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thank you
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hello ladies and gentlemen welcome to
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optic West
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you guys are sitting in the Explorer
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stage and if you check the back page of
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your show specials you will see the
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schedule for this stage as well as the
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main stage if you haven't checked out
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the main stage that's through those
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doors want everyone to be aware of that
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and we have a lot of exciting things
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planned but before we jump into our
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presentations let's see where y'all are
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from raise your hand if you guys are
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from in and around Monterey
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okay we got the locals in the house
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that's great how about San Francisco
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a few very good how about out of state
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let's see yell it out where what state
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Milwaukee yeah okay
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nice where else
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Utah in the house
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Oregon I love it West coasters are here
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but b h brought the East Coasters to
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come and have an amazing couple of days
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with y'all if there are any questions
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about the show about the cruise tomorrow
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look for a friendly b h face there is
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the help desk down over there they'll
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answer all your questions you'll get
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that golden ticket maybe and we'll see
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you on the boat but let's jump into the
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education the inspiration we are kicking
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things off with Colby Brown and without
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further Ado let's get into it Colby
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we're ready for you
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perfect
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thank you guys thank you Mike for the
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introduction thank you b h thank you
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guys for being here today
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um thank you guys for watching on the
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interwebs uh everyone coming in
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today I am talking about something that
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I'm very passionate about Wildlife
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photography we're going to talk a bit
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about gear we're going to talk about
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some kind of tips and techniques that I
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recommend for you guys we're going to
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talk about some different case studies
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to kind of really walk through images
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and what it takes to get certain kinds
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of shots from the settings the features
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and all the different pieces together so
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it's going to be a bit of mixture of
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inspirational and educational and
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hopefully we'll have a little bit of fun
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I try to make them interactive but I
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have a lot of things to talk about as
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well if you guys have questions we can
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kind of figure out if we can field them
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here or certainly afterwards I'm going
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to be able to talk at the Sony Booth I'm
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a Sony Artisan as well so let's go ahead
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and Jump Right In
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so little housekeeping started off with
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even though Instagram's a little bit of
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a Dying platform these days you could
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find me at colbybrandphotography.com
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photography on Instagram certainly on my
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website tons of information gear setup
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guides as well as photography workshops
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all over the world and of course the
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plug-in a little video series that I did
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with b h that we filmed this summer in
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the Amazon which was awesome it's a
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seven part series it's all free on B H's
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YouTube channel there's some great stuff
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on there talking about Wildlife macro
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landscape you know putting together
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travel trips it's a it's a fun series we
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had a lot of fun with it and b h was
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awesome to sponsor it so with all that
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being said let's go ahead and Jump Right
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In
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so as a photographer I've been doing
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this professionally for roughly 18 years
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and throughout the course of my career I
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have photographed a wide variety of
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different genres this is by Design when
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things get too consistent for me it kind
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of freaks me out a little bit I have to
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change things up I have to find new
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challenges to kind of keep up the
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passion levels and so when I started out
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initially it was because of a love of
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travel and then it was landscape an
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Astro and the last like six years it's
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been tied towards this idea of Wildlife
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and the challenges that it brings itself
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and I think for a lot of photographers
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that
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get into Wildlife photography it doesn't
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necessarily start there it's something
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where we end up but it's not necessarily
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our Inception point of what brought us
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into photography
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for me
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it was because it was based on
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opportunity so I'd find myself in places
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like Alaska photographing glaciers or
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you know in parts of Africa
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photographing different cultures like
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whatever it was from the travel space
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that pulled me in and there just so
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happened to be some beautiful species to
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be there and so initially this love of
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wildlife photography started out just
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based on opportunity for some of you
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guys this could be just you know certain
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you know birds or species you guys find
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in your backyard but whatever it is it's
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something that was accessible that one
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that forced me to think about trying to
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learn new techniques or trying to dip my
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foot or my toe into this kind of
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photography
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and then from there it brought me to
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some amazing locations around the world
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that allowed me to have the space to to
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Really digest and invest myself into new
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challenges Wildlife photography is not
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easy it's not for everyone especially
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once you start traveling around the
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world you have different gear
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requirements you have you know a lot of
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the species you're trying to photograph
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could be quite far away the species
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themselves of course not like you're
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working in a studio they don't know what
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you want to do so you have a lot of
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these elements that you typically don't
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have in a lot of other genres of
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Photography and it was that challenge
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that really brought me together
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and then of course when it comes to the
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actual experiences that you can have
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around the world when it comes to
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Wildlife it's really just awe-inspiring
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there's some amazing creatures out there
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like silverback gorillas that I
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photograph in East Africa every year uh
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to cheetahs like you guys just saw bald
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eagles all sorts of amazing things out
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there where photography has been the
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conduit that allowed me to travel the
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world to see some amazing experiences
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and of course to learn to document them
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in different challenging environments
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we're going to talk a bit about that
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throughout the course of our talk here
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so starting off let's talk about gear
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again there's no way around it unlike
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the more accessible you know stuff when
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you're shooting in a studio or you're a
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landscape photographer and you get your
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shoot anywhere
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different so let's talk a little bit
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about gear as I mentioned I'm a Sony
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Artisan so everything is based around
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the Sony gear system that I'm talking
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about today but of course depending on
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whatever you guys are shooting there are
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usually close proximity products that
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you guys can see or play around with
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here or you might own yourself
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so starting off my main camera systems
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that I use these days is the Sony A1
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this is a 50 megapixel camera
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it is by far the favorite camera that
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I've ever shot with you're talking about
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30 frames per second High dynamic range
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15 stops dynamic range at least at ISO
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you get true silent capable you know
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shooting which you can get with a a
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backlit CMOS sensor that is stacked on
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top of each other so you get crazy
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sensor readout speeds 120 times a second
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it's tracking autofocus all sorts of
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amazing technology this is my go-to
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camera that I use in the vast majority
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of stuff that's out there
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before the A1 came along I used the a92
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which is 24 megapixels has a lot of the
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same technology just from a few years
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before so we still had 20 frames per
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second it was really great in a lot of
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situations
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um it's obviously it's a more affordable
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option than the A1 if you're a sports or
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wildlife photographer that is trying to
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think about getting into this kind of
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space a lot of people don't realize the
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value of resolution which we're going to
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talk about during some of the settings
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and the tips and techniques but also the
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dynamic range the frames per second help
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like all these different variables again
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come together to really help for
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wildlife photographers out there
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and then the new released a7r 5 which
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just was announced last week I believe
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um I've only been able to use it for a
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few weeks now I'm actually taking with
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me I fly out tomorrow to Alaska to go
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photograph bald eagles for the final
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um Salmon Run of the Season up there in
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Haynes
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um it is a really interesting camera
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that I'm excited to put through the
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paces a bit more uh especially because
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obviously the resolution is 61
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megapixels but it is the first camera in
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the entire industry that actually has a
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dedicated processor to AI learning and
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what I mean by that is that it's going
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to be able to sit there and recognize
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that I'm photographing a bald eagle or
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an insect uh you know a spider or a
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certain kind of bird and then Project
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based on AI learning it's perceived
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movements and what that's going to do is
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it helps the auto focus be much more
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accurate much faster and so I'm excited
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to see how this technology moves
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throughout the Sony ecosystem when it
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moves up into maybe the next series of
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the A2 and everything else that Sony has
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line up but for now now this is the only
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camera that has this dedicated processor
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specifically to AI learning and AI
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projection for movement which is pretty
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awesome
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so lenses these are a handful of
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different lenses that I use in a given
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trip for wildlife photography
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there are some I use more than others
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I'll talk a little bit about that and
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obviously these are at wildly different
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price points depending on whatever your
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cup of tea is so this is the Sony 100 to
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400 this is an F 4.5 to 5.6 variable
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aperture G Master Series lens this lens
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is really great lens for those that are
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looking for kind of a upper mid-tier
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budget option to get into Wildlife space
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at 400 millimeters you are a bit limited
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when you're talking about bird
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photography unless it's the larger Birds
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the bald eagles things like that if
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you're looking at more like Kingfishers
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and a lot of the other small things you
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guys got out there 400 is really not
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going to cut it in most situations I
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found myself using this quite a bit in
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places like Alaska and in East Africa
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South Africa India for tigers lions
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leopards a lot of the bigger mammal
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species it's a really great option it's
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very sharp it's quite fast it's been
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around for few years so I'm sure
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there'll be an update at some point in
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the next few years for this particular
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lens but it still is a great lens option
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for me out there
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you have the 200 to 600 this is also
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another variable aperture lens this is
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going to be a 5.6 to 6.3
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so the caveat to this is that it's not
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the fastest lens which means that you
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need a decent amount of light to really
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be able to use it that we just cut out
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here hold on
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let's see
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yeah well they'll talk about tech
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they'll work on Tech to get that back up
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but anyway the 200 to 600 is a really
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great option again like I said if you
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have a little bit of light to work with
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but if you're working under dark
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canopies or dunk dark jungles like I
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have to find myself in it's usually not
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fast enough but the beautiful thing
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about this particular lens is the short
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distance that you get when you go from
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200 to 600 it's about a two inch shift
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change on your zoom zoom ring to go from
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200 to 600 which means that you can
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really quickly go to from subjects that
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are close by to Far Away really easily
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it's quite nice it's very sharp it's
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actually the most affordable I think
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it's around like 1800 us for the MSRP
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for it so it's a really great kind of
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starter lens to get into this Wildlife
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space from a Sony perspective and it
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does a good job like I said assuming you
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have enough light
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talking about the bigger boy lenses
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these are lenses that I use most often
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that I have to find new and creative
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ways to shuffle around the world we have
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the 400 F 2.8 G master and also the 600
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F 4G master
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now these two lenses when they first
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came out which was about two or three
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years ago they were the first lenses in
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the mirrorless space designed for
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mirrorless cameras these lenses
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generally were very heavy usually in the
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set you know seven to nine pound range
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and what Sony's done with them if you
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guys get a chance to play around with
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them here at the at the event at the
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Sony stage is that the design for them
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instead of being front heavy which is
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what most of the glass used to be with
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these big lenses where it would be very
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difficult for you guys to hand hold
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things for a longer period of time than
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you know a few minutes because they
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would dip forward all the heavy glass
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elements were in the front so in all
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these newer big lenses everything is
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back towards the camera which allows it
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for a lot better weight distribution so
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you can hand hold these things for a lot
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longer it's not for everyone obviously
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some people will still struggle because
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they are still around six pounds but
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they are phenomenal lenses the two the
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400 is something that I personally use
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most often again with larger Predators
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so these are going to be your Lions your
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tiger your Jaguars in Brazil
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your your Bears up in Alaska Pumas all
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sorts of fun stuff anything that is a
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decent size and the 600 is something
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that I use predominantly when I'm going
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on a bird specific trip so this is
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something where I'm photographing you
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know rollers in India or certain types
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of Kingfishers the 600 both of them are
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amazing lenses when you compare when you
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pair them with something like the A1 as
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I mentioned before you have stacked
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backside illuminated sensors on the A1
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so the linear motor is found on these
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cameras mixed in with that high sensor
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readout speed means that you have just
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an insane amount of autofocus
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capabilities to be able to track your
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subjects and to have tack sharp results
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when you mix things with like things
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like eye autofocus which we're going to
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talk about here in a second
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and of course you have teleconverters
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these are things that I use sparingly
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um you have the 1.4 and the two times
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teleconverters both of these have
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trade-offs 1.4 is a One-Stop trade-off
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two times teleconverter is a two-stop
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trade-off based on your minimum aperture
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speed so when you put glass like this in
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front of your your lens or certain
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lenses that support it you can extend
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your reach but you're sacrificing a bit
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of that speed of the lens itself not
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shutter speed but just in terms of the
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amount of light that you can reach in
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there with that minimum shutter speed
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I've had some amazing results with the
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two times teleconverter with the 600 F4
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photographing from a safari vehicle with
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like a bean bag so you're shooting at
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1200 millimeters and you're getting tack
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sharp results which I couldn't get back
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in the day when I was shooting with
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digital slrs but it has to be in the
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right situations we're going to talk a
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little bit about that idea of settings
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in the right type of settings you need
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for a lot of wildlife situations based
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on your choice of lenses but we're going
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to do that in a second
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and of course we have the Sony 90
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millimeter F 2.8 macro I threw this one
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in here because later today on the main
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stage at two o'clock when giving a talk
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on macro Wildlife photography this is
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the idea of using a macro lens your
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camera and generally a flash in order to
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photograph some really amazing creatures
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out there that are often overlooked
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sometimes they're vilified if you're
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talking about like snakes or spiders or
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scorpions frogs some amazing creatures
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out there it's a really fun talk and I
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briefly talk about it during this
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particular talk but something like to
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mention because it is a really great
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lens to use for a lot of these kinds of
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situations
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so let's start off and talk here now
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about kind of 10 tips for wildlife
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photographers so these are things
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they're going to be talking a little bit
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about settings we're going to talk about
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some of the different features to really
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help make your life easier as a wildlife
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photographer
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I always say that no matter what camera
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system you're using any camera
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manufacturer in the last few years has
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really made this industry or this genre
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much more accessible and much easier
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that technology is made or should always
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be made to make our lives easier to take
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less time to think about the technical
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side of things so we can focus on the
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creative side how can we create the most
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impactful image possible while allowing
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technology to help us achieve those
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goals rather than to get in our way
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which used to be the case
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so number one this is the tip that I
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give really for any of these talks that
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I talk about Wildlife photography or not
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is it's customizing your camera this is
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something that again I think a lot of
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people don't really put enough time into
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any of the mirrorless cameras can do
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this obviously again I'm talking about
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Sony in this particular case but
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customizing your camera is the best way
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to make sure that any of the features of
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functionality that you need quick access
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to you can always have it at a finger
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click away
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so this is a picture of a Sony A1 again
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these are the the cameras that I use the
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most these days and every button that I
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have an arrow pointed to can be fully
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customizable
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so once I get a new camera I can go
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through the menu settings I'm trying to
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figure out what are the settings that I
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need the most access to maybe it's my
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autofocus Zone area maybe it's you know
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how do I want to adjust ISO
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you know by default on the A1 for
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example I have to press right on the
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rear wheel and then I use the rear wheel
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to kind of dial things in I personally
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don't like having that extra step so I
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make it so just moving that dial on the
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back of the camera just my ISO and I
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know it's there but for people that
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aren't aware they can accidentally hit
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that and bump up their ISO when they
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don't mean to but it's little things
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like that makes a big difference when it
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comes to being out there in the field
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needing to make a quick adjustment and
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being able to dial in these settings to
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give you the results that you want I
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think the biggest thing that I hear
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because I've taught workshops for 18
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years now with clients that come on
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workshops in the wildlife space
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especially is that they've moved to a
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new camera system
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they don't know it and so they spend a
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lot of time out there in the field
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fumbling around the menus coming to me
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and saying how do I do this how do I do
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that this solves that problem no matter
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what camera system you're on Canon Nikon
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Sony Fuji Olympus like spend time to get
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to know your camera try to think more
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proactively about the different features
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that you need the settings that you need
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to have access to and then dial them in
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so that when you're out there in the
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field you're just focusing on what's
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important which again is taking images
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to begin with
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shutter speed is King this is something
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that sounds basic but I find that a lot
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of people again struggle with it
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especially you know I I run a handful of
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large groups on on Facebook photography
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groups again titled around the Sony
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system and I get a lot of people that
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are like you know why are my images soft
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in these situations and more times than
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not it's they're not using the right
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shutter speed when it comes to Wildlife
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photography the reason for that is that
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the speed that you use for your shutter
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speed should be predicated on a handful
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of different variables
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number one is going to be the movement
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of your subject that's pretty obvious
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you know fast moving hummingbird is
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going to require a different shutter
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speed than something like uh like a
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flamingo
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um or or a bear or a Cayman like it
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really just depends on the type of
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situation the other variable that plays
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into a role that again people I think
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don't think about as much anymore for
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some reason is that the millimeter
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length that you're shooting at also
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plays a role now before I talked a
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little bit about using the 600 F4 and
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putting a two times teleconverter on it
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to photograph a kingfisher which would
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be great if I had it as a demonstration
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but I didn't put it in this presentation
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and the reason that that worked because
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I was shooting at 1200 millimeters and
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what that means is that I really need to
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increase my shutter speed even if I'm
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stationary because every single small
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minute movement can make a big
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difference in having things just
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slightly off focus to completely out of
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focus the best analogy that I can give
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for this is that if you guys are sitting
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outside and you see a plane moving
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across your frame if you're looking at
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it with the human eye and you look up
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into the sky it looks like the plane is
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moving incredibly slow
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but all of a sudden if you look at it
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with your one of your lenses even if
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it's a 7200 or you know a 600 F4 all of
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a sudden that thing's moving fastly
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through your subjects through your
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composition and so that's a good rule to
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remember is that if you are shooting or
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the higher millimeter range that you're
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shooting at mixed in with the speed of
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your subject you need to use a much
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higher shutter speed than you might
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actually think that you need to and then
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when you mix that with the situation
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that you find yourself in are you
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shooting from a gimbal are you hand
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holding if you are hand holding how good
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are you about actually holding and being
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stable a lot of people have natural Sway
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and movements as they're just standing
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there breathing makes a big difference
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like all sorts of different factors come
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into play so the first thing that you
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should think about when you're taking
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pictures if your images are coming out
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slightly less sharp than you think they
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should be especially when it comes to
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things like bird photography increase
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your shutter speed and see if you're
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getting better results it's a really
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easy way to kind of jump into it but in
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situations like this again for flamingos
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aren't the fastest moving Birds they're
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kind of clumsy actually but because I
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was close and I was using a 600
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millimeter F4 lens I needed to shoot at
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1 3 200th of a second to make sure that
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I was getting tack sharp results
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throughout
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I was able to drop that down when I was
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photographing Bears so photographing
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brown bears is that McNeil River up in
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Alaska and being able to photograph and
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capture this particular bear because I
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was shooting from a gimbal head there
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was a ton of extra movement I wasn't
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shooting at 600 f4s with the 100 to 400
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I was able to get really nice results by
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lowering that shutter speed saving
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myself some ISO and some noise to deal
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with in post-processing and then
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shooting from a boat photographing a
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large Cayman in Brazil same thing the
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boat was wasn't moving very uh very much
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I was much closer to the subjects again
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this was something around the 400
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millimeter range and so I didn't have to
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use such higher uh shutter speeds so
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looking at your images again number one
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make sure that you're using a shutter
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speed that is conducive to the speed of
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the the creature of the species you're
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trying to photograph but also that it's
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in relation to the millimeter length
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that you are actually using in order to
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try to capture the photograph to begin
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with
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so more frames the better this is again
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is another just one of those variables
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that plays a role when it comes to
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Wildlife photography this is again one
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of the things that I love about the A1
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a lot of people that I know well a
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handful of people that I know when the
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A1 came out especially people from other
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competing uh you know Brands said why do
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I need 30 frames per second says every
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single person that hasn't used 30 frames
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per second
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once you actually get used to it
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assuming you're using it in the right
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positions you're not actually using 30
631
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frames per second with a bird perched on
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a tree and you have 300 images from you
633
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know six seconds of holding down your
634
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shutter speed
635
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that makes a huge difference in making
636
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sure that you're getting that exact
637
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moment Wildlife photography is a moment
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that is measured in nanoseconds there
639
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,720
are times when you know the you know
640
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specific species of bird for example
641
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have the sheen that covers uh comes over
642
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and covers their eye like bald eagles
643
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and if you miss that one moment where
644
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you might have everything else perfect
645
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you have the wings clipped you have the
646
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the claws and Talons outspread to pick
647
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up the the um the Burr the fish that's
648
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in the water
649
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but then all of a sudden you have that
650
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one to sliver of moment where it missed
651
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if you had a higher shutter speed camera
652
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with higher frames per second then you
653
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would have better results so frames per
654
00:22:31,980 --> 00:22:34,020
second matter they're not everything but
655
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they help a big difference and like for
656
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me when I go from the A1 with 30 frames
657
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per second to like the new a7r five
658
00:22:41,580 --> 00:22:43,860
shooting at 10 that's a big difference I
659
00:22:43,860 --> 00:22:45,480
have to think about that when it comes
660
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to what type of application I'm going to
661
00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:49,200
find myself using those particular
662
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,600
cameras in because 30 frames per second
663
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is awesome if you have the ability to
664
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shoot 30 frames per second
665
00:22:57,299 --> 00:22:59,700
animal eye autofocus is a game changer
666
00:22:59,700 --> 00:23:02,220
Game Changer is such a horrible you know
667
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terminology that everyone uses way too
668
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often but I think in this case it
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actually is true it's great to see
670
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um that some of the other major brands
671
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in the mirrorless space also have caught
672
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up and are offering similar
673
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opportunities regardless of what camera
674
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system you have if you have the ability
675
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to shoot with eye autofocus specifically
676
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for wildlife images
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it makes your life so much easier it is
678
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so nice to be able to find yourself in
679
00:23:26,220 --> 00:23:29,640
situations where no matter well I don't
680
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,059
say no matter what 99 of the time you're
681
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able to lock onto the eyes every single
682
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time and get the shots and the result
683
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that you want you get to focus more on
684
00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:41,340
composition making sure you have the
685
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right kind of exposure but in situations
686
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like this you can literally see on the
687
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Sony you have this Green Dot that goes
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around the the frame and it follows the
689
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eye wherever it's going and when your
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aps-c your continuous autofocus mode
691
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then you're sitting there and you're
692
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tracking it the entire time knowing that
693
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anytime you take that shot you know that
694
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you have a much higher probability for
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00:24:01,740 --> 00:24:03,480
those images to come out and if you were
696
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a digital SLR shooter or you're shooting
697
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with a camera that doesn't have that
698
00:24:06,299 --> 00:24:08,880
feature I'm sure you can relate to the
699
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fact that you're like oh I nailed the
700
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shot it's great then you check it out on
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your laptop when you get back to your
702
00:24:13,620 --> 00:24:15,780
hotel or whatnot and like focused on the
703
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nose Focus just behind the eye all sorts
704
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:20,580
of situations happen out there eye out
705
00:24:20,580 --> 00:24:22,799
of focus is huge and what initially
706
00:24:22,799 --> 00:24:26,039
started off with just mammals mostly it
707
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was it was honestly built for cats and
708
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,059
dogs but it ended up porting over to a
709
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lot of the bigger feline cats is that
710
00:24:32,460 --> 00:24:35,100
bird autofocus has played a big role so
711
00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:38,700
being able to use bird iaf to track your
712
00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:42,179
subjects in Flight as they're moving at
713
00:24:42,179 --> 00:24:45,480
full speed in most situations is
714
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,059
incredible you no longer have to worry
715
00:24:48,059 --> 00:24:50,280
about the beak you know grabbing the
716
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:51,840
beak and missing the eyes you don't have
717
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,520
to worry about it being off in other
718
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,500
certain areas you always know that
719
00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:56,700
you're going to get the results that you
720
00:24:56,700 --> 00:24:58,679
want and what's happening now is it's
721
00:24:58,679 --> 00:25:00,780
also moving down into insects and
722
00:25:00,780 --> 00:25:03,240
smaller creatures this is a small baby
723
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,159
chameleon I photograph in
724
00:25:05,159 --> 00:25:07,260
Uganda just a few weeks ago and being
725
00:25:07,260 --> 00:25:09,000
able to see it track the eyes and
726
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species that have
727
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different facial structures because
728
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that's essentially how this technology
729
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,740
works is each of these manufacturers
730
00:25:15,740 --> 00:25:18,179
load thousands and thousands of images
731
00:25:18,179 --> 00:25:20,880
into a processing unit on the cameras to
732
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,799
sit there and say you know these are
733
00:25:22,799 --> 00:25:24,179
different types of birds these are
734
00:25:24,179 --> 00:25:25,620
different types of mammals these are
735
00:25:25,620 --> 00:25:27,480
different types of insects for example
736
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,520
now and then it's going to look at what
737
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,140
you're looking at and try to match it
738
00:25:31,140 --> 00:25:33,120
the close that it can so it has an idea
739
00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:35,159
of what the eye is supposed to look like
740
00:25:35,159 --> 00:25:36,840
so that's how it's trying to figure out
741
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:38,640
what's happening and as technology gets
742
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,980
better as processors get better like you
743
00:25:40,980 --> 00:25:42,480
have in the a7r5 where you have a
744
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,400
dedicated processor specifically to AI
745
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,020
learning this is only going to continue
746
00:25:46,020 --> 00:25:47,880
to elevate and get bigger and bigger and
747
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,860
bigger in terms of the feature sets that
748
00:25:49,860 --> 00:25:51,360
you can do with these cameras moving
749
00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:52,860
forward
750
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and then the results are pretty
751
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,799
astounding when you could find yourself
752
00:25:55,799 --> 00:25:58,140
in a situation where you you know this
753
00:25:58,140 --> 00:26:00,299
is a photographing a puffin in Iceland
754
00:26:00,299 --> 00:26:02,520
this is what the Sony A1 with the 200 to
755
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,860
600 millimeter lens turned around I was
756
00:26:04,860 --> 00:26:06,900
photographing a group of puffins
757
00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:09,000
um about five meters to the left of it
758
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,100
turned around saw the sky standing on a
759
00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:13,440
rock on the outcrop turned around took
760
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,600
me about half a second to focus took a
761
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,299
couple shots bird took off got the shot
762
00:26:18,299 --> 00:26:19,620
that I wanted wasn't even intended in
763
00:26:19,620 --> 00:26:21,059
planning for it but if I didn't have
764
00:26:21,059 --> 00:26:24,240
those other that technology iaf in there
765
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:25,679
it would have made a much more difficult
766
00:26:25,679 --> 00:26:27,000
shot and I might not have been able to
767
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,039
capture it
768
00:26:29,039 --> 00:26:31,620
yes I appreciate I'll take that as a
769
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compliment
770
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,140
yeah I was it was a close shot and
771
00:26:34,140 --> 00:26:35,820
because they were they were above me I
772
00:26:35,820 --> 00:26:37,440
was laying on the ground we'll talk
773
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:38,700
about perspective in a second I was
774
00:26:38,700 --> 00:26:39,960
laying on the ground looking up at the
775
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Puffin and that's why I had the the blue
776
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,440
skies in the background kind of just
777
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washed everything else out and it was so
778
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,460
close it was right there at the minimum
779
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Focus distance for that particular runs
780
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which I believe is around 10 feet so I
781
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didn't have to crop in at all this is a
782
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full frame shot 50 megapixels
783
00:26:54,659 --> 00:26:57,179
um but yeah it was again it lucked out
784
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it was a second you know a chance of
785
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nanoseconds you had a just a couple
786
00:27:00,419 --> 00:27:02,460
seconds to grab the shot or you missed
787
00:27:02,460 --> 00:27:04,520
it
788
00:27:04,559 --> 00:27:06,120
all right so let's talk let's keep going
789
00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:08,460
talk about this because we have 35
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minutes left and still a lot to cover
791
00:27:10,740 --> 00:27:12,600
so steady shot modes this is again a
792
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:13,799
something that is not the most sexy
793
00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:15,240
thing to talk about but a lot of people
794
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,460
have these big you know beautiful lenses
795
00:27:17,460 --> 00:27:19,080
that you guys use to photograph wildlife
796
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,840
and I think the majority of people
797
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,520
probably three fourths of people don't
798
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:24,779
even know what the different steady shot
799
00:27:24,779 --> 00:27:27,059
modes are or stabilization modes are on
800
00:27:27,059 --> 00:27:28,919
your particular camera again these are
801
00:27:28,919 --> 00:27:30,960
tied to Sony's latest lenses but they're
802
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,400
similar throughout a lot of the
803
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,400
different manufacturers out there so
804
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,460
the first mode mode number one is by
805
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default that's your standard
806
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stabilization mode this is essentially
807
00:27:41,940 --> 00:27:43,860
just if you don't know the type of
808
00:27:43,860 --> 00:27:44,880
situation you're going to find yourself
809
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,100
you leave it in mode one by default and
810
00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:48,960
it just makes sense the reason for these
811
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modes is a little bit of a back story is
812
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that the gyro inside of the lens mixed
813
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:54,659
in at least with the Sony system you
814
00:27:54,659 --> 00:27:57,120
also have this sensor stabilization work
815
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together depending on the type of
816
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movement to help stabilize things for
817
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you and so when you have a standard
818
00:28:03,779 --> 00:28:05,039
stabilization it's going to do kind of
819
00:28:05,039 --> 00:28:07,380
the generic approach to stabilize a
820
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stabilization based on those the Gyros
821
00:28:09,539 --> 00:28:11,700
mode number two is best for panning
822
00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:13,440
shots so this means that instead of kind
823
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:14,820
of your standard movement that you have
824
00:28:14,820 --> 00:28:16,440
just kind of moving left and back or
825
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,900
left and right in terms of breathing or
826
00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:20,760
whatnot is that you're actually panning
827
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,500
left to right doing full movements left
828
00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:24,480
to right chasing a bird or a motorcycle
829
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,580
whatever it is you're trying to pan so
830
00:28:26,580 --> 00:28:28,620
number two is best for panning
831
00:28:28,620 --> 00:28:30,120
situations
832
00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:32,279
mode number three is for erratic subject
833
00:28:32,279 --> 00:28:34,440
movement this is again in the Wildlife
834
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:35,840
World this is if you're photographing
835
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,980
hummingbirds family you guys photograph
836
00:28:37,980 --> 00:28:39,419
hummingbirds you know that they move
837
00:28:39,419 --> 00:28:41,220
fast and quick in in all different
838
00:28:41,220 --> 00:28:43,140
directions and so this is one of the
839
00:28:43,140 --> 00:28:44,400
best ways that you can make sure that
840
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,020
the stabilization will help you in those
841
00:28:46,020 --> 00:28:47,940
particular modes making sure that the
842
00:28:47,940 --> 00:28:49,440
gyro is accounting for the different
843
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,600
types of movement that are out there so
844
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,520
for your particular lens brand if it's
845
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,559
not with Sony just check your your
846
00:28:55,559 --> 00:28:57,240
manual but make sure that you know it is
847
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,460
a feature that can help you with certain
848
00:28:59,460 --> 00:29:00,720
types of shots especially if you find
849
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:01,919
yourself shooting with slightly slower
850
00:29:01,919 --> 00:29:03,539
shutter speeds that you might have
851
00:29:03,539 --> 00:29:06,440
initially intended to
852
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,240
so being okay to shoot at High isos
853
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,220
as I mentioned before the vast majority
854
00:29:11,220 --> 00:29:12,539
of people that I know that have entered
855
00:29:12,539 --> 00:29:14,400
the wildlife space did so after they
856
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:15,659
first entered another genre of
857
00:29:15,659 --> 00:29:17,400
Photography especially a lot of people
858
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,080
are in the landscape space then all of a
859
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:20,039
sudden they're like me they found
860
00:29:20,039 --> 00:29:21,539
theirselves with opportunities and like
861
00:29:21,539 --> 00:29:22,820
hey I want to learn how to photograph
862
00:29:22,820 --> 00:29:25,380
birds or Bears or leopards or snow
863
00:29:25,380 --> 00:29:27,120
whatever it is and so they find
864
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:28,559
ourselves coming over here and they take
865
00:29:28,559 --> 00:29:30,179
with them the lessons that they learned
866
00:29:30,179 --> 00:29:31,559
especially the landscape photographers
867
00:29:31,559 --> 00:29:33,299
this is the most common where they're
868
00:29:33,299 --> 00:29:34,559
sitting there and they never want to
869
00:29:34,559 --> 00:29:37,260
break free from using ISO 100. now
870
00:29:37,260 --> 00:29:39,240
utopian world with beautiful light which
871
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,260
we'll talk about a little bit later
872
00:29:40,260 --> 00:29:42,840
that's great I'd love for everyone to
873
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,700
shoot ISO 100 for all of your Wildlife
874
00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:47,279
needs it is just not a reality out there
875
00:29:47,279 --> 00:29:49,559
and the reason for that is because you
876
00:29:49,559 --> 00:29:51,179
need to shoot at higher shutter speeds
877
00:29:51,179 --> 00:29:53,100
so higher shutter speeds in order to
878
00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:54,779
counter for like we talked about before
879
00:29:54,779 --> 00:29:57,059
subject movement millimeter length that
880
00:29:57,059 --> 00:29:58,559
you're shooting with you need to shoot
881
00:29:58,559 --> 00:30:01,020
at higher isos in order to counter for
882
00:30:01,020 --> 00:30:03,720
that so the higher isos has been great
883
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,120
because it allows you to really freeze
884
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,220
moments in time that you couldn't
885
00:30:08,220 --> 00:30:12,240
otherwise do and so with the 30 3200 ISO
886
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,039
I was able to shoot I think was at 6400
887
00:30:14,039 --> 00:30:17,220
in order to get the shot perfectly with
888
00:30:17,220 --> 00:30:18,779
both of these two hummingbirds being in
889
00:30:18,779 --> 00:30:20,580
the same plane of focus with the 600
890
00:30:20,580 --> 00:30:22,380
millimeter F4 lens
891
00:30:22,380 --> 00:30:25,740
and the reason that the iso isn't well
892
00:30:25,740 --> 00:30:27,919
a couple things one session technology
893
00:30:27,919 --> 00:30:30,480
is much better than it was before so
894
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:31,799
it's going to handle your noise much
895
00:30:31,799 --> 00:30:33,360
better especially if you're shooting in
896
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,760
daylight or list with some light you're
897
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,020
not going to have as much noise to deal
898
00:30:37,020 --> 00:30:38,279
with just because sensors are better
899
00:30:38,279 --> 00:30:40,440
they're handling them on top of that
900
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,960
post processing tools are much better
901
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,880
than they have been before there are
902
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,679
software out there such as topaz's
903
00:30:46,679 --> 00:30:49,260
denoise on one has their own denoi
904
00:30:49,260 --> 00:30:52,559
software you have pure raw with dxo all
905
00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:54,000
sorts of great options to find yourself
906
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,980
in situations where you're shooting at
907
00:30:55,980 --> 00:30:58,020
incredible high isos that you would have
908
00:30:58,020 --> 00:30:59,760
normally not wanted to and they can
909
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:00,960
clean up the results and give you
910
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,299
amazing results to be able to work with
911
00:31:03,299 --> 00:31:05,460
after the fact I like to use this
912
00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:07,799
particular image this is a photograph of
913
00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:10,200
a female jaguar in the lower Amazon
914
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,140
basin and the panzanol region of Brazil
915
00:31:13,140 --> 00:31:16,799
and this particular shot was shot after
916
00:31:16,799 --> 00:31:20,039
Sunset so Jaguars are the only big cats
917
00:31:20,039 --> 00:31:22,799
that actually hunt in the water almost
918
00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:24,779
all other cats hate water if you have a
919
00:31:24,779 --> 00:31:26,820
house cat you understand this they did
920
00:31:26,820 --> 00:31:29,880
they despise it Jaguars don't Jaguars
921
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,080
hunt in the water they hunt Cayman
922
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,700
capybara so they spend the majority of
923
00:31:32,700 --> 00:31:34,559
their time in the water which is why
924
00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:36,120
they're actually beefier cats they have
925
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:37,740
more muscle mass because they have to
926
00:31:37,740 --> 00:31:39,899
swim through the water to feed for uh to
927
00:31:39,899 --> 00:31:42,360
get most of their food and so to
928
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:43,799
photograph these or to find these you're
929
00:31:43,799 --> 00:31:46,440
on boats in this particular region of
930
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,419
the lower Amazon basin going up and down
931
00:31:48,419 --> 00:31:50,340
the different river systems and it was
932
00:31:50,340 --> 00:31:51,659
at the end of the day after the end of a
933
00:31:51,659 --> 00:31:54,179
safari we saw this female that was out
934
00:31:54,179 --> 00:31:55,740
there and she was hanging out and the
935
00:31:55,740 --> 00:31:57,059
light had already gone down so even
936
00:31:57,059 --> 00:31:59,279
though you're shooting at 3200 ISO there
937
00:31:59,279 --> 00:32:02,159
was almost no visible light left or very
938
00:32:02,159 --> 00:32:03,899
little visible light left and so this
939
00:32:03,899 --> 00:32:06,240
image was incredibly noisy I shot it
940
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:07,860
with a Sony I think it was actually the
941
00:32:07,860 --> 00:32:10,380
a92 at the time and the 400 millimeter F
942
00:32:10,380 --> 00:32:13,260
2.8 at 2.8 trying to ink out as much
943
00:32:13,260 --> 00:32:14,940
light as I possibly can out of this
944
00:32:14,940 --> 00:32:16,860
particular shot and then running it
945
00:32:16,860 --> 00:32:19,620
through topaz at the time being able to
946
00:32:19,620 --> 00:32:21,179
clean up the shot and have an image like
947
00:32:21,179 --> 00:32:22,860
this you wouldn't think that it was shot
948
00:32:22,860 --> 00:32:26,460
way past Twilight with 400 ISO it would
949
00:32:26,460 --> 00:32:28,200
be full of noise but it's a beautiful
950
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,480
shot it might not be something that I
951
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,580
would blow up massive size or license
952
00:32:32,580 --> 00:32:34,500
someone to have on Times Square what not
953
00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:36,059
because you might still find some noise
954
00:32:36,059 --> 00:32:37,799
there but the vast majority of practice
955
00:32:37,799 --> 00:32:40,980
of applications including printing it is
956
00:32:40,980 --> 00:32:43,260
a phenomenal shot still so shooting at
957
00:32:43,260 --> 00:32:45,000
higher isos and being comfortable with
958
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,640
that is a really big lesson for those
959
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,620
that get into this space from another
960
00:32:49,620 --> 00:32:52,320
genre where like I said you'd prefer to
961
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,080
shoot down everything at ISO 100 and I'd
962
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,480
be there with you as well so
963
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,480
so be silent when possible
964
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,960
this is something that has become I want
965
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,940
to say an issue something that's more
966
00:33:05,940 --> 00:33:08,340
prevalent now than it ever has been
967
00:33:08,340 --> 00:33:10,919
before and what I mean by that is that
968
00:33:10,919 --> 00:33:13,380
now you have so many cameras out there
969
00:33:13,380 --> 00:33:15,960
that shoot truly silent so the A9 series
970
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,460
with Sony was the first one in the
971
00:33:17,460 --> 00:33:18,840
mirrorless full-frame space to actually
972
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,600
do this now all the rest of the Sony's
973
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,100
lineup does this you also have this with
974
00:33:23,100 --> 00:33:25,019
Canon and Nikon and a lot of the other
975
00:33:25,019 --> 00:33:29,100
options out there and a funny story
976
00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:31,260
um so when the A9 first came out I found
977
00:33:31,260 --> 00:33:33,659
myself in East Africa no South Africa
978
00:33:33,659 --> 00:33:35,340
actually and I was with a ranger that I
979
00:33:35,340 --> 00:33:38,279
had been known for years I arrived I
980
00:33:38,279 --> 00:33:39,779
dropped myself at the hotel we went on
981
00:33:39,779 --> 00:33:41,340
our first game Drive
982
00:33:41,340 --> 00:33:43,740
and we were out there for three or four
983
00:33:43,740 --> 00:33:45,720
different hours photographing a wide
984
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:46,620
variety of different things we're
985
00:33:46,620 --> 00:33:48,120
stopping we're seeing cheetahs and lions
986
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,760
and rhinos and elephants and after about
987
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,080
three or four hours he turned around to
988
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,399
me and he said hey man
989
00:33:53,399 --> 00:33:55,679
Colby are you gonna take any photos
990
00:33:55,679 --> 00:33:56,820
I go what are you talking about I've
991
00:33:56,820 --> 00:33:58,080
been taking photos the whole time I've
992
00:33:58,080 --> 00:33:59,580
taken like a thousand or two thousand by
993
00:33:59,580 --> 00:34:01,559
now but it was my camera was on Purely
994
00:34:01,559 --> 00:34:03,480
silent he was used to the sound of
995
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,880
digital slrs and what's happened now is
996
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:07,799
that because the silent mode has gotten
997
00:34:07,799 --> 00:34:09,960
so much better with a lot of the issues
998
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,760
that they first started with a lot more
999
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:13,320
these manufacturers have them and now
1000
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,179
when you find yourself on a trip where
1001
00:34:15,179 --> 00:34:16,679
you have a handful of digital SLR
1002
00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:18,540
Shooters out there as well with their
1003
00:34:18,540 --> 00:34:20,639
mechanical shutter going off it's a
1004
00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:23,040
deafening sound it makes a lot of sound
1005
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,960
out there in situations and in some
1006
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,699
situations that actually can still be
1007
00:34:26,699 --> 00:34:28,560
problematic for certain kinds of species
1008
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,020
so if you do have a camera that can
1009
00:34:31,020 --> 00:34:33,239
shoot in silent mode take advantage of
1010
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:34,918
that because the results can be great
1011
00:34:34,918 --> 00:34:36,540
and you find yourself not distracting
1012
00:34:36,540 --> 00:34:38,099
from the animals pulling away from them
1013
00:34:38,099 --> 00:34:39,719
or scaring them off especially when it
1014
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,580
comes to the macro space I can see with
1015
00:34:41,580 --> 00:34:43,139
the Frog there on the left the glass
1016
00:34:43,139 --> 00:34:47,219
frog so silent mode is a big piece
1017
00:34:47,219 --> 00:34:48,899
save custom camera modes this is
1018
00:34:48,899 --> 00:34:50,159
something again most people don't really
1019
00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:51,659
think about this is something I highly
1020
00:34:51,659 --> 00:34:53,760
recommend if you find yourself shooting
1021
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,399
either different types of genres of
1022
00:34:56,399 --> 00:34:59,040
species at the same time or if you find
1023
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,020
yourself dabbling with still and video
1024
00:35:01,020 --> 00:35:04,080
work at the same time so what this is is
1025
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,180
essentially the different custom modes
1026
00:35:06,180 --> 00:35:08,240
you have on your cameras most camera
1027
00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:10,200
manufacturers you see this at the top
1028
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,480
dial this is where you have one two and
1029
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,180
three here again on the Sony A1 and what
1030
00:35:15,180 --> 00:35:18,300
you can do is you can custom save very
1031
00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:20,640
specific settings to each of those
1032
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,800
different modes so if you find yourself
1033
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,020
shooting in a situation well let's move
1034
00:35:25,020 --> 00:35:26,760
forward here I'll come back to that so
1035
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,800
if you find yourself photographing a
1036
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,460
jaguar in in Brazil and then all of a
1037
00:35:32,460 --> 00:35:33,720
sudden the boat takes off and you're
1038
00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:35,640
going down the river and you find
1039
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,339
yourself you know grabbing an egret
1040
00:35:38,339 --> 00:35:40,859
caching a fish those two are going to be
1041
00:35:40,859 --> 00:35:43,440
generally very different exposures very
1042
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,119
different types of shutter speeds and so
1043
00:35:45,119 --> 00:35:46,680
you can save different camera modes
1044
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,240
where you can make sure that you have a
1045
00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:51,300
faster shutter speed on mode one slower
1046
00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:52,740
shutter speed on mode 2 and you can dial
1047
00:35:52,740 --> 00:35:55,440
those in more times than not coming back
1048
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,660
to the settings I actually dial mine in
1049
00:35:57,660 --> 00:35:59,099
for photos and video because I take a
1050
00:35:59,099 --> 00:36:00,480
lot of b-roll of animals when I'm out
1051
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,460
there so when I come across a scene like
1052
00:36:02,460 --> 00:36:04,619
the Jaguar especially if I have the time
1053
00:36:04,619 --> 00:36:06,780
I'll meter for exactly the type of
1054
00:36:06,780 --> 00:36:08,220
exposure I want save those settings
1055
00:36:08,220 --> 00:36:10,560
change into video mode really quickly
1056
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,540
adjust my settings for proper video mode
1057
00:36:12,540 --> 00:36:14,820
and that way for the rest of that
1058
00:36:14,820 --> 00:36:17,160
session I can go from mode 1 to mode 2
1059
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,440
in a second and make sure that I'm
1060
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,119
dilating for each of the different needs
1061
00:36:21,119 --> 00:36:22,140
that I have
1062
00:36:22,140 --> 00:36:24,300
so it's a really great tool like I said
1063
00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:25,680
if you find yourself photographing
1064
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,900
different types of genre or different
1065
00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:30,060
types of species or if you are dabbling
1066
00:36:30,060 --> 00:36:31,920
with still and video work at the same
1067
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,099
time
1068
00:36:34,980 --> 00:36:37,920
so Chase quality light again this is
1069
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,560
something that is relatively
1070
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,940
self-explanatory but is again probably
1071
00:36:41,940 --> 00:36:45,180
the biggest cause of people wanting to
1072
00:36:45,180 --> 00:36:47,060
elevate their images to be better
1073
00:36:47,060 --> 00:36:49,260
oftentimes when I do events like this I
1074
00:36:49,260 --> 00:36:51,420
also do portfolio reviews and I walk
1075
00:36:51,420 --> 00:36:52,680
through and talk to people about their
1076
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:53,700
stuff and they're showing me their
1077
00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:55,079
images and it might be a beautiful
1078
00:36:55,079 --> 00:36:56,760
species but it was taking at the wrong
1079
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,619
time of day and it's backlit and things
1080
00:36:58,619 --> 00:37:00,119
just you don't get the detail that you
1081
00:37:00,119 --> 00:37:00,900
want
1082
00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:02,820
shooting in the right kind of light
1083
00:37:02,820 --> 00:37:06,420
makes a huge difference no matter how
1084
00:37:06,420 --> 00:37:08,220
skilled you are at Photoshop or
1085
00:37:08,220 --> 00:37:10,320
Lightroom or Capture One or whatever
1086
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,579
software you use you can't elevate a bad
1087
00:37:14,579 --> 00:37:17,280
photo into an amazing one you can make a
1088
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,740
