You have a camera, not the latest but still well capable. A selection of lens, flash, and more camera bags then you know what to do with, plus a few extra hidden in the back of a cupboard from your significant other.
What to buy next?
Well spend some money on trips out, flex those photographic muscles, maybe if your a wildlife photographer a trip to a local nature park, a holiday of a lifetime to somewhere you have dreamed off.
For the people photographers like me, get a mood board sorted with ideas, collect some cheap props.
I often take a bag of cheap sunglasses to the studio and let the model experiment.
Photography purchases to not have to be expensive. Just something that will get you out shooting.
If your looking at kit, then think about clothing if your into landscape or wildlife. Think about tripods and heads. For studio photographers investing in three C-Stands will enable lots of creativity and will last forever.
For me the list would be like this:
- Props (hats, material, glasses)
- Lighting Grip (eg C-Stands)
- Backgrounds and gels
- Reflectors
- Modifiers
- Flash Heads
- Filters
- Camera straps
- Equipment bags
- Cleaning equipment
- Lens
- Cameras
There is a lot you can invest in, to improve your photography before buying that new camera and lens. Also remember things like storage and backup for your files. I have a large NAS holding all my photography files, then a bunch of external drives holding backup copies. Then an external SSD for my Lightroom database, and backup jobs copying that database to two different computers and a cloud storage provider. But that’s a different post.
