Your shopping cart is empty.
Equipment - On The Road and In The Studio
Great equipment doesn't guarantee great photographs. But great equipment in the hands of an experienced, professional photographer can create opportunities for great photographs. Years ago, when I decided that this work was what I wanted to do, I made a commitment to obtain the best tools available for landscape photography. My theory was that I simply did not want to blame my mistakes on having 2nd rate equipment. If I fail to take good photographs, it's on me.
I'm a Nikon guy. I shoot with Nikon's best Mirrorless camera for landscapes, the Z7 II. My glass is also all Nikon... or more correctly, Nikkor. For wide angle shooting I use the Nikkor Z 14-24mm f2.8. For longer shots, I use the Nikkor Z 70-200mm f2.8. And my workhorse is the Nikkor Z 24-70mm f2.8 lens. I have a few other specialty Z lenses, but they're seldom in use on a golf course photo shoot.
Since I'm essentially a landscape shooter, I almost always shoot from a tripod, and again, I have what I consider to be the best on the market, the Really Right Stuff TVC-3X tripod and BH-55 Ball Head. This combo is rock-steady. I have always shot from a tripod, but I was stunned by the difference in sharpness in my images when I changed to my RRS setup.
For aerials, I fly an Autel Robotics EVO II Pro V3. Its camera has an amazing 20 megapixel sensor, and it's much better than the cameras in the DJI drones I've used in the past. I'm a fully licensed and insured drone pilot.
I also have some specialized accessories for panorama shooting and for long exposure shooting, as well as a cable release, so I can keep my hands off my camera, another necessary technique to ensure maximum sharpness in my images.
On the road, I carry a MacBook Pro and a 2TB Samsung external drive for temporary image storage. I keep two sets of images... one set on the Macbook Pro and one on the external drive. I believe in redundancy!
In the studio I work on a Mac Studio, with a 27* Studio Display, an M1 Ultra processor and a 4TB Solid State drive. It's a dream machine. I also have 3 external 2 TB Samsung SSD's attached to the machine that I use for all my works-in-progress. For storing the massive number of images in my archive, I have a 50TB OWC Thunderbay 8. This is essentially a storage drive, but it's fast enough to be used as a working drive when I choose to do so.
