So in this video I want to talk a little bit about my travel setup because this is something that has evolved quite a bit over the last year.

Now most of you follow the show know that I've spent about half the year traveling filming artist series and even last week I did a behind the scenes video where I took you

along and showed you how I photographed the supermoon. Now that shoot in

particular was very specific in what I was trying to get. I knew I needed to do a

time lapse and I wanted to get some still shots as well.

So I traveled really light. Now I am a big proponent of bringing as much gear as you need to get the

job done, but as little as you can get by with and there's a number reasons for that one

it gets fidgety and fiddly when you have too much stuff with you and two it

becomes cumbersome because you've got to carry it and if you're traveling and

you're flying on an airline you're gonna need to check it and that becomes a problem too. Now when I went

and shot the moon I used my Sony A6300 I used a Canon FD 300

300 millimeter telephoto lens and my Manfredo B Free Live Tripod. And Tripods have been a big

sticking point for me because I feel like, you know, the way that technology has progressed

and the way photography is gone and that you can do videos

and stills out of a camera that's this size or even smaller sometimes. Finding a

tripod that's going to work for that has been probably my biggest challenge and I did a video gosh last year

when right before I started doing artist series where I talked about what I was going to bring on the

road and I showed you guys my big pelican case and all my stuff that goes in there. Well the pelican case if you're flying you've got to check that and depending on the airline it's 50 or 60

dollars which gets old after a while then you got to lug it around town you got to get it in and out of taxi. You got to get it in and

out of the hotel or wherever you're staying. And it's just kind of a drag. Now the

tripods that I've used on that I love, they're made by Manfroto as

well and I've had both, they're both the same tripod tripod they number all the tripods and I think they're 3001 BNs or something like that I'm using one of them that's holding this camera right now

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