony FE 400 mm F2.8 GM OSS

  • Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II

  • Sony FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II

  • Sony FE 16-35mm F2.8 GM

 
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Lighting

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

I am also equipped with a new suite of LED constant lighting bars and frames that are ideal for many situations.

 

Accessories

Bags & Travel Cases: ThinkTank, Pelican, SKB

Harnesses: BlackRapid

Tripods, Stands & Monopods: Manfrotto, Sirui, Kupo

Misc: SmallRig, Magnus, alphagvrd

Insured through RVNA / Allianz

 

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 post-production work using 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.