For a long time now I’ve been involved, in the loosest sense of the word, with a photography forum started and hosted by Denyerec.
A topic that has come up in the past is the equipment carried on a standard photography mission. It soon became apparent and has been pointed out to me by the other members that I take too much stuff with me, a partial contributor to my lack of photo expiditions.
Here is a list of items usually found about my person when going out to take photos:
- 1x D70 camera body
- 1x 60mm Macro lens F2.8
- 1x 18-70mm Zoom lens F3.8-4.8
- 1x Ironing board
- 1x Lens cloth
- 1x Leaf blower (medium)
- 1x compass
- 1x Water mellon (ripe)
- 1x Road atlas of southern France
- 2x Kendal mint cake
- 1x Tub of margarine
- 1x Armadillo trap
- 1x Eager scouts disguise kit (with moustache extras)
And the list goes on…
I think I need to put a bit more thought into what is actually required.
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Well clearly if you ate a hearty meal before you left you could cut back to one Kendal mint cake… the rest, however, all seems needed.
This is a good point, also perhaps the tub of margarine? I’ve never really made full use of that due to the lack of spread or sandwich filling.
… And a kendal mint cake sandwich is just plain wrong 😛
The margarine would make a good lubricant of sorts, I suppose.
No true photographer does their work without first making themselves all greased up.
It’s professional you know.
Now come sit on my lap…
I can see that ‘come sit on my lap’ is going to become my unofficial catch phrase….
Not sure if thats a good thing or not 🙂
…well, its certainly a conversation starter!
Your captcha nearly fooled me, damnit.
If you think that’s bad you should try carrying me on photo outings. I have to do it every time I go out, and it’s damn heavy.