From the course: The Traveling Photographer: The Basics

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Travel logistics: What to carry, what to check

Travel logistics: What to carry, what to check

From the course: The Traveling Photographer: The Basics

Travel logistics: What to carry, what to check

Okay, let's talk about actually going from Country A to Country B with your gear. What do you pack? What do you check? First of all, you should be traveling light, and we're going to be talking more about that in a few minutes specifically, but you definitely want to check your cameras. I mean that's just too much of a risk, and you want to use a bag that is small enough to where it doesn't have to go in the overhead, because the worst feeling in the world is to be getting on the plane and they say, I'm sorry sir, the plane is full. You're going to have to gate check that. And you're like no, no. Not my baby. I, this is, do you know how much money is in this bag? This is, this bag's like a million dollars worth of cam. You know, they, you just can't talk them out of it sometimes. Because there's no room left in the plane. If this bag is small enough to go under your seat, they can't make you gate check it, so that means it's always going to stay with you. So in this bag you're going…

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