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Photographer Starter Pack
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items Something to shoot with, something to shoot on, and a place to edit from a Nikon girlie. A list of items I use every time I pick up my camera and the accessories I use to have a seamless workflow. For my intrigued hobbyists to my want to be business ...
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Camera Bodies
Lenses
Softwares
Accessories
Camera Bodies
Your go to entry level camera for photography. Mirrorless body keeping you in the direction photography is heading. Just get the body - skip the kit lenses and grab a prime lens for an instant improvement for your photos
Nikon Z5II | Mirrorless Cameras
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My workhorse camera body. Just about the best of the best
Nikon Z 8 | Mirrorless Cameras
Lenses
My first lens! The 35 is a staple in my lens lineup. 1.8 keeps the lens versatile in many different situations. Fantastic for everyday use.
Nikon Z 35mm f/1.8 Review
The queen lens for portraits! The bokeh of the 85 is chefs kiss. The focal length makes the 85mm a little less practical for everyday use but go outside with some space and this will not disappoint.
NIKKOR Z 85mm f/1.8 S
Work. Horse. Although on the pricier side, this lends hardly leaves my camera. This lens is the definition of versatile. 2.8 aperture is a good as you get (F4 is your cheaper option). Perfect lens for portraits.
NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S
Softwares
The bread and butter of editing. Lightroom classic for desktop offers the best tools for editing. Playing around to learn all the functions or search on YouTube for how to best learn each function.
Desktop photo editor - Adobe Lightroom Classic
Let’s cull! Culling is the term for sorting through the photos you took and selecting the ones you want to keep and edit. Shift through those photos FAST! I use narrative to cull through my weddings and every single session I shoot. There’s so many w...
For Photographers | Fast image culling and editing
My go to CRM! A little pricey but worth it in my opinion. This platform allows you to intake inquires, send contracts, and collect payments all in one place. My favorite use of this is sorting out my sessions and weddings into their session type with...
HoneyBook
Pixieset!! This honestly has it all- website, galleries, and client management. While you can use this as your CRM, I use this for my website and galleries. Pixieset has really upped their game with web design recently giving a lot more creative free...
Pixieset
Accessories
Keep NOTHING on your computer and everything on this external hard drive. Get yourself 2. I use the 1 TB and that amount of storage lasts me a while. I just the first external hard drive as my main one and I use the second as my backup.
SanDisk Fast Portable SSDs High-Capacity Storage
These memory card are good. Not great but good. I use them here and there. I always use a 64 GB SD card however I prefer to use a much faster writing speed. The faster your card writes the faster your camera can process the photos.
SanDisk Ultra 64GB Class 10 SDXC UHS-I
Nikon is fun! Your dual slots on the Nikons are for 1 SD card and one CF Express type B card. I only use this one! My personal preference is to use smaller memory cards for my main card and then use 1 larger CF Express card and write the photos to th...
64GB SanDisk Extreme Pro CFexpress® Card Type B
Now these SD cards are FAST! These SD cards are my memory card of choice. I typically use the 64 GB ones.
Memory Cards
Looking for a flash… this is it. I have 3 of these (one for each camera body and a back up). These flashes are definitely user friendly and easy to learn.
Godox V1 Flash for Nikon
LOVE. I use this backpack for my gear. I have found this backpack pack to fit SO MUCH. I also feel like this bag keeps my gear safe and secure day to day as well as traveling (I used this bag to transport some gear to Hawaii). The lower pocket has th...
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