Certainly, it is important to choose the right DSLR for high-quality pictures but just roaming around with a camera in hand won’t be helpful in searching an appropriate site and shooting it in a stable manner.
Apart from having a camera, there are many accessories that a professional photographer must have especially while travelling to capture a landscape. They help in supporting the camera, providing good angle, necessary lights and shadows for effects while clicking a photo. Extra batteries or other equipment will take care of the back-up so that you won’t worry about the lack of resources and you would be able to focus on your work only. So, here is the list of the essentials-
A Tripod
It is usually a three-legged stand specially designed to support the camera above the ground. Nowadays, compact and light weighed tripods are coming into the market to ease the luggage of travelling photographers.
Manfrotto 190X Pro4 is suggested as an easily foldable and sturdy tripod made of aluminium. It has the advantages of four legs which can support the camera more rigidly and the fixed camera can be rotated to take shots from different angles.
Vanguard Veo 2 Go, Vanguard Alta, Manfrotto Pixi tabletop tripod, are some good recommendations for portable and compact tripods.
Lenses of desirable aperture
Keeping different ranges of camera lenses will create more opportunities for photographers to do creative experiments and click different portraits. 50 mm, 35 mm, 85 mm, 70-200 mm, are some recommended focal length ranges that a photographer should try. If we talk about some of their usages then an 85mm lens is useful in recording some events, weddings or any other sort of ceremony as the long lens produce focused and flattering photos.
The lens weighs 580g having a focal length of 70-200 mm. Such range of focal length is more suitable for outdoor usage, for example, capturing the portrait of a sunset, garden or any other wide scene whereas 35mm focal length is more stable for the beginners to start with portrait photography.
A Camera Bag
Instead of carrying the camera bare-handed, better to carry it in a bag. This will be helpful in preventing it from dust and little collisions while travelling such that, it won’t get damaged. Peak Design Everyday Messenger, LowPro ProTactic backpack, Think Tank Digital Holster are some good examples of camera backpacks.
Even, Peak Design Everyday Messenger bag can be used for office purpose too. Its suitcase design gives a classic look which indeed provides high storage capacity. It has a laptop size of 13-inch and weighs approx. 1,102g.
Lighting Tool
For experimenting or to create an artistic portrait, sometimes a photographer needs little lighting on their own to give an effect to the scene. For such requirement, Hahnel Modus, Rotolight, Elinchroom like artificial lighting devices have been invented to fulfil them.
If we talk about portable lighting device then, Rotolight Neo II suits better in those terms. This small-sized device needs six AA batteries to make it functional for 1.5 hours, continuously. You can also plug in the power adapter for using it longer. It delivers the warm or cool light onto the subject with colour temperature ranging from 3150-6300k. It weighs just 354g.
Filters
With the evolution of photography and editing applications, virtual filters are accessible to almost everyone on the internet. Yet, in terms of professional photography, a lot more creativity is required to get the desired landscape which can appropriately be done by physical filters.
Hoya Pro1 is a digital circular polarizer that gives astonishing live effects by subduing the reflections of glass, water, or any other glossy surfaces from the scene and then it is captured by a camera. This Digital Multi-Coated filter is used to reduce the flare and avoids vignetting on wide-angle lenses.
Lee Filters, Cokin Nuances Extreme, K&F Natural Light Concept are some similar examples that can give fantastic results if they are screwed and fitted correctly.
Storage
This an obvious thing as well as important to keep for storing your project works. Professional photographers are creative and passionate enough to keep on capturing a single subject until they get that “perfect” angle for it. You may never know when you get short of space while working on a project, hence it is advisable to keep portable storage for backup as well.
As the best option, SanDisk Portable SSD has a maximum capacity of 2TB and it can be taken anywhere because of its tiny size. Its image reading/writing speed is 518/509 MB/s and video read/write speed is 645/554 MB/s.
CFexpress card, WD hard drive, SD card are some similar examples of portable storage for storing large files.
Software
For the betterment of the pictures, editing plays a crucial role here. Most photographers like to omit some unwanted objects or add beautiful effects through their editing skills to make the picture look perfect.
The most popular, Adobe Photoshop CC is the top world-known editing software that is immensely powerful and occupies 4GB of the hard drive. It requires at least Intel Core2 or AMD 64 processor and 8GB RAM to perform better. It has a clear and interactive user interface available in dark mode for professionals. If you want to access more features then you need to unlock them by choosing the plans for the subscription, as listed by Adobe.
Other recommended software which is usually suggested by experienced editors: Adobe Lightroom, Skylum Luminar and Coral PaintShop Pro.
Conclusion
Regular cleaning and maintenance of the camera kit is as important as purchasing them else dust and moisture will ruin the shine and quality of the camera and lenses. Moisture can cause rusting in the tripod so it is better to keep it covered with a cloth and avoid using it in the rainy season. VisibleDust EZ SwabLight cleaning Kit shifts contaminants from the surface so try this kit for cleaning the camera and its sensors where normal dusters cannot reach.
The lenses of the camera should regularly be cleaned after using it. Zeiss Lens Cleaning Wipes will be best for spotless clean.
