Wow Omar - great to see you still using the Nikons as your main gear. It was because of you I got out of Fuji about a year ago and bought 2 Z6ii's for my paid gigs. They were hugely expensive here in Australia and their lenses cost an arm and a leg. However, my images from the Nikon files are gorgeous and I get so many positive comments on how beautiful my images are. However, I was very disappointed recently when you started shooting with Canon - I truly thought you had sold off the Nikons. This was fantastic to see that you are still a Nikon man. Your images look fantastic - testament to the gorgeous images from those Nikon NEF files.

I just got a little less envious of this big arrangement of cameras. Every day I go out to shoot it is hard to already pick which 1 or 2 lenses to take with me. I thank you for making me a bit more grateful for my situation.

A lighting workshop with Omar would be epic... And probably way more productive than most workshops due to its technical nature. Omar, please let us know if you ever offer any in Germany 🙈

Omar, you get the kosher seal of approval for this video. So many KZfaqrs talk about gear all day and all night and never show their work or give insight into how they work - if they even work professionally. But your sample photos really showed off what you do beautifully. Incidentally, I'm a NikonFuji guy as well, but I especially love your tripod choices. The Manfrotto 1051 BAC stand (and its bigger siblings) is especially brilliant because it folds flat and clips together with other stands. It's the secret to my downsized location kit.

I am a hobbyist photographer (travel, family gatherings, etc.), so I don't have a lot of gear. But for all the professional photographers, what a great video. Also I notice your only 1K away from reaching 150K subscriber's; come on people let's get Omar over 150K subscribers. This a great photography KZfaq channel!!!!!!

Omar, Thank you so much for actually showing what you shot, and not just talk about the situation, or challenges you're facing with the shoot. This is more of a blanket statement since you do it in so many of your videos. Appreciate you, and your style of teaching/informing. Take care.

Thanks for this Omar. I appreciate you and all the hard work you put in!

I watched this and was so excited to realize you have a great four part lighting tutorial on your channel! Thanks Omar. Excited to learn from you

Omar entered top 100 charts with his new album "back up to the back up" and his new single "run to the car and get the DSLR" straight in at no 1 😂

Really enjoy the videos where you talk about lighting. Thank you

Beautiful shots as always, Omar! Thanks for sharing the commuter-gear tips.👍

Really enjoyed this video... I am one that can't work properly if I don't have backups! I use my Z50 as my backup to my Z5... I have found the results for my work is perfect... I have gotten rid of all my "F" lenses except for one (Nikon 12-24 f4 and kept of course the FTZ). I certainly got some inspiration from what you brought. I use the Godox 860's and have two Godox TT600's... and my car is certainly a "camera bag" at times! My work flow is very much different than yours... but I appreciate the sharing!

I liked the well thought out kit that you put together. As a photographer who seldom had an assistant to lug gear, I went through a similar process and found it valuable to figure out just how little I really needed to get good results. Better on the back too!

This is one of my favorite videos you have created. Well done. I enjoyed seeing you go through the process. Smart set-up. Well done 👏.

Interesting to listen to your internal monologue and planning process. Lovely images.

I think this needs to be said. You’re the coolest guy on the internet 👍🏻

I recently found your channel and really love it. I been binge watching videos for two days. Hahahahahha! I’m a full time photographer and still got many useful tips, I appreciate it.

You captured some beautiful images, Omar.

so informative and fun to watch. thx.

Hi Omar! Great job with this video. Knowledge of your equipment, & environment are essential in establishing the foundation for a successful shoot.( Equipment redundancy is ESSENTIAL!) I had a Canon speed light that completely “died” on me at a high school prom. I had a Nikon flash in my car from a previous job that I had completed earlier in the day. I had to use the Nikon flash in a manual mode on the Canon camera, which was a bit of a “pain.” But, I was able to get the job done. I have a similar thought process to yours, when contemplating what gear to take for any given assignment. Best wishes!!!😊

Wondeful explanation of your thought process.

Hey Omar, this is a great video, thank you! Your work is awesome and I really enjoyed seeing a bit of how you create such wonderful images.

Great Lighting!!!!

I like that bag you use for carrying around your light stands!

Just got back from a trip to NYC and all I brought with me for travel photos and vlogging was a GoPro & Nikon D7100 18-200mm 3.5-5.6. It was tough to only bring the 1 camera/lens for pics but along with phones these days that was all I was willing to carry through an airport and walk the streets with. Had a great time visiting my daughter who is in school there and got some great shots!

