Category Archives: Gear

Backups and Shout-outs

Last Saturday while shooting Heather & Nick’s wedding in St. Charles, I had two cameras go down on me in quick succession.   This is a story about why having back-up cameras is critical, and the advantage of having two photographers.  Obviously you can only carry around so much gear on your person, so having two...

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Portland PUG [Pictage User Group] Indoor Lighting Techniques

Last month Melissa and I attended a meeting put on by our friend Kevin Meyers.  Kevin runs the Portland PUG meetings, and last month they were discussing some interesting business topics. Eventually though most of these sorts of meetings drift towards the topic that is on most photographers minds… GEAR. We got to talking about...

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What’s in your bag?

Every so often we get asked what sort of equipment we use on our shoots.  A day before every event, regardless if we are traveling out of town or not I lay out and check all of our equipment to make sure we have what we need and it’s all in good working order.  For...

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