bad photo less bad
1089
00:37:19,740 --> 00:37:22,200
but you can't necessarily turn it into
1090
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,079
an epic shot and a large portion of
1091
00:37:25,079 --> 00:37:26,940
Photography in general no matter what
1092
00:37:26,940 --> 00:37:28,740
genre you're talking about is always
1093
00:37:28,740 --> 00:37:32,280
about wanting to find the best light
1094
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,560
possible for wildlife photography this
1095
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:35,880
generally means that the beginning or
1096
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,220
the tail ends of the day like anything
1097
00:37:38,220 --> 00:37:41,160
is taken really outside but it makes a
1098
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:42,720
huge difference in the quality of light
1099
00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:44,579
that you're trying to go for and this is
1100
00:37:44,579 --> 00:37:46,079
where you can find yourself shooting at
1101
00:37:46,079 --> 00:37:48,300
lower isos than you might you know
1102
00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:50,579
otherwise not be able to because of
1103
00:37:50,579 --> 00:37:52,619
there actually is Light Within the scene
1104
00:37:52,619 --> 00:37:54,300
that can allow you to really capture
1105
00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:57,599
those colors and that that contrast
1106
00:37:57,599 --> 00:37:59,099
and the same thing can be happening it's
1107
00:37:59,099 --> 00:38:00,660
not just the early morning light you get
1108
00:38:00,660 --> 00:38:02,940
like this Jaguar again in Brazil it can
1109
00:38:02,940 --> 00:38:05,520
also be overcast Skies overcast skies
1110
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:06,900
are great for wildlife photographers
1111
00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:08,579
every time I go to places like Costa
1112
00:38:08,579 --> 00:38:10,740
Rica where this Keel build toucan was
1113
00:38:10,740 --> 00:38:13,140
taken I love overcast skies because it
1114
00:38:13,140 --> 00:38:14,460
gives me that even light even though
1115
00:38:14,460 --> 00:38:15,960
it's a little bit darker that means that
1116
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,460
I know I'm not gonna have any hot spots
1117
00:38:17,460 --> 00:38:18,720
it's going to be a really great easy
1118
00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:20,160
light to work with especially when it be
1119
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,380
in a post-process really bring back some
1120
00:38:22,380 --> 00:38:23,640
of those colors that might have been a
1121
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,079
little bit flat because it was taken
1122
00:38:25,079 --> 00:38:27,300
during overcast but really saves things
1123
00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:29,820
and and creates to me some really unique
1124
00:38:29,820 --> 00:38:31,440
images
1125
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,880
and then the same thing can be said
1126
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,740
about macro photography
1127
00:38:34,740 --> 00:38:37,560
so macro photography again I have a talk
1128
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,359
at two o'clock specifically about this
1129
00:38:39,359 --> 00:38:42,240
but the beautiful thing about Flash is
1130
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:45,119
that when done right it allows you to
1131
00:38:45,119 --> 00:38:46,800
pull out so many different colors that
1132
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,900
you couldn't see naturally which is
1133
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:51,540
really amazing this is a very unique and
1134
00:38:51,540 --> 00:38:53,520
rare poison dart frog that I
1135
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,200
photographed actually in the Amazon for
1136
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,420
that same YouTube series with b h you
1137
00:38:57,420 --> 00:38:58,680
guys can see
1138
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,800
um on on YouTube but it was amazing to
1139
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,200
use the off-camera flash system to be
1140
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,820
able to pull away with results like this
1141
00:39:05,820 --> 00:39:07,560
with beautiful color beautiful detail
1142
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,060
pull all the different pieces together
1143
00:39:09,060 --> 00:39:10,740
and the only way I was able to do that
1144
00:39:10,740 --> 00:39:12,480
was being able to use Flash within my
1145
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,020
current setup
1146
00:39:15,839 --> 00:39:18,540
so don't forget your macro lens this is
1147
00:39:18,540 --> 00:39:20,940
again something that we we talked a bit
1148
00:39:20,940 --> 00:39:22,200
about
1149
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,460
um this is that idea that a lot of
1150
00:39:26,460 --> 00:39:28,440
photographers
1151
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,960
kind of shrug off this idea of wildlife
1152
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,540
photography from a macro space but this
1153
00:39:33,540 --> 00:39:35,400
is probably the most accessible kind of
1154
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:36,660
wildlife photography that most people
1155
00:39:36,660 --> 00:39:38,160
can get into there are certainly
1156
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:39,720
different types of bird species that you
1157
00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:41,040
can probably find in most of your
1158
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:42,540
backyards whether you guys are here for
1159
00:39:42,540 --> 00:39:44,640
Monterey or around California around the
1160
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:45,780
United States or anywhere you're
1161
00:39:45,780 --> 00:39:47,520
traveling around the world but there's
1162
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,800
so many amazing creatures that you can
1163
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,260
truly find in your own your Parks your
1164
00:39:52,260 --> 00:39:54,780
state parks your backyard depending on
1165
00:39:54,780 --> 00:39:57,180
where you live that you can use macro
1166
00:39:57,180 --> 00:39:59,579
Wildlife photography to really learn to
1167
00:39:59,579 --> 00:40:02,280
take advantage of to to apply new
1168
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,440
techniques to to enjoy new challenges of
1169
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,420
using Flash and Come Away with some
1170
00:40:06,420 --> 00:40:08,940
really amazing results
1171
00:40:08,940 --> 00:40:11,280
um to me for the last couple years it's
1172
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,440
really opened my eyes to a whole
1173
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,740
different genre style of Photography
1174
00:40:16,740 --> 00:40:18,300
it's really caused me to think more
1175
00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:20,760
proactively about the subjects I like to
1176
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,859
photograph uh the different kinds of
1177
00:40:22,859 --> 00:40:25,680
images I like to go after and to use
1178
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,920
Flash as in a way to elevate the type of
1179
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:29,940
work that I'm trying to do with
1180
00:40:29,940 --> 00:40:31,920
something five years ago I would have
1181
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:33,180
said the same thing that most of you
1182
00:40:33,180 --> 00:40:35,040
guys that don't shoot flasks or that
1183
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:36,780
don't know flash probably said the same
1184
00:40:36,780 --> 00:40:38,339
thing which is I'm a natural light
1185
00:40:38,339 --> 00:40:40,140
photographer it's not something that's
1186
00:40:40,140 --> 00:40:41,160
for me
1187
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,260
the reality is if you guys I mean you
1188
00:40:43,260 --> 00:40:44,460
guys are here you guys probably will
1189
00:40:44,460 --> 00:40:46,020
watch Scott kelby's talk tomorrow about
1190
00:40:46,020 --> 00:40:47,520
Flash he's kind of The Flash King from
1191
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,740
the education standpoint like he'll tell
1192
00:40:49,740 --> 00:40:53,099
you that most people that say that don't
1193
00:40:53,099 --> 00:40:55,560
know flash if you know flash you know
1194
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,060
how to do it well you know how it can
1195
00:40:57,060 --> 00:40:59,280
help in certain kinds of situations it
1196
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,320
can truly be beneficial for certain
1197
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,240
kinds of Photography and from the
1198
00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:05,400
wildlife space I'm personally most
1199
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,980
comfortable using this in these types of
1200
00:41:07,980 --> 00:41:10,020
environments rather than with the bigger
1201
00:41:10,020 --> 00:41:11,579
mammals or species that a little bit
1202
00:41:11,579 --> 00:41:13,320
more susceptible to flash and how it
1203
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:14,940
affects their eyes and things like that
1204
00:41:14,940 --> 00:41:16,920
compared to the diurnal animals that you
1205
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,540
get in the macro space the amphibians
1206
00:41:18,540 --> 00:41:20,700
and the reptiles and the insects but it
1207
00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:22,140
really opens up like I said a lot of
1208
00:41:22,140 --> 00:41:23,460
doors stuff you guys can do in your own
1209
00:41:23,460 --> 00:41:25,920
backyard and like I said I won't I won't
1210
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,660
focus too much on that because we will
1211
00:41:27,660 --> 00:41:29,820
have a whole conversation about that for
1212
00:41:29,820 --> 00:41:31,320
those that have the ability to join at
1213
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,079
two o'clock for that specific talk
1214
00:41:34,079 --> 00:41:35,880
so let's talk about a few different case
1215
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:37,500
studies so we can talk actually about
1216
00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:39,599
settings and kind of workflow process
1217
00:41:39,599 --> 00:41:41,520
what I'm thinking about and kind of go
1218
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:42,660
from there
1219
00:41:42,660 --> 00:41:45,359
so Jaguar on the move this is again a
1220
00:41:45,359 --> 00:41:47,339
similar image from not too many minutes
1221
00:41:47,339 --> 00:41:48,900
after one of the images I shared a few
1222
00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:51,060
minutes ago this was a particular shot
1223
00:41:51,060 --> 00:41:53,880
of a female Jaguar that was known in
1224
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:55,500
this particular region of the river
1225
00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:57,720
systems we were navigating and what was
1226
00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:00,480
happening is that she was in hunting
1227
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,660
mode so she had two Cubs
1228
00:42:02,660 --> 00:42:05,040
mostly more sub adults than Cubs but two
1229
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:06,300
little ones that she was feeding and
1230
00:42:06,300 --> 00:42:08,579
still hadn't fully trained so I knew
1231
00:42:08,579 --> 00:42:09,780
that in the morning she was going out
1232
00:42:09,780 --> 00:42:11,880
hunting and generally she's moving from
1233
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:13,380
left to right or right to left along the
1234
00:42:13,380 --> 00:42:15,660
Riverbanks and having an idea of where
1235
00:42:15,660 --> 00:42:17,579
she might go helps with anticipating the
1236
00:42:17,579 --> 00:42:19,619
movement so what would happen is that as
1237
00:42:19,619 --> 00:42:21,180
we're down there I'm talking to my boat
1238
00:42:21,180 --> 00:42:23,339
driver I'm a guy that we have down there
1239
00:42:23,339 --> 00:42:25,980
that I work with on a regular basis and
1240
00:42:25,980 --> 00:42:27,119
I sit there and I'm going to see where
1241
00:42:27,119 --> 00:42:29,460
the Jaguar is when we first arrive and
1242
00:42:29,460 --> 00:42:31,800
then I'm gonna try to predict
1243
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,140
where that creature is going to go and
1244
00:42:34,140 --> 00:42:35,700
this comes from studying the creatures
1245
00:42:35,700 --> 00:42:37,079
that you're photographing or if you
1246
00:42:37,079 --> 00:42:38,040
don't have the time or if you're
1247
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:39,180
visiting a place for the first time
1248
00:42:39,180 --> 00:42:41,099
finding guides that know what they're
1249
00:42:41,099 --> 00:42:42,540
doing because this makes the biggest
1250
00:42:42,540 --> 00:42:44,099
difference when it comes to working on a
1251
00:42:44,099 --> 00:42:46,380
safari of any kind whether you're in
1252
00:42:46,380 --> 00:42:48,599
Brazil or in Africa is to work with
1253
00:42:48,599 --> 00:42:49,800
people that can get you in the right
1254
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,440
positions at the right time with the
1255
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,000
right gear and having everything kind of
1256
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,980
come together but in this particular
1257
00:42:55,980 --> 00:42:58,079
situation I saw her
1258
00:42:58,079 --> 00:43:01,319
um it was about 100 meters further to
1259
00:43:01,319 --> 00:43:02,640
the right but she was moving left to
1260
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,680
right I know from previous experience
1261
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,560
with this particular female that she
1262
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,359
liked to jump on these logs to look for
1263
00:43:09,359 --> 00:43:11,400
cayman she would go up there she'd look
1264
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:12,720
around to see if there's anything that
1265
00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:14,520
she could pounce on because the Caymans
1266
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:15,780
are too fast in the water for them to
1267
00:43:15,780 --> 00:43:17,819
swim after them so they're lunge at them
1268
00:43:17,819 --> 00:43:20,339
to try to go hunting so I knew exactly
1269
00:43:20,339 --> 00:43:21,960
where I felt she was going to be
1270
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,119
positioned our boat while everyone else
1271
00:43:24,119 --> 00:43:25,380
that was out there on this particular
1272
00:43:25,380 --> 00:43:27,720
river system was all photographing her
1273
00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:30,000
behind weeds and as walking around no
1274
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,740
one getting any good shots and then I
1275
00:43:31,740 --> 00:43:33,660
parked our boat right in front of the
1276
00:43:33,660 --> 00:43:34,920
exact tree I thought she was going to go
1277
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,740
on to dialed in for all my clients sat
1278
00:43:37,740 --> 00:43:39,119
there and waited for about six minutes
1279
00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:41,339
and sure enough she came
1280
00:43:41,339 --> 00:43:44,940
positioned herself it jumped up and gave
1281
00:43:44,940 --> 00:43:46,740
us a couple of these shots looking
1282
00:43:46,740 --> 00:43:49,140
straight down the goal of the tree that
1283
00:43:49,140 --> 00:43:51,300
had that was downed so positioning
1284
00:43:51,300 --> 00:43:53,280
yourself dialing in your shutter speed
1285
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,020
if you want to get that jumping movement
1286
00:43:55,020 --> 00:43:56,940
of what's happening and dialing in all
1287
00:43:56,940 --> 00:43:58,380
the different features that count for
1288
00:43:58,380 --> 00:43:59,940
the specific kind of light that you have
1289
00:43:59,940 --> 00:44:01,859
these are great situations where you
1290
00:44:01,859 --> 00:44:04,740
have that time as we were waiting for
1291
00:44:04,740 --> 00:44:06,960
the Jaguar to approach to really dial in
1292
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:08,819
our exposure so even though I had myself
1293
00:44:08,819 --> 00:44:10,980
the rest of my workshop clients looking
1294
00:44:10,980 --> 00:44:13,319
at the just the tree branch and the
1295
00:44:13,319 --> 00:44:15,060
light that was there dial in all your
1296
00:44:15,060 --> 00:44:16,859
settings so that you're not fumbling
1297
00:44:16,859 --> 00:44:18,780
around once the ACT creature actually
1298
00:44:18,780 --> 00:44:21,300
gets there dial it in there wait for it
1299
00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:23,760
jumped up turned around had about two
1300
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:24,839
and a half seconds of it looking
1301
00:44:24,839 --> 00:44:27,000
straight down and then I continued to
1302
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,460
walk down eventually sat down and we got
1303
00:44:29,460 --> 00:44:30,480
some great portrait shots on other
1304
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,040
things afterwards but these were some of
1305
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:33,300
my favorite whereas looking straight
1306
00:44:33,300 --> 00:44:35,520
down at you making eye contact getting
1307
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:36,960
that kind of look through the window of
1308
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:38,880
the soul but for this particular case
1309
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,280
study it's that idea of anticipating
1310
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,680
moments of being able to prepare
1311
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,839
yourself with beautiful light getting up
1312
00:44:45,839 --> 00:44:47,280
early in the morning every morning out
1313
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:48,839
there we're out around five o'clock in
1314
00:44:48,839 --> 00:44:50,640
the morning getting out on the water so
1315
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:51,839
we're in the right places at the right
1316
00:44:51,839 --> 00:44:53,760
time and of course making sure everyone
1317
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,980
has the right gear as I mentioned before
1318
00:44:55,980 --> 00:44:57,839
usually when I'm photographing larger
1319
00:44:57,839 --> 00:45:00,300
Predators I love the 400 millimeter F
1320
00:45:00,300 --> 00:45:03,480
2.8 because the background bokeh that
1321
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,760
you get at 2.8 with that particular lens
1322
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,300
mixed in with the compression is just
1323
00:45:08,300 --> 00:45:11,760
it's addictive to be honest
1324
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,099
um but it is that combined with all the
1325
00:45:14,099 --> 00:45:15,000
different features kind of coming
1326
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:16,980
together that's how we pulled off this
1327
00:45:16,980 --> 00:45:19,319
shot so participation right time right
1328
00:45:19,319 --> 00:45:21,480
place right gear dialing your settings
1329
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,500
and waiting for the shot
1330
00:45:24,599 --> 00:45:27,540
so birds in Flight as we talked about
1331
00:45:27,540 --> 00:45:31,020
before this is that idea of making sure
1332
00:45:31,020 --> 00:45:32,819
that your settings are accounting for
1333
00:45:32,819 --> 00:45:35,099
movement speed and I'll talk a little
1334
00:45:35,099 --> 00:45:37,680
bit more about uh perch and take off
1335
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,020
shots in a second in another case study
1336
00:45:40,020 --> 00:45:42,599
but in this particular case making sure
1337
00:45:42,599 --> 00:45:44,099
that you're having you're dialing in
1338
00:45:44,099 --> 00:45:46,380
using high enough ISO so in this case it
1339
00:45:46,380 --> 00:45:48,960
was ISO 100 we're shooting at F4 because
1340
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,119
I'm shooting with the 600 millimeter F4
1341
00:45:51,119 --> 00:45:53,880
and so the plan of focus in most of the
1342
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:55,680
situations where I try to place myself
1343
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,660
especially when it comes to larger birds
1344
00:45:57,660 --> 00:46:00,420
like bald eagles is that I'm placing
1345
00:46:00,420 --> 00:46:02,900
myself to get the shots that are more
1346
00:46:02,900 --> 00:46:04,980
parallel or I guess more I guess more
1347
00:46:04,980 --> 00:46:07,079
perpendicular for the shot I'm trying to
1348
00:46:07,079 --> 00:46:08,579
get which means that my plan of focus is
1349
00:46:08,579 --> 00:46:09,839
going to be the same I don't need to
1350
00:46:09,839 --> 00:46:11,880
worry about shooting instead of f4 I can
1351
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,520
shoot a you know A 5.6 F4 gives me
1352
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:15,839
enough to make sure that the wing tips
1353
00:46:15,839 --> 00:46:17,700
are sharp the birds and sharp as long as
1354
00:46:17,700 --> 00:46:19,800
I nail focus and then one two
1355
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,260
thousandths of a second because bald
1356
00:46:22,260 --> 00:46:25,020
eagles don't move that fast there are
1357
00:46:25,020 --> 00:46:26,400
actually kind of slow Birds if you've
1358
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,560
ever seen them actually flying but when
1359
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:30,420
they're Landing they do or they can pick
1360
00:46:30,420 --> 00:46:31,980
up speed and have quick jolts of
1361
00:46:31,980 --> 00:46:33,900
movement so I always try to make sure
1362
00:46:33,900 --> 00:46:35,640
that if it's General in Flight with bald
1363
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:37,200
eagles usually I'm shooting more so
1364
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,839
around our thousands or 1200 of a second
1365
00:46:39,839 --> 00:46:42,180
somewhere around that 1250 but when it
1366
00:46:42,180 --> 00:46:43,800
actually comes to them Landing feeding
1367
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,380
or fighting I usually quickly jump up my
1368
00:46:46,380 --> 00:46:47,579
shutter speed for those particular
1369
00:46:47,579 --> 00:46:49,560
moments usually in these types of
1370
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,020
situations I'll have my ISO set on to
1371
00:46:52,020 --> 00:46:54,540
Auto and then I'll drop my exposure
1372
00:46:54,540 --> 00:46:55,920
compensation which essentially drops
1373
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:57,900
that ISO down just a little bit by about
1374
00:46:57,900 --> 00:47:00,119
a stop just in case so I don't blow out
1375
00:47:00,119 --> 00:47:01,920
the highlights usually there's more snow
1376
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:03,599
on these situations for the bald eagles
1377
00:47:03,599 --> 00:47:05,460
with the white feathers snow in the
1378
00:47:05,460 --> 00:47:06,839
background but this just helps worry
1379
00:47:06,839 --> 00:47:08,880
about overblowing your highlights and
1380
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:10,560
then make sure that the rest of the
1381
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,000
settings are all dialed in and then
1382
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:13,500
you're just tracking the subject as it's
1383
00:47:13,500 --> 00:47:15,240
coming along again taking advantage of
1384
00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:16,980
30 frames per second I probably should
1385
00:47:16,980 --> 00:47:18,480
should have shown the sister images here
1386
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,280
we have the different movements of the
1387
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:21,960
birds and the feathers but this was by
1388
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,000
far my favorite get the blood on the
1389
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:25,680
beak of the eagle had just finished
1390
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,839
fishing on the salmon going in for the
1391
00:47:27,839 --> 00:47:29,940
landing it was you know all the pieces
1392
00:47:29,940 --> 00:47:32,220
kind of coming together but those were
1393
00:47:32,220 --> 00:47:34,200
those were the different elements of the
1394
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:35,819
exposure that I thought were most
1395
00:47:35,819 --> 00:47:38,520
important and why I chose to use them
1396
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:40,800
and when you mix that with again bold or
1397
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:42,660
sorry hummingbirds as we talked about
1398
00:47:42,660 --> 00:47:44,160
before this is where we had to should
1399
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,619
hire isos this is a similar situation
1400
00:47:46,619 --> 00:47:48,780
that other photo that I shared but still
1401
00:47:48,780 --> 00:47:51,540
using the 600 millimeter F4 and this is
1402
00:47:51,540 --> 00:47:52,859
where I positioned myself this was
1403
00:47:52,859 --> 00:47:55,740
actually at a it was near a feeder in
1404
00:47:55,740 --> 00:47:57,599
quetzales National Park in Costa Rica
1405
00:47:57,599 --> 00:48:00,119
shooting with a 600 millimeter F4 I
1406
00:48:00,119 --> 00:48:02,220
literally measured out from the feeder
1407
00:48:02,220 --> 00:48:04,680
to figure out exactly where 12 feet was
1408
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,660
which is the minimum Focus distance for
1409
00:48:06,660 --> 00:48:08,700
the 600 millimeter F4 and I literally
1410
00:48:08,700 --> 00:48:10,200
had to have my tripod and gimbal head
1411
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,900
against the the back wall of the area
1412
00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:14,880
that we were at to get that minimum
1413
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:16,619
Focus distance knowing that I was going
1414
00:48:16,619 --> 00:48:18,060
to get everything in Focus because they
1415
00:48:18,060 --> 00:48:19,619
were always coming in kind of at the
1416
00:48:19,619 --> 00:48:21,540
side angles and then jumping up and
1417
00:48:21,540 --> 00:48:22,980
shooting with that higher shutter speed
1418
00:48:22,980 --> 00:48:24,839
making sure giving you a higher
1419
00:48:24,839 --> 00:48:27,060
probability to get the mostly tack chart
1420
00:48:27,060 --> 00:48:28,500
in the winds it's very difficult to get
1421
00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:30,420
tack shark Wing shots when it comes to
1422
00:48:30,420 --> 00:48:32,040
hummingbirds because they move so fast
1423
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:33,960
but being able to pull two of them
1424
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,079
together in a situation like this
1425
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:39,240
pulling in your ISO using sometimes
1426
00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:40,260
they're feeling like this they're
1427
00:48:40,260 --> 00:48:42,060
actually hanging around for a second or
1428
00:48:42,060 --> 00:48:44,460
two as they go for the nectar and so you
1429
00:48:44,460 --> 00:48:45,900
actually can get eye out of focus to
1430
00:48:45,900 --> 00:48:47,099
play a big role in these types of
1431
00:48:47,099 --> 00:48:48,960
situations which is pretty amazing to
1432
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:50,460
think about just how fast these these
1433
00:48:50,460 --> 00:48:53,760
subjects move but it can be a lot of fun
1434
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,440
and the last one for birds in Flight I
1435
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,540
actually like to talk about using flash
1436
00:48:57,540 --> 00:48:59,880
at night so this is again in Costa Rica
1437
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:01,740
this is actually photographing fruit
1438
00:49:01,740 --> 00:49:05,420
bats we use a four camera or four flash
1439
00:49:05,420 --> 00:49:09,599
four flash off-camera setup and so we
1440
00:49:09,599 --> 00:49:12,260
set it up around a particular
1441
00:49:12,260 --> 00:49:15,180
plant uh giving it a little bit of
1442
00:49:15,180 --> 00:49:17,160
nectar this particular area is known to
1443
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,140
do this with some of the bats know about
1444
00:49:19,140 --> 00:49:21,480
this particular experience so they come
1445
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,460
out and then dialing in your settings
1446
00:49:23,460 --> 00:49:25,920
from there now this was shot with the
1447
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:30,060
Sony A1 7200 F 2.8 G Master because we
1448
00:49:30,060 --> 00:49:32,160
weren't that far away but it's super
1449
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,200
dark so what happens is that we light up
1450
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,960
the the plant to begin with manual focus
1451
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:39,180
for the front of the plant
1452
00:49:39,180 --> 00:49:41,400
shoot at a higher aperture than we might
1453
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:43,680
necessarily normally do so F22 you are
1454
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,119
going to get some diffraction issues
1455
00:49:45,119 --> 00:49:47,339
which essentially means that it's going
1456
00:49:47,339 --> 00:49:49,079
to be a little bit soft in the overall
1457
00:49:49,079 --> 00:49:51,359
results diffraction we can have a whole
1458
00:49:51,359 --> 00:49:52,440
conversation about what that actually
1459
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:53,819
means essentially when you shoot up too
1460
00:49:53,819 --> 00:49:56,220
high of an aperture light is hitting
1461
00:49:56,220 --> 00:49:57,839
your sensor at different depths because
1462
00:49:57,839 --> 00:50:00,480
of how the square or the the rectangle
1463
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:03,359
sensor Works in relation to a round lens
1464
00:50:03,359 --> 00:50:05,520
opening so that as light hits the
1465
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:06,839
different elements of the sensor
1466
00:50:06,839 --> 00:50:09,060
different portions it has to travel
1467
00:50:09,060 --> 00:50:10,680
distance difference or different
1468
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,720
distances in order to actually reach the
1469
00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:15,240
sensor and so this is most common when
1470
00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:17,400
you shoot at higher apertures in this
1471
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,380
case I'm willing to sacrifice and get
1472
00:50:19,380 --> 00:50:21,480
some diffraction we'll have to correct
1473
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:22,800
for that with sharpening and post
1474
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,500
production so that I had a higher chance
1475
00:50:25,500 --> 00:50:27,660
because I was manual focusing at dark
1476
00:50:27,660 --> 00:50:31,020
with off-camera flash in order to still
1477
00:50:31,020 --> 00:50:32,880
get everything in Focus have tack sharp
1478
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,220
results for these particular shots and
1479
00:50:35,220 --> 00:50:36,720
then the interesting thing about using
1480
00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:38,819
flash specifically with moving subjects
1481
00:50:38,819 --> 00:50:41,280
like cats or hummingbirds is that you
1482
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:43,319
don't need to use high shutter speeds
1483
00:50:43,319 --> 00:50:46,500
first you can't because most cameras
1484
00:50:46,500 --> 00:50:48,660
can't go over 1 200th of a second except
1485
00:50:48,660 --> 00:50:49,920
for the Sony A1 which is the only
1486
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:51,480
mirrorless camera only camera in the
1487
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:53,339
world I think that actually can shoot at
1488
00:50:53,339 --> 00:50:55,559
1 400th of a second for a flash sync
1489
00:50:55,559 --> 00:50:57,540
speed but even 1 400th of a second
1490
00:50:57,540 --> 00:50:58,920
during daylight would be not even
1491
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:00,660
remotely fast enough for these
1492
00:51:00,660 --> 00:51:02,700
situations but when you're using flash
1493
00:51:02,700 --> 00:51:04,920
because you're overpowering all the
1494
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:06,599
natural light is there or the lack of
1495
00:51:06,599 --> 00:51:08,400
light you can shoot at very low shutter
1496
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,140
speeds and actually still get tack shark
1497
00:51:10,140 --> 00:51:12,059
results in a lot of situations it's
1498
00:51:12,059 --> 00:51:13,920
pretty amazing so these bats are moving
1499
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:15,900
high speeds almost like hummingbirds but
1500
00:51:15,900 --> 00:51:18,059
shooting at 125th of a second you can
1501
00:51:18,059 --> 00:51:20,579
still get that tack sharp results using
1502
00:51:20,579 --> 00:51:23,579
Flash in these situations
1503
00:51:23,579 --> 00:51:25,859
so perch burden and take off this is
1504
00:51:25,859 --> 00:51:27,000
something I just like to talk
1505
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:28,740
specifically about with some of the
1506
00:51:28,740 --> 00:51:30,780
larger species of birds this is again
1507
00:51:30,780 --> 00:51:32,579
bald eagles in Alaska
1508
00:51:32,579 --> 00:51:35,280
this again comes down to knowing the
1509
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:36,540
types of species that you're trying to
1510
00:51:36,540 --> 00:51:39,000
photograph so knowing the type of
1511
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:40,020
species that you're trying to photograph
1512
00:51:40,020 --> 00:51:42,839
makes a big difference because then you
1513
00:51:42,839 --> 00:51:44,760
can know the Tells for when certain
1514
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,619
species are going to do very specific
1515
00:51:46,619 --> 00:51:49,020
things so for me when I'm looking at
1516
00:51:49,020 --> 00:51:51,780
Birds perched I'm looking at I'm looking
1517
00:51:51,780 --> 00:51:53,220
at their eyes I'm looking at their head
1518
00:51:53,220 --> 00:51:54,599
movement I'm looking if they're moving
1519
00:51:54,599 --> 00:51:57,599
around their feet and their talons if
1520
00:51:57,599 --> 00:51:58,920
they've gone especially with Bald Eagles
1521
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:00,720
or the larger Raptors if they just gone
1522
00:52:00,720 --> 00:52:02,280
the bathroom oftentimes that means
1523
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:03,599
they're lightening their load they're
1524
00:52:03,599 --> 00:52:05,700
getting ready to take off and so the
1525
00:52:05,700 --> 00:52:07,500
whole point of that is to know when you
1526
00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:09,599
can expect them to get those shots where
1527
00:52:09,599 --> 00:52:11,819
they've just taken off this it's a
1528
00:52:11,819 --> 00:52:13,079
little bit busy in the background for
1529
00:52:13,079 --> 00:52:14,819
this particular shot but that's where
1530
00:52:14,819 --> 00:52:15,960
you get the shots where the
1531
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:17,880
photographers are literally sitting in
1532
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:19,740
dialing into that one bird waiting for
1533
00:52:19,740 --> 00:52:21,420
that takeoff moment and then you're
1534
00:52:21,420 --> 00:52:22,920
dialing your settings accordingly
1535
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:24,660
because again most people when you're
1536
00:52:24,660 --> 00:52:26,640
shooting or photographing birds that are
1537
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,460
perched you're shooting at lower shutter
1538
00:52:29,460 --> 00:52:31,319
speeds because their Birds aren't moving
1539
00:52:31,319 --> 00:52:33,300
very much so that you can keep your isos
1540
00:52:33,300 --> 00:52:35,460
down but if that bird suddenly takes off
1541
00:52:35,460 --> 00:52:36,839
and you're shooting at a lower shutter
1542
00:52:36,839 --> 00:52:39,180
speed what happens with your results
1543
00:52:39,180 --> 00:52:41,400
you get a blurry bird that just took off
1544
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,280
from a perch so I like to mention this
1545
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,200
in terms of our case study because it
1546
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:48,119
determines the type of intent that you
1547
00:52:48,119 --> 00:52:49,319
have when you're trying to capture these
1548
00:52:49,319 --> 00:52:51,300
types of images if you want to get that
1549
00:52:51,300 --> 00:52:53,280
shot of the bird reaching off the perch
1550
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,200
and going be prepared have your settings
1551
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:56,819
dialed in for that shoot at a higher
1552
00:52:56,819 --> 00:52:59,640
shutter speed make sure your ISO zone or
1553
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:00,859
your
1554
00:53:00,859 --> 00:53:03,660
autofocus zone is correctly set or
1555
00:53:03,660 --> 00:53:04,859
you're sitting on tracking mode like
1556
00:53:04,859 --> 00:53:06,660
whatever it is dial in the settings for
1557
00:53:06,660 --> 00:53:08,819
the shot you want to get rather than the
1558
00:53:08,819 --> 00:53:10,140
spaghetti test and just hope you're
1559
00:53:10,140 --> 00:53:12,359
going to get all of it I find if I'm
1560
00:53:12,359 --> 00:53:13,800
very specific in what I'm trying to get
1561
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:15,660
I have a much higher success rate than
1562
00:53:15,660 --> 00:53:17,099
if I'm just trying to get everything all
1563
00:53:17,099 --> 00:53:18,720
at once
1564
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:20,520
uh okay we have a few more quickly and
1565
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:22,140
we only have a few more minutes so the
1566
00:53:22,140 --> 00:53:23,700
vertical shot again this is something I
1567
00:53:23,700 --> 00:53:25,020
like to mention because the vast
1568
00:53:25,020 --> 00:53:26,640
majority of wildlife photographers shoot
1569
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:28,380
everything horizontally
1570
00:53:28,380 --> 00:53:30,660
and I understand the reason for that and
1571
00:53:30,660 --> 00:53:31,740
there's actually some technical reason
1572
00:53:31,740 --> 00:53:33,780
for that is because most of our gyro or
1573
00:53:33,780 --> 00:53:35,640
IBS systems are actually built more so
1574
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:37,800
for horizontal movement not once you go
1575
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:39,300
vertical on track subjects so if you're
1576
00:53:39,300 --> 00:53:41,220
tracking subjects that are are moving
1577
00:53:41,220 --> 00:53:43,440
shoot horizontal otherwise you're going
1578
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:44,940
to get horrible results no matter what
1579
00:53:44,940 --> 00:53:46,319
kind of manufacturer just doesn't work
1580
00:53:46,319 --> 00:53:48,540
the same and then you can just re-crop
1581
00:53:48,540 --> 00:53:49,800
afterwards if you want to create a
1582
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,900
vertical shot but for situations like
1583
00:53:51,900 --> 00:53:53,700
this where there's either static or
1584
00:53:53,700 --> 00:53:54,960
there you know there's not going to be
1585
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:56,700
too much leeway movement get a couple of
1586
00:53:56,700 --> 00:53:57,780
your horizontal shot you know you're
1587
00:53:57,780 --> 00:53:59,460
going to get and then quickly rotate
1588
00:53:59,460 --> 00:54:01,319
your camera get a couple of verticals as
1589
00:54:01,319 --> 00:54:03,300
well some great shots you can get this
1590
00:54:03,300 --> 00:54:04,680
is how you all the people are getting
1591
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:06,059
the shots that you get covers of
1592
00:54:06,059 --> 00:54:07,740
magazines all sorts of other fun stuff
1593
00:54:07,740 --> 00:54:09,720
vertical shots are super important and
1594
00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:11,400
it's something that I actively have to
1595
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,020
remind my clients of when they're out
1596
00:54:13,020 --> 00:54:14,160
there in the field because like I said
1597
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,800
you get done with a shooting session and
1598
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,500
95 of images will all be horizontal so
1599
00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:20,880
mix it up a little bit depending on the
1600
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:22,140
situation
1601
00:54:22,140 --> 00:54:24,180
and then I think the last one we have
1602
00:54:24,180 --> 00:54:26,220
here is the the water level shot
1603
00:54:26,220 --> 00:54:28,859
this is mostly about perspective
1604
00:54:28,859 --> 00:54:32,040
so photographing things at eye level to
1605
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:35,040
me is always the ideal sometimes I like
1606
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:36,300
bird photos where the birds flying
1607
00:54:36,300 --> 00:54:38,280
overhead and that's quite nice but more
1608
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:39,839
times than not I like to meet my
1609
00:54:39,839 --> 00:54:41,220
subjects at their level and it's not
1610
00:54:41,220 --> 00:54:43,680
always easy in this particular situation
1611
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,680
this was a Cayman that was taken again
1612
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,260
down in I think it was in Ecuador Brazil
1613
00:54:49,260 --> 00:54:52,200
but either way this is a shallow Pond it
1614
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:53,880
was a mid-sized Cayman I was
1615
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:55,500
photographing with a 100 to 400
1616
00:54:55,500 --> 00:54:57,720
millimeter lens at the time I was
1617
00:54:57,720 --> 00:54:59,579
shooting with the a7r III and the
1618
00:54:59,579 --> 00:55:00,900
beautiful thing is that on the
1619
00:55:00,900 --> 00:55:01,980
mirrorless cameras you have this
1620
00:55:01,980 --> 00:55:04,079
articulating screen that comes out
1621
00:55:04,079 --> 00:55:05,880
so usually I shoot with a battery gear
1622
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:07,440
but I had it off particular in this case
1623
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:08,700
because I wanted to get as low to the
1624
00:55:08,700 --> 00:55:10,559
ground as possible and so what happened
1625
00:55:10,559 --> 00:55:13,079
is that I lowered the camera I put the
1626
00:55:13,079 --> 00:55:15,780
the lens in my hand
1627
00:55:15,780 --> 00:55:18,000
um underneath the lens sitting on top of
1628
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,700
my palm and then I'm lowering myself to
1629
00:55:20,700 --> 00:55:22,500
the water so that my hand
1630
00:55:22,500 --> 00:55:24,240
is getting wet
1631
00:55:24,240 --> 00:55:26,400
so the camera stays above I articulate
1632
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:29,280
the screen out find my composition and
1633
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:30,540
that's how you get those kind of perfect
1634
00:55:30,540 --> 00:55:31,980
level shots now you can't do this
1635
00:55:31,980 --> 00:55:33,420
obviously from a boat or other things
1636
00:55:33,420 --> 00:55:35,339
but because we were on land because we
1637
00:55:35,339 --> 00:55:37,260
were close Caymans are pretty docile
1638
00:55:37,260 --> 00:55:39,240
they're not like saltwater crocs it gave
1639
00:55:39,240 --> 00:55:41,520
me that opportunity to Come Away with a
1640
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,140
unique shot that is much different than
1641
00:55:43,140 --> 00:55:45,000
if I was a foot or two higher or
1642
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:46,619
certainly if I was standing at six foot
1643
00:55:46,619 --> 00:55:48,300
three like you know how tall I actually
1644
00:55:48,300 --> 00:55:50,400
am so thinking about perspective and
1645
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:51,720
trying to meet as many of your subjects
1646
00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:53,940
as you can at eye level can make a big
1647
00:55:53,940 --> 00:55:55,500
difference in the quality of images that
1648
00:55:55,500 --> 00:55:57,480
you're trying to create
1649
00:55:57,480 --> 00:55:58,680
so
1650
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:00,660
that's a wrap that's everything we have
1651
00:56:00,660 --> 00:56:02,099
for today
1652
00:56:02,099 --> 00:56:04,440
um I will be at the Sony Booth somewhere
1653
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,720
uh to field questions for you guys for
1654
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:08,040
anything you guys want to talk about in
1655
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,380
particular again if you guys don't get a
1656
00:56:10,380 --> 00:56:11,640
chance to ask questions you can reach
1657
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,020
out to me through social media through
1658
00:56:13,020 --> 00:56:15,180
my website happy to talk yeah talk you
1659
00:56:15,180 --> 00:56:16,380
through anything but thank you guys for
1660
00:56:16,380 --> 00:56:17,940
watching thank you guys for watching
1661
00:56:17,940 --> 00:56:19,680
live and I'll see you guys at two
1662
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:22,578
o'clock for my next talk
1663
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:28,440
so we're doubling up on Colby two
1664
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:30,480
o'clock he'll be on the main stage and
1665
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:31,680
he'll be doing a meet and greet after
1666
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:33,839
that preparation the Sony Booth that's
1667
00:56:33,839 --> 00:56:35,579
going to be at three o'clock so write
1668
00:56:35,579 --> 00:56:37,020
down your questions hold on to them
1669
00:56:37,020 --> 00:56:38,940
catch them walking around
1670
00:56:38,940 --> 00:56:43,400
thanks thanks well done yes
1671
00:56:48,839 --> 00:56:51,440
come on back
1672
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:54,319
oh yeah sure
1673
00:56:54,319 --> 00:56:57,960
yeah I'm gonna I think I
1674
00:56:57,960 --> 00:56:59,520
think we'll go by there now anyway and
1675
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,780
we'll do that I'll be right there
1676
00:57:52,740 --> 00:57:55,740
choices
1677
00:58:06,660 --> 00:58:08,899
foreign
1678
00:58:09,119 --> 00:58:12,020
is my Detective
1679
00:58:57,180 --> 00:59:00,740
question about stabilizations
1680
00:59:19,380 --> 00:59:21,920
go ahead and switch it
1681
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,920
sorry sorry
1682
00:59:25,319 --> 00:59:26,099
okay
1683
00:59:26,099 --> 00:59:28,700
here we go oh yeah
1684
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:20,040
one two three four yeah give me a couple
1685
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:23,720
later but give me a couple times
1686
01:00:27,319 --> 01:00:32,058
are you ready it sounds like I'm on
1687
01:01:00,500 --> 01:01:02,579
okay I have no idea whose water this is
1688
01:01:02,579 --> 01:01:05,400
don't put it over here someplace
1689
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,180
yeah thank you
1690
01:01:10,140 --> 01:01:13,520
sure walk past my class
1691
01:01:13,980 --> 01:01:17,420
the Pirates guide to z9
1692
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:20,040
hello
1693
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:23,220
z9 yeah absolutely
1694
01:01:23,220 --> 01:01:26,118
Nikon z9
1695
01:01:26,460 --> 01:01:30,540
it is a camera yes I don't know it
1696
01:01:30,540 --> 01:01:32,880
I am next perfect
1697
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:34,200
I'm not sure about perfect but I'll try
1698
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,900
to be entertaining okay we are queuing
1699
01:01:36,900 --> 01:01:38,640
up the next presentation here on the
1700
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:40,980
Explorer stage we have Paul Van Allen
1701
01:01:40,980 --> 01:01:42,900
who's going to be talking about the z9
1702
01:01:42,900 --> 01:01:44,819
and he's got a nice headline for it the
1703
01:01:44,819 --> 01:01:47,280
Pirates Guide to the z9 can't wait to
1704
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:49,079
see it really looking forward to it
1705
01:01:49,079 --> 01:01:50,700
thank you guys for joining us and hello
1706
01:01:50,700 --> 01:01:53,339
to everyone on the digital streams
1707
01:01:53,339 --> 01:01:55,079
um we're so happy you're here to join us
1708
01:01:55,079 --> 01:01:57,359
as well so without further Ado Paul Van
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01:01:57,359 --> 01:01:59,940
Allen take the stage
1710
01:01:59,940 --> 01:02:01,980
am I up I'm up
1711
01:02:01,980 --> 01:02:04,230
thank you sir
1712
01:02:04,230 --> 01:02:07,860
[Music]
1713
01:02:08,339 --> 01:02:10,859
am I being recorded am I being recorded
1714
01:02:10,859 --> 01:02:12,599
am I being recorded you're being
1715
01:02:12,599 --> 01:02:15,020
recorded
1716
01:02:15,540 --> 01:02:16,859
so please
1717
01:02:16,859 --> 01:02:19,020
hit play now
1718
01:02:19,020 --> 01:02:21,740
are you guys ready
1719
01:02:21,900 --> 01:02:23,280
you guys good
1720
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:24,960
you good
1721
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:27,500
all right
1722
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:32,160
Ye Old Pirate's guide to
1723
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:35,040
Z of nine
1724
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:38,900
okay I build PowerPoint for fun
1725
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:40,619
it seemed like a good idea about
1726
01:02:40,619 --> 01:02:42,000
midnight when I came with it a couple
1727
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:43,380
months ago
1728
01:02:43,380 --> 01:02:45,119
yeah it's a good idea
1729
01:02:45,119 --> 01:02:46,980
my name is Paul for those who don't know
1730
01:02:46,980 --> 01:02:49,260
me already I work for NPS which
1731
01:02:49,260 --> 01:02:51,240
naturally means you probably think it
1732
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:53,040
means Nikon Professional Services you're
1733
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:53,819
wrong
1734
01:02:53,819 --> 01:02:56,280
in this case it happens to me Nikon
1735
01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:59,660
photo Sea Dog
1736
01:03:01,079 --> 01:03:03,839
I probably I'll try to eliminate the
1737
01:03:03,839 --> 01:03:08,579
args but I can't help it so anyway I got
1738
01:03:08,579 --> 01:03:10,500
my start read out of school as a sports
1739
01:03:10,500 --> 01:03:12,000
photographer
1740
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,460
and it they kind of make me take
1741
01:03:14,460 --> 01:03:16,559
pictures of Nikon and the coolest job
1742
01:03:16,559 --> 01:03:18,720
the entire planet they they actually
1743
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:21,180
give me all the new gear
1744
01:03:21,180 --> 01:03:23,520
and make me shoot pictures with it if
1745
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:24,900
you haven't been to my table already if
1746
01:03:24,900 --> 01:03:27,240
you're here in Monterey with us
1747
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:29,460
um this is from the new 600 millimeter
1748
01:03:29,460 --> 01:03:31,079
F4
1749
01:03:31,079 --> 01:03:34,200
built in TC and I have a sample of it at
1750
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:37,020
our booth so it's one of two in the
1751
01:03:37,020 --> 01:03:38,940
country come over and Drool on it so I
1752
01:03:38,940 --> 01:03:40,200
just I get to play with it a little bit
1753
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,059
I just I mean I like taking making
1754
01:03:42,059 --> 01:03:44,220
pictures uh I tried to do a little bit
1755
01:03:44,220 --> 01:03:45,119
of everything
1756
01:03:45,119 --> 01:03:46,980
the different programs we built over the
1757
01:03:46,980 --> 01:03:48,839
past couple years during the pandemic is
1758
01:03:48,839 --> 01:03:51,299
ranges from Sports and sports to
1759
01:03:51,299 --> 01:03:53,520
landscape to Studio to
1760
01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:55,740
just about everything and it's just not
1761
01:03:55,740 --> 01:03:56,819
stills
1762
01:03:56,819 --> 01:03:59,220
it's actually a
1763
01:03:59,220 --> 01:04:01,140
movie stuff too
1764
01:04:01,140 --> 01:04:02,520
so I tried to get my hand in a little
1765
01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:04,079
bit of everything in fact a couple
1766
01:04:04,079 --> 01:04:05,700
nights ago I introduced the brand new
1767
01:04:05,700 --> 01:04:09,299
class the new tele time lapse class
1768
01:04:09,299 --> 01:04:12,059
so Studio stuff playing around
1769
01:04:12,059 --> 01:04:13,440
a little bit of this a little bit of
1770
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:15,299
that I try to make pictures of
1771
01:04:15,299 --> 01:04:16,980
everything to answer as many questions
1772
01:04:16,980 --> 01:04:19,140
as possible for you guys
1773
01:04:19,140 --> 01:04:20,880
during the pandemic like most to you I
1774
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,099
try to keep from going bored and totally
1775
01:04:23,099 --> 01:04:25,380
stupid so I took up bird photography
1776
01:04:25,380 --> 01:04:28,260
because there's no Moder releases
1777
01:04:28,260 --> 01:04:30,960
required for birds
1778
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:33,660
go to the zoo a lot of zoos say hey
1779
01:04:33,660 --> 01:04:36,059
that's my my snow leopard you gotta have
1780
01:04:36,059 --> 01:04:38,640
a model race for it so Birds No Bottle
1781
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:40,680
release at all and I'm the laziest bird
1782
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:42,359
of Photography ever meet this is shot
1783
01:04:42,359 --> 01:04:45,299
remotely through my iPad
1784
01:04:45,299 --> 01:04:47,460
using my snapbridge app
1785
01:04:47,460 --> 01:04:50,339
to my camera that's on the front porch
1786
01:04:50,339 --> 01:04:52,740
with a telephoto lens aimed at a pile of
1787
01:04:52,740 --> 01:04:54,540
bird seed I am watching The Avengers
1788
01:04:54,540 --> 01:04:56,819
in-game movie for the fourth time while
1789
01:04:56,819 --> 01:04:58,740
making this picture
1790
01:04:58,740 --> 01:05:02,520
so truly lazy uh my wife and I finally
1791
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:03,420
found something we can do together
1792
01:05:03,420 --> 01:05:05,099
during the pandemic photographically
1793
01:05:05,099 --> 01:05:07,079
she's a non-photographer she believes
1794
01:05:07,079 --> 01:05:08,940
the cell phones are God's Gift of
1795
01:05:08,940 --> 01:05:11,099
Imaging
1796
01:05:11,099 --> 01:05:12,839
um I disagree with her
1797
01:05:12,839 --> 01:05:15,000
but she's into food and into creating in
1798
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:16,500
the kitchen and so we actually come
1799
01:05:16,500 --> 01:05:18,839
together she bakes stuff and I try to
1800
01:05:18,839 --> 01:05:19,980
photograph it
1801
01:05:19,980 --> 01:05:22,859
so her baking is better than my
1802
01:05:22,859 --> 01:05:24,720
photographing of her baking by the way
1803
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:26,839
just so your Market down your calendar
1804
01:05:26,839 --> 01:05:29,700
January 29
1805
01:05:29,700 --> 01:05:33,780
his National chocolate cake day
1806
01:05:33,780 --> 01:05:36,720
okay obviously I know exactly what that
1807
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:38,400
day is so
1808
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:39,720
um yeah it's all sorts of fun stuff she
1809
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:41,940
makes it and I kind of photograph it all
1810
01:05:41,940 --> 01:05:43,559
new techniques to learn is always
1811
01:05:43,559 --> 01:05:44,880
something new to learn uh we were
1812
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:46,020
talking this morning at the booth about
1813
01:05:46,020 --> 01:05:48,780
uh Focus Shift shooting or focused
1814
01:05:48,780 --> 01:05:51,359
stacking in fact at three o'clock come
1815
01:05:51,359 --> 01:05:53,040
back and Vincent Versace will talk about
1816
01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:54,720
some focused stacking stuff that he's
1817
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:56,400
gonna he's doing
1818
01:05:56,400 --> 01:06:00,020
hi Ambassador Odom how are you
1819
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,460
so all sorts of fun stuff
1820
01:06:02,460 --> 01:06:04,380
simple pictures like this aren't so
1821
01:06:04,380 --> 01:06:05,700
simple you start thinking about it how
1822
01:06:05,700 --> 01:06:07,619
do you get the depth of field so that it
1823
01:06:07,619 --> 01:06:09,240
doesn't fall off from the wing tips to
1824
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:11,880
the body and the body because this is
1825
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:13,740
equally Sharp
1826
01:06:13,740 --> 01:06:15,540
wherever you are that's because we're
1827
01:06:15,540 --> 01:06:17,940
using HDR
1828
01:06:17,940 --> 01:06:19,859
but for focusing
1829
01:06:19,859 --> 01:06:22,500
called focus stacking it's 45 different
1830
01:06:22,500 --> 01:06:25,559
planes of focus stacked together
1831
01:06:25,559 --> 01:06:28,319
to create an unlimited plane of focus
1832
01:06:28,319 --> 01:06:30,960
so anyway uh you're bound to have
1833
01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:33,260
questions if you're here locally please
1834
01:06:33,260 --> 01:06:35,280
come by and see me at the booth after
1835
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:38,339
the class if you're online
1836
01:06:38,339 --> 01:06:40,440
that's my Instagram drop me an email
1837
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:42,720
we'll figure it out together okay
1838
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:44,700
all right it'll come back up again at
1839
01:06:44,700 --> 01:06:48,240
the end so let's start with this hooked
1840
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:49,619
a lot of you know that you can access
1841
01:06:49,619 --> 01:06:51,599
your menus with the menu button you can
1842
01:06:51,599 --> 01:06:52,799
use the navigation pad on the back of
1843
01:06:52,799 --> 01:06:54,359
the camera the multi-selector and you
1844
01:06:54,359 --> 01:06:55,740
can just scroll around it up or down
1845
01:06:55,740 --> 01:06:56,880
left to right you can move this around
1846
01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:59,819
which you might not know is that there
1847
01:06:59,819 --> 01:07:02,039
are times when you're you've got your
1848
01:07:02,039 --> 01:07:04,140
your eye up to the viewfinder you'll
1849
01:07:04,140 --> 01:07:05,579
access the menu you know how hard it is
1850
01:07:05,579 --> 01:07:06,900
get your thumb in there and use a
1851
01:07:06,900 --> 01:07:07,920
multi-selector
1852
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:11,220
well it's almost impossible right
1853
01:07:11,220 --> 01:07:12,960
did you know
1854
01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:15,539
that you know what to it
1855
01:07:15,539 --> 01:07:17,099
maybe maybe it's not your eye maybe
1856
01:07:17,099 --> 01:07:18,299
you're just out there maybe you're in
1857
01:07:18,299 --> 01:07:20,099
the cold you had your gloves on
1858
01:07:20,099 --> 01:07:21,420
wait for it
1859
01:07:21,420 --> 01:07:24,440
you got your gloves on
1860
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:27,420
or maybe just maybe it's your first day
1861
01:07:27,420 --> 01:07:29,900
with your hook
1862
01:07:31,500 --> 01:07:32,819
it could happen
1863
01:07:32,819 --> 01:07:36,180
it's a pirate's guide for gosh sake okay
1864
01:07:36,180 --> 01:07:39,059
if you can't access the multi-selector
1865
01:07:39,059 --> 01:07:41,520
for any reason which you can do is you
1866
01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:43,500
can navigate the menus with your command
1867
01:07:43,500 --> 01:07:45,240
and subcommand input dial the command
1868
01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:46,859
dial the one the back of the camera if
1869
01:07:46,859 --> 01:07:48,359
you're in the menu scroll it left to
1870
01:07:48,359 --> 01:07:50,039
right and you go up or down your menu
1871
01:07:50,039 --> 01:07:51,119
selection
1872
01:07:51,119 --> 01:07:53,520
slide your index finger forward onto the
1873
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:55,680
so you go through this do this sorry
1874
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:58,260
slow animation
1875
01:07:58,260 --> 01:08:00,960
the sub selector up front
1876
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:02,640
goes left or right
1877
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:04,680
so up or down left to right
1878
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:07,859
okay apply this way so yeah it's just
1879
01:08:07,859 --> 01:08:09,539
really that easy so you can use either
1880
01:08:09,539 --> 01:08:11,460
the multi-selector or the navigation
1881
01:08:11,460 --> 01:08:14,460
dials to navigate your menu systems in
1882
01:08:14,460 --> 01:08:17,059
your z9
1883
01:08:18,899 --> 01:08:21,899
anyway
1884
01:08:22,439 --> 01:08:25,500
now as long as we're talking about that
1885
01:08:25,500 --> 01:08:28,380
or talk about how to make things not
1886
01:08:28,380 --> 01:08:30,238
move
1887
01:08:30,238 --> 01:08:32,279
one of the biggest questions we had on
1888
01:08:32,279 --> 01:08:33,899
this one as we moved into mirrorless
1889
01:08:33,899 --> 01:08:38,279
systems was how do I lock my focus point
1890
01:08:38,279 --> 01:08:40,859
on the z9 it's pretty easy
1891
01:08:40,859 --> 01:08:42,660
where access our menu systems we go into
1892
01:08:42,660 --> 01:08:45,660
the custom menu at f2
1893
01:08:45,660 --> 01:08:48,000
go right into that one
1894
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,880
and we're going to actually select
1895
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:52,198
he was like
1896
01:08:52,198 --> 01:08:53,819
almost any of the function buttons will
1897
01:08:53,819 --> 01:08:55,380
do this I'm going to pick on the one
1898
01:08:55,380 --> 01:08:57,660
that I use the least I know that a lot
1899
01:08:57,660 --> 01:08:59,460
of you have that muscle memory of
1900
01:08:59,460 --> 01:09:01,380
hitting the upper right left hand corner
1901
01:09:01,380 --> 01:09:04,080
of the back your camera as playback
1902
01:09:04,080 --> 01:09:05,880
as soon as I turn my camera vertical it
1903
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:07,020
was like I figured I could use the
1904
01:09:07,020 --> 01:09:09,660
playback button without moving my cam my
1905
01:09:09,660 --> 01:09:10,920
hand
1906
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:12,960
I immediately forgot that muscle memory
1907
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:14,939
so I like the playback where it is now
1908
01:09:14,939 --> 01:09:17,520
so I have the the lock button it's kind
1909
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:19,738
of a useless dead key right now so I
1910
01:09:19,738 --> 01:09:22,439
reprogrammed that one to for my lock
1911
01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:24,899
function so I'm going to come in here
1912
01:09:24,899 --> 01:09:27,060
hit okay and the default setting on the
1913
01:09:27,060 --> 01:09:28,738
z9 the way it comes out of the box is
1914
01:09:28,738 --> 01:09:31,080
actually the picture control mode
1915
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:33,600
so we'll slide down and there's like 40s
1916
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:36,960
done right now with version three I
1917
01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:38,759
think we passed 50 different options for
1918
01:09:38,759 --> 01:09:43,620
this button one of the options is lock
1919
01:09:43,620 --> 01:09:47,939
so you simply go down access lock
1920
01:09:47,939 --> 01:09:49,140
hit OK
1921
01:09:49,140 --> 01:09:51,899
now the way it works after you have it
1922
01:09:51,899 --> 01:09:52,979
set
1923
01:09:52,979 --> 01:09:55,620
is using the camera
1924
01:09:55,620 --> 01:09:57,660
and you want to lock your auto focus
1925
01:09:57,660 --> 01:09:59,580
point maybe in a studio or you're
1926
01:09:59,580 --> 01:10:00,780
mousing around you don't want the focus
1927
01:10:00,780 --> 01:10:02,580
point to move at all
1928
01:10:02,580 --> 01:10:04,440
you're going to hold your assigned
1929
01:10:04,440 --> 01:10:07,040
button down
1930
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:08,460
then
1931
01:10:08,460 --> 01:10:10,920
go to move your focus point in any
1932
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:12,179
direction
1933
01:10:12,179 --> 01:10:16,440
use navigation pad and just lock it
1934
01:10:16,440 --> 01:10:18,480
okay and now when you go try to try to
1935
01:10:18,480 --> 01:10:20,280
move that it tells you the focus points
1936
01:10:20,280 --> 01:10:22,199
locked and it can't be moved
1937
01:10:22,199 --> 01:10:26,820
to unlock it it's the exact same process
1938
01:10:26,820 --> 01:10:28,679
backwards
1939
01:10:28,679 --> 01:10:30,420
hold the button down again
1940
01:10:30,420 --> 01:10:31,980
navigation pad and you're all set to go
1941
01:10:31,980 --> 01:10:34,380
now it's unlocked
1942
01:10:34,380 --> 01:10:35,760
but
1943
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:37,560
as long as we're here
1944
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:40,199
that exact same setting does other
1945
01:10:40,199 --> 01:10:42,600
things
1946
01:10:42,600 --> 01:10:44,640
I find this especially handy in a studio
1947
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:46,320
environment
1948
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,960
where I'm able to lock my shutter speed
1949
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:51,120
and aperture hold the button down rotate
1950
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:53,460
the shutter dial one click either
1951
01:10:53,460 --> 01:10:54,600
direction
1952
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:56,699
it locks the shutter speed
1953
01:10:56,699 --> 01:10:59,280
hold the button down and rotate the sub
1954
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:02,059
command input dial
1955
01:11:02,219 --> 01:11:04,679
it locks the aperture to unlock it you
1956
01:11:04,679 --> 01:11:05,940
hold the button down and rotate the dial
1957
01:11:05,940 --> 01:11:08,280
Again One Click either direction
1958
01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:10,020
it's now locked or unlocked that's how
1959
01:11:10,020 --> 01:11:11,699
the lock function works so if you're
1960
01:11:11,699 --> 01:11:15,000
looking for a way to lock the focus
1961
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:16,800
point or lock your shutter speed or lock
1962
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:18,659
your aperture simply assign one of your
1963
01:11:18,659 --> 01:11:20,699
custom buttons
1964
01:11:20,699 --> 01:11:24,300
to the lock function from the F2 menu
1965
01:11:24,300 --> 01:11:26,400
easy
1966
01:11:26,400 --> 01:11:27,960
thank you you're very responsive I
1967
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:30,800
really appreciate that
1968
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:34,140
thank you thanks Kevin
1969
01:11:34,140 --> 01:11:37,080
all right auto focus
1970
01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:40,760
because it wasn't hard enough
1971
01:11:42,239 --> 01:11:43,739
that's it that's the auto focus options
1972
01:11:43,739 --> 01:11:47,280
in the z9 just the area modes
1973
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:48,900
okay
1974
01:11:48,900 --> 01:11:50,460
we want to go through every single one
1975
01:11:50,460 --> 01:11:52,080
of these things today and examine
1976
01:11:52,080 --> 01:11:53,460
exactly a different no we're not going
1977
01:11:53,460 --> 01:11:54,420
to do that
1978
01:11:54,420 --> 01:11:57,000
we'll show you the couple that I use
1979
01:11:57,000 --> 01:11:59,400
when I'm out doing sports especially
1980
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:00,600
people Sports
1981
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:03,420
not horse sports but people Sports where
1982
01:12:03,420 --> 01:12:05,640
I can actually get a solid shot of a
1983
01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:06,540
face
1984
01:12:06,540 --> 01:12:08,460
I will traditionally go
1985
01:12:08,460 --> 01:12:11,880
with a wide area
1986
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:15,360
with an human face or eye tracking
1987
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:17,760
so basically set up like that so wide
1988
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:20,520
area small is my is my go-to under most
1989
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:23,000
situations
1990
01:12:25,260 --> 01:12:28,260
let me back up and say there is no
1991
01:12:28,260 --> 01:12:31,620
perfect setting for everything
1992
01:12:31,620 --> 01:12:33,780
if you want one thing to do everything
1993
01:12:33,780 --> 01:12:36,300
for you all the time you have that it's
1994
01:12:36,300 --> 01:12:37,860
in your back pocket it's one of these
1995
01:12:37,860 --> 01:12:39,360
things
1996
01:12:39,360 --> 01:12:40,980
okay
1997
01:12:40,980 --> 01:12:42,840
if you want I want to make it then used
1998
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:44,460
if you want to take a picture use one of
1999
01:12:44,460 --> 01:12:46,080
these if you want to make a photograph
2000
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:48,300
you'll have a lot more options and tools
2001
01:12:48,300 --> 01:12:50,780
to work with
2002
01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:52,320
now there are times where this doesn't
2003
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:56,719
work that well team sports
2004
01:12:57,900 --> 01:13:03,900
this mode is all color based tracking
2005
01:13:03,900 --> 01:13:07,620
it tracks in part based on the color
2006
01:13:07,620 --> 01:13:10,080
pattern the camera can see and follow
2007
01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:11,280
around the screen
2008
01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:13,199
and that works really really well until
2009
01:13:13,199 --> 01:13:15,300
you have a lot of people in the same
2010
01:13:15,300 --> 01:13:17,580
color producing the same color pattern
2011
01:13:17,580 --> 01:13:19,560
and the camera goes which one of these
2012
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:21,719
people do you want
2013
01:13:21,719 --> 01:13:23,520
this one's pretty easy I'm on the on the
2014
01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:24,659
guy in the white
2015
01:13:24,659 --> 01:13:27,239
but it becomes more problematic for
2016
01:13:27,239 --> 01:13:29,280
things like this
2017
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:32,940
it's the wrong tool for the job
2018
01:13:32,940 --> 01:13:36,360
so I need to fix it quickly
2019
01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:38,100
well obviously you simply take the
2020
01:13:38,100 --> 01:13:39,960
camera you pull away from your eye you
2021
01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:41,340
hit the menu button you scroll through
2022
01:13:41,340 --> 01:13:43,199
the different options and then you go
2023
01:13:43,199 --> 01:13:45,719
back get the find the right option hit
2024
01:13:45,719 --> 01:13:47,400
okay put it back up to your eye and
2025
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:49,199
start
2026
01:13:49,199 --> 01:13:51,420
okay
2027
01:13:51,420 --> 01:13:53,340
for these kind of situations where the
2028
01:13:53,340 --> 01:13:55,940
color is
2029
01:13:55,940 --> 01:13:58,199
not doing what I want it to do it's
2030
01:13:58,199 --> 01:14:01,020
actually working against me
2031
01:14:01,020 --> 01:14:03,300
I'll fall back to Dynamic area autofocus
2032
01:14:03,300 --> 01:14:06,360
which is a pure math based tracking
2033
01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:08,280
doesn't look at the color doesn't look
2034
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:10,920
at faces it doesn't look at scenes it
2035
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:13,080
looks at the math how fast is that
2036
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:15,120
subject going from here to there as we
2037
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:16,440
move from here to there faster is it
2038
01:14:16,440 --> 01:14:18,120
decelerating accelerating how's it
2039
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:20,100
moving it's predictive that way
2040
01:14:20,100 --> 01:14:22,260
okay so it's all math based there's no
2041
01:14:22,260 --> 01:14:25,440
color input on top of the math
2042
01:14:25,440 --> 01:14:27,120
so the challenge becomes how do you
2043
01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:31,559
switch between one or the other quickly
2044
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:34,320
your cameras can be customized to do
2045
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:38,420
this very very simply
2046
01:14:38,940 --> 01:14:40,500
these are the buttons on your camera
2047
01:14:40,500 --> 01:14:44,100
that can activate auto focus
2048
01:14:44,100 --> 01:14:46,080
there are nine of them
2049
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:49,500
I count that right yeah nine of them
2050
01:14:49,500 --> 01:14:50,699
okay
2051
01:14:50,699 --> 01:14:54,480
you can assign everyone well
2052
01:14:54,480 --> 01:14:56,699
seven of these nine
2053
01:14:56,699 --> 01:14:59,760
two different autofocus areas at your
2054
01:14:59,760 --> 01:15:01,320
discretion
2055
01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:02,880
so
2056
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:06,179
I don't do that I do too my brain is way
2057
01:15:06,179 --> 01:15:08,340
too feeble to try to get
2058
01:15:08,340 --> 01:15:11,040
all the different two
2059
01:15:11,040 --> 01:15:14,340
this many too so what I did is in the
2060
01:15:14,340 --> 01:15:16,800
custom control menu again so our custom
2061
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:19,440
we're in the F group go to F2 again or
2062
01:15:19,440 --> 01:15:20,820
customize where the buttons work in the
2063
01:15:20,820 --> 01:15:21,600
camera
2064
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:24,300
if you're following along at home make
2065
01:15:24,300 --> 01:15:26,400
sure that you know how to undo this I
2066
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:30,120
don't do this on stage okay
2067
01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:31,500
to come in here
2068
01:15:31,500 --> 01:15:32,820
I'm going to sign in this particular
2069
01:15:32,820 --> 01:15:33,960
case I'm going to sign function one
2070
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:35,820
which is the front of the camera as you
2071
01:15:35,820 --> 01:15:37,739
can see here on the graphic front of the
2072
01:15:37,739 --> 01:15:39,780
camera top button
2073
01:15:39,780 --> 01:15:41,340
I'm gonna make that one an auto focus
2074
01:15:41,340 --> 01:15:43,020
activation button
2075
01:15:43,020 --> 01:15:44,880
now go in the menu
2076
01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:47,219
I'm going to scroll through the I think
2077
01:15:47,219 --> 01:15:50,280
now 60 plus options on this one
2078
01:15:50,280 --> 01:15:53,280
oh
2079
01:15:53,780 --> 01:15:55,739
AF area
2080
01:15:55,739 --> 01:15:59,599
plus autofocus on
2081
01:15:59,940 --> 01:16:01,920
not to be confused with the autofocus
2082
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:04,080
area mode above that or the AF on below
2083
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:05,820
it this is the one where you push your
2084
01:16:05,820 --> 01:16:07,739
actually program a button we push the
2085
01:16:07,739 --> 01:16:09,239
button in it's going to turn on auto
2086
01:16:09,239 --> 01:16:13,080
focus in a pre-selected auto focus area
2087
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:14,699
mode
2088
01:16:14,699 --> 01:16:16,500
okay in my case it'll be dynamic area
2089
01:16:16,500 --> 01:16:19,199
autofocus my fallback
2090
01:16:19,199 --> 01:16:21,960
okay come in here you have all the
2091
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:23,699
different options to choose from so you
2092
01:16:23,699 --> 01:16:24,900
come down to Dynamic for me you've done
2093
01:16:24,900 --> 01:16:27,600
a medium because Dynamic medium and wide
2094
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:30,300
area small have a similar size box so
2095
01:16:30,300 --> 01:16:31,620
visually it doesn't
2096
01:16:31,620 --> 01:16:33,239
startle me when I go between the two of
2097
01:16:33,239 --> 01:16:35,100
them the box I'm looking at is roughly
2098
01:16:35,100 --> 01:16:36,960
the same size just doing different kinds
2099
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:38,280
of focusing now
2100
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:39,780
okay
2101
01:16:39,780 --> 01:16:42,380
hit okay
2102
01:16:42,420 --> 01:16:43,820
the graphic shows we've actually
2103
01:16:43,820 --> 01:16:46,020
pre-selected and confirmed we've
2104
01:16:46,020 --> 01:16:47,640
actually done that one so the way this
2105
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:49,800
now works
2106
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:52,620
I've selected as my primary focus Point
2107
01:16:52,620 --> 01:16:55,560
I've got wide area small on my shutter
2108
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:57,000
button because my shutter button shooter
2109
01:16:57,000 --> 01:17:00,179
I know some of you aren't I am
2110
01:17:00,179 --> 01:17:02,820
it's okay if you're not I feel your pain
2111
01:17:02,820 --> 01:17:04,020
we feel like we're left out we're not
2112
01:17:04,020 --> 01:17:05,219
back button auto focus we feel like
2113
01:17:05,219 --> 01:17:07,020
we're left out but right now I'm going
2114
01:17:07,020 --> 01:17:08,820
to shoot my shutter button
2115
01:17:08,820 --> 01:17:10,380
when I hold the shutter button down by
2116
01:17:10,380 --> 01:17:14,340
itself I get wide area small
2117
01:17:14,340 --> 01:17:16,800
if during the middle of composing
2118
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:19,260
getting focused getting ready to go
2119
01:17:19,260 --> 01:17:21,360
I decide that's not focusing the way I
2120
01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:22,679
want it to
2121
01:17:22,679 --> 01:17:24,480
I hold my finger on the shutter button
2122
01:17:24,480 --> 01:17:26,040
still getting ready to go now take my
2123
01:17:26,040 --> 01:17:28,320
middle finger and move it towards F1 and
2124
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,840
press down F1 and now I am in Dynamic
2125
01:17:30,840 --> 01:17:33,719
area autofocus
2126
01:17:33,719 --> 01:17:35,880
when I'm done with that it's like okay I
2127
01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:38,640
think I'm done let's the surfer early in
2128
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:40,380
the morning I like photographing surfing
2129
01:17:40,380 --> 01:17:42,000
out at Huntington Beach
2130
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:44,640
as the surfer paddles out towards the
2131
01:17:44,640 --> 01:17:47,520
wave they are laying down face down on a
2132
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:49,380
surfboard in the ocean
2133
01:17:49,380 --> 01:17:51,540
it's early in the morning they have a
2134
01:17:51,540 --> 01:17:53,520
black wetsuit
2135
01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:55,440
on a black ocean
2136
01:17:55,440 --> 01:17:57,780
in the dark
2137
01:17:57,780 --> 01:17:59,520
my camera doesn't recognize as a person
2138
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:02,340
so the wide area with face finder can't
2139
01:18:02,340 --> 01:18:03,659
see the face it doesn't know what it's
2140
01:18:03,659 --> 01:18:05,460
looking at so it gets confused it starts
2141
01:18:05,460 --> 01:18:06,840
jumping all over the place trying to
2142
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:08,219
find that face
2143
01:18:08,219 --> 01:18:10,560
I press in my middle finger onto the F1
2144
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:12,600
button and all of a sudden it's now
2145
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:15,719
locked onto the surfer as it's face down
2146
01:18:15,719 --> 01:18:17,460
as she hits the top of the wave and
2147
01:18:17,460 --> 01:18:19,320
starts to stand up I can start seeing
2148
01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:21,540
her face in her human form again I let
2149
01:18:21,540 --> 01:18:24,600
go of the F1 button and stay on the
2150
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:26,040
shutter button and now it jumps from
2151
01:18:26,040 --> 01:18:28,679
Dynamic back into wide area autofocus
2152
01:18:28,679 --> 01:18:31,699
and face tracks
2153
01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:34,500
so it really is just that easy now if
2154
01:18:34,500 --> 01:18:35,820
you're not a shutter button shooter
2155
01:18:35,820 --> 01:18:37,140
that's quite all right
2156
01:18:37,140 --> 01:18:39,060
because we can actually assign all these
2157
01:18:39,060 --> 01:18:41,400
room buttons so maybe you are a the one
2158
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:43,199
I just talked about see the front of the
2159
01:18:43,199 --> 01:18:44,940
camera you have the green as a secondary
2160
01:18:44,940 --> 01:18:46,739
and the shutter button is the primary
2161
01:18:46,739 --> 01:18:48,719
autofocus but if you're a back button
2162
01:18:48,719 --> 01:18:49,980
shooter you could totally do this
2163
01:18:49,980 --> 01:18:51,900
backwards and do it on the back so you
2164
01:18:51,900 --> 01:18:53,340
can do your primary and autofocus on
2165
01:18:53,340 --> 01:18:55,620
your secondary could be the joystick
2166
01:18:55,620 --> 01:18:57,719
button you can press it on the joystick
2167
01:18:57,719 --> 01:18:59,760
and activate autofocus on the joystick
2168
01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:01,620
so you simply autofocus on that's not
2169
01:19:01,620 --> 01:19:03,659
working slide down joystick that's
2170
01:19:03,659 --> 01:19:06,060
working and back and forth
2171
01:19:06,060 --> 01:19:07,980
right now I'm going to I'm a hybrid
2172
01:19:07,980 --> 01:19:11,100
shooter my secondary AF mode is
2173
01:19:11,100 --> 01:19:13,800
currently not on F1 anymore but I've
2174
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:15,420
actually moved it so I have shutter
2175
01:19:15,420 --> 01:19:17,400
button for the primary and AF on for the
2176
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:18,719
secondary
2177
01:19:18,719 --> 01:19:20,940
you can do all of this
2178
01:19:20,940 --> 01:19:23,820
just however your brain happens to work
2179
01:19:23,820 --> 01:19:25,199
okay
2180
01:19:25,199 --> 01:19:27,300
and you do it for anything you want
2181
01:19:27,300 --> 01:19:28,860
so
2182
01:19:28,860 --> 01:19:31,320
make sense
2183
01:19:31,320 --> 01:19:34,880
look at us we're almost on time
2184
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:38,400
all right deja vu
2185
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:41,880
no that's spelled properly
2186
01:19:41,880 --> 01:19:43,560
talk about playback
2187
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:45,239
one thing you can do in playback as you
2188
01:19:45,239 --> 01:19:46,440
know you probably look as you probably
2189
01:19:46,440 --> 01:19:48,239
know on a mirrorless camera you can see
2190
01:19:48,239 --> 01:19:50,460
the image through the viewfinder a lot
2191
01:19:50,460 --> 01:19:51,900
of you have pre-assigned a button to
2192
01:19:51,900 --> 01:19:53,820
play back real quickly what I did though
2193
01:19:53,820 --> 01:19:57,000
is again an F2 I went and assigned a
2194
01:19:57,000 --> 01:19:58,620
button in this case I'll do the same F1
2195
01:19:58,620 --> 01:20:00,600
example
2196
01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:02,040
I'm going to actually change it from
2197
01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:04,800
nothing now remember this is
2198
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:06,239
sorry
2199
01:20:06,239 --> 01:20:08,820
this is not F2 anymore this is F3 my
2200
01:20:08,820 --> 01:20:13,500
apologies F3 is a playback customization
2201
01:20:13,500 --> 01:20:15,780
so your camera can be set up to
2202
01:20:15,780 --> 01:20:17,520
different things
2203
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:19,980
depending on what mode you're in
2204
01:20:19,980 --> 01:20:21,420
so now we're talking about the buttons
2205
01:20:21,420 --> 01:20:23,460
just for playback because
2206
01:20:23,460 --> 01:20:25,860
it's still programmed to do the auto
2207
01:20:25,860 --> 01:20:27,900
focus thing over here
2208
01:20:27,900 --> 01:20:30,420
but the same button now in playback will
2209
01:20:30,420 --> 01:20:32,159
be something totally different so in F3
2210
01:20:32,159 --> 01:20:34,380
they're coming in here it does nothing
2211
01:20:34,380 --> 01:20:36,360
during playback currently
2212
01:20:36,360 --> 01:20:38,820
I can make it access the playback make
2213
01:20:38,820 --> 01:20:41,040
it play the image back I'm gonna go up
2214
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:44,239
here instead to zoom
2215
01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:46,560
100 magnification with one press the
2216
01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:47,880
button
2217
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:49,679
it works on the back of the OK button
2218
01:20:49,679 --> 01:20:52,080
has it also I like it better up front I
2219
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:53,760
can also program when doing my
2220
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:54,840
Landscapes and checking for fine
2221
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:57,480
critical focus and Landscapes and Studio
2222
01:20:57,480 --> 01:20:59,400
I'll assign number the function two
2223
01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:00,420
button
2224
01:21:00,420 --> 01:21:02,880
for 200 modification to double check the
2225
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:04,440
fine focus
2226
01:21:04,440 --> 01:21:06,300
but here we're doing 100 percent
2227
01:21:06,300 --> 01:21:08,520
and so now I'm in playback I want to
2228
01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:10,320
check make sure the face is tacked sharp
2229
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:12,239
I hit the function one button because
2230
01:21:12,239 --> 01:21:14,820
assigned to 100 playback and I get a
2231
01:21:14,820 --> 01:21:17,520
zoom up on the subject
2232
01:21:17,520 --> 01:21:20,280
that's really that fast and simple just
2233
01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:21,360
by touching the button in front of the
2234
01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:23,400
camera
2235
01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:25,759
okay
2236
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:29,219
our friend Jerry
2237
01:21:29,219 --> 01:21:32,219
didn't know this we were at wppi and so
2238
01:21:32,219 --> 01:21:35,640
I built this one just for Jerry
2239
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:38,159
Deja review
2240
01:21:38,159 --> 01:21:40,560
there's been a function
2241
01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:42,900
in the Nikon cameras for a very very
2242
01:21:42,900 --> 01:21:44,100
long time
2243
01:21:44,100 --> 01:21:45,480
it's one of those things we've talked
2244
01:21:45,480 --> 01:21:47,640
about it
2245
01:21:47,640 --> 01:21:50,340
17 18 years ago
2246
01:21:50,340 --> 01:21:52,020
for one whole generation camera this is
2247
01:21:52,020 --> 01:21:54,360
really cool you can do this it was a
2248
01:21:54,360 --> 01:21:56,699
Coolpix camera but you can do this
2249
01:21:56,699 --> 01:21:58,380
we start putting every single camera we
2250
01:21:58,380 --> 01:22:00,360
totally stopped talking about it to a
2251
01:22:00,360 --> 01:22:02,400
point where famous wedding photographers
2252
01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:04,080
maybe the best wedding photographer on
2253
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:05,280
the planet
2254
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:07,020
actually there was three of them on
2255
01:22:07,020 --> 01:22:09,120
stage that night so none of them knew
2256
01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:10,620
this
2257
01:22:10,620 --> 01:22:11,940
when you're actually looking at a
2258
01:22:11,940 --> 01:22:13,920
picture reviewing an image you made on
2259
01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:14,940
your camera
2260
01:22:14,940 --> 01:22:16,620
one thing you might want to do is double
2261
01:22:16,620 --> 01:22:18,420
check faces
2262
01:22:18,420 --> 01:22:20,520
and eyeballs
2263
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:22,920
okay so you're naturally going to zoom
2264
01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:24,000
up on the image you're going to zoom
2265
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:26,880
zoom zoom zoom
2266
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:29,360
okay
2267
01:22:29,820 --> 01:22:32,340
but I see one set of eyeballs I want to
2268
01:22:32,340 --> 01:22:35,600
check all the eyeballs in the picture
2269
01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:38,640
as you zoom up
2270
01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:40,380
once you get to the fill the face with
2271
01:22:40,380 --> 01:22:43,140
the face of the frame that you want
2272
01:22:43,140 --> 01:22:45,060
then take your index finger slide it
2273
01:22:45,060 --> 01:22:46,440
forward to the sub command input dial
2274
01:22:46,440 --> 01:22:48,600
and rotate it and it will jump between
2275
01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:50,820
the faces
2276
01:22:50,820 --> 01:22:53,780
in the frame
2277
01:22:53,820 --> 01:22:56,719
just like that
2278
01:22:58,380 --> 01:23:00,360
doesn't work for Animals it's human Face
2279
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:02,040
Finders
2280
01:23:02,040 --> 01:23:03,540
okay
2281
01:23:03,540 --> 01:23:07,580
no no that's just right out of the box
2282
01:23:08,100 --> 01:23:10,800
that I know I was stunned like like I
2283
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:12,179
showed Jerry I said somebody don't check
2284
01:23:12,179 --> 01:23:13,560
the faces he goes let me check the faces
2285
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:15,480
like I got them we're all good because
2286
01:23:15,480 --> 01:23:17,280
how'd you do that so fast I showed him
2287
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:18,719
he went
2288
01:23:18,719 --> 01:23:22,560
was that z9 only I said no
2289
01:23:22,560 --> 01:23:25,739
all of them do it all what all the
2290
01:23:25,739 --> 01:23:28,980
cameras for the past 20 years or so
2291
01:23:28,980 --> 01:23:31,320
