This is the page that I get to ramble on about gear, there is plenty of fine equipment to choose from these days it is really hard to get it wrong, but a couple of brands shine slightly brighter than others, my shining stars are Canon, Phase 1 and Mamiya.
Cameras
Mamiya 645 AFD 2 with Phase 1 P30 Digital Back
Canon EOS 1D Mk2
Lenses
~ Mamiya Medium Format ~
Mamiya 55-110mm F4.5 - General Photography
Mamiya 120mm F4.0 - Macro and Portrait
Mamiya 150mm F3.5 - Portrait
~ Canon 35mm ~
Canon 50mm F 1.4 - General Photography
Canon 100mm F2.8 - General and Macro
Canon 85mm F1.2L - Portrait and General Photography
Canon 16-35mm F2.8L - Wide Angle General Photography
Canon 24-70mm F2.8L - General Photography
Canon 70-200mm F2.8L IS - Portrait / Sport / Wildlife and General Photography
Canon MP-E 65mm F2.8 Macro - Macro
Canon TSE 45mm F2.8 - Specialist tilt and shift
Lighting
Canon 550EX - General Flash (x2)
Canon MR-14EX - Macro Flash
Bowens Esprit 500 - Studio Flash (4 off)
All in house prints are produced on either an Epson R2400 printer, which can print up to 480mm x 330mm photographic quality or on an Olympus P400 Dye Sublimation 240mm x 190mm for larger prints local specialists are used.
Location lighting can either be 'on camera' or 'studio type', the latter can either be set up on standard tripod type stands or auto poles, which are useful in confined situations as they can mount lamps overhead or extremely close to walls. Lighting is controlled by an assortment of reflectors, grids, barn doors, snoots, soft boxes and brollys. Portrait backdrops can be either plain, patterned or chroma key, which will allow any virtual backdrop image to be added later during image processing.
Photo retouching is carried with calibrated Apple Mac G5 computers using the latest Adobe Photoshop CS2 software.
