Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
I wanted to talk a little bit about the situation
again. In this case I'm out doing some photography for the 56 millimeter lens I
picked up. This city is not extremely populous, so compared to New York and
places like that, definitely not. We can pretty easily go
around to parks and things like that without running into a lot of people. But
there are definitely some areas that are very busy that I've noticed. In this park
it's not busy, but the one across the street. There's a large street, you're
probably hearing the cars... That one is a bike path. People walk on that a lot.
I can see, theirs right now I don't see any people. But
there are decent amount. It's not as actually not as much as the last time I
was around here, which was right at the beginning. You can go walk and you can go
outside, but you want to do the six foot roll and things like that. I've been
driving around a little bit. I went to a few different places and took some
photos of the streets. There are bugs around now so, I'm just noticing all the
insects. There was a gap of time where I didn't go out much because I've been
trying to follow the rules as best as I can personally. It was between where
there were no insects and now there are insects around. Right now people are very
into walking. Very into running and jogging, which I think... I understand it
and I think it's a good for them to stay healthy and everything. But did they do
it beforehand? Everyone says... I don't know. Who knows? It's just kind of funny in a
way. It is what it is. Like I said, in my area it's not probably a huge deal
because, not so much over there, because that's not six foot between people going
one way or the other. But over here there's literally no one.
I've seen a few people and then I just kind of deviate when I get somewhat
closer. If you have watched the channel for quite a while my degree is in
computer science. And I've been trying to do contract work for many years now.
And I had of one main company I'm not going to go into specifics. Like real
details, but last year was bad this year is bad.
I finally got paid for one thing and I don't expect anything much else from
it. Maybe, who knows. It's not something to really put much thought into. But right
now the channel. The photography.. I'm just doing it more serious now. So technically
what I'm doing right now is one of my jobs, and I enjoy it a lot of course.
I want to see grow more and more. So hopefully if you do enjoy my videos. That
subscribe button, the bell and whatever else. Much appreciated, but gonna try
to invest as much time as I can into this channel while I am able. And, you
know, financially able and things like that. But still it's it's a really
positive thing in my life for the photography. I've met so many people with
it. With especially the cosplay side of things. That whole scene where there's a
group of photographers.. cosplayers. The conventions, which are all canceled. I was
planning to go to one in May at least a day, but I've cut back on those because
they're expensive in general. For the last few years.
I just tried to pick certain ones. I go for a day.. or things.. instead of going for...
Normally these conventions last for one to three days usually. Maybe even more.
Four or five (days). A lot of the really serious people go to those conventions. They
arrive on Thursday or even Wednesday sometimes. I mean usually that's staffers
and things, but definitely the larger conventions people will do that for a
large amount of time. So this.. this stuff.. Cosplayers, even just convention goers,
take it really seriously. The photographer's too. There are people that
kind of go in the middle. I've done.. I don't know if I should say this in my
videos, but I have done some cosplay stuff as well over the years. Nothing
extremely amazing, but I do have a different YouTube channel with some
crafting stuff that I put to the side.
Because with this YouTube Partner
Program, there is ahh, I don't know if this was one or two years back. They changed the
rules. So channels with under a thousand subscribers and under 4000 watch hours
per year are out of the program. They could
re-apply once they achieve that mark, but that channel has a decent amount of
views. I think it dropped quite a bit since I haven't been investing much
time into it. But it was close. It has reached over a thousand subscribers, but
the watch hours are not. So it's kind of a chicken and the egg scenario for that.
It is up to everyone to be as careful as possible and not do unnecessary things
when there are large groups. Like playing basketball together, or whatever. There...
Things like that where it's not necessary. You can still walk around by
yourself or maybe one or two people. That live in the same household, not the
groups of friends. Because that's congregating different areas together.
Which the spread... that's how the thing works is people that haven't been around
each other group up. I don't know. I should also thank all of the medical
workers. All of the people doing restaurant stuff. People doing the
supermarkets especially. People doing deliveries, which I've been buying things
online a lot more. I haven't been to a supermarket in.. I can't even remember.
It's been.. a few probably a few weeks. So I bought a decent amount of stuff at the
supermarket before the mandate started happening. And then I started buying some
dry goods and things online. Because when they're shipped they're not.. It's just a
box and it's not gonna get damaged or anything. And in general I can clean it
off when I get it. So what I do personally is I take the box with some
gloves, I know this is probably extreme. Take the stuff out and wipe that down.
Just thank all those people that you know that are in those things, they're
taking risks. I know someone from back in high school. Of course on social media..
That he's worried about his situation. Well not him specifically, but his family.
Because he's in those difficult areas. And he doesn't want to spread it to them.
So... the posted I had seen he was contemplating if he needs to break off
from them for now, which is difficult. And I think he has a kid one kid and of
course his wife. So I don't know, it's all around a difficult situation. But I'm
curious... In the comments if you want to talk about your situation a little
bit. Don't get into specifics, you know, it's public. So but anything you want to
say I'll be reading it. We'll get back to the photography with the 56. So far so good
with it. I'll say in my video that I'm not using a lens filter, which I always use
lens filters and I don't usually use hoods...
So I'm.. I have the hood on to protect the lens, but no filter just so I get the
best quality out of this combination for the video as possible. But ahh, yeah. So far so
good. I'm using the M5, not the M50. I was
curious to see how the autofocus would be with the M5 because it is a little
bit older than the 50. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this video. Quick little talk.
Scott of Photography Banzai, Thanks!