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- Hey guys, good morning.
Welcome to Travel Feels.
Another beautiful day here