What tools and equipment does a photographer use?

Answer 1

At the very least, a camera and the time and place to use it. Otherwise, if you're working with film, some items might include:

• Film
• Film camera
• Tripod
• Different lenses
• Film developing tank (plus necessary chemicals for developing the film)
• Access to a darkroom with a projector, filters, and necessary chemicals
• Photo paper (Like Ilford)
• Negative sleeves

If you're working with a digital camera, some items might include:

• Digital camera
• Tripod
• Photo editing software

Other than this, you may also want to use lighting equipment and backdrop sheets, amongst things like props and sets (for shoots that need them).

Answer 2

Required:

- First of all, definitely a place. Its size depends on what kind of studio (pets, family, or even cars) you want to build.

- Camera (digital or film) that can be set to Manual settings

- Lighting, min. 2 strobe lights with stands or ceiling rails.

Optional items:

- Light modifiers, such as barndoors, flags, softboxes, snoot, etc.

- Accessories, such as stool, clamp, cable ties, sheet of paper, etc.

- Prop, such as costume, doll, fairy wings, Baseball bat, etc.

- Flash meter

Answer 3

A 35mm or medium format DSLR with lenses from 28mm to 200mm for studio work and up to 400mm for location.

Strobe lighting and light modifiers i.e. softboxes, reflectors, honeycombs, snoots, gels etc as well as passive reflectors, scrims, flags and backdrops and the appropriate support gear. Computers and post production software with high end colour accurate monitors that can be colour calibrated.

Answer 4

Cameras of course, still and motion picture types.

film

photographic paper

developing chemicals

light meters

flash strobes

reflective mattes

backgrounds

tripods

lenses

and lately, memory cards for the digital cameras.

Answer 5

Being a Photographer using a film camera its smart to have film of course. also a tripod is very useful as to different lenses, film developing tank, access to a darkroom with a projector, filters, necessary chemicals, photo paper, negative sleeves. And if you're using a digital camera all you really need is a tripod and photo editing software. other than is, you may want to use lighting equipment and backdrop sheets, amongst things like props and sets (for shoot that need them.)

Samm Aguilar.

Answer 6

What type of photographs do you intend to take? Someone who plans to take selfies and snapshots of their friends and put them on their Facebook page needs different equipment from someone who plans to take photos of football games and put them in Sports Illustrated.