You should totally check out the 46” Softlighter. Great, soft light and folds like an umbrella

Great to see your thought process as I often have this dilemma myself. I also have the retrospective 5 and use it as my lens bag for weddings. May I also recommend the Domke belt pouches, was a huge game changer for me

Excellent overview of your downsizing process. Most enjoyable.

as always, thanks for the effort and the sharing. a very good subject that you addressed well. i figured you also brought a godox trigger for the fuji just in case? your work is so respectful, classy and timeless. i am an appreciative subscriber. thumbs up.

Dilemmas, dilemmas. 🙂Thanks for the behind-the-scenes footage. That is always very helpful and instructive.

I do have the same thinktank retro and I love it. With a bit of organisation I can fit my X-S10 with a 35f2 on it, the 18-55 and the 85 viltrox in (plus batteries). the rest in my back pack (but it frees so much space in the backpack and I have all my most common lenses on me)!

I actually quite enjoy your lit photographs, because most people use extremely harsh light and think they're doing a great job because... they brought a light. But you do a great job on the lighting.

I loved the tension of this format. I wanna see real pros talk real shiz.

As someone who'll never own a car again, this is the content I need to see. I'm more on the video side of things, but I don't yet have a travel kit sorted out, and this has me thinking of a few things that'll really help out.

Love the use of soft light, many when using flash go way, way to harsh, I much prefer your more subtle lighting. Great pack up too Omar.

Gaff tape those tips! Add some material to help reduce punctures. Fold tape over, from outside to inside. Great photos!

Great Video! Nice to see someone thinking thru the Gear reduction process.

I love your pictures. Superb subjects and colours - Bar Mitzvah - very nice pics.

Nice setup 👍🏼

Holy Smokes! A Temple shoot? I would freaking LOVE just to watch you work that!

Haha, the challenges of a pro photographer. Being a pure amateur , I switched from a Nikon D3s with a variety of lenses to the Fuji XT3 with the 16-80 and the 70-300 plus one speed light. That's all I need now. This all fits in my tank bag when I take off with my motorbike. Simple can be fun.

Somebody could write a book about everything I don't know or understand about off-camera lighting. Great video! I hope the shoot was fantastic! :-).

You need to reinforce the inside of the fabric pockets on your Neewer umbrella with tape.

Great photos

Is the XT3 w/ 35mm really that much smaller than taking the Z7ii body only?

And here I am, stressing on what my second lens in my shoulder bag is gonna be when I go out 😂

Super interesting, and really goes to show how different we photographers all are. I actually don't drive *and* I shoot weddings. So what I take, I need to carry with me. For a wedding I have a 24mm, a 40mm, and an 85 along with two camera bodies and two flashes. Plus batteries and spare cards of course. That's it. :)

All the thoughts and the pure amount of stuff you have packed for your professional work, just show me one thing: You are totally a gearhead! 😊 But what I mean it shows is that you are really professional. If one thing can go wrong, you have 3 alternatives at location and if all 3 fail, you still can improvise. I would book you just for this. But unfortunately I am on the wrong continent and I am not religious at all. 🤪😅😁

Which apple laptop model do you think is best for photography?

Try making a small indie film in the South Pacific, where in many areas only small aircraft are used as they are landing on grass airstrips out on remote islands... Small ferries or copra boats do ply various routes, but their schedules can be intermittent or irregular. Max weight of luggage allowable per pax is 15kg (33lbs). That's everything. You have to think wisely what gear you take with you.

Nice video, Omar. And very nice shots in the temple too. No need to rate these as nearly as good as what you normally do. I wondered why you had to commute by PT, rather than take the car.

Just quick question i have!! How do you do with godox flash when you change brand between sony canon fuji nikon. Beause i bought the transmiter and flash godox with little f but does they work with the other brand too or do you have to buy new set each time?

Omar, another great video. I too tend to take way more gear than I ever use, "just in case". Your video came at a prefect time. I notices that one of your flashes looked like it had a sticker with a bar code on it. Do you have some electronic gear inventory system you use?

I use Fuji xt4 for weddings and events which is an apsc and would you not consider apsc for professional work over full frame?

I really enjoy your videos. Thank you! May I request a video on the bags you use. You showed three bags in this video and you had a video on your fanny pack. Do you have other bags and when do u use each? Do u think your bags over all the basis or are u on the lookout for another bag? Very interested in your thoughts.