so it's one of those weird things we
2292
01:23:31,320 --> 01:23:32,760
keep doing and we keep forgetting we did
2293
01:23:32,760 --> 01:23:35,100
them so we don't talk about them yeah
2294
01:23:35,100 --> 01:23:37,620
there you go you zoom back and yeah and
2295
01:23:37,620 --> 01:23:39,239
notice there's a small little bird's eye
2296
01:23:39,239 --> 01:23:41,280
view in the bottom right hand corner of
2297
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:43,080
the frame it shows you it faces to
2298
01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:45,060
detect sometimes it misses sometimes
2299
01:23:45,060 --> 01:23:46,500
your face is turned halfway around it
2300
01:23:46,500 --> 01:23:48,179
doesn't see it as a face sometimes you
2301
01:23:48,179 --> 01:23:49,620
have a helmet on or glasses on doesn't
2302
01:23:49,620 --> 01:23:51,659
the face but yeah if you want a quick
2303
01:23:51,659 --> 01:23:54,480
easy way to find all the faces in your
2304
01:23:54,480 --> 01:23:56,040
frame quickly this is a really good
2305
01:23:56,040 --> 01:23:57,600
place to start
2306
01:23:57,600 --> 01:23:59,219
okay
2307
01:23:59,219 --> 01:24:01,140
yeah so have for those of you at home
2308
01:24:01,140 --> 01:24:02,699
half front roads picked up their cameras
2309
01:24:02,699 --> 01:24:03,780
are taking pictures of people around
2310
01:24:03,780 --> 01:24:07,219
here sticking all the faces
2311
01:24:10,199 --> 01:24:12,239
all right
2312
01:24:12,239 --> 01:24:14,360
um
2313
01:24:14,699 --> 01:24:16,440
landscape guys
2314
01:24:16,440 --> 01:24:18,659
who here shoots landscapes
2315
01:24:18,659 --> 01:24:21,120
oh good I have a cool thing for you then
2316
01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:23,699
just for you
2317
01:24:23,699 --> 01:24:25,739
I can make it so you can bracket with
2318
01:24:25,739 --> 01:24:28,500
one press of one button
2319
01:24:28,500 --> 01:24:31,140
not holding it down touch it
2320
01:24:31,140 --> 01:24:32,699
it'll break your entire bracketing
2321
01:24:32,699 --> 01:24:33,540
series
2322
01:24:33,540 --> 01:24:36,600
we're still going to engage bracketing
2323
01:24:36,600 --> 01:24:39,239
and self-timer simultaneously
2324
01:24:39,239 --> 01:24:41,280
okay so you can actually do this you set
2325
01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:43,260
your bracketing up so you can set your
2326
01:24:43,260 --> 01:24:44,400
frames
2327
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:45,900
you set the
2328
01:24:45,900 --> 01:24:48,480
interval between them
2329
01:24:48,480 --> 01:24:50,640
then you go to yourself timer
2330
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:52,679
yourself timer I usually use two seconds
2331
01:24:52,679 --> 01:24:55,140
not 10 seconds but do whatever you want
2332
01:24:55,140 --> 01:24:58,440
so two seconds and then you simply
2333
01:24:58,440 --> 01:25:00,780
you got the two seconds ready to go you
2334
01:25:00,780 --> 01:25:02,820
got a five stop bracket you're gonna
2335
01:25:02,820 --> 01:25:05,340
touch the shutter button down to go
2336
01:25:05,340 --> 01:25:07,140
okay button down
2337
01:25:07,140 --> 01:25:09,420
and you wait there's the light in the
2338
01:25:09,420 --> 01:25:11,100
front's flashing
2339
01:25:11,100 --> 01:25:13,020
it took me about an hour and a half to
2340
01:25:13,020 --> 01:25:14,219
build the flashing light in PowerPoint
2341
01:25:14,219 --> 01:25:16,699
by the way
2342
01:25:16,860 --> 01:25:18,000
takes the first picture that
2343
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:19,739
automatically takes a second
2344
01:25:19,739 --> 01:25:23,400
third fourth fifth picture ends resets
2345
01:25:23,400 --> 01:25:25,679
itself
2346
01:25:25,679 --> 01:25:27,120
your cable release Works your remote
2347
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:28,620
control works any way you activate
2348
01:25:28,620 --> 01:25:31,320
yourself timer it works
2349
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:35,599
okay super easy super fast
2350
01:25:38,460 --> 01:25:40,739
this one is
2351
01:25:40,739 --> 01:25:43,280
different
2352
01:25:44,580 --> 01:25:50,420
few z9 owners we just announced our
2353
01:25:51,719 --> 01:25:54,420
sixth seventh
2354
01:25:54,420 --> 01:25:56,820
sixth firmware for the z9 in less than
2355
01:25:56,820 --> 01:25:58,139
12 months
2356
01:25:58,139 --> 01:26:00,000
we're now firmware 3.0 we've added over
2357
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:01,860
four dozen
2358
01:26:01,860 --> 01:26:03,900
new features to your camera
2359
01:26:03,900 --> 01:26:05,940
on 2-0 one of the new features was
2360
01:26:05,940 --> 01:26:10,080
something called pre-release capture
2361
01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:11,580
pre-release capture is kind of a
2362
01:26:11,580 --> 01:26:13,739
mouthful to understand but very very
2363
01:26:13,739 --> 01:26:16,320
cool once you get it
2364
01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:19,460
it lets you time travel
2365
01:26:19,500 --> 01:26:21,120
you go back in time and make a picture
2366
01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:24,300
before you squeeze the button down
2367
01:26:24,300 --> 01:26:26,159
seriously
2368
01:26:26,159 --> 01:26:29,580
so getting a piece of a bat breaking off
2369
01:26:29,580 --> 01:26:31,739
wood off the bat broken bat it's really
2370
01:26:31,739 --> 01:26:34,320
kind of cool you get the right moment
2371
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:36,000
you get the whole separation of the bad
2372
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:37,800
really hard to do because most of us are
2373
01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:39,840
going for Bat on Ball it's not the bat
2374
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:41,580
breaking after the balls hit the bat the
2375
01:26:41,580 --> 01:26:43,820
wrong way
2376
01:26:43,860 --> 01:26:45,360
well how do you get both the Bat on Ball
2377
01:26:45,360 --> 01:26:47,400
and the breaking bat if you can't go
2378
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:50,520
back in time and get both of them
2379
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:51,960
you can
2380
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:53,400
so
2381
01:26:53,400 --> 01:26:56,400
uh but birds yeah I'm sorry it's a z9
2382
01:26:56,400 --> 01:26:58,020
program I'm required by law to show you
2383
01:26:58,020 --> 01:26:59,580
a bird
2384
01:26:59,580 --> 01:27:02,400
there's now a bird
2385
01:27:02,400 --> 01:27:04,440
for those of you at home the reason we
2386
01:27:04,440 --> 01:27:06,000
do this is because when the z9 was
2387
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:07,980
launched we're all on pandemic lockdown
2388
01:27:07,980 --> 01:27:10,199
and the birds
2389
01:27:10,199 --> 01:27:14,460
don't require Moder releases
2390
01:27:14,460 --> 01:27:17,040
or mask
2391
01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:19,519
so
2392
01:27:19,860 --> 01:27:22,020
to set this up
2393
01:27:22,020 --> 01:27:24,659
go into our into our camera menu again
2394
01:27:24,659 --> 01:27:27,420
this time we're in our custom menu we're
2395
01:27:27,420 --> 01:27:29,159
going to be in the D
2396
01:27:29,159 --> 01:27:32,059
group for shooting
2397
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:35,100
pre-release capture options is a new
2398
01:27:35,100 --> 01:27:40,260
heading you say C 30 c120 options that's
2399
01:27:40,260 --> 01:27:41,400
this pre-release because then we have
2400
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:43,080
more than just those two
2401
01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:45,179
but
2402
01:27:45,179 --> 01:27:48,260
things are pretty simple
2403
01:27:48,300 --> 01:27:49,920
how many
2404
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:52,080
how much time do you want to go back in
2405
01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:53,460
time
2406
01:27:53,460 --> 01:27:54,719
for the shot
2407
01:27:54,719 --> 01:27:58,260
your options are none which turns it off
2408
01:27:58,260 --> 01:27:59,760
a third of a second a half second or
2409
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:01,139
full second
2410
01:28:01,139 --> 01:28:03,960
as you play with this my suggestion
2411
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:05,300
would be to start with a full second
2412
01:28:05,300 --> 01:28:07,500
you'll have way more pictures than you
2413
01:28:07,500 --> 01:28:09,179
want but after a while you go you know
2414
01:28:09,179 --> 01:28:10,800
what it seems like a half second
2415
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:12,360
would've worked for me so you back it
2416
01:28:12,360 --> 01:28:13,500
off to half second
2417
01:28:13,500 --> 01:28:16,679
okay so you set this up
2418
01:28:16,679 --> 01:28:18,360
full second
2419
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:21,120
then you're going to go over to
2420
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:24,360
host release burst how many pictures how
2421
01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:27,139
long do you want to take pictures
2422
01:28:27,239 --> 01:28:29,639
as you squeeze a button down
2423
01:28:29,639 --> 01:28:34,260
again to start out go to Max
2424
01:28:34,260 --> 01:28:35,880
I leave mine set to Max all the time
2425
01:28:35,880 --> 01:28:38,280
even I've used it quite a bit on the
2426
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:39,659
pre-release version about a half a
2427
01:28:39,659 --> 01:28:41,460
second not a full second but right now
2428
01:28:41,460 --> 01:28:43,500
this is my starting point so what
2429
01:28:43,500 --> 01:28:45,659
happens here is is you squeeze a button
2430
01:28:45,659 --> 01:28:47,580
down you hold it and after one second
2431
01:28:47,580 --> 01:28:50,340
two seconds three seconds or about four
2432
01:28:50,340 --> 01:28:52,320
seconds it'll stop taking pictures
2433
01:28:52,320 --> 01:28:54,120
because it kind of buffers out
2434
01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:56,520
okay he needs to catch up doesn't slow
2435
01:28:56,520 --> 01:28:58,080
down just as a hard stop
2436
01:28:58,080 --> 01:28:59,639
it's not truly a buffer issue but it
2437
01:28:59,639 --> 01:29:02,820
feels like it okay
2438
01:29:02,820 --> 01:29:05,940
now this only works
2439
01:29:05,940 --> 01:29:09,300
only works if you are in the
2440
01:29:09,300 --> 01:29:13,440
super high capture rate so 30 frames a
2441
01:29:13,440 --> 01:29:14,580
second
2442
01:29:14,580 --> 01:29:17,100
60 frames a second
2443
01:29:17,100 --> 01:29:20,719
or 120 frames a second
2444
01:29:20,940 --> 01:29:22,380
now because the technology we're using
2445
01:29:22,380 --> 01:29:25,020
these are jpeg only captures and I'm
2446
01:29:25,020 --> 01:29:26,760
okay with that because a I don't have to
2447
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:28,320
set my jpegs up properly
2448
01:29:28,320 --> 01:29:31,620
and B I'd rather have jpegs that Focus
2449
01:29:31,620 --> 01:29:34,139
as opposed to a raw file that is locked
2450
01:29:34,139 --> 01:29:35,219
Focus
2451
01:29:35,219 --> 01:29:39,600
195 frames a second of a preset Focus
2452
01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:43,260
only works on a bowl of fruit so
2453
01:29:43,260 --> 01:29:45,060
I'm not gonna do that I want this I'm
2454
01:29:45,060 --> 01:29:46,199
okay with this
2455
01:29:46,199 --> 01:29:47,400
so you have to be in one of those three
2456
01:29:47,400 --> 01:29:48,600
modes
2457
01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:51,960
30 60 or 120. if you're not
2458
01:29:51,960 --> 01:29:53,460
what you said in the menu a second ago
2459
01:29:53,460 --> 01:29:55,800
will not apply at all
2460
01:29:55,800 --> 01:29:56,940
if you're happy in one of these three
2461
01:29:56,940 --> 01:29:58,320
modes
2462
01:29:58,320 --> 01:29:59,820
okay
2463
01:29:59,820 --> 01:30:02,760
now the way all this stuff works
2464
01:30:02,760 --> 01:30:04,260
up in the upper right hand corner you
2465
01:30:04,260 --> 01:30:06,000
have this little icon
2466
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:07,080
pre
2467
01:30:07,080 --> 01:30:08,760
when your finger rests on the shutter
2468
01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:11,699
button your autofocus activation button
2469
01:30:11,699 --> 01:30:12,900
whether it's the front button back
2470
01:30:12,900 --> 01:30:13,920
button or where the other buttons in
2471
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:15,659
your camera you'll get a small little
2472
01:30:15,659 --> 01:30:17,100
Green Dot
2473
01:30:17,100 --> 01:30:20,040
saying that you are actually buffering
2474
01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:22,320
this is a rolling buffer
2475
01:30:22,320 --> 01:30:24,719
so on my one second my one second of
2476
01:30:24,719 --> 01:30:27,179
pre-release everyone seconds is rolling
2477
01:30:27,179 --> 01:30:29,100
so I can be there for an hour it'll just
2478
01:30:29,100 --> 01:30:31,380
keep recycling for one second
2479
01:30:31,380 --> 01:30:34,860
okay so I got my I got my my limbs up on
2480
01:30:34,860 --> 01:30:36,000
a Dodger game
2481
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:37,739
and I got my limbs up and I'm waiting
2482
01:30:37,739 --> 01:30:40,199
for the pitcher and the batter to be in
2483
01:30:40,199 --> 01:30:41,940
sync and actually start doing something
2484
01:30:41,940 --> 01:30:43,260
so I'm waiting for it I got the batter
2485
01:30:43,260 --> 01:30:45,540
ready the battery as the better starts
2486
01:30:45,540 --> 01:30:46,739
to go
2487
01:30:46,739 --> 01:30:49,139
I see through the viewfinder
2488
01:30:49,139 --> 01:30:50,940
he's starting to swing I said okay here
2489
01:30:50,940 --> 01:30:52,080
it comes
2490
01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:53,820
my neurons are starting to move my
2491
01:30:53,820 --> 01:30:56,159
finger towards pressuring it because I
2492
01:30:56,159 --> 01:30:57,600
know that I won't get the bat on the
2493
01:30:57,600 --> 01:31:00,120
ball and I squeeze the button down and I
2494
01:31:00,120 --> 01:31:04,199
just miss about on ball
2495
01:31:04,199 --> 01:31:05,699
and I hold the button down I get some
2496
01:31:05,699 --> 01:31:07,320
more pictures
2497
01:31:07,320 --> 01:31:08,580
and
2498
01:31:08,580 --> 01:31:12,440
typically I would say
2499
01:31:12,540 --> 01:31:13,920
darn
2500
01:31:13,920 --> 01:31:15,780
I'll wait for the next one
2501
01:31:15,780 --> 01:31:18,000
or or something like that
2502
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:19,679
wait for bird to take off I'm waiting
2503
01:31:19,679 --> 01:31:21,840
for the Kentucky Derby gates to open the
2504
01:31:21,840 --> 01:31:23,940
horses to rush out all these different
2505
01:31:23,940 --> 01:31:26,639
little pieces so what happens
2506
01:31:26,639 --> 01:31:28,739
is
2507
01:31:28,739 --> 01:31:31,260
I shot that picture that's the picture I
2508
01:31:31,260 --> 01:31:33,120
captured
2509
01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:36,960
but because I'm pre-release bursting I'm
2510
01:31:36,960 --> 01:31:39,000
actually let's squeeze the button down
2511
01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:40,620
it goes back in time that full second
2512
01:31:40,620 --> 01:31:43,500
takes all of those jpegs and writes into
2513
01:31:43,500 --> 01:31:45,060
the memory card
2514
01:31:45,060 --> 01:31:46,800
and then it has
2515
01:31:46,800 --> 01:31:48,840
the pictures I actually shot with my
2516
01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:50,699
finger on the button
2517
01:31:50,699 --> 01:31:52,679
so instead of ending up with with a ball
2518
01:31:52,679 --> 01:31:56,239
that's just missed the bat
2519
01:31:56,280 --> 01:31:57,840
I go back in time and get the one that's
2520
01:31:57,840 --> 01:32:00,739
actually touching the back
2521
01:32:00,780 --> 01:32:03,480
as a bird is just taking off
2522
01:32:03,480 --> 01:32:06,179
as the horse is just breaking forward as
2523
01:32:06,179 --> 01:32:08,460
this the what all this is this is just
2524
01:32:08,460 --> 01:32:09,900
one of these more tools you get to use
2525
01:32:09,900 --> 01:32:11,940
to make the to grab the picture that you
2526
01:32:11,940 --> 01:32:13,440
want to grab
2527
01:32:13,440 --> 01:32:15,919
so
2528
01:32:16,679 --> 01:32:18,300
do you have to go back and select that
2529
01:32:18,300 --> 01:32:19,020
picture
2530
01:32:19,020 --> 01:32:20,639
we have all the pictures you've got 100
2531
01:32:20,639 --> 01:32:24,659
120 frames a second you have 120 frames
2532
01:32:24,659 --> 01:32:27,360
plus the one that I captured Plus that
2533
01:32:27,360 --> 01:32:28,260
one
2534
01:32:28,260 --> 01:32:31,080
plus another 120 because I stayed on for
2535
01:32:31,080 --> 01:32:33,239
a full second in case the bat broke
2536
01:32:33,239 --> 01:32:35,400
okay and so I had all that stuff
2537
01:32:35,400 --> 01:32:36,960
okay then yes you get to go back and
2538
01:32:36,960 --> 01:32:39,620
sort through them
2539
01:32:42,080 --> 01:32:44,280
when you get home yeah absolutely when
2540
01:32:44,280 --> 01:32:45,120
you get home you got all these pictures
2541
01:32:45,120 --> 01:32:47,400
sort through I recommend extra hard
2542
01:32:47,400 --> 01:32:49,759
drives
2543
01:32:50,280 --> 01:32:52,080
yeah it's kind of it's kind of cool you
2544
01:32:52,080 --> 01:32:53,040
start playing with it and you're like
2545
01:32:53,040 --> 01:32:54,600
wow this is really kind of cool I
2546
01:32:54,600 --> 01:32:56,219
stopped missing the shot I wanted to get
2547
01:32:56,219 --> 01:32:58,860
because I was a fraction of a second
2548
01:32:58,860 --> 01:33:03,320
a nanosecond too late with it I found it
2549
01:33:03,600 --> 01:33:05,820
no you always get they're all jpegs you
2550
01:33:05,820 --> 01:33:09,780
raw is not allowed in this one
2551
01:33:09,780 --> 01:33:12,840
raw is not allowed in this one the
2552
01:33:12,840 --> 01:33:15,060
question was what about raw and jpeg
2553
01:33:15,060 --> 01:33:18,780
doesn't mean capture it's all jpeg
2554
01:33:18,780 --> 01:33:21,900
read my lips jpeg
2555
01:33:21,900 --> 01:33:25,879
now jpeg is a good thing
2556
01:33:28,920 --> 01:33:31,500
you print a jpeg
2557
01:33:31,500 --> 01:33:33,780
you post a jpeg
2558
01:33:33,780 --> 01:33:34,980
if you understand use your camera
2559
01:33:34,980 --> 01:33:36,659
properly you don't have to have a raw
2560
01:33:36,659 --> 01:33:39,360
file to make a jpeg
2561
01:33:39,360 --> 01:33:41,219
the camera will do it for you
2562
01:33:41,219 --> 01:33:44,639
my camera has the viewfinder and LC
2563
01:33:44,639 --> 01:33:45,900
panel
2564
01:33:45,900 --> 01:33:48,179
more or less color matched visually
2565
01:33:48,179 --> 01:33:50,699
color matched to my monitor at home so I
2566
01:33:50,699 --> 01:33:53,040
can preview my exposure and my
2567
01:33:53,040 --> 01:33:54,480
saturation is based on my exposure
2568
01:33:54,480 --> 01:33:58,380
before I squeeze the button down
2569
01:33:58,380 --> 01:34:00,960
I'm making fewer mistakes
2570
01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:05,120
so I don't need the backup of a raw file
2571
01:34:06,060 --> 01:34:08,100
listen I get it for you guys at home I
2572
01:34:08,100 --> 01:34:09,719
totally get this
2573
01:34:09,719 --> 01:34:11,520
the whole industry has kind of turned
2574
01:34:11,520 --> 01:34:13,679
our our thinking and if you don't use
2575
01:34:13,679 --> 01:34:15,600
back button autofocus you don't use Mana
2576
01:34:15,600 --> 01:34:16,800
exposure mode don't shoot raw file
2577
01:34:16,800 --> 01:34:18,120
there's a software you don't use that
2578
01:34:18,120 --> 01:34:21,679
plug-in you're not a real photographer
2579
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:24,800
no
2580
01:34:25,320 --> 01:34:27,840
use what works well for you
2581
01:34:27,840 --> 01:34:30,900
Nikon and Canon and Sony and Panasonic
2582
01:34:30,900 --> 01:34:33,239
Olympus we've all spent collectively
2583
01:34:33,239 --> 01:34:35,159
hundreds of millions of dollars make all
2584
01:34:35,159 --> 01:34:37,679
this technology work we want it to
2585
01:34:37,679 --> 01:34:40,320
ask yourself am I really smarter than
2586
01:34:40,320 --> 01:34:44,120
all those people combined
2587
01:34:44,639 --> 01:34:47,340
if your answer is yes I want to be your
2588
01:34:47,340 --> 01:34:49,260
friend
2589
01:34:49,260 --> 01:34:51,500
okay
2590
01:34:51,719 --> 01:34:53,940
so drive to release just have some fun
2591
01:34:53,940 --> 01:34:55,500
with it see it works for you it doesn't
2592
01:34:55,500 --> 01:34:57,480
work for everything
2593
01:34:57,480 --> 01:34:58,920
I don't use it for surfing because
2594
01:34:58,920 --> 01:35:02,460
surfing really has no no decisive moment
2595
01:35:02,460 --> 01:35:05,040
it can be a huge number of moments
2596
01:35:05,040 --> 01:35:07,020
within the same wave within the same
2597
01:35:07,020 --> 01:35:09,420
kick on the top of the wave
2598
01:35:09,420 --> 01:35:11,280
a bat on a ball is a very decisive
2599
01:35:11,280 --> 01:35:13,320
moment
2600
01:35:13,320 --> 01:35:15,120
a punch in a boxing ring is a very
2601
01:35:15,120 --> 01:35:17,900
decisive moment
2602
01:35:18,600 --> 01:35:21,199
all right
2603
01:35:23,219 --> 01:35:25,560
I get asked this all the time so I'm
2604
01:35:25,560 --> 01:35:27,120
going to share this with you I'm going
2605
01:35:27,120 --> 01:35:28,800
to preface this by saying you do not
2606
01:35:28,800 --> 01:35:32,580
have to follow this but shooting Banks
2607
01:35:32,580 --> 01:35:33,840
some pretty cool stuff in the shooting
2608
01:35:33,840 --> 01:35:35,699
banks by now most of you already know
2609
01:35:35,699 --> 01:35:39,420
the shooting banks are four copies of
2610
01:35:39,420 --> 01:35:41,219
that menu
2611
01:35:41,219 --> 01:35:43,199
you can create basically small four
2612
01:35:43,199 --> 01:35:46,320
cameras inside that menu so inside one
2613
01:35:46,320 --> 01:35:47,040
body
2614
01:35:47,040 --> 01:35:49,139
you have four copies of shooting menu
2615
01:35:49,139 --> 01:35:50,880
because I'm lousy keeping things
2616
01:35:50,880 --> 01:35:52,020
straight in my head I'm going to rename
2617
01:35:52,020 --> 01:35:55,260
it in this case I'll name it Sports
2618
01:35:55,260 --> 01:35:57,120
hit okay and I got a sports menu bank so
2619
01:35:57,120 --> 01:35:58,639
I've got a copy of the shooting menu
2620
01:35:58,639 --> 01:36:01,800
just for sports
2621
01:36:01,800 --> 01:36:04,620
no landscape no focus stacking no Studio
2622
01:36:04,620 --> 01:36:06,480
Sports
2623
01:36:06,480 --> 01:36:08,280
okay
2624
01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:09,960
then I got one for Studio I've got one
2625
01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:12,060
for landscape I go in for night sky so
2626
01:36:12,060 --> 01:36:14,699
I've got four copies of the menu for
2627
01:36:14,699 --> 01:36:17,699
just that one thing that I want to do
2628
01:36:17,699 --> 01:36:19,440
okay
2629
01:36:19,440 --> 01:36:22,080
four cameras one body
2630
01:36:22,080 --> 01:36:25,560
same thing happens so I'm shooting
2631
01:36:25,560 --> 01:36:26,880
I'm doing my sports that's what I do
2632
01:36:26,880 --> 01:36:28,139
most often
2633
01:36:28,139 --> 01:36:31,380
and I'm in the sports mode
2634
01:36:31,380 --> 01:36:33,659
and then I keep hearing from everybody
2635
01:36:33,659 --> 01:36:36,239
Instagram my boss
2636
01:36:36,239 --> 01:36:38,760
my boss's boss
2637
01:36:38,760 --> 01:36:40,739
my boss's boss's boss
2638
01:36:40,739 --> 01:36:43,260
we need to shoot more video
2639
01:36:43,260 --> 01:36:45,300
and all photographers here just cringed
2640
01:36:45,300 --> 01:36:48,300
except for Christie Odom who likes it
2641
01:36:48,300 --> 01:36:49,620
Christian is the back of the room going
2642
01:36:49,620 --> 01:36:50,880
oh my gosh video
2643
01:36:50,880 --> 01:36:52,679
okay
2644
01:36:52,679 --> 01:36:54,540
well Christian will tell you that yes we
2645
01:36:54,540 --> 01:36:56,400
have short more video and shooting video
2646
01:36:56,400 --> 01:36:58,679
with a Nikon is amazingly simple
2647
01:36:58,679 --> 01:37:00,780
I'm going to make it even easier for you
2648
01:37:00,780 --> 01:37:02,880
you take the selector on the back of the
2649
01:37:02,880 --> 01:37:04,739
camera go from still
2650
01:37:04,739 --> 01:37:06,420
to video
2651
01:37:06,420 --> 01:37:08,159
you touch the shutter button down
2652
01:37:08,159 --> 01:37:09,120
because I've customized the shutter
2653
01:37:09,120 --> 01:37:12,300
button to start video it takes a video
2654
01:37:12,300 --> 01:37:15,199
so you go from this
2655
01:37:18,840 --> 01:37:21,000
slow motion video the gateway drug to
2656
01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:23,780
video capture
2657
01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:26,159
now we all do that because what you just
2658
01:37:26,159 --> 01:37:27,840
saw there took less than three seconds
2659
01:37:27,840 --> 01:37:31,260
to take to capture
2660
01:37:31,260 --> 01:37:35,159
one two three done that's all it was
2661
01:37:35,159 --> 01:37:36,600
if I can make it that easy for you
2662
01:37:36,600 --> 01:37:39,560
wouldn't you do more of it
2663
01:37:39,600 --> 01:37:42,540
okay don't surprise she's like no I
2664
01:37:42,540 --> 01:37:45,000
don't want to process it
2665
01:37:45,000 --> 01:37:46,500
some of your cameras have built in slow
2666
01:37:46,500 --> 01:37:48,719
motion video no process required
2667
01:37:48,719 --> 01:37:50,040
darn it
2668
01:37:50,040 --> 01:37:53,820
all right what I noticed was as I
2669
01:37:53,820 --> 01:37:55,020
switched from the still shooting menu
2670
01:37:55,020 --> 01:37:56,820
down the video shooting menu to me
2671
01:37:56,820 --> 01:37:58,679
switch one of the banks over
2672
01:37:58,679 --> 01:38:00,540
I went when I came out of the video went
2673
01:38:00,540 --> 01:38:02,400
down the video and I came back into the
2674
01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:05,460
menu banks for the video shooting
2675
01:38:05,460 --> 01:38:07,920
I noticed on the z9 they're exactly the
2676
01:38:07,920 --> 01:38:09,960
same menu Banks
2677
01:38:09,960 --> 01:38:11,699
because they're two different menus that
2678
01:38:11,699 --> 01:38:12,780
are kind of interconnected because the
2679
01:38:12,780 --> 01:38:14,820
shooting portion of them I can have it
2680
01:38:14,820 --> 01:38:17,100
do double duty so I did I set up all the
2681
01:38:17,100 --> 01:38:20,340
stuff for 4K slow motion video and then
2682
01:38:20,340 --> 01:38:23,420
went in and renamed it
2683
01:38:23,880 --> 01:38:28,020
Sports slash 4K 120 and so now that's
2684
01:38:28,020 --> 01:38:29,400
menu Bank
2685
01:38:29,400 --> 01:38:31,380
switches both the still and the video
2686
01:38:31,380 --> 01:38:33,719
shooting menu simultaneously
2687
01:38:33,719 --> 01:38:35,580
whether you use the other one or not
2688
01:38:35,580 --> 01:38:37,620
you'd be Video Only video Christy's only
2689
01:38:37,620 --> 01:38:39,060
in video right now
2690
01:38:39,060 --> 01:38:41,040
so she her still shooting stuff gets
2691
01:38:41,040 --> 01:38:44,659
dust on it doesn't get used very much
2692
01:38:45,060 --> 01:38:47,940
for SCU dust off the video portion of it
2693
01:38:47,940 --> 01:38:49,260
it's ready to go so I actually went
2694
01:38:49,260 --> 01:38:50,639
through and actually what I did is I
2695
01:38:50,639 --> 01:38:51,480
actually
2696
01:38:51,480 --> 01:38:53,100
ranked them in the order that I use the
2697
01:38:53,100 --> 01:38:54,480
most often now your order will be very
2698
01:38:54,480 --> 01:38:55,860
very different
2699
01:38:55,860 --> 01:38:57,480
if you're not new knowledge video you
2700
01:38:57,480 --> 01:38:59,040
probably only have the one
2701
01:38:59,040 --> 01:39:00,719
this is a good way to get started but I
2702
01:39:00,719 --> 01:39:02,219
put the rest of them up there
2703
01:39:02,219 --> 01:39:05,159
so ak-24 is my second done I do a lot of
2704
01:39:05,159 --> 01:39:07,080
stuff I want to do just 1080 for a
2705
01:39:07,080 --> 01:39:09,600
smaller size for the slow motion and
2706
01:39:09,600 --> 01:39:11,520
then I don't use it often because of the
2707
01:39:11,520 --> 01:39:13,440
processing power required but I do have
2708
01:39:13,440 --> 01:39:16,260
the N raw video
2709
01:39:16,260 --> 01:39:17,460
okay
2710
01:39:17,460 --> 01:39:18,840
somebody will switch back and forth on
2711
01:39:18,840 --> 01:39:20,639
these things I can do the same thing and
2712
01:39:20,639 --> 01:39:23,100
it's really quite seriously is
2713
01:39:23,100 --> 01:39:25,440
it's I'm in a shooting menu bank I flip
2714
01:39:25,440 --> 01:39:26,639
the switch over and I touch the shutter
2715
01:39:26,639 --> 01:39:28,080
button down it's done
2716
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:30,480
I'm shooting video I'm back and forth on
2717
01:39:30,480 --> 01:39:31,679
it
2718
01:39:31,679 --> 01:39:35,100
the way I have my cameras set up to do
2719
01:39:35,100 --> 01:39:37,880
my shooting
2720
01:39:41,100 --> 01:39:42,960
if I'm Shooting Sports
2721
01:39:42,960 --> 01:39:45,060
the custom menu Bank also has a
2722
01:39:45,060 --> 01:39:47,340
customization menu Bank on it for sports
2723
01:39:47,340 --> 01:39:49,920
the primary auto focus point is the
2724
01:39:49,920 --> 01:39:52,860
horizontal and vertical buttons recall
2725
01:39:52,860 --> 01:39:54,719
Focus position so I can actually pull
2726
01:39:54,719 --> 01:39:57,060
the focusation back to a preset not very
2727
01:39:57,060 --> 01:39:59,520
good for surfing but amazing for
2728
01:39:59,520 --> 01:40:01,560
baseball
2729
01:40:01,560 --> 01:40:03,480
I can actually pre pre-focus on second
2730
01:40:03,480 --> 01:40:05,340
base put that in my memory and then as
2731
01:40:05,340 --> 01:40:06,840
I'm shooting the batter if I swing the
2732
01:40:06,840 --> 01:40:08,219
camera around I touch the button down
2733
01:40:08,219 --> 01:40:10,020
and the lens is already pre-focused the
2734
01:40:10,020 --> 01:40:11,340
second base before I get the lens over
2735
01:40:11,340 --> 01:40:13,380
there so I can get the play at second
2736
01:40:13,380 --> 01:40:15,659
base in Focus before the runner even
2737
01:40:15,659 --> 01:40:18,000
gets close before I get close to it
2738
01:40:18,000 --> 01:40:20,420
okay
2739
01:40:20,699 --> 01:40:22,560
my menu which actually lets me access
2740
01:40:22,560 --> 01:40:24,179
the top items my menu
2741
01:40:24,179 --> 01:40:25,860
the bottom one
2742
01:40:25,860 --> 01:40:28,320
function three that's where I save the
2743
01:40:28,320 --> 01:40:31,639
focus point I know my session
2744
01:40:35,699 --> 01:40:38,400
for the exact same camera over on video
2745
01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:39,659
side it does something completely
2746
01:40:39,659 --> 01:40:40,920
different now
2747
01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:43,500
when I switch it from the sports into
2748
01:40:43,500 --> 01:40:45,659
the B Bank my studio Bank this is how my
2749
01:40:45,659 --> 01:40:48,259
studio is set up
2750
01:40:49,020 --> 01:40:52,560
this is how I would do 8K capture which
2751
01:40:52,560 --> 01:40:54,540
is my video stuff I'm very very early in
2752
01:40:54,540 --> 01:40:55,920
the video so it's basically the same
2753
01:40:55,920 --> 01:40:57,480
settings over and over and over again
2754
01:40:57,480 --> 01:40:59,219
for all the video stuff except for the
2755
01:40:59,219 --> 01:41:01,440
frame rate and capture rate frame size
2756
01:41:01,440 --> 01:41:03,600
and capture rate
2757
01:41:03,600 --> 01:41:06,600
okay landscape there's my settings
2758
01:41:06,600 --> 01:41:08,340
and again if you don't
2759
01:41:08,340 --> 01:41:10,020
I want my camera button to do something
2760
01:41:10,020 --> 01:41:12,060
different than ignore this this is how
2761
01:41:12,060 --> 01:41:15,540
my treasure map is set up
2762
01:41:15,540 --> 01:41:17,280
and that's the 120 which looks exact
2763
01:41:17,280 --> 01:41:19,679
same as a 4K except for the resolution
2764
01:41:19,679 --> 01:41:21,239
in the frame rate excuse me resolution
2765
01:41:21,239 --> 01:41:22,380
in this case
2766
01:41:22,380 --> 01:41:25,219
night sky
2767
01:41:25,320 --> 01:41:27,179
so Milky Way shooting a completely
2768
01:41:27,179 --> 01:41:28,380
different setup for milkwea that I do
2769
01:41:28,380 --> 01:41:30,120
for landscape and it requires different
2770
01:41:30,120 --> 01:41:31,500
white balance to different picture
2771
01:41:31,500 --> 01:41:35,460
control a different noise setting
2772
01:41:35,460 --> 01:41:37,500
than anyone landscapes
2773
01:41:37,500 --> 01:41:41,719
and of course in raw so
2774
01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:43,560
so they asked me to be at 40 minutes and
2775
01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:45,540
I'm exactly at
2776
01:41:45,540 --> 01:41:47,100
40 minutes
2777
01:41:47,100 --> 01:41:48,719
so any questions please feel free to
2778
01:41:48,719 --> 01:41:50,340
drop me a line to Instagram or come see
2779
01:41:50,340 --> 01:41:52,560
me at the booth here
2780
01:41:52,560 --> 01:41:53,400
um
2781
01:41:53,400 --> 01:41:54,840
what are some questions
2782
01:41:54,840 --> 01:41:57,420
yeah we have some time for some q a but
2783
01:41:57,420 --> 01:42:00,060
wait sorry
2784
01:42:00,060 --> 01:42:02,159
we'll be doing a meet and greet over at
2785
01:42:02,159 --> 01:42:05,400
the Nikon Booth right on the hour in
2786
01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:07,080
about 20 minutes so raise your hand if
2787
01:42:07,080 --> 01:42:08,820
you have a question I'll uh try to
2788
01:42:08,820 --> 01:42:11,659
spread the love here
2789
01:42:12,540 --> 01:42:14,580
can you tell me how I can cancel a
2790
01:42:14,580 --> 01:42:17,159
bracket in the middle of the series
2791
01:42:17,159 --> 01:42:18,840
can you cancel bracket middle series
2792
01:42:18,840 --> 01:42:21,659
turn off the camera yeah I don't want to
2793
01:42:21,659 --> 01:42:23,219
do that
2794
01:42:23,219 --> 01:42:25,619
if I use shooting Banks and I make some
2795
01:42:25,619 --> 01:42:27,239
change to the bank and then I turn it
2796
01:42:27,239 --> 01:42:29,040
off and I go back to default in the
2797
01:42:29,040 --> 01:42:31,440
shooting bank and lose my change
2798
01:42:31,440 --> 01:42:32,940
I'm sorry you want to change a
2799
01:42:32,940 --> 01:42:35,340
bracketing series yep no I don't want to
2800
01:42:35,340 --> 01:42:36,960
change it I'm halfway through and I
2801
01:42:36,960 --> 01:42:38,639
messed up and I want to restart it or
2802
01:42:38,639 --> 01:42:40,080
cancel it okay by trying it off you
2803
01:42:40,080 --> 01:42:41,760
simply stopped at the series and then
2804
01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:43,139
you can turn off the series or restart
2805
01:42:43,139 --> 01:42:44,940
it at that point
2806
01:42:44,940 --> 01:42:47,820
so if I power cycle the camera don't I
2807
01:42:47,820 --> 01:42:50,100
lose the updates to the parameters of my
2808
01:42:50,100 --> 01:42:51,960
shooting bank that will be get reset
2809
01:42:51,960 --> 01:42:53,639
when I reload this no sir turn the
2810
01:42:53,639 --> 01:42:54,900
camera on but if you're shooting menu
2811
01:42:54,900 --> 01:42:57,060
Banks you're shooting your menu your
2812
01:42:57,060 --> 01:42:58,739
mirror selections will not change you
2813
01:42:58,739 --> 01:43:01,860
turn the camera on and off okay
2814
01:43:01,860 --> 01:43:03,900
that was
2815
01:43:03,900 --> 01:43:06,500
cool
2816
01:43:09,900 --> 01:43:12,239
if you select a specific shooting bank
2817
01:43:12,239 --> 01:43:14,760
will the custom bank for that same
2818
01:43:14,760 --> 01:43:16,739
letter or same name follow with the
2819
01:43:16,739 --> 01:43:18,780
shooting Bank when you switch over to it
2820
01:43:18,780 --> 01:43:22,040
only in my dreams
2821
01:43:22,139 --> 01:43:24,119
so the question was if I change the the
2822
01:43:24,119 --> 01:43:25,860
shooting bank or the video shooting bank
2823
01:43:25,860 --> 01:43:29,340
will the the custom Bank follow suit
2824
01:43:29,340 --> 01:43:31,440
I have asked for it I've begged for it
2825
01:43:31,440 --> 01:43:33,000
I've pleaded for it I'm about to start
2826
01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:35,219
bribing people to offer that option to
2827
01:43:35,219 --> 01:43:36,420
do it I think it's important option to
2828
01:43:36,420 --> 01:43:38,100
have it done right now some separately
2829
01:43:38,100 --> 01:43:40,920
so I've said that the shooting Banks and
2830
01:43:40,920 --> 01:43:42,360
the custom Banks separately from each
2831
01:43:42,360 --> 01:43:43,500
other
2832
01:43:43,500 --> 01:43:45,179
um they don't have to match I'm anal
2833
01:43:45,179 --> 01:43:47,400
enough mine all match
2834
01:43:47,400 --> 01:43:48,780
but
2835
01:43:48,780 --> 01:43:50,520
so it's actually I select if it's like
2836
01:43:50,520 --> 01:43:51,659
the shooting Bank
2837
01:43:51,659 --> 01:43:53,219
I've shipped my custom Bank separately
2838
01:43:53,219 --> 01:43:56,040
so I'm asking and really I'm talking to
2839
01:43:56,040 --> 01:43:58,380
Japan right now uh one of my friends Ken
2840
01:43:58,380 --> 01:44:01,020
is the technical liaison for for Japan
2841
01:44:01,020 --> 01:44:03,179
here in the United States and he and
2842
01:44:03,179 --> 01:44:05,159
every time we get together I let him go
2843
01:44:05,159 --> 01:44:07,619
connect my menu Banks yet he goes no not
2844
01:44:07,619 --> 01:44:08,639
yet
2845
01:44:08,639 --> 01:44:10,920
so we're working on it hopefully it'll
2846
01:44:10,920 --> 01:44:13,080
come
2847
01:44:13,080 --> 01:44:15,119
wait wait wait just like
2848
01:44:15,119 --> 01:44:16,500
microphone
2849
01:44:16,500 --> 01:44:19,560
so now I'm confused about the custom
2850
01:44:19,560 --> 01:44:21,420
Banks and the menu Bank
2851
01:44:21,420 --> 01:44:25,520
so when don't be confused you ready
2852
01:44:27,840 --> 01:44:29,580
we're gonna call an audible and freak b
2853
01:44:29,580 --> 01:44:32,219
h out completely okay
2854
01:44:32,219 --> 01:44:35,159
we're gonna unplug my computer
2855
01:44:35,159 --> 01:44:38,639
I'm going to plug in my Nikon z9
2856
01:44:38,639 --> 01:44:41,659
hit the menu screen
2857
01:44:45,119 --> 01:44:47,159
all right so I've got my shooting menu
2858
01:44:47,159 --> 01:44:52,099
Banks so this oops
2859
01:44:53,219 --> 01:44:54,840
there's my there's my still shooting
2860
01:44:54,840 --> 01:44:57,600
bank if I come out and go down to my
2861
01:44:57,600 --> 01:44:59,699
video shooting it's the same Banks
2862
01:44:59,699 --> 01:45:01,920
that's my shooting Banks there's two of
2863
01:45:01,920 --> 01:45:05,040
them still in video however
2864
01:45:05,040 --> 01:45:08,040
the custom menu is independent of that
2865
01:45:08,040 --> 01:45:10,500
currently I have them labeled the same
2866
01:45:10,500 --> 01:45:13,380
but I can be down here and I can select
2867
01:45:13,380 --> 01:45:14,760
C
2868
01:45:14,760 --> 01:45:17,699
and these are still set to a
2869
01:45:17,699 --> 01:45:19,320
I want them linked right now right now
2870
01:45:19,320 --> 01:45:21,060
they're unlinked and there's no way in
2871
01:45:21,060 --> 01:45:22,500
the camera to currently link them so if
2872
01:45:22,500 --> 01:45:24,900
I want them to change as a group
2873
01:45:24,900 --> 01:45:26,760
so that's what the question was
2874
01:45:26,760 --> 01:45:28,619
okay hopefully that clears that up
2875
01:45:28,619 --> 01:45:30,540
awesome
2876
01:45:30,540 --> 01:45:32,040
Christy Odom
2877
01:45:32,040 --> 01:45:34,880
ambassador
2878
01:45:35,940 --> 01:45:38,900
how to phrase this
2879
01:45:40,260 --> 01:45:41,760
I want to thank you so much for all the
2880
01:45:41,760 --> 01:45:44,719
help you are brilliant
2881
01:45:45,360 --> 01:45:46,860
advice had to do with a lot of people
2882
01:45:46,860 --> 01:45:49,500
play with my camera they borrow my
2883
01:45:49,500 --> 01:45:51,239
camera my camera goes in for cleanings
2884
01:45:51,239 --> 01:45:54,420
and I've got all these custom settings
2885
01:45:54,420 --> 01:45:56,580
and you gave me amazing advice that I
2886
01:45:56,580 --> 01:45:58,560
think you should pass on about what you
2887
01:45:58,560 --> 01:46:00,360
do so that when you get your camera back
2888
01:46:00,360 --> 01:46:01,679
how you get all these custom settings
2889
01:46:01,679 --> 01:46:03,119
back
2890
01:46:03,119 --> 01:46:05,960
five bucks
2891
01:46:07,560 --> 01:46:09,480
my mailing address you can send me five
2892
01:46:09,480 --> 01:46:12,199
dollars off YouTube
2893
01:46:13,679 --> 01:46:15,600
when you get all this stuff set
2894
01:46:15,600 --> 01:46:17,580
and I'm currently I've started a library
2895
01:46:17,580 --> 01:46:22,020
because I started at version 1.11 and
2896
01:46:22,020 --> 01:46:24,179
and said I want all these menu settings
2897
01:46:24,179 --> 01:46:27,480
then as as they as they as I go as a
2898
01:46:27,480 --> 01:46:29,100
photographer as I understand the camera
2899
01:46:29,100 --> 01:46:31,860
better as they introduce new features I
2900
01:46:31,860 --> 01:46:33,179
keep adding to it and actually updating
2901
01:46:33,179 --> 01:46:35,219
them so I actually create a new series
2902
01:46:35,219 --> 01:46:37,800
of of
2903
01:46:37,800 --> 01:46:40,139
menu options
2904
01:46:40,139 --> 01:46:43,139
now right now I'm in the setup menu
2905
01:46:43,139 --> 01:46:44,880
I can scroll through the three-pager set
2906
01:46:44,880 --> 01:46:49,400
menu or I can go up so I start the back
2907
01:46:49,679 --> 01:46:53,340
to load save settings
2908
01:46:53,340 --> 01:46:55,199
so I can come in here
2909
01:46:55,199 --> 01:46:58,980
and I can save a menu setting hit OK
2910
01:46:58,980 --> 01:47:00,179
then
2911
01:47:00,179 --> 01:47:02,100
if I were
2912
01:47:02,100 --> 01:47:03,900
unfortunate enough or maybe it's really
2913
01:47:03,900 --> 01:47:07,879
kind and Ambassador Odom
2914
01:47:09,900 --> 01:47:12,300
came along and decided that that my
2915
01:47:12,300 --> 01:47:15,679
sports Bank should be completely renamed
2916
01:47:15,679 --> 01:47:19,380
and that's a dumb name for it so we did
2917
01:47:19,380 --> 01:47:22,619
all of this and she hit OK and now I've
2918
01:47:22,619 --> 01:47:23,580
got
2919
01:47:23,580 --> 01:47:25,800
an empty in menu bank and she actually
2920
01:47:25,800 --> 01:47:27,540
weaving Warriors went in here and
2921
01:47:27,540 --> 01:47:31,320
decided to change this to that and that
2922
01:47:31,320 --> 01:47:35,280
and sorry this to that and just made the
2923
01:47:35,280 --> 01:47:36,600
camera hers
2924
01:47:36,600 --> 01:47:38,940
okay
2925
01:47:38,940 --> 01:47:41,040
I may not figure out what she did to my
2926
01:47:41,040 --> 01:47:44,159
camera in totality for months
2927
01:47:44,159 --> 01:47:46,199
however
2928
01:47:46,199 --> 01:47:48,540
if I go back into my memory card now
2929
01:47:48,540 --> 01:47:50,159
I've taken that small little file I
2930
01:47:50,159 --> 01:47:51,840
saved the file the file is about 100
2931
01:47:51,840 --> 01:47:53,040
kilobytes
2932
01:47:53,040 --> 01:47:54,540
so I have a file folder my hard drive
2933
01:47:54,540 --> 01:47:57,659
that says camera saves z9 camera saves
2934
01:47:57,659 --> 01:48:00,600
and each one is is saved in a folder you
2935
01:48:00,600 --> 01:48:02,340
can't change the name on it say it in a
2936
01:48:02,340 --> 01:48:03,960
folder by date
2937
01:48:03,960 --> 01:48:05,820
and when I make his firmware version too
2938
01:48:05,820 --> 01:48:08,960
so it's it's
2939
01:48:09,440 --> 01:48:11,060
2022.11.04
2940
01:48:11,060 --> 01:48:13,260
firmware 3-0
2941
01:48:13,260 --> 01:48:14,219
okay
2942
01:48:14,219 --> 01:48:15,900
inside that
2943
01:48:15,900 --> 01:48:17,699
I have
2944
01:48:17,699 --> 01:48:20,100
my little itty bitty file that I put
2945
01:48:20,100 --> 01:48:22,679
back on my memory card
2946
01:48:22,679 --> 01:48:24,239
came in here
2947
01:48:24,239 --> 01:48:26,760
and I can reload all the settings that
2948
01:48:26,760 --> 01:48:28,560
were just overwritten by some new
2949
01:48:28,560 --> 01:48:31,020
borrowed my camera or because I was
2950
01:48:31,020 --> 01:48:32,219
playing with something new and I didn't
2951
01:48:32,219 --> 01:48:34,020
know any better and go back and want to
2952
01:48:34,020 --> 01:48:36,659
reset hit the load menu settings now if
2953
01:48:36,659 --> 01:48:38,400
I go back in here and check it look
2954
01:48:38,400 --> 01:48:41,179
they're all
2955
01:48:41,239 --> 01:48:43,980
exactly where they were
2956
01:48:43,980 --> 01:48:47,000
and all of the
2957
01:48:48,480 --> 01:48:50,219
settings we just screwed up are
2958
01:48:50,219 --> 01:48:52,199
unscrewed up
2959
01:48:52,199 --> 01:48:54,119
so it's a really really cool way to have
2960
01:48:54,119 --> 01:48:57,360
a customized user reset of your entire
2961
01:48:57,360 --> 01:48:59,100
camera so once you get away you think
2962
01:48:59,100 --> 01:49:00,540
you like it
2963
01:49:00,540 --> 01:49:03,139
save it
2964
01:49:04,020 --> 01:49:05,699
if you format the card you will lose it
2965
01:49:05,699 --> 01:49:07,920
which is why I copy it end of the hard
2966
01:49:07,920 --> 01:49:09,840
drive on my computer in that file folder
2967
01:49:09,840 --> 01:49:12,360
with the time and date on it so I know
2968
01:49:12,360 --> 01:49:14,460
which version it is so I can go back and
2969
01:49:14,460 --> 01:49:16,920
actually say you know what
2970
01:49:16,920 --> 01:49:18,900
I could go back a year and say I
2971
01:49:18,900 --> 01:49:20,460
wouldn't go back and I really enjoyed
2972
01:49:20,460 --> 01:49:21,900
shooting last year when I do this year
2973
01:49:21,900 --> 01:49:23,460
maybe it's the menu settings I go back
2974
01:49:23,460 --> 01:49:25,080
and then reload it as long as the
2975
01:49:25,080 --> 01:49:26,820
firmware
2976
01:49:26,820 --> 01:49:28,380
is the same version
2977
01:49:28,380 --> 01:49:30,179
in the same camera
2978
01:49:30,179 --> 01:49:31,440
you can load and unload those things
2979
01:49:31,440 --> 01:49:32,760
back and forth it's one of the
2980
01:49:32,760 --> 01:49:34,679
diagnostic tools I use to help you if
2981
01:49:34,679 --> 01:49:36,840
you're an NPS customer and you call me
2982
01:49:36,840 --> 01:49:39,119
up and say listen I've got an issue I
2983
01:49:39,119 --> 01:49:40,440
need to know how my camera's not doing
2984
01:49:40,440 --> 01:49:43,199
what I want to do it stopped doing this
2985
01:49:43,199 --> 01:49:46,440
I will tell you to save the file send it
2986
01:49:46,440 --> 01:49:49,560
to me I'll put your camera into my body
2987
01:49:49,560 --> 01:49:50,880
and figure out which menu setting you
2988
01:49:50,880 --> 01:49:52,560
have wrong and say okay try fixing this
2989
01:49:52,560 --> 01:49:55,739
you go you're brilliant that that's why
2990
01:49:55,739 --> 01:49:57,480
I trick Christie Odom thinking I'm brave
2991
01:49:57,480 --> 01:49:59,699
because of that okay
2992
01:49:59,699 --> 01:50:02,219
so totally tricked her it's a pirate
2993
01:50:02,219 --> 01:50:04,699
thing okay
2994
01:50:05,760 --> 01:50:07,139
last question because we have to get off
2995
01:50:07,139 --> 01:50:09,540
the stage for somebody else where's a
2996
01:50:09,540 --> 01:50:12,300
good place to figure out all the
2997
01:50:12,300 --> 01:50:15,239
different focusing settings and how
2998
01:50:15,239 --> 01:50:17,820
they're best used
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01:50:17,820 --> 01:50:21,420
that is a great question
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01:50:21,420 --> 01:50:24,619
and like anything as photographers
3001
01:50:24,619 --> 01:50:28,320
we don't retain things we read very well
3002
01:50:28,320 --> 01:50:30,360
we're visual learners
3003
01:50:30,360 --> 01:50:32,940
okay so unfortunately the easy answer is
3004
01:50:32,940 --> 01:50:35,040
also the hardest one
3005
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:36,420
go
3006
01:50:36,420 --> 01:50:38,520
practice
3007
01:50:38,520 --> 01:50:39,900
that just there's no other way around it
3008
01:50:39,900 --> 01:50:41,460
you got to go practice so go out there
3009
01:50:41,460 --> 01:50:43,139
and try it try different things so it's
3010
01:50:43,139 --> 01:50:45,239
going to work for you guys because the
3011
01:50:45,239 --> 01:50:46,800
way I use this Focus setting will be
3012
01:50:46,800 --> 01:50:47,940
different the way Chris uses the same
3013
01:50:47,940 --> 01:50:50,760
exact Focus setting or any of you so go
3014
01:50:50,760 --> 01:50:52,320
there have fun if you're here come see
3015
01:50:52,320 --> 01:50:53,760
the booth I'll see you guys later online
3016
01:50:53,760 --> 01:50:57,000
thanks a lot hi Mom
3017
01:50:57,000 --> 01:51:00,170
[Applause]
3018
01:51:06,239 --> 01:51:08,540
foreign
3019
01:51:09,840 --> 01:51:12,659
so if there are any more questions
3020
01:51:12,659 --> 01:51:14,340
you can catch Paul over at the Nikon
3021
01:51:14,340 --> 01:51:15,840
Booth as well as the friendly people
3022
01:51:15,840 --> 01:51:19,320
from Nikon and that will be right at one
3023
01:51:19,320 --> 01:51:21,719
o'clock so just a few minutes next year
3024
01:51:21,719 --> 01:51:23,219
on stage we're gonna have Aaron Sullivan
3025
01:51:23,219 --> 01:51:25,800
she's going to be giving us a deep dive
3026
01:51:25,800 --> 01:51:27,840
into the Great Outdoors the little bit
3027
01:51:27,840 --> 01:51:30,119
grayed out great indoors
3028
01:51:30,119 --> 01:51:31,860
a trick and that will be happening right
3029
01:51:31,860 --> 01:51:33,480
at one o'clock and just so you all know
3030
01:51:33,480 --> 01:51:35,100
there is a live demo happening with
3031
01:51:35,100 --> 01:51:37,260
Aaron at two o'clock over at the corner
3032
01:51:37,260 --> 01:51:39,840
macro station with the fun little canoe
3033
01:51:39,840 --> 01:51:43,639
scene if you've seen it so stick around
3034
01:52:55,800 --> 01:52:59,060
can you help me to
3035
01:53:08,760 --> 01:53:10,739
um I don't think so but we could plug it
3036
01:53:10,739 --> 01:53:13,500
in just in case
3037
01:53:13,500 --> 01:53:14,760
you do
3038
01:53:14,760 --> 01:53:17,060
yeah
3039
01:53:17,400 --> 01:53:20,599
yeah let me plug it in
3040
01:53:24,480 --> 01:53:27,619
blows everything
3041
01:53:37,260 --> 01:53:41,060
I have one it's here
3042
01:53:44,900 --> 01:53:47,340
okay I don't
3043
01:53:47,340 --> 01:53:48,739
Honestly
3044
01:53:48,739 --> 01:53:51,719
though it's like a 10 second clip it
3045
01:53:51,719 --> 01:53:54,199
doesn't require it
3046
01:53:55,920 --> 01:53:57,920
all right
3047
01:53:59,659 --> 01:54:02,900
it is
3048
01:54:09,540 --> 01:54:11,880
oh yeah it is
3049
01:54:11,880 --> 01:54:16,520
so is that a charger then oh great okay
3050
01:54:16,520 --> 01:54:19,940
I have oh this type I don't know
3051
01:54:19,940 --> 01:54:21,900
okay
3052
01:54:21,900 --> 01:54:23,719
okay
3053
01:54:23,719 --> 01:54:26,460
yeah what will happen is it may black
3054
01:54:26,460 --> 01:54:28,139
out the screen it may take you out of
3055
01:54:28,139 --> 01:54:31,280
your presentation okay
3056
01:54:32,100 --> 01:54:33,840
okay
3057
01:54:33,840 --> 01:54:36,719
first quit please
3058
01:54:36,719 --> 01:54:39,980
sounds good
3059
01:55:12,239 --> 01:55:14,718
okay
3060
01:55:19,920 --> 01:55:22,760
is there
3061
02:02:21,679 --> 02:02:24,719
hello hello so we are gonna get started
3062
02:02:24,719 --> 02:02:26,280
we're jumping right in I know the main
3063
02:02:26,280 --> 02:02:28,260
stage is on a lunch break but I know you
3064
02:02:28,260 --> 02:02:30,599
guys are eager to keep learning and this
3065
02:02:30,599 --> 02:02:32,219
is a special one and just so you know
3066
02:02:32,219 --> 02:02:33,840
before Aaron comes on stage we're doing
3067
02:02:33,840 --> 02:02:36,540
that live demo over at the macro table
3068
02:02:36,540 --> 02:02:38,159
in the back that's going to be a lot of
3069
02:02:38,159 --> 02:02:40,199
fun to crowd around and get into her
3070
02:02:40,199 --> 02:02:42,840
mindset and see how she built that scene
3071
02:02:42,840 --> 02:02:43,920
um and I know you guys are gonna love it
3072
02:02:43,920 --> 02:02:45,780
so let's get ready for the next talk and
3073
02:02:45,780 --> 02:02:47,040
without further ado
3074
02:02:47,040 --> 02:02:50,599
Aaron Sullivan come on stage
3075
02:02:58,920 --> 02:03:00,360
and for those of you who don't know me
3076
02:03:00,360 --> 02:03:03,480
nice to see some familiar faces and some
3077
02:03:03,480 --> 02:03:07,080
new faces as well so we'll get into it
3078
02:03:07,080 --> 02:03:09,420
so uh first I just wanted to introduce
3079
02:03:09,420 --> 02:03:12,119
myself my name is Aaron Sullivan I am an
3080
02:03:12,119 --> 02:03:13,980
outdoor travel and miniature
3081
02:03:13,980 --> 02:03:16,440
photographer and over the next 40
3082
02:03:16,440 --> 02:03:18,360
minutes or so we'll get into what that
3083
02:03:18,360 --> 02:03:21,179
exactly means and I also think it's
3084
02:03:21,179 --> 02:03:22,860
important to tell you a little bit about
3085
02:03:22,860 --> 02:03:26,460
what I'm about so for me meaningful
3086
02:03:26,460 --> 02:03:28,920
images and experiences are what makes
3087
02:03:28,920 --> 02:03:32,159
photography so important and so powerful
3088
02:03:32,159 --> 02:03:35,460
and I also love the outdoors I celebrate
3089
02:03:35,460 --> 02:03:37,860
creativity whenever and however I can
3090
02:03:37,860 --> 02:03:40,199
and I think it's vital to humanity and I
3091
02:03:40,199 --> 02:03:42,420
think it should be nurtured
3092
02:03:42,420 --> 02:03:44,280
um and before pursuing photography I was
3093
02:03:44,280 --> 02:03:47,760
a guide I was it can't hear
3094
02:03:47,760 --> 02:03:50,960
can you guys Turn Me Up
3095
02:03:51,239 --> 02:03:52,739
oh really
3096
02:03:52,739 --> 02:03:54,719
now it is
3097
02:03:54,719 --> 02:03:58,699
well let's start better
3098
02:03:58,980 --> 02:04:01,080
I'm okay okay
3099
02:04:01,080 --> 02:04:03,060
I'll put it like that all right anyway
3100
02:04:03,060 --> 02:04:07,619
I'm Erin that's what you missed okay I'm
3101
02:04:07,619 --> 02:04:09,480
a photographer outdoor travel miniature
3102
02:04:09,480 --> 02:04:10,619
you're going to learn more about what
3103
02:04:10,619 --> 02:04:13,500
that means in a bit and before I was a
3104
02:04:13,500 --> 02:04:15,000
photographer I was an adventure travel
3105
02:04:15,000 --> 02:04:17,340
guide for teenagers so I used to lead
3106
02:04:17,340 --> 02:04:19,619
Adventure trips for kids all over the
3107
02:04:19,619 --> 02:04:22,679
world canoeing backpacking rock climbing
3108
02:04:22,679 --> 02:04:25,320
all that kind of stuff so I eventually
3109
02:04:25,320 --> 02:04:27,719
started a Blog called Aaron Outdoors to
3110
02:04:27,719 --> 02:04:30,000
share my travels and then that kind of
3111
02:04:30,000 --> 02:04:32,520
led me back to photography which I loved
3112
02:04:32,520 --> 02:04:34,380
for my whole life
3113
02:04:34,380 --> 02:04:35,880
um and these are just some of my clients
3114
02:04:35,880 --> 02:04:38,940
that I wanted to share with you I'm so I
3115
02:04:38,940 --> 02:04:40,860
do photography for them as I said I do
3116
02:04:40,860 --> 02:04:43,619
social media work I also create
3117
02:04:43,619 --> 02:04:45,800
educational resources for my community
3118
02:04:45,800 --> 02:04:48,659
for photographers and creatives and I
3119
02:04:48,659 --> 02:04:50,760
lead a couple of Adventure trips every
3120
02:04:50,760 --> 02:04:53,099
year based on photography and some
3121
02:04:53,099 --> 02:04:54,599
element of mindfulness and personal
3122
02:04:54,599 --> 02:04:56,219
development
3123
02:04:56,219 --> 02:04:57,900
and we're going to talk about this today
3124
02:04:57,900 --> 02:05:00,900
so these are my Miniatures we're not
3125
02:05:00,900 --> 02:05:01,800
going to talk about ice cream
3126
02:05:01,800 --> 02:05:04,260
necessarily but these are the ice cream
3127
02:05:04,260 --> 02:05:07,860
mountains would anybody like to go
3128
02:05:07,860 --> 02:05:10,920
yeah I would too okay I'll go with you
3129
02:05:10,920 --> 02:05:13,500
um so I'm gonna start just today by
3130
02:05:13,500 --> 02:05:15,000
showing you some of my miniature images
3131
02:05:15,000 --> 02:05:18,119
and then we'll get into a bunch of other
3132
02:05:18,119 --> 02:05:21,060
important facts and the story behind
3133
02:05:21,060 --> 02:05:23,520
them and everything like that so these
3134
02:05:23,520 --> 02:05:24,900
are the ice cream mountains I made them
3135
02:05:24,900 --> 02:05:27,300
for a client
3136
02:05:27,300 --> 02:05:29,820
here we have a mushroom Grove so I made
3137
02:05:29,820 --> 02:05:32,219
this with a few different kinds of
3138
02:05:32,219 --> 02:05:33,420
mushrooms and I wanted to create
3139
02:05:33,420 --> 02:05:36,179
something imaginative inspiring that
3140
02:05:36,179 --> 02:05:38,460
gives you that sense of wonder that I
3141
02:05:38,460 --> 02:05:40,679
certainly feel when I'm outdoors and in
3142
02:05:40,679 --> 02:05:42,900
nature
3143
02:05:42,900 --> 02:05:45,480
this is another client piece this was
3144
02:05:45,480 --> 02:05:47,099
for a company that makes technical
3145
02:05:47,099 --> 02:05:49,860
fleece so the whole landscape here is
3146
02:05:49,860 --> 02:05:52,320
created with their Fabric and then we
3147
02:05:52,320 --> 02:05:54,060
have a little friendly family of
3148
02:05:54,060 --> 02:05:56,280
penguins there
3149
02:05:56,280 --> 02:05:59,880
and this one is cucumber Terraces so
3150
02:05:59,880 --> 02:06:03,300
this one we used to advertise the my
3151
02:06:03,300 --> 02:06:05,760
talk today and it's inspired by my time
3152
02:06:05,760 --> 02:06:07,739
in Asia specifically in China and I
3153
02:06:07,739 --> 02:06:09,119
thought that the Cucumbers were really
3154
02:06:09,119 --> 02:06:12,540
nice as you know to illustrate these
3155
02:06:12,540 --> 02:06:13,920
Terraces
3156
02:06:13,920 --> 02:06:16,800
and this one is a map world so it's
3157
02:06:16,800 --> 02:06:19,500
created with maps and with push pins and
3158
02:06:19,500 --> 02:06:21,420
this was for a print article and that
3159
02:06:21,420 --> 02:06:23,040
was for one of my clients as well and
3160
02:06:23,040 --> 02:06:25,199
then of course you have my models which
3161
02:06:25,199 --> 02:06:28,580
are these tiny little figurines
3162
02:06:28,619 --> 02:06:30,659
okay so a little bit more about what
3163
02:06:30,659 --> 02:06:32,699
we're going to go over today first I'm
3164
02:06:32,699 --> 02:06:34,380
going to tell you the story of how I
3165
02:06:34,380 --> 02:06:37,139
started creating all of these miniature
3166
02:06:37,139 --> 02:06:40,440
worlds and why and then since I am a
3167
02:06:40,440 --> 02:06:42,900
guide I'll take you on a guided tour of
3168
02:06:42,900 --> 02:06:45,420
my miniature worlds that I've made and
3169
02:06:45,420 --> 02:06:47,880
all the scenes you'll also get a look at
3170
02:06:47,880 --> 02:06:51,000
the behind the scenes which could might
3171
02:06:51,000 --> 02:06:53,520
surprise you a little bit
3172
02:06:53,520 --> 02:06:55,500
um and lastly we'll get to the lessons
3173
02:06:55,500 --> 02:06:58,020
that working in miniature taught me and
3174
02:06:58,020 --> 02:07:00,900
how I applied them to my work in the
3175
02:07:00,900 --> 02:07:03,480
human-sized world and then how you can
3176
02:07:03,480 --> 02:07:05,460
apply these lessons to your own creative
3177
02:07:05,460 --> 02:07:07,560
Journey whether you're a photographer or
3178
02:07:07,560 --> 02:07:09,119
not and whether you do it professionally
3179
02:07:09,119 --> 02:07:11,960
or just for fun
3180
02:07:12,060 --> 02:07:14,699
all right so first I wanted to go and
3181
02:07:14,699 --> 02:07:17,280
show you some of my other work so this
3182
02:07:17,280 --> 02:07:19,199
is work that I've shot before the
3183
02:07:19,199 --> 02:07:21,119
Miniatures and after the Miniatures I I
3184
02:07:21,119 --> 02:07:22,980
love it I love this world I think we
3185
02:07:22,980 --> 02:07:24,780
live on such an amazing planet and I
3186
02:07:24,780 --> 02:07:26,820
want to I want to share it through my
3187
02:07:26,820 --> 02:07:29,099
photography and through my art so on the
3188
02:07:29,099 --> 02:07:31,739
left we have Balo speech on Crete you
3189
02:07:31,739 --> 02:07:33,900
can already kind of see how the
3190
02:07:33,900 --> 02:07:36,360
Miniatures started in my mind these are
3191
02:07:36,360 --> 02:07:39,119
actual human human-sized people and then
3192
02:07:39,119 --> 02:07:41,699
in the middle is a macro photograph of a
3193
02:07:41,699 --> 02:07:43,679
glow worm in New Zealand
3194
02:07:43,679 --> 02:07:45,960
so you can see the light in its body
3195
02:07:45,960 --> 02:07:48,179
Illuminating it's kind of
3196
02:07:48,179 --> 02:07:49,980
um it's like a spider web that's how it
3197
02:07:49,980 --> 02:07:52,020
catches its prey and then on the right
3198
02:07:52,020 --> 02:07:55,619
we have layers of hills in Tuscany at
3199
02:07:55,619 --> 02:07:58,800
Sunset so I love these colors I love the
3200
02:07:58,800 --> 02:08:01,260
tools of repetition and layers and I'm
3201
02:08:01,260 --> 02:08:02,880
really interested in how this comes
3202
02:08:02,880 --> 02:08:04,560
together to create a really compelling
3203
02:08:04,560 --> 02:08:07,400
image
3204
02:08:07,560 --> 02:08:09,119
does anybody know what a group of
3205
02:08:09,119 --> 02:08:12,019
stingrays is called
3206
02:08:13,139 --> 02:08:14,580
a fever
3207
02:08:14,580 --> 02:08:17,880
a fever of raise so this is a fever of
3208
02:08:17,880 --> 02:08:20,580
several hundred modular rays in Mexico
3209
02:08:20,580 --> 02:08:23,639
and I mean this is the feeling of wonder
3210
02:08:23,639 --> 02:08:25,920
that if I've ever felt it in my life it
3211
02:08:25,920 --> 02:08:27,420
was this and and this is the kind of
3212
02:08:27,420 --> 02:08:28,800
feeling that I want to communicate in
3213
02:08:28,800 --> 02:08:30,300
all of my work
3214
02:08:30,300 --> 02:08:32,940
here's the Milky Way Over Texas uh this
3215
02:08:32,940 --> 02:08:34,920
was for the Texas tourism board this
3216
02:08:34,920 --> 02:08:36,719
past year and I got really lucky with
3217
02:08:36,719 --> 02:08:39,060
this water this still calm water so I
3218
02:08:39,060 --> 02:08:40,800
could get the reflection of the Milky
3219
02:08:40,800 --> 02:08:42,980
Way
3220
02:08:43,080 --> 02:08:46,440
this is namibia's dead Flay from the air
3221
02:08:46,440 --> 02:08:48,239
I shot this next to Colby Brown who's
3222
02:08:48,239 --> 02:08:49,580
standing right there
3223
02:08:49,580 --> 02:08:52,920
and I love the abstraction here and how
3224
02:08:52,920 --> 02:08:54,420
it looks like a tree or it looks like
3225
02:08:54,420 --> 02:08:56,820
veins like things looking like other
3226
02:08:56,820 --> 02:08:59,820
things aren't imitating nature those
3227
02:08:59,820 --> 02:09:01,619
kinds of themes I think are really
3228
02:09:01,619 --> 02:09:03,420
amazing in art I think that's what what
3229
02:09:03,420 --> 02:09:05,280
makes what we can create really special
3230
02:09:05,280 --> 02:09:06,900
as humans
3231
02:09:06,900 --> 02:09:10,679
here we have an antelope at sunrise in
3232
02:09:10,679 --> 02:09:13,800
the Masai Mara in Kenya
3233
02:09:13,800 --> 02:09:15,840
these are some olives on an Olive Grove
3234
02:09:15,840 --> 02:09:18,599
in Tuscany I just wanted to show you a
3235
02:09:18,599 --> 02:09:20,580
bit of the macro on the right and then
3236
02:09:20,580 --> 02:09:23,400
the texture overall texture color
3237
02:09:23,400 --> 02:09:28,080
exploration of depth on the left
3238
02:09:28,080 --> 02:09:30,300
and here's a chunk of ice on Iceland's
3239
02:09:30,300 --> 02:09:33,060
famous Diamond Beach and what I loved
3240
02:09:33,060 --> 02:09:36,360
here was the contrast between the sharp
3241
02:09:36,360 --> 02:09:38,159
and the clear texture of the ice against
3242
02:09:38,159 --> 02:09:40,920
the soft movement of the water
3243
02:09:40,920 --> 02:09:44,280
so how do all of these go to something
3244
02:09:44,280 --> 02:09:47,639
like this this is my Rosemary Forest
3245
02:09:47,639 --> 02:09:50,099
and this and all the other Miniatures
3246
02:09:50,099 --> 02:09:52,440
that I've showed you so far are from a
3247
02:09:52,440 --> 02:09:55,560
project that I am still on ongoing
3248
02:09:55,560 --> 02:09:57,719
creating in an ongoing fashion called
3249
02:09:57,719 --> 02:09:59,639
our Great Indoors
3250
02:09:59,639 --> 02:10:01,920
and this is a project a series that I
3251
02:10:01,920 --> 02:10:03,719
started at the start of the pandemic in
3252
02:10:03,719 --> 02:10:06,360
March of 2020. and I've continued it
3253
02:10:06,360 --> 02:10:09,060
ever since and this project has taught
3254
02:10:09,060 --> 02:10:12,000
me so much way more than I ever thought
3255
02:10:12,000 --> 02:10:13,500
it would have
3256
02:10:13,500 --> 02:10:15,179
and I want to let you in on something
3257
02:10:15,179 --> 02:10:17,179
that I was thinking about a lot
3258
02:10:17,179 --> 02:10:20,340
at the start of this project which was
3259
02:10:20,340 --> 02:10:22,320
art school I was thinking like why did I
3260
02:10:22,320 --> 02:10:24,000
go to Art School what did I learn from
3261
02:10:24,000 --> 02:10:26,280
it why did I want to go did it benefit
3262
02:10:26,280 --> 02:10:28,500
me in any way
3263
02:10:28,500 --> 02:10:31,199
um so this is me at my senior thesis
3264
02:10:31,199 --> 02:10:33,659
exhibition in college and now I'm a
3265
02:10:33,659 --> 02:10:35,460
photographer now I didn't actually study
3266
02:10:35,460 --> 02:10:37,860
Photography in school I didn't have any
3267
02:10:37,860 --> 02:10:40,020
formal photography training since about
3268
02:10:40,020 --> 02:10:42,840
age 17 since since a couple courses that
3269
02:10:42,840 --> 02:10:44,639
I took in high school
3270
02:10:44,639 --> 02:10:47,400
so I'm thinking about the experience of
3271
02:10:47,400 --> 02:10:49,139
school particularly art related
3272
02:10:49,139 --> 02:10:52,260
assignments and the process around them
3273
02:10:52,260 --> 02:10:55,199
and here are my observations about this
3274
02:10:55,199 --> 02:10:57,119
and I promise you it does connect to
3275
02:10:57,119 --> 02:10:59,040
miniature so stay with me
3276
02:10:59,040 --> 02:11:01,260
so first Art School gives you
3277
02:11:01,260 --> 02:11:02,820
assignments
3278
02:11:02,820 --> 02:11:04,920
assignments being usually a set of
3279
02:11:04,920 --> 02:11:08,400
constraints of parameters that you need
3280
02:11:08,400 --> 02:11:09,599
to follow
3281
02:11:09,599 --> 02:11:13,619
some examples create a sculpture with
3282
02:11:13,619 --> 02:11:15,360
some wire and some wood a tabletop
3283
02:11:15,360 --> 02:11:18,420
sculpture or create a logo in Black and
3284
02:11:18,420 --> 02:11:20,520
White using your favorite animal
3285
02:11:20,520 --> 02:11:23,159
or paint the glass bottles in the middle
3286
02:11:23,159 --> 02:11:24,360
of the room but you can only use three
3287
02:11:24,360 --> 02:11:26,880
colors so these are actual assignments
3288
02:11:26,880 --> 02:11:28,800
that I had in school personally
3289
02:11:28,800 --> 02:11:30,719
the next thing that you have you have
3290
02:11:30,719 --> 02:11:32,099
teachers that will give you these
3291
02:11:32,099 --> 02:11:33,360
assignments and it'll tell you when
3292
02:11:33,360 --> 02:11:35,760
they're due and how to do them
3293
02:11:35,760 --> 02:11:38,159
and then Art School of course usually
3294
02:11:38,159 --> 02:11:39,840
comes with schedules and deadlines when
3295
02:11:39,840 --> 02:11:41,820
you need to be in class when you need to
3296
02:11:41,820 --> 02:11:44,040
study when you need to practice your
3297
02:11:44,040 --> 02:11:46,560
craft there's some kind of schedule that
3298
02:11:46,560 --> 02:11:48,060
you follow
3299
02:11:48,060 --> 02:11:50,099
and these things usually come with any
3300
02:11:50,099 --> 02:11:53,040
type of schooling or coursework which in
3301
02:11:53,040 --> 02:11:54,719
theory then prepares you to go and do
3302
02:11:54,719 --> 02:11:56,400
that thing out in the world so our
3303
02:11:56,400 --> 02:11:58,500
school prepares you to go out and be a
3304
02:11:58,500 --> 02:12:01,500
working artist and to uh to be
3305
02:12:01,500 --> 02:12:03,599
successful in theory
3306
02:12:03,599 --> 02:12:05,280
personally I'm really glad that I went
3307
02:12:05,280 --> 02:12:07,380
gave me a lot
3308
02:12:07,380 --> 02:12:09,719
um so here I am March of 2020. looking
3309
02:12:09,719 --> 02:12:11,760
at all my screens and watching my
3310
02:12:11,760 --> 02:12:14,460
schedule just absolutely evaporate
3311
02:12:14,460 --> 02:12:16,380
um everything's being canceled it's the
3312
02:12:16,380 --> 02:12:17,820
start of the pandemic as a Travel
3313
02:12:17,820 --> 02:12:20,099
Photographer you know my entire calendar
3314
02:12:20,099 --> 02:12:23,460
is just going away I was also hosting a
3315
02:12:23,460 --> 02:12:26,040
micro series at the time I was on camera
3316
02:12:26,040 --> 02:12:28,320
hosting and just all my jobs are getting
3317
02:12:28,320 --> 02:12:30,300
canceled so I'm thinking
3318
02:12:30,300 --> 02:12:33,000
how am I going to stay creative how am I
3319
02:12:33,000 --> 02:12:35,099
going to stay creating and what am I
3320
02:12:35,099 --> 02:12:36,659
going to do for work as well so I
3321
02:12:36,659 --> 02:12:39,480
suddenly have like all of this free time
3322
02:12:39,480 --> 02:12:42,300
and I started to consider the really
3323
02:12:42,300 --> 02:12:44,699
unique experience that we were in
3324
02:12:44,699 --> 02:12:48,179
suddenly I had a lot of constraints
3325
02:12:48,179 --> 02:12:50,520
really felt like an assignment right and
3326
02:12:50,520 --> 02:12:52,800
this is how I began to look at it
3327
02:12:52,800 --> 02:12:54,719
I had constraints and parameters in
3328
02:12:54,719 --> 02:12:57,179
which I could work so I can't travel
3329
02:12:57,179 --> 02:13:00,119
right and that's a place where I get a
3330
02:13:00,119 --> 02:13:02,639
lot of inspiration I can't spend a lot
3331
02:13:02,639 --> 02:13:04,860
of money on whatever it is that I'm
3332
02:13:04,860 --> 02:13:06,540
going to create
3333
02:13:06,540 --> 02:13:08,639
I have to spend much more time at home
3334
02:13:08,639 --> 02:13:09,960
than I'm used to doing much more time
3335
02:13:09,960 --> 02:13:12,540
indoors if you follow me on social media
3336
02:13:12,540 --> 02:13:14,520
my handle is Aaron Outdoors so I
3337
02:13:14,520 --> 02:13:17,340
suddenly became Aaron indoors
3338
02:13:17,340 --> 02:13:18,000
um
3339
02:13:18,000 --> 02:13:19,980
I had to use materials that were easy to
3340
02:13:19,980 --> 02:13:21,960
find or that I already had
3341
02:13:21,960 --> 02:13:24,179
and then as far as teachers or authority
3342
02:13:24,179 --> 02:13:25,980
figures really just limited to myself
3343
02:13:25,980 --> 02:13:27,900
there
3344
02:13:27,900 --> 02:13:30,540
but you know I knew that potential
3345
02:13:30,540 --> 02:13:33,060
clients could be looking at my work and
3346
02:13:33,060 --> 02:13:35,340
like knew what I was going to be coming
3347
02:13:35,340 --> 02:13:37,500
out with so I wanted to be sharing my
3348
02:13:37,500 --> 02:13:38,940
work and then as far as the due date
3349
02:13:38,940 --> 02:13:40,560
well there wasn't really a due date but
3350
02:13:40,560 --> 02:13:43,020
I know now that I need to create in
3351
02:13:43,020 --> 02:13:45,420
order to stay like mentally healthy and
3352
02:13:45,420 --> 02:13:47,460
then of course I'm also thinking
3353
02:13:47,460 --> 02:13:49,619
eventually I have to generate some more
3354
02:13:49,619 --> 02:13:51,000
income so that's also in the back of my
3355
02:13:51,000 --> 02:13:53,119
mind
3356
02:13:53,940 --> 02:13:55,380
um so where can I turn challenge into
3357
02:13:55,380 --> 02:13:57,960
opportunity this is a big question that
3358
02:13:57,960 --> 02:13:59,820
I'm asking myself at this point in time
3359
02:13:59,820 --> 02:14:02,760
I went to art school I paid money to be
3360
02:14:02,760 --> 02:14:04,739
given assignments and here I'm being
3361
02:14:04,739 --> 02:14:06,840
given one for free so maybe if I can
3362
02:14:06,840 --> 02:14:08,460
reframe it in this way then it will
3363
02:14:08,460 --> 02:14:12,780
allow me to um you know create something
3364
02:14:12,780 --> 02:14:15,360
in a creative career a creative Journey
3365
02:14:15,360 --> 02:14:18,000
you are always going to have challenges
3366
02:14:18,000 --> 02:14:19,500
everyone will run into challenges
3367
02:14:19,500 --> 02:14:21,239
they'll be different for every single
3368
02:14:21,239 --> 02:14:23,099
person but it's really going to benefit
3369
02:14:23,099 --> 02:14:25,440
you if you can reframe your challenge
3370
02:14:25,440 --> 02:14:27,780
into an opportunity or see the
3371
02:14:27,780 --> 02:14:29,760
opportunities within a challenge I don't
3372
02:14:29,760 --> 02:14:31,380
mean to invalidate the challenges are
3373
02:14:31,380 --> 02:14:32,940
hard they can be hard they can be
3374
02:14:32,940 --> 02:14:34,380
difficult
3375
02:14:34,380 --> 02:14:38,460
and as an as an aside the so much of
3376
02:14:38,460 --> 02:14:41,040
what's made me successful in my career
3377
02:14:41,040 --> 02:14:43,440
has not been the technical stuff about
3378
02:14:43,440 --> 02:14:45,420
how to do lights or what settings to use
3379
02:14:45,420 --> 02:14:48,000
it's these kinds of principles
3380
02:14:48,000 --> 02:14:50,219
so I'm a person that feels overwhelmed
3381
02:14:50,219 --> 02:14:52,079
and anxiety pretty easily so I needed to
3382
02:14:52,079 --> 02:14:53,760
focus my attention onto what I could
3383
02:14:53,760 --> 02:14:56,520
control rather than focusing on oh this
3384
02:14:56,520 --> 02:14:58,020
is really challenging I'm really limited
3385
02:14:58,020 --> 02:14:59,460
by this
3386
02:14:59,460 --> 02:15:03,840
so here we are I had my assignment and I
3387
02:15:03,840 --> 02:15:06,179
started to brainstorm
3388
02:15:06,179 --> 02:15:09,599
when I was a kid or when I couldn't when
3389
02:15:09,599 --> 02:15:11,699
I was bored or when I couldn't sleep at
3390
02:15:11,699 --> 02:15:13,980
night I used to imagine these tiny
3391
02:15:13,980 --> 02:15:16,920
little scenes in my house so if I
3392
02:15:16,920 --> 02:15:18,719
couldn't sleep I'm like under my covers
3393
02:15:18,719 --> 02:15:20,880
and I've noticed I'm I'm acting like
3394
02:15:20,880 --> 02:15:23,460
okay there's there's a the ski hill here
3395
02:15:23,460 --> 02:15:25,139
and I can ski down this I would imagine
3396
02:15:25,139 --> 02:15:27,239
that or if I was outside I'd imagine
3397
02:15:27,239 --> 02:15:30,840
walking along tiny Blades of grass
3398
02:15:30,840 --> 02:15:32,880
and so that's where this project really
3399
02:15:32,880 --> 02:15:36,719
came from is from childhood
3400
02:15:36,719 --> 02:15:38,460
and I thought to myself how cool would
3401
02:15:38,460 --> 02:15:41,639
it be to create these worlds in real
3402
02:15:41,639 --> 02:15:43,139
life how cool would it be to create them
3403
02:15:43,139 --> 02:15:45,780
in images so I Googled miniature
3404
02:15:45,780 --> 02:15:47,579
figurines and I didn't know anything
3405
02:15:47,579 --> 02:15:49,199
about the model train world at that time
3406
02:15:49,199 --> 02:15:51,480
I know a lot about it now
3407
02:15:51,480 --> 02:15:53,760
uh so I ordered my first miniature
3408
02:15:53,760 --> 02:15:55,800
figurines which was these canoes here
3409
02:15:55,800 --> 02:15:58,260
and I also got a few hikers and I got to
3410
02:15:58,260 --> 02:15:59,040
work
3411
02:15:59,040 --> 02:16:01,560
and I brainstormed for a few days I had
3412
02:16:01,560 --> 02:16:03,840
a few scenes that I wanted to create and
3413
02:16:03,840 --> 02:16:06,179
this was the first one so this is the
3414
02:16:06,179 --> 02:16:08,579
pillow Ice Caves these are made out of
3415
02:16:08,579 --> 02:16:12,079
pillows and sheets
3416
02:16:12,599 --> 02:16:14,460
and here's what it looked like and this
3417
02:16:14,460 --> 02:16:17,960
is a little video that I'm gonna play
3418
02:16:21,659 --> 02:16:24,360
so there I am exploring the pillow Ice
3419
02:16:24,360 --> 02:16:26,099
Caves
3420
02:16:26,099 --> 02:16:29,280
and as you can tell as you can see it
3421
02:16:29,280 --> 02:16:30,960
doesn't really look like a very well put
3422
02:16:30,960 --> 02:16:33,058
together Studio it's very much an
3423
02:16:33,058 --> 02:16:35,519
experimental process and isn't that the
3424
02:16:35,519 --> 02:16:39,420
creative process in general yeah so a
3425
02:16:39,420 --> 02:16:41,218
lot of how these go is I set something
3426
02:16:41,218 --> 02:16:43,620
up I make the photo I put something else
3427
02:16:43,620 --> 02:16:45,179
I make the photo I put something else I
3428
02:16:45,179 --> 02:16:46,260
take something away and I'm always
3429
02:16:46,260 --> 02:16:47,879
looking at what's in the back of my
3430
02:16:47,879 --> 02:16:49,500
camera what can I see
3431
02:16:49,500 --> 02:16:52,558
so that's how these first this first
3432
02:16:52,558 --> 02:16:55,138
scene came about
3433
02:16:55,138 --> 02:16:58,978
next I went to paper bag Canyon
3434
02:16:58,978 --> 02:17:02,218
so what I like about this one is that it
3435
02:17:02,218 --> 02:17:03,540
really does look like it's in the
3436
02:17:03,540 --> 02:17:05,820
southwest it looks like Antelope Canyon
3437
02:17:05,820 --> 02:17:08,340
or like one of the one of the Canyons in
3438
02:17:08,340 --> 02:17:10,200
the American southwest here and people
3439
02:17:10,200 --> 02:17:12,058
when I shared this on social media
3440
02:17:12,058 --> 02:17:14,519
people thought that it was real
3441
02:17:14,519 --> 02:17:17,459
they made them do like a double take
3442
02:17:17,459 --> 02:17:19,138
um and then they swiped and they saw
3443
02:17:19,138 --> 02:17:20,879
this
3444
02:17:20,879 --> 02:17:25,799
uh yeah so this is uh literally a paper
3445
02:17:25,799 --> 02:17:28,799
bag taped to a cutting board
3446
02:17:28,799 --> 02:17:31,740
and obviously I increased the saturation
3447
02:17:31,740 --> 02:17:34,859
and I edited a little bit um but really
3448
02:17:34,859 --> 02:17:38,160
I do try to achieve the kind of optical
3449
02:17:38,160 --> 02:17:40,558
illusion factor in camera
3450
02:17:40,558 --> 02:17:43,558
so people were very I'll say delighted
3451
02:17:43,558 --> 02:17:46,200
and surprised by how simple these were
3452
02:17:46,200 --> 02:17:48,359
and as I said with this with the
3453
02:17:48,359 --> 02:17:50,280
assignment that I had right I'm limited
3454
02:17:50,280 --> 02:17:52,740
to what's in my house so I'm kind of
3455
02:17:52,740 --> 02:17:55,500
scouring my house like what can I use so
3456
02:17:55,500 --> 02:17:58,638
paper bag Canyon
3457
02:17:59,459 --> 02:18:01,920
the broccoli Forest
3458
02:18:01,920 --> 02:18:04,500
so every little kid looks at broccoli
3459
02:18:04,500 --> 02:18:08,340
and sees trees right I did and I still
3460
02:18:08,340 --> 02:18:11,820
do and also most photographers working
3461
02:18:11,820 --> 02:18:13,558
in miniature which there are actually
3462
02:18:13,558 --> 02:18:15,959
quite a few I didn't invent this genre
3463
02:18:15,959 --> 02:18:17,760
there's miniature photographers there's
3464
02:18:17,760 --> 02:18:19,500
toy photographers
3465
02:18:19,500 --> 02:18:21,540
everybody kind of has a version of a
3466
02:18:21,540 --> 02:18:23,160
broccoli Forest which I think is
3467
02:18:23,160 --> 02:18:28,138
delightful so anyway this is mine
3468
02:18:28,138 --> 02:18:30,000
and here's the behind the scenes of the
3469
02:18:30,000 --> 02:18:33,179
broccoli Forest so I realized that my
3470
02:18:33,179 --> 02:18:35,519
bed was a really good kind of platform
3471
02:18:35,519 --> 02:18:37,740
it was as close to a studio as I was
3472
02:18:37,740 --> 02:18:39,780
gonna get at that time
3473
02:18:39,780 --> 02:18:41,580
um and also keep in mind I'm a Travel
3474
02:18:41,580 --> 02:18:43,200
Photographer I'm an outdoor photographer
3475
02:18:43,200 --> 02:18:46,679
I'm used to shooting in natural light so
3476
02:18:46,679 --> 02:18:48,660
I'm still using natural light here and
3477
02:18:48,660 --> 02:18:50,760
I'm also applying everything that I've
3478
02:18:50,760 --> 02:18:52,558
learned in the outdoors to the
3479
02:18:52,558 --> 02:18:54,718
Miniatures now so I'm thinking how can I
3480
02:18:54,718 --> 02:18:57,120
create those same feelings of like what
3481
02:18:57,120 --> 02:19:00,120
the outdoors makes me feel which is man
3482
02:19:00,120 --> 02:19:03,120
I feel amazing outside I feel this sense
3483
02:19:03,120 --> 02:19:05,160
of wonder I feel a sense of humility and
3484
02:19:05,160 --> 02:19:06,478
I wanted to communicate that in the
3485
02:19:06,478 --> 02:19:08,160
Miniatures as well
3486
02:19:08,160 --> 02:19:09,780
so there's a lot of layering that
3487
02:19:09,780 --> 02:19:11,700
happens here you can
3488
02:19:11,700 --> 02:19:13,439
um I think in this behind the scenes
3489
02:19:13,439 --> 02:19:15,898
photo I had changed that backdrop which
3490
02:19:15,898 --> 02:19:18,240
is a jacket I had changed it to a
3491
02:19:18,240 --> 02:19:20,638
pillowcase so it's blue instead you can
3492
02:19:20,638 --> 02:19:22,558
see the green sweater right there so
3493
02:19:22,558 --> 02:19:24,299
there's a lot of optical illusion that
3494
02:19:24,299 --> 02:19:26,700
comes into play it can look like a Miss
3495
02:19:26,700 --> 02:19:29,340
from the top and from above but then
3496
02:19:29,340 --> 02:19:31,740
when you get into the right angle you
3497
02:19:31,740 --> 02:19:34,679
see this really special and expansive
3498
02:19:34,679 --> 02:19:37,040
scene
3499
02:19:38,160 --> 02:19:41,340
nightstand astrophotography did you know
3500
02:19:41,340 --> 02:19:42,718
that you can see the stars from your
3501
02:19:42,718 --> 02:19:44,040
nightstand
3502
02:19:44,040 --> 02:19:47,879
I did uh so I thought about the idea of
3503
02:19:47,879 --> 02:19:50,820
making a nighttime scene and I was
3504
02:19:50,820 --> 02:19:53,160
considering kind of how to do this
3505
02:19:53,160 --> 02:19:55,979
and so my idea was well
3506
02:19:55,979 --> 02:19:57,479
if I take a piece of paper and I poke
3507
02:19:57,479 --> 02:19:59,760
some holes in it and then I put up a
3508
02:19:59,760 --> 02:20:02,220
light behind it then maybe I could make
3509
02:20:02,220 --> 02:20:04,560
some Stars so that's what I did I took a
3510
02:20:04,560 --> 02:20:07,439
little sheet from my journal and I poked
3511
02:20:07,439 --> 02:20:11,280
holes in it with a needle and then I put
3512
02:20:11,280 --> 02:20:12,780
the light behind it
3513
02:20:12,780 --> 02:20:15,060
the light it that I had at the Times
3514
02:20:15,060 --> 02:20:16,680
Like a smart light bulb that changed
3515
02:20:16,680 --> 02:20:19,500
color so I put it on Blue then I staged
3516
02:20:19,500 --> 02:20:23,520
my adventure and I did a long exposure
3517
02:20:23,520 --> 02:20:25,200
with the lights off
3518
02:20:25,200 --> 02:20:26,640
um I don't think you're ready for this
3519
02:20:26,640 --> 02:20:28,439
one
3520
02:20:28,439 --> 02:20:28,979
um
3521
02:20:28,979 --> 02:20:32,880
so this is a very technical setup the
3522
02:20:32,880 --> 02:20:35,040
stars are being held up by a dry shampoo
3523
02:20:35,040 --> 02:20:37,220
bottle
3524
02:20:37,260 --> 02:20:38,100
um
3525
02:20:38,100 --> 02:20:41,700
so you have my journal that's uh instant
3526
02:20:41,700 --> 02:20:43,560
coffee for the dirt
3527
02:20:43,560 --> 02:20:45,840
then you've got the the van you got the
3528
02:20:45,840 --> 02:20:47,640
little figurine on top and I would just
3529
02:20:47,640 --> 02:20:49,380
turn off the lights and leave that blue
3530
02:20:49,380 --> 02:20:51,120
light on when I was actually shooting it
3531
02:20:51,120 --> 02:20:52,920
and it's like a long exposure just like
3532
02:20:52,920 --> 02:20:55,319
being outside under the Milky Way
3533
02:20:55,319 --> 02:20:59,580
and this image I created after an image
3534
02:20:59,580 --> 02:21:01,439
that I had actually created with a
3535
02:21:01,439 --> 02:21:04,080
friend on a trip so she's actually
3536
02:21:04,080 --> 02:21:06,120
standing on a van the Milky Way is
3537
02:21:06,120 --> 02:21:08,520
behind her it's a beautiful image and so
3538
02:21:08,520 --> 02:21:09,899
sometimes when I was creating these
3539
02:21:09,899 --> 02:21:11,640
miniature scenes and like I said I still
3540
02:21:11,640 --> 02:21:12,780
make them
3541
02:21:12,780 --> 02:21:15,420
I'm using I'm using a memory that I have
3542
02:21:15,420 --> 02:21:18,120
or I'm using an image that I've made
3543
02:21:18,120 --> 02:21:22,319
previously in the real world and I want
3544
02:21:22,319 --> 02:21:24,660
to translate that into miniature other
3545
02:21:24,660 --> 02:21:26,580
times I'm looking to communicate a
3546
02:21:26,580 --> 02:21:28,200
feeling other times I get really
3547
02:21:28,200 --> 02:21:30,300
inspired by an object and I'm like oh
3548
02:21:30,300 --> 02:21:32,700
this needs to be something I'm I don't
3549
02:21:32,700 --> 02:21:34,080
know what yet but it needs to be
3550
02:21:34,080 --> 02:21:36,380
something
3551
02:21:36,979 --> 02:21:39,180
pancake Canyon
3552
02:21:39,180 --> 02:21:42,140
was a favorite
3553
02:21:42,720 --> 02:21:45,960
so I realized you know I should this is
3554
02:21:45,960 --> 02:21:48,780
becoming a real thing for me a hobby so
3555
02:21:48,780 --> 02:21:50,939
I should really get some more figurines
3556
02:21:50,939 --> 02:21:52,500
some more models
3557
02:21:52,500 --> 02:21:56,040
so I ordered some more hikers and a
3558
02:21:56,040 --> 02:21:59,040
bunch of I became awakened to the model
3559
02:21:59,040 --> 02:22:01,020
train world of how many figurines you
3560
02:22:01,020 --> 02:22:02,640
can get you can get tennis players you
3561
02:22:02,640 --> 02:22:04,439
can get scuba divers you know there's a
3562
02:22:04,439 --> 02:22:07,500
lot of options so anyway
3563
02:22:07,500 --> 02:22:10,380
they're HO scale or N scale and I should
3564
02:22:10,380 --> 02:22:11,760
also tell you guys we are going to do a
3565
02:22:11,760 --> 02:22:13,380
q a after so if you do have a question
3566
02:22:13,380 --> 02:22:15,560
hold on to it and we'll we'll get to it
3567
02:22:15,560 --> 02:22:17,819
these are N scale they're the smallest
3568
02:22:17,819 --> 02:22:19,979
ones that I use but I do also use ho
3569
02:22:19,979 --> 02:22:22,500
skill if you are a model trained person
3570
02:22:22,500 --> 02:22:25,500
so pancake Canyon we visited on a
3571
02:22:25,500 --> 02:22:27,120
weekend we were making pancakes and I
3572
02:22:27,120 --> 02:22:30,120
thought why not and as you can see it's
3573
02:22:30,120 --> 02:22:31,859
pretty simple
3574
02:22:31,859 --> 02:22:34,800
so again with that optical illusion
3575
02:22:34,800 --> 02:22:38,040
Factor you can see how I'm placing each
3576
02:22:38,040 --> 02:22:40,620
of the stacks in a very specific place
3577
02:22:40,620 --> 02:22:43,200
for the foreground the background
3578
02:22:43,200 --> 02:22:46,319
um and and this behind the scenes is
3579
02:22:46,319 --> 02:22:49,140
from a slightly different angle than
3580
02:22:49,140 --> 02:22:51,240
this but that's also how the process
3581
02:22:51,240 --> 02:22:52,439
goes
3582
02:22:52,439 --> 02:22:55,200
you know you're you're photographing
3583
02:22:55,200 --> 02:22:57,240
this and then you go oh what would
3584
02:22:57,240 --> 02:22:59,640
happen if I move this here and then you
3585
02:22:59,640 --> 02:23:01,620
move the camera slightly and then you
3586
02:23:01,620 --> 02:23:03,600
think oh what would happen if I moved
3587
02:23:03,600 --> 02:23:07,020
this pancake over here okay you're
3588
02:23:07,020 --> 02:23:09,000
creating it it's it's a really
3589
02:23:09,000 --> 02:23:10,200
interesting experience because when
3590
02:23:10,200 --> 02:23:11,520
you're a landscape photographer you
3591
02:23:11,520 --> 02:23:12,720
can't exactly be like you know I'd
3592
02:23:12,720 --> 02:23:15,060
really prefer that mountain over there
3593
02:23:15,060 --> 02:23:17,819
so this this gives you kind of a new
3594
02:23:17,819 --> 02:23:21,300
sense of control in a way
3595
02:23:21,300 --> 02:23:24,780
okay so one of my most favorite things
3596
02:23:24,780 --> 02:23:27,000
I've ever seen is the glowworm caves in
3597
02:23:27,000 --> 02:23:28,680
New Zealand and I already showed you the
3598
02:23:28,680 --> 02:23:30,960
macro photo that I have of the glowworms
3599
02:23:30,960 --> 02:23:33,479
but this is my glow worm cave that I
3600
02:23:33,479 --> 02:23:35,100
made in my bedroom
3601
02:23:35,100 --> 02:23:36,540
so I'm going to tell you what it's made
3602
02:23:36,540 --> 02:23:37,800
of and I want you to think in your mind
3603
02:23:37,800 --> 02:23:39,660
what you think this setup would have
3604
02:23:39,660 --> 02:23:43,560
been okay so it's rain jackets
3605
02:23:43,560 --> 02:23:46,200
it's the paper with holes poked in it
3606
02:23:46,200 --> 02:23:47,700
and a light behind it
3607
02:23:47,700 --> 02:23:50,939
it's tin foil for the river
3608
02:23:50,939 --> 02:23:52,979
and then the rock is a hunk of rose
3609
02:23:52,979 --> 02:23:54,120
quartz
3610
02:23:54,120 --> 02:23:56,580
because I have crystals at my house and
3611
02:23:56,580 --> 02:23:58,979
then I have little figurines these are
3612
02:23:58,979 --> 02:24:01,200
N-Scale figurines as well
3613
02:24:01,200 --> 02:24:03,420
okay and there's no lights on it's a
3614
02:24:03,420 --> 02:24:05,520
long exposure
3615
02:24:05,520 --> 02:24:10,140
Tada looks like I just did laundry
3616
02:24:10,140 --> 02:24:12,380
foreign
3617
02:24:12,380 --> 02:24:15,060
so you can see I've got the two rain
3618
02:24:15,060 --> 02:24:18,180
jackets as this kind of like Canyon
3619
02:24:18,180 --> 02:24:20,220
and then I have
3620
02:24:20,220 --> 02:24:22,020
the rose quartz in the middle the tin
3621
02:24:22,020 --> 02:24:23,819
foil which I realize by now makes really
3622
02:24:23,819 --> 02:24:27,899
good water and then I have the light and
3623
02:24:27,899 --> 02:24:30,240
so much of it is you know this is the
3624
02:24:30,240 --> 02:24:31,740
way it works so this is how I'm gonna
3625
02:24:31,740 --> 02:24:34,260
shoot it I think sometimes we get really
3626
02:24:34,260 --> 02:24:36,600
boxed in in photography of needing to
3627
02:24:36,600 --> 02:24:38,280
shoot something a certain way or needing
3628
02:24:38,280 --> 02:24:40,140
to create something a certain way but
3629
02:24:40,140 --> 02:24:41,100
hey
3630
02:24:41,100 --> 02:24:43,080
this creates this
3631
02:24:43,080 --> 02:24:45,859
why not
3632
02:24:46,859 --> 02:24:50,479
fishing on tinfoil Lake
3633
02:24:50,479 --> 02:24:52,859
this one is quite a Sentimental one for
3634
02:24:52,859 --> 02:24:55,800
me actually so growing up I used to go
3635
02:24:55,800 --> 02:24:57,780
fishing with my grandfather and that was
3636
02:24:57,780 --> 02:24:58,920
a really
3637
02:24:58,920 --> 02:25:01,319
wonderful time for me and so I wanted to
3638
02:25:01,319 --> 02:25:03,000
create something that really evoked that
3639
02:25:03,000 --> 02:25:06,899
feeling and that I had being as a kid so
3640
02:25:06,899 --> 02:25:09,660
the tinfoil here is is really effective
3641
02:25:09,660 --> 02:25:11,100
water
3642
02:25:11,100 --> 02:25:12,960
and then in the back you have a
3643
02:25:12,960 --> 02:25:15,479
lampshade turned to the side and kind of
3644
02:25:15,479 --> 02:25:18,240
pressed against a sheet so it creates
3645
02:25:18,240 --> 02:25:21,120
that big sun
3646
02:25:21,120 --> 02:25:22,859
here's the setup
3647
02:25:22,859 --> 02:25:25,920
so we have a cutting board with tin foil
3648
02:25:25,920 --> 02:25:28,439
on it which is the The Cutting Board
3649
02:25:28,439 --> 02:25:30,600
gets a lot of a lot of play a lot of use
3650
02:25:30,600 --> 02:25:33,420
in the Miniatures and then the pier is a
3651
02:25:33,420 --> 02:25:34,680
toothbrush
3652
02:25:34,680 --> 02:25:37,520
and then we have
3653
02:25:37,520 --> 02:25:41,220
the lampshade that you can see you have
3654
02:25:41,220 --> 02:25:45,479
the very technical chair and the sheet
3655
02:25:45,479 --> 02:25:50,119
draped over it to give us this
3656
02:25:51,300 --> 02:25:53,280
all right a crowd favorite the Rosemary
3657
02:25:53,280 --> 02:25:55,700
Forest this is also the cover of
3658
02:25:55,700 --> 02:25:58,200
westway's AAA magazine if any of you get
3659
02:25:58,200 --> 02:25:59,760
that
3660
02:25:59,760 --> 02:26:00,540
um
3661
02:26:00,540 --> 02:26:02,220
the Rosemary Forest I was pruning a
3662
02:26:02,220 --> 02:26:04,080
rosemary bush and I was looking at the
3663
02:26:04,080 --> 02:26:06,300
cuttings and I thought oh trees this is
3664
02:26:06,300 --> 02:26:07,920
a forest this has to be a forest so I
3665
02:26:07,920 --> 02:26:10,380
took the bag inside and I created this
3666
02:26:10,380 --> 02:26:14,100
Forest I glued the little sprigs to uh
3667
02:26:14,100 --> 02:26:15,840
to a paper plate I poured some baking
3668
02:26:15,840 --> 02:26:18,540
soda for snow
3669
02:26:18,540 --> 02:26:20,399
here's the behind the scenes
3670
02:26:20,399 --> 02:26:22,680
so as you can see I also taped some of
3671
02:26:22,680 --> 02:26:25,020
the sprigs to this stool to give it some
3672
02:26:25,020 --> 02:26:27,060
depth of field right because that's what
3673
02:26:27,060 --> 02:26:30,180
makes it successful is on the right here
3674
02:26:30,180 --> 02:26:31,740
you can see those
3675
02:26:31,740 --> 02:26:34,800
you can see that nice bokeh I always
3676
02:26:34,800 --> 02:26:37,200
call it bokeh bouquet in the front and
3677
02:26:37,200 --> 02:26:38,520
in the back
3678
02:26:38,520 --> 02:26:40,380
the snow was added in post everything
3679
02:26:40,380 --> 02:26:43,099
else is in camera
3680
02:26:44,580 --> 02:26:47,960
and the sheet yeah
3681
02:26:49,380 --> 02:26:52,380
oh and I wanted to tell you um I used a
3682
02:26:52,380 --> 02:26:55,380
Sony 90 millimeter F 2.8 macro that's
3683
02:26:55,380 --> 02:26:56,939
the lens that I use for these and I use
3684
02:26:56,939 --> 02:26:59,100
it for all of them I've always used it I
3685
02:26:59,100 --> 02:27:01,680
love that lens and I shoot Sony
3686
02:27:01,680 --> 02:27:04,560
okay here's one of my personal favorites
3687
02:27:04,560 --> 02:27:07,560
this is my Christmas card to my
3688
02:27:07,560 --> 02:27:09,899
community in 2020.
