 All right you guys so in this video we're going to talk about what do you need to be a good photographer and You don't really actually need all this stuff that's laying in front of me But I'll kind of explain that as we go along here You can see that this is a digital SLR. It's got a dirty lens there And so it's got a separate lens and it's also comes with a charger and a cable and all that kind of stuff A lot of the stuff that you're seeing to the left of your screen is optional and Lenses are actually kind of optional too because many of you are actually going to have Point and shoot camera which will have the lens built in or you'll have a cell phone camera or something else But if you have a SLR, this is what you'll have and you can see I'm putting the charger in the bag So it's really important if you have a camera I would say it's a good idea to find some kind of storage place for it So maybe you carry it in another bag But you have somewhere at home where you put all of your photography stuff together in one place that closes You want to make sure it keeps the dust out and things like that so you can see here Along those lines this lens which is sort of separate from the other lens So it's a lens that I switch out with the other one It has it's even its own little bag that I can close like that It's a little drawstring bag that comes with the lens But sometimes your lens might not come with a bag so you can put it wrap it in a t-shirt Or you can put it you can make your own bag out of a t-shirt or something like that It's always a good idea to do that Over here. You can see I'm now wrapping up the strap around the camera Switched around the sun shade and so it would fit into the bag a little better I put it in there So you want to make sure when you store the camera that you make sure the strap is not sitting on top of your LCD screen It'll scratch it up Now you can see there I just pulled out two little black circles and those are Those are ones a body cap and ones a lens cap for the back side of your lens So there you can see the body cap going on and that protects Dust and things like that or it protects the inside of the camera from dust and things like that And the same for the lens cap on the other end of the lens Now I take I to put those on just when the lens and the camera are separate from each other So I just want to have you when I have them Traveling or something like that for those of you with point and shoots or with any other kind of camera That doesn't have separating lenses don't worry about it This stuff isn't important for you But just in case you ever get there you might want to keep note of that so I carry those with me I don't necessarily use them out that often, but if I do there they are Anytime you want to store take your lens off your camera for more than five minutes You want to make sure you put something on top of it to protect from dust? I've got this little this little sort of bag Sort of what would you call that? I guess it's sort of like a pouch and I'm putting some wipes in there You can see there's some pre lubricated wipes or some like sort of pre wet wipes and then there's some Optical glass cleaner, which is that blue sort of bad little square you saw go in there And there you saw a brush and some cleaning fluid now these things are all really important if your camera gets dirty Right there you just saw a second brush We're just sort of the body brush if you've seen the cleaning sections of this lesson you'll see that What the purpose for that is now I've got these two different towels here Well, I guess they're cleaning rags The one is the one on my that I'm holding right there at this very moment It's actually a dirty one that I it's an old old one that I've used It used to be a lens cleaning cloth that now I use for cleaning the body of the camera nuts I'd never touch his optical glass anymore, but it's just for the body and you can see I'm having trouble Fitting it inside my little tiny pouch there. All right, so now I think we'll be able to get that closed Now that other one sitting in the front there is actually for you cleaning lenses and I don't So I don't try not to I try to keep those two things separate Because if there's anything inside of that inside of that cleaning cloth, it can scratch your lens Now you can see I'm pulling open here a USB Reader which everybody's gonna probably need some of some kind this camera takes SD cards But in the future or in the past there have been lots of different types of cards So you might not have an SD card in particular But there's usually gonna be some way that you get the get the photos onto the computer and this camera uses an SD card reader So you have those two things and then you have that lens cleaning cloth, which is important I carry it with me because in case it rains or something like that I like to have a lens cleaning cloth so I can just wipe off the lens really quick and Hop along and take more photos see right there I have a little tiny LED flashlight and this is a total extra fancy accessory that nobody really needs But I use it a lot when I'm shooting like night photos and things like that which for what you need a little tripod You can get a much much bigger tripod But you can start with this little you know like $2 tripod that I bought like a little little camera shop the other day So there you go You've got pretty much everything you need to do everything from really basic fun photography to serious night Photography everything you need in case you hit some bad weather or your camera gets a little dusty or dirty And it all fits inside of one really nice looking little bag that I picked up in an old camera shop. So You can you don't need to have all that stuff, but it's it's gonna help you in your journey So don't feel like you have to go out and spend all the money right away But maybe this is your kind of dream kid of some day. So All right, so that's the end of this lesson We're gonna be moving on to some of the more technical aspects of shooting and get into some Techniques and things like that that will help you become a better photographer