My photography set-up

As I have stated before in my previous blogs, I travel with the UCA Football team taking pictures. Before heading to a game I pack my camera bag with everything I think I may need for the weekend. I’ve sold some of my stuff since last football season but this year I will be carrying a Nikon D500 and for roughly 75% of the trip and nearly all of the game I will shoot on a Nikon 70-200 2.8 lens. The Bears play in some low light conditions, over half of our games were night games and some of the stadiums lighting was very below average so having the capability to shoot at F2.8 allows me to keep my shutter speed high enough to not have to deal with motion blur in the photograph. The other 25% of the trip I will split time with my Sigma 2.8 24-70 lens, I use this for on the bus, some of pre-game when I can get up close to the subject and all of my locker room stuff. And for the rest of the split time, I use a go pro for video stuff during pregame and for when they run out of the tunnel and will help my partner with his DJI Drone. So when I pack for a trip I need to make sure I have all of my stuff, chargers for my camera batteries, phone chargers, and of course my laptop charger. I am making content throughout the trip for the twitter so keeping my laptop charged and phone charged is essential for putting stuff out on twitter. I have a camera grip that holds another battery that allows my camera to run two batteries at once, this is nice because my camera battery will last all day no matter the situation. Weather plays a big role in this as well. In the last two seasons we have had 6 of our games be delayed or played in some kind of rain. Bringing my rain guards are a must if the weather even slightly looks like it could rain.