3689
02:27:09,899 --> 02:27:12,000
I bought these figures which are sheep
3690
02:27:12,000 --> 02:27:14,340
and a shepherd and over the summer that
3691
02:27:14,340 --> 02:27:15,840
year I was like I don't know how when
3692
02:27:15,840 --> 02:27:17,100
I'm going to use these but I will use
3693
02:27:17,100 --> 02:27:18,180
them
3694
02:27:18,180 --> 02:27:20,100
so I ended up making this and then on
3695
02:27:20,100 --> 02:27:22,020
the right obviously you have the behind
3696
02:27:22,020 --> 02:27:23,840
the scenes
3697
02:27:23,840 --> 02:27:28,260
set up here you have my stars that's a
3698
02:27:28,260 --> 02:27:30,720
poster board with holes in it you have
3699
02:27:30,720 --> 02:27:32,580
some candles holding that together and
3700
02:27:32,580 --> 02:27:35,340
then there's this sweat sweater that is
3701
02:27:35,340 --> 02:27:38,220
a nice texture for these
3702
02:27:38,220 --> 02:27:41,220
kind of Rolling Hills in the desert
3703
02:27:41,220 --> 02:27:44,160
and then the big star on the upper left
3704
02:27:44,160 --> 02:27:45,660
that is the only thing that I added in
3705
02:27:45,660 --> 02:27:49,160
post on that on this image
3706
02:27:50,220 --> 02:27:52,140
a hot spring scene
3707
02:27:52,140 --> 02:27:54,720
so I I also love this one I created this
3708
02:27:54,720 --> 02:27:57,000
with blue oyster mushrooms that I found
3709
02:27:57,000 --> 02:27:59,220
at the farmer's market I'm just gonna
3710
02:27:59,220 --> 02:28:00,720
flip to the behind the scenes so you can
3711
02:28:00,720 --> 02:28:01,680
see them
3712
02:28:01,680 --> 02:28:03,479
I saw these at the farmers market I was
3713
02:28:03,479 --> 02:28:05,280
like hot springs we're going
3714
02:28:05,280 --> 02:28:08,340
you know so I got them I went home and I
3715
02:28:08,340 --> 02:28:11,160
started so what inspired these is
3716
02:28:11,160 --> 02:28:13,319
saturnia Hot Springs in Italy and
3717
02:28:13,319 --> 02:28:15,420
Tuscany they're kind of these layered
3718
02:28:15,420 --> 02:28:18,840
Hot Springs with very blue water
3719
02:28:18,840 --> 02:28:21,060
and so when I saw the mushrooms I
3720
02:28:21,060 --> 02:28:23,040
thought that's that's what this has to
3721
02:28:23,040 --> 02:28:25,920
be so I filled a spray bottle or a
3722
02:28:25,920 --> 02:28:27,600
squirt bottle with water and blue food
3723
02:28:27,600 --> 02:28:29,640
coloring and then I added it into the
3724
02:28:29,640 --> 02:28:33,479
mushrooms I placed my figurines and kind
3725
02:28:33,479 --> 02:28:35,580
of held everything together created a
3726
02:28:35,580 --> 02:28:36,660
background
3727
02:28:36,660 --> 02:28:40,260
with a towel and that is also incense
3728
02:28:40,260 --> 02:28:42,899
for the steam so you can see the incense
3729
02:28:42,899 --> 02:28:44,640
kind of on the lower left hand corner
3730
02:28:44,640 --> 02:28:47,160
here you can see that Steam
3731
02:28:47,160 --> 02:28:49,819
as well
3732
02:28:51,479 --> 02:28:53,760
the dragon fruit Lakes
3733
02:28:53,760 --> 02:28:56,939
so I have a swimmer on the left and I
3734
02:28:56,939 --> 02:28:59,280
have a kayaker on the right and a tool
3735
02:28:59,280 --> 02:29:00,840
that I really like to use for these is
3736
02:29:00,840 --> 02:29:03,420
repetition so when I'm purchasing my
3737
02:29:03,420 --> 02:29:05,640
items or gathering my items I'll look
3738
02:29:05,640 --> 02:29:08,580
for a lot of them so that I can place
3739
02:29:08,580 --> 02:29:10,260
something in the front something in the
3740
02:29:10,260 --> 02:29:13,020
back and then you kind of creates a nice
3741
02:29:13,020 --> 02:29:15,540
container for whatever the subject is
3742
02:29:15,540 --> 02:29:18,420
in the middle I also sometimes change
3743
02:29:18,420 --> 02:29:21,540
the colors of things in Photoshop
3744
02:29:21,540 --> 02:29:23,100
particularly
3745
02:29:23,100 --> 02:29:25,319
this kayak is actually yellow but I
3746
02:29:25,319 --> 02:29:27,120
thought it would look better blue I
3747
02:29:27,120 --> 02:29:29,040
changed skin tones I change hair I
3748
02:29:29,040 --> 02:29:30,300
change body positioning I change
3749
02:29:30,300 --> 02:29:32,340
clothing items if I think it's going to
3750
02:29:32,340 --> 02:29:34,560
make a stronger image than I do it
3751
02:29:34,560 --> 02:29:36,600
here's the behind the scenes of the
3752
02:29:36,600 --> 02:29:40,319
dragon fruit lakes and I had also moved
3753
02:29:40,319 --> 02:29:42,060
to a bigger space so obviously this
3754
02:29:42,060 --> 02:29:44,040
isn't on my bed anymore this is in my
3755
02:29:44,040 --> 02:29:45,240
office now
3756
02:29:45,240 --> 02:29:47,700
and I just have this plywood set up it's
3757
02:29:47,700 --> 02:29:50,040
very very simple where it's dedicated
3758
02:29:50,040 --> 02:29:53,960
for for my miniatures
3759
02:29:55,680 --> 02:29:57,479
all right we have a couple more stops on
3760
02:29:57,479 --> 02:29:59,220
our tour and then we'll get to the
3761
02:29:59,220 --> 02:30:01,500
lessons so these are the Cucumber
3762
02:30:01,500 --> 02:30:03,240
Terraces as I showed you before but I
3763
02:30:03,240 --> 02:30:04,560
thought this was a really good example
3764
02:30:04,560 --> 02:30:06,660
of showing you kind of how on the right
3765
02:30:06,660 --> 02:30:08,399
kind of looks like a mess from the top
3766
02:30:08,399 --> 02:30:10,740
like your kid didn't clean up after an
3767
02:30:10,740 --> 02:30:13,920
art project which is kind of true
3768
02:30:13,920 --> 02:30:16,020
um but then when when you position the
3769
02:30:16,020 --> 02:30:18,359
camera you can see this very expansive
3770
02:30:18,359 --> 02:30:22,399
world and expansive scene
3771
02:30:23,520 --> 02:30:26,460
here's fishing on a kale leaf
3772
02:30:26,460 --> 02:30:29,939
on a kale Lake I was washing some kale
3773
02:30:29,939 --> 02:30:31,979
leaves in my kitchen and I saw the way
3774
02:30:31,979 --> 02:30:34,500
that the water beaded and I thought oh
3775
02:30:34,500 --> 02:30:36,780
that's so interesting I wonder I want to
3776
02:30:36,780 --> 02:30:38,340
first of all I want to photograph that
3777
02:30:38,340 --> 02:30:40,140
in macro but second of all let me see if
3778
02:30:40,140 --> 02:30:42,359
I can put a miniature figurine on it so
3779
02:30:42,359 --> 02:30:45,240
I had this efficient fisherman and I
3780
02:30:45,240 --> 02:30:46,439
thought he just looked so comfortable
3781
02:30:46,439 --> 02:30:47,760
there it looks like he was having a
3782
02:30:47,760 --> 02:30:51,359
great time so this is fishing on Kale
3783
02:30:51,359 --> 02:30:53,600
Lake
3784
02:30:54,600 --> 02:30:56,939
and a lot of my clients came on this
3785
02:30:56,939 --> 02:30:58,560
ride with me which I'm really
3786
02:30:58,560 --> 02:31:01,680
appreciative of and this project also
3787
02:31:01,680 --> 02:31:04,020
allowed me to
3788
02:31:04,020 --> 02:31:06,479
generate some new clients I was able to
3789
02:31:06,479 --> 02:31:08,040
attract new clients that I otherwise
3790
02:31:08,040 --> 02:31:10,080
wouldn't have shopped for you know my
3791
02:31:10,080 --> 02:31:12,600
clients prior to this were so were based
3792
02:31:12,600 --> 02:31:14,520
in the outdoors in travel if it wasn't
3793
02:31:14,520 --> 02:31:15,960
outdoors and travel then where did it
3794
02:31:15,960 --> 02:31:18,180
really fit in but this kind of exposed
3795
02:31:18,180 --> 02:31:20,819
me to entirely new markets
3796
02:31:20,819 --> 02:31:23,880
so on the left this is for aspiration
3797
02:31:23,880 --> 02:31:26,460
they're an environmentally conscious
3798
02:31:26,460 --> 02:31:28,560
banking alternative and this is for
3799
02:31:28,560 --> 02:31:30,600
their credit card and the credit card
3800
02:31:30,600 --> 02:31:33,420
plants a tree with every purchase so
3801
02:31:33,420 --> 02:31:36,120
this is like a literal focus of that
3802
02:31:36,120 --> 02:31:38,520
literal interpretation the middle is for
3803
02:31:38,520 --> 02:31:40,080
salt and straw does anybody have salt
3804
02:31:40,080 --> 02:31:42,120
and straw where you're from yeah okay
3805
02:31:42,120 --> 02:31:43,920
salt and straw is an ice cream company
3806
02:31:43,920 --> 02:31:45,720
they're known for making like kooky ice
3807
02:31:45,720 --> 02:31:47,939
cream flavors and
3808
02:31:47,939 --> 02:31:50,160
this was a series that they did that
3809
02:31:50,160 --> 02:31:52,500
were camping inspired flavors so it was
3810
02:31:52,500 --> 02:31:55,140
Huckleberry cornbread flavor which was
3811
02:31:55,140 --> 02:31:57,120
delicious and I did get to eat it and I
3812
02:31:57,120 --> 02:31:59,580
had a lot of it which was awesome and
3813
02:31:59,580 --> 02:32:01,680
there were like three different flavors
3814
02:32:01,680 --> 02:32:04,560
uh and then on the right this is for
3815
02:32:04,560 --> 02:32:05,760
Chevrolet
3816
02:32:05,760 --> 02:32:08,939
they needed some artwork for a print
3817
02:32:08,939 --> 02:32:10,439
article that they were doing and they
3818
02:32:10,439 --> 02:32:12,720
didn't have a way to actually photograph
3819
02:32:12,720 --> 02:32:15,479
these cars in person so they needed to
3820
02:32:15,479 --> 02:32:17,040
get creative so that's where I came in
3821
02:32:17,040 --> 02:32:21,240
so I printed this photo of the cars and
3822
02:32:21,240 --> 02:32:23,220
then put it on a billboard and then of
3823
02:32:23,220 --> 02:32:24,720
course we have the Brussels sprout trees
3824
02:32:24,720 --> 02:32:27,660
and then their text then went on the
3825
02:32:27,660 --> 02:32:29,880
bottom
3826
02:32:29,880 --> 02:32:31,920
so we're going to shift gears a little
3827
02:32:31,920 --> 02:32:34,740
bit hope you enjoyed the tour
3828
02:32:34,740 --> 02:32:37,319
what makes a good photograph
3829
02:32:37,319 --> 02:32:41,220
the word good is obviously a subjective
3830
02:32:41,220 --> 02:32:44,040
word I consider good in the context of
3831
02:32:44,040 --> 02:32:46,380
Photography to mean compelling or
3832
02:32:46,380 --> 02:32:48,720
effective meaning that it effectively
3833
02:32:48,720 --> 02:32:50,939
communicates whatever its intended
3834
02:32:50,939 --> 02:32:52,500
feeling is
3835
02:32:52,500 --> 02:32:55,620
so here are two images with a similar
3836
02:32:55,620 --> 02:32:56,880
feeling
3837
02:32:56,880 --> 02:32:59,220
I created one in Myanmar
3838
02:32:59,220 --> 02:33:02,160
and one in my apartment
3839
02:33:02,160 --> 02:33:04,020
but they both have this peaceful
3840
02:33:04,020 --> 02:33:07,380
thoughtful reflective calm warm feeling
3841
02:33:07,380 --> 02:33:08,760
to them
3842
02:33:08,760 --> 02:33:10,500
and the same things that make a
3843
02:33:10,500 --> 02:33:12,660
compelling photograph on the left also
3844
02:33:12,660 --> 02:33:14,340
make a compelling photograph on the
3845
02:33:14,340 --> 02:33:15,720
right
3846
02:33:15,720 --> 02:33:17,220
and these are some of those things for
3847
02:33:17,220 --> 02:33:18,300
me
3848
02:33:18,300 --> 02:33:22,800
subject composition light color depth
3849
02:33:22,800 --> 02:33:24,300
and I'm not saying those are the only
3850
02:33:24,300 --> 02:33:26,280
things that matter but there's some
3851
02:33:26,280 --> 02:33:27,600
things that matter
3852
02:33:27,600 --> 02:33:28,979
there's some things that really matter
3853
02:33:28,979 --> 02:33:30,899
because if you do all those things with
3854
02:33:30,899 --> 02:33:34,439
intention you get feeling out of it and
3855
02:33:34,439 --> 02:33:36,359
feeling is something that we have a lot
3856
02:33:36,359 --> 02:33:39,479
of power to convey as photographers
3857
02:33:39,479 --> 02:33:40,859
and this applies to all kinds of
3858
02:33:40,859 --> 02:33:42,000
photography
3859
02:33:42,000 --> 02:33:43,680
whether you're making Miniatures on your
3860
02:33:43,680 --> 02:33:46,260
bed like me or you're out photographing
3861
02:33:46,260 --> 02:33:48,740
wildlife
3862
02:33:49,800 --> 02:33:51,420
and also if you're a Storyteller if you
3863
02:33:51,420 --> 02:33:52,680
want to tell a story this is super
3864
02:33:52,680 --> 02:33:54,180
important
3865
02:33:54,180 --> 02:33:57,720
okay let's get into the learning so what
3866
02:33:57,720 --> 02:33:59,520
are the lessons that I got from this
3867
02:33:59,520 --> 02:34:01,979
project and here I'm also going to offer
3868
02:34:01,979 --> 02:34:03,960
some questions for you to take home so
3869
02:34:03,960 --> 02:34:05,939
in this font on the bottom the
3870
02:34:05,939 --> 02:34:08,939
handwritten stuff that's for you okay so
3871
02:34:08,939 --> 02:34:11,040
I encourage you to write those down take
3872
02:34:11,040 --> 02:34:12,899
a photo of the slides write them down in
3873
02:34:12,899 --> 02:34:15,899
your notes or just sit in a moment of
3874
02:34:15,899 --> 02:34:18,420
reflection for yourself
3875
02:34:18,420 --> 02:34:19,020
um
3876
02:34:19,020 --> 02:34:21,479
my creativity personally and my
3877
02:34:21,479 --> 02:34:23,819
photography career I owe a lot of that
3878
02:34:23,819 --> 02:34:25,620
to my mindfulness practices so
3879
02:34:25,620 --> 02:34:28,439
meditation and journaling journaling has
3880
02:34:28,439 --> 02:34:32,220
had a huge benefit on my creativity
3881
02:34:32,220 --> 02:34:34,020
so I encourage you to write these down
3882
02:34:34,020 --> 02:34:37,200
to reflect on later you can do that in
3883
02:34:37,200 --> 02:34:38,760
your Journal you can do that like I said
3884
02:34:38,760 --> 02:34:40,439
in the notes section of your phone or
3885
02:34:40,439 --> 02:34:41,880
you could do it in a conversation with a
3886
02:34:41,880 --> 02:34:43,979
friend maybe who you came here with or
3887
02:34:43,979 --> 02:34:45,960
maybe somebody you meet here it's a
3888
02:34:45,960 --> 02:34:48,720
great conversation starter
3889
02:34:48,720 --> 02:34:50,580
okay number one
3890
02:34:50,580 --> 02:34:52,319
you can create assignments for yourself
3891
02:34:52,319 --> 02:34:54,840
at any time who knew
3892
02:34:54,840 --> 02:34:57,720
constraints and structure make room for
3893
02:34:57,720 --> 02:35:00,240
creative freedom
3894
02:35:00,240 --> 02:35:02,520
creativity is like this wild energy it
3895
02:35:02,520 --> 02:35:03,840
doesn't want a color inside the lines
3896
02:35:03,840 --> 02:35:06,359
but it really benefits from lines
3897
02:35:06,359 --> 02:35:08,460
okay it's really good to have a Sandbox
3898
02:35:08,460 --> 02:35:09,899
to play in
3899
02:35:09,899 --> 02:35:12,660
a dedicated sandbox
3900
02:35:12,660 --> 02:35:15,899
and and what often makes Keeps Us stuck
3901
02:35:15,899 --> 02:35:18,240
is a feeling of overwhelm so if you give
3902
02:35:18,240 --> 02:35:20,580
yourself some constraints that can be a
3903
02:35:20,580 --> 02:35:21,960
remedy for this
3904
02:35:21,960 --> 02:35:23,880
so the question that I'm offering to you
3905
02:35:23,880 --> 02:35:25,319
is what's an assignment that you can
3906
02:35:25,319 --> 02:35:27,600
give to yourself now
3907
02:35:27,600 --> 02:35:29,280
don't wait for it to be perfect doesn't
3908
02:35:29,280 --> 02:35:31,979
have to be something big something small
3909
02:35:31,979 --> 02:35:34,680
you could limit time material working
3910
02:35:34,680 --> 02:35:37,080
location subject matter the gear that
3911
02:35:37,080 --> 02:35:38,399
you're using
3912
02:35:38,399 --> 02:35:40,140
so some examples
3913
02:35:40,140 --> 02:35:42,479
you got to make a still life with only
3914
02:35:42,479 --> 02:35:44,460
stuff in your kitchen or only things
3915
02:35:44,460 --> 02:35:45,660
that are blue
3916
02:35:45,660 --> 02:35:48,000
or are you gonna go on a walk and make a
3917
02:35:48,000 --> 02:35:49,560
series of three to five images in 20
3918
02:35:49,560 --> 02:35:50,760
minutes
3919
02:35:50,760 --> 02:35:52,920
something like that
3920
02:35:52,920 --> 02:35:55,740
uh and my advice would be brainstorm a
3921
02:35:55,740 --> 02:35:58,439
bunch Circle some that are exciting and
3922
02:35:58,439 --> 02:36:01,460
then pick one and go for it
3923
02:36:01,859 --> 02:36:03,479
number two
3924
02:36:03,479 --> 02:36:06,000
the creative process requires both
3925
02:36:06,000 --> 02:36:09,180
structure and freedom
3926
02:36:09,180 --> 02:36:10,859
and you're probably lean towards one or
3927
02:36:10,859 --> 02:36:12,960
the other I personally lean toward that
3928
02:36:12,960 --> 02:36:14,819
wild Creative Energy I'm like I don't
3929
02:36:14,819 --> 02:36:16,380
want structure I don't want discipline
3930
02:36:16,380 --> 02:36:18,840
but I really really benefit from it and
3931
02:36:18,840 --> 02:36:20,819
how do I know that because I've thrived
3932
02:36:20,819 --> 02:36:23,880
within constraints within assignments
3933
02:36:23,880 --> 02:36:25,080
so
3934
02:36:25,080 --> 02:36:27,660
whichever question that you reflect on
3935
02:36:27,660 --> 02:36:30,060
here it depends on which one is more
3936
02:36:30,060 --> 02:36:31,500
applicable to you so which one do you
3937
02:36:31,500 --> 02:36:33,240
need do you find that you have a lot of
3938
02:36:33,240 --> 02:36:34,500
structure and discipline in your
3939
02:36:34,500 --> 02:36:35,880
practice already and that you need to
3940
02:36:35,880 --> 02:36:37,140
kind of give yourself more freedom
3941
02:36:37,140 --> 02:36:38,700
loosen up play
3942
02:36:38,700 --> 02:36:41,220
or do you feel like oh
3943
02:36:41,220 --> 02:36:44,340
I'm I'm that free energy I'm not that um
3944
02:36:44,340 --> 02:36:46,439
kind of more chaotic energy and I could
3945
02:36:46,439 --> 02:36:48,780
benefit from structure so the question
3946
02:36:48,780 --> 02:36:51,180
will either be where can you create more
3947
02:36:51,180 --> 02:36:53,880
structure in your process or where can
3948
02:36:53,880 --> 02:36:55,560
you allow more freedom and
3949
02:36:55,560 --> 02:36:59,479
experimentation in your process
3950
02:37:00,780 --> 02:37:03,479
third your imagination is free and
3951
02:37:03,479 --> 02:37:05,760
unlimited
3952
02:37:05,760 --> 02:37:08,040
think back to being a kid what your
3953
02:37:08,040 --> 02:37:10,680
imagination was like then we had so many
3954
02:37:10,680 --> 02:37:11,880
ideas
3955
02:37:11,880 --> 02:37:13,740
and we still do but it's just kind of
3956
02:37:13,740 --> 02:37:17,580
Trapped In This adult conditioning
3957
02:37:18,180 --> 02:37:21,000
um it's it's no wonder why we don't feel
3958
02:37:21,000 --> 02:37:24,300
like we have the imagination we used to
3959
02:37:24,300 --> 02:37:25,979
but all that playfulness is still there
3960
02:37:25,979 --> 02:37:28,200
so the question for your reflection two
3961
02:37:28,200 --> 02:37:30,240
questions for your reflection where have
3962
02:37:30,240 --> 02:37:31,800
you limited yourself
3963
02:37:31,800 --> 02:37:33,660
and it's okay if you have everyone has
3964
02:37:33,660 --> 02:37:35,460
and where can you invite more
3965
02:37:35,460 --> 02:37:38,220
imagination back into your life
3966
02:37:38,220 --> 02:37:40,080
so how could this look this could be
3967
02:37:40,080 --> 02:37:42,359
incorporating more creative activities
3968
02:37:42,359 --> 02:37:44,280
this could be watching a movie that you
3969
02:37:44,280 --> 02:37:46,080
liked as a kid or buying like a cereal
3970
02:37:46,080 --> 02:37:48,060
that you liked as a kid this could be
3971
02:37:48,060 --> 02:37:49,500
cooking something new baking something
3972
02:37:49,500 --> 02:37:51,780
new going to a museum going to an
3973
02:37:51,780 --> 02:37:54,300
exhibit going on a walk looking at the
3974
02:37:54,300 --> 02:37:56,819
flowers looking at animals anything that
3975
02:37:56,819 --> 02:38:00,560
nurtures the imagination
3976
02:38:01,859 --> 02:38:04,020
number four
3977
02:38:04,020 --> 02:38:05,580
and we got two more
3978
02:38:05,580 --> 02:38:07,500
pay attention to your ideas and treat
3979
02:38:07,500 --> 02:38:10,319
them all as valid so sometimes we judge
3980
02:38:10,319 --> 02:38:12,840
our ideas so hard and rule them out
3981
02:38:12,840 --> 02:38:14,460
before we even have a chance to bring
3982
02:38:14,460 --> 02:38:16,319
them to life and that would have been
3983
02:38:16,319 --> 02:38:17,880
really easy for me to do with our Great
3984
02:38:17,880 --> 02:38:19,740
Indoors like I had so many reasons not
3985
02:38:19,740 --> 02:38:21,240
to do that project
3986
02:38:21,240 --> 02:38:22,620
I still do
3987
02:38:22,620 --> 02:38:24,720
the first one why would I make
3988
02:38:24,720 --> 02:38:26,340
Miniatures I'm a travel and outdoor
3989
02:38:26,340 --> 02:38:28,080
photographer how is that supposed to fit
3990
02:38:28,080 --> 02:38:30,479
into my portfolio how is that going to
3991
02:38:30,479 --> 02:38:32,520
fit with my work you know
3992
02:38:32,520 --> 02:38:34,080
I could have rolled it out that way I
3993
02:38:34,080 --> 02:38:35,340
could have said oh there's so many
3994
02:38:35,340 --> 02:38:37,740
people doing Miniatures why would I do
3995
02:38:37,740 --> 02:38:38,580
them
3996
02:38:38,580 --> 02:38:40,319
or I could have thought oh it's not
3997
02:38:40,319 --> 02:38:43,859
gonna lead towards work so so why pursue
3998
02:38:43,859 --> 02:38:44,880
that
3999
02:38:44,880 --> 02:38:46,920
but I'm obviously I'm very very happy I
4000
02:38:46,920 --> 02:38:49,200
didn't let those doubts or judgments win
4001
02:38:49,200 --> 02:38:51,420
so what I'm asking us all here to
4002
02:38:51,420 --> 02:38:53,340
consider is what would happen if you
4003
02:38:53,340 --> 02:38:55,500
paused any critical judgment on your
4004
02:38:55,500 --> 02:38:56,580
ideas
4005
02:38:56,580 --> 02:38:58,260
what if you treated them all as worthy
4006
02:38:58,260 --> 02:39:00,000
of your consideration I thought that you
4007
02:39:00,000 --> 02:39:01,140
have to pursue all of them but just
4008
02:39:01,140 --> 02:39:04,140
treating them all as Worthy
4009
02:39:04,140 --> 02:39:06,359
has anybody read or heard of the
4010
02:39:06,359 --> 02:39:08,780
artist's way
4011
02:39:08,939 --> 02:39:10,920
some of you great the artist way is a
4012
02:39:10,920 --> 02:39:12,479
book and a course by Julia Cameron that
4013
02:39:12,479 --> 02:39:15,240
I really highly recommend and she has a
4014
02:39:15,240 --> 02:39:16,920
lot of really important ideas in there
4015
02:39:16,920 --> 02:39:18,600
but one of them that I really like is
4016
02:39:18,600 --> 02:39:19,920
that your creativity comes from
4017
02:39:19,920 --> 02:39:21,420
something way bigger than yourself and
4018
02:39:21,420 --> 02:39:23,220
you're just the conduit you're just like
4019
02:39:23,220 --> 02:39:24,660
the middle ground and it's just gonna
4020
02:39:24,660 --> 02:39:26,640
come through you so that can be a really
4021
02:39:26,640 --> 02:39:29,040
cool reframe of thinking oh I have this
4022
02:39:29,040 --> 02:39:30,600
idea it's coming from something else
4023
02:39:30,600 --> 02:39:34,140
it's my job to listen to it and send it
4024
02:39:34,140 --> 02:39:37,560
through right to put it into the world
4025
02:39:37,560 --> 02:39:39,899
all right and the last learning that
4026
02:39:39,899 --> 02:39:41,520
I'll share with you today
4027
02:39:41,520 --> 02:39:43,920
compelling images can be created
4028
02:39:43,920 --> 02:39:46,380
anywhere
4029
02:39:46,380 --> 02:39:48,420
personally I'm very grateful for the
4030
02:39:48,420 --> 02:39:50,479
fresh perspective that miniature gave me
4031
02:39:50,479 --> 02:39:53,819
I saw that wow I don't need to be
4032
02:39:53,819 --> 02:39:57,300
somewhere Outdoors or traveling in the
4033
02:39:57,300 --> 02:39:58,620
world that I just that I think is
4034
02:39:58,620 --> 02:40:00,300
beautiful in order to create a beautiful
4035
02:40:00,300 --> 02:40:02,760
image I can create a beautiful image in
4036
02:40:02,760 --> 02:40:07,220
a very mundane and routine place
4037
02:40:09,540 --> 02:40:12,060
and working in miniature really proves
4038
02:40:12,060 --> 02:40:14,100
this so the question is where can you
4039
02:40:14,100 --> 02:40:15,240
challenge yourself to get a fresh
4040
02:40:15,240 --> 02:40:17,580
perspective
4041
02:40:17,580 --> 02:40:19,200
because you just have to be open to see
4042
02:40:19,200 --> 02:40:20,640
things in a new way
4043
02:40:20,640 --> 02:40:22,260
so that is what I'll leave you with
4044
02:40:22,260 --> 02:40:24,720
today and we'll get into a q a thank you
4045
02:40:24,720 --> 02:40:27,860
very much it was really fun
4046
02:40:27,860 --> 02:40:30,000
[Applause]
4047
02:40:30,000 --> 02:40:33,380
and Michael will
4048
02:40:33,899 --> 02:40:35,880
be here with the microphone at some
4049
02:40:35,880 --> 02:40:38,060
point
4050
02:40:39,479 --> 02:40:42,019
yeah
4051
02:40:42,240 --> 02:40:44,960
which one
4052
02:40:51,899 --> 02:40:55,020
yes the question was just that he wanted
4053
02:40:55,020 --> 02:40:58,260
to see this side again
4054
02:40:58,260 --> 02:41:00,120
any other questions
4055
02:41:00,120 --> 02:41:02,399
raise your hand
4056
02:41:02,399 --> 02:41:04,880
here
4057
02:41:07,800 --> 02:41:11,599
can you guys pass the mic around
4058
02:41:23,819 --> 02:41:26,880
I just wondered if uh since you were uh
4059
02:41:26,880 --> 02:41:28,620
kind enough to share your covet
4060
02:41:28,620 --> 02:41:29,700
experience
4061
02:41:29,700 --> 02:41:32,460
if you saw the special by Bo Burnham
4062
02:41:32,460 --> 02:41:35,819
about inside I love boban room and I
4063
02:41:35,819 --> 02:41:37,920
loved his special yeah wasn't that great
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yeah it was amazing I think yours is uh
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thank you thanks
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uh the special he was asking about Bo
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Burnham special inside if I had seen it
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it's on Netflix it's wonderful
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the it was called Bo Burnham's inside
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yeah yeah any other questions
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oh hold on she's got it
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how you got from
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playing around this in your apartment to
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turning it into obviously you've become
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a name in the field and you have a good
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reputation
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that didn't happen in your bedroom
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well it's interesting because some of it
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02:42:22,380 --> 02:42:25,080
did it started there and it started with
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my clients saying oh this is a creative
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way to do it and it was super engaging
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02:42:29,460 --> 02:42:32,280
as well like sharing that work people
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02:42:32,280 --> 02:42:34,020
were very interested to see the behind
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the scenes
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02:42:35,160 --> 02:42:37,680
because it's like such a surprise you
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don't know what what it's going to look
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02:42:39,120 --> 02:42:41,939
like so I think it started by a few of
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02:42:41,939 --> 02:42:44,040
my clients saying oh yeah we we want to
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get in on this and then it kind of like
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proved the concept
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um and now yes I do them in a studio or
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02:42:50,700 --> 02:42:52,380
I do them in my office which is a bit
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02:42:52,380 --> 02:42:55,800
more like legitimized but but yeah it
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did it did start in my bedroom and then
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I should also say I am going to do a
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demo I have a table back there for the
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people that are here in person uh that I
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built this morning it's a winter Forest
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of rock candy
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with a tinfoil River so uh we'll do a
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look at that over there in a little bit
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at two o'clock
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and any other questions
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okay
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well thank you guys so much you had a
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lot of fun
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okay
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one two three four
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five
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six
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yourself
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thank you
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foreign
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thank you
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foreign
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foreign
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foreign
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thank you
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foreign
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thank you
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foreign
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foreign
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foreign
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foreign
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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thank you
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foreign
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good afternoon and we're rolling again
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right into the next ones everyone having
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some fun
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come on I need more energies everyone
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having some fun
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yeah great thanks for joining us so next
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03:00:02,100 --> 03:00:03,479
up we have Peter Lee who's going to be
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03:00:03,479 --> 03:00:05,819
on stage talking about Canon and if you
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03:00:05,819 --> 03:00:07,500
have any questions we'll do a quick q a
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03:00:07,500 --> 03:00:09,600
at the end but we'll be doing a meet and
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greet over at the cannon Booth with
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Peter bring all those questions try to
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stump them right I think veteran
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probably knows a lot about these cameras
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um but bring those questions I know
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they're ready for it not only Peter but
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03:00:20,220 --> 03:00:21,600
the whole team over at the cannon Booth
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so without further Ado Peter come take
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the stage
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hello everyone can you hear me okay
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[Applause]
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it's a big room but today we'll be
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talking about
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03:00:33,840 --> 03:00:37,560
oh I don't want that okay
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03:00:37,560 --> 03:00:39,660
we'll be talking about landscape so this
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one is not necessarily I talk about a
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03:00:42,060 --> 03:00:45,240
few Canon things and I have a list of a
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03:00:45,240 --> 03:00:46,319
few Canon cameras that do something
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03:00:46,319 --> 03:00:48,180
fancy that I mentioned at the front row
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of the gentleman and the lady but
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03:00:50,220 --> 03:00:52,680
overall it's more about concept and how
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03:00:52,680 --> 03:00:54,899
we approach it in the 21st century so
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03:00:54,899 --> 03:00:56,580
I'm a Canada product educator I'm one of
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03:00:56,580 --> 03:00:59,160
the attacks so just like uh Paul Van
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03:00:59,160 --> 03:01:02,460
Allen my co-worker my competitor from
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03:01:02,460 --> 03:01:04,979
Nikon we do a lot of Education we teach
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03:01:04,979 --> 03:01:06,779
a lot of Concepts to customers across
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03:01:06,779 --> 03:01:08,939
the country so just a quick one just to
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03:01:08,939 --> 03:01:12,420
recap something simple so ISO so this is
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03:01:12,420 --> 03:01:15,540
something that is least important
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03:01:15,540 --> 03:01:17,700
realistically I put it up front because
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03:01:17,700 --> 03:01:19,080
I want to get by it right away and never
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03:01:19,080 --> 03:01:20,939
talk about it again so hopefully if
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03:01:20,939 --> 03:01:23,279
you're doing landscape photography how
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03:01:23,279 --> 03:01:25,080
many of you use a tripod I want to kind
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03:01:25,080 --> 03:01:26,819
of want to know this out right away so
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03:01:26,819 --> 03:01:28,500
the almost everyone
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03:01:28,500 --> 03:01:30,720
so realistically for most landsafe
4203
03:01:30,720 --> 03:01:32,399
photography you should set your ISO at
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03:01:32,399 --> 03:01:34,620
100 and leave it there
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03:01:34,620 --> 03:01:36,660
and from the knots in the audience I
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03:01:36,660 --> 03:01:37,979
would say yes you already know how to do
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03:01:37,979 --> 03:01:39,540
this I skipped this really quick because
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03:01:39,540 --> 03:01:41,580
you already know this the higher we set
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03:01:41,580 --> 03:01:43,500
our eyes so the noisier it'll be and
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these are just test shots that are
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03:01:45,420 --> 03:01:46,920
appropriate okay
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shutter speed we use for one of two
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reasons we either freeze motion and
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03:01:51,359 --> 03:01:52,620
sometimes that can be challenging and
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things are moving around
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03:01:54,060 --> 03:01:56,160
and sometimes we want to have fun with
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03:01:56,160 --> 03:01:58,740
showing some motion and so Seascape is a
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03:01:58,740 --> 03:02:00,240
good example of showing Motion in
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03:02:00,240 --> 03:02:02,760
landscape photography
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there and there we all know what it
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03:02:04,500 --> 03:02:06,000
looks like so I skipped through the easy
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part first
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f-stop is a critical selection
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because this controls your depth of
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03:02:13,140 --> 03:02:15,300
field let's be realistic about what it
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is
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03:02:16,680 --> 03:02:18,479
we know what it looks like this
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03:02:18,479 --> 03:02:20,760
completely makes sense yes very obvious
4229
03:02:20,760 --> 03:02:23,100
without me walking you through like a
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03:02:23,100 --> 03:02:24,540
baby through what this is supposed to
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03:02:24,540 --> 03:02:26,520
mean
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what we want to really think about is
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03:02:28,200 --> 03:02:31,020
when we typically how many of you use
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03:02:31,020 --> 03:02:33,120
maybe some longer lenses in landscape
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photography something maybe more than 50
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millimeter sometimes
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03:02:38,340 --> 03:02:40,560
an advanced audience I can clearly see
4238
03:02:40,560 --> 03:02:42,240
because often when you're out there
4239
03:02:42,240 --> 03:02:43,920
doing landscape photography I see it a
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03:02:43,920 --> 03:02:45,479
lot and I'm sure you see it a lot you
4241
03:02:45,479 --> 03:02:47,640
see a lot of people only using wide
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03:02:47,640 --> 03:02:49,200
lenses
4243
03:02:49,200 --> 03:02:51,779
and that's not necessarily always the
4244
03:02:51,779 --> 03:02:54,359
right approach for the subject matter
4245
03:02:54,359 --> 03:02:57,420
so depth of field is focal length
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03:02:57,420 --> 03:02:59,640
dependent that is one of the three big
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03:02:59,640 --> 03:03:01,319
variables that affects how much depth of
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03:03:01,319 --> 03:03:04,279
field we have so if we approach it
4249
03:03:04,279 --> 03:03:06,960
shorter and shorter lenses we have more
4250
03:03:06,960 --> 03:03:08,700
and more depth of field
4251
03:03:08,700 --> 03:03:10,800
the f-stop doesn't change the distance
4252
03:03:10,800 --> 03:03:13,080
of the subject doesn't change you just
4253
03:03:13,080 --> 03:03:14,760
naturally have more depth of field
4254
03:03:14,760 --> 03:03:17,700
whenever you substitute a shorter focal
4255
03:03:17,700 --> 03:03:19,979
length lens or some of you may use zoom
4256
03:03:19,979 --> 03:03:21,720
lenses I use zoom lenses a lot in
4257
03:03:21,720 --> 03:03:23,880
landscape photography you have Choice
4258
03:03:23,880 --> 03:03:26,640
less or more depth of field based purely
4259
03:03:26,640 --> 03:03:29,760
off I'm here and this is the focal
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03:03:29,760 --> 03:03:31,920
length I choose to use to compose for
4261
03:03:31,920 --> 03:03:34,200
this particular scene
4262
03:03:34,200 --> 03:03:36,600
there is also another thing is subject
4263
03:03:36,600 --> 03:03:39,300
distance is the most one of the biggest
4264
03:03:39,300 --> 03:03:41,340
things for depth of field this has the
4265
03:03:41,340 --> 03:03:42,779
single biggest impact
4266
03:03:42,779 --> 03:03:46,620
so if I focus on something much farther
4267
03:03:46,620 --> 03:03:49,859
away I have substantially more
4268
03:03:49,859 --> 03:03:52,620
depth of field this is just how all the
4269
03:03:52,620 --> 03:03:55,080
math of the Optics work this comes into
4270
03:03:55,080 --> 03:03:57,420
play because some of you might do this
4271
03:03:57,420 --> 03:04:00,120
hyper focal who does a little bit with
4272
03:04:00,120 --> 03:04:02,040
hyperfogle a lot less hands go up
4273
03:04:02,040 --> 03:04:03,600
normally and that's okay I don't expect
4274
03:04:03,600 --> 03:04:06,000
a ton of hands to go up all that means
4275
03:04:06,000 --> 03:04:07,800
is there's a certain distance that's
4276
03:04:07,800 --> 03:04:10,200
relatively close
4277
03:04:10,200 --> 03:04:13,560
you use that as the point you're
4278
03:04:13,560 --> 03:04:15,479
focusing and then half the distance
4279
03:04:15,479 --> 03:04:17,939
between you and that point is in Focus
4280
03:04:17,939 --> 03:04:19,979
all the way to Infinity
4281
03:04:19,979 --> 03:04:22,140
so this gives you a lot of stuff that's
4282
03:04:22,140 --> 03:04:25,260
going to be within depth of field okay
4283
03:04:25,260 --> 03:04:27,180
pretty straightforward and you get apps
4284
03:04:27,180 --> 03:04:29,220
for it this is photo pills just to pull
4285
03:04:29,220 --> 03:04:30,720
from their website you can get it as
4286
03:04:30,720 --> 03:04:33,420
mobile makes your life very easy in the
4287
03:04:33,420 --> 03:04:35,580
21st century when you can have an app on
4288
03:04:35,580 --> 03:04:37,620
a phone that can do it in the Box you
4289
03:04:37,620 --> 03:04:39,120
don't even need a data connection for
4290
03:04:39,120 --> 03:04:41,220
that
4291
03:04:41,220 --> 03:04:43,740
on a Canon camera so this is very brand
4292
03:04:43,740 --> 03:04:46,080
specific because it does not work this
4293
03:04:46,080 --> 03:04:48,600
way necessarily for all cameras of all
4294
03:04:48,600 --> 03:04:49,620
brands
4295
03:04:49,620 --> 03:04:52,200
for Canon cameras when you're looking
4296
03:04:52,200 --> 03:04:55,020
through a viewfinder or you turn on the
4297
03:04:55,020 --> 03:04:56,580
live view look at the back of the screen
4298
03:04:56,580 --> 03:04:58,680
or it's a mirrorless camera it does not
4299
03:04:58,680 --> 03:05:00,779
matter if it's an SLR or it's mirrorless
4300
03:05:00,779 --> 03:05:03,600
you are always viewing the scene at the
4301
03:05:03,600 --> 03:05:06,359
maximum possible aperture of that lens
4302
03:05:06,359 --> 03:05:09,000
period that's always how it works it's a
4303
03:05:09,000 --> 03:05:11,040
techie thing the engineers decided to
4304
03:05:11,040 --> 03:05:13,380
program it this way therefore you need
4305
03:05:13,380 --> 03:05:15,359
to press a depth of field preview button
4306
03:05:15,359 --> 03:05:18,600
to see the stop down aperture for the
4307
03:05:18,600 --> 03:05:21,240
actual exposure itself which is
4308
03:05:21,240 --> 03:05:22,800
important because in landscape
4309
03:05:22,800 --> 03:05:25,260
photography it would be very rare to
4310
03:05:25,260 --> 03:05:28,020
shoot wide open with a lens period it is
4311
03:05:28,020 --> 03:05:29,580
really uncommon in fact I can't think of
4312
03:05:29,580 --> 03:05:30,960
a single landscape photograph that I
4313
03:05:30,960 --> 03:05:34,560
have is f 2.8 and I use f22a lenses for
4314
03:05:34,560 --> 03:05:36,720
landscape photography pretty much
4315
03:05:36,720 --> 03:05:39,060
so that's what it looks like just a
4316
03:05:39,060 --> 03:05:41,520
quick recap if you're using tripod which
4317
03:05:41,520 --> 03:05:44,580
you should be using 100 ISO and then
4318
03:05:44,580 --> 03:05:46,380
manage your shutter speed and then
4319
03:05:46,380 --> 03:05:48,540
f-stop your depth of field easy stop so
4320
03:05:48,540 --> 03:05:50,220
I want to skip by all the easy peasy
4321
03:05:50,220 --> 03:05:51,300
type stuff
4322
03:05:51,300 --> 03:05:53,160
focus is always a big question I get
4323
03:05:53,160 --> 03:05:54,359
asked about we just talked about
4324
03:05:54,359 --> 03:05:56,220
hyperfocal that's why I want to end with
4325
03:05:56,220 --> 03:05:58,380
f-stop because
4326
03:05:58,380 --> 03:06:00,420
it's very important because composition
4327
03:06:00,420 --> 03:06:02,160
is about where we look
4328
03:06:02,160 --> 03:06:04,319
to help keep things sharp hopefully
4329
03:06:04,319 --> 03:06:07,020
you're using some of these tools how
4330
03:06:07,020 --> 03:06:08,640
many of you use use a just a wire remote
4331
03:06:08,640 --> 03:06:10,800
I'm used to using a wire remote so I
4332
03:06:10,800 --> 03:06:12,899
don't normally use a smartphone to do
4333
03:06:12,899 --> 03:06:14,399
the triggering which you can now if you
4334
03:06:14,399 --> 03:06:16,500
want because you can trick with the app
4335
03:06:16,500 --> 03:06:18,779
the smartphone to be a Bluetooth trigger
4336
03:06:18,779 --> 03:06:20,880
for all these modern cameras I don't
4337
03:06:20,880 --> 03:06:22,979
like to drain my smartphone battery this
4338
03:06:22,979 --> 03:06:25,439
is my choice your choice how depending
4339
03:06:25,439 --> 03:06:27,540
on how you want to use it I am kind of
4340
03:06:27,540 --> 03:06:29,399
classic old school that way how you like
4341
03:06:29,399 --> 03:06:31,800
wired remote simple the remote itself
4342
03:06:31,800 --> 03:06:32,939
has power from the camera's battery
4343
03:06:32,939 --> 03:06:34,560
there is nothing special about it it
4344
03:06:34,560 --> 03:06:37,699
never runs out of battery power
4345
03:06:37,800 --> 03:06:40,260
live view is how I would recommend
4346
03:06:40,260 --> 03:06:43,260
anyone to approach modern landscape
4347
03:06:43,260 --> 03:06:46,080
photography even if you own a DSLR so
4348
03:06:46,080 --> 03:06:48,779
this is not exclusive to mirrorless it
4349
03:06:48,779 --> 03:06:50,939
makes your life much easier to determine
4350
03:06:50,939 --> 03:06:52,859
critical focus and to see what's going
4351
03:06:52,859 --> 03:06:54,779
on in your scene and it gives you access
4352
03:06:54,779 --> 03:06:56,640
to histograms which are kind of cool and
4353
03:06:56,640 --> 03:06:57,899
because we're going to talk about that
4354
03:06:57,899 --> 03:06:59,460
for a moment
4355
03:06:59,460 --> 03:07:01,260
this is the thing I promise a gentleman
4356
03:07:01,260 --> 03:07:03,300
in the front and that is focus peaking
4357
03:07:03,300 --> 03:07:06,720
so focus peaking is something that very
4358
03:07:06,720 --> 03:07:09,479
new cameras have that older if you have
4359
03:07:09,479 --> 03:07:12,180
an SLR that is six seven years old you
4360
03:07:12,180 --> 03:07:14,819
will not have this feature this comes
4361
03:07:14,819 --> 03:07:17,819
from video digital video but we've
4362
03:07:17,819 --> 03:07:19,819
adopted it now for still photography
4363
03:07:19,819 --> 03:07:23,939
what it does is it literally shows you
4364
03:07:23,939 --> 03:07:27,000
on the screen if it's an SLR live view
4365
03:07:27,000 --> 03:07:29,460
screen what is in focus and what is not
4366
03:07:29,460 --> 03:07:31,859
in focus by highlighting it in Red by
4367
03:07:31,859 --> 03:07:35,040
default you can change the color but the
4368
03:07:35,040 --> 03:07:37,200
normal default color for all cameras
4369
03:07:37,200 --> 03:07:39,660
industry-wide for this function is red
4370
03:07:39,660 --> 03:07:41,220
you can change the blue or yellow if you
4371
03:07:41,220 --> 03:07:44,880
want it's a very easy way to see in
4372
03:07:44,880 --> 03:07:47,160
landscape photography or any other type
4373
03:07:47,160 --> 03:07:50,160
of Photography very quickly on a Canon
4374
03:07:50,160 --> 03:07:51,540
system you press that the field preview
4375
03:07:51,540 --> 03:07:54,300
what's red and what's not red red is a
4376
03:07:54,300 --> 03:07:55,920
good choice for landscape because it
4377
03:07:55,920 --> 03:07:57,600
stands out against the Green and blues
4378
03:07:57,600 --> 03:07:59,460
you see okay
4379
03:07:59,460 --> 03:08:01,500
this is what's got it so it's basically
4380
03:08:01,500 --> 03:08:04,560
a few very late generation slrs and then
4381
03:08:04,560 --> 03:08:06,000
all the new mirrorless stuff and I
4382
03:08:06,000 --> 03:08:07,260
didn't put the new camera on here but
4383
03:08:07,260 --> 03:08:09,660
yes R6 Mark II of course has this
4384
03:08:09,660 --> 03:08:11,220
function as well all the new stuff is
4385
03:08:11,220 --> 03:08:12,540
got it
4386
03:08:12,540 --> 03:08:15,779
so in terms of focus the big things to
4387
03:08:15,779 --> 03:08:18,180
think about will be managing depth of
4388
03:08:18,180 --> 03:08:19,859
field because it'd be very challenging
4389
03:08:19,859 --> 03:08:22,520
sometimes to get lots of things in Focus
4390
03:08:22,520 --> 03:08:24,479
especially if you need something very
4391
03:08:24,479 --> 03:08:26,100
close to you in the foreground and focus
4392
03:08:26,100 --> 03:08:28,680
it can be very challenging now to get
4393
03:08:28,680 --> 03:08:30,600
sufficient of the field so just manage
4394
03:08:30,600 --> 03:08:33,300
it on a Canon system always remember to
4395
03:08:33,300 --> 03:08:34,859
use your depth of field preview to check
4396
03:08:34,859 --> 03:08:37,220
it out
4397
03:08:37,340 --> 03:08:41,040
metering and exposure I would say it is
4398
03:08:41,040 --> 03:08:44,040
a deeply misunderstood subject so Canon
4399
03:08:44,040 --> 03:08:45,600
offers you four automatic ways of doing
4400
03:08:45,600 --> 03:08:48,479
it so evaluative spot realistically are
4401
03:08:48,479 --> 03:08:50,279
the two Atlantic photography I would
4402
03:08:50,279 --> 03:08:52,680
suggest you using evaluative works very
4403
03:08:52,680 --> 03:08:54,960
well for landscape photography more
4404
03:08:54,960 --> 03:08:57,300
generally unless you've got one thing in
4405
03:08:57,300 --> 03:08:59,100
the image which I will show you in a
4406
03:08:59,100 --> 03:09:02,520
moment but realistically how many since
4407
03:09:02,520 --> 03:09:04,020
you're out there I gotta ask and that's
4408
03:09:04,020 --> 03:09:05,760
why I included this type of picture
4409
03:09:05,760 --> 03:09:07,380
while you're out there doing landscape
4410
03:09:07,380 --> 03:09:09,300
do any of you also take pictures of
4411
03:09:09,300 --> 03:09:11,100
Wildlife
4412
03:09:11,100 --> 03:09:12,960
about half the hands that go up I'm not
4413
03:09:12,960 --> 03:09:14,640
surprised and that's why I have little
4414
03:09:14,640 --> 03:09:17,700
tidbits in there for you because with
4415
03:09:17,700 --> 03:09:19,680
evaluated metering you just have to
4416
03:09:19,680 --> 03:09:21,600
understand on a Canon system it's a tech
4417
03:09:21,600 --> 03:09:23,880
thing again so this is a brand thing
4418
03:09:23,880 --> 03:09:26,760
that Canon cares about where you focus
4419
03:09:26,760 --> 03:09:28,920
when you are in the default Factory
4420
03:09:28,920 --> 03:09:31,500
evaluative metering that's always the
4421
03:09:31,500 --> 03:09:34,140
easiest way to remember it
4422
03:09:34,140 --> 03:09:36,660
spot metering is the other one that I
4423
03:09:36,660 --> 03:09:38,939
would consider for landscape photography
4424
03:09:38,939 --> 03:09:40,620
in general
4425
03:09:40,620 --> 03:09:43,439
why might you want to do that and I have
4426
03:09:43,439 --> 03:09:45,180
an image that explains why you might
4427
03:09:45,180 --> 03:09:47,880
want to do that so waterfalls tend to
4428
03:09:47,880 --> 03:09:49,200
give you
4429
03:09:49,200 --> 03:09:50,939
a very bright exposure on the thing
4430
03:09:50,939 --> 03:09:52,680
that's most important right
4431
03:09:52,680 --> 03:09:54,180
because if you have a picture of a
4432
03:09:54,180 --> 03:09:55,560
waterfall it's big it's filling the
4433
03:09:55,560 --> 03:09:57,420
frame that's probably kind of important
4434
03:09:57,420 --> 03:09:59,760
so we want to make sure our exposure for
4435
03:09:59,760 --> 03:10:02,160
the most important thing is correct
4436
03:10:02,160 --> 03:10:04,740
spot metering will be the way to
4437
03:10:04,740 --> 03:10:06,660
approach that more generally it's not a
4438
03:10:06,660 --> 03:10:08,220
bad way to approach it generally for all
4439
03:10:08,220 --> 03:10:10,380
waterfall take pictures where waterfall
4440
03:10:10,380 --> 03:10:12,180
is very dominant
4441
03:10:12,180 --> 03:10:14,040
who knows histogram who thinks they know
4442
03:10:14,040 --> 03:10:16,439
histogram already and that's okay don't
4443
03:10:16,439 --> 03:10:17,700
be shy
4444
03:10:17,700 --> 03:10:19,020
okay because it's good for me to know
4445
03:10:19,020 --> 03:10:21,920
that so this is the camera's computer
4446
03:10:21,920 --> 03:10:25,500
telling you in a graph about how how
4447
03:10:25,500 --> 03:10:27,359
many dark pixels and how many not so
4448
03:10:27,359 --> 03:10:30,420
dark pixels may be in your image and
4449
03:10:30,420 --> 03:10:32,700
this is applied both in live view before
4450
03:10:32,700 --> 03:10:34,920
you take a picture this is saved as part
4451
03:10:34,920 --> 03:10:37,200
of metadata so you can review it on any
4452
03:10:37,200 --> 03:10:38,640
image you've taken already on your
4453
03:10:38,640 --> 03:10:40,319
camera and this is the same across all
4454
03:10:40,319 --> 03:10:42,060
brands so this is clearly not canon
4455
03:10:42,060 --> 03:10:43,979
specific all of our competitors have
4456
03:10:43,979 --> 03:10:45,720
this as well
4457
03:10:45,720 --> 03:10:47,700
in a digital environment what you need
4458
03:10:47,700 --> 03:10:50,279
to be concerned about is not having
4459
03:10:50,279 --> 03:10:52,200
highlights of things that are important
4460
03:10:52,200 --> 03:10:54,300
to be blown out
4461
03:10:54,300 --> 03:10:56,880
which means we lose detail so where can
4462
03:10:56,880 --> 03:10:59,100
you see it you see it everywhere so a
4463
03:10:59,100 --> 03:11:00,779
live view on a DSLR you can see
4464
03:11:00,779 --> 03:11:02,640
histogram and a mirrorless camera it's
4465
03:11:02,640 --> 03:11:04,740
always available as an option you can
4466
03:11:04,740 --> 03:11:07,620
review it as part of the metadata in any
4467
03:11:07,620 --> 03:11:10,500
save file again all brands accommodate
4468
03:11:10,500 --> 03:11:13,260
this that's not an issue why might it be
4469
03:11:13,260 --> 03:11:15,120
important I took this picture here years
4470
03:11:15,120 --> 03:11:19,380
ago this is garopata who is local to
4471
03:11:19,380 --> 03:11:22,620
this part of California so you know this
4472
03:11:22,620 --> 03:11:25,020
is a wild callalay okay I had trouble
4473
03:11:25,020 --> 03:11:27,300
finding it yesterday it was very sad
4474
03:11:27,300 --> 03:11:30,060
because I've not been here in a while I
4475
03:11:30,060 --> 03:11:31,560
couldn't find the right turnout to get
4476
03:11:31,560 --> 03:11:33,600
to the calla lilies it was disappointing
4477
03:11:33,600 --> 03:11:35,760
oh well my co-workers can blame me later
4478
03:11:35,760 --> 03:11:37,680
about that one so this is the histogram
4479
03:11:37,680 --> 03:11:39,420
for this picture
4480
03:11:39,420 --> 03:11:42,180
when you have a subject like a cow who
4481
03:11:42,180 --> 03:11:44,040
does flowers while they're out there in
4482
03:11:44,040 --> 03:11:45,840
nature doing landscape so it's the other
