Equipment

Body:

  • Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
    My first digital SLR. What can I say? It’s great.

Lenses:

  • Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/4.3-5.6 lens (and with EW-60C hood)
    This is the lens included with the camera, it’s a decent lens… not really good, but not bad either.
  • Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 Mk II lens
    The “Nifty Fifty”–the fastest and cheapest lens I own, but the image quality is really good, and at f/1.8 it’s really good in low light.
  • Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 lens (with EW-65II hood)
    This lens, which is a wide-angle on a film or full-frame sensor body, works out to be a normal focal length on a small sensor camera. It’s also pretty good in low light at f/2.8.
  • Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens (with EW-83E hood)
    This is my favourite lens of the bunch, it’s really wide, and the image quality is fantastic.
  • Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens (with ET-65B hood)
    This is my newest lens, and the only stabilized one I own. I haven’t used it much yet, but I bought it to replace my 55-200mm, which I thought wasn’t quite long enough.

Accessories:

  • Canon Speedlite 430EX flash
  • Lowepro Slingshot 300AW Bag
  • Slik Able 300DX Tripod
  • UltraPod II Mini Tripod
  • Sony GPS-CS1 GPS Data logger
  • Canon Remote Switch RS60 E3
  • Canon Wireless Remote Control RC1

Software:

  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
    I do almost all my photo editing and organizing in Lightroom. It’s a great piece of software for RAW processing and full image adjustments.
  • Pixelmator
    When I need to get down and edit parts of an image, I use Pixelmator, it’s a simple, but very fast and functional image editor.
  • Gimp
    When I find something that Pixelmator doesn’t do (or doesn’t do well) I fall back on the Gimp. I used the Gimp for years on Linux, and would continue to use it on OS X but it still relies on X11 and therefore doesn’t support pressure-sensitive tablets on OS X.
  • GPS Photo Linker
    A free piece of OS X software for geocoding image. I use it to encode coordinates in my photos.