{"id":8379,"date":"2013-06-06T19:53:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2013-06-06T19:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:56:57","slug":"packing-for-a-photo-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=8379","title":{"rendered":"Packing for a photo trip….."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tomorrow I head to the airport for a Saturday flight to Spokane for our Palouse\/Olympic workshop, then it’s on to Northern California for a the Bio Comm group workshops!! \u00a0If iI’ve learned anything in 25 years of traveling to do photography in every imaginable kind of location, it’s how to pack!!!<\/p>\n

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For this trip, I’m out for two weeks, will work in temps ranging from freezing to the mid 80’s, from sea level to 12,000 feet! \u00a0I may see light snow, pouring rain, thunderstorms, and wind. \u00a0I’m sharing a vehicle during the first week with my team and some other folks so I can’t over pack, what to do?<\/p>\n

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Clothes:<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0light weight but wind resistant, fast drying Nylon hiking pants from Ex-Offricio. Four pair, they can be washed and dried on the road. \u00a0They still look pretty good, though I wouldn’t wear a sport coat with them, but then no sport coats and ties on this trip!!! \u00a05 T-shirts, and three nylon North Face, ventilated long sleeve shirts. \u00a0A Lands End Squall jacket good to freezing and not to heavy for just cool nights. \u00a0My trusty Merrill Moab Ventilator shoes. \u00a0 \u00a0A Gortex Marmot shell to shed rain and a baseball cap. \u00a0Oh yes, some polar fleece gloves for the cold mornings.<\/p>\n

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Camera Gear:<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0On this trip I’m taking a light, \u00a0Nikon DX system and a Fuji X mirror less system for hiking and walking. \u00a0The DX System will be the Nikon D7100, 16-85 zoom, and the new 80-400 zoom. \u00a0This will give coverage from 24mm to 600mm equivalent in just two lenses. \u00a0The 80-400 will be great in the Palouse for those long compression shots of the overlapping hills! \u00a0Lenses to give 21mm to 300mm equivalent for the Fuji. \u00a0\u00a0The trick for a 67 year old man is to keep the shooting gear to the lightest possible weight, \u00a0without giving up image quality, no problems here!<\/p>\n

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When you have what you need, but not too much stuff, you can concentrate on making great images, and help your friends do the same, starting this weekend, I hope to share what we are seeing and capturing with you!!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow I head to the airport for a Saturday flight to Spokane for our Palouse\/Olympic workshop, then it’s on to Northern California for a the Bio Comm group workshops!! \u00a0If iI’ve learned anything in 25 years of traveling to do photography in every imaginable kind of location, it’s how to pack!!!   For this trip, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8384,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions\/8384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}