What to Actually Buy First: A Working Photographer's Take on the Slanted Lens Studio Starter Guide

What to Actually Buy First: A Working Photographer's Take on the Slanted Lens Studio Starter Guide

Every few months someone emails me asking what gear they need to start shooting paid work. For years I sent them a list I’d cobbled together from memory. The problem with that approach is that my memory is calibrated to someone who’s been shooting commercial and editorial work in Los Angeles for nearly two decades. What I think of as “basic” is not what a beginner should spend money on first.