Peak Design Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod, and Peak Design Capture Clip - This tripod is amazing, so light, compact, great for travel and incredibly sturdy. The Capture Clip makes it a breeze to attach your camera to a backpack for safe and sturdy hiking and travel. Follow this link for a discount on Peak Design products!
Move Shoot Move Rotor, Ballhead and Wedge - This is a great system for tracking the Milky Way or creating panoramas. It allows you a much longer exposure time to increase details in the Milky Way without introducing noise or creating star trails. It is one of the smallest trackers on the market with a price tag to match. Use this link for a discount!
NiSi Natural Night Filter, NiSi Optics Close Up Lens Kit and NiSi Macro Focusing Rail - NiSi has a range of filters and options for macrophotography. I found their Close Up Lens Kit an inexpensive introduction to the world of macro, and the focusing rail helps dial in sharp details and focus. Their Natural Night filter is fantastic for blocking out light pollution and helping get better exposures of the stars and Milky Way.
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Lensbaby Velvet 28 Lens for Sony E-Mount I really love this lens because it has a great glow effect, lovely bokeh and can be used as a 28mm wide angle lens and also has 1:1 macro capability!
Lensbaby Composer Pro 11 for Sony E-Mount is a great system for creating varied effects and can be used with any Lensbay optic for a wide array of creative style photography.
Lensbaby Twist 60 Optic for Sony E-Mount creates a visually stunning swirly bokeh effect great for portraits or really isolating a specific subject.
Lensbaby Sweet 35 Optic for Sony E-Mount a sweet spot of sharp focus surrounded by soft bokeh.
Lensbaby Double Glass II Optic for Sony E-Mount creates amazing sharp focus surrounded by glowing bokeh in various shapes using the creative bokeh shaped discs.
Lensbaby Creative Bokeh Optic for Sony E-Mount fun various shaped discs create different shaped bokeh in your photo. Especially fun with holiday lights.
JJC Intravelometer and Shutter Release - this little device allows me to set long exposure times for sunsets, cloud movements, stair trails or tracking the Milky Way.
Lowepro Flipside 500 AW II Backpack - This is a fantastic backpack to store and protect your photography gear. Its great for travel and has customizable compartments to keep your camera and lenses snug. Enough room for a tablet and laptop as well.
Camelback Military Spec Hydration Backpack - My go-to for hiking, it carries my water and has enough room to fit a few smaller lenses, filters and intravelometer into it. I attach my Peak Design Capture Clip to it to make carrying the camera easier and more secure.
Lensball - a fun piece of photography equipment to get some interesting shots.
Lensrentals - Get$25 off your first rental of either lenses or a camera body!
Photo Editing Resources:
Adobe - Adobe has some of the best editing software on the market. I always start my photo editing in Lightroom for basic adjustments and flip to Photoshop for more complex editing.
Propanel -
Photography Education:
CreativeLive - a wonderful online education resource for artists and photographers to brush up on basics or learn the newest editing techniques in Photoshop or Lightroom.
Selling or Buying Photography:
Adobe Stock - you can buy or sell stock photography
Fine Art America - great place to sell and get a website
My Sony A6000 mounted to the MSM Rotator on my Peak Design Travel Tripod using the JJC Intravelometer to run some star trails in the snow