4483
03:11:45,840 --> 03:11:46,979
half of the people that don't do
4484
03:11:46,979 --> 03:11:48,840
Wildlife maybe are interested in flowers
4485
03:11:48,840 --> 03:11:50,880
okay I do both
4486
03:11:50,880 --> 03:11:53,399
so the subject itself has detail it has
4487
03:11:53,399 --> 03:11:56,220
texture if you make the exposure too
4488
03:11:56,220 --> 03:11:58,260
bright you will lose that completely
4489
03:11:58,260 --> 03:11:59,399
makes sense
4490
03:11:59,399 --> 03:12:02,160
this is completely unrecoverable
4491
03:12:02,160 --> 03:12:04,380
so this is an example of a Japanese
4492
03:12:04,380 --> 03:12:07,260
garden and the exposure is very
4493
03:12:07,260 --> 03:12:08,880
reasonable it's pretty straightforward
4494
03:12:08,880 --> 03:12:11,640
the visual of the graph should match the
4495
03:12:11,640 --> 03:12:14,399
visual of the image so lots of mid-tones
4496
03:12:14,399 --> 03:12:16,500
nothing super bright nothing super dark
4497
03:12:16,500 --> 03:12:19,260
and it kind of matches this
4498
03:12:19,260 --> 03:12:20,700
this is something I always like to show
4499
03:12:20,700 --> 03:12:22,800
so this one is an intentionally too
4500
03:12:22,800 --> 03:12:24,720
bright of an exposure that's part of a
4501
03:12:24,720 --> 03:12:26,100
bracket
4502
03:12:26,100 --> 03:12:27,720
so it's part of a bracket and this one
4503
03:12:27,720 --> 03:12:29,760
was supposed to be super bright and then
4504
03:12:29,760 --> 03:12:31,319
people who shoots raw almost everyone
4505
03:12:31,319 --> 03:12:33,420
yes for a landscape I would expect
4506
03:12:33,420 --> 03:12:35,880
almost everyone here to shoot raw okay
4507
03:12:35,880 --> 03:12:37,439
so can you recover it this is the
4508
03:12:37,439 --> 03:12:38,819
histogram for it
4509
03:12:38,819 --> 03:12:40,859
can you recover from that if you shoot
4510
03:12:40,859 --> 03:12:42,359
raw because a lot of people are lazy and
4511
03:12:42,359 --> 03:12:43,680
the lady is right in the front because
4512
03:12:43,680 --> 03:12:45,540
she's shaking her head absolutely you
4513
03:12:45,540 --> 03:12:46,680
cannot recover it because this is what
4514
03:12:46,680 --> 03:12:47,880
it looks like when you try to recover
4515
03:12:47,880 --> 03:12:52,080
with raw the file is already Overexposed
4516
03:12:52,080 --> 03:12:54,060
and the parts of the image that are pure
4517
03:12:54,060 --> 03:12:55,740
white remain Pure White and there's
4518
03:12:55,740 --> 03:12:57,960
nothing you can do about that you cannot
4519
03:12:57,960 --> 03:12:59,340
fix it in post
4520
03:12:59,340 --> 03:13:01,560
so always be aware of it because you may
4521
03:13:01,560 --> 03:13:03,359
run into this type of subject matter if
4522
03:13:03,359 --> 03:13:04,680
you like taking pictures of wildlife
4523
03:13:04,680 --> 03:13:06,720
when you're doing landscape and the most
4524
03:13:06,720 --> 03:13:08,819
important thing in this image is the
4525
03:13:08,819 --> 03:13:10,560
brightest thing and that brightest thing
4526
03:13:10,560 --> 03:13:12,359
has feathers that have details on them
4527
03:13:12,359 --> 03:13:14,340
and you don't want to lose that and I
4528
03:13:14,340 --> 03:13:17,660
barely made it so there you go
4529
03:13:17,760 --> 03:13:20,580
same thing here who does who has Mac who
4530
03:13:20,580 --> 03:13:22,380
brings a macro lens also when they do
4531
03:13:22,380 --> 03:13:23,700
landscape
4532
03:13:23,700 --> 03:13:25,140
I've talked to a few customers already
4533
03:13:25,140 --> 03:13:27,060
that are doing this
4534
03:13:27,060 --> 03:13:29,220
not the worst thing in the world you see
4535
03:13:29,220 --> 03:13:30,600
lots of interesting things out there
4536
03:13:30,600 --> 03:13:31,620
okay
4537
03:13:31,620 --> 03:13:34,920
we get the point so this is Yosemite
4538
03:13:34,920 --> 03:13:36,479
I would suspect more than half this
4539
03:13:36,479 --> 03:13:38,580
audience has been a summary yes
4540
03:13:38,580 --> 03:13:40,680
lots lots and lots and lots and lots
4541
03:13:40,680 --> 03:13:42,779
okay so this is a classic example of
4542
03:13:42,779 --> 03:13:44,460
longer lengths because this is from
4543
03:13:44,460 --> 03:13:47,160
tunnel view so from tunnel view the
4544
03:13:47,160 --> 03:13:48,899
normal classic I think the official name
4545
03:13:48,899 --> 03:13:51,060
is still exhibition Point yes so
4546
03:13:51,060 --> 03:13:52,680
Expedition point is the official name
4547
03:13:52,680 --> 03:13:54,660
that's the histogram
4548
03:13:54,660 --> 03:13:56,760
the reason I like to show this image is
4549
03:13:56,760 --> 03:13:58,439
it looks like I have some Headroom so I
4550
03:13:58,439 --> 03:14:00,600
had room meaning I can make the image
4551
03:14:00,600 --> 03:14:03,300
brighter by choosing a longer exposure
4552
03:14:03,300 --> 03:14:05,819
time and not blow out highlights so
4553
03:14:05,819 --> 03:14:07,380
that's the terminology I'm going to
4554
03:14:07,380 --> 03:14:08,640
choose to use
4555
03:14:08,640 --> 03:14:11,460
be very careful with that because
4556
03:14:11,460 --> 03:14:13,920
who is using RGB
4557
03:14:13,920 --> 03:14:15,960
histogram that is not the fault and a
4558
03:14:15,960 --> 03:14:17,580
lot of your hands normally go up when I
4559
03:14:17,580 --> 03:14:18,540
go there
4560
03:14:18,540 --> 03:14:21,180
be cognizant of this there might be some
4561
03:14:21,180 --> 03:14:23,760
subject matter out there that is primary
4562
03:14:23,760 --> 03:14:26,880
color and dominant red green blue
4563
03:14:26,880 --> 03:14:29,460
that fact may be obscured by the
4564
03:14:29,460 --> 03:14:31,380
brightness histogram which is always the
4565
03:14:31,380 --> 03:14:32,700
default
4566
03:14:32,700 --> 03:14:34,319
be mindful especially if those of you
4567
03:14:34,319 --> 03:14:36,060
interested in macro and flower
4568
03:14:36,060 --> 03:14:37,740
photography and doing nature and
4569
03:14:37,740 --> 03:14:39,720
landscape photography
4570
03:14:39,720 --> 03:14:43,800
blue so snow can be blue rather at times
4571
03:14:43,800 --> 03:14:46,020
be mindful that blue may be a little bit
4572
03:14:46,020 --> 03:14:48,180
too bright and here would be snow and
4573
03:14:48,180 --> 03:14:49,920
you'd lose detail in the snow and this
4574
03:14:49,920 --> 03:14:51,300
would be not so obvious on a computer
4575
03:14:51,300 --> 03:14:53,340
screen much more obvious if we make a
4576
03:14:53,340 --> 03:14:55,319
large print then you'll see some issues
4577
03:14:55,319 --> 03:14:57,120
where there should be taintail in the
4578
03:14:57,120 --> 03:14:59,100
snow it's not there because your
4579
03:14:59,100 --> 03:15:00,899
exposure is too bright because you left
4580
03:15:00,899 --> 03:15:04,080
your histogram on brightness alone
4581
03:15:04,080 --> 03:15:06,000
classic picture of a rose I thought it
4582
03:15:06,000 --> 03:15:09,420
was fine lovely but not fine
4583
03:15:09,420 --> 03:15:11,640
because the most important color is a
4584
03:15:11,640 --> 03:15:12,840
red primary
4585
03:15:12,840 --> 03:15:15,359
and there's texture in the detail of the
4586
03:15:15,359 --> 03:15:17,939
petals that you cannot see anymore and I
4587
03:15:17,939 --> 03:15:19,859
thought it was fine back in the day so
4588
03:15:19,859 --> 03:15:22,200
there you go so there are reasons to
4589
03:15:22,200 --> 03:15:23,760
think about if you're not already doing
4590
03:15:23,760 --> 03:15:25,140
it personally I always do it to every
4591
03:15:25,140 --> 03:15:26,700
camera I use it's one of the first
4592
03:15:26,700 --> 03:15:28,620
things I do is I change the histogram to
4593
03:15:28,620 --> 03:15:31,140
RGB because I want us to be able to see
4594
03:15:31,140 --> 03:15:33,000
this
4595
03:15:33,000 --> 03:15:37,800
Aurora Borealis green dominant and
4596
03:15:37,800 --> 03:15:39,899
I'm gonna get rid of my work nagger
4597
03:15:39,899 --> 03:15:41,700
thing
4598
03:15:41,700 --> 03:15:44,279
if you just only pay attention to
4599
03:15:44,279 --> 03:15:46,500
brightness you might have an issue so
4600
03:15:46,500 --> 03:15:48,660
this one is safe but you don't have much
4601
03:15:48,660 --> 03:15:49,680
Headroom
4602
03:15:49,680 --> 03:15:53,040
so this is something where it is motion
4603
03:15:53,040 --> 03:15:55,080
and you have to massage your shutter
4604
03:15:55,080 --> 03:15:56,520
speed who has done a little bit of this
4605
03:15:56,520 --> 03:15:58,260
Northern Lights
4606
03:15:58,260 --> 03:16:01,979
was it Alaska or Canada or Iceland or
4607
03:16:01,979 --> 03:16:03,600
Norway or somewhere like that I think
4608
03:16:03,600 --> 03:16:05,399
I've covered all the bases
4609
03:16:05,399 --> 03:16:07,319
probably not Russia I wouldn't recommend
4610
03:16:07,319 --> 03:16:10,680
Russia necessarily okay
4611
03:16:10,680 --> 03:16:12,840
just a quick recap the thing you always
4612
03:16:12,840 --> 03:16:14,760
have to appreciate about histograms is
4613
03:16:14,760 --> 03:16:17,220
it's a reflection of any setting that
4614
03:16:17,220 --> 03:16:19,200
would affect a jpeg
4615
03:16:19,200 --> 03:16:21,779
even if you set your camera up to only
4616
03:16:21,779 --> 03:16:24,960
record raw the histogram that you see is
4617
03:16:24,960 --> 03:16:28,260
a reflection of jpeg settings you are
4618
03:16:28,260 --> 03:16:31,560
seeing a JPEG thumbnail so anything in
4619
03:16:31,560 --> 03:16:33,540
the camera that you can change
4620
03:16:33,540 --> 03:16:36,600
especially on a mirrorless camera oh it
4621
03:16:36,600 --> 03:16:39,120
changes how the preview looks on my
4622
03:16:39,120 --> 03:16:40,859
screen inside the viewfinder or on the
4623
03:16:40,859 --> 03:16:42,840
back of the screen anything that changes
4624
03:16:42,840 --> 03:16:44,700
that will affect your histogram
4625
03:16:44,700 --> 03:16:47,760
it's something to be careful to manage
4626
03:16:47,760 --> 03:16:49,319
all right I'm done with all the techie
4627
03:16:49,319 --> 03:16:50,760
stuff and we can talk about the fun
4628
03:16:50,760 --> 03:16:52,859
things like composition
4629
03:16:52,859 --> 03:16:54,200
because
4630
03:16:54,200 --> 03:16:56,760
oftentimes especially because I'm a tech
4631
03:16:56,760 --> 03:16:59,640
I am quite bombarded by questions about
4632
03:16:59,640 --> 03:17:02,340
the tool and how to work the tool and
4633
03:17:02,340 --> 03:17:04,380
how to manage the tool the tool is the
4634
03:17:04,380 --> 03:17:05,160
camera
4635
03:17:05,160 --> 03:17:06,660
but the Tool's not the end of the game
4636
03:17:06,660 --> 03:17:08,399
hopefully not hopefully not for you it's
4637
03:17:08,399 --> 03:17:10,740
definitely not for me so this is a means
4638
03:17:10,740 --> 03:17:13,620
to an end and not an ends of its own and
4639
03:17:13,620 --> 03:17:14,819
of itself
4640
03:17:14,819 --> 03:17:16,439
the whole point is to do something
4641
03:17:16,439 --> 03:17:18,420
creative to communicate visually
4642
03:17:18,420 --> 03:17:20,220
and that is what photography is we're
4643
03:17:20,220 --> 03:17:22,439
just doing with still images so this is
4644
03:17:22,439 --> 03:17:24,660
everyone literally has heard of this yes
4645
03:17:24,660 --> 03:17:25,979
and I'm not going to say the words
4646
03:17:25,979 --> 03:17:27,000
because some people think they're
4647
03:17:27,000 --> 03:17:28,920
naughty words
4648
03:17:28,920 --> 03:17:30,779
I'm not going to say these words this
4649
03:17:30,779 --> 03:17:33,120
image actually works quite well for this
4650
03:17:33,120 --> 03:17:36,779
type of composition because we can kind
4651
03:17:36,779 --> 03:17:38,399
of use this one thing to kind of
4652
03:17:38,399 --> 03:17:40,020
approach it that way and that's fine
4653
03:17:40,020 --> 03:17:41,939
there's nothing wrong with that because
4654
03:17:41,939 --> 03:17:43,620
Reflections are something fun that we
4655
03:17:43,620 --> 03:17:45,300
can definitely play with
4656
03:17:45,300 --> 03:17:46,680
this is here
4657
03:17:46,680 --> 03:17:49,260
so this is Big Sir so just down the
4658
03:17:49,260 --> 03:17:51,540
South along the coast it's very craggy
4659
03:17:51,540 --> 03:17:54,120
there is no real beach to actually speak
4660
03:17:54,120 --> 03:17:56,160
of and the water is really cold so don't
4661
03:17:56,160 --> 03:17:57,779
get dunked in the water and watch for
4662
03:17:57,779 --> 03:18:00,359
rogue waves also so I would always never
4663
03:18:00,359 --> 03:18:02,279
recommend turning her back to the ocean
4664
03:18:02,279 --> 03:18:04,260
when you're this close so sometimes
4665
03:18:04,260 --> 03:18:05,580
you're actually really close like this
4666
03:18:05,580 --> 03:18:07,680
because it's super wide Lots because
4667
03:18:07,680 --> 03:18:09,960
it's an 11-24 at 11 millimeter on a full
4668
03:18:09,960 --> 03:18:11,640
frame camera which is super super wide
4669
03:18:11,640 --> 03:18:14,340
the classic the most single classic way
4670
03:18:14,340 --> 03:18:17,580
to approach landscape is to use layers
4671
03:18:17,580 --> 03:18:19,800
so I'm sure some of you have already
4672
03:18:19,800 --> 03:18:22,020
heard of this before and that is to have
4673
03:18:22,020 --> 03:18:24,060
interesting elements in the foreground
4674
03:18:24,060 --> 03:18:25,979
something in the mid ground here would
4675
03:18:25,979 --> 03:18:28,020
be Surf and the rocks that are farther
4676
03:18:28,020 --> 03:18:30,060
away and then background for landscape
4677
03:18:30,060 --> 03:18:32,880
usually involves sky
4678
03:18:32,880 --> 03:18:34,859
so that's why coup golden hour yes
4679
03:18:34,859 --> 03:18:36,300
that's why we always love golden hour
4680
03:18:36,300 --> 03:18:38,160
because you're more likely to get an
4681
03:18:38,160 --> 03:18:40,560
interesting Sky because otherwise a
4682
03:18:40,560 --> 03:18:42,359
Clear Blue Skies well there's another
4683
03:18:42,359 --> 03:18:44,340
way to put it it's kind of boring to
4684
03:18:44,340 --> 03:18:45,840
have a clearer Blue Sky for landscape
4685
03:18:45,840 --> 03:18:48,240
photography if you intend to have that
4686
03:18:48,240 --> 03:18:51,600
and you want a calm boring image I call
4687
03:18:51,600 --> 03:18:53,899
it boring but we can take that word away
4688
03:18:53,899 --> 03:18:57,600
then we have a clear blue sky there's no
4689
03:18:57,600 --> 03:18:58,859
way around that
4690
03:18:58,859 --> 03:19:02,160
so this is also Yosemite from what they
4691
03:19:02,160 --> 03:19:03,779
tell me I've not been back to this exact
4692
03:19:03,779 --> 03:19:05,760
location this tree is still up and about
4693
03:19:05,760 --> 03:19:08,279
classic tree portrait another classic
4694
03:19:08,279 --> 03:19:10,380
example of we've got detail in the
4695
03:19:10,380 --> 03:19:12,540
foreground the tree is the main subject
4696
03:19:12,540 --> 03:19:14,520
but we've got a lot of fun background
4697
03:19:14,520 --> 03:19:17,279
elements now that include sunbursts and
4698
03:19:17,279 --> 03:19:19,140
also Half Dome on the back plus it's
4699
03:19:19,140 --> 03:19:20,939
morning you can tell it's morning
4700
03:19:20,939 --> 03:19:23,700
morning is good if you want more mist
4701
03:19:23,700 --> 03:19:25,500
and fog I think you've experienced this
4702
03:19:25,500 --> 03:19:28,380
already you're more likely to see it
4703
03:19:28,380 --> 03:19:30,779
evening less likely to see such things
4704
03:19:30,779 --> 03:19:32,880
just weather just dealing with weather
4705
03:19:32,880 --> 03:19:34,560
now
4706
03:19:34,560 --> 03:19:36,660
quick recap this is Valley View that's
4707
03:19:36,660 --> 03:19:38,760
what I call it this is actually a
4708
03:19:38,760 --> 03:19:41,700
turnout along the Circle Road in
4709
03:19:41,700 --> 03:19:43,200
Yosemite Valley when you're about to
4710
03:19:43,200 --> 03:19:44,819
exit except you're not actually exiting
4711
03:19:44,819 --> 03:19:45,899
because you can Circle back the other
4712
03:19:45,899 --> 03:19:47,640
way I think it actually is the last
4713
03:19:47,640 --> 03:19:48,960
turnout it's been a while since I've
4714
03:19:48,960 --> 03:19:51,600
been to this exact location uh
4715
03:19:51,600 --> 03:19:52,920
there was some photographer being super
4716
03:19:52,920 --> 03:19:54,300
naughty this is my funny story about it
4717
03:19:54,300 --> 03:19:55,380
there was a photographer that was
4718
03:19:55,380 --> 03:19:57,060
already camped out
4719
03:19:57,060 --> 03:19:59,100
in front of the normal shooting spot
4720
03:19:59,100 --> 03:20:00,899
along the back of the river and Valley
4721
03:20:00,899 --> 03:20:02,340
because it's one of the most famous
4722
03:20:02,340 --> 03:20:04,680
views of Yosemite Valley it will be the
4723
03:20:04,680 --> 03:20:07,279
Merced River along right on its Edge
4724
03:20:07,279 --> 03:20:10,319
looking back towards El Capitan that
4725
03:20:10,319 --> 03:20:11,700
will be one of the most this is right
4726
03:20:11,700 --> 03:20:13,260
underneath tunnel View
4727
03:20:13,260 --> 03:20:15,540
and there was a photographer that had
4728
03:20:15,540 --> 03:20:17,100
traveled from another country I'm not
4729
03:20:17,100 --> 03:20:19,080
going to name the country that I camped
4730
03:20:19,080 --> 03:20:21,060
out there and then he was kind of he was
4731
03:20:21,060 --> 03:20:22,380
unwilling to move for any other
4732
03:20:22,380 --> 03:20:25,740
photographer so I had to Hopscotch over
4733
03:20:25,740 --> 03:20:27,479
rocks into the middle of the river to
4734
03:20:27,479 --> 03:20:30,060
avoid him because otherwise I'd be
4735
03:20:30,060 --> 03:20:31,500
photoshopping him out of the image
4736
03:20:31,500 --> 03:20:32,819
because he wasn't going to move period
4737
03:20:32,819 --> 03:20:35,580
for anyone very unpleasant guy but there
4738
03:20:35,580 --> 03:20:37,800
you go so in general this is one of the
4739
03:20:37,800 --> 03:20:39,720
fun things to do to emphasize foreground
4740
03:20:39,720 --> 03:20:41,399
will be
4741
03:20:41,399 --> 03:20:43,800
not squaring your image
4742
03:20:43,800 --> 03:20:45,600
with their camera with their subject
4743
03:20:45,600 --> 03:20:47,939
matter so squaring is something does
4744
03:20:47,939 --> 03:20:49,740
anyone this is kind of a weird thing to
4745
03:20:49,740 --> 03:20:53,100
ask does anyone do pictures of buildings
4746
03:20:53,100 --> 03:20:54,960
or architecture
4747
03:20:54,960 --> 03:20:57,120
or artwork
4748
03:20:57,120 --> 03:20:58,500
so I'm going to name all the things you
4749
03:20:58,500 --> 03:20:59,939
kind of want to square with squaring
4750
03:20:59,939 --> 03:21:03,439
means you want to have your camera
4751
03:21:03,840 --> 03:21:06,000
parallel to the subject you might
4752
03:21:06,000 --> 03:21:07,680
imagine that's somewhat important for a
4753
03:21:07,680 --> 03:21:09,720
building or if you're trying to take a
4754
03:21:09,720 --> 03:21:12,000
piece of a picture of a piece of artwork
4755
03:21:12,000 --> 03:21:13,979
like a painting it's also kind of
4756
03:21:13,979 --> 03:21:15,840
important or a copy work if anyone's
4757
03:21:15,840 --> 03:21:17,880
done copy work in the past at some point
4758
03:21:17,880 --> 03:21:19,439
these are kind of important things so
4759
03:21:19,439 --> 03:21:20,700
this is taking advantage of the fact
4760
03:21:20,700 --> 03:21:21,779
that we are not squaring with our
4761
03:21:21,779 --> 03:21:24,000
subject which means when you take a wide
4762
03:21:24,000 --> 03:21:25,260
lens you do not square with their
4763
03:21:25,260 --> 03:21:26,880
subject things that are physically
4764
03:21:26,880 --> 03:21:28,500
closer to you become disproportionately
4765
03:21:28,500 --> 03:21:30,359
large we can totally take advantage of
4766
03:21:30,359 --> 03:21:32,399
that with landscape photography so aim
4767
03:21:32,399 --> 03:21:34,200
the camera down a little bit your
4768
03:21:34,200 --> 03:21:36,620
foreground becomes disproportionately
4769
03:21:36,620 --> 03:21:39,540
engaged and large and it talks to you
4770
03:21:39,540 --> 03:21:40,979
more
4771
03:21:40,979 --> 03:21:43,680
this is a classic example of
4772
03:21:43,680 --> 03:21:46,020
horizon line are we thoughtful about
4773
03:21:46,020 --> 03:21:47,819
where we put our Horizon Lines in
4774
03:21:47,819 --> 03:21:49,859
landscape it's kind of important do you
4775
03:21:49,859 --> 03:21:51,720
think this is a good idea
4776
03:21:51,720 --> 03:21:54,420
I don't like it right because it's
4777
03:21:54,420 --> 03:21:56,220
there's a lot of boring
4778
03:21:56,220 --> 03:21:58,080
I mean clear sky there's a lot of clear
4779
03:21:58,080 --> 03:22:00,240
sky in this image
4780
03:22:00,240 --> 03:22:02,700
but all the interest is in the dunes
4781
03:22:02,700 --> 03:22:05,040
because that's where all the texture is
4782
03:22:05,040 --> 03:22:07,080
so how do we manage that one of the most
4783
03:22:07,080 --> 03:22:09,840
classic ways is you manage your horizon
4784
03:22:09,840 --> 03:22:10,979
line
4785
03:22:10,979 --> 03:22:13,080
you typically want to show more of
4786
03:22:13,080 --> 03:22:14,880
what's interesting and maybe a little
4787
03:22:14,880 --> 03:22:16,439
bit less of anything
4788
03:22:16,439 --> 03:22:19,140
that is more boring so the easiest way
4789
03:22:19,140 --> 03:22:21,000
to do it typically for a landscape would
4790
03:22:21,000 --> 03:22:23,340
be place the horizon line where you
4791
03:22:23,340 --> 03:22:27,000
think it feels best to convey things of
4792
03:22:27,000 --> 03:22:29,100
interest and to hide things that are
4793
03:22:29,100 --> 03:22:31,800
distracting or uninteresting
4794
03:22:31,800 --> 03:22:33,420
same thing here
4795
03:22:33,420 --> 03:22:35,819
the reason it's I would probably rather
4796
03:22:35,819 --> 03:22:37,680
I would rather have this have been a
4797
03:22:37,680 --> 03:22:39,600
pretty sky it was not a pretty sky
4798
03:22:39,600 --> 03:22:41,819
that's because it's weather
4799
03:22:41,819 --> 03:22:44,640
so one of the consequences of liking
4800
03:22:44,640 --> 03:22:46,140
this type of Photography is you have to
4801
03:22:46,140 --> 03:22:47,880
be a little bit patient sometimes
4802
03:22:47,880 --> 03:22:50,100
because you can only do what the weather
4803
03:22:50,100 --> 03:22:52,680
gives you if you want lots of sky in
4804
03:22:52,680 --> 03:22:56,520
your image it is its nature
4805
03:22:56,520 --> 03:22:59,700
same thing here this is a clear sky so
4806
03:22:59,700 --> 03:23:01,260
this is in Oregon if you've ever been
4807
03:23:01,260 --> 03:23:03,359
there along the beach
4808
03:23:03,359 --> 03:23:06,300
if you can arrange the Sun so this is
4809
03:23:06,300 --> 03:23:08,880
this is always a thing
4810
03:23:08,880 --> 03:23:12,239
the easiest way to get a sun star is to
4811
03:23:12,239 --> 03:23:15,120
get it on the edge of something solid it
4812
03:23:15,120 --> 03:23:17,100
could be a tree branch or in this case a
4813
03:23:17,100 --> 03:23:19,859
gigantic Rock in the structure and then
4814
03:23:19,859 --> 03:23:22,080
you have to stop down a lot so this one
4815
03:23:22,080 --> 03:23:23,700
I'm sure it was because that's how I
4816
03:23:23,700 --> 03:23:26,520
always do it this was F-16 so I'll
4817
03:23:26,520 --> 03:23:29,040
always go there as my default if I want
4818
03:23:29,040 --> 03:23:32,420
a Sunstar for example
4819
03:23:32,520 --> 03:23:35,160
who shoots outside of golden hour
4820
03:23:35,160 --> 03:23:39,060
outside of golden an hour okay
4821
03:23:39,060 --> 03:23:41,640
good for you because there are lots and
4822
03:23:41,640 --> 03:23:43,380
lots of interesting landscape images
4823
03:23:43,380 --> 03:23:45,720
that you can approach when you're not in
4824
03:23:45,720 --> 03:23:47,640
the most favorable life
4825
03:23:47,640 --> 03:23:49,800
so if you're shooting sunset and sunrise
4826
03:23:49,800 --> 03:23:52,020
that sometimes can be challenging if
4827
03:23:52,020 --> 03:23:53,460
you're staying up at night does anyone
4828
03:23:53,460 --> 03:23:56,460
also do night sky I'm really curious now
4829
03:23:56,460 --> 03:23:58,739
okay if you do Sunrise Sunset and nice
4830
03:23:58,739 --> 03:24:00,180
Sky you're probably sleeping in the
4831
03:24:00,180 --> 03:24:01,979
middle of the day let's be realistic
4832
03:24:01,979 --> 03:24:04,560
about this now okay I get that
4833
03:24:04,560 --> 03:24:06,420
but oftentimes a lot of people
4834
03:24:06,420 --> 03:24:07,739
especially when they're beginning in
4835
03:24:07,739 --> 03:24:09,180
landscape photography they're thinking
4836
03:24:09,180 --> 03:24:11,700
I've got to just do sunrises and sunsets
4837
03:24:11,700 --> 03:24:13,620
because it's eye candy it's a lot of
4838
03:24:13,620 --> 03:24:15,899
color if you have good ones lots and
4839
03:24:15,899 --> 03:24:17,819
lots of color and color is complete eye
4840
03:24:17,819 --> 03:24:20,460
candy now so it's an easy cheesy way to
4841
03:24:20,460 --> 03:24:22,979
get more interesting compositions
4842
03:24:22,979 --> 03:24:24,960
but what if your background is not sky
4843
03:24:24,960 --> 03:24:26,340
but it's rock
4844
03:24:26,340 --> 03:24:28,979
so anytime in landscape photography you
4845
03:24:28,979 --> 03:24:32,040
can get natural structure it usually
4846
03:24:32,040 --> 03:24:33,420
means Rock but it could be trees it
4847
03:24:33,420 --> 03:24:35,520
could be other elements you get that to
4848
03:24:35,520 --> 03:24:36,899
be the background and this is very
4849
03:24:36,899 --> 03:24:38,819
famous this is a crazy famous location
4850
03:24:38,819 --> 03:24:40,439
now in Yosemite
4851
03:24:40,439 --> 03:24:42,660
many millions of images have been taken
4852
03:24:42,660 --> 03:24:45,239
that are almost identical to this by the
4853
03:24:45,239 --> 03:24:46,979
way and mostly in black and white I
4854
03:24:46,979 --> 03:24:48,600
would say as well
4855
03:24:48,600 --> 03:24:50,220
yes
4856
03:24:50,220 --> 03:24:51,840
um no Sky it doesn't matter if the sky
4857
03:24:51,840 --> 03:24:53,220
is boring but also doesn't matter if
4858
03:24:53,220 --> 03:24:54,420
it's the middle of the day this is
4859
03:24:54,420 --> 03:24:55,859
actually middle of the day
4860
03:24:55,859 --> 03:24:59,040
you see where I'm going like this
4861
03:24:59,040 --> 03:25:00,420
this
4862
03:25:00,420 --> 03:25:03,779
is this is it depends on your point of
4863
03:25:03,779 --> 03:25:04,439
view
4864
03:25:04,439 --> 03:25:06,359
if a reflection is important to you then
4865
03:25:06,359 --> 03:25:08,700
this is not a good image
4866
03:25:08,700 --> 03:25:11,160
if you want to show debris
4867
03:25:11,160 --> 03:25:13,439
if debris is the star of this image then
4868
03:25:13,439 --> 03:25:15,540
this is actually very good because it
4869
03:25:15,540 --> 03:25:18,540
really gets you to look at the debris
4870
03:25:18,540 --> 03:25:21,060
it's always a matter of Storytelling so
4871
03:25:21,060 --> 03:25:23,160
in classic landscape photography this
4872
03:25:23,160 --> 03:25:25,020
would be not a good image solely because
4873
03:25:25,020 --> 03:25:27,479
we've got lots of debris in the
4874
03:25:27,479 --> 03:25:29,520
reflection in the very sharp reflection
4875
03:25:29,520 --> 03:25:31,979
of something very famous and that's
4876
03:25:31,979 --> 03:25:33,960
something very famous we would decide
4877
03:25:33,960 --> 03:25:36,120
would be the most important thing the
4878
03:25:36,120 --> 03:25:37,319
next most important thing would be the
4879
03:25:37,319 --> 03:25:40,140
reflection so always distractions or
4880
03:25:40,140 --> 03:25:42,479
things to think about in composition and
4881
03:25:42,479 --> 03:25:44,520
nature usually it means debris something
4882
03:25:44,520 --> 03:25:47,880
that would interrupt the natural flow of
4883
03:25:47,880 --> 03:25:50,279
a composition this would be the counter
4884
03:25:50,279 --> 03:25:52,800
example so I always like to show example
4885
03:25:52,800 --> 03:25:56,279
counter example Mount Rainier
4886
03:25:56,279 --> 03:25:59,279
if you want reflection and you want this
4887
03:25:59,279 --> 03:26:01,920
really Miralax reflection I would plan
4888
03:26:01,920 --> 03:26:04,020
on trying to do sunrise
4889
03:26:04,020 --> 03:26:06,479
because it tends to be less windy always
4890
03:26:06,479 --> 03:26:08,819
pay attention to weather forecasts but
4891
03:26:08,819 --> 03:26:11,880
if you plan on Golden hour reflection
4892
03:26:11,880 --> 03:26:13,979
you're better bet typically for most
4893
03:26:13,979 --> 03:26:15,720
locations will be sunrise
4894
03:26:15,720 --> 03:26:17,640
because weather patterns for most places
4895
03:26:17,640 --> 03:26:19,080
in the world will tend to be windier
4896
03:26:19,080 --> 03:26:21,359
golden hour at Sunset and the more
4897
03:26:21,359 --> 03:26:22,859
people to shoot around which is very
4898
03:26:22,859 --> 03:26:25,319
annoying these days
4899
03:26:25,319 --> 03:26:28,439
this is a good example of I was there to
4900
03:26:28,439 --> 03:26:30,180
take pictures of Mount Rainier but there
4901
03:26:30,180 --> 03:26:32,760
are other examples you can play with to
4902
03:26:32,760 --> 03:26:34,260
make things interesting because the
4903
03:26:34,260 --> 03:26:36,779
clouds are the interesting team here
4904
03:26:36,779 --> 03:26:38,819
so this is just a series and a big
4905
03:26:38,819 --> 03:26:40,800
bracket of images I took at this
4906
03:26:40,800 --> 03:26:42,840
location
4907
03:26:42,840 --> 03:26:45,420
this is a good example of rain you don't
4908
03:26:45,420 --> 03:26:47,040
see rain because I'm using a neutral
4909
03:26:47,040 --> 03:26:48,600
density filter
4910
03:26:48,600 --> 03:26:50,880
so neutral density filter is a good way
4911
03:26:50,880 --> 03:26:54,359
to make hard Reflections softer it's a
4912
03:26:54,359 --> 03:26:56,220
great way to get some kind of reflection
4913
03:26:56,220 --> 03:26:58,739
out of water that will not give you
4914
03:26:58,739 --> 03:27:00,060
anything at all
4915
03:27:00,060 --> 03:27:03,479
so this happens to be just a big big ND
4916
03:27:03,479 --> 03:27:06,479
a very long exposure on a tripod okay
4917
03:27:06,479 --> 03:27:08,700
and you don't see the rain anymore
4918
03:27:08,700 --> 03:27:11,220
this is tunnel view there you go so
4919
03:27:11,220 --> 03:27:12,960
classic I want to show the classic one
4920
03:27:12,960 --> 03:27:14,580
because
4921
03:27:14,580 --> 03:27:16,920
this is super wide
4922
03:27:16,920 --> 03:27:19,140
but this is 200 millimeter now
4923
03:27:19,140 --> 03:27:21,479
same exact location same day same
4924
03:27:21,479 --> 03:27:23,760
morning snow
4925
03:27:23,760 --> 03:27:26,100
just you can get much more interesting
4926
03:27:26,100 --> 03:27:28,859
compositions that are not normal the
4927
03:27:28,859 --> 03:27:31,380
thing that everyone else is doing is the
4928
03:27:31,380 --> 03:27:33,899
normal thing it's okay to do that but
4929
03:27:33,899 --> 03:27:35,399
it's also a great thing to think about
4930
03:27:35,399 --> 03:27:37,140
what are some other compositions I can
4931
03:27:37,140 --> 03:27:39,660
get with longer lenses that are not the
4932
03:27:39,660 --> 03:27:42,800
normal composition
4933
03:27:43,140 --> 03:27:45,420
so this one who has been here who knows
4934
03:27:45,420 --> 03:27:46,800
actually what this is this one is more
4935
03:27:46,800 --> 03:27:49,380
obscure you know what this is so there
4936
03:27:49,380 --> 03:27:51,359
are a handful of people so this is in
4937
03:27:51,359 --> 03:27:52,560
the middle of Oregon in the middle of
4938
03:27:52,560 --> 03:27:54,300
nowhere by the way
4939
03:27:54,300 --> 03:27:57,000
so the closest civilization is quite a
4940
03:27:57,000 --> 03:27:58,439
way so I remember right including rest
4941
03:27:58,439 --> 03:28:01,560
stops and including gas and there are
4942
03:28:01,560 --> 03:28:04,020
warnings saying that for the next 70
4943
03:28:04,020 --> 03:28:06,120
miles there's no gas station so you got
4944
03:28:06,120 --> 03:28:07,859
to be a little bit careful it's on the
4945
03:28:07,859 --> 03:28:09,180
middle of nowhere I brought lots and
4946
03:28:09,180 --> 03:28:11,160
lots of lenses the reason I always like
4947
03:28:11,160 --> 03:28:13,560
to show this one is that yes it's a 400
4948
03:28:13,560 --> 03:28:15,120
millimeter lens I'm using for a
4949
03:28:15,120 --> 03:28:16,859
landscape because if you've been here
4950
03:28:16,859 --> 03:28:18,600
you already know that it's very
4951
03:28:18,600 --> 03:28:20,880
challenging to have a good composition
4952
03:28:20,880 --> 03:28:23,580
at this location if you use a wide lens
4953
03:28:23,580 --> 03:28:25,800
because all of mine sucked maybe someone
4954
03:28:25,800 --> 03:28:27,300
can do it it's just not going to be me
4955
03:28:27,300 --> 03:28:29,880
because I try it and they all are not
4956
03:28:29,880 --> 03:28:31,739
good it was actually that I like the
4957
03:28:31,739 --> 03:28:34,200
class this day I got there on a nice day
4958
03:28:34,200 --> 03:28:37,739
with broken partly partly clouded cloudy
4959
03:28:37,739 --> 03:28:39,720
day and that was actually fun super
4960
03:28:39,720 --> 03:28:43,800
windy good example of long lens tripod
4961
03:28:43,800 --> 03:28:46,560
landscape with super windy and there's
4962
03:28:46,560 --> 03:28:48,060
some funny things that can happen with
4963
03:28:48,060 --> 03:28:50,880
stabilizers when it gets super windy so
4964
03:28:50,880 --> 03:28:53,760
with modern cameras I think the old rule
4965
03:28:53,760 --> 03:28:55,200
used to be and just why I used to always
4966
03:28:55,200 --> 03:28:57,300
tell people many years ago is that if
4967
03:28:57,300 --> 03:28:59,700
you put a lens and a camera on a tripod
4968
03:28:59,700 --> 03:29:02,040
and that lens had an image stabilizer to
4969
03:29:02,040 --> 03:29:04,680
turn it off that was always the old rule
4970
03:29:04,680 --> 03:29:07,439
with modern cameras I would say don't
4971
03:29:07,439 --> 03:29:10,140
necessarily always stay hard and fast to
4972
03:29:10,140 --> 03:29:13,439
that rule you should use the live view
4973
03:29:13,439 --> 03:29:16,500
of a modern camera to evaluate
4974
03:29:16,500 --> 03:29:19,200
which is better because sometimes it's
4975
03:29:19,200 --> 03:29:21,180
actually better with the stabilizer on
4976
03:29:21,180 --> 03:29:23,700
and active while your camera is not
4977
03:29:23,700 --> 03:29:25,920
sitting on a tripod doing exactly this
4978
03:29:25,920 --> 03:29:28,080
sort of thing because that's what I did
4979
03:29:28,080 --> 03:29:31,080
so my images with image stabilizer at
4980
03:29:31,080 --> 03:29:33,779
this scene it was crazy windy by the way
4981
03:29:33,779 --> 03:29:36,120
the ones with stabilizer on with the
4982
03:29:36,120 --> 03:29:37,859
whole camera on a tripod they were
4983
03:29:37,859 --> 03:29:39,779
sharper than the ones that were
4984
03:29:39,779 --> 03:29:42,479
with a stabilizer off on the tripod
4985
03:29:42,479 --> 03:29:44,700
because everything was vibrating
4986
03:29:44,700 --> 03:29:48,479
slightly because yes it was that windy
4987
03:29:48,479 --> 03:29:50,399
so just be mindful of that modern
4988
03:29:50,399 --> 03:29:52,380
cameras tend to work this way so r r
4989
03:29:52,380 --> 03:29:54,420
mirrorless cameras by default a lot of
4990
03:29:54,420 --> 03:29:56,760
our modern cameras use electronic first
4991
03:29:56,760 --> 03:29:58,200
curtain
4992
03:29:58,200 --> 03:30:00,239
some of you may remember the macro
4993
03:30:00,239 --> 03:30:02,520
people that are Canon people they will
4994
03:30:02,520 --> 03:30:03,779
know exactly what this means and why
4995
03:30:03,779 --> 03:30:05,279
it's beneficial but I'll explain to
4996
03:30:05,279 --> 03:30:08,220
everyone so by default on an R5 R6 this
4997
03:30:08,220 --> 03:30:10,739
is how Canon cameras work it just means
4998
03:30:10,739 --> 03:30:12,779
that instead of having two physical
4999
03:30:12,779 --> 03:30:15,000
focal plane shutters
5000
03:30:15,000 --> 03:30:17,220
opening and then following and closing
5001
03:30:17,220 --> 03:30:19,020
the first curtain is completely
5002
03:30:19,020 --> 03:30:21,479
synthetic it's electronic so you know
5003
03:30:21,479 --> 03:30:23,640
have no vibration from anything moving
5004
03:30:23,640 --> 03:30:25,439
just before the exposure
5005
03:30:25,439 --> 03:30:27,180
so this is pretty cool
5006
03:30:27,180 --> 03:30:30,000
so this is default on like an R5 R6 an
5007
03:30:30,000 --> 03:30:32,340
R6 Mark II the fault that's how it works
5008
03:30:32,340 --> 03:30:34,859
my general suggestion is to just leave
5009
03:30:34,859 --> 03:30:37,200
it that way in general for a landscape
5010
03:30:37,200 --> 03:30:39,779
nature macro photography
5011
03:30:39,779 --> 03:30:41,939
just keep it there there's no reason to
5012
03:30:41,939 --> 03:30:43,859
choose these other things for you if you
5013
03:30:43,859 --> 03:30:45,180
have other questions about that ask me
5014
03:30:45,180 --> 03:30:48,000
either afterwards I'm making time I'm
5015
03:30:48,000 --> 03:30:50,100
making Headway or afterwards at the
5016
03:30:50,100 --> 03:30:52,939
table for Canon
5017
03:30:53,040 --> 03:30:55,260
so waterfalls are especially tricky I
5018
03:30:55,260 --> 03:30:57,720
personally love them the two states with
5019
03:30:57,720 --> 03:30:58,859
the most waterfalls in the United States
5020
03:30:58,859 --> 03:31:01,020
shouldn't be fairly obvious it's Oregon
5021
03:31:01,020 --> 03:31:03,120
he already knows that she's been
5022
03:31:03,120 --> 03:31:05,279
everywhere in Oregon apparently and also
5023
03:31:05,279 --> 03:31:06,840
Washington State so these are the two
5024
03:31:06,840 --> 03:31:08,819
big states with humongous I think each
5025
03:31:08,819 --> 03:31:11,279
state has over 400 waterfalls crazy
5026
03:31:11,279 --> 03:31:12,899
crazy number
5027
03:31:12,899 --> 03:31:15,300
so waterfall I used to do this a lot
5028
03:31:15,300 --> 03:31:17,760
which is what's the earliest rule you
5029
03:31:17,760 --> 03:31:19,260
learn in composition is to fill the
5030
03:31:19,260 --> 03:31:20,520
frame with things that are interesting
5031
03:31:20,520 --> 03:31:22,620
so I always like to use this as the
5032
03:31:22,620 --> 03:31:24,359
counter example because I ended up
5033
03:31:24,359 --> 03:31:26,100
liking these a lot more it's the same
5034
03:31:26,100 --> 03:31:28,979
subject the same day but I like The
5035
03:31:28,979 --> 03:31:31,739
Greenery of framing the main subject
5036
03:31:31,739 --> 03:31:33,000
rather than having the whole main
5037
03:31:33,000 --> 03:31:35,220
subject to love the frame so just a
5038
03:31:35,220 --> 03:31:36,960
quick reminder that even though in
5039
03:31:36,960 --> 03:31:38,700
landscape photography oftentimes we
5040
03:31:38,700 --> 03:31:41,460
shoot landscape orientation
5041
03:31:41,460 --> 03:31:43,140
don't forget about also shooting
5042
03:31:43,140 --> 03:31:45,600
vertical and vice versa if you think
5043
03:31:45,600 --> 03:31:48,779
vertical is best don't forget to try
5044
03:31:48,779 --> 03:31:51,720
this because you may never know later
5045
03:31:51,720 --> 03:31:54,060
when you re-look at these images wait a
5046
03:31:54,060 --> 03:31:55,680
minute I like the other one a lot better
5047
03:31:55,680 --> 03:31:58,140
and it's like I've wasted my time doing
5048
03:31:58,140 --> 03:31:59,580
too much of the other one I don't have
5049
03:31:59,580 --> 03:32:01,680
many good images the other way because
5050
03:32:01,680 --> 03:32:03,180
sometimes it can be very difficult on
5051
03:32:03,180 --> 03:32:05,220
the scene to evaluate what's going on
5052
03:32:05,220 --> 03:32:07,140
and what might be preferred
5053
03:32:07,140 --> 03:32:09,120
with a digital camera it doesn't cost
5054
03:32:09,120 --> 03:32:11,520
you that's the thing storage is cheap
5055
03:32:11,520 --> 03:32:14,220
take extra images just in case you
5056
03:32:14,220 --> 03:32:16,319
prefer it the other way if you don't
5057
03:32:16,319 --> 03:32:17,760
like it you can always delete it off
5058
03:32:17,760 --> 03:32:21,060
your hard drive later it's no big deal
5059
03:32:21,060 --> 03:32:23,279
okay so oftentimes the default in the
5060
03:32:23,279 --> 03:32:25,979
waterfall is to show something smooth
5061
03:32:25,979 --> 03:32:28,380
this is smooth and chunky I like it it's
5062
03:32:28,380 --> 03:32:30,120
one of those smooth and chunky ones it's
5063
03:32:30,120 --> 03:32:32,660
very classic
5064
03:32:33,060 --> 03:32:35,160
this can be also useful same subject
5065
03:32:35,160 --> 03:32:37,439
same day the difference is instead of
5066
03:32:37,439 --> 03:32:41,399
wide lens long lens fast shutter speed
5067
03:32:41,399 --> 03:32:44,100
water that falls never looks the same
5068
03:32:44,100 --> 03:32:46,200
second to Second that's the interesting
5069
03:32:46,200 --> 03:32:48,239
thing so technically here I took a lot
5070
03:32:48,239 --> 03:32:49,380
of images
5071
03:32:49,380 --> 03:32:51,600
because each image looks slightly
5072
03:32:51,600 --> 03:32:53,279
different on its own
5073
03:32:53,279 --> 03:32:55,380
and this is where you can see the shapes
5074
03:32:55,380 --> 03:32:57,899
of water as it falls that vary from
5075
03:32:57,899 --> 03:32:59,460
moment to moment and that's something
5076
03:32:59,460 --> 03:33:01,500
fun and I was the only one doing it I'm
5077
03:33:01,500 --> 03:33:03,359
only I'm always the only one doing this
5078
03:33:03,359 --> 03:33:05,040
but someone else might be interested in
5079
03:33:05,040 --> 03:33:06,300
doing this once in a while
5080
03:33:06,300 --> 03:33:07,800
okay
5081
03:33:07,800 --> 03:33:11,399
this one polarizers who uses polarizers
5082
03:33:11,399 --> 03:33:13,739
who at least packs them sometimes I get
5083
03:33:13,739 --> 03:33:16,200
lazy but it's probably a good idea okay
5084
03:33:16,200 --> 03:33:18,600
so the whole point of this is I want to
5085
03:33:18,600 --> 03:33:20,700
show you the difference
5086
03:33:20,700 --> 03:33:22,739
okay this is not fakery
5087
03:33:22,739 --> 03:33:24,120
because
5088
03:33:24,120 --> 03:33:26,700
I think that's so cheesy when people say
5089
03:33:26,700 --> 03:33:30,060
it's a it's a simulated view those words
5090
03:33:30,060 --> 03:33:32,160
I don't like I like showing the real
5091
03:33:32,160 --> 03:33:33,600
things and the real things sometimes
5092
03:33:33,600 --> 03:33:35,760
mean the difference isn't big in this
5093
03:33:35,760 --> 03:33:37,020
case the real thing means that this
5094
03:33:37,020 --> 03:33:38,760
difference is rather substantial in this
5095
03:33:38,760 --> 03:33:41,040
instance and that is the whole point of
5096
03:33:41,040 --> 03:33:42,960
the polarizer and you see that on the
5097
03:33:42,960 --> 03:33:46,739
left is to suppress polarizing light and
5098
03:33:46,739 --> 03:33:49,620
you can see much more of the detail of
5099
03:33:49,620 --> 03:33:51,540
the rocks in the foreground it becomes
5100
03:33:51,540 --> 03:33:53,399
immediately obvious it's a different
5101
03:33:53,399 --> 03:33:56,220
type of image for some of you you may
5102
03:33:56,220 --> 03:33:57,899
prefer the image on the right for this
5103
03:33:57,899 --> 03:33:59,760
certain aesthetic but it's different
5104
03:33:59,760 --> 03:34:02,160
it's just different I prefer the left
5105
03:34:02,160 --> 03:34:04,260
and that's how I normally would do it I
5106
03:34:04,260 --> 03:34:05,880
have to go find this one it was stuck in
5107
03:34:05,880 --> 03:34:07,680
some hard drive from like eight years
5108
03:34:07,680 --> 03:34:09,779
ago I had to go find it I knew I did it
5109
03:34:09,779 --> 03:34:11,340
in the past this one also is fairly
5110
03:34:11,340 --> 03:34:13,560
close because it is notable for being
5111
03:34:13,560 --> 03:34:15,239
one of the few waterfalls that empties
5112
03:34:15,239 --> 03:34:16,979
into the Pacific Ocean
5113
03:34:16,979 --> 03:34:19,319
so this stuff the water you see is
5114
03:34:19,319 --> 03:34:22,920
Pacific ocean water this is about an
5115
03:34:22,920 --> 03:34:25,319
hour and a half south of here some of
5116
03:34:25,319 --> 03:34:26,700
you have been doing this exact location
5117
03:34:26,700 --> 03:34:29,460
by the way it's crazy touristy this is
5118
03:34:29,460 --> 03:34:31,439
the one other reason I bring long lenses
5119
03:34:31,439 --> 03:34:34,800
to places I believe might be tourist
5120
03:34:34,800 --> 03:34:35,880
ridden
5121
03:34:35,880 --> 03:34:37,500
it's because I can shoot around people
5122
03:34:37,500 --> 03:34:39,540
because there's like people hovering all
5123
03:34:39,540 --> 03:34:41,460
around me and I'm not there to take a
5124
03:34:41,460 --> 03:34:43,080
cell phone picture I'd actually try to
5125
03:34:43,080 --> 03:34:45,060
get a better one and there when I
5126
03:34:45,060 --> 03:34:46,859
visited there last this is the only time
5127
03:34:46,859 --> 03:34:48,180
a day could get there so it's the middle
5128
03:34:48,180 --> 03:34:49,800
of the day so it sucks to be me but
5129
03:34:49,800 --> 03:34:51,300
there you go because I was going
5130
03:34:51,300 --> 03:34:55,020
somewhere else for sunset
5131
03:34:55,020 --> 03:34:56,880
this one I like this one a lot because
5132
03:34:56,880 --> 03:34:59,399
this for this park in Oregon
5133
03:34:59,399 --> 03:35:01,560
this is the best waterfall in that Park
5134
03:35:01,560 --> 03:35:03,600
the thing I never liked about this
5135
03:35:03,600 --> 03:35:06,060
particular image was the the log in the
5136
03:35:06,060 --> 03:35:07,560
foreground that got stripped of its bark
5137
03:35:07,560 --> 03:35:10,319
because its color really stands out so
5138
03:35:10,319 --> 03:35:12,060
unless the story of this image is about
5139
03:35:12,060 --> 03:35:14,640
the log this is not a good image so one
5140
03:35:14,640 --> 03:35:16,260
of the easiest fixes is of course to go
5141
03:35:16,260 --> 03:35:17,939
monochromatic because we're neutralizing
5142
03:35:17,939 --> 03:35:19,979
color it's always a Cheesy thing I used
5143
03:35:19,979 --> 03:35:22,020
to do with the concert photography it
5144
03:35:22,020 --> 03:35:23,880
says cheat get rid of the obnoxious
5145
03:35:23,880 --> 03:35:26,399
color make it monochromatic instead so
5146
03:35:26,399 --> 03:35:28,380
it's an easy save about an otherwise
5147
03:35:28,380 --> 03:35:30,960
unusable image very we go
5148
03:35:30,960 --> 03:35:33,239
macro I know a number of you who owns a
5149
03:35:33,239 --> 03:35:35,100
macro lens
5150
03:35:35,100 --> 03:35:37,200
wow okay good
5151
03:35:37,200 --> 03:35:38,520
I have more stuff I can talk to you
5152
03:35:38,520 --> 03:35:39,960
about at the table because it can get a
5153
03:35:39,960 --> 03:35:42,239
little complicated but
5154
03:35:42,239 --> 03:35:44,279
you can do all sorts of fun things with
5155
03:35:44,279 --> 03:35:46,500
macro because natural subject matters
5156
03:35:46,500 --> 03:35:47,819
all around you when you're around for
5157
03:35:47,819 --> 03:35:49,800
landscape photography it's one of the
5158
03:35:49,800 --> 03:35:51,420
easiest things to do
5159
03:35:51,420 --> 03:35:53,640
because it sits everywhere around you
5160
03:35:53,640 --> 03:35:55,200
and I know a number of you do something
5161
03:35:55,200 --> 03:35:56,460
like this
5162
03:35:56,460 --> 03:35:59,100
okay so something like this you're
5163
03:35:59,100 --> 03:36:00,479
already out there
5164
03:36:00,479 --> 03:36:03,359
the key to this is always about finding
5165
03:36:03,359 --> 03:36:06,000
Skies that are darker the darker the sky
5166
03:36:06,000 --> 03:36:08,100
the more the Milky Way you will see
5167
03:36:08,100 --> 03:36:09,720
so in the northern hemisphere you have
5168
03:36:09,720 --> 03:36:12,000
to face South to see the Milky Way
5169
03:36:12,000 --> 03:36:14,300
so you have to think about what other
5170
03:36:14,300 --> 03:36:17,040
man-made subject matter might be off in
5171
03:36:17,040 --> 03:36:19,560
the distance that is bright
5172
03:36:19,560 --> 03:36:22,319
because if you have a city to the South
5173
03:36:22,319 --> 03:36:24,000
that will have a lot of artificial light
5174
03:36:24,000 --> 03:36:25,380
that'll make it more difficult to see
5175
03:36:25,380 --> 03:36:28,739
the Milky Way so just be aware of that I
5176
03:36:28,739 --> 03:36:30,239
do always like to mention it because a
5177
03:36:30,239 --> 03:36:32,040
lot of people who do landscape
5178
03:36:32,040 --> 03:36:34,260
they don't mind staying those are the
5179
03:36:34,260 --> 03:36:36,060
those are folks a lot of them don't mind
5180
03:36:36,060 --> 03:36:38,100
staying overnight to do some Milky Way
5181
03:36:38,100 --> 03:36:39,540
because this has gotten way more popular
5182
03:36:39,540 --> 03:36:41,399
over the last 10 years
5183
03:36:41,399 --> 03:36:43,439
this is Yosemite I only bring this up
5184
03:36:43,439 --> 03:36:45,000
because
5185
03:36:45,000 --> 03:36:47,460
many of you have an Yosemite this is one
5186
03:36:47,460 --> 03:36:49,439
of the few places where I have found the
5187
03:36:49,439 --> 03:36:51,000
use of tilt trip lenses to be quite
5188
03:36:51,000 --> 03:36:53,100
interesting because the valley itself is
5189
03:36:53,100 --> 03:36:54,960
quite narrow who has used a tilt shift
5190
03:36:54,960 --> 03:36:57,540
lens at some point in the past it's the
5191
03:36:57,540 --> 03:36:59,700
normal small number and I expected user
5192
03:36:59,700 --> 03:37:01,739
to use a till Chipmunks of course
5193
03:37:01,739 --> 03:37:05,520
all right so anytime you are in a space
5194
03:37:05,520 --> 03:37:07,140
where
5195
03:37:07,140 --> 03:37:09,540
you want to maintain the perspective of
5196
03:37:09,540 --> 03:37:12,660
a subject and not change it I'll keep my
5197
03:37:12,660 --> 03:37:14,700
language very simple like this the
5198
03:37:14,700 --> 03:37:16,680
shifting aspect of a tilt shift lens can
5199
03:37:16,680 --> 03:37:20,160
be rather handy in natural photography
5200
03:37:20,160 --> 03:37:22,080
I promise someone this and I think he
5201
03:37:22,080 --> 03:37:24,000
might be in the audience actually I
5202
03:37:24,000 --> 03:37:26,340
promise to show you ver vertical panel
5203
03:37:26,340 --> 03:37:29,819
so each image is from a one tilt shift
5204
03:37:29,819 --> 03:37:32,060
lens that has been shifted out of place
5205
03:37:32,060 --> 03:37:34,380
up and down
5206
03:37:34,380 --> 03:37:37,800
and then each individual one of these
5207
03:37:37,800 --> 03:37:39,660
three is actually a bracket an exposure
5208
03:37:39,660 --> 03:37:42,960
bracket so this is HDR panel so 21
5209
03:37:42,960 --> 03:37:45,479
images ended up making these three which
5210
03:37:45,479 --> 03:37:47,040
ends up making
5211
03:37:47,040 --> 03:37:50,760
one image that's like that
5212
03:37:50,760 --> 03:37:52,380
so this is good for a bit like a banner
5213
03:37:52,380 --> 03:37:53,819
if I want to make a really large Banner
5214
03:37:53,819 --> 03:37:55,200
because there's a ton of resolution in
5215
03:37:55,200 --> 03:37:57,120
here so anytime you're doing piano I
5216
03:37:57,120 --> 03:37:59,220
know a number of you do panel you only
5217
03:37:59,220 --> 03:38:00,420
own
5218
03:38:00,420 --> 03:38:02,939
like a
5219
03:38:02,939 --> 03:38:05,399
a slider for nodal point
5220
03:38:05,399 --> 03:38:07,560
do we know what nodal point is it is
5221
03:38:07,560 --> 03:38:10,260
very specific to panel so I'll explain
5222
03:38:10,260 --> 03:38:12,960
very quickly that's okay I have a few
5223
03:38:12,960 --> 03:38:14,580
minutes so I can explain this okay
5224
03:38:14,580 --> 03:38:16,620
visual aid so when you're doing piano
5225
03:38:16,620 --> 03:38:18,899
oftentimes we
5226
03:38:18,899 --> 03:38:21,060
mostly horizontal that's why I wanted to
5227
03:38:21,060 --> 03:38:22,859
show you a vertical example at least a
5228
03:38:22,859 --> 03:38:24,359
lot of horizontal
5229
03:38:24,359 --> 03:38:27,720
but if you rotate the view from the
5230
03:38:27,720 --> 03:38:31,560
camera from the tripod
5231
03:38:31,560 --> 03:38:33,540
there could be some issues in terms of
5232
03:38:33,540 --> 03:38:35,340
things that are a little bit straighter
5233
03:38:35,340 --> 03:38:37,260
and I mentioned being difficult to make
5234
03:38:37,260 --> 03:38:39,300
them look the way they should I will
5235
03:38:39,300 --> 03:38:40,739
leave it at that because I'm not going
5236
03:38:40,739 --> 03:38:42,239
to show you a bad example of this sort
5237
03:38:42,239 --> 03:38:43,020
of thing
5238
03:38:43,020 --> 03:38:45,800
a nodal Point slider is to
5239
03:38:45,800 --> 03:38:47,939
accommodate the fact that when you
5240
03:38:47,939 --> 03:38:49,920
rotate a camera for piano you should
5241
03:38:49,920 --> 03:38:52,680
rotate it around the optical center of
5242
03:38:52,680 --> 03:38:54,420
your Imaging system
5243
03:38:54,420 --> 03:38:56,040
the optical center of your Imaging
5244
03:38:56,040 --> 03:38:58,800
system is physically within the lens so
5245
03:38:58,800 --> 03:39:01,080
you actually rotate from underneath the
5246
03:39:01,080 --> 03:39:03,180
lens so there are tools that allow you
5247
03:39:03,180 --> 03:39:04,620
to reposition
5248
03:39:04,620 --> 03:39:07,319
the camera over a tripod such that when
5249
03:39:07,319 --> 03:39:10,200
you rotate you're rotating right the
5250
03:39:10,200 --> 03:39:12,720
optical center where you should be and
5251
03:39:12,720 --> 03:39:14,520
you avoid some Parallax issues that is
5252
03:39:14,520 --> 03:39:17,220
the technical term to avoid and so if
5253
03:39:17,220 --> 03:39:18,840
you're doing hardcore piano that's for
5254
03:39:18,840 --> 03:39:19,859
those of you doing hardcore you already
5255
03:39:19,859 --> 03:39:21,660
know this you probably have a tool like
5256
03:39:21,660 --> 03:39:23,279
this already and that's pretty normal to
5257
03:39:23,279 --> 03:39:24,960
use it that way
5258
03:39:24,960 --> 03:39:26,700
um but till Tiff is always the quick and
5259
03:39:26,700 --> 03:39:28,560
easy way of doing it because you don't
5260
03:39:28,560 --> 03:39:30,840
need to even accommodate for that I'm
5261
03:39:30,840 --> 03:39:32,640
just shifting a lens in order to produce
5262
03:39:32,640 --> 03:39:34,620
a panel in a circumstance
5263
03:39:34,620 --> 03:39:37,500
and then finally this
5264
03:39:37,500 --> 03:39:39,239
this is probably the most challenging
5265
03:39:39,239 --> 03:39:40,859
thing to explain so because I'm ahead of
5266
03:39:40,859 --> 03:39:42,000
time I will spend a minute to explain
5267
03:39:42,000 --> 03:39:44,279
this so have you attempted to take a
5268
03:39:44,279 --> 03:39:46,800
picture spring this will be spring
5269
03:39:46,800 --> 03:39:49,439
flowers windy day
5270
03:39:49,439 --> 03:39:51,420
what have you noticed when you try to
5271
03:39:51,420 --> 03:39:54,140
take a picture of a field of flowers
5272
03:39:54,140 --> 03:39:58,560
super windy on a spring day you notice
5273
03:39:58,560 --> 03:40:02,399
that you if you want flowers to be Sharp
5274
03:40:02,399 --> 03:40:04,560
may not always want that if you want
5275
03:40:04,560 --> 03:40:06,420
flowers to be sharp like this
5276
03:40:06,420 --> 03:40:08,279
you have to use a faster shutter speed
5277
03:40:08,279 --> 03:40:10,800
there is no way around that you have to
5278
03:40:10,800 --> 03:40:13,080
use a faster shutter speed if you want
5279
03:40:13,080 --> 03:40:15,540
sharp flowers on a windy day that
5280
03:40:15,540 --> 03:40:17,880
combination
5281
03:40:17,880 --> 03:40:20,819
given that you have all of that there's
5282
03:40:20,819 --> 03:40:22,920
a conflicting interest and you see it in
5283
03:40:22,920 --> 03:40:25,560
this image what if you also want flowers
5284
03:40:25,560 --> 03:40:28,560
in the foreground to be sharp and you
5285
03:40:28,560 --> 03:40:30,359
want the trees in the background to also
5286
03:40:30,359 --> 03:40:32,340
be sharp what do we normally do for that
5287
03:40:32,340 --> 03:40:35,279
we stop down a lot yes
5288
03:40:35,279 --> 03:40:36,840
so what happens when you use a fast
5289
03:40:36,840 --> 03:40:38,340
shutter speed and you stop down a lot
5290
03:40:38,340 --> 03:40:41,700
not much light gets to the camera and
5291
03:40:41,700 --> 03:40:44,520
then we use some crazy high ISO now so
5292
03:40:44,520 --> 03:40:47,160
this is a kind of a weird combination in
5293
03:40:47,160 --> 03:40:48,600
a natural world this is the only example
5294
03:40:48,600 --> 03:40:50,340
I can think of where we would encounter
5295
03:40:50,340 --> 03:40:52,500
it so this is where tilt shift can be
5296
03:40:52,500 --> 03:40:54,420
somewhat advantageous for those of you
5297
03:40:54,420 --> 03:40:56,279
who've never tried it
5298
03:40:56,279 --> 03:40:58,859