I carry 2 bags, Sony bag and a Canon bag. Canon for portraits and Sony for landscapes.

This is really good info... and fun to see some of your bread and butter work :)

Sounds like a plan. When do you work with an assistant or second shooter and how do you secure your gear at the location?

Great video!! Instead of umbrellas I use Godox dome diffusers on the ad200s which are super compact and a Godox v1 flash on camera

I used to take 2 cameras and flashes for weddings and my partner at the time was annoyed I had spent twice the amount on gear until one day the camera and one flash packed up half way through. If it's a vital, one time only event you have to have spares.

If you are working in dense citys were going by car is no option bc there is zero parking space, lightstands are always the nightmare. still searching for the best stable and light run and gun lightstands.

I try do limit my event work to 'two' bags. One a backpack, the other the bag that holds tripods and lightstands. I need to feel like I can leave the car and commute via train, this is important to me. The backpack actually has a second bag inside which is my event sling bag, so its a bag within a bag (lol), but for commuting it makes things easier than how you reveal yourself in the latter part of your video, and when I get to the event I just take it out and place the items I need for when working. I try to have double of everything, two bodies, lenses, triggers etc. I try to also ditch speedlights and instead just bring 2x AD200's, they essentially can do everything the speedlights can do and more (so why bring a speedlite?). They have more power, bulb heads if need be, and two allows for key and rim or a backup to the key if needed. Speedlites feel a little redundant now. I will handhold the AD200 if walking around and bouncing light. My only criticism of your choice is the XT3. You should have taken the second Nikon and just had a body cap on it, that would have equaled around the same size footprint as the XT3+lens. What if your Nikon died? Are you gonna do the entire shoot on just the Fuji and that one lens? eek! If this is your first time having to restrict gear choice due to no car/weight/carry on, then you'll find its an evolution, after each event I tend to reevaluate what worked and what didn't, even to the point I'm looking at which lenses were used the most from the LR filters, if the lens came out seldomly, think about how necessary it is then, perhaps sell it or leave it at home.

What would you take with you on a motorcycle ride. I feel a need on something like ricoh gr iii just to put in my jacket pocket, so I will be able to stop, shoot without getting off the bike and move on. What do you think, does it worth it?

Difference between a pro and a hope to be. Know what effect you are after and learn enough about gear to know how to achieve that look. Beautiful results.

Sony a7iv and the tamron 35-150 would be a great combo for events.

Hi Omar, may I ask if you could compare Fujinon XF18mm vs XF27mm pancake twins?

Great video as usual Omar! Love watching your thought process.

Hi Omar, very interesting video and really awesome pictures in wonderful lighting with warm, soft colors. How do you arrange that look? What WB? As a hobbyist I ask you for a little help. Thank you

About the light stands. I have standardized to the Manfrotto (MF) "BAC" series of which you have 1 light stand (1051BAC). For my studio and portable work, I have half a dozen of these smallest 7' BAC and another set of the tallest 12' BAC. As they are aluminum, they are very light for the size, as you know. But not as strong as steel and you cannot load these with arms that carry a weight. For your application they're ideal. My point, as you know this already? Well, I would replace the Nano by another same size 1051BAC - these then click together. MF have a 3' bag (LBAG90) that would hold 4 of these and while longer than your Glow bag, this would hold a larger umbrella if you only put 2 BAC tripods into it. These 7' BAC are 70cm tall and the bag is 90, so you would have 8" (20cm) of headroom. The 90cm bag was intended to also fit the larger BAC model - not sure MF still have these. B&H carry the 7', 9', and 12' - the latter two need the 110 bag - MF used to have an 8' one too. When you have more of these same size stands, say 6 or even 2 or 4, click-locked in a row, they don't roll around like a bunch of loose light stands would, in your car.

OMG! I usually only take my Xpro3 and the 50/2 with me… 😱

To extend the life of your neewer stuff Don’t use metal end caps on the struts. Use plastic end caps. Available in good kite shops.

I love when people say things like the AD200s are heavy. I'm like whaaaat? LOL. But I, too, definitely have a problem not taking everything and the kitchen sink LOL.

