ESSENTIAL GEAR
The kit Jeremy relies on for capturing slick city shots
1 PROFESSIONAL TRIPOD
For landscapes and architecture shots you usually have the luxury of time to frame up on a tripod to get the composition exactly how you want it. This also has the benefit of helping to prevent camera shake, and allows for longer exposures to blur moving elements, such as clouds or people. Jeremy’s tripod of choice is a Gitzo GT2542LS with a Manfrotto 405 head.
2 TELEPHOTO LENS
You might think a wide-angle lens would be the best choice for landscapes and cityscapes, but a long lens like the 70-200mm Jeremy uses can be very effective in certain situations. These allow you to zoom in on details to get frame-filling shots, and also enable you to compress the perspective so that buildings appear closer together. Jeremy’s telephoto lens of choice is the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM.
3 WIDE-ANGLE PRIME
Hari’s Sigma 20mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens is ideal for low-light city scenes, as it has a super-wide aperture of f/1.4, which sucks in loads of light and creates lovely bokeh, and lets him use low ISO values for better image quality. It’s razor-sharp too. It’s worth noting that Hari’s 20mm lens behaved more like a 32mm, due to the 1.6x crop factor on his Canon EOS 7D Mark II, so his shots had more of a standard wide-angle framing than super-wide.
4 FULL-FRAME CANON
Jeremy’s go-to camera is the EOS 5D Mark IV. Its frame rate of 7fps may seem a bit pedestrian compared to faster mirrorless models, but you’ll rarely be shooting at a fast pace for cityscapes and landscapes, instead carefully composing and concentrating on a single shot. The full-frame 30.4MP sensor is well suited to capturing detail in low-light scenes.