because it's the one lens where you can
5299
03:40:58,859 --> 03:41:00,840
flip around your focal point it is so
5300
03:41:00,840 --> 03:41:04,500
bizarre every other lens we make anyone
5301
03:41:04,500 --> 03:41:05,700
makes
5302
03:41:05,700 --> 03:41:07,800
your focus plane is always parallel to
5303
03:41:07,800 --> 03:41:09,899
the Imaging sensor Imaging area if it's
5304
03:41:09,899 --> 03:41:11,399
film it's film if it's a digital sensor
5305
03:41:11,399 --> 03:41:12,899
digital sensor it doesn't matter always
5306
03:41:12,899 --> 03:41:13,979
parallel
5307
03:41:13,979 --> 03:41:16,080
when you're using a chill chip lens it's
5308
03:41:16,080 --> 03:41:19,140
not necessarily always parallel really
5309
03:41:19,140 --> 03:41:21,899
super cool because we can tilt to change
5310
03:41:21,899 --> 03:41:24,540
what's in focus in the scene in front of
5311
03:41:24,540 --> 03:41:25,319
us
5312
03:41:25,319 --> 03:41:27,060
and we're just tilting so that the focus
5313
03:41:27,060 --> 03:41:29,100
plane actually lies along the ground in
5314
03:41:29,100 --> 03:41:31,560
front of us it is bizarre it is very
5315
03:41:31,560 --> 03:41:33,120
cool if you have more questions you ask
5316
03:41:33,120 --> 03:41:35,040
me at the table because that requires a
5317
03:41:35,040 --> 03:41:37,620
long explanation now but in the natural
5318
03:41:37,620 --> 03:41:39,239
world this would be a very practical
5319
03:41:39,239 --> 03:41:42,540
application it is incredibly specific so
5320
03:41:42,540 --> 03:41:44,220
this would only apply if you know you're
5321
03:41:44,220 --> 03:41:45,899
going to take a picture of flowers and
5322
03:41:45,899 --> 03:41:47,399
you want them to be sharp and you want
5323
03:41:47,399 --> 03:41:49,200
lots of depth to feel and you know it's
5324
03:41:49,200 --> 03:41:51,479
going to be windy there you go then you
5325
03:41:51,479 --> 03:41:54,479
use this one okay and that's me if you
5326
03:41:54,479 --> 03:41:57,180
have any questions I probably have five
5327
03:41:57,180 --> 03:41:58,680
minutes to take questions before I need
5328
03:41:58,680 --> 03:42:01,140
to vacate the podium you'll feel free to
5329
03:42:01,140 --> 03:42:02,640
ask them I will repeat them because
5330
03:42:02,640 --> 03:42:03,960
it'll be very hard for anyone else to
5331
03:42:03,960 --> 03:42:05,760
hear your questions does anyone have a
5332
03:42:05,760 --> 03:42:07,140
question right now
5333
03:42:07,140 --> 03:42:10,819
are we doing okay yes ma'am
5334
03:42:14,819 --> 03:42:18,000
oh yes so the question is for Canon
5335
03:42:18,000 --> 03:42:21,420
tiltif lenses they are EF Mount having
5336
03:42:21,420 --> 03:42:23,460
said that if some of you and I know some
5337
03:42:23,460 --> 03:42:26,040
of you do some of you own a modern Canon
5338
03:42:26,040 --> 03:42:29,520
mirrorless camera like an R5 R6 doesn't
5339
03:42:29,520 --> 03:42:31,020
matter R7
5340
03:42:31,020 --> 03:42:33,720
just use the adapter it's regular EF
5341
03:42:33,720 --> 03:42:35,580
Mount nothing tricky it works as it
5342
03:42:35,580 --> 03:42:36,359
should
5343
03:42:36,359 --> 03:42:38,640
um Canon currently does not make any RF
5344
03:42:38,640 --> 03:42:41,040
Mount tilt shift lenses
5345
03:42:41,040 --> 03:42:44,779
and that's all I can say about that
5346
03:42:45,960 --> 03:42:48,779
so the picture of the Calla Lily and get
5347
03:42:48,779 --> 03:42:51,720
up at a State Beach where where did you
5348
03:42:51,720 --> 03:42:53,580
what part of the flower did you decide
5349
03:42:53,580 --> 03:42:56,520
to focus on oh fancy one
5350
03:42:56,520 --> 03:42:58,920
okay yeah so I took a it was a sunset
5351
03:42:58,920 --> 03:43:00,779
with it you could actually see sun and
5352
03:43:00,779 --> 03:43:02,880
garapada which is weird because it's
5353
03:43:02,880 --> 03:43:04,380
mostly cloudy and Marine layer and
5354
03:43:04,380 --> 03:43:07,020
garapada so that one uh it's a little
5355
03:43:07,020 --> 03:43:08,939
tip on the end of the Callaway as a
5356
03:43:08,939 --> 03:43:11,100
profile because the rest of it is very
5357
03:43:11,100 --> 03:43:12,840
translucent and you can't see much
5358
03:43:12,840 --> 03:43:14,880
detail I was okay with the rest of being
5359
03:43:14,880 --> 03:43:16,920
soft so where did I focus on just a
5360
03:43:16,920 --> 03:43:18,300
little tip where you see that little
5361
03:43:18,300 --> 03:43:21,679
Edge coming out on the end of it
5362
03:43:23,760 --> 03:43:28,439
a reference to shooting birds in flight
5363
03:43:28,439 --> 03:43:30,239
I understand that people use a
5364
03:43:30,239 --> 03:43:32,460
mechanical shutter over electronic
5365
03:43:32,460 --> 03:43:34,200
because of the Rolling shutter effect
5366
03:43:34,200 --> 03:43:35,760
could you please
5367
03:43:35,760 --> 03:43:38,640
fancy questions I am a tech right so I
5368
03:43:38,640 --> 03:43:40,439
can answer I supposedly they pay me to
5369
03:43:40,439 --> 03:43:43,020
answer these questions too
5370
03:43:43,020 --> 03:43:46,739
so the rolling shutter I don't have good
5371
03:43:46,739 --> 03:43:48,000
examples
5372
03:43:48,000 --> 03:43:49,620
to show you because it was more of a
5373
03:43:49,620 --> 03:43:51,840
landscape oriented class so I will
5374
03:43:51,840 --> 03:43:53,700
describe it this way have you ever seen
5375
03:43:53,700 --> 03:43:56,160
a picture of a golf club where it was
5376
03:43:56,160 --> 03:43:58,859
bent the wrong way in a picture
5377
03:43:58,859 --> 03:44:01,080
that is rolling shutter
5378
03:44:01,080 --> 03:44:03,479
rolling shutter comes from the fact that
5379
03:44:03,479 --> 03:44:07,380
when you capture a still image
5380
03:44:07,380 --> 03:44:09,899
not all parts of the capturing area
5381
03:44:09,899 --> 03:44:11,939
capture
5382
03:44:11,939 --> 03:44:14,580
everything out there at the identical
5383
03:44:14,580 --> 03:44:16,439
Moment In Time
5384
03:44:16,439 --> 03:44:18,420
because of this fact and that's because
5385
03:44:18,420 --> 03:44:19,920
the shutter has to move out of the way
5386
03:44:19,920 --> 03:44:21,840
by the way there you go that's the
5387
03:44:21,840 --> 03:44:23,580
technical explanation of how this all
5388
03:44:23,580 --> 03:44:26,520
works all cameras have some degree of
5389
03:44:26,520 --> 03:44:28,500
rolling shutter except for one I'm not
5390
03:44:28,500 --> 03:44:30,000
going to mention it because still
5391
03:44:30,000 --> 03:44:31,800
cameras don't have that that feature
5392
03:44:31,800 --> 03:44:34,380
there are a few video cameras with it
5393
03:44:34,380 --> 03:44:36,479
we have some consequence so generally
5394
03:44:36,479 --> 03:44:39,120
electronic shutters have more rolling
5395
03:44:39,120 --> 03:44:41,580
shutter so for those of you interested
5396
03:44:41,580 --> 03:44:43,620
in flying birds because the wings are
5397
03:44:43,620 --> 03:44:45,239
moving around and you want to keep the
5398
03:44:45,239 --> 03:44:46,859
shape the way it's supposed to be
5399
03:44:46,859 --> 03:44:48,239
because you're very picky about such
5400
03:44:48,239 --> 03:44:50,880
things I would avoid electronic shutter
5401
03:44:50,880 --> 03:44:52,380
except for
5402
03:44:52,380 --> 03:44:54,359
the few very expensive cameras from
5403
03:44:54,359 --> 03:44:57,239
Canon and Nikon and Sony that have very
5404
03:44:57,239 --> 03:44:59,399
fast electronic shutters now so I would
5405
03:44:59,399 --> 03:45:01,200
generally avoid that for most cameras I
5406
03:45:01,200 --> 03:45:03,479
would use mechanical shutter
5407
03:45:03,479 --> 03:45:05,520
mechanical shutter or electronic first
5408
03:45:05,520 --> 03:45:07,979
curtain but I would definitely avoid a
5409
03:45:07,979 --> 03:45:09,420
fully electronic shutter for most
5410
03:45:09,420 --> 03:45:11,640
cameras
5411
03:45:11,640 --> 03:45:16,460
any additional questions before I vacate
5412
03:45:16,620 --> 03:45:20,660
okay so that's a wrap thank you Peter
5413
03:45:21,479 --> 03:45:23,640
if you do have more questions you can go
5414
03:45:23,640 --> 03:45:26,340
visit Peter for the next hour at the
5415
03:45:26,340 --> 03:45:27,779
Canon booth and chat with the rest of
5416
03:45:27,779 --> 03:45:29,399
the Canon professionals they'll answer
5417
03:45:29,399 --> 03:45:30,899
all your questions like I said before
5418
03:45:30,899 --> 03:45:33,239
let's stump them they're Tech refs they
5419
03:45:33,239 --> 03:45:34,620
should know everything so bring those
5420
03:45:34,620 --> 03:45:36,000
bring those hard questions write them
5421
03:45:36,000 --> 03:45:39,560
down bring them on over thanks
5422
03:45:50,240 --> 03:45:55,819
[Music]
5423
03:45:55,819 --> 03:45:57,840
their Tech reps they should know
5424
03:45:57,840 --> 03:45:59,460
everything so bring those bring those
5425
03:45:59,460 --> 03:46:00,779
hard questions write them down and bring
5426
03:46:00,779 --> 03:46:03,859
them on over thanks
5427
03:46:14,680 --> 03:46:27,719
[Music]
5428
03:46:33,720 --> 03:46:35,500
foreign
5429
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[Music]
5430
03:47:06,000 --> 03:47:08,660
foreign
5431
03:47:14,000 --> 03:47:40,920
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foreign
5433
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5434
03:48:29,880 --> 03:48:32,119
foreign
5435
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5436
03:48:52,140 --> 03:48:54,360
foreign
5437
03:48:54,360 --> 03:49:25,139
[Music]
5438
03:49:26,580 --> 03:49:29,359
thank you
5439
03:49:29,450 --> 03:49:33,680
[Music]
5440
03:49:33,680 --> 03:49:36,060
[Applause]
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03:49:36,060 --> 03:49:58,020
[Music]
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03:49:58,020 --> 03:50:01,020
foreign
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03:50:09,420 --> 03:50:26,460
[Music]
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03:50:26,460 --> 03:50:27,320
[Applause]
5445
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[Music]
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03:50:33,540 --> 03:50:36,540
please
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03:50:42,150 --> 03:50:43,690
[Applause]
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03:50:43,690 --> 03:50:52,379
[Music]
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03:51:01,800 --> 03:51:04,220
foreign
5450
03:51:05,610 --> 03:51:26,499
[Music]
5451
03:51:29,100 --> 03:51:31,880
friends
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[Music]
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03:51:41,279 --> 03:51:43,900
foreign
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[Music]
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03:51:59,120 --> 03:52:07,269
[Music]
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03:52:09,720 --> 03:52:12,239
foreign
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foreign
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[Music]
5459
03:52:26,700 --> 03:52:32,760
[Music]
5460
03:52:43,010 --> 03:52:45,479
[Music]
5461
03:52:45,479 --> 03:52:47,599
thank you
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03:52:50,190 --> 03:53:20,559
[Music]
5463
03:53:22,260 --> 03:53:25,260
foreign
5464
03:53:27,970 --> 03:53:40,460
[Music]
5465
03:53:40,460 --> 03:53:42,840
thank you
5466
03:53:42,840 --> 03:54:04,500
[Music]
5467
03:54:04,500 --> 03:54:06,739
foreign
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foreign
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[Music]
5471
03:55:05,220 --> 03:55:07,290
foreign
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03:55:07,290 --> 03:55:34,209
[Music]
5473
03:55:37,090 --> 03:55:40,469
[Music]
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foreign
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[Music]
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03:56:10,900 --> 03:56:12,720
[Music]
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foreign
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[Music]
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03:56:53,670 --> 03:56:56,879
[Music]
5480
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[Music]
5481
03:57:01,699 --> 03:57:04,699
thank you
5482
03:57:09,739 --> 03:57:13,100
frame around
5483
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[Music]
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03:57:15,720 --> 03:57:18,720
again
5485
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[Music]
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03:57:27,260 --> 03:57:36,079
[Music]
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foreign
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[Music]
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[Music]
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03:58:36,979 --> 03:58:39,979
thank you
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03:58:40,880 --> 03:58:44,779
starting looking like someone
5493
03:58:44,779 --> 03:58:48,680
take a little look from the outside
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03:58:48,680 --> 03:58:54,659
[Music]
5495
03:59:05,420 --> 03:59:08,840
do you remember
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03:59:10,150 --> 03:59:13,279
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[Music]
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foreign
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[Music]
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03:59:36,920 --> 03:59:46,800
[Music]
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03:59:46,800 --> 03:59:48,680
oh
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my God
5503
04:00:16,730 --> 04:00:19,878
[Music]
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04:00:20,880 --> 04:00:23,550
foreign
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[Music]
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04:00:38,010 --> 04:00:41,079
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foreign
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[Music]
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04:01:20,320 --> 04:01:23,389
[Applause]
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04:01:38,470 --> 04:01:41,640
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foreign
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04:01:51,890 --> 04:01:55,010
[Applause]
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04:02:06,860 --> 04:02:17,950
[Music]
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04:02:18,060 --> 04:02:21,060
foreign
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04:02:22,810 --> 04:02:25,878
[Music]
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04:02:34,300 --> 04:02:40,729
[Music]
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04:02:45,060 --> 04:02:47,279
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04:02:47,279 --> 04:02:50,279
foreign
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04:02:52,560 --> 04:02:55,730
[Music]
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04:03:02,380 --> 04:03:10,729
[Music]
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04:03:15,030 --> 04:03:17,279
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04:03:17,279 --> 04:03:20,180
foreign
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04:03:22,560 --> 04:03:25,730
[Music]
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04:03:32,380 --> 04:03:35,519
[Music]
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04:04:11,500 --> 04:04:12,800
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04:04:12,800 --> 04:04:18,800
with no divide to block with you
5529
04:04:18,800 --> 04:04:23,279
my concentration was in Jeopardy had to
5530
04:04:23,279 --> 04:04:26,970
head up north I went looking for you
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[Music]
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04:04:48,480 --> 04:04:52,049
[Music]
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04:05:03,020 --> 04:05:06,020
thank you
5534
04:05:22,319 --> 04:05:23,699
foreign
5535
04:05:23,699 --> 04:05:26,699
ER
5536
04:05:28,680 --> 04:05:31,080
the force is strong with you
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04:05:31,080 --> 04:05:32,720
all right
5538
04:05:32,720 --> 04:05:34,800
yeah I got it
5539
04:05:34,800 --> 04:05:37,620
okay so what I want to do is to show you
5540
04:05:37,620 --> 04:05:38,760
something that
5541
04:05:38,760 --> 04:05:40,979
all modern cameras do
5542
04:05:40,979 --> 04:05:45,019
and I believe the Sony now does it
5543
04:05:49,140 --> 04:05:50,699
I didn't quite mean it the way it came
5544
04:05:50,699 --> 04:05:53,040
out but
5545
04:05:53,040 --> 04:05:55,560
the I whatever the latest number is my
5546
04:05:55,560 --> 04:05:56,939
understanding is that what I'm about to
5547
04:05:56,939 --> 04:05:59,040
talk about it now does the previous ones
5548
04:05:59,040 --> 04:06:00,000
do not
5549
04:06:00,000 --> 04:06:03,060
which is called Focus Shift or um focus
5550
04:06:03,060 --> 04:06:05,040
stacking you can now do it in the
5551
04:06:05,040 --> 04:06:07,500
computer I created a technique called
5552
04:06:07,500 --> 04:06:11,040
image harvesting and I made a lot of
5553
04:06:11,040 --> 04:06:13,380
money teaching it and then camera
5554
04:06:13,380 --> 04:06:15,479
companies put me out of business and to
5555
04:06:15,479 --> 04:06:18,540
which I say yes
5556
04:06:18,540 --> 04:06:20,460
what you can get a camera to do and once
5557
04:06:20,460 --> 04:06:23,100
we get this to do this is you can get a
5558
04:06:23,100 --> 04:06:26,220
camera to take up to 300 different
5559
04:06:26,220 --> 04:06:28,500
slices of a picture
5560
04:06:28,500 --> 04:06:31,560
you can then in software assemble said
5561
04:06:31,560 --> 04:06:34,319
300 slices of the picture and if you
5562
04:06:34,319 --> 04:06:37,319
want you can literally defy physics and
5563
04:06:37,319 --> 04:06:41,100
have absolutely everything in focus
5564
04:06:41,100 --> 04:06:42,960
cool huh
5565
04:06:42,960 --> 04:06:44,880
why you would want everything in Focus I
5566
04:06:44,880 --> 04:06:46,140
don't know
5567
04:06:46,140 --> 04:06:48,000
but you can and as soon as I get this
5568
04:06:48,000 --> 04:06:49,739
back I can show you
5569
04:06:49,739 --> 04:06:53,939
and I can't move except for here
5570
04:06:53,939 --> 04:06:56,460
because right here is where I don't
5571
04:06:56,460 --> 04:06:59,160
cross the speakers
5572
04:06:59,160 --> 04:07:01,819
okay
5573
04:07:03,060 --> 04:07:05,100
I have to make it more complicated this
5574
04:07:05,100 --> 04:07:07,680
was my idea it worked at home
5575
04:07:07,680 --> 04:07:09,239
you kind of feel like the you know the
5576
04:07:09,239 --> 04:07:10,199
the
5577
04:07:10,199 --> 04:07:11,939
Great British baking show where they
5578
04:07:11,939 --> 04:07:13,979
always say you know but it works so well
5579
04:07:13,979 --> 04:07:16,938
the entire week
5580
04:07:18,359 --> 04:07:20,819
um if not can we I can I manually do
5581
04:07:20,819 --> 04:07:22,380
that like hop to the camera then hop to
5582
04:07:22,380 --> 04:07:24,000
the computer um I'm just trying to get a
5583
04:07:24,000 --> 04:07:26,899
signal from your laptop
5584
04:07:30,180 --> 04:07:32,939
Okay so
5585
04:07:32,939 --> 04:07:34,800
what I want to do is I'm going to show
5586
04:07:34,800 --> 04:07:36,660
you there's near Focus
5587
04:07:36,660 --> 04:07:39,800
photography macro Focus photography
5588
04:07:39,800 --> 04:07:43,620
extension tube photography and diopter
5589
04:07:43,620 --> 04:07:46,680
close-up photography and what those look
5590
04:07:46,680 --> 04:07:47,699
like
5591
04:07:47,699 --> 04:07:50,479
is
5592
04:07:50,640 --> 04:07:53,340
this is a set of EX
5593
04:07:53,340 --> 04:07:56,880
this is a set of extension tubes now I
5594
04:07:56,880 --> 04:08:00,500
bought two sets and the reason why I
5595
04:08:01,020 --> 04:08:03,300
I bought two sets is because I have
5596
04:08:03,300 --> 04:08:04,500
found
5597
04:08:04,500 --> 04:08:07,199
that what I have to do is sometimes
5598
04:08:07,199 --> 04:08:09,359
extend that far
5599
04:08:09,359 --> 04:08:12,239
there's macro photography which is where
5600
04:08:12,239 --> 04:08:13,739
I can zoom right in and then there's
5601
04:08:13,739 --> 04:08:16,140
near Focus photography and what near
5602
04:08:16,140 --> 04:08:18,840
Focus photography is for close-up is
5603
04:08:18,840 --> 04:08:21,180
where you find the point at which the
5604
04:08:21,180 --> 04:08:24,600
camera focused closest
5605
04:08:24,600 --> 04:08:27,840
for example I want to use an 85 1.8
5606
04:08:27,840 --> 04:08:30,899
because I want the 1.8 bokeh
5607
04:08:30,899 --> 04:08:33,540
that word's pronounced
5608
04:08:33,540 --> 04:08:36,000
bokeh
5609
04:08:36,000 --> 04:08:39,479
Boca is a city in Florida
5610
04:08:39,479 --> 04:08:42,840
bouquet rhymes with okay
5611
04:08:42,840 --> 04:08:46,020
so bokeh is a quality of blur now a
5612
04:08:46,020 --> 04:08:47,819
thing that we do
5613
04:08:47,819 --> 04:08:50,460
is we're taught to pay attention to
5614
04:08:50,460 --> 04:08:52,140
focus focus focus focus it has to be in
5615
04:08:52,140 --> 04:08:54,600
focused focus focus but if physics is
5616
04:08:54,600 --> 04:08:56,580
really clear on this
5617
04:08:56,580 --> 04:08:57,840
um there's only one thing that's in
5618
04:08:57,840 --> 04:08:58,859
focus
5619
04:08:58,859 --> 04:09:01,500
when you're using a fixed lens like this
5620
04:09:01,500 --> 04:09:04,319
not a one that can do tilt shift
5621
04:09:04,319 --> 04:09:05,880
and might use my favorite word in
5622
04:09:05,880 --> 04:09:08,040
photography introduces the chime
5623
04:09:08,040 --> 04:09:11,040
principle
5624
04:09:11,399 --> 04:09:13,979
the hell of a word isn't it
5625
04:09:13,979 --> 04:09:16,380
shine fluke which is being able to do
5626
04:09:16,380 --> 04:09:17,399
this
5627
04:09:17,399 --> 04:09:19,680
the only thing that's in focus is that
5628
04:09:19,680 --> 04:09:21,600
which the lens is physically focused
5629
04:09:21,600 --> 04:09:24,120
upon and anything that crosses the plane
5630
04:09:24,120 --> 04:09:26,340
of focus
5631
04:09:26,340 --> 04:09:28,199
stopping the lens down doesn't give you
5632
04:09:28,199 --> 04:09:30,000
more stuff and focus stopping the lens
5633
04:09:30,000 --> 04:09:31,380
down just increases the area of
5634
04:09:31,380 --> 04:09:33,180
acceptable out of focus
5635
04:09:33,180 --> 04:09:35,220
if you want four things in Focus you
5636
04:09:35,220 --> 04:09:36,000
need
5637
04:09:36,000 --> 04:09:38,100
four photographs if you want the whole
5638
04:09:38,100 --> 04:09:40,080
photograph and photo Focus you need up
5639
04:09:40,080 --> 04:09:43,279
to 300 photographs
5640
04:09:44,760 --> 04:09:47,420
it's true
5641
04:09:49,979 --> 04:09:52,080
oh mirrored so it's not extended it's
5642
04:09:52,080 --> 04:09:53,520
mirrored so wherever you see here will
5643
04:09:53,520 --> 04:09:55,380
go up that's that's okay can I get the
5644
04:09:55,380 --> 04:09:56,279
camera
5645
04:09:56,279 --> 04:10:00,080
you have to bring it up on this
5646
04:10:00,140 --> 04:10:03,960
of course I do do you have where's that
5647
04:10:03,960 --> 04:10:05,160
long
5648
04:10:05,160 --> 04:10:07,199
I can do it where is that I think I can
5649
04:10:07,199 --> 04:10:09,359
do it the long
5650
04:10:09,359 --> 04:10:10,140
um
5651
04:10:10,140 --> 04:10:12,600
USBC cable
5652
04:10:12,600 --> 04:10:14,699
okay
5653
04:10:14,699 --> 04:10:16,199
what you're what we're going to do here
5654
04:10:16,199 --> 04:10:17,520
is I'm going to show you how to do this
5655
04:10:17,520 --> 04:10:21,180
Photograph this is 72 slices
5656
04:10:21,180 --> 04:10:24,920
and what I'm going to show you here
5657
04:10:26,040 --> 04:10:28,819
is
5658
04:10:32,399 --> 04:10:35,279
Focus particularly in focus and in blur
5659
04:10:35,279 --> 04:10:37,859
now one percent of your pictures in
5660
04:10:37,859 --> 04:10:38,880
focus
5661
04:10:38,880 --> 04:10:43,020
99 of your picture is out of focus what
5662
04:10:43,020 --> 04:10:44,580
should you actually be paying attention
5663
04:10:44,580 --> 04:10:45,899
to
5664
04:10:45,899 --> 04:10:49,819
in Focus or in blur
5665
04:10:49,859 --> 04:10:52,080
you sure if only one percent of your
5666
04:10:52,080 --> 04:10:54,060
picture is in focus and the rest of the
5667
04:10:54,060 --> 04:10:55,979
pictures are varying levels of blur
5668
04:10:55,979 --> 04:10:58,199
paying attention to how the quality of
5669
04:10:58,199 --> 04:11:00,779
blur is controlled and handled becomes a
5670
04:11:00,779 --> 04:11:02,100
much more important aesthetic
5671
04:11:02,100 --> 04:11:04,739
consideration the pretty
5672
04:11:04,739 --> 04:11:09,380
is always to be found I think
5673
04:11:12,479 --> 04:11:16,220
I'm mad I've always been I'm sorry
5674
04:11:16,859 --> 04:11:19,260
it's been a long day
5675
04:11:19,260 --> 04:11:22,620
um the pretty is always in the blur
5676
04:11:22,620 --> 04:11:24,840
when you look at a picture it is the
5677
04:11:24,840 --> 04:11:26,939
softness and the geometric patterns that
5678
04:11:26,939 --> 04:11:29,460
the blur causes that becomes the area of
5679
04:11:29,460 --> 04:11:31,800
retreat and a photograph when you're
5680
04:11:31,800 --> 04:11:34,620
looking at a photograph
5681
04:11:34,620 --> 04:11:35,760
and tomorrow I'm going to talk about
5682
04:11:35,760 --> 04:11:37,739
this at Great length when you're looking
5683
04:11:37,739 --> 04:11:39,239
at a photograph you want to control
5684
04:11:39,239 --> 04:11:41,100
where the eye goes
5685
04:11:41,100 --> 04:11:43,680
you want to have a point of attack the
5686
04:11:43,680 --> 04:11:45,840
in Focus element and you want to have a
5687
04:11:45,840 --> 04:11:48,420
point of retreat the in blur element
5688
04:11:48,420 --> 04:11:50,100
if the majority of your picture is in
5689
04:11:50,100 --> 04:11:52,140
blur it's how you handle the blur to get
5690
04:11:52,140 --> 04:11:53,819
it back to the point of attack which is
5691
04:11:53,819 --> 04:11:56,600
the area of focus that matters because
5692
04:11:56,600 --> 04:12:00,540
it's all an illusion it's a coin trick
5693
04:12:00,540 --> 04:12:02,699
that's all it is
5694
04:12:02,699 --> 04:12:04,500
and how you control the way the eye
5695
04:12:04,500 --> 04:12:07,020
perceives will dictate how your picture
5696
04:12:07,020 --> 04:12:09,239
will be received
5697
04:12:09,239 --> 04:12:11,460
it's not 17th century painting Theory
5698
04:12:11,460 --> 04:12:14,040
that's looking at this picture it is a
5699
04:12:14,040 --> 04:12:16,620
pair of eyeballs
5700
04:12:16,620 --> 04:12:19,080
that is looking at this picture
5701
04:12:19,080 --> 04:12:21,359
I'm afraid of those speakers
5702
04:12:21,359 --> 04:12:23,279
truly afraid
5703
04:12:23,279 --> 04:12:25,340
um
5704
04:12:28,080 --> 04:12:32,359
the speaker gods are mad at me
5705
04:12:32,460 --> 04:12:34,800
so
5706
04:12:34,800 --> 04:12:37,500
how am I doing
5707
04:12:37,500 --> 04:12:40,020
I was afraid you're going to say that
5708
04:12:40,020 --> 04:12:41,340
all right
5709
04:12:41,340 --> 04:12:43,500
can you give can you give me that like
5710
04:12:43,500 --> 04:12:44,880
you had it and then we'll hop to the
5711
04:12:44,880 --> 04:12:47,939
camera which is this okay
5712
04:12:47,939 --> 04:12:50,239
camera
5713
04:12:51,779 --> 04:12:54,600
the camera is this
5714
04:12:54,600 --> 04:12:56,160
yep
5715
04:12:56,160 --> 04:12:59,180
this is all planned
5716
04:12:59,640 --> 04:13:03,720
truly all right so blur back to this
5717
04:13:03,720 --> 04:13:05,520
topic okay
5718
04:13:05,520 --> 04:13:07,260
can I
5719
04:13:07,260 --> 04:13:10,699
I'm running out of things to say
5720
04:13:13,800 --> 04:13:16,819
you had it baby
5721
04:13:20,880 --> 04:13:22,020
well
5722
04:13:22,020 --> 04:13:23,819
I can have your laptop you mean my
5723
04:13:23,819 --> 04:13:26,100
laptop right now yeah
5724
04:13:26,100 --> 04:13:28,260
and then we'll figure out the camera in
5725
04:13:28,260 --> 04:13:29,220
a second
5726
04:13:29,220 --> 04:13:31,140
I just need I just need the laptop this
5727
04:13:31,140 --> 04:13:32,460
is what we're gonna do
5728
04:13:32,460 --> 04:13:33,960
we're going to do all the laptop stuff
5729
04:13:33,960 --> 04:13:34,920
and I'm going to show you all the stuff
5730
04:13:34,920 --> 04:13:36,000
in the beginning that I'm going to do
5731
04:13:36,000 --> 04:13:37,439
then I'm going to switch over to the
5732
04:13:37,439 --> 04:13:39,000
camera and show you how to shoot it
5733
04:13:39,000 --> 04:13:40,739
does that work
5734
04:13:40,739 --> 04:13:43,260
yay
5735
04:13:43,260 --> 04:13:45,960
I love it when a plan comes together
5736
04:13:45,960 --> 04:13:47,939
organization is the key to success be
5737
04:13:47,939 --> 04:13:49,500
prepared
5738
04:13:49,500 --> 04:13:50,880
so
5739
04:13:50,880 --> 04:13:53,220
in doing this what we can do with modern
5740
04:13:53,220 --> 04:13:55,260
cameras is we can do something called
5741
04:13:55,260 --> 04:13:56,880
Focus Shift
5742
04:13:56,880 --> 04:13:58,260
and
5743
04:13:58,260 --> 04:14:01,020
Nikon does it Olympus does it Canon does
5744
04:14:01,020 --> 04:14:04,380
it and Fuji does it and
5745
04:14:04,380 --> 04:14:07,020
Sony my understanding is we'll do it
5746
04:14:07,020 --> 04:14:08,760
there is a way to do it if your camera
5747
04:14:08,760 --> 04:14:10,199
doesn't do it which is you pick a series
5748
04:14:10,199 --> 04:14:11,939
of points you make decisions about it
5749
04:14:11,939 --> 04:14:13,620
and then you shoot
5750
04:14:13,620 --> 04:14:15,840
the key is to know some things about
5751
04:14:15,840 --> 04:14:17,040
your lens
5752
04:14:17,040 --> 04:14:19,620
first what is its maximum aperture and
5753
04:14:19,620 --> 04:14:21,720
what is its critical aperture
5754
04:14:21,720 --> 04:14:24,060
critical aperture is where the light is
5755
04:14:24,060 --> 04:14:25,620
most evenly distributed across the
5756
04:14:25,620 --> 04:14:27,720
sensor plane which derives or delivers
5757
04:14:27,720 --> 04:14:30,479
the sharpest picture
5758
04:14:30,479 --> 04:14:32,640
stopping a lens down to F-16 does not
5759
04:14:32,640 --> 04:14:34,620
give you the sharpest picture it
5760
04:14:34,620 --> 04:14:36,899
increases the area of acceptable out of
5761
04:14:36,899 --> 04:14:39,120
focus but it can actually soften the
5762
04:14:39,120 --> 04:14:41,040
edges of the sharp parts of the picture
5763
04:14:41,040 --> 04:14:43,199
that's diffraction
5764
04:14:43,199 --> 04:14:45,060
so determining what the critical
5765
04:14:45,060 --> 04:14:47,580
aperture of a lens is is important
5766
04:14:47,580 --> 04:14:52,040
basically anything below 2.8 is f45 f56
5767
04:14:52,040 --> 04:14:56,640
2.8 is f8 four five is f11 so between f8
5768
04:14:56,640 --> 04:14:58,500
and f11 and that's the rule of thumb
5769
04:14:58,500 --> 04:15:00,479
that's if you do the math gives you the
5770
04:15:00,479 --> 04:15:03,180
sharpest possible picture so you need to
5771
04:15:03,180 --> 04:15:06,600
make some decisions about the picture oh
5772
04:15:06,600 --> 04:15:09,120
Say It Isn't So
5773
04:15:09,120 --> 04:15:12,359
Okay so
5774
04:15:12,359 --> 04:15:15,260
bokeh
5775
04:15:16,439 --> 04:15:19,100
I'm using
5776
04:15:19,680 --> 04:15:21,420
okay unplug that plug in my camera we're
5777
04:15:21,420 --> 04:15:23,819
good okay
5778
04:15:23,819 --> 04:15:25,140
hear that
5779
04:15:25,140 --> 04:15:26,939
okay I went on the internet and found
5780
04:15:26,939 --> 04:15:28,020
somebody that could say it correctly
5781
04:15:28,020 --> 04:15:31,140
that spoke Japanese bokeh
5782
04:15:31,140 --> 04:15:33,180
is the correct way and it's a quality of
5783
04:15:33,180 --> 04:15:34,680
blur
5784
04:15:34,680 --> 04:15:36,720
so to show you this picture this is the
5785
04:15:36,720 --> 04:15:39,359
BTS this is how much
5786
04:15:39,359 --> 04:15:42,060
effort went into it and I'm using a ring
5787
04:15:42,060 --> 04:15:44,180
light
5788
04:15:44,699 --> 04:15:47,279
this is everything in focus
5789
04:15:47,279 --> 04:15:49,319
is this picture interesting or does it
5790
04:15:49,319 --> 04:15:51,660
look like a seed packet
5791
04:15:51,660 --> 04:15:53,399
or something from the encyclopedia
5792
04:15:53,399 --> 04:15:56,279
barrica
5793
04:15:56,279 --> 04:15:58,939
this
5794
04:16:01,859 --> 04:16:03,960
is the same image
5795
04:16:03,960 --> 04:16:07,620
except this is that F14
5796
04:16:07,620 --> 04:16:12,420
and then this is that f56
5797
04:16:13,739 --> 04:16:16,800
how did you do that
5798
04:16:16,800 --> 04:16:18,300
Focus Shift
5799
04:16:18,300 --> 04:16:20,399
the beauty of Focus Shift is and I'm
5800
04:16:20,399 --> 04:16:21,660
going to show you as soon as I get the
5801
04:16:21,660 --> 04:16:25,260
camera that I can
5802
04:16:25,260 --> 04:16:27,979
slice it
5803
04:16:28,080 --> 04:16:30,479
slice it
5804
04:16:30,479 --> 04:16:33,300
to where I like the focus at F14 and
5805
04:16:33,300 --> 04:16:36,960
then I can come back and slice it at f56
5806
04:16:36,960 --> 04:16:39,060
to get the critical aperture of the lens
5807
04:16:39,060 --> 04:16:42,720
so I have the sharpest elements and I
5808
04:16:42,720 --> 04:16:45,359
have the prettiest blur
5809
04:16:45,359 --> 04:16:48,300
the beauty of where we are today is that
5810
04:16:48,300 --> 04:16:51,540
impossible is just an opinion and that
5811
04:16:51,540 --> 04:16:54,359
opinion of impossibility is derived by
5812
04:16:54,359 --> 04:16:55,920
the person that is sitting in the same
5813
04:16:55,920 --> 04:16:57,540
chair you are
5814
04:16:57,540 --> 04:17:00,239
you define impossible
5815
04:17:00,239 --> 04:17:02,340
if you can imagine it
5816
04:17:02,340 --> 04:17:05,220
you can create it
5817
04:17:05,220 --> 04:17:07,080
which I think is the coolest thing in
5818
04:17:07,080 --> 04:17:10,319
the world so
5819
04:17:10,620 --> 04:17:12,479
what I did
5820
04:17:12,479 --> 04:17:14,880
here
5821
04:17:14,880 --> 04:17:18,140
with this image
5822
04:17:20,699 --> 04:17:22,880
foreign
5823
04:17:24,899 --> 04:17:28,399
I'm not asking you to do that
5824
04:17:30,120 --> 04:17:34,399
is I took
5825
04:17:34,760 --> 04:17:36,479
150
5826
04:17:36,479 --> 04:17:39,920
slices of this image
5827
04:17:41,399 --> 04:17:43,739
come on
5828
04:17:43,739 --> 04:17:46,340
Jesus
5829
04:17:46,920 --> 04:17:50,340
let's try this I took 150 slices of this
5830
04:17:50,340 --> 04:17:51,540
image
5831
04:17:51,540 --> 04:17:56,040
and then picked the 75 that I liked and
5832
04:17:56,040 --> 04:17:58,080
how I determined that was where was the
5833
04:17:58,080 --> 04:18:01,439
edge of the focus here
5834
04:18:01,439 --> 04:18:04,020
and where was the pretty of the blur
5835
04:18:04,020 --> 04:18:05,640
here
5836
04:18:05,640 --> 04:18:09,660
I found the nearest element in
5837
04:18:09,660 --> 04:18:10,979
the picture
5838
04:18:10,979 --> 04:18:12,660
and I'm going to show you how to do that
5839
04:18:12,660 --> 04:18:15,420
using something called focus peaking how
5840
04:18:15,420 --> 04:18:17,880
many people know what focus peaking is
5841
04:18:17,880 --> 04:18:20,040
okay pretty much everybody's camera does
5842
04:18:20,040 --> 04:18:21,420
it I don't know of a modern camera that
5843
04:18:21,420 --> 04:18:22,739
doesn't do it
5844
04:18:22,739 --> 04:18:24,779
this was one of those you know how you
5845
04:18:24,779 --> 04:18:26,939
you make accidentally do something and
5846
04:18:26,939 --> 04:18:30,180
you go no way
5847
04:18:30,180 --> 04:18:31,620
but I'll take total credit for
5848
04:18:31,620 --> 04:18:33,540
Brilliance on this
5849
04:18:33,540 --> 04:18:36,420
so what I do is I use the manual
5850
04:18:36,420 --> 04:18:38,699
focusing capability of the lens and I
5851
04:18:38,699 --> 04:18:41,760
move it using focus peaking to find the
5852
04:18:41,760 --> 04:18:44,220
thing nearest the can that you got it
5853
04:18:44,220 --> 04:18:46,859
okay that's exactly what I did
5854
04:18:46,859 --> 04:18:49,140
because you never guess what's closest
5855
04:18:49,140 --> 04:18:52,080
to the lens have you noticed that it's
5856
04:18:52,080 --> 04:18:54,960
always how did no that can't possibly be
5857
04:18:54,960 --> 04:18:57,120
so what we're going to do
5858
04:18:57,120 --> 04:18:59,939
is we're going to use the godox ring
5859
04:18:59,939 --> 04:19:01,319
light and what's cool about this ring
5860
04:19:01,319 --> 04:19:05,040
light is that it has the ability to have
5861
04:19:05,040 --> 04:19:06,359
a left side
5862
04:19:06,359 --> 04:19:07,920
a right side
5863
04:19:07,920 --> 04:19:09,779
and
5864
04:19:09,779 --> 04:19:12,300
I can
5865
04:19:12,300 --> 04:19:14,399
dim it
5866
04:19:14,399 --> 04:19:16,620
now
5867
04:19:16,620 --> 04:19:18,779
what I came up with was a way to side
5868
04:19:18,779 --> 04:19:19,979
light it
5869
04:19:19,979 --> 04:19:22,620
I have a way to top light it but the
5870
04:19:22,620 --> 04:19:24,720
deal here is I want to keep you under
5871
04:19:24,720 --> 04:19:27,060
150 dollars
5872
04:19:27,060 --> 04:19:29,699
I gave myself a whole list of things
5873
04:19:29,699 --> 04:19:31,739
because we can throw
5874
04:19:31,739 --> 04:19:33,239
a lot of money
5875
04:19:33,239 --> 04:19:34,979
and going see how cool it is it's only
5876
04:19:34,979 --> 04:19:37,140
fifteen hundred dollars
5877
04:19:37,140 --> 04:19:39,600
to which you're going to go
5878
04:19:39,600 --> 04:19:40,920
see ya
5879
04:19:40,920 --> 04:19:43,560
so this is you can do what I'm about to
5880
04:19:43,560 --> 04:19:45,979
do with
5881
04:19:46,739 --> 04:19:49,939
we all have one of these right
5882
04:19:54,420 --> 04:19:56,819
we all have one of these right
5883
04:19:56,819 --> 04:19:57,840
okay
5884
04:19:57,840 --> 04:19:59,939
and this is a shout out to Paul Van
5885
04:19:59,939 --> 04:20:02,460
Allen this is not my idea but I am going
5886
04:20:02,460 --> 04:20:03,960
to steal it from this moment forward and
5887
04:20:03,960 --> 04:20:05,520
the only reason why I'm telling you that
5888
04:20:05,520 --> 04:20:06,899
it's Paul Van Allen that came up with
5889
04:20:06,899 --> 04:20:10,220
the idea is he's here
5890
04:20:11,640 --> 04:20:13,979
this was his idea and what I'm going to
5891
04:20:13,979 --> 04:20:16,099
do
5892
04:20:19,199 --> 04:20:20,699
come on that's cool
5893
04:20:20,699 --> 04:20:24,040
let's give an Applause to Paul Van Allen
5894
04:20:24,040 --> 04:20:27,960
[Applause]
5895
04:20:27,960 --> 04:20:31,020
and remember this Talent copies
5896
04:20:31,020 --> 04:20:34,439
genius and steals
5897
04:20:34,439 --> 04:20:36,180
and we're going to take a picture of
5898
04:20:36,180 --> 04:20:38,279
this flower and I'm going to show you
5899
04:20:38,279 --> 04:20:39,720
all the different things you can do with
5900
04:20:39,720 --> 04:20:41,699
the way in which the camera meters
5901
04:20:41,699 --> 04:20:43,680
and we're going to I'll show you how to
5902
04:20:43,680 --> 04:20:45,660
make it a black and white
5903
04:20:45,660 --> 04:20:47,580
I'll also show you
5904
04:20:47,580 --> 04:20:50,040
time permitting how to make the berries
5905
04:20:50,040 --> 04:20:51,359
warm
5906
04:20:51,359 --> 04:20:55,699
and the berries cool all in camera
5907
04:20:56,580 --> 04:20:59,819
but wait there's more
5908
04:20:59,819 --> 04:21:02,640
so let's first start with
5909
04:21:02,640 --> 04:21:05,539
this
5910
04:21:07,439 --> 04:21:10,160
this which one
5911
04:21:10,560 --> 04:21:13,460
let's first
5912
04:21:16,140 --> 04:21:20,060
I did mention I hate technology right
5913
04:21:20,520 --> 04:21:23,540
is that long enough yeah
5914
04:21:24,359 --> 04:21:26,720
okay
5915
04:21:27,120 --> 04:21:29,600
good good
5916
04:21:31,680 --> 04:21:35,540
have you ever noticed that cords grow
5917
04:21:35,939 --> 04:21:38,100
like underneath your desk
5918
04:21:38,100 --> 04:21:39,779
you start with two and the next thing
5919
04:21:39,779 --> 04:21:41,399
you know you have a small little Rat's
5920
04:21:41,399 --> 04:21:42,779
Nest underneath there
5921
04:21:42,779 --> 04:21:44,520
all right so
5922
04:21:44,520 --> 04:21:46,620
what we're going to do
5923
04:21:46,620 --> 04:21:49,460
is
5924
04:21:50,100 --> 04:21:53,699
are you sure yes yay
5925
04:21:53,699 --> 04:21:55,140
let me show you how you set your camera
5926
04:21:55,140 --> 04:21:57,420
up and then we'll set the camera up so
5927
04:21:57,420 --> 04:22:00,960
this is pretty much true
5928
04:22:00,960 --> 04:22:02,100
for
5929
04:22:02,100 --> 04:22:04,140
more or less every camera the theory
5930
04:22:04,140 --> 04:22:06,359
behind it is true how many are Nikon
5931
04:22:06,359 --> 04:22:07,859
shooters
5932
04:22:07,859 --> 04:22:09,840
I love you
5933
04:22:09,840 --> 04:22:12,979
the rest of you are okay
5934
04:22:13,380 --> 04:22:15,600
have you updated to 3.0 if you're a z9
5935
04:22:15,600 --> 04:22:16,680
shooter
5936
04:22:16,680 --> 04:22:19,680
okay uh this I don't know if the update
5937
04:22:19,680 --> 04:22:22,140
for the z62 and the z7 to do this but I
5938
04:22:22,140 --> 04:22:23,580
believe they do
5939
04:22:23,580 --> 04:22:25,680
this one feature is very very cool what
5940
04:22:25,680 --> 04:22:28,340
we're going to do
5941
04:22:33,960 --> 04:22:37,020
is go to Focus Shift you see that
5942
04:22:37,020 --> 04:22:39,239
now the reason why I'm using this
5943
04:22:39,239 --> 04:22:40,920
monitor here in conjunction to these two
5944
04:22:40,920 --> 04:22:43,199
is this is a calibrated color accurate
5945
04:22:43,199 --> 04:22:46,199
monitor and what I have found over the
5946
04:22:46,199 --> 04:22:49,380
years is that these type of projectors
5947
04:22:49,380 --> 04:22:51,960
or screens are not necessarily as
5948
04:22:51,960 --> 04:22:53,580
truthful about color
5949
04:22:53,580 --> 04:22:55,319
as one would like
5950
04:22:55,319 --> 04:22:59,119
so that's Focus Shift
5951
04:23:00,060 --> 04:23:03,540
it has a different name in a Canon Fuji
5952
04:23:03,540 --> 04:23:06,359
and um Olympus
5953
04:23:06,359 --> 04:23:08,160
but it's still the same so you have
5954
04:23:08,160 --> 04:23:11,279
start number of pictures so I can pick
5955
04:23:11,279 --> 04:23:14,460
up to 300 slices
5956
04:23:14,460 --> 04:23:17,340
so let's say for this
5957
04:23:17,340 --> 04:23:21,500
for this are you going to fix my
5958
04:23:22,260 --> 04:23:26,180
can can you follow me everywhere I go
5959
04:23:26,880 --> 04:23:28,800
because if it isn't Photoshop or a
5960
04:23:28,800 --> 04:23:30,540
camera I'm doomed
5961
04:23:30,540 --> 04:23:32,399
so you can pick up to however many
5962
04:23:32,399 --> 04:23:35,640
slices you want 150 100. so generally
5963
04:23:35,640 --> 04:23:37,800
what I will do until I figure out what
5964
04:23:37,800 --> 04:23:39,420
it's going to be is I'll shoot
5965
04:23:39,420 --> 04:23:42,060
200 shots and I'll look at it and go oh
5966
04:23:42,060 --> 04:23:44,160
I don't need that many
5967
04:23:44,160 --> 04:23:46,260
but I don't know but you can go up to
5968
04:23:46,260 --> 04:23:48,300
300 if I want the whole picture in Focus
5969
04:23:48,300 --> 04:23:50,279
I will do the whole 300 because the
5970
04:23:50,279 --> 04:23:53,040
camera will stop if it determines that
5971
04:23:53,040 --> 04:23:55,500
it does doesn't have anything to shoot
5972
04:23:55,500 --> 04:23:57,600
but if you're dealing with the 45
5973
04:23:57,600 --> 04:24:01,800
megapixel camera 345 megapixel files is
5974
04:24:01,800 --> 04:24:02,819
a lot of
5975
04:24:02,819 --> 04:24:04,140
a lot of file
5976
04:24:04,140 --> 04:24:07,800
so let's set it for 100 click ok
5977
04:24:07,800 --> 04:24:10,020
now you have your choice of focus step
5978
04:24:10,020 --> 04:24:11,520
with
5979
04:24:11,520 --> 04:24:13,500
it's from narrow which is these little
5980
04:24:13,500 --> 04:24:15,239
tiny slices all the way up to Big
5981
04:24:15,239 --> 04:24:17,699
movement the bigger movements or if
5982
04:24:17,699 --> 04:24:19,739
you're doing landscape
5983
04:24:19,739 --> 04:24:21,840
I've not had as much success with
5984
04:24:21,840 --> 04:24:24,479
landscape as I've had with close-up and
5985
04:24:24,479 --> 04:24:26,699
still life and things inside
5986
04:24:26,699 --> 04:24:29,300
flowers that sort of stuff
5987
04:24:29,300 --> 04:24:32,460
I've seen people that do it I've just
5988
04:24:32,460 --> 04:24:34,080
not been one of those lucky ones to win
5989
04:24:34,080 --> 04:24:36,660
the Focus Shift lottery for landscape
5990
04:24:36,660 --> 04:24:39,120
so I set it to narrow if you're doing
5991
04:24:39,120 --> 04:24:42,500
this type of photography
5992
04:24:45,120 --> 04:24:48,060
probably in the middle five
5993
04:24:48,060 --> 04:24:51,300
okay I think 10 would be too wide that
5994
04:24:51,300 --> 04:24:52,319
would be like you're shooting the Grand
5995
04:24:52,319 --> 04:24:54,359
Canyon from one end to the other this
5996
04:24:54,359 --> 04:24:56,160
way
5997
04:24:56,160 --> 04:24:57,840
so that
5998
04:24:57,840 --> 04:25:00,439
intervals until next shot
5999
04:25:00,439 --> 04:25:03,479
I want this to go as quickly as it
6000
04:25:03,479 --> 04:25:05,939
possibly can and the reason why I wanted
6001
04:25:05,939 --> 04:25:08,699
to go as quickly as it possibly can is
6002
04:25:08,699 --> 04:25:11,279
if it's on a tripod right
6003
04:25:11,279 --> 04:25:13,620
it ain't going anywhere and if I want to
6004
04:25:13,620 --> 04:25:15,779
play with light and exposure I can bring
6005
04:25:15,779 --> 04:25:18,300
it down to a two second or three second
6006
04:25:18,300 --> 04:25:20,100
exposure because if I'm in a contained
6007
04:25:20,100 --> 04:25:22,260
place there's no wind and stuff
6008
04:25:22,260 --> 04:25:26,100
do be mindful though of your floor
6009
04:25:26,100 --> 04:25:27,899
where you walk
6010
04:25:27,899 --> 04:25:30,239
because if you walk sometimes you can
6011
04:25:30,239 --> 04:25:32,939
cause a vibration so one of the things
6012
04:25:32,939 --> 04:25:34,920
that I'll do is I'll hit it with a if
6013
04:25:34,920 --> 04:25:36,359
it's like a three second exposure I'll
6014
04:25:36,359 --> 04:25:39,420
hit it with a pencil and then
6015
04:25:39,420 --> 04:25:41,939
chew the cats out of the kitchen and all
6016
04:25:41,939 --> 04:25:43,739
of that so just be that's something to
6017
04:25:43,739 --> 04:25:45,840
be mindful of is the vibration but at
6018
04:25:45,840 --> 04:25:47,159
fast shutter speeds it doesn't matter at
6019
04:25:47,159 --> 04:25:50,300
slow shutter speeds it does
6020
04:25:50,699 --> 04:25:54,420
most important of the most important
6021
04:25:54,420 --> 04:25:58,020
first frame exposure lock
6022
04:25:58,020 --> 04:26:00,899
you want all the exposures to match
6023
04:26:00,899 --> 04:26:02,580
correct
6024
04:26:02,580 --> 04:26:05,699
so once it determines the exposure let's
6025
04:26:05,699 --> 04:26:08,040
hold that exposure so we don't have any
6026
04:26:08,040 --> 04:26:10,500
variation
6027
04:26:10,500 --> 04:26:14,699
this is new to the update and to be
6028
04:26:14,699 --> 04:26:18,239
perfectly honest with you this was a
6029
04:26:18,239 --> 04:26:19,739
gift
6030
04:26:19,739 --> 04:26:22,979
from to all of us for that do this first
6031
04:26:22,979 --> 04:26:25,080
position Auto reset so once you
6032
04:26:25,080 --> 04:26:27,060
determine what is the closest element
6033
04:26:27,060 --> 04:26:29,880
you never have to determine where that
6034
04:26:29,880 --> 04:26:31,620
is again
6035
04:26:31,620 --> 04:26:33,420
because it will the camera will
6036
04:26:33,420 --> 04:26:36,960
automatically go back to that point
6037
04:26:36,960 --> 04:26:39,359
I can't speak to the other brands but I
6038
04:26:39,359 --> 04:26:41,279
can speak to Nikon and I suspect that if
6039
04:26:41,279 --> 04:26:43,020
they don't they will because this is one
6040
04:26:43,020 --> 04:26:45,359
of those things that it should
6041
04:26:45,359 --> 04:26:47,239
this is the other thing to do
6042
04:26:47,239 --> 04:26:51,199
particularly if you are going to do
6043
04:26:51,199 --> 04:26:54,080
multiple aperture variable aperture
6044
04:26:54,080 --> 04:26:58,340
exposures f8 F28
6045
04:26:58,340 --> 04:27:02,220
f56 F18
6046
04:27:02,220 --> 04:27:05,100
is you want to do the following
6047
04:27:05,100 --> 04:27:06,720
new folder
6048
04:27:06,720 --> 04:27:09,300
yes
6049
04:27:09,300 --> 04:27:11,939
reset file numbering
6050
04:27:11,939 --> 04:27:13,979
yes
6051
04:27:13,979 --> 04:27:16,938
why you ask
6052
04:27:17,580 --> 04:27:19,920
well I'll tell you okay
6053
04:27:19,920 --> 04:27:22,020
the reason why you want to do this is if
6054
04:27:22,020 --> 04:27:25,859
you're doing this uh 150 images the
6055
04:27:25,859 --> 04:27:28,620
camera will do the same 100 or 150
6056
04:27:28,620 --> 04:27:31,319
images at exactly the same spot so if
6057
04:27:31,319 --> 04:27:34,680
you're doing multiple aperture
6058
04:27:34,680 --> 04:27:37,739
capture or multiple exposure at
6059
04:27:37,739 --> 04:27:38,760
different
6060
04:27:38,760 --> 04:27:42,359
uh you know light dark N1 and minus fat
6061
04:27:42,359 --> 04:27:44,760
by having it start at the same place and
6062
04:27:44,760 --> 04:27:46,739
having everyone be in exactly the same
6063
04:27:46,739 --> 04:27:48,239
place when it takes a picture that means
6064
04:27:48,239 --> 04:27:51,479
that everything will exactly line up
6065
04:27:51,479 --> 04:27:54,840
we can't do that
6066
04:27:54,840 --> 04:27:57,659
but the Terminator over here can
6067
04:27:57,659 --> 04:28:00,840
it can always line back up so you can
6068
04:28:00,840 --> 04:28:03,359
save yourself all sorts of issues one of
6069
04:28:03,359 --> 04:28:04,439
the things you can also save yourself
6070
04:28:04,439 --> 04:28:07,620
doing is when you load this into the
6071
04:28:07,620 --> 04:28:09,859
camera
6072
04:28:10,500 --> 04:28:12,420
um
6073
04:28:12,420 --> 04:28:15,479
you don't have to use Auto align
6074
04:28:15,479 --> 04:28:19,560
the image is in Photoshop because if you
6075
04:28:19,560 --> 04:28:23,659
do that you will pass a birthday
6076
04:28:23,760 --> 04:28:25,979
so you don't have to do that
6077
04:28:25,979 --> 04:28:28,080
because they're already all lined up
6078
04:28:28,080 --> 04:28:31,319
because you did this here
6079
04:28:31,319 --> 04:28:34,140
so it's all about getting life back and
6080
04:28:34,140 --> 04:28:36,180
saving time to be able to go out into
6081
04:28:36,180 --> 04:28:39,359
the into nature and see pretty things so
6082
04:28:39,359 --> 04:28:42,800
now that all of that is done
6083
04:28:43,260 --> 04:28:47,000
let us set up the picture
6084
04:28:49,560 --> 04:28:53,960
this is near Focus photography
6085
04:28:58,199 --> 04:29:01,140
now one of the things that I have
6086
04:29:01,140 --> 04:29:06,239
that I use is I use the Nissi diopter
6087
04:29:06,239 --> 04:29:07,800
which we're not going to do today
6088
04:29:07,800 --> 04:29:10,260
because that changes the configuration
6089
04:29:10,260 --> 04:29:13,020
of the lens and as much as I like to
6090
04:29:13,020 --> 04:29:16,020
play with it I like extension tubes and
6091
04:29:16,020 --> 04:29:17,520
this
6092
04:29:17,520 --> 04:29:19,979
now what we're going to do here is we're
6093
04:29:19,979 --> 04:29:21,600
going to
6094
04:29:21,600 --> 04:29:24,659
frame our photograph
6095
04:29:24,659 --> 04:29:27,920
to bring you down a little bit more
6096
04:29:31,040 --> 04:29:36,180
and this is also made by Nissi
6097
04:29:36,180 --> 04:29:38,819
which I think is a cool little thing
6098
04:29:38,819 --> 04:29:40,460
it's not
6099
04:29:40,460 --> 04:29:42,060
inexpensive
6100
04:29:42,060 --> 04:29:45,239
but what it does is it saves you all
6101
04:29:45,239 --> 04:29:46,199
sorts
6102
04:29:46,199 --> 04:29:47,939
of hassle
6103
04:29:47,939 --> 04:29:51,420
which is macro rails
6104
04:29:51,420 --> 04:29:53,460
to do what I'm going to talk about you
6105
04:29:53,460 --> 04:29:54,659
don't need them
6106
04:29:54,659 --> 04:29:57,420
but if you get into this this makes life
6107
04:29:57,420 --> 04:30:03,020
so much easier so let's first
6108
04:30:05,100 --> 04:30:08,180
frame this up
6109
04:30:09,359 --> 04:30:11,460
now what I can do here
6110
04:30:11,460 --> 04:30:14,520
is I can move this in or I can move this
6111
04:30:14,520 --> 04:30:17,819
back and then I can also move this side
6112
04:30:17,819 --> 04:30:20,159
to side you see how I can fine adjust
6113
04:30:20,159 --> 04:30:22,859
this the issue with doing this type of
6114
04:30:22,859 --> 04:30:27,060
imagery the way I I've found it is oh
6115
04:30:27,060 --> 04:30:31,800
shoot oh no oh shoot oh no oh damn oh no
6116
04:30:31,800 --> 04:30:34,080
versus
6117
04:30:34,080 --> 04:30:36,000
being able to
6118
04:30:36,000 --> 04:30:38,779
simply
6119
04:30:45,840 --> 04:30:48,899
now the problem at hand here
6120
04:30:48,899 --> 04:30:52,260
watch watched the screens
6121
04:30:52,260 --> 04:30:54,359
did you see that blue line
6122
04:30:54,359 --> 04:30:56,220
I'm going to find what is the closest
6123
04:30:56,220 --> 04:30:58,698
thing
6124
04:31:01,140 --> 04:31:04,580
that's where the closest thing is
6125
04:31:04,800 --> 04:31:07,319
if you only get one thing out of this
6126
04:31:07,319 --> 04:31:08,640
class
6127
04:31:08,640 --> 04:31:12,779
please get that
6128
04:31:12,779 --> 04:31:15,720
this has saved me so much hassle and so
6129
04:31:15,720 --> 04:31:18,840
much pain and misery and also please
6130
04:31:18,840 --> 04:31:20,880
feel free to steal it and claim that
6131
04:31:20,880 --> 04:31:22,500
it's yours
6132
04:31:22,500 --> 04:31:24,600
because Talent copies
6133
04:31:24,600 --> 04:31:27,120
genius deals now what I want you to
6134
04:31:27,120 --> 04:31:29,340
watch is the plane of focus
6135
04:31:29,340 --> 04:31:32,159
because it I find that it tends to be a
6136
04:31:32,159 --> 04:31:33,960
literary event with people oh yeah the
6137
04:31:33,960 --> 04:31:36,239
plane of focus and we think that it's
6138
04:31:36,239 --> 04:31:37,680
the focus point that we're focusing on
6139
04:31:37,680 --> 04:31:40,380
watch the blue line as I move it
6140
04:31:40,380 --> 04:31:42,600
that's the plan of focus and it goes all
6141
04:31:42,600 --> 04:31:45,180
the way up the lens or so all the way up
6142
04:31:45,180 --> 04:31:48,479
the frame so as I cross this see this
6143
04:31:48,479 --> 04:31:51,779
anything that crosses the plane of focus
6144
04:31:51,779 --> 04:31:54,540
will be
6145
04:31:54,540 --> 04:31:57,439
in focus
6146
04:31:57,479 --> 04:32:00,540
this is an important concept to get
6147
04:32:00,540 --> 04:32:03,720
so we're right there we have that
6148
04:32:03,720 --> 04:32:08,960
okay let's go to the menu Focus Shift
6149
04:32:13,020 --> 04:32:15,960
now I pet the cats and make a cup of
6150
04:32:15,960 --> 04:32:18,659
coffee wax the car
6151
04:32:18,659 --> 04:32:21,060
don't move
6152
04:32:21,060 --> 04:32:22,680
so right now it's going to be black can
6153
04:32:22,680 --> 04:32:25,260
you can you see the green flashing light
6154
04:32:25,260 --> 04:32:27,479
okay it's taking a picture
6155
04:32:27,479 --> 04:32:29,220
and what's happening is the lens is
6156
04:32:29,220 --> 04:32:31,199
being moved like this
6157
04:32:31,199 --> 04:32:33,479
so I don't have to do this and it's
6158
04:32:33,479 --> 04:32:36,659
going to do it all the way through
6159
04:32:36,659 --> 04:32:39,420
now one of the things that I I do and I
6160
04:32:39,420 --> 04:32:40,680
know that this is
6161
04:32:40,680 --> 04:32:43,979
you're going to gasp because P those
6162
04:32:43,979 --> 04:32:45,300
that know my work know that I always
6163
04:32:45,300 --> 04:32:49,220
shoot in the Raw but not in the buff
6164
04:32:51,720 --> 04:32:54,720
oh come on
6165
04:32:54,720 --> 04:32:58,020
all right no so but you notice where am
6166
04:32:58,020 --> 04:32:59,640
I
6167
04:32:59,640 --> 04:33:02,159
I'm right back at the beginning
6168
04:33:02,159 --> 04:33:03,420
now
6169
04:33:03,420 --> 04:33:05,219
one of the things that I can do what I
6170
04:33:05,219 --> 04:33:08,240
do is I will now
6171
04:33:08,340 --> 04:33:10,980
turn off focus
6172
04:33:10,980 --> 04:33:12,900
so that if I touch the button it doesn't
6173
04:33:12,900 --> 04:33:15,061
automatically focus and you see what
6174
04:33:15,061 --> 04:33:16,618
f-stop am I at
6175
04:33:16,618 --> 04:33:20,759
3.2 so what I'm going to do
6176
04:33:20,759 --> 04:33:22,799
is
6177
04:33:22,799 --> 04:33:24,480
go to
6178
04:33:24,480 --> 04:33:26,219
f
6179
04:33:26,219 --> 04:33:28,080
8.