OK. My stress level went sky high watching this. I once was hired by a friend of a friend to shoot his daughter's wedding. I am not, and was not, a professional. I had an old Yashica mat 124 that eventually fell apart. I swore then and there I would never, I mean never, ever shoot any wedding or other event that was high stakes. I sweat through my shirt and blazer. Too much pressure. To add to it, it was the days before digital, hence, no immediate feedback on whether I got it. I had to send 12, 120 rolls to a lab for development. Waiting for those to come back was another nightmare. Miraculously, the shots were good. So, I photograph for my own fun and enjoyment. Professional photographers earn even penny they make.

That’s what people need to understand…lighting is Everything in photography

BTW…………….really nice photos!✌️

Who else is here for the " You Like! " @ 14.00 🤣

You should get cheetah stands. I have the smaller one I do BM and events without an assistant and I move around with it easy and it’s more stable than the Manfroto. Haha I’ve been through 30 neewer 47 break so easy but they are cheap Af. I also have the seven foot umbrella but I use the five foot more with another 45 soft box by glow that’s made very well. I use the 200s also but I’ve broken a few of those lights.

Great photography and life tips, as always, Omar. Funny, but what really hit home here was getting a glimpse into the lives of people that we in the hinterlands never really see. For people that have never been to a big city like NYC, and I've been only a handful of times, our perception is very shallow. Our trips to the city with you give it depth. Thank you.

Well, gotcha. What's the guitar at the background. Is it a PRS?

Not being a pro and hence it is just a hobby my gear is limited. But yeah I know what it can do and with some trickery I can get some nice shots you didn't expect. I love the "one lens" idea. "today is a 24mm day" or "today is a 35mm day" And that is it. Limited tools, you miss a few shows maybe but you get experience in the gear you have.

I don't know. I'm not even close to a professional event photographer, and never plan to be, and yet I watch! And learn. Just because you make it entertaining. 😅🙏

Omar, you definitley don't need all that equipment to get good results! Less is more :)

Wow.... my brain is on overload! Lighting is something I haven't gotten to learning about yet. Is there a particular brand/model of flash that you think worked well with your XT-3? I'd probably begin using it outdoors as fill for portraits. So much to learn!! Thanks for this little thinking out loud session. Have a great weekend!

What is a "hair light"?

As a hobbyist, I’m trying to keep my gear down to my X-T3 (sell X-E4?) , my trusty 18-55, new version 23 1.4 & rarely used 35 f2. Just got a smokin deal on an open box 16-55, prices going up 20.9% November 1st. Probably sell the 18-55.

I know, off topic... what watch are you wearing? Just curious, looks nice.

What a great shoot! Those pictures are awesome.

“You laiiiiiinnnke?” ❤

"an old school DSLR..."" you are sooo funny! DSLR old??? rich people´s problems! but very funny. I like your videos, and thanks!

in just 1 hour I'm at the 28?? hehehe!! for me the tripod was absolutely helpful backup. soon I'll complete my "JUST IN CASE TOOLS" in my motorcycle maybe??

Thanks for sharing,

Haha, Last time I shot a wedding I just took my Leica M10, a 50mm f1.4 and a 90mm f4 and nothing else… ohh! I took my Mamiya C330f with me as well 😁

Alternate title: "Confessions of a Gear 'Ho" 😂 You're a working pro, though, so I'll cut you some slack. To be honest, I'd be a gear 'ho if I were less fiscally responsible. I finally got the RF 14-35 F4L after Canon cut the price $400; AND I traded in two EF lenses and related accessories that I don't use anymore. Anything else I buy from here on is from sheer want. 😉 P.S. - nice set of images. I'm sure the family was pleased!

@Omar, is there any chance of you ever showing paid work with day you fugifilm proper etc gear vs say an iPhone or android phone. Just for fun please Just for comparison?

Thanks Omar for your suggestions. Say, I noticed that the fresnel lens on your AD200 is missing? Is that a new accesory, or did it just fall out?

I thought you went sony after canon plus fuji for fun?

Shut the front door...I knew you had Nikon gear but I didnt know you switched your pro gear from Sony! May I ask why? I remember when you switched from half canon/sony to full Sony! Love your channel and sorry I missed the "why I switched to Nikon video:

I thought this video was going to be like, I'm just going to use my GRiii for everything now... I was wrong LOL

3 speedlights and three travel lightstands... one 60 inch shoot through umbrella and that is it...

Hire an assistant! Let the client know that you will need one when they tell you about the location. Act like it’s the most natural thing. “And of course I’ll have an assistant and he/she is $XXX. Now regarding the blah blah….”