Gear


What’s in Your Bag, Kevin Jairaj?

March 3, 2015

By Laura Brauer

I took the image shown in Albuquerque, New Mexico, my equipment offset by the stunning Sandia Peak mountain range.
Photo © Kevin Jairaj

• Profoto Pro-B4
• Profoto B1 Kit
• Profoto White Beauty Dish
• 
PocketWizard MultiMAX 
and Plus III units
• Canon 400mmL EF II f/2.8
• Canon 70-200L EF II f/2.8
• Canon 24-70L EF II f/2.8
• Canon 16-35L f/2.8
• Canon 15mm Fisheye
• Three Canon 600EX-RT Speedlites
• Think Tank Airport Security V 2.0 Rolling Camera Bag
• Cheetah stands
• CamRanger
• iPad
• Two Canon 1DX bodies
• Sandisk Extreme CF 
cards, 8 and 16GB

My favorite tools are the Profoto Pro B4, the Profoto B1 Kit and the Profoto White Beauty Dish; each piece helps me achieve and control looks that are very dramatic and definitely help me stand out from my competition.


Kevin Jairaj is a fashion and portrait photographer in Dallas, Texas. He holds the Double Master title from WPPI, as well as a Master of Photography from PPA, and was named a 2008 Top Knots of Wedding Photography winner by PDN. Published in American Photo, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Men’s Health, USA Today, Professional Photographer, Destination Weddings, and ESPN the Magazine, Jairaj was commissioned by USA Today to take portraits of key members of the USA Summer and Winter Olympic Teams, has had a recurring role in the hit Discovery Channel show Fast N Loud, and covered the Winter Olympics in Sochi as well as the NCAA Final Four and the Super Bowl for USA Today. In 2014, he was named as the Official Photographer for the New College Football Playoff Championship game. He’s also been commissioned to cover wedding shoots and other events in London, Hawaii, Trinidad and Tobago, The Bahamas, Mexico, Jamaica, Anguilla and Aruba, and counts many musicians, actors and famous athletes among his clientele.