6180
04:33:28,080 --> 04:33:30,359
now f8 is going to be one second so that
6181
04:33:30,359 --> 04:33:32,219
means that 100 seconds from when I push
6182
04:33:32,219 --> 04:33:36,199
the button will have a picture
6183
04:33:36,299 --> 04:33:38,458
so let's go to
6184
04:33:38,458 --> 04:33:39,840
menu
6185
04:33:39,840 --> 04:33:43,020
let's kick focusing back on let's start
6186
04:33:43,020 --> 04:33:45,840
Focus Shift and hit start
6187
04:33:45,840 --> 04:33:48,900
now why I did that is I have one set of
6188
04:33:48,900 --> 04:33:53,160
shots that is at what maximum aperture
6189
04:33:53,160 --> 04:33:55,379
wide open and I now have one set of
6190
04:33:55,379 --> 04:33:57,359
shots that's at critical aperture
6191
04:33:57,359 --> 04:34:00,299
sharpest it can be
6192
04:34:00,299 --> 04:34:02,520
I now have my cake and eat it too I can
6193
04:34:02,520 --> 04:34:04,799
have the blurriest the camera can be and
6194
04:34:04,799 --> 04:34:06,539
the sharpest the camera can be and I can
6195
04:34:06,539 --> 04:34:08,400
put the two pictures together and people
6196
04:34:08,400 --> 04:34:10,379
will do this how come my pictures never
6197
04:34:10,379 --> 04:34:13,080
look like yours
6198
04:34:13,080 --> 04:34:15,539
don't know
6199
04:34:15,539 --> 04:34:17,759
it's because I understand resolution and
6200
04:34:17,759 --> 04:34:19,980
I understand focus and the camera is now
6201
04:34:19,980 --> 04:34:22,199
capable of doing this all cameras that
6202
04:34:22,199 --> 04:34:24,240
are capable of doing Focus Shift are now
6203
04:34:24,240 --> 04:34:26,400
capable of this particular aesthetic
6204
04:34:26,400 --> 04:34:30,480
choice you can have the TAC sharp shot
6205
04:34:30,480 --> 04:34:33,900
you can have the beautiful bouquet you
6206
04:34:33,900 --> 04:34:36,061
can have both and you can have the
6207
04:34:36,061 --> 04:34:38,458
improbable probability or the probable
6208
04:34:38,458 --> 04:34:40,259
problem no being probable probability
6209
04:34:40,259 --> 04:34:42,180
because you can't do it but you believe
6210
04:34:42,180 --> 04:34:43,740
that it happens
6211
04:34:43,740 --> 04:34:45,599
are there any questions at this point
6212
04:34:45,599 --> 04:34:49,080
because this is how simple that is
6213
04:34:49,080 --> 04:34:50,039
okay
6214
04:34:50,039 --> 04:34:51,840
do I have a question over here
6215
04:34:51,840 --> 04:34:55,020
ah there you are sir
6216
04:34:55,020 --> 04:34:58,199
am I using a z lens I no longer own any
6217
04:34:58,199 --> 04:34:59,699
F glass
6218
04:34:59,699 --> 04:35:03,660
this is the 105 2.8 macro micro nikor
6219
04:35:03,660 --> 04:35:05,879
and I have this at near Focus I'm not
6220
04:35:05,879 --> 04:35:07,080
doing
6221
04:35:07,080 --> 04:35:08,219
um
6222
04:35:08,219 --> 04:35:11,520
macro yet
6223
04:35:11,520 --> 04:35:14,660
macro is next and what we're going to do
6224
04:35:14,660 --> 04:35:17,340
once I get this back is we're going to
6225
04:35:17,340 --> 04:35:21,480
use my favorite flower holder
6226
04:35:21,480 --> 04:35:24,299
the binder clip
6227
04:35:24,299 --> 04:35:27,000
I mean we all have binder clips right
6228
04:35:27,000 --> 04:35:28,080
particularly if you bought a house
6229
04:35:28,080 --> 04:35:30,778
you've got a contract you sign that big
6230
04:35:30,778 --> 04:35:32,458
with the bank
6231
04:35:32,458 --> 04:35:34,520
um
6232
04:35:34,680 --> 04:35:38,219
I'm now going to use one
6233
04:35:38,219 --> 04:35:43,020
thank God two rubber bands
6234
04:35:43,020 --> 04:35:45,180
everybody got this
6235
04:35:45,180 --> 04:35:46,919
now what I would do is I would go over
6236
04:35:46,919 --> 04:35:48,840
here
6237
04:35:48,840 --> 04:35:51,660
I would then
6238
04:35:51,660 --> 04:35:54,118
go to
6239
04:35:54,118 --> 04:35:56,580
scripts once I've loaded this into the
6240
04:35:56,580 --> 04:35:58,699
camera
6241
04:35:59,820 --> 04:36:03,840
load files into stacks
6242
04:36:03,840 --> 04:36:05,520
there is a step before this and once I
6243
04:36:05,520 --> 04:36:07,799
show you this I'll show you that step
6244
04:36:07,799 --> 04:36:10,379
okay I click that this is in Photoshop
6245
04:36:10,379 --> 04:36:14,759
you cannot do this in a Lightroom or raw
6246
04:36:14,759 --> 04:36:16,799
processors it's not something they do
6247
04:36:16,799 --> 04:36:19,680
this is a Photoshop thing I load this in
6248
04:36:19,680 --> 04:36:22,199
I then will everybody got this you want
6249
04:36:22,199 --> 04:36:23,458
to take a cell phone picture of this for
6250
04:36:23,458 --> 04:36:24,719
those that are
6251
04:36:24,719 --> 04:36:26,699
this will also be rebroadcasted so you
6252
04:36:26,699 --> 04:36:29,299
can watch this
6253
04:36:31,199 --> 04:36:32,820
no
6254
04:36:32,820 --> 04:36:36,320
you're right it's not on the screen
6255
04:36:36,719 --> 04:36:39,320
one second
6256
04:36:49,141 --> 04:36:51,359
come on
6257
04:36:51,359 --> 04:36:52,740
there you go
6258
04:36:52,740 --> 04:36:57,118
okay so you go to Scripps load file into
6259
04:36:57,118 --> 04:36:58,379
stack
6260
04:36:58,379 --> 04:37:00,480
in the Photoshop part of this
6261
04:37:00,480 --> 04:37:03,958
how many people have photo mechanic
6262
04:37:03,958 --> 04:37:06,480
right for those of you who don't it will
6263
04:37:06,480 --> 04:37:08,938
be the best eighty dollars you spend you
6264
04:37:08,938 --> 04:37:10,680
don't need the expensive one the cheap
6265
04:37:10,680 --> 04:37:13,561
one why that is is it's the it's a it's
6266
04:37:13,561 --> 04:37:15,480
a browser and what it does is it reads
6267
04:37:15,480 --> 04:37:18,299
the high resolution thumbnail of your
6268
04:37:18,299 --> 04:37:20,520
raw file which means that you can edit
6269
04:37:20,520 --> 04:37:23,299
raw files
6270
04:37:23,520 --> 04:37:25,859
instead of waiting for it to be ingested
6271
04:37:25,859 --> 04:37:27,599
into the raw processor of your choices
6272
04:37:27,599 --> 04:37:30,061
database and looking at it you can pick
6273
04:37:30,061 --> 04:37:31,740
what it is that you want and then you
6274
04:37:31,740 --> 04:37:34,020
can open it up in whatever software you
6275
04:37:34,020 --> 04:37:35,879
use I recommend using the camera
6276
04:37:35,879 --> 04:37:37,799
manufacturer's software because it will
6277
04:37:37,799 --> 04:37:40,080
give you the best color but if you use a
6278
04:37:40,080 --> 04:37:43,799
third-party raw processor I would invite
6279
04:37:43,799 --> 04:37:45,000
you
6280
04:37:45,000 --> 04:37:48,180
to do it that way so what that is is
6281
04:37:48,180 --> 04:37:50,580
it's you put it in it opens it up you
6282
04:37:50,580 --> 04:37:52,740
pick the 75 or whatever number that is
6283
04:37:52,740 --> 04:37:55,259
you then transfer this over here and if
6284
04:37:55,259 --> 04:37:56,580
we look
6285
04:37:56,580 --> 04:37:59,641
at this let me turn this off this is
6286
04:37:59,641 --> 04:38:02,239
Photoshop
6287
04:38:02,759 --> 04:38:05,538
coming in
6288
04:38:09,958 --> 04:38:12,539
this is Photoshop coming in
6289
04:38:12,539 --> 04:38:15,260
and
6290
04:38:15,539 --> 04:38:18,199
picking
6291
04:38:21,118 --> 04:38:25,820
this all the segments that are in focus
6292
04:38:25,859 --> 04:38:27,778
so you see how it says oh this part's in
6293
04:38:27,778 --> 04:38:29,879
focus and it takes all the sharp parts
6294
04:38:29,879 --> 04:38:32,160
of those 75 pictures and puts it
6295
04:38:32,160 --> 04:38:35,039
together and then leaves the blur where
6296
04:38:35,039 --> 04:38:36,599
you want it so what I wanted was the
6297
04:38:36,599 --> 04:38:39,180
face of this watch in Focus this is my
6298
04:38:39,180 --> 04:38:40,039
great great great great great
6299
04:38:40,039 --> 04:38:43,458
grandfather's pocket watch
6300
04:38:44,099 --> 04:38:46,320
and so I figured that would be cool and
6301
04:38:46,320 --> 04:38:48,599
so I have the face in focus and I have
6302
04:38:48,599 --> 04:38:50,099
the blur here
6303
04:38:50,099 --> 04:38:52,799
and I have the cufflinks out of focus
6304
04:38:52,799 --> 04:38:54,900
and what I'm able to do when it's all
6305
04:38:54,900 --> 04:38:55,740
done
6306
04:38:55,740 --> 04:38:59,099
is have that I can see how this matches
6307
04:38:59,099 --> 04:39:00,840
up perfectly and it's blurred in the
6308
04:39:00,840 --> 04:39:01,859
back
6309
04:39:01,859 --> 04:39:04,020
and you see how this is all in Focus but
6310
04:39:04,020 --> 04:39:07,379
I have beautiful bouquet here
6311
04:39:07,379 --> 04:39:10,141
that's an improbable image
6312
04:39:10,141 --> 04:39:12,359
there is really no way to do this other
6313
04:39:12,359 --> 04:39:13,799
than that
6314
04:39:13,799 --> 04:39:17,840
so now let's go to the next picture
6315
04:39:23,520 --> 04:39:26,938
which is going to be quickly setting up
6316
04:39:26,938 --> 04:39:29,419
a photograph
6317
04:39:37,020 --> 04:39:39,920
using one
6318
04:39:47,340 --> 04:39:50,580
grid how many of you have these
6319
04:39:50,580 --> 04:39:53,280
you can buy these godox makes them
6320
04:39:53,280 --> 04:39:55,500
they're inexpensive and you get a whole
6321
04:39:55,500 --> 04:39:58,200
set of them for like I think it's forty
6322
04:39:58,200 --> 04:40:01,080
five dollars fifty dollars plus a um
6323
04:40:01,080 --> 04:40:03,900
a reflector that you can use my favorite
6324
04:40:03,900 --> 04:40:05,580
tool
6325
04:40:05,580 --> 04:40:10,280
velcro invented by the Vulcans
6326
04:40:10,740 --> 04:40:13,920
and you can make a volk a thing to fit
6327
04:40:13,920 --> 04:40:16,378
so what I'm going to do here
6328
04:40:16,378 --> 04:40:18,360
with my tripod
6329
04:40:18,360 --> 04:40:21,560
and my rubber band
6330
04:40:22,860 --> 04:40:25,700
is
6331
04:40:29,458 --> 04:40:32,480
I now have
6332
04:40:35,400 --> 04:40:37,020
a grid spot
6333
04:40:37,020 --> 04:40:38,878
with the ring light
6334
04:40:38,878 --> 04:40:42,440
that is capable
6335
04:40:43,440 --> 04:40:47,420
of that so let's do the same thing
6336
04:40:48,060 --> 04:40:50,780
over here
6337
04:40:52,260 --> 04:40:55,100
let's use
6338
04:40:57,360 --> 04:41:00,360
this finer grid and the finer grid will
6339
04:41:00,360 --> 04:41:04,640
give me even less light
6340
04:41:32,580 --> 04:41:35,060
up
6341
04:41:35,400 --> 04:41:37,620
ah somebody didn't put his batteries in
6342
04:41:37,620 --> 04:41:39,798
right
6343
04:41:54,540 --> 04:41:56,638
now
6344
04:41:56,638 --> 04:41:59,100
let's really
6345
04:41:59,100 --> 04:42:02,298
let's go macro
6346
04:42:20,580 --> 04:42:23,420
that'd be good
6347
04:42:47,820 --> 04:42:50,340
okay I like that but
6348
04:42:50,340 --> 04:42:52,680
I have some problems with it
6349
04:42:52,680 --> 04:42:56,360
what would those problems be
6350
04:42:56,400 --> 04:42:58,620
boring
6351
04:42:58,620 --> 04:43:01,100
out
6352
04:43:03,060 --> 04:43:04,620
you're with my friend John over there no
6353
04:43:04,620 --> 04:43:05,878
one likes you
6354
04:43:05,878 --> 04:43:07,260
no
6355
04:43:07,260 --> 04:43:09,840
this is a problem right
6356
04:43:09,840 --> 04:43:12,378
so
6357
04:43:15,000 --> 04:43:17,480
one
6358
04:43:22,020 --> 04:43:24,740
boring
6359
04:43:39,120 --> 04:43:41,400
here's what's really cool about my
6360
04:43:41,400 --> 04:43:44,360
flower holder
6361
04:43:45,360 --> 04:43:48,600
still boring okay no okay good
6362
04:43:48,600 --> 04:43:51,620
thank God for that
6363
04:44:04,860 --> 04:44:06,360
all right
6364
04:44:06,360 --> 04:44:08,400
here's the thing that I've observed over
6365
04:44:08,400 --> 04:44:12,000
the years that I've never done
6366
04:44:12,000 --> 04:44:13,260
ever
6367
04:44:13,260 --> 04:44:17,940
is I make the mistake of I see this
6368
04:44:17,940 --> 04:44:21,079
what's the camera see
6369
04:44:21,420 --> 04:44:22,680
this
6370
04:44:22,680 --> 04:44:24,180
so rather than going oh my God
6371
04:44:24,180 --> 04:44:25,620
everything's everything you see you see
6372
04:44:25,620 --> 04:44:27,120
what's happening when I move
6373
04:44:27,120 --> 04:44:28,740
that's the thing I say you need to pay
6374
04:44:28,740 --> 04:44:30,600
attention to
6375
04:44:30,600 --> 04:44:32,340
is
6376
04:44:32,340 --> 04:44:34,080
the pretty
6377
04:44:34,080 --> 04:44:36,958
in this image
6378
04:44:36,958 --> 04:44:41,458
will be how I play with a slight level
6379
04:44:41,458 --> 04:44:44,280
of detail in the blur
6380
04:44:44,280 --> 04:44:47,160
the area of attack on this image is
6381
04:44:47,160 --> 04:44:50,040
going to be how I hold your eye
6382
04:44:50,040 --> 04:44:52,200
with these nooks and cranny hard
6383
04:44:52,200 --> 04:44:54,600
elements because a very important thing
6384
04:44:54,600 --> 04:44:56,280
to keep in mind about the way the eye
6385
04:44:56,280 --> 04:44:59,218
tracks a photograph is the eye is always
6386
04:44:59,218 --> 04:45:02,280
in a seek mode it doesn't want to look
6387
04:45:02,280 --> 04:45:05,040
at the pictures always
6388
04:45:05,040 --> 04:45:08,340
so what's your job as a visual artist
6389
04:45:08,340 --> 04:45:11,520
okay my job is to grab you hold you put
6390
04:45:11,520 --> 04:45:12,958
two fingers in your nose and go look
6391
04:45:12,958 --> 04:45:16,200
here look here look here and then have
6392
04:45:16,200 --> 04:45:19,020
you thank me for it
6393
04:45:19,020 --> 04:45:22,440
okay my other job
6394
04:45:22,440 --> 04:45:25,860
pardon me oh
6395
04:45:25,860 --> 04:45:28,620
47 arrests not one conviction just keep
6396
04:45:28,620 --> 04:45:30,900
that in mind
6397
04:45:30,900 --> 04:45:33,440
so
6398
04:45:35,580 --> 04:45:37,020
you're not supposed to laugh at your own
6399
04:45:37,020 --> 04:45:40,798
jokes okay so what I'm going to do here
6400
04:45:40,798 --> 04:45:42,660
is I'm already seeing where the edges
6401
04:45:42,660 --> 04:45:44,900
are
6402
04:45:45,660 --> 04:45:46,980
so
6403
04:45:46,980 --> 04:45:50,000
I'm going to
6404
04:45:52,680 --> 04:45:56,240
go to where I
6405
04:45:57,660 --> 04:45:59,400
according to this
6406
04:45:59,400 --> 04:46:02,638
that's the first element of focus
6407
04:46:02,638 --> 04:46:04,620
what's the most important one of the
6408
04:46:04,620 --> 04:46:07,260
most important things in this picture
6409
04:46:07,260 --> 04:46:09,298
that knowledge
6410
04:46:09,298 --> 04:46:12,360
and it will always go back now what I
6411
04:46:12,360 --> 04:46:15,080
can do here
6412
04:46:15,840 --> 04:46:18,560
is
6413
04:46:19,740 --> 04:46:21,840
just by the way the camera meters Center
6414
04:46:21,840 --> 04:46:23,940
wait what happened to the picture Matrix
6415
04:46:23,940 --> 04:46:25,860
Center weight we haven't gotten to
6416
04:46:25,860 --> 04:46:27,360
playing with the light yet I just want
6417
04:46:27,360 --> 04:46:28,980
you to see this
6418
04:46:28,980 --> 04:46:32,520
spot and highlight
6419
04:46:32,520 --> 04:46:36,500
so what's happening here
6420
04:46:37,260 --> 04:46:39,859
is
6421
04:46:42,000 --> 04:46:45,138
and I can with this
6422
04:46:47,040 --> 04:46:49,320
move it so that I can get the picture
6423
04:46:49,320 --> 04:46:51,660
right where I want it which is right
6424
04:46:51,660 --> 04:46:53,900
there
6425
04:46:58,860 --> 04:47:00,840
let's move this
6426
04:47:00,840 --> 04:47:03,180
over just a hair
6427
04:47:03,180 --> 04:47:06,060
you see how this is now a lot easier
6428
04:47:06,060 --> 04:47:08,040
okay
6429
04:47:08,040 --> 04:47:10,020
oh that's too much in that one lower
6430
04:47:10,020 --> 04:47:11,520
corner
6431
04:47:11,520 --> 04:47:13,980
okay
6432
04:47:13,980 --> 04:47:16,378
problem solved
6433
04:47:16,378 --> 04:47:19,440
now what I'm going to do is let's go
6434
04:47:19,440 --> 04:47:21,120
back to finding what is the nearest
6435
04:47:21,120 --> 04:47:24,440
focus on this picture
6436
04:47:29,040 --> 04:47:30,540
right there
6437
04:47:30,540 --> 04:47:33,660
it's that one right here
6438
04:47:33,660 --> 04:47:36,180
when I don't walk and move that was in
6439
04:47:36,180 --> 04:47:38,480
focus
6440
04:47:40,620 --> 04:47:42,958
so apparently for the entire shot I'm
6441
04:47:42,958 --> 04:47:46,020
going to have to stand here
6442
04:47:46,020 --> 04:47:47,458
all right
6443
04:47:47,458 --> 04:47:50,218
so we got all that right now the other
6444
04:47:50,218 --> 04:47:52,260
thing that I can do
6445
04:47:52,260 --> 04:47:57,420
is I can now dial up
6446
04:47:57,420 --> 04:48:00,260
this light
6447
04:48:01,500 --> 04:48:03,600
that's too much
6448
04:48:03,600 --> 04:48:06,718
that's plenty
6449
04:48:06,718 --> 04:48:09,420
I think what I want over here
6450
04:48:09,420 --> 04:48:11,520
is I think I want
6451
04:48:11,520 --> 04:48:13,560
more light
6452
04:48:13,560 --> 04:48:15,660
see what happened
6453
04:48:15,660 --> 04:48:17,218
that's what's cool about these lights is
6454
04:48:17,218 --> 04:48:19,620
I can control them and if I have ways to
6455
04:48:19,620 --> 04:48:23,040
modify them what I can then do is paint
6456
04:48:23,040 --> 04:48:24,540
with light
6457
04:48:24,540 --> 04:48:27,060
this was a lesson that my mentor gave me
6458
04:48:27,060 --> 04:48:30,240
a a guy named Jamie Zell
6459
04:48:30,240 --> 04:48:33,120
he approached light this way he
6460
04:48:33,120 --> 04:48:35,700
approached light he approaches light as
6461
04:48:35,700 --> 04:48:38,820
if it is a solid object yes if you're a
6462
04:48:38,820 --> 04:48:41,040
physicist we can argue that it's not
6463
04:48:41,040 --> 04:48:42,840
solid it's a particle or a wave and all
6464
04:48:42,840 --> 04:48:45,360
that but conceptually if you treat it
6465
04:48:45,360 --> 04:48:47,940
like it's a solid object and your
6466
04:48:47,940 --> 04:48:48,980
subject
6467
04:48:48,980 --> 04:48:51,120
interrupts the light
6468
04:48:51,120 --> 04:48:53,700
if the light's pretty everything that
6469
04:48:53,700 --> 04:48:56,280
interrupts the pretty light will be what
6470
04:48:56,280 --> 04:48:57,480
pretty
6471
04:48:57,480 --> 04:48:59,458
I have a friend
6472
04:48:59,458 --> 04:49:01,860
my friend Lee who's an interior designer
6473
04:49:01,860 --> 04:49:04,680
and he I stole this and I claim it's
6474
04:49:04,680 --> 04:49:08,820
mine light are the jewels of the room
6475
04:49:08,820 --> 04:49:12,900
light is the Jewel of the photograph
6476
04:49:12,900 --> 04:49:16,200
the word photography photography means
6477
04:49:16,200 --> 04:49:19,680
to write with light you are all
6478
04:49:19,680 --> 04:49:24,420
light riders and you wield a lightsaber
6479
04:49:24,420 --> 04:49:26,280
you have some other advantages here you
6480
04:49:26,280 --> 04:49:28,138
freeze time
6481
04:49:28,138 --> 04:49:30,600
now with this you see how I'm playing
6482
04:49:30,600 --> 04:49:33,000
with the light and dark of the image
6483
04:49:33,000 --> 04:49:35,638
and with just changing
6484
04:49:35,638 --> 04:49:40,160
the different exposure modes
6485
04:49:43,138 --> 04:49:46,500
see how I changed the image by how the
6486
04:49:46,500 --> 04:49:49,320
camera measures the light and how this
6487
04:49:49,320 --> 04:49:51,600
is highlight metering so what it does is
6488
04:49:51,600 --> 04:49:54,360
it compensates for highlights this is I
6489
04:49:54,360 --> 04:49:55,980
use this a lot when I photograph film
6490
04:49:55,980 --> 04:49:58,260
sets particularly with dark backgrounds
6491
04:49:58,260 --> 04:49:59,940
because I'll have all this light and I
6492
04:49:59,940 --> 04:50:01,798
blow this subject out with this part
6493
04:50:01,798 --> 04:50:04,260
this system does is it goes oh you want
6494
04:50:04,260 --> 04:50:06,420
me to go for the highlights okay
6495
04:50:06,420 --> 04:50:08,820
so this becomes interesting and what I
6496
04:50:08,820 --> 04:50:11,760
would do what we're doing here is I
6497
04:50:11,760 --> 04:50:13,560
would shoot the shot this way then I
6498
04:50:13,560 --> 04:50:15,180
would shoot the shot another way with a
6499
04:50:15,180 --> 04:50:16,980
metering system with different light and
6500
04:50:16,980 --> 04:50:19,440
then what do I have the ability to do
6501
04:50:19,440 --> 04:50:21,120
blend them together
6502
04:50:21,120 --> 04:50:23,340
using a piece of software that's not
6503
04:50:23,340 --> 04:50:25,020
designed to do this which is HDR
6504
04:50:25,020 --> 04:50:26,400
software
6505
04:50:26,400 --> 04:50:28,620
right because this isn't really an HDR
6506
04:50:28,620 --> 04:50:31,860
photograph but I can use the technology
6507
04:50:31,860 --> 04:50:34,440
to be able to marry it all together
6508
04:50:34,440 --> 04:50:36,298
because one of the things that I think
6509
04:50:36,298 --> 04:50:38,820
is important to allow yourself to do is
6510
04:50:38,820 --> 04:50:40,740
to not put your knowledge of things into
6511
04:50:40,740 --> 04:50:42,958
boxes
6512
04:50:42,958 --> 04:50:45,298
look at what something does observe what
6513
04:50:45,298 --> 04:50:47,940
it does and go huh if I do this it does
6514
04:50:47,940 --> 04:50:49,920
that that means that if I do this it
6515
04:50:49,920 --> 04:50:51,600
should do that
6516
04:50:51,600 --> 04:50:53,400
don't just say oh I can only use this
6517
04:50:53,400 --> 04:50:55,440
for HDR no
6518
04:50:55,440 --> 04:50:58,400
I can make an HDR out of one file I can
6519
04:50:58,400 --> 04:51:02,520
go one plus n and n minus and then I can
6520
04:51:02,520 --> 04:51:04,440
use the software to put together an
6521
04:51:04,440 --> 04:51:06,120
extended dynamic range because I have
6522
04:51:06,120 --> 04:51:08,280
two and a half stops of information in
6523
04:51:08,280 --> 04:51:10,798
the shadow I have 14 stops at dynamic
6524
04:51:10,798 --> 04:51:12,540
range in the total file
6525
04:51:12,540 --> 04:51:15,660
so if I do that I can extend my dynamic
6526
04:51:15,660 --> 04:51:18,958
range and I can fill in my Shadows so
6527
04:51:18,958 --> 04:51:21,900
it's all about not getting busted
6528
04:51:21,900 --> 04:51:24,180
it's all about when you're done when
6529
04:51:24,180 --> 04:51:26,400
people look at this flower my job is to
6530
04:51:26,400 --> 04:51:28,920
make it so that what you see first is my
6531
04:51:28,920 --> 04:51:30,420
picture of the of this type of flower
6532
04:51:30,420 --> 04:51:33,298
then you see the flower if I can
6533
04:51:33,298 --> 04:51:36,240
accomplish that task as an artist I did
6534
04:51:36,240 --> 04:51:37,980
my job
6535
04:51:37,980 --> 04:51:43,320
I made it so that you can see everything
6536
04:51:43,320 --> 04:51:45,958
wow
6537
04:51:45,958 --> 04:51:49,138
I landed This Plane
6538
04:51:49,138 --> 04:51:51,120
okay I have I have one more
6539
04:51:51,120 --> 04:51:54,000
because it would not be
6540
04:51:54,000 --> 04:51:57,540
of Versace demonstration of Focus Shift
6541
04:51:57,540 --> 04:52:00,600
without blueberries and strawberries
6542
04:52:00,600 --> 04:52:02,280
of which you're all welcome to eat some
6543
04:52:02,280 --> 04:52:03,780
when we're done
6544
04:52:03,780 --> 04:52:08,120
so any questions about what I did here
6545
04:52:08,458 --> 04:52:11,878
I did too this one here
6546
04:52:11,878 --> 04:52:14,820
is highlight spot metering
6547
04:52:14,820 --> 04:52:16,200
okay
6548
04:52:16,200 --> 04:52:20,280
and if I go here this is spot
6549
04:52:20,280 --> 04:52:22,200
this is center right in this instance
6550
04:52:22,200 --> 04:52:24,360
they're more or less the same and this
6551
04:52:24,360 --> 04:52:27,020
is Matrix
6552
04:52:27,298 --> 04:52:29,878
I would probably shoot one of each why
6553
04:52:29,878 --> 04:52:31,920
because I'm here
6554
04:52:31,920 --> 04:52:34,680
no I'm serious I'm here and I'm never
6555
04:52:34,680 --> 04:52:36,360
going to be able to line this all up
6556
04:52:36,360 --> 04:52:39,420
again so why not you bought the camera
6557
04:52:39,420 --> 04:52:40,320
right
6558
04:52:40,320 --> 04:52:43,200
you bought the the card right you bought
6559
04:52:43,200 --> 04:52:45,480
the lens so how much did you pay for all
6560
04:52:45,480 --> 04:52:47,520
this get that number in your head if you
6561
04:52:47,520 --> 04:52:50,160
only took one shot how much of that one
6562
04:52:50,160 --> 04:52:51,840
shot cost you
6563
04:52:51,840 --> 04:52:54,060
your return on investment but if you do
6564
04:52:54,060 --> 04:52:55,980
10 000 shots
6565
04:52:55,980 --> 04:52:58,500
your Roi is a dollar per shot you saved
6566
04:52:58,500 --> 04:53:01,940
money you can buy more camera gear
6567
04:53:02,638 --> 04:53:04,740
try that on your spouses see if that
6568
04:53:04,740 --> 04:53:07,100
works
6569
04:53:10,138 --> 04:53:12,660
I'm saying that you should look
6570
04:53:12,660 --> 04:53:15,718
and determine what you like
6571
04:53:15,718 --> 04:53:18,600
okay in this instance I like highlight
6572
04:53:18,600 --> 04:53:20,820
and I like
6573
04:53:20,820 --> 04:53:22,920
um Matrix
6574
04:53:22,920 --> 04:53:25,280
it's not a there's not a if then always
6575
04:53:25,280 --> 04:53:28,260
okay it's a
6576
04:53:28,260 --> 04:53:31,620
what do I like whose picture is it your
6577
04:53:31,620 --> 04:53:32,580
picture
6578
04:53:32,580 --> 04:53:36,360
doesn't matter what anybody else thinks
6579
04:53:36,360 --> 04:53:38,160
well I know if you're going a contest
6580
04:53:38,160 --> 04:53:39,840
and you want the judge
6581
04:53:39,840 --> 04:53:41,940
I can tell you how you win contests and
6582
04:53:41,940 --> 04:53:43,560
get more work
6583
04:53:43,560 --> 04:53:44,940
and I know this sounds like I'm an
6584
04:53:44,940 --> 04:53:46,860
absolute ego pig when I say this but
6585
04:53:46,860 --> 04:53:48,958
this was a discovery that I made I don't
6586
04:53:48,958 --> 04:53:50,820
care what you think
6587
04:53:50,820 --> 04:53:53,580
I didn't make the picture for you I made
6588
04:53:53,580 --> 04:53:56,040
the picture for me because it felt like
6589
04:53:56,040 --> 04:53:58,440
when I saw it and if I can be true to my
6590
04:53:58,440 --> 04:54:01,260
heart in my work others will look at
6591
04:54:01,260 --> 04:54:04,500
that and go damn that's cool and that's
6592
04:54:04,500 --> 04:54:05,760
what I'm after because if you're trying
6593
04:54:05,760 --> 04:54:07,500
to make a picture for somebody that
6594
04:54:07,500 --> 04:54:08,940
you've never met you'd best hope that
6595
04:54:08,940 --> 04:54:11,218
they have good taste because you've
6596
04:54:11,218 --> 04:54:13,500
never met them you have no idea what
6597
04:54:13,500 --> 04:54:15,240
they like but you do have an idea of
6598
04:54:15,240 --> 04:54:16,740
what you like
6599
04:54:16,740 --> 04:54:20,100
and you got into photography for who
6600
04:54:20,100 --> 04:54:23,458
okay so that at 4 37 in the morning when
6601
04:54:23,458 --> 04:54:24,958
you're finally done and the cat's tired
6602
04:54:24,958 --> 04:54:27,420
of sitting on the keyboard going
6603
04:54:27,420 --> 04:54:29,638
it's time to go to bed
6604
04:54:29,638 --> 04:54:32,820
you have a picture that blows you away
6605
04:54:32,820 --> 04:54:34,500
first
6606
04:54:34,500 --> 04:54:36,780
because once you make the print and I I
6607
04:54:36,780 --> 04:54:38,760
have some prints up at the Epson booth
6608
04:54:38,760 --> 04:54:40,798
and some stuff up at the Nikon booth
6609
04:54:40,798 --> 04:54:42,360
those prints are on their own little
6610
04:54:42,360 --> 04:54:44,400
journey in life and nothing makes my day
6611
04:54:44,400 --> 04:54:45,540
more don't get me wrong when somebody
6612
04:54:45,540 --> 04:54:48,180
looks at my pictures and go wow but if
6613
04:54:48,180 --> 04:54:49,798
you don't like my pictures my attitude
6614
04:54:49,798 --> 04:54:53,420
really is I know something about you
6615
04:54:55,500 --> 04:54:58,260
to which I'm sure in the comments I am
6616
04:54:58,260 --> 04:55:00,000
going to hear endless grief about that
6617
04:55:00,000 --> 04:55:00,900
statement
6618
04:55:00,900 --> 04:55:03,020
but my point is they're your pictures
6619
04:55:03,020 --> 04:55:05,280
embrace them love them enjoy them and
6620
04:55:05,280 --> 04:55:07,680
make them for you you will be happier
6621
04:55:07,680 --> 04:55:09,420
and you'll spend less money on therapy
6622
04:55:09,420 --> 04:55:11,280
trust me
6623
04:55:11,280 --> 04:55:15,020
all right the berries
6624
04:55:21,000 --> 04:55:23,040
Too Close you say
6625
04:55:23,040 --> 04:55:25,440
Pasha
6626
04:55:25,440 --> 04:55:28,520
fish Shaw
6627
04:55:46,798 --> 04:55:48,958
now the reason why I turned the camera
6628
04:55:48,958 --> 04:55:50,160
off
6629
04:55:50,160 --> 04:55:53,780
was so that I could do what
6630
04:55:55,080 --> 04:55:56,700
hold on
6631
04:55:56,700 --> 04:55:58,260
this is at one of those weird angles
6632
04:55:58,260 --> 04:56:01,039
that I can't see
6633
04:56:02,400 --> 04:56:05,180
there we go
6634
04:56:27,600 --> 04:56:30,780
so right there it's that green leaf
6635
04:56:30,780 --> 04:56:33,840
we don't like that green leaf
6636
04:56:33,840 --> 04:56:36,620
you may go
6637
04:56:43,320 --> 04:56:46,940
so I have my lead strawberry
6638
04:56:47,340 --> 04:56:50,480
see how close I can get
6639
04:56:52,458 --> 04:56:54,540
thank you
6640
04:56:54,540 --> 04:56:57,180
that almost was an expensive
6641
04:56:57,180 --> 04:56:59,520
accident
6642
04:56:59,520 --> 04:57:00,120
um
6643
04:57:00,120 --> 04:57:01,920
I now
6644
04:57:01,920 --> 04:57:06,180
can take my 105 and get it even closer
6645
04:57:06,180 --> 04:57:08,280
because what I'm doing is I'm changing
6646
04:57:08,280 --> 04:57:11,100
the physics of the way the lens Works
6647
04:57:11,100 --> 04:57:15,980
without disrupting the Optics
6648
04:57:18,420 --> 04:57:20,160
you're sure you don't want to follow me
6649
04:57:20,160 --> 04:57:23,000
wherever I go
6650
04:57:25,080 --> 04:57:26,280
sorry
6651
04:57:26,280 --> 04:57:29,340
so I love these because this is a quick
6652
04:57:29,340 --> 04:57:33,660
makes any lens macro
6653
04:57:34,458 --> 04:57:37,699
105 bucks
6654
04:57:37,860 --> 04:57:40,980
um oh do this please do this got it
6655
04:57:40,980 --> 04:57:42,840
please do this
6656
04:57:42,840 --> 04:57:46,980
this is my super secret email address if
6657
04:57:46,980 --> 04:57:49,560
you have a question please feel free to
6658
04:57:49,560 --> 04:57:51,780
send me an email I will eventually
6659
04:57:51,780 --> 04:57:53,638
answer it
6660
04:57:53,638 --> 04:57:54,780
ready
6661
04:57:54,780 --> 04:57:56,040
Vincent
6662
04:57:56,040 --> 04:57:59,760
at versacephotography.com
6663
04:58:01,440 --> 04:58:03,840
if you can't remember that
6664
04:58:03,840 --> 04:58:05,700
or my name
6665
04:58:05,700 --> 04:58:07,378
tough
6666
04:58:07,378 --> 04:58:10,020
I'm I'm there to help do I'm going to be
6667
04:58:10,020 --> 04:58:11,400
out of the country for the next six
6668
04:58:11,400 --> 04:58:13,620
weeks so I may be a little slow getting
6669
04:58:13,620 --> 04:58:15,540
back here's the other thing you can do
6670
04:58:15,540 --> 04:58:16,798
for me
6671
04:58:16,798 --> 04:58:18,600
if I don't get back to you in a timely
6672
04:58:18,600 --> 04:58:21,420
fashion you Hammer me
6673
04:58:21,420 --> 04:58:23,458
and pester me until I answer your
6674
04:58:23,458 --> 04:58:27,298
question you are doing me a favor
6675
04:58:27,298 --> 04:58:29,700
I'm not blowing you off like I'm going
6676
04:58:29,700 --> 04:58:31,980
to be in Cuba for uh 10 days and then
6677
04:58:31,980 --> 04:58:34,200
I'm in Portugal on Madera so I don't
6678
04:58:34,200 --> 04:58:37,798
know what my cell coverage is or my
6679
04:58:37,798 --> 04:58:40,500
internet is so I know that in Cuba I
6680
04:58:40,500 --> 04:58:43,580
will get internet twice
6681
04:58:45,060 --> 04:58:47,218
things are different down there
6682
04:58:47,218 --> 04:58:50,040
but I want I'm here to help that's my
6683
04:58:50,040 --> 04:58:51,958
job I live a blessed life and my job is
6684
04:58:51,958 --> 04:58:53,638
to make your life as easy as I can
6685
04:58:53,638 --> 04:58:55,798
possibly can if I can
6686
04:58:55,798 --> 04:58:59,400
are there any questions here
6687
04:58:59,400 --> 04:59:00,900
Vincent
6688
04:59:00,900 --> 04:59:03,138
at
6689
04:59:03,138 --> 04:59:04,798
versacephotography.com all right I'll
6690
04:59:04,798 --> 04:59:06,120
give you the other secret really secret
6691
04:59:06,120 --> 04:59:07,760
one
6692
04:59:07,760 --> 04:59:11,480
vincent.versachi gmail.com
6693
04:59:12,540 --> 04:59:17,060
so send me an email I'm there to help
6694
04:59:17,520 --> 04:59:20,160
I have three minutes before I get shoot
6695
04:59:20,160 --> 04:59:22,980
off the stage
6696
04:59:22,980 --> 04:59:25,320
how can I any questions here anything I
6697
04:59:25,320 --> 04:59:26,458
can
6698
04:59:26,458 --> 04:59:28,740
was this did I explain it in a way in
6699
04:59:28,740 --> 04:59:30,360
which made sense
6700
04:59:30,360 --> 04:59:32,400
is it do you see how much how really
6701
04:59:32,400 --> 04:59:34,440
easy it actually is
6702
04:59:34,440 --> 04:59:36,420
it's just tedious
6703
04:59:36,420 --> 04:59:39,000
but it's fun these pictures are an
6704
04:59:39,000 --> 04:59:41,340
absolute utter blast
6705
04:59:41,340 --> 04:59:43,560
and on that note thank you very much for
6706
04:59:43,560 --> 04:59:46,430
sharing some time with me
6707
04:59:46,430 --> 04:59:49,620
[Applause]
6708
04:59:49,620 --> 04:59:51,540
thank you Vincent you're also doing a
6709
04:59:51,540 --> 04:59:53,160
meet and greet over at the godox booth
6710
04:59:53,160 --> 04:59:54,900
so if you have those questions you can
6711
04:59:54,900 --> 04:59:57,900
catch them for the next hour or so
6712
04:59:57,900 --> 05:00:00,740
now you know
6713
05:00:04,870 --> 05:00:07,980
[Music]
6714
05:00:08,940 --> 05:00:11,480
okay
6715
05:00:42,200 --> 05:00:45,260
all right
6716
05:02:52,580 --> 05:02:55,638
thank you
6717
05:02:58,620 --> 05:03:01,620
foreign
6718
05:04:28,580 --> 05:04:31,580
thank you
6719
05:07:05,280 --> 05:07:07,458
thank you
6720
05:07:31,878 --> 05:07:34,878
congratulations
6721
05:07:35,060 --> 05:07:39,740
are you going to get a cocktail oh
6722
05:07:44,878 --> 05:07:48,860
apparently this mic is hot
6723
05:07:55,260 --> 05:07:56,760
everyone's heads turned though they're
6724
05:07:56,760 --> 05:07:59,059
like yeah
6725
05:08:03,298 --> 05:08:05,160
oh
6726
05:08:05,160 --> 05:08:08,780
why because you're gonna get it
6727
05:08:54,080 --> 05:08:57,440
yeah yep
6728
05:09:00,060 --> 05:09:01,378
okay
6729
05:09:01,378 --> 05:09:03,780
hi everyone how's it going is everyone
6730
05:09:03,780 --> 05:09:05,458
having fun today
6731
05:09:05,458 --> 05:09:07,260
all right I've been having fun I've been
6732
05:09:07,260 --> 05:09:09,298
over at the booth all day so I've been
6733
05:09:09,298 --> 05:09:11,580
talking all day so I'm a little hoarse
6734
05:09:11,580 --> 05:09:13,320
um if you need me to speak up just say
6735
05:09:13,320 --> 05:09:14,940
louder
6736
05:09:14,940 --> 05:09:16,440
uh today we're going to be talking
6737
05:09:16,440 --> 05:09:18,420
Adventure photography this is this is
6738
05:09:18,420 --> 05:09:20,458
what I do so we're gonna just Dive Right
6739
05:09:20,458 --> 05:09:22,798
In Here We Go
6740
05:09:22,798 --> 05:09:25,260
uh quick introduction who am I my name
6741
05:09:25,260 --> 05:09:27,060
is Liam Duran I live in Breckenridge
6742
05:09:27,060 --> 05:09:29,160
Colorado if anyone has been to
6743
05:09:29,160 --> 05:09:30,660
Breckenridge Colorado as you can imagine
6744
05:09:30,660 --> 05:09:32,280
for an adventure photographer it's
6745
05:09:32,280 --> 05:09:34,798
pretty much the ideal spot to live right
6746
05:09:34,798 --> 05:09:37,080
out my door I can get uh I can be back
6747
05:09:37,080 --> 05:09:39,060
country skiing mountain biking fly
6748
05:09:39,060 --> 05:09:40,560
fishing I have access to Great
6749
05:09:40,560 --> 05:09:44,280
Landscapes and Wildlife all within a 50
6750
05:09:44,280 --> 05:09:46,620
mile radius even less than that 20 mile
6751
05:09:46,620 --> 05:09:48,600
radius of my house so it's a good spot
6752
05:09:48,600 --> 05:09:50,040
to be
6753
05:09:50,040 --> 05:09:52,200
so what do I shoot I shoot well
6754
05:09:52,200 --> 05:09:54,060
adventure sports Adventure I shoot a lot
6755
05:09:54,060 --> 05:09:55,860
of backcountry skiing I shoot a lot of
6756
05:09:55,860 --> 05:09:57,298
mountain biking I shoot a lot of
6757
05:09:57,298 --> 05:09:59,520
kayaking and fly fishing but in addition
6758
05:09:59,520 --> 05:10:01,500
to that I also do the landscape and the
6759
05:10:01,500 --> 05:10:03,840
wildlife as well
6760
05:10:03,840 --> 05:10:05,820
who do I shoot for I shoot a lot for
6761
05:10:05,820 --> 05:10:08,760
Brands and magazines uh dmos at
6762
05:10:08,760 --> 05:10:11,060
destination marketing organizations
6763
05:10:11,060 --> 05:10:13,980
and I shoot for tourism boards so that's
6764
05:10:13,980 --> 05:10:16,740
kind of like that that's my general
6765
05:10:16,740 --> 05:10:19,378
pool of folks that I work for
6766
05:10:19,378 --> 05:10:23,040
my inspiration is easy as a kid I grew
6767
05:10:23,040 --> 05:10:25,200
up in Colorado and on my coffee table
6768
05:10:25,200 --> 05:10:29,160
every day I had National Geographic you
6769
05:10:29,160 --> 05:10:30,540
guys probably had the same you probably
6770
05:10:30,540 --> 05:10:33,780
had life I had Powder Magazine ski
6771
05:10:33,780 --> 05:10:37,020
magazine I had the Patagonia catalog
6772
05:10:37,020 --> 05:10:38,878
back then it was called the I believe it
6773
05:10:38,878 --> 05:10:40,920
was called chanard I had all that stuff
6774
05:10:40,920 --> 05:10:42,660
right in front of me and I always
6775
05:10:42,660 --> 05:10:45,180
wondered how these people did this how
6776
05:10:45,180 --> 05:10:47,638
are they making a living out of being
6777
05:10:47,638 --> 05:10:50,638
out of Adventure how do you do it but
6778
05:10:50,638 --> 05:10:52,440
those are the people that inspired me or
6779
05:10:52,440 --> 05:10:54,000
those are the magazines that inspired me
6780
05:10:54,000 --> 05:10:56,700
and the photographers Galen Rowell art
6781
05:10:56,700 --> 05:10:59,580
wolf Franz who's here those are the guys
6782
05:10:59,580 --> 05:11:01,500
that I looked up to and and that
6783
05:11:01,500 --> 05:11:04,940
inspired me to do what I do today
6784
05:11:05,400 --> 05:11:07,740
so first off a big thank you to b h for
6785
05:11:07,740 --> 05:11:09,900
making this all happen and a huge shout
6786
05:11:09,900 --> 05:11:11,878
out to Sigma for bringing me here to
6787
05:11:11,878 --> 05:11:14,160
talk to you guys today
6788
05:11:14,160 --> 05:11:15,000
um
6789
05:11:15,000 --> 05:11:18,900
so how how do I get here well
6790
05:11:18,900 --> 05:11:21,900
I was you know I was shooting on a an
6791
05:11:21,900 --> 05:11:24,420
old crop sensor cameras at a 1.6 crop
6792
05:11:24,420 --> 05:11:26,760
and I needed a super wide angle lens
6793
05:11:26,760 --> 05:11:29,040
so the brand name lens was I'm sure it's
6794
05:11:29,040 --> 05:11:30,420
a phenomenal lens but it was quite
6795
05:11:30,420 --> 05:11:31,798
expensive it was more than I could
6796
05:11:31,798 --> 05:11:33,660
afford as a young man trying to figure
6797
05:11:33,660 --> 05:11:35,580
out his way through you know the
6798
05:11:35,580 --> 05:11:37,980
adventure photography world so he took a
6799
05:11:37,980 --> 05:11:39,600
little bit of a Gamble and I got this
6800
05:11:39,600 --> 05:11:43,440
Sigma lens at Sigma 1020 F35 I put it on
6801
05:11:43,440 --> 05:11:45,420
my camera the photo on the Left Right
6802
05:11:45,420 --> 05:11:47,160
There is the first cover the first shoot
6803
05:11:47,160 --> 05:11:48,958
I did with that lens we landed a nice
6804
05:11:48,958 --> 05:11:50,638
little cover with it
6805
05:11:50,638 --> 05:11:52,798
same thing with the 7200 I wanted to
6806
05:11:52,798 --> 05:11:55,798
upgrade to a 7200 to 8. the brand name
6807
05:11:55,798 --> 05:11:58,440
one phenomenal lens but a little more
6808
05:11:58,440 --> 05:12:00,240
expensive that I could you know swap
6809
05:12:00,240 --> 05:12:02,280
more that I could want to pay for really
6810
05:12:02,280 --> 05:12:06,060
so I bought the uh the sigma 7200 to 8
6811
05:12:06,060 --> 05:12:09,060
and we got this next powder cover
6812
05:12:09,060 --> 05:12:11,160
um and if you look at it it actually
6813
05:12:11,160 --> 05:12:13,860
says Colorado we're looking at you and
6814
05:12:13,860 --> 05:12:15,600
the reason they named that cover that is
6815
05:12:15,600 --> 05:12:17,580
because if you look you can see his eye
6816
05:12:17,580 --> 05:12:19,440
right through the goggle
6817
05:12:19,440 --> 05:12:21,480
so I'm saving a few bucks and I'm
6818
05:12:21,480 --> 05:12:25,378
getting great shots so I'm in at that
6819
05:12:25,378 --> 05:12:26,878
point Sigma called me and said who are
6820
05:12:26,878 --> 05:12:28,740
you what do you do what's your story and
6821
05:12:28,740 --> 05:12:30,060
I've been with Sigma ever since so
6822
05:12:30,060 --> 05:12:31,980
that's that little story
6823
05:12:31,980 --> 05:12:33,958
thank you guys
6824
05:12:33,958 --> 05:12:36,120
so this is what I do now um all those
6825
05:12:36,120 --> 05:12:38,160
things that were all those magazines and
6826
05:12:38,160 --> 05:12:40,798
ads and the adventures that I saw on my
6827
05:12:40,798 --> 05:12:42,480
coffee table are on other people's
6828
05:12:42,480 --> 05:12:43,980
coffee tables now and that's pretty
6829
05:12:43,980 --> 05:12:45,900
exciting for me
6830
05:12:45,900 --> 05:12:48,120
so how did I get started in this well to
6831
05:12:48,120 --> 05:12:50,100
be honest it was like basically the pure
6832
05:12:50,100 --> 05:12:52,680
fear of a desk job
6833
05:12:52,680 --> 05:12:54,718
and it's kind of a joke but it's
6834
05:12:54,718 --> 05:12:56,940
actually kind of true too
6835
05:12:56,940 --> 05:12:58,260
um you know at this point in my life I'm
6836
05:12:58,260 --> 05:13:00,900
in my mid to late 20s all my friends
6837
05:13:00,900 --> 05:13:02,820
back home have real jobs they have
6838
05:13:02,820 --> 05:13:04,700
things like Health Care
6839
05:13:04,700 --> 05:13:07,500
401K Dental
6840
05:13:07,500 --> 05:13:09,840
I'm making 12 bucks an hour in a ski
6841
05:13:09,840 --> 05:13:10,798
shop
6842
05:13:10,798 --> 05:13:13,020
but I love it I love what I'm doing I'm
6843
05:13:13,020 --> 05:13:15,298
having real Adventures I'm out there and
6844
05:13:15,298 --> 05:13:16,980
I'm skiing all the time and biking and
6845
05:13:16,980 --> 05:13:18,298
fishing and putting together all these
6846
05:13:18,298 --> 05:13:19,740
adventures and the whole time you know
6847
05:13:19,740 --> 05:13:20,940
what I have with me
6848
05:13:20,940 --> 05:13:22,200
camera
6849
05:13:22,200 --> 05:13:24,600
so that time making 12 bucks an hour was
6850
05:13:24,600 --> 05:13:26,580
not wasted it was not in vain that was
6851
05:13:26,580 --> 05:13:28,440
how I cut my teeth in the world of
6852
05:13:28,440 --> 05:13:30,600
Adventure photography
6853
05:13:30,600 --> 05:13:33,780
back then there was no YouTube well let
6854
05:13:33,780 --> 05:13:36,500
me think about that
6855
05:13:37,378 --> 05:13:38,100
um
6856
05:13:38,100 --> 05:13:40,560
where was I
6857
05:13:40,560 --> 05:13:43,020
so a career that almost wasn't this is
6858
05:13:43,020 --> 05:13:44,638
um Adventure photography is very
6859
05:13:44,638 --> 05:13:46,740
challenging it's hard to make your way
6860
05:13:46,740 --> 05:13:48,600
in this world and I've had numerous
6861
05:13:48,600 --> 05:13:50,340
times when I was almost bounced out
6862
05:13:50,340 --> 05:13:52,138
either because I wanted to quit or
6863
05:13:52,138 --> 05:13:54,180
someone was wanting to quit me and I'm
6864
05:13:54,180 --> 05:13:55,020
going to tell you a couple of those
6865
05:13:55,020 --> 05:13:58,080
stories the first one is that as we go
6866
05:13:58,080 --> 05:13:59,280
through this presentation you're going
6867
05:13:59,280 --> 05:14:00,298
to notice that
6868
05:14:00,298 --> 05:14:02,400
a lot of the adventures I have require
6869
05:14:02,400 --> 05:14:05,580
much more than photo skills you need
6870
05:14:05,580 --> 05:14:07,378
you know you need to learn how to manage
6871
05:14:07,378 --> 05:14:09,840
Avalanche terrain you need to know how
6872
05:14:09,840 --> 05:14:11,760
to rock climb you need to know how to
6873
05:14:11,760 --> 05:14:13,378
manage White Water there's all these
6874
05:14:13,378 --> 05:14:15,120
different skills
6875
05:14:15,120 --> 05:14:16,620
so the way I learned all these different
6876
05:14:16,620 --> 05:14:18,180
skills was at the national outdoor
6877
05:14:18,180 --> 05:14:19,620
leadership schools anyone know what that
6878
05:14:19,620 --> 05:14:21,120
is Knowles
6879
05:14:21,120 --> 05:14:23,700
so I do a nulls trip and my dad buys me
6880
05:14:23,700 --> 05:14:26,520
a little camera two little kit lenses 20
6881
05:14:26,520 --> 05:14:28,020
rolls of film
6882
05:14:28,020 --> 05:14:30,600
so for two and a half months I'm out
6883
05:14:30,600 --> 05:14:32,340
there shooting right I'm like having so
6884
05:14:32,340 --> 05:14:34,200
much fun I'm doing it here I am I'm
6885
05:14:34,200 --> 05:14:36,000
early 20s I'm like shooting the
6886
05:14:36,000 --> 05:14:37,680
backpacking I'm shooting the Landscapes
6887
05:14:37,680 --> 05:14:39,060
I'm shooting the wildlife I'm shooting
6888
05:14:39,060 --> 05:14:41,100
details I'm like this is it I'm doing it
6889
05:14:41,100 --> 05:14:42,660
this is great
6890
05:14:42,660 --> 05:14:44,940
load up all my gear we're we're in
6891
05:14:44,940 --> 05:14:47,040
Arizona rock climbing all the bags go on
6892
05:14:47,040 --> 05:14:50,040
top of the van we get down to Tucson
6893
05:14:50,040 --> 05:14:51,958
it's one bag missing
6894
05:14:51,958 --> 05:14:54,958
my bag with it all the rolls of film
6895
05:14:54,958 --> 05:14:56,340
that I had shot for two and a half
6896
05:14:56,340 --> 05:14:57,718
months gone
6897
05:14:57,718 --> 05:15:00,780
that was a big big setback that really
6898
05:15:00,780 --> 05:15:03,000
hurt and it kind of put me back and I
6899
05:15:03,000 --> 05:15:04,138
didn't really continue with my
6900
05:15:04,138 --> 05:15:06,718
photography for quite a while
6901
05:15:06,718 --> 05:15:08,878
the second big one was we're going to
6902
05:15:08,878 --> 05:15:11,040
fast forward now to the 12 an hour ski
6903
05:15:11,040 --> 05:15:12,060
shop days
6904
05:15:12,060 --> 05:15:15,840
ski bum if you will and I'm shooting I'm
6905
05:15:15,840 --> 05:15:18,000
getting better I think my work is good
6906
05:15:18,000 --> 05:15:19,920
enough to turn in I'm going to send my
6907
05:15:19,920 --> 05:15:22,620
slides yes slides send my slides to
6908
05:15:22,620 --> 05:15:24,480
Powder Magazine and they're going to
6909
05:15:24,480 --> 05:15:26,400
publish me it's going to be great
6910
05:15:26,400 --> 05:15:28,860
send in my slides and I get this letter
6911
05:15:28,860 --> 05:15:31,740
back it says Dear Mr Duran
6912
05:15:31,740 --> 05:15:34,138
please take a look at our magazine and
6913
05:15:34,138 --> 05:15:36,000
notice how good our photographs are
6914
05:15:36,000 --> 05:15:39,320
notice that they are sharp in Focus
6915
05:15:39,320 --> 05:15:42,540
notice the composition and and attention
6916
05:15:42,540 --> 05:15:45,298
to detail the whole nine yards right I
6917
05:15:45,298 --> 05:15:47,218
get this thing back it's basically you
6918
05:15:47,218 --> 05:15:49,760
are terrible
6919
05:15:50,218 --> 05:15:51,900
but I didn't give up
6920
05:15:51,900 --> 05:15:54,360
I kept shooting because I have a massive
6921
05:15:54,360 --> 05:15:57,298
passion photography I love it it's so
6922
05:15:57,298 --> 05:15:58,560
exciting to me
6923
05:15:58,560 --> 05:16:01,378
and you know I've learned to basically
6924
05:16:01,378 --> 05:16:04,320
embrace the failures and learn from them
6925
05:16:04,320 --> 05:16:06,540
and when you do get the wins
6926
05:16:06,540 --> 05:16:09,120
you know chalk that up to to basically a
6927
05:16:09,120 --> 05:16:11,940
testament to all your hard work and and
6928
05:16:11,940 --> 05:16:13,980
not quitting
6929
05:16:13,980 --> 05:16:15,660
we'll come back to that story later at
6930
05:16:15,660 --> 05:16:18,120
the end of the presentation
6931
05:16:18,120 --> 05:16:19,200
okay what we're going to talk about
6932
05:16:19,200 --> 05:16:21,660
today we're going to define the genre a
6933
05:16:21,660 --> 05:16:22,860
little bit tell you exactly what
6934
05:16:22,860 --> 05:16:24,660
Adventure photography is I'm going to
6935
05:16:24,660 --> 05:16:26,218
talk a little bit about what makes a
6936
05:16:26,218 --> 05:16:27,958
good Adventure Photo
6937
05:16:27,958 --> 05:16:29,458
talk a little bit about gear and
6938
05:16:29,458 --> 05:16:31,820
techniques and also some of the business
6939
05:16:31,820 --> 05:16:35,480
of Adventure
6940
05:16:35,878 --> 05:16:37,980
okay defining the genre
6941
05:16:37,980 --> 05:16:39,420
does anyone have any questions you guys
6942
05:16:39,420 --> 05:16:41,160
I'm used to these small rooms where
6943
05:16:41,160 --> 05:16:42,480
people are always like raising their
6944
05:16:42,480 --> 05:16:44,040
hands so if you have a question just
6945
05:16:44,040 --> 05:16:46,920
feel free to raise your hand
6946
05:16:46,920 --> 05:16:48,540
um okay well I guess I should tell you
6947
05:16:48,540 --> 05:16:49,980
more about the photography that's going
6948
05:16:49,980 --> 05:16:51,780
on as I go through these slides too this
6949
05:16:51,780 --> 05:16:53,400
is part of a big editorial piece that
6950
05:16:53,400 --> 05:16:56,100
I'm working on for uh freehub magazine
6951
05:16:56,100 --> 05:16:59,040
it'll be out in the uh in this when will
6952
05:16:59,040 --> 05:17:00,540
it be out in the spring
6953
05:17:00,540 --> 05:17:01,980
anyhow
6954
05:17:01,980 --> 05:17:04,378
outdoor photography is or sorry
6955
05:17:04,378 --> 05:17:05,820
Adventure photography is outboard
6956
05:17:05,820 --> 05:17:08,700
outdoor photography that focuses on
6957
05:17:08,700 --> 05:17:13,020
sports like climbing surfing uh mountain
6958
05:17:13,020 --> 05:17:15,000
biking skiing of course that's a big
6959
05:17:15,000 --> 05:17:17,100
part of what I do ski is a huge part of
6960
05:17:17,100 --> 05:17:18,360
it
6961
05:17:18,360 --> 05:17:20,580
but it can also be landscape and
6962
05:17:20,580 --> 05:17:22,500
Wildlife is too that is definitely part
6963
05:17:22,500 --> 05:17:25,620
of Adventure photography
6964
05:17:25,620 --> 05:17:27,240
the other part of it is that you know
6965
05:17:27,240 --> 05:17:29,458
Vincent was up here and he's got he's
6966
05:17:29,458 --> 05:17:31,378
doing the fruit and he's got the lights
6967
05:17:31,378 --> 05:17:33,060
you kind of know what you're going to
6968
05:17:33,060 --> 05:17:34,920
get when you're doing indoor photography
6969
05:17:34,920 --> 05:17:36,600
and things like that with with Adventure
6970
05:17:36,600 --> 05:17:38,520
photography there's a big element of
6971
05:17:38,520 --> 05:17:41,040
what's going to happen you have no idea
6972
05:17:41,040 --> 05:17:43,260
if you fly halfway Halfway Around the
6973
05:17:43,260 --> 05:17:44,878
Globe to chase a storm
6974
05:17:44,878 --> 05:17:46,860
and it doesn't show up what are you
6975
05:17:46,860 --> 05:17:48,000
going to do
6976
05:17:48,000 --> 05:17:49,560
but a good Adventure photographer you
6977
05:17:49,560 --> 05:17:51,240
fight through that and you get shots no
6978
05:17:51,240 --> 05:17:52,680
matter what there is no complaining
6979
05:17:52,680 --> 05:17:54,180
there is no whining there's no such
6980
05:17:54,180 --> 05:17:56,218
thing as bad light in my world you go
6981
05:17:56,218 --> 05:17:58,560
out and you get the shot
6982
05:17:58,560 --> 05:18:00,120
the other thing is that you're very much
6983
05:18:00,120 --> 05:18:02,340
an active participant in the sports that
6984
05:18:02,340 --> 05:18:04,320
you photograph if you want to if you
6985
05:18:04,320 --> 05:18:05,760
want to be a rock climbing photographer
6986
05:18:05,760 --> 05:18:07,798
guess what you need to know how to do if
6987
05:18:07,798 --> 05:18:09,120
you want to be a Backcountry skiing
6988
05:18:09,120 --> 05:18:11,638
photographer all that stuff you are very
6989
05:18:11,638 --> 05:18:14,218
much a participant in the sport that you
6990
05:18:14,218 --> 05:18:16,580
are shooting
6991
05:18:17,280 --> 05:18:19,500
okay so I I do have a couple little
6992
05:18:19,500 --> 05:18:21,000
videos here we're going to cross our
6993
05:18:21,000 --> 05:18:22,560
fingers and hope that like everything
6994
05:18:22,560 --> 05:18:24,780
works and it doesn't I don't know like
6995
05:18:24,780 --> 05:18:27,180
sound crazy but these are just like
6996
05:18:27,180 --> 05:18:28,860
little cheap little quick phone and
6997
05:18:28,860 --> 05:18:30,420
GoPro videos but it's going to kind of
6998
05:18:30,420 --> 05:18:31,920
bring you into my world so you don't
6999
05:18:31,920 --> 05:18:33,718
just see me hearing it like a collared
7000
05:18:33,718 --> 05:18:35,400
shirt looking fancy you can see what it
7001
05:18:35,400 --> 05:18:37,260
really looks like out there so here we
7002
05:18:37,260 --> 05:18:39,377
go
7003
05:18:45,900 --> 05:18:48,900
of course there's no audio
7004
05:18:48,900 --> 05:18:50,878
okay well I'll narrate how about that
7005
05:18:50,878 --> 05:18:53,218
okay so what had happened just here is
7006
05:18:53,218 --> 05:18:56,100
that well first of all my 1424 lens that
7007
05:18:56,100 --> 05:18:57,480
I rely on and I bring it in the
7008
05:18:57,480 --> 05:18:59,458
backcountry with me all the time had
7009
05:18:59,458 --> 05:19:01,440
just popped out of my pack and rolled
7010
05:19:01,440 --> 05:19:03,480
down that 2000 foot Chute all the way to
7011
05:19:03,480 --> 05:19:05,400
the bottom of the mountain so I'm a
7012
05:19:05,400 --> 05:19:07,200
little bit in like oh my God I just
7013
05:19:07,200 --> 05:19:09,600
totally lost a lens this is terrible
7014
05:19:09,600 --> 05:19:12,739
but the oh wait
7015
05:19:12,840 --> 05:19:16,218
aha my man
7016
05:19:16,680 --> 05:19:20,160
whoop so I had a little bit of a
7017
05:19:20,160 --> 05:19:23,060
we'll start over
7018
05:19:31,500 --> 05:19:34,458
I have no idea
7019
05:19:43,100 --> 05:19:44,900
fellas
7020
05:19:44,900 --> 05:19:47,638
look at getting a shot now without the
7021
05:19:47,638 --> 05:19:49,138
wide angle I'll have you guys kind of
7022
05:19:49,138 --> 05:19:51,000
come through here but I needed that
7023
05:19:51,000 --> 05:19:54,060
super wide view Oh I thought you played
7024
05:19:54,060 --> 05:19:55,878
baseball I know
7025
05:19:55,878 --> 05:19:59,580
you're like I'm gonna be a hero I'm
7026
05:19:59,580 --> 05:20:02,180
sorry Liam
7027
05:20:02,958 --> 05:20:07,920
so kind of got a little jog hard left
7028
05:20:07,920 --> 05:20:10,040
and see
7029
05:20:10,040 --> 05:20:12,958
let's see get in there you've already
7030
05:20:12,958 --> 05:20:15,900
describe the shadow yeah exactly but
7031
05:20:15,900 --> 05:20:17,520
like kind of come from the Shadow and
7032
05:20:17,520 --> 05:20:19,320
then angle back from left to right
7033
05:20:19,320 --> 05:20:21,130
through there
7034
05:20:21,130 --> 05:20:39,180
[Music]
7035
05:20:39,180 --> 05:20:40,980
okay so that's what I do that's that's
7036
05:20:40,980 --> 05:20:42,958
my job that was an editorial and
7037
05:20:42,958 --> 05:20:44,580
commercial shoot that I did for a brand
7038
05:20:44,580 --> 05:20:47,340
and a magazine combined where multiple
7039
05:20:47,340 --> 05:20:49,620
days out in the back country so as you
7040
05:20:49,620 --> 05:20:51,600
can imagine there are all sorts of
7041
05:20:51,600 --> 05:20:53,280
additional skills you need to be able to
7042
05:20:53,280 --> 05:20:54,540
pull off a shoot like that but that's
7043
05:20:54,540 --> 05:20:57,000
what I live for that's what I love to do
7044
05:20:57,000 --> 05:20:58,980
um it's fantastic
7045
05:20:58,980 --> 05:21:00,780
okay here we are now we're above the
7046
05:21:00,780 --> 05:21:04,378
Arctic Circle this is in Nora yes sir
7047
05:21:04,378 --> 05:21:08,160
oh yes I totally forgot yes uh the lens
7048
05:21:08,160 --> 05:21:10,560
was fine I found it at the bottom of the
7049
05:21:10,560 --> 05:21:12,600
shoot picked it up put it on my camera
7050
05:21:12,600 --> 05:21:15,420
took a picture totally fine used it the
7051
05:21:15,420 --> 05:21:17,280
rest of the trip so there you go
7052
05:21:17,280 --> 05:21:19,020
Testament to Sigma build quality right
7053
05:21:19,020 --> 05:21:21,000
there
7054
05:21:21,000 --> 05:21:22,620
um so anyway here we are we're going to
7055
05:21:22,620 --> 05:21:24,420
kind of go through like the genre a
7056
05:21:24,420 --> 05:21:25,798
little bit of Adventure photography
7057
05:21:25,798 --> 05:21:28,080
we're up in Norway this is earlier this
7058
05:21:28,080 --> 05:21:30,360
spring we're above the Arctic Circle I
7059
05:21:30,360 --> 05:21:32,100
see my four buds are in front of me and
7060
05:21:32,100 --> 05:21:33,660
I was like oh my gosh we have this Flat
7061
05:21:33,660 --> 05:21:35,820
Lake and this amazing backdrop I'm gonna
7062
05:21:35,820 --> 05:21:37,740
get up there like scooch up the hill a
7063
05:21:37,740 --> 05:21:39,120
little bit and shoot down so they look
7064
05:21:39,120 --> 05:21:41,820
tiny in this giant scene in addition to
7065
05:21:41,820 --> 05:21:43,560
that we had to take a boat to get us
7066
05:21:43,560 --> 05:21:45,600
there this is an island so we're like
7067
05:21:45,600 --> 05:21:47,520
boating through the Arctic sea and then
7068
05:21:47,520 --> 05:21:49,378
they you know come into this Inlet drop
7069
05:21:49,378 --> 05:21:52,020
us off and off we go so that to me it
7070
05:21:52,020 --> 05:21:53,820
kind of epitomizes what Adventure
7071
05:21:53,820 --> 05:21:56,340
photography is
7072
05:21:56,340 --> 05:21:58,138
but you don't have to go far from home
7073
05:21:58,138 --> 05:22:00,660
this is basically my backyard you know I
7074
05:22:00,660 --> 05:22:01,860
had to drive and do a little four-wheel
7075
05:22:01,860 --> 05:22:03,360
drive action to get up there but
7076
05:22:03,360 --> 05:22:05,100
essentially those are the backyard
7077
05:22:05,100 --> 05:22:06,780
you guys anyone living here in central
7078
05:22:06,780 --> 05:22:08,878
California you don't have to travel the
7079
05:22:08,878 --> 05:22:10,680
world to be an adventure photographer
7080
05:22:10,680 --> 05:22:13,798
you can literally do it right here
7081
05:22:13,798 --> 05:22:16,020
so don't be don't think that you have to
7082
05:22:16,020 --> 05:22:18,120
go to Antarctica or Africa or anything
7083
05:22:18,120 --> 05:22:20,520
else you can do it here so what makes
7084
05:22:20,520 --> 05:22:22,740
this an Adventure Photo one um the
7085
05:22:22,740 --> 05:22:24,780
headlamp right like we've created this
7086
05:22:24,780 --> 05:22:27,180
feeling of Adventure by going up at
7087
05:22:27,180 --> 05:22:30,120
sunrise super early in the morning it's
7088
05:22:30,120 --> 05:22:32,700
dark she's got her headlamp on that's
7089
05:22:32,700 --> 05:22:34,440
where all the adventure comes in that
7090
05:22:34,440 --> 05:22:36,480
makes it fun and interesting and unique
7091
05:22:36,480 --> 05:22:37,620
you shoot this in the middle of the day
7092
05:22:37,620 --> 05:22:39,718
oh it's still a nice shot but it's far
7093
05:22:39,718 --> 05:22:43,820
more interesting when you do that so
7094
05:22:44,700 --> 05:22:47,700
intense action I love the good intense
7095
05:22:47,700 --> 05:22:49,920
action this is absolutely a part of what
7096
05:22:49,920 --> 05:22:52,260
Adventure photography is
7097
05:22:52,260 --> 05:22:54,420
so this is and the other thing I want to
7098
05:22:54,420 --> 05:22:57,060
note on this is micro composition and
7099
05:22:57,060 --> 05:22:58,320
this is really important to me this is
7100
05:22:58,320 --> 05:22:59,760
one of the reasons why I shoot at a
7101
05:22:59,760 --> 05:23:01,200
really high frame rate
7102
05:23:01,200 --> 05:23:03,780
and I'm also moving as my kayakers
7103
05:23:03,780 --> 05:23:05,700
coming down the hill or down the hill
7104
05:23:05,700 --> 05:23:08,160
down the river I'm moving a little bit
7105
05:23:08,160 --> 05:23:10,440
so I can keep him if you'll notice not
7106
05:23:10,440 --> 05:23:12,958
his entire boat and all his paddles are
7107
05:23:12,958 --> 05:23:14,580
free and clear of anything there's no
7108
05:23:14,580 --> 05:23:16,440
trees in front of them there's no leaves
7109
05:23:16,440 --> 05:23:18,718
in front of them he's got the one spot
7110
05:23:18,718 --> 05:23:21,000
that he can be and that's not an
7111
05:23:21,000 --> 05:23:22,920
accident one I'm moving with him like
7112
05:23:22,920 --> 05:23:26,160
uh-oh hey that well there we go one I'm
7113
05:23:26,160 --> 05:23:28,260
kind of moving with him so that I keep
7114
05:23:28,260 --> 05:23:30,000
him in that clean spot as long as
7115
05:23:30,000 --> 05:23:31,560
possible and two I'm shooting at 20
7116
05:23:31,560 --> 05:23:33,958
frames well 20-ish frames a second so I
7117
05:23:33,958 --> 05:23:37,340
can make sure that I can capture that
7118
05:23:38,100 --> 05:23:40,378
okay there we go
7119
05:23:40,378 --> 05:23:42,060
but again it doesn't have to be extreme
7120
05:23:42,060 --> 05:23:43,560
it doesn't have to be hardcore it
7121
05:23:43,560 --> 05:23:45,718
doesn't have to be gnarly uh it can be
7122
05:23:45,718 --> 05:23:48,540
totally Sublime a multi-day backpacking
7123
05:23:48,540 --> 05:23:51,060
trip through Southeast Utah is a total
7124
05:23:51,060 --> 05:23:52,560
Adventure
7125
05:23:52,560 --> 05:23:54,600
but anyone can really do this your skill
7126
05:23:54,600 --> 05:23:56,458
level I mean if you can walk and sleep
7127
05:23:56,458 --> 05:23:59,040
outside you can do this and that's what
7128
05:23:59,040 --> 05:24:00,718
makes it really fun that's what makes an
7129
05:24:00,718 --> 05:24:02,760
adventure this is a does anyone know
7130
05:24:02,760 --> 05:24:04,440
where this is
7131
05:24:04,440 --> 05:24:07,200
coyote wow okay coyote Gulch in
7132
05:24:07,200 --> 05:24:08,940
Southeast Houston is one of the coolest
7133
05:24:08,940 --> 05:24:10,740
hikes multi-day hikes you will ever do
7134
05:24:10,740 --> 05:24:12,360
it's fantastic
7135
05:24:12,360 --> 05:24:14,580
the other thing I've done here is
7136
05:24:14,580 --> 05:24:17,700
a five shot panel so I needed a wider
7137
05:24:17,700 --> 05:24:20,160
angle lens I had a 2470 with me but it's
7138
05:24:20,160 --> 05:24:22,378
not quite wide enough so what do you do
7139
05:24:22,378 --> 05:24:24,060
turn it vertical
7140
05:24:24,060 --> 05:24:26,580
shoot a Pano Stitch it in post and then
7141
05:24:26,580 --> 05:24:28,500
you can get your full scene
7142
05:24:28,500 --> 05:24:31,200
a little trick there
7143
05:24:31,200 --> 05:24:33,840
so here's like four days condensed into
7144
05:24:33,840 --> 05:24:37,160
about 15 seconds
7145
05:24:37,840 --> 05:24:54,900
[Music]
7146
05:24:56,900 --> 05:24:59,700
thank you
7147
05:24:59,700 --> 05:25:01,020
I don't know what's going on there's
7148
05:25:01,020 --> 05:25:02,820
like something right here that's like
7149
05:25:02,820 --> 05:25:04,860
shorting everything out well you saw
7150
05:25:04,860 --> 05:25:06,180
just about the whole thing you get the
7151
05:25:06,180 --> 05:25:07,740
idea though right it doesn't have to be
7152
05:25:07,740 --> 05:25:09,958
gnarly it doesn't have to be extreme you
7153
05:25:09,958 --> 05:25:11,458
can go out and shoot Landscapes and
7154
05:25:11,458 --> 05:25:14,760
Wildlife close to home and it's still an
7155
05:25:14,760 --> 05:25:16,740
absolute Adventure
7156
05:25:16,740 --> 05:25:18,718
okay so I'm gonna try maybe I'll move
7157
05:25:18,718 --> 05:25:20,458
over here maybe I won't trigger that
7158
05:25:20,458 --> 05:25:22,080
little short
7159
05:25:22,080 --> 05:25:24,060
um so what makes a good Adventure Photo
7160
05:25:24,060 --> 05:25:25,500
and this is important
7161
05:25:25,500 --> 05:25:28,798
um is it you know for me it's you have
7162
05:25:28,798 --> 05:25:30,780
to be shooting with intent and that's
7163
05:25:30,780 --> 05:25:32,580
really important why did you pull out
7164
05:25:32,580 --> 05:25:34,798
the camera in the first place what Drew
7165
05:25:34,798 --> 05:25:37,798
your eye to the scene is it great action
7166
05:25:37,798 --> 05:25:41,820
is it beautiful light is it an amazing
7167
05:25:41,820 --> 05:25:43,980
backdrop is it a storytelling situation
7168
05:25:43,980 --> 05:25:46,200
why did you pull your camera out of the
7169
05:25:46,200 --> 05:25:49,138
pack intent shoot with intent and that
7170
05:25:49,138 --> 05:25:50,760
will make that alone will help your
7171
05:25:50,760 --> 05:25:53,340
photos get better
7172
05:25:53,340 --> 05:25:54,958
okay right here this is pretty obvious
7173
05:25:54,958 --> 05:25:57,298
what the intent is really intense action
7174
05:25:57,298 --> 05:25:59,660
uh there's no story component
7175
05:25:59,660 --> 05:26:01,860
storytelling component to this at all
7176
05:26:01,860 --> 05:26:04,320
this could be in the Zambezi River the
7177
05:26:04,320 --> 05:26:05,760
Colorado River it could be anywhere
7178
05:26:05,760 --> 05:26:08,218
right but all that matters is that we
7179
05:26:08,218 --> 05:26:10,020
captured the action notice the shutter
7180
05:26:10,020 --> 05:26:12,540
speed too 3200th of a second
7181
05:26:12,540 --> 05:26:14,700
you guys might think that 1 800th or one
7182
05:26:14,700 --> 05:26:16,560
one thousandth of a second is a really
7183
05:26:16,560 --> 05:26:18,120
fast shutter speed when it comes to
7184
05:26:18,120 --> 05:26:20,160
stuff like this you want to freeze every
7185
05:26:20,160 --> 05:26:22,080
water droplet and every piece of snow
7186
05:26:22,080 --> 05:26:24,298
really high shutter speeds are going to
7187
05:26:24,298 --> 05:26:25,798
do that for you
7188
05:26:25,798 --> 05:26:28,138
anyhow this is also a branding image I
7189
05:26:28,138 --> 05:26:30,180
was not actually On Assignment uh for
7190
05:26:30,180 --> 05:26:32,700
any brand when I shot this but you can
7191
05:26:32,700 --> 05:26:35,218
imagine if you were the owner of Waka
7192
05:26:35,218 --> 05:26:37,620
kayaks that's the image they want to see
7193
05:26:37,620 --> 05:26:41,820
it it sells their product very very well
7194
05:26:41,820 --> 05:26:43,378
I should have probably contacted them
7195
05:26:43,378 --> 05:26:46,820
and made a sale on that
7196
05:26:47,820 --> 05:26:49,560
great light
7197
05:26:49,560 --> 05:26:51,480
um this might not seem like great light
7198
05:26:51,480 --> 05:26:53,040
to you but it was really good light to
7199
05:26:53,040 --> 05:26:54,360
me this is um
7200
05:26:54,360 --> 05:26:57,420
this is a client shoot I did in Taos New
7201
05:26:57,420 --> 05:26:59,458
Mexico and all day it had been snowing
7202
05:26:59,458 --> 05:27:01,680
super hard and it was dark and stormy
7203
05:27:01,680 --> 05:27:03,540
and kind of Moody we were getting some
7204
05:27:03,540 --> 05:27:05,040
really good shots out of it but we
7205
05:27:05,040 --> 05:27:07,740
didn't have any light at all then all of
7206
05:27:07,740 --> 05:27:09,600
a sudden it was reversing
7207
05:27:09,600 --> 05:27:12,060
uh my friend Amy she's up above me and
7208
05:27:12,060 --> 05:27:14,340
I'm underneath and all of a sudden we
7209
05:27:14,340 --> 05:27:16,920
get this glow this really cool beautiful
7210
05:27:16,920 --> 05:27:20,218
glow we both stop and we like she sees
7211
05:27:20,218 --> 05:27:22,080
the light as I do you know we work
7212
05:27:22,080 --> 05:27:25,680
together as a team like oh my gosh light
7213
05:27:25,680 --> 05:27:28,020
so all I did was I was shooting in the
7214
05:27:28,020 --> 05:27:29,940
dark so how much time do you think I
7215
05:27:29,940 --> 05:27:32,520
spent figuring out my exposure
7216
05:27:32,520 --> 05:27:33,780
almost none
7217
05:27:33,780 --> 05:27:36,840
almost none all I know is that I need a
7218
05:27:36,840 --> 05:27:38,580
faster exposure than one sixteen
7219
05:27:38,580 --> 05:27:40,080
hundredth of a second I need to darken
7220
05:27:40,080 --> 05:27:41,340
it down a little bit just got really
7221
05:27:41,340 --> 05:27:43,560
bright
7222
05:27:43,560 --> 05:27:45,360
and so I don't care I'm shooting at what
7223
05:27:45,360 --> 05:27:48,000
125th 125 hundredth of a second I
7224
05:27:48,000 --> 05:27:49,980
basically just spun the dial and watched
7225
05:27:49,980 --> 05:27:52,560
my histogram move a little to the left
7226
05:27:52,560 --> 05:27:54,600
that's all I need to do I don't care
7227
05:27:54,600 --> 05:27:56,400
about anything else I just just make
7228
05:27:56,400 --> 05:27:59,100
sure it's exposed properly have her come
7229
05:27:59,100 --> 05:28:01,440
through the scene she's a professional
7230
05:28:01,440 --> 05:28:03,480
skier if anyone knows Warren Miller do
7231
05:28:03,480 --> 05:28:04,860
you guys know Warren Miller movies she's
7232
05:28:04,860 --> 05:28:06,600
one of the women that stars in all those
7233
05:28:06,600 --> 05:28:07,860
movies
7234
05:28:07,860 --> 05:28:08,520
um
7235
05:28:08,520 --> 05:28:10,860
she gets it she gets the shot and we
7236
05:28:10,860 --> 05:28:14,540
walk away client couldn't be happier
7237
05:28:14,700 --> 05:28:16,798
now we're getting some storytelling here
7238
05:28:16,798 --> 05:28:18,000
this is a
7239
05:28:18,000 --> 05:28:19,860
shot that I was working on for a story
7240
05:28:19,860 --> 05:28:21,360
that ended up not running that's always
7241
05:28:21,360 --> 05:28:23,040
heartbreaking when you'd work on a story
7242
05:28:23,040 --> 05:28:24,718
that doesn't run if you had that happen
7243
05:28:24,718 --> 05:28:27,360
yeah it's tough but the point of the
7244
05:28:27,360 --> 05:28:29,520
story is if anyone's been through the
7245
05:28:29,520 --> 05:28:31,260
Eisenhower Tunnel if you're coming up
7246
05:28:31,260 --> 05:28:32,340
from Denver and you're going to
7247
05:28:32,340 --> 05:28:34,200
Breckenridge and Vail if you look in the
7248
05:28:34,200 --> 05:28:36,060
shadows there you can actually see the
7249
05:28:36,060 --> 05:28:38,160
tunnel right there and the highway
7250
05:28:38,160 --> 05:28:40,680
so it was all about the story was about
7251
05:28:40,680 --> 05:28:44,160
skiing in that area so at some point I
7252
05:28:44,160 --> 05:28:46,378
have to put my ski action I have to
7253
05:28:46,378 --> 05:28:49,020
connect the road and the tunnel with the
7254
05:28:49,020 --> 05:28:51,600
ski action so that's how I did it here
7255
05:28:51,600 --> 05:28:53,218
another thing we have going on we have
7256
05:28:53,218 --> 05:28:55,080
some beautiful light Sunset light we
7257
05:28:55,080 --> 05:28:57,060
stayed out we're super cold our fingers
7258
05:28:57,060 --> 05:28:59,040
are like numb inside our gloves but
7259
05:28:59,040 --> 05:29:00,240
that's what we wanted we're going to
7260
05:29:00,240 --> 05:29:03,298
wait until that light gets perfect
7261
05:29:03,298 --> 05:29:05,400
one more thing I did here look at the
7262
05:29:05,400 --> 05:29:07,440
look at the corner on the left
7263
05:29:07,440 --> 05:29:09,360
how do you think I got that snow to be
7264
05:29:09,360 --> 05:29:11,340
like right up in it
7265
05:29:11,340 --> 05:29:14,340
you got it I am laying down in the snow
7266
05:29:14,340 --> 05:29:16,798
and I generally do that quite a bit I
7267
05:29:16,798 --> 05:29:19,500
almost never take a photo standing here
7268
05:29:19,500 --> 05:29:22,620
like this click click I am always down
7269
05:29:22,620 --> 05:29:24,958
in a bush somewhere or I'm laying in the
7270
05:29:24,958 --> 05:29:26,878
snow I'm crawled down as low as I can
7271
05:29:26,878 --> 05:29:28,860
get into the snow I crawl up into a tree
7272
05:29:28,860 --> 05:29:31,980
I'm doing something to create depth I'm
7273
05:29:31,980 --> 05:29:33,600
doing something to create interest I'm
7274
05:29:33,600 --> 05:29:36,060
trying to frame the action in some way
7275
05:29:36,060 --> 05:29:39,120
shape or form but rarely do I take a
7276
05:29:39,120 --> 05:29:42,020
photo like this
7277
05:29:42,620 --> 05:29:45,298
details always show the details are
7278
05:29:45,298 --> 05:29:46,740
really important as well you got to show
7279
05:29:46,740 --> 05:29:48,480
the big picture you got to show the
7280
05:29:48,480 --> 05:29:50,458
small picture
7281
05:29:50,458 --> 05:29:52,920
not much too more to say about that one
7282
05:29:52,920 --> 05:29:54,900
storytelling is really important I got
7283
05:29:54,900 --> 05:29:56,520
to tell you a little quick story
7284
05:29:56,520 --> 05:29:58,620
years ago and this is I don't know the
7285
05:29:58,620 --> 05:30:00,718
early 2000s and I'm trying to get jobs I
7286
05:30:00,718 --> 05:30:02,280
want to do more work for Brands and
7287
05:30:02,280 --> 05:30:03,958
magazines and I'm showing my book right
7288
05:30:03,958 --> 05:30:06,240
I have all my photos in my book and
7289
05:30:06,240 --> 05:30:09,060
everything is like rad skier guy rad
7290
05:30:09,060 --> 05:30:11,878
mountain biker gal rad this and and the
7291
05:30:11,878 --> 05:30:13,680
editors looking he's like okay okay we
7292
05:30:13,680 --> 05:30:15,718
get it you can shoot action
7293
05:30:15,718 --> 05:30:17,400
but I need someone that can tell the
7294
05:30:17,400 --> 05:30:20,040
complete story what what was the food
7295
05:30:20,040 --> 05:30:21,360
that you were eating what did the place
7296
05:30:21,360 --> 05:30:24,540
look like was the hotel nice well yeah I
7297
05:30:24,540 --> 05:30:27,540
need the whole story so from a young
7298
05:30:27,540 --> 05:30:29,820
part of my career I started shooting
7299
05:30:29,820 --> 05:30:31,620
this complete story and that's what we
7300
05:30:31,620 --> 05:30:32,820
have here so
7301
05:30:32,820 --> 05:30:35,160
you know we got fine dining we got a
7302
05:30:35,160 --> 05:30:36,900
little travel Scapes we got the fish
7303
05:30:36,900 --> 05:30:39,600
drying so always shoot the complete
7304
05:30:39,600 --> 05:30:41,638
story don't concentrate on just the
7305
05:30:41,638 --> 05:30:43,440
action
7306
05:30:43,440 --> 05:30:46,260
here's a really classic uh storytelling
7307
05:30:46,260 --> 05:30:47,760
image this is a shoot I did for Bike
7308
05:30:47,760 --> 05:30:49,560
Magazine a few years ago and the story
7309
05:30:49,560 --> 05:30:52,320
was all about avalanches and how they
7310
05:30:52,320 --> 05:30:54,480
uh may or may not be affecting mountain
7311
05:30:54,480 --> 05:30:56,340
biking we had come through this massive
7312
05:30:56,340 --> 05:30:58,620
Avalanche cycle the winter before
7313
05:30:58,620 --> 05:31:01,260
and so we had to find evidence of
7314
05:31:01,260 --> 05:31:04,138
avalanches hitting bike terrain so once
7315
05:31:04,138 --> 05:31:06,780
again I crawling into this this is
7316
05:31:06,780 --> 05:31:09,298
basically Avalanche debris right all the
7317
05:31:09,298 --> 05:31:10,980
snow comes down it smashes the trees
7318
05:31:10,980 --> 05:31:12,600
they're all over the place they're
7319
05:31:12,600 --> 05:31:15,540
buckled and snapped I crawl into that
7320
05:31:15,540 --> 05:31:17,820
broken tree like cutting myself it's
7321
05:31:17,820 --> 05:31:20,160
totally miserable getting in there and I
7322
05:31:20,160 --> 05:31:22,740
just take that 14 24 I put it right on
7323
05:31:22,740 --> 05:31:24,660
the tree so you get the leading line and
7324
05:31:24,660 --> 05:31:26,780
there's one spot for the athlete to be
7325
05:31:26,780 --> 05:31:29,580
one clean spot and I just wait for you
7326
05:31:29,580 --> 05:31:31,500
know I yell down hey John okay I'm ready
7327
05:31:31,500 --> 05:31:33,420
for you he comes up through those little
7328
05:31:33,420 --> 05:31:35,700
one clean spot I pull the trigger
7329
05:31:35,700 --> 05:31:38,160
there's your shot
7330
05:31:38,160 --> 05:31:39,420
um it's also storytelling because it
7331
05:31:39,420 --> 05:31:41,458
gives us time of year it's fall
7332
05:31:41,458 --> 05:31:44,100
obviously and in the mountain bike world
7333
05:31:44,100 --> 05:31:45,840
that mountain that mountain back there
7334
05:31:45,840 --> 05:31:47,760
is gothic encrusted Butte and if you're
7335
05:31:47,760 --> 05:31:49,798
a mountain biker you know exactly where
7336
05:31:49,798 --> 05:31:51,958
that is so I've landed the viewer in
7337
05:31:51,958 --> 05:31:55,500
time and place really quickly and lots
7338
05:31:55,500 --> 05:31:58,440
of all that micro uh composition is
7339
05:31:58,440 --> 05:32:00,958
going on too I made sure that I had uh
7340
05:32:00,958 --> 05:32:02,878
Gothic totally clean I made sure that my
7341
05:32:02,878 --> 05:32:06,260
mountain biker was totally clean
7342
05:32:07,500 --> 05:32:09,600
okay photo gear what am I shooting these
7343
05:32:09,600 --> 05:32:11,700
days so the last few shoots I've been on
7344
05:32:11,700 --> 05:32:12,958
I've been shooting all contemporary
7345
05:32:12,958 --> 05:32:16,378
lenses I shoot a 1628 C lens that's a
7346
05:32:16,378 --> 05:32:17,878
brand new lens that Sigma just put out
7347
05:32:17,878 --> 05:32:20,760
shoot the 2870 another new lens they put
7348
05:32:20,760 --> 05:32:24,480
out and the 100 400. that's been my
7349
05:32:24,480 --> 05:32:26,638
go-to for the last few months
7350
05:32:26,638 --> 05:32:28,860
more on that in a minute
7351
05:32:28,860 --> 05:32:30,780
you also need a good pack to carry all
7352
05:32:30,780 --> 05:32:33,420
your camera gear but you you need a pack
7353
05:32:33,420 --> 05:32:34,920
that doesn't just carry camera gear it
7354
05:32:34,920 --> 05:32:37,200
has to carry all your other stuff
7355
05:32:37,200 --> 05:32:40,260
what is that oh wait
7356
05:32:40,260 --> 05:32:41,280
well
7357
05:32:41,280 --> 05:32:42,840
like I said this is this is the first
7358
05:32:42,840 --> 05:32:44,458
time I've given this presentation I'll
7359
05:32:44,458 --> 05:32:45,660
show you this one this is kind of fun
7360
05:32:45,660 --> 05:32:47,340
this is just me and my buddy cruising
7361
05:32:47,340 --> 05:32:49,560
out doing some fly fishing Photography
7362
05:32:49,560 --> 05:32:53,540
in the mountains using all that gear
7363
05:32:58,330 --> 05:33:03,809
[Music]
7364
05:33:03,900 --> 05:33:06,900
foreign
7365
05:33:07,250 --> 05:33:22,560
[Music]
7366
05:33:22,560 --> 05:33:24,660
storytelling
7367
05:33:24,660 --> 05:33:46,600
[Music]
7368
05:33:46,798 --> 05:33:48,080
foreign
7369
05:33:48,080 --> 05:33:53,840
[Music]
7370
05:33:53,840 --> 05:33:56,520
just me using all that stuff having a
7371
05:33:56,520 --> 05:33:59,040
good old time putting the gear through
7372
05:33:59,040 --> 05:34:00,780
the paces I was kind of testing it out I
7373
05:34:00,780 --> 05:34:02,218
just gotten the stuff and I was like oh
7374
05:34:02,218 --> 05:34:03,718
we'll just make a little quick video so
7375
05:34:03,718 --> 05:34:05,160
I hope that brings you into the field
7376
05:34:05,160 --> 05:34:06,600
with me a little bit you can kind of
7377
05:34:06,600 --> 05:34:08,580
smell the fire and feel the coldness and
7378
05:34:08,580 --> 05:34:10,440
all that good stuff
7379
05:34:10,440 --> 05:34:12,660
okay so this is what my pack looks like
7380
05:34:12,660 --> 05:34:14,400
on a typical day if I'm gonna go out for
7381
05:34:14,400 --> 05:34:16,500
ski photography I have my Trifecta
7382
05:34:16,500 --> 05:34:20,520
lenses in this case I'm using 1424 2470
7383
05:34:20,520 --> 05:34:23,040
and 7200 that's going to be if I'm on
7384
05:34:23,040 --> 05:34:24,718
assignment that setup is going to be
7385
05:34:24,718 --> 05:34:27,060
with me basically every day
7386
05:34:27,060 --> 05:34:30,958
in addition my pack is going to carry uh
7387
05:34:30,958 --> 05:34:32,638
climbing skins those attached to the
7388
05:34:32,638 --> 05:34:35,040
bottom of skis so I can walk uphill I
7389
05:34:35,040 --> 05:34:36,958
have Avalanche gear I have the shovel
7390
05:34:36,958 --> 05:34:38,820
and the probe that helps me if we do
7391
05:34:38,820 --> 05:34:40,620
have an avalanche that's our rescue gear
7392
05:34:40,620 --> 05:34:42,240
for getting us out of sticky situations
7393
05:34:42,240 --> 05:34:45,600
I have food I have water I have extra
7394
05:34:45,600 --> 05:34:48,298
clothing I have oh and I have a radio
7395
05:34:48,298 --> 05:34:49,980
that's another really important part of
7396
05:34:49,980 --> 05:34:51,420
all this we generally always have
7397
05:34:51,420 --> 05:34:53,400
two-way radios with us so that we can
7398
05:34:53,400 --> 05:34:54,660
communicate
7399
05:34:54,660 --> 05:34:57,660
both for safety and for art so it kind
7400
05:34:57,660 --> 05:35:00,620
of hits both things there
7401
05:35:00,780 --> 05:35:04,080
my pack probably weighs about it's not
7402
05:35:04,080 --> 05:35:05,340
as heavy as you'd think but I would
7403
05:35:05,340 --> 05:35:08,280
guess about 30 to 35 pounds depending
7404
05:35:08,280 --> 05:35:10,740
which is a lot when you consider I'm
7405
05:35:10,740 --> 05:35:14,280
climbing mountains at 10 12 14 000 feet
7406
05:35:14,280 --> 05:35:16,760
um it's a lot
7407
05:35:17,040 --> 05:35:19,080
um you know like I think the funniest
7408
05:35:19,080 --> 05:35:20,458
thing about this is people are always
7409
05:35:20,458 --> 05:35:22,080
like what are these little Loops at the
7410
05:35:22,080 --> 05:35:23,280
bottom of the backpack you know what
7411
05:35:23,280 --> 05:35:24,540
those are Fords anyone know what those
7412
05:35:24,540 --> 05:35:27,660
are for those are ice ax Lubes you're
7413
05:35:27,660 --> 05:35:28,980
probably like what are they here for so
7414
05:35:28,980 --> 05:35:30,420
that's what I'm like one of the few
7415
05:35:30,420 --> 05:35:31,860
photographers will probably actually use
7416
05:35:31,860 --> 05:35:34,200
an ice ax but that's what that's what
7417
05:35:34,200 --> 05:35:36,958
those are for in case you're wondering
7418
05:35:36,958 --> 05:35:39,740
okay but gear doesn't mean anything
7419
05:35:39,740 --> 05:35:42,900
unless you're willing to do the work to
7420
05:35:42,900 --> 05:35:44,580
get the shot you can have the greatest
7421
05:35:44,580 --> 05:35:46,200
gear set up in the world but if you
7422
05:35:46,200 --> 05:35:47,878
don't get up at 4 30 in the morning or
7423
05:35:47,878 --> 05:35:49,740
if you don't stay out until sunset
7424
05:35:49,740 --> 05:35:51,900
Shop's not coming to you
7425
05:35:51,900 --> 05:35:54,420
uh you've got to do the work in addition
7426
05:35:54,420 --> 05:35:56,700
to doing the work you have to have the
7427
05:35:56,700 --> 05:35:59,700
vision and the skill the photo skills to
7428
05:35:59,700 --> 05:36:01,260
get the shot that you want so that's
7429
05:36:01,260 --> 05:36:04,039
really important
7430
05:36:05,218 --> 05:36:07,320
so why do we buy all this Pro gear why
7431
05:36:07,320 --> 05:36:08,580
are we here today everyone's going to
7432
05:36:08,580 --> 05:36:10,740
buy new lenses and new cameras and all
7433
05:36:10,740 --> 05:36:12,060
the pro gear
7434
05:36:12,060 --> 05:36:13,860
um well you're going to see in a minute
7435
05:36:13,860 --> 05:36:16,440
this might shock you some people but we
7436
05:36:16,440 --> 05:36:18,660
buy it because it lasts it's going to
7437
05:36:18,660 --> 05:36:21,298
last US 10 15 years we buy it because it
7438
05:36:21,298 --> 05:36:23,400
lasts the day it's going to last a day
7439
05:36:23,400 --> 05:36:25,940
like this
7440
05:36:28,260 --> 05:36:31,579
oh my God
7441
05:36:31,920 --> 05:36:33,718
there's more snow in your pack than on
7442
05:36:33,718 --> 05:36:36,120
the mountain well
7443
05:36:36,120 --> 05:36:38,040
camera's pitted get the ninjas
7444
05:36:38,040 --> 05:36:39,420
at the top of something that's what it
7445
05:36:39,420 --> 05:36:41,700
takes that's what it takes
7446
05:36:41,700 --> 05:36:43,680
so that might be a little bit excessive
7447
05:36:43,680 --> 05:36:45,660
but that's not out of the question for a
7448
05:36:45,660 --> 05:36:47,878
typical day that my gear goes through so
7449
05:36:47,878 --> 05:36:49,200
when people come up to the booth and
7450
05:36:49,200 --> 05:36:50,820
they're like well is it weather sealed
7451
05:36:50,820 --> 05:36:53,878
and well now you know it is very well
7452
05:36:53,878 --> 05:36:57,840
sealed it can take a beating you know I
7453
05:36:57,840 --> 05:36:59,638
I took everything out I dried it off I
7454
05:36:59,638 --> 05:37:01,200
have a chamois with me we went and got
7455
05:37:01,200 --> 05:37:02,940
some lunch 40 minutes we come back later
7456
05:37:02,940 --> 05:37:04,320
we go out and shoot the rest of the day
7457
05:37:04,320 --> 05:37:06,718
it's fine I don't think people realize
7458
05:37:06,718 --> 05:37:08,760
just how much of a beating your gear can
7459
05:37:08,760 --> 05:37:10,560
take not that I'm saying go abuse your
7460
05:37:10,560 --> 05:37:15,120
gear but it can do more than you think
7461
05:37:15,120 --> 05:37:17,100
okay a typical day this is just a
7462
05:37:17,100 --> 05:37:19,378
screenshot from a shoot I did for K2 up
7463
05:37:19,378 --> 05:37:21,420
in British Columbia
7464
05:37:21,420 --> 05:37:23,160
um but let's just go through a typical
7465
05:37:23,160 --> 05:37:25,378
day we get up early we get on
7466
05:37:25,378 --> 05:37:28,080
snowmobiles we snowmobile 18K up into
7467
05:37:28,080 --> 05:37:29,400
the back country
7468
05:37:29,400 --> 05:37:31,320
come home we shoot all day we do all
7469
05:37:31,320 --> 05:37:34,378
that stuff we come home first thing I do
7470
05:37:34,378 --> 05:37:37,620
is what download all my images
7471
05:37:37,620 --> 05:37:39,240
then what I well I'll tell you what I
7472
05:37:39,240 --> 05:37:41,638
don't do I don't clear cards ever when
7473
05:37:41,638 --> 05:37:43,860
I'm in the field I have enough card
7474
05:37:43,860 --> 05:37:46,320
space to make sure that I never delete
7475
05:37:46,320 --> 05:37:48,240
anything I have what I don't even know
7476
05:37:48,240 --> 05:37:50,520
how many let's call it five or six 64
7477
05:37:50,520 --> 05:37:53,458
gig cards and five or six 32 gig cards I
7478
05:37:53,458 --> 05:37:55,260
shoot those during the day I flip them
7479
05:37:55,260 --> 05:37:57,718
around in my little you know your little
7480
05:37:57,718 --> 05:38:00,180
pack that you put your uh your SD cards
7481
05:38:00,180 --> 05:38:03,240
in and I never delete them so I come
7482
05:38:03,240 --> 05:38:05,100
home I download to this computer right
7483
05:38:05,100 --> 05:38:07,740
here I have another backup drive that I
7484
05:38:07,740 --> 05:38:09,780
drop those into there and then I also
7485
05:38:09,780 --> 05:38:11,520
have the cards themselves that's three
7486
05:38:11,520 --> 05:38:13,740
points of protection for all my stuff
7487
05:38:13,740 --> 05:38:15,298
this is all assignment work right I
7488
05:38:15,298 --> 05:38:16,798
can't come home I can't lose it I can't
7489
05:38:16,798 --> 05:38:18,298
delete anything it's got to be done
7490
05:38:18,298 --> 05:38:20,940
right so three points of protection for
7491
05:38:20,940 --> 05:38:23,280
all my stuff then when I'm flying home I
7492
05:38:23,280 --> 05:38:25,020
also separate that
7493
05:38:25,020 --> 05:38:27,540
so my camera pack is always with me
7494
05:38:27,540 --> 05:38:29,700
never put your camera under the plane do
7495
05:38:29,700 --> 05:38:32,520
anything you can to avoid putting your
7496
05:38:32,520 --> 05:38:34,740
camera pack under the plane I've broken
7497
05:38:34,740 --> 05:38:37,860
a lens doing that before actually it was
7498
05:38:37,860 --> 05:38:40,138
on this shoe uh it was on this very
7499
05:38:40,138 --> 05:38:41,940
shoot right here I forgot that they made
7500
05:38:41,940 --> 05:38:45,120
me check my bag and when we got there a
7501
05:38:45,120 --> 05:38:49,980
12 what was it a 1224 F4 was smashed so
7502
05:38:49,980 --> 05:38:51,660
I was out of lens
7503
05:38:51,660 --> 05:38:52,320
um
7504
05:38:52,320 --> 05:38:53,878
good thing to know
7505
05:38:53,878 --> 05:38:56,340
anyhow I charge all my batteries I clean
7506
05:38:56,340 --> 05:38:57,958
all my gear you guys saw me beating the
7507
05:38:57,958 --> 05:39:00,360
heck out of my gear I do take very good
7508
05:39:00,360 --> 05:39:03,000
care of it when I get home I I dry it
7509
05:39:03,000 --> 05:39:04,980
all off I pull the rear lens cap off the
7510
05:39:04,980 --> 05:39:07,620
front lens cap dust it all down I have
7511
05:39:07,620 --> 05:39:10,138
my blower and also take it you know I
7512
05:39:10,138 --> 05:39:12,120
have a little bit of liquid I clean off
7513
05:39:12,120 --> 05:39:14,878
the front elements I let everything dry
7514
05:39:14,878 --> 05:39:16,920
overnight I charge the batteries and as
7515
05:39:16,920 --> 05:39:18,840
as important as charging the the gear
7516
05:39:18,840 --> 05:39:20,520
batteries I charge my batteries I make
7517
05:39:20,520 --> 05:39:22,560
sure to hydrate make sure to have a good
7518
05:39:22,560 --> 05:39:25,160
meal and make sure I get some good rest
7519
05:39:25,160 --> 05:39:27,298
all that stuff is really important if
7520
05:39:27,298 --> 05:39:28,980
you're out for eight nine ten days
7521
05:39:28,980 --> 05:39:32,040
beating yourself up you will start your
7522
05:39:32,040 --> 05:39:33,660
performance will go down if you're not
7523
05:39:33,660 --> 05:39:35,160
taking care of your body
7524
05:39:35,160 --> 05:39:38,540
so that's really important too
7525
05:39:38,638 --> 05:39:41,340
okay anatomy of a shoe the business of
7526
05:39:41,340 --> 05:39:43,798
Adventure photography oh man the dark
7527
05:39:43,798 --> 05:39:45,120
art
7528
05:39:45,120 --> 05:39:45,860
of business
7529
05:39:45,860 --> 05:39:47,520
[Music]
7530
05:39:47,520 --> 05:39:49,860
um every photo shoot is completely
7531
05:39:49,860 --> 05:39:51,240
different
7532
05:39:51,240 --> 05:39:54,360
every way I've put it together in in 10
7533
05:39:54,360 --> 05:39:56,820
different ways of of how you get paid to
7534
05:39:56,820 --> 05:39:58,560
do this stuff
7535
05:39:58,560 --> 05:40:00,660
um this photo right here actually isn't
7536
05:40:00,660 --> 05:40:03,060
even out yet but if anyone gets Osprey
7537
05:40:03,060 --> 05:40:05,340
packs this will be in your mailbox in
7538
05:40:05,340 --> 05:40:06,780
probably two or three weeks actually
7539
05:40:06,780 --> 05:40:07,980
sooner than that probably next week
7540
05:40:07,980 --> 05:40:10,378
you'll see that in your mailbox
7541
05:40:10,378 --> 05:40:13,320
um but I wasn't there for Osprey at the
7542
05:40:13,320 --> 05:40:14,820
time they are a client of mine I do work
7543
05:40:14,820 --> 05:40:16,798
with Osprey quite a bit we were there
7544
05:40:16,798 --> 05:40:20,400
for the ski area in South America
7545
05:40:20,400 --> 05:40:22,798
um well let me take a step back when I
7546
05:40:22,798 --> 05:40:25,260
go somewhere to work I am never paying
7547
05:40:25,260 --> 05:40:27,120
to be anywhere if I'm going to leave the
7548
05:40:27,120 --> 05:40:28,920
country or even leave the state on a
7549
05:40:28,920 --> 05:40:31,440
shoot I make sure I'm at least
7550
05:40:31,440 --> 05:40:34,080
at the bare minimum I'm at zero I'm at
7551
05:40:34,080 --> 05:40:36,360
break even when I when I land so
7552
05:40:36,360 --> 05:40:37,920
somebody's already taken care of my
7553
05:40:37,920 --> 05:40:40,560
flights my hotels rental cars all that
7554
05:40:40,560 --> 05:40:42,180
kind of stuff it's already taken care of
7555
05:40:42,180 --> 05:40:45,000
some some client is doing that first
7556
05:40:45,000 --> 05:40:48,240
ideally I'm already making money before
7557
05:40:48,240 --> 05:40:50,940
I even get there but you never know
7558
05:40:50,940 --> 05:40:53,100
for this particular shoot I was there
7559
05:40:53,100 --> 05:40:55,560
for the ski area I had two brands that
7560
05:40:55,560 --> 05:40:56,878
were already supporting the trip so
7561
05:40:56,878 --> 05:40:58,200
they're making sure I'm getting paid
7562
05:40:58,200 --> 05:41:00,660
then I come home and I take those images
7563
05:41:00,660 --> 05:41:02,520
and it all depends on how your contract
7564
05:41:02,520 --> 05:41:03,840
is sorted out right like some people
7565
05:41:03,840 --> 05:41:05,878
want exclusive stuff
7566
05:41:05,878 --> 05:41:08,400
um which is fine they can have that uh
7567
05:41:08,400 --> 05:41:10,138
but generally that's not how it works I
7568
05:41:10,138 --> 05:41:13,320
come home I give client a their images I
7569
05:41:13,320 --> 05:41:16,260
give client B their images C gets their
7570
05:41:16,260 --> 05:41:19,200
images and then I have still have tons
7571
05:41:19,200 --> 05:41:21,900
of photos so what do I do I sell those
7572
05:41:21,900 --> 05:41:24,780
out to all the other brands that maybe
7573
05:41:24,780 --> 05:41:27,540
didn't support it to the to begin with I
7574
05:41:27,540 --> 05:41:29,100
mean like hey check out what we got in
7575
05:41:29,100 --> 05:41:30,718
South America that's how we got this
7576
05:41:30,718 --> 05:41:33,298
cover the Osprey catalog Osprey stopped
7577
05:41:33,298 --> 05:41:35,520
the presses pulled out the other photo
7578
05:41:35,520 --> 05:41:37,680
put in that photo and started the
7579
05:41:37,680 --> 05:41:40,440
presses again they're like whoa we're
7580
05:41:40,440 --> 05:41:42,180
using that
7581
05:41:42,180 --> 05:41:43,920
uh and there were a couple other brands
7582
05:41:43,920 --> 05:41:45,718
oh and then editorial so then I take the
7583
05:41:45,718 --> 05:41:46,920
rest of that stuff and I move it into
7584
05:41:46,920 --> 05:41:48,480
editorial so it'll go into all the
7585
05:41:48,480 --> 05:41:50,458
different magazines yes magazines are
7586
05:41:50,458 --> 05:41:51,900
still very much a thing today I was
7587
05:41:51,900 --> 05:41:53,700
talking to another photographer about
7588
05:41:53,700 --> 05:41:55,080
that
7589
05:41:55,080 --> 05:41:57,420
um there's some great new magazines out
7590
05:41:57,420 --> 05:41:58,260
there
7591
05:41:58,260 --> 05:42:00,060
um check out Mountain Gazette if you
7592
05:42:00,060 --> 05:42:01,740
like this world of Adventure Mountain
7593
05:42:01,740 --> 05:42:03,958
Gazette Adventure journal or two that
7594
05:42:03,958 --> 05:42:06,420
are kind of new and really awesome uh
7595
05:42:06,420 --> 05:42:07,920
put that in your notes because they do
7596
05:42:07,920 --> 05:42:10,798
really cool stuff big large format very
7597
05:42:10,798 --> 05:42:14,958
little advertising beautiful magazines
7598
05:42:15,180 --> 05:42:17,040
um so the bottom line here is that you
7599
05:42:17,040 --> 05:42:18,840
want to have multiple revenue streams
7600
05:42:18,840 --> 05:42:20,638
for every shoot that you go out on I
7601
05:42:20,638 --> 05:42:22,560
never go out and just have like oh I'm
7602
05:42:22,560 --> 05:42:25,798
working for client a end of story never
7603
05:42:25,798 --> 05:42:27,480
do I do that you want to have oh I'm
7604
05:42:27,480 --> 05:42:30,480
working for client a but athlete also
7605
05:42:30,480 --> 05:42:32,160
has this sponsor so I'm going to be sure
7606
05:42:32,160 --> 05:42:33,900
that they get some images and then I'm
7607
05:42:33,900 --> 05:42:35,340
going to send it to the magazine so you
7608
05:42:35,340 --> 05:42:37,560
have multiple revenue streams coming in
7609
05:42:37,560 --> 05:42:39,480
from every any given shoot that you go
7610
05:42:39,480 --> 05:42:40,500
out on
7611
05:42:40,500 --> 05:42:42,600
so again it is a little bit of a Dark
7612
05:42:42,600 --> 05:42:44,040
Art because people like well what do you
7613
05:42:44,040 --> 05:42:47,240
charge I'm like what do you got
7614
05:42:47,240 --> 05:42:50,160
now I don't have a rate anymore
7615
05:42:50,160 --> 05:42:52,080
um I just work within budget at this
7616
05:42:52,080 --> 05:42:53,520
point so if you ask me that's going to
7617
05:42:53,520 --> 05:42:54,718
be my answer I'm like I really don't
7618
05:42:54,718 --> 05:42:56,760
have a rate anymore I work within a
7619
05:42:56,760 --> 05:42:59,420
client's budget
7620
05:42:59,638 --> 05:43:01,680
okay outdoor photo 101 these are just
7621
05:43:01,680 --> 05:43:03,298
some of the basic elements that you guys
7622
05:43:03,298 --> 05:43:05,160
will need to master to get any of this
7623
05:43:05,160 --> 05:43:06,958
kind of stuff shot
7624
05:43:06,958 --> 05:43:09,120
um first off camera settings raw so
7625
05:43:09,120 --> 05:43:11,100
everyone's shooting in raw is anyone not
7626
05:43:11,100 --> 05:43:13,378
shooting in raw how does you raw I have
7627
05:43:13,378 --> 05:43:14,940
to shoot in raw almost all my clients
7628
05:43:14,940 --> 05:43:16,740
demand that I shoot in raw typically I
7629
05:43:16,740 --> 05:43:19,080
have to turn in all my images as dngs
7630
05:43:19,080 --> 05:43:21,780
that means they can see every when I
7631
05:43:21,780 --> 05:43:23,760
send in my dng they can go in and look
7632
05:43:23,760 --> 05:43:25,440
at the history of the image and see
7633
05:43:25,440 --> 05:43:27,780
every move I've made they know they know
7634
05:43:27,780 --> 05:43:29,100
what I've lightened they know what I've
7635
05:43:29,100 --> 05:43:30,780
darkened they know what I've removed or
7636
05:43:30,780 --> 05:43:32,340
added well I don't really add anything
7637
05:43:32,340 --> 05:43:34,320
but I would remove maybe spots and
7638
05:43:34,320 --> 05:43:36,120
things like that
7639
05:43:36,120 --> 05:43:37,920
I'm generally shooting in my fastest
7640
05:43:37,920 --> 05:43:39,900
frame rate your camera whatever it is
7641
05:43:39,900 --> 05:43:41,458
it's going to shoot in five frames a
7642
05:43:41,458 --> 05:43:44,520
second eight frames 10 15 20 now and
7643
05:43:44,520 --> 05:43:46,320
even faster
7644
05:43:46,320 --> 05:43:48,058
um I'm generally shooting in that
7645
05:43:48,058 --> 05:43:49,620
fastest frame rate
7646
05:43:49,620 --> 05:43:52,020
I'm shooting in my lowest ISO possible
7647
05:43:52,020 --> 05:43:53,878
but that doesn't mean I'm afraid to
7648
05:43:53,878 --> 05:43:57,240
shoot at ISO 2000 or 6400 I will use
7649
05:43:57,240 --> 05:43:59,878
whatever I need but I want to as soon as
7650
05:43:59,878 --> 05:44:02,160
I'm done needing that high ISO I will
7651
05:44:02,160 --> 05:44:04,860
dial it back down to whatever 400 200
7652
05:44:04,860 --> 05:44:06,540
100 ideally
7653
05:44:06,540 --> 05:44:08,160
but don't be afraid to use those High
7654
05:44:08,160 --> 05:44:10,500
isos
7655
05:44:10,500 --> 05:44:12,180
um back button autofocus this is a
7656
05:44:12,180 --> 05:44:14,760
classic do as I say not as I do I like I
7657
05:44:14,760 --> 05:44:16,860
said I never had a mentor I never was
7658
05:44:16,860 --> 05:44:19,080
properly trained in photography I had to
7659
05:44:19,080 --> 05:44:21,780
figure this out myself so I'm a horrible
7660
05:44:21,780 --> 05:44:24,298
old school using the the shutter to do
7661
05:44:24,298 --> 05:44:27,360
my autofocus don't do that learn to use
7662
05:44:27,360 --> 05:44:29,700
your back button autofocus it is way
7663
05:44:29,700 --> 05:44:31,680
more efficient in a way smarter way I'm
7664
05:44:31,680 --> 05:44:34,138
just old and belligerent and yeah I'm
7665
05:44:34,138 --> 05:44:36,000
just stuck in my old ways but that's the
7666
05:44:36,000 --> 05:44:38,638
way to do it autofocus settings the two
7667
05:44:38,638 --> 05:44:40,080
main ways I shoot
7668
05:44:40,080 --> 05:44:42,600
good old-fashioned flr who knows what
7669
05:44:42,600 --> 05:44:44,100
that is
7670
05:44:44,100 --> 05:44:47,280
Focus lock recompose that's an old like
7671
05:44:47,280 --> 05:44:48,660
film thing I think I must have read it
7672
05:44:48,660 --> 05:44:50,458
in a book because well because I didn't
7673
05:44:50,458 --> 05:44:53,218
have any Mentor but anyhow single shot
7674
05:44:53,218 --> 05:44:55,798
if I if if the setting is more important
7675
05:44:55,798 --> 05:44:57,900
than the action that's how I'm probably
7676
05:44:57,900 --> 05:44:59,580
going to shoot the backdrop is
7677
05:44:59,580 --> 05:45:01,798
incredible I'm going to pre-focus to a
7678
05:45:01,798 --> 05:45:03,540
point I've got everything set up I'm
7679
05:45:03,540 --> 05:45:04,798
probably not standing here I just told
7680
05:45:04,798 --> 05:45:06,058
you I'm not standing here like this I'm
7681
05:45:06,058 --> 05:45:07,320
down in the snow we're doing whatever
7682
05:45:07,320 --> 05:45:09,360
I'm doing
7683
05:45:09,360 --> 05:45:11,940
pre-focus to that spot call up to the
7684
05:45:11,940 --> 05:45:15,360
athlete Hayes Fenn I need you 15 feet
7685
05:45:15,360 --> 05:45:19,020
right of the uh the the last tree at the
7686
05:45:19,020 --> 05:45:20,280
bottom of the slope whatever it is you
7687
05:45:20,280 --> 05:45:22,080
should hear our I need to have one of
7688
05:45:22,080 --> 05:45:23,878
those because like us communicating is
7689
05:45:23,878 --> 05:45:25,740
pure comedy
7690
05:45:25,740 --> 05:45:28,080
um so I make the make the call we figure
7691
05:45:28,080 --> 05:45:29,400
out where he's going to be I know
7692
05:45:29,400 --> 05:45:30,900
exactly where he's going to be and the
7693
05:45:30,900 --> 05:45:32,218
communication is important right because
7694
05:45:32,218 --> 05:45:34,798
I'm pre-focused if he goes 15 feet to
7695
05:45:34,798 --> 05:45:36,780
the right of where I'm focused we don't
7696
05:45:36,780 --> 05:45:38,780
have a shot if he comes 15 feet inside
7697
05:45:38,780 --> 05:45:41,700
shot's gone so it's really important
7698
05:45:41,700 --> 05:45:43,940
that we're communicating very very well
7699
05:45:43,940 --> 05:45:47,160
anyhow I'm there Focus lock I got it all
7700
05:45:47,160 --> 05:45:50,040
recomposed okay you're in he comes in
7701
05:45:50,040 --> 05:45:52,620
makes his turn there's the shot that's
7702
05:45:52,620 --> 05:45:53,878
how we do those
7703
05:45:53,878 --> 05:45:56,820
the other way we do it is a uh autofocus
7704
05:45:56,820 --> 05:46:00,480
Servo AI servo and that's when the
7705
05:46:00,480 --> 05:46:01,920
action is more important than the
7706
05:46:01,920 --> 05:46:03,298
backdrop I mean this is all General
7707
05:46:03,298 --> 05:46:04,940
right there's also times when I use
7708
05:46:04,940 --> 05:46:07,500
Servo and I'm shooting the backdrop too
7709
05:46:07,500 --> 05:46:09,780
but generally if the action is more
7710
05:46:09,780 --> 05:46:11,218
important than the backdrop I'm going to
7711
05:46:11,218 --> 05:46:13,260
shoot in Servo mode and really at that
7712
05:46:13,260 --> 05:46:15,660
point I'm just letting the the autofocus
7713
05:46:15,660 --> 05:46:17,940
of the camera track the athlete as he
7714
05:46:17,940 --> 05:46:19,798
comes or he or she comes down the
7715
05:46:19,798 --> 05:46:21,058
mountain at me
7716
05:46:21,058 --> 05:46:23,340
so that's the other way and an important
7717
05:46:23,340 --> 05:46:25,500
note about that is that most people
7718
05:46:25,500 --> 05:46:27,180
don't realize this or they don't utilize
7719
05:46:27,180 --> 05:46:29,340
it but your autofocus points on all your
7720
05:46:29,340 --> 05:46:31,320
cameras you can move them anywhere you
7721
05:46:31,320 --> 05:46:33,718
want on that screen don't be stuck in
7722
05:46:33,718 --> 05:46:35,638
the middle if you want your athlete in
7723
05:46:35,638 --> 05:46:38,400
the upper left corner move that auto
7724
05:46:38,400 --> 05:46:39,900
focus point right over there if you want
7725
05:46:39,900 --> 05:46:42,120
in the bottom left do the same thing you
7726
05:46:42,120 --> 05:46:44,218
can move it anywhere you want don't get
7727
05:46:44,218 --> 05:46:46,500
stuck shooting everything perfectly in
7728
05:46:46,500 --> 05:46:48,360
the middle
7729
05:46:48,360 --> 05:46:50,218
this is the key to composition when
7730
05:46:50,218 --> 05:46:52,620
you're shooting in AI Servo so here's a
7731
05:46:52,620 --> 05:46:55,820
little quick video about that
7732
05:46:59,400 --> 05:47:02,580
uh one thing that's like super important
7733
05:47:02,580 --> 05:47:03,958
um for me at least when I'm shooting
7734
05:47:03,958 --> 05:47:06,718
especially in AFC mode and continuous
7735
05:47:06,718 --> 05:47:08,940
Focus mode is to
7736
05:47:08,940 --> 05:47:11,820
um is that I'm I'm sure to move my focus
7737
05:47:11,820 --> 05:47:13,920
point out of Center because I don't want
7738
05:47:13,920 --> 05:47:16,020
my athlete Center punched all the time
7739
05:47:16,020 --> 05:47:17,820
right in the middle of the frame so on
7740
05:47:17,820 --> 05:47:19,740
your particular camera whatever you have
7741
05:47:19,740 --> 05:47:23,160
you can move that around move that auto
7742
05:47:23,160 --> 05:47:24,958
focus point out of Center and put it
7743
05:47:24,958 --> 05:47:26,820
wherever you want the athlete to be in
7744
05:47:26,820 --> 05:47:29,100
your picture so for me here
7745
05:47:29,100 --> 05:47:32,340
I'm moving it left and up so that way
7746
05:47:32,340 --> 05:47:33,660
she's going to be kind of on the left
7747
05:47:33,660 --> 05:47:35,340
side of the frame and then it's tracking
7748
05:47:35,340 --> 05:47:38,040
her her head so her eyes are in focus
7749
05:47:38,040 --> 05:47:39,840
and that way I get all that background
7750
05:47:39,840 --> 05:47:42,460
back there too
7751
05:47:42,460 --> 05:47:46,040
[Music]
7752
05:47:46,040 --> 05:47:48,240
that's right across the street from my
7753
05:47:48,240 --> 05:47:50,218
house too it's a nice little spot that I
7754
05:47:50,218 --> 05:47:54,020
can run to and get photos all the time
7755
05:47:54,420 --> 05:47:57,540
um okay so going back to single shot or
7756
05:47:57,540 --> 05:47:59,100
Servo what do you think this was shot on
7757
05:47:59,100 --> 05:48:01,798
Servo or single shot
7758
05:48:01,798 --> 05:48:04,260
single shot
7759
05:48:04,260 --> 05:48:06,600
single shot it is that's what it was so
7760
05:48:06,600 --> 05:48:07,980
this is a really easy one for me
7761
05:48:07,980 --> 05:48:10,080
actually I told you earlier that I'm I'm
7762
05:48:10,080 --> 05:48:13,138
always a uh an active participant in all
7763
05:48:13,138 --> 05:48:15,420
these shoots this particular day I was
7764
05:48:15,420 --> 05:48:17,940
on a Hut with a cup of coffee on my hand
7765
05:48:17,940 --> 05:48:20,458
and my camera on a tripod as these guys
7766
05:48:20,458 --> 05:48:22,260
are risking their life basically skiing
7767
05:48:22,260 --> 05:48:24,298
this vertical wall and I'm just on the
7768
05:48:24,298 --> 05:48:26,040
radio and the filmers are next to me and
7769
05:48:26,040 --> 05:48:27,958
we're just like all right Corey let's go
7770
05:48:27,958 --> 05:48:30,718
come on the coffee's getting cold and uh
7771
05:48:30,718 --> 05:48:32,458
so we call him in
7772
05:48:32,458 --> 05:48:34,320
all I have to do is pre I know where
7773
05:48:34,320 --> 05:48:35,820
he's going to be he's up top and he just
7774
05:48:35,820 --> 05:48:37,378
throws a snowball and he shows me
7775
05:48:37,378 --> 05:48:38,700
exactly where his Line's going to be
7776
05:48:38,700 --> 05:48:41,160
pre-focus to the snow right there
7777
05:48:41,160 --> 05:48:44,280
recompose let him come through get the
7778
05:48:44,280 --> 05:48:45,420
shot
7779
05:48:45,420 --> 05:48:46,860
the other thing that's going on here and
7780
05:48:46,860 --> 05:48:48,360
you guys might not think about this is
7781
05:48:48,360 --> 05:48:50,458
there's a lot of safety this is a really
7782
05:48:50,458 --> 05:48:52,558
dangerous situation there's so much snow
7783
05:48:52,558 --> 05:48:54,958
that if he catches an edge and goes head
7784
05:48:54,958 --> 05:48:57,180
over tea kettle however you want to call
7785
05:48:57,180 --> 05:48:58,080
it
7786
05:48:58,080 --> 05:48:59,580
um he ain't getting out
7787
05:48:59,580 --> 05:49:02,040
it is so deep if he goes head first he
7788
05:49:02,040 --> 05:49:04,680
cannot get out so just out of frame on
7789
05:49:04,680 --> 05:49:06,298
the left and just out of the frame on
7790
05:49:06,298 --> 05:49:08,040
the bottom are two people sitting there
7791
05:49:08,040 --> 05:49:10,080
ready to go if something goes wrong now
7792
05:49:10,080 --> 05:49:12,600
he's a pro skier and he did just fine he
7793
05:49:12,600 --> 05:49:14,400
stuck the landing and was great but we
7794
05:49:14,400 --> 05:49:17,040
do have all that safety and almost all
7795
05:49:17,040 --> 05:49:18,480
this kind of Photography you see out
7796
05:49:18,480 --> 05:49:20,760
there there's there is an element of
7797
05:49:20,760 --> 05:49:22,620
safety going on in the background that
7798
05:49:22,620 --> 05:49:23,878
you might not see or might not think
7799
05:49:23,878 --> 05:49:26,600
about yes sir
7800
05:49:30,180 --> 05:49:32,760
no I don't use manual focus
7801
05:49:32,760 --> 05:49:34,320
um I mean you could you certainly could
7802
05:49:34,320 --> 05:49:36,958
but you know and it is tough sometimes
7803
05:49:36,958 --> 05:49:39,320
when you're shooting on a hot white snow
7804
05:49:39,320 --> 05:49:42,360
but I'm always able to pull up a little
7805
05:49:42,360 --> 05:49:45,840
auto focus point I bet I focused
7806
05:49:45,840 --> 05:49:47,458
right here
7807
05:49:47,458 --> 05:49:48,958
because there's a little bit of contrast
7808
05:49:48,958 --> 05:49:52,680
there and it'll pick that up it was fine
7809
05:49:52,680 --> 05:49:55,440
no full full manual oh did I not go over
7810
05:49:55,440 --> 05:49:56,940
that in my settings I'm shooting in full
7811
05:49:56,940 --> 05:49:58,860
manual all the time
7812
05:49:58,860 --> 05:50:01,080
I want control over well we'll just do
7813
05:50:01,080 --> 05:50:03,540
that right now full manual because I
7814
05:50:03,540 --> 05:50:05,820
want complete control over what the
7815
05:50:05,820 --> 05:50:07,740
image looks like uh especially when
7816
05:50:07,740 --> 05:50:09,420
you're shooting on snow
7817
05:50:09,420 --> 05:50:12,718
you have to actually over expose which
7818
05:50:12,718 --> 05:50:14,580
some people is very counterintuitive you
7819
05:50:14,580 --> 05:50:15,958
think it's so bright you need to like
7820
05:50:15,958 --> 05:50:17,520
dial down your setting but that's wrong
7821
05:50:17,520 --> 05:50:20,820
because you're you're uh your your meter
7822
05:50:20,820 --> 05:50:23,520
wants everything to be 18 gray so you'll
7823
05:50:23,520 --> 05:50:25,740
have gray snow if you shoot it right in
7824
05:50:25,740 --> 05:50:27,420
the middle you want to over expose about
7825
05:50:27,420 --> 05:50:32,000
a stop same goes for anything bright
7826
05:50:33,120 --> 05:50:36,900
okay uh same thing this is a very easy
7827
05:50:36,900 --> 05:50:38,940
photo you notice I'm kind of shooting
7828
05:50:38,940 --> 05:50:40,440
through the aspen trees there I'm
7829
05:50:40,440 --> 05:50:42,420
framing up the athlete framing up the
7830
05:50:42,420 --> 05:50:43,620
situation
7831
05:50:43,620 --> 05:50:46,260
all I have to do is pre-focus right to
7832
05:50:46,260 --> 05:50:48,058
that spot I know where the kayaker is
7833
05:50:48,058 --> 05:50:50,280
going to be he comes through the scene I
7834
05:50:50,280 --> 05:50:52,558
just hit the trigger uh and we get our
7835
05:50:52,558 --> 05:50:54,240
frames and then I just go back and pick
7836
05:50:54,240 --> 05:50:56,340
the best one that being my favorite of
7837
05:50:56,340 --> 05:50:58,458
them
7838
05:50:59,638 --> 05:51:03,120
AI Servo or single shot
7839
05:51:03,120 --> 05:51:05,458
I heard serbos I did her a couple
7840
05:51:05,458 --> 05:51:07,020
surveys he'd be right yeah that's a
7841
05:51:07,020 --> 05:51:08,520
really easy photo right he's just coming
7842
05:51:08,520 --> 05:51:10,500
right at me I just want that dark
7843
05:51:10,500 --> 05:51:12,840
background it's a nice morning shot he's
7844
05:51:12,840 --> 05:51:14,878
coming right at me the camera does a
7845
05:51:14,878 --> 05:51:16,620
really good job of picking him up and I
7846
05:51:16,620 --> 05:51:18,958
get I don't just get this shot I get all
7847
05:51:18,958 --> 05:51:21,180
40 shots of him riding the bike back and
7848
05:51:21,180 --> 05:51:23,100
forth left and right so then I can pick
7849
05:51:23,100 --> 05:51:24,900
out the one that looks best for me the
7850
05:51:24,900 --> 05:51:29,298
one that I want to use but yes AI servo
7851
05:51:30,600 --> 05:51:33,480
Servo or a single shot
7852
05:51:33,480 --> 05:51:37,440
same thing Servo Amy's up the hill all I
7853
05:51:37,440 --> 05:51:39,000
really care about there's no backdrop
7854
05:51:39,000 --> 05:51:40,320
there's nothing else to see she's going
7855
05:51:40,320 --> 05:51:42,058
to be coming skiing right at me at Full
7856
05:51:42,058 --> 05:51:45,298
Speed Ahead all I have to do is keep
7857
05:51:45,298 --> 05:51:48,000
that red auto focus point right on her
7858
05:51:48,000 --> 05:51:50,160
goggles that's the skill right you can't
7859
05:51:50,160 --> 05:51:51,780
move it behind or anywhere else you got
7860
05:51:51,780 --> 05:51:54,180
to keep it right on him and if she comes
7861
05:51:54,180 --> 05:51:56,458
at me I capture the entire sequence as
7862
05:51:56,458 --> 05:51:58,260
she comes down the hill this was
7863
05:51:58,260 --> 05:52:01,138
actually part of a client shoot that
7864
05:52:01,138 --> 05:52:03,660
also went into editorial again I'm like
7865
05:52:03,660 --> 05:52:06,120
trying to maximize the amount of revenue
7866
05:52:06,120 --> 05:52:07,920
streams I get from every shoot that I'm
7867
05:52:07,920 --> 05:52:09,480
on
7868
05:52:09,480 --> 05:52:12,000
another interesting point here almost
7869
05:52:12,000 --> 05:52:14,160
every cover I've ever shot has been cut
7870
05:52:14,160 --> 05:52:16,320
out of a horizontal
7871
05:52:16,320 --> 05:52:17,820
everyone thinks that you have to shoot
7872
05:52:17,820 --> 05:52:19,558
vertically to get a cover and that's I
7873
05:52:19,558 --> 05:52:21,780
mean I do have a few vertical covers but
7874
05:52:21,780 --> 05:52:24,600
90 of my covers have been cut out of an
7875
05:52:24,600 --> 05:52:27,557
image just like that
7876
05:52:28,798 --> 05:52:31,440
okay flash flash used to be really cool
7877
05:52:31,440 --> 05:52:33,298
and really important in Outdoor Sports
7878
05:52:33,298 --> 05:52:35,100
Photography when I first started it was
7879
05:52:35,100 --> 05:52:37,138
like a huge thing and people were
7880
05:52:37,138 --> 05:52:39,660
carrying like Ellen Chrome Rangers miles
7881
05:52:39,660 --> 05:52:41,160
into the back country and they would
7882
05:52:41,160 --> 05:52:42,840
make their athletes carry do you know
7883
05:52:42,840 --> 05:52:44,638
what an Ellen Chrome Ranger is a massive
7884
05:52:44,638 --> 05:52:46,740
battery pack and everyone was doing it
7885
05:52:46,740 --> 05:52:48,540
so I had to do it I didn't really want
7886
05:52:48,540 --> 05:52:49,680
to do it but if you wanted to get
7887
05:52:49,680 --> 05:52:51,780
published you had to know how to to use
7888
05:52:51,780 --> 05:52:54,420
Flash so I still use it today it's still
7889
05:52:54,420 --> 05:52:56,458
a good skill to have and it's still very
7890
05:52:56,458 --> 05:52:58,138
useful for getting published and just
7891
05:52:58,138 --> 05:53:00,360
for creating unique looks
7892
05:53:00,360 --> 05:53:01,080
um
7893
05:53:01,080 --> 05:53:02,638
I think I have a video for you here
7894
05:53:02,638 --> 05:53:05,520
using again this is a focus lock
7895
05:53:05,520 --> 05:53:07,860
recompose there's a trail right there I
7896
05:53:07,860 --> 05:53:09,840
know exactly where he's going to be I
7897
05:53:09,840 --> 05:53:12,000
can pre-focus to that trail and then all
7898
05:53:12,000 --> 05:53:13,920
I have to do is move at the same speed
7899
05:53:13,920 --> 05:53:16,620
as him and let the flash do the rest so
7900
05:53:16,620 --> 05:53:19,440
here's what that looks like
7901
05:53:19,440 --> 05:53:21,480
so panning shops like this without a
7902
05:53:21,480 --> 05:53:23,820
flash are really hard you just kind of
7903
05:53:23,820 --> 05:53:26,280
have to get a little bit lucky
7904
05:53:26,280 --> 05:53:27,900
um you can't
7905
05:53:27,900 --> 05:53:29,700
move your camera faster than they're
7906
05:53:29,700 --> 05:53:31,080
moving you have to keep them on the
7907
05:53:31,080 --> 05:53:33,240
exact same plane as you if you're moving
7908
05:53:33,240 --> 05:53:34,740
faster than they are they're moving
7909
05:53:34,740 --> 05:53:37,200
faster than you it'll be blurry so
7910
05:53:37,200 --> 05:53:38,580
generally when we shoot these kind of
7911
05:53:38,580 --> 05:53:39,718
shots
7912
05:53:39,718 --> 05:53:41,520
um we'd shoot a lot of them just to make
7913
05:53:41,520 --> 05:53:43,500
sure we get it the other thing we can do
7914
05:53:43,500 --> 05:53:44,580
and I don't know if we're going to do it
7915
05:53:44,580 --> 05:53:46,500
today or not maybe we will is we can
7916
05:53:46,500 --> 05:53:48,480
introduce a Flash and what a flash will
7917
05:53:48,480 --> 05:53:50,940
do is guarantee that our athlete is
7918
05:53:50,940 --> 05:53:53,458
going to be super sharp so we'll think
7919
05:53:53,458 --> 05:53:54,958
about adding some Flash in here and
7920
05:53:54,958 --> 05:53:56,520
decide if we want to do it or not but
7921
05:53:56,520 --> 05:53:58,020
until then we're going to do one or two
7922
05:53:58,020 --> 05:54:00,600
more passes through and hopefully we get
7923
05:54:00,600 --> 05:54:02,520
a nice sharp shot without the flash
7924
05:54:02,520 --> 05:54:04,500
we'll see
7925
05:54:04,500 --> 05:54:07,020
when you see my flash set up don't laugh
7926
05:54:07,020 --> 05:54:09,360
it's the jankiest thing but that's not
7927
05:54:09,360 --> 05:54:13,100
how I usually roll I swear
7928
05:54:14,040 --> 05:54:16,218
foreign
7929
05:54:20,400 --> 05:54:22,740
so we decided we are going to fire off a
7930
05:54:22,740 --> 05:54:24,540
few flashes here and see how that looks
7931
05:54:24,540 --> 05:54:26,820
but um to do so I had to steal the
7932
05:54:26,820 --> 05:54:29,218
tripod that I was using for the GoPro so
7933
05:54:29,218 --> 05:54:30,660
here it is right here there's my little
7934
05:54:30,660 --> 05:54:32,638
setup I'm gonna have to cook it at the
7935
05:54:32,638 --> 05:54:33,900
moment we'll get that straightened out
7936
05:54:33,900 --> 05:54:36,480
but um I'm using the Nissan system here
7937
05:54:36,480 --> 05:54:39,660
the air 10s works really well it's super
7938
05:54:39,660 --> 05:54:43,320
easy it's way easier than I ever
7939
05:54:43,320 --> 05:54:45,000
um way easier time than I ever had with
7940
05:54:45,000 --> 05:54:47,700
my uh what was it the Pocket Wizard
7941
05:54:47,700 --> 05:54:49,260
stuff those were terrible those did not
7942
05:54:49,260 --> 05:54:51,120
work for me at all so this is what we're
7943
05:54:51,120 --> 05:54:52,320
going to use right now we got the flash
7944
05:54:52,320 --> 05:54:55,020
set up we got everything going so you're
7945
05:54:55,020 --> 05:54:56,040
going to see a big difference between
7946
05:54:56,040 --> 05:54:58,020
how we shot it without Flash and how we
7947
05:54:58,020 --> 05:55:00,420
shot it with and you might like one
7948
05:55:00,420 --> 05:55:01,980
versus the other you might like both I
7949
05:55:01,980 --> 05:55:03,120
don't know but we're going to shoot them
7950
05:55:03,120 --> 05:55:06,058
both so here we go
7951
05:55:06,058 --> 05:55:09,058
foreign
7952
05:55:14,360 --> 05:55:23,400
[Music]
7953
05:55:23,400 --> 05:55:26,280
flash
7954
05:55:26,280 --> 05:55:27,180
um
7955
05:55:27,180 --> 05:55:29,100
if you are shooting for commercial and
7956
05:55:29,100 --> 05:55:31,378
editorial clients one thing
7957
05:55:31,378 --> 05:55:33,240
one thing that you need to know is that
7958
05:55:33,240 --> 05:55:34,860
you always have to have room for copy
7959
05:55:34,860 --> 05:55:36,600
there has to be a place for the words to
7960
05:55:36,600 --> 05:55:40,020
go two things going on here one I I very
7961
05:55:40,020 --> 05:55:42,958
deliberately use the entire left side of
7962
05:55:42,958 --> 05:55:45,000
this image for copy that's where the
7963
05:55:45,000 --> 05:55:47,400
words go the other thing I did here is
7964
05:55:47,400 --> 05:55:49,740
that I'm shooting through so the dog
7965
05:55:49,740 --> 05:55:51,780
came out of nowhere got in front of the
7966
05:55:51,780 --> 05:55:53,820
scene totally wrecked it but instead of
7967
05:55:53,820 --> 05:55:55,558
just like standing up and be like Oh dog
7968
05:55:55,558 --> 05:55:57,298
wrecked everything I shot through I had
7969
05:55:57,298 --> 05:55:59,820
this idea it's like oh if Zuni moves
7970
05:55:59,820 --> 05:56:02,160
over just a little bit I'm gonna get my
7971
05:56:02,160 --> 05:56:04,020
photo of Michelle and she's going to be
7972
05:56:04,020 --> 05:56:06,000
right underneath the dog
7973
05:56:06,000 --> 05:56:08,458
um and and it came out exactly as I
7974
05:56:08,458 --> 05:56:10,200
wanted it when I as I'm shooting I think
7975
05:56:10,200 --> 05:56:11,940
it's messed up I'm like wait for it wait
7976
05:56:11,940 --> 05:56:13,740
for it wait for it and there it is and
7977
05:56:13,740 --> 05:56:15,780
then it happens so shoot through every
7978
05:56:15,780 --> 05:56:16,920
scene
7979
05:56:16,920 --> 05:56:18,120
I was just giving the five minute
7980
05:56:18,120 --> 05:56:19,680
warning so we're gonna like go pretty
7981
05:56:19,680 --> 05:56:21,058
quick here
7982
05:56:21,058 --> 05:56:24,180
um same idea commercial you always have
7983
05:56:24,180 --> 05:56:26,580
to have a place for all the all the
7984
05:56:26,580 --> 05:56:28,860
words to go so if you do end up in that
7985
05:56:28,860 --> 05:56:30,900
world make sure that you're thinking
7986
05:56:30,900 --> 05:56:32,580
about that stuff negative space is
7987
05:56:32,580 --> 05:56:35,160
really important
7988
05:56:35,160 --> 05:56:37,920
uh writing is also really important um
7989
05:56:37,920 --> 05:56:39,958
back in the day they always segregated
7990
05:56:39,958 --> 05:56:41,700
the work between writer and photographer
7991
05:56:41,700 --> 05:56:43,500
now it's a little bit less so there are
7992
05:56:43,500 --> 05:56:45,058
writers that are doing the photography
7993
05:56:45,058 --> 05:56:46,378
and there are photographers that are
7994
05:56:46,378 --> 05:56:48,420
doing the writing so I think if you can
7995
05:56:48,420 --> 05:56:52,080
write well and convey your story well in
7996
05:56:52,080 --> 05:56:53,820
words it's really just going to help out
7997
05:56:53,820 --> 05:56:55,798
your photography as well so and if
7998
05:56:55,798 --> 05:56:57,840
you're a writer keep working on your
7999
05:56:57,840 --> 05:56:59,638
photography because that that's kind of
8000
05:56:59,638 --> 05:57:01,200
just that world is getting a little more
8001
05:57:01,200 --> 05:57:04,638
mushed up than it used to be
8002
05:57:04,680 --> 05:57:07,920
okay illegitimate non-carborundum we'll
8003
05:57:07,920 --> 05:57:09,780
just say don't let the bad guys get you
8004
05:57:09,780 --> 05:57:10,740
down
8005
05:57:10,740 --> 05:57:12,780
um earlier in this presentation I told
8006
05:57:12,780 --> 05:57:14,218
you about that horrendous rejection
8007
05:57:14,218 --> 05:57:16,798
letter my very first time I submitted
8008
05:57:16,798 --> 05:57:18,900
photos to a magazine
8009
05:57:18,900 --> 05:57:20,820
well I didn't quit I told you I didn't
8010
05:57:20,820 --> 05:57:23,400
quit and I kept with it and 10 years
8011
05:57:23,400 --> 05:57:25,558
later after shooting and learning and
8012
05:57:25,558 --> 05:57:28,200
doing my damnedest to just get better at
8013
05:57:28,200 --> 05:57:30,660
this thing 10 years later in front of
8014
05:57:30,660 --> 05:57:33,298
about a thousand of the of my peers the
8015
05:57:33,298 --> 05:57:35,458
entire ski community that same editor
8016
05:57:35,458 --> 05:57:37,500
brought me on stage and handed me the
8017
05:57:37,500 --> 05:57:39,240
photo of the Year award for this image
8018
05:57:39,240 --> 05:57:42,840
here so 10 full years from the absolute
8019
05:57:42,840 --> 05:57:46,138
worst to at least for one night the best
8020
05:57:46,138 --> 05:57:47,638
I'm not gonna say the best but that
8021
05:57:47,638 --> 05:57:48,480
night
8022
05:57:48,480 --> 05:57:50,878
the best so that's that's that's what
8023
05:57:50,878 --> 05:57:52,440
it's all about it's this kind of
8024
05:57:52,440 --> 05:57:56,298
Photography thank you
8025
05:57:57,298 --> 05:57:59,040
thank you
8026
05:57:59,040 --> 05:58:01,680
um it's all about passion it's all about
8027
05:58:01,680 --> 05:58:03,718
the love of photography I still love it
8028
05:58:03,718 --> 05:58:05,280
I'm gonna guess that all of you guys
8029
05:58:05,280 --> 05:58:07,260
have a strong passion for photography as
8030
05:58:07,260 --> 05:58:09,958
well uh because you're here you wouldn't
8031
05:58:09,958 --> 05:58:11,520
be here if you didn't care about it you
8032
05:58:11,520 --> 05:58:14,040
wouldn't be here if you didn't love it
8033
05:58:14,040 --> 05:58:16,200
um you know how to get better just keep
8034
05:58:16,200 --> 05:58:18,298
shooting and keep shooting and persevere
8035
05:58:18,298 --> 05:58:20,040
and don't let a little bit of rejection
8036
05:58:20,040 --> 05:58:23,458
or don't let 20 rolls of lost film end
8037
05:58:23,458 --> 05:58:26,280
your career persevere push through and
8038
05:58:26,280 --> 05:58:27,718
enjoy it
8039
05:58:27,718 --> 05:58:29,340
um you might think at this point that I
8040
05:58:29,340 --> 05:58:30,958
just get to like hang out and all of a
8041
05:58:30,958 --> 05:58:32,520
sudden these great jobs come in and I
8042
05:58:32,520 --> 05:58:34,320
just am always traveling the world that
8043
05:58:34,320 --> 05:58:36,780
is not true the hustle never ends I
8044
05:58:36,780 --> 05:58:38,458
still have to have my foot on the gas
8045
05:58:38,458 --> 05:58:40,920
pedal every day to get work and I make
8046
05:58:40,920 --> 05:58:42,900
the calls and I do the emails and I
8047
05:58:42,900 --> 05:58:45,000
create adventures and a lot of them
8048
05:58:45,000 --> 05:58:47,100
don't happen but a few of them do but
8049
05:58:47,100 --> 05:58:49,680
the hustle never ends it's always a job
8050
05:58:49,680 --> 05:58:51,780
you're always your job is always to look
8051
05:58:51,780 --> 05:58:54,120
for another job
8052
05:58:54,120 --> 05:58:55,798
I love that what it says right here
8053
05:58:55,798 --> 05:58:58,080
where do we go from here
8054
05:58:58,080 --> 05:58:59,760
um I don't know where we go from here
8055
05:58:59,760 --> 05:59:03,840
this year I turned 50. marking basically
8056
05:59:03,840 --> 05:59:05,340
pretty much halfway through my
8057
05:59:05,340 --> 05:59:07,320
photographic life
8058
05:59:07,320 --> 05:59:07,920
um
8059
05:59:07,920 --> 05:59:10,020
I think more than ever I've realized
8060
05:59:10,020 --> 05:59:12,298
that photography Adventure photography
8061
05:59:12,298 --> 05:59:14,700
is way more than a trip it's way more
8062
05:59:14,700 --> 05:59:16,798
than a single Adventure it's really The
8063
05:59:16,798 --> 05:59:19,080
Arc of our entire photographic lives
8064
05:59:19,080 --> 05:59:22,798
summed up it's about making friends in
8065
05:59:22,798 --> 05:59:25,020
in random places around the world it's
8066
05:59:25,020 --> 05:59:26,940
about suffering a little bit it's about
8067
05:59:26,940 --> 05:59:29,280
the rejection but it's about the wins
8068
05:59:29,280 --> 05:59:31,378
too right like the winds feel so good
8069
05:59:31,378 --> 05:59:34,558
after a few losses
8070
05:59:34,558 --> 05:59:36,958
um it's just a way of life and I and I
8071
05:59:36,958 --> 05:59:39,000
love doing it and I think that you guys
8072
05:59:39,000 --> 05:59:40,620
here can understand that because I bet
8073
05:59:40,620 --> 05:59:42,420
it's a way of life for a lot of you guys
8074
05:59:42,420 --> 05:59:44,580
as well so
8075
05:59:44,580 --> 05:59:46,378
that's what I have for you guys today
8076
05:59:46,378 --> 05:59:48,120
thank you so much for coming out I
8077
05:59:48,120 --> 05:59:51,260
really hope you enjoyed that
8078
05:59:52,500 --> 05:59:55,020
um I'll be over at the sigma Booth to
8079
05:59:55,020 --> 05:59:57,000
answer any questions you have come say
8080
05:59:57,000 --> 05:59:58,798
hi tell me your story because I want to
8081
05:59:58,798 --> 06:00:00,600
hear your photo life story because
8082
06:00:00,600 --> 06:00:02,218
everyone has one
8083
06:00:02,218 --> 06:00:03,660
um and then they're doing cocktails over
8084
06:00:03,660 --> 06:00:06,920
here in a few minutes so
8085
06:00:08,000 --> 06:00:10,320
one more time let's hear it for Liam
8086
06:00:10,320 --> 06:00:12,420
yeah
8087
06:00:12,420 --> 06:00:14,700
and if you're here in the audience the
8088
06:00:14,700 --> 06:00:16,320
fun continues with our cocktail
8089
06:00:16,320 --> 06:00:18,298
reception but if you're watching from
8090
06:00:18,298 --> 06:00:20,638
home we are saying goodbye today and we
8091
06:00:20,638 --> 06:00:22,378
will catch you tomorrow for a lot more
8092
06:00:22,378 --> 06:00:24,660
fun education inspiration and all that
8093
06:00:24,660 --> 06:00:26,100
good stuff so thank you for joining
8094
06:00:26,100 --> 06:00:28,080
digitally and if you can hop in the car
8095
06:00:28,080 --> 06:00:29,580
and make it here tomorrow we'll be back
8096
06:00:29,580 --> 06:00:31,200
all of you in the audience we hope
8097
06:00:31,200 --> 06:00:32,520
you're back tomorrow we have so much
8098
06:00:32,520 --> 06:00:35,160
more fun planned and that concludes the
8099
06:00:35,160 --> 06:00:37,810
Explorer stage on day one thank you
8100
06:00:37,810 --> 06:00:41,650
[Applause]
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