What’s in Rob Greer’s Gear Bag?

Photographer’s Creed:

This is my camera. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My camera is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.

Without me, my camera is useless. Without my camera, I am useless. I must use my camera well. I must take better photos than my competitors. I will…

My camera and I know that what counts at weddings is not the number of photos that we take, the noise we make, nor the dark clothes we wear. We know that it’s great photos that count. We will create.

My camera is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its viewfinder and its lenses. I will keep my cameras clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will…

Before everyone, I swear this creed. 

My cameras and I are the defenders of human memory. We are the masters of matrimony. 

We are the saviors of my life.

So be it, until the wedding is over and there is no more cake, but rest!

Rob’s Go-to Wedding Gear:

CAMERAS
Nikon D5 (x2)
Nikon D800

LENSES
Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 VRII (x2)
Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 VR
Nikon 17-35 f/2.8
Nikon 60 f/2.8 Macro
Nikon 50 f/1.8
Nikon SB-900 (x2)
Nikon SB-910 (x2)

LIGHTING
PocketWizard TT1 (x2)
PocketWizard TT5 (x2)
Westcott Icelight
Surefire Executive Elite Flashlight

MISCELLANEOUS
Swiss Army Multi-tool
Enloop Pro Batteries
Lexar 128GB CF Cards (x4)
Really Right Stuff L-Brackets
Darth Vader Mask
Diet Coke
 
Rob Greer is a Los Angeles-based wedding, portrait and product photographer who shoots many different genres of photography for many different clients. His photography has been featured in The New York Times, People, Us Weekly, USA Today, Entertainment Tonight, TV Guide, BRIDES, Rangefinder, Shutterbug, The Advocate, Out, Good Magazine, Harvard Magazine, Austin Monthly, Lacrosse Magazine, Lawn & Landscape, The Daily Mail (UK), The Knot, Huffington Post, Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings, Style Me Pretty and the 2009 Nikon International Calendar. 

Greer, who is considered an SEO expert and teaches two-day workshops across the U.S. on the subject, also has corporate clients, including Microsoft, AT&T, Samsung, Nikon, Oracle, Penguin Group, Disney Book Group, Hyperion Books, Honeywell, Dun & Bradstreet, General Motors, Scott’s Miracle-Gro, Avery Dennison, Nestlé, HEAD Penn Racquet Sports, Los Angeles County and Reebok. 

He has been repeatedly recognized by WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) with more than 40 awards, including eight 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-place trophies. This year he was also awarded the title Master of WPPI. 

Some of the celebrities Greer has photographed over the years include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg, Pierce Brosnan, Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard, Orlando Jones, Casper Van Dien, Bruce Boxleitner, Karch Kiraly, Maria Sharapova, Kei Nishikori, Sloane Stephens, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, Jonathan Lipnicki, Jonathan Togo, Eva La Rue, Bill Bellamy, Telma Hopkins, Josh Stewart, Tichina Arnold, Wayne Brady, Max Carver, Buzz Aldrin, Jane Goodall, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Clive Cussler, John Sandford, Vint Cerf, Eric Garcetti, and the crew who flew NASA’s final space shuttle mission.

For Greer’s more complete, very extensive gear list, please visit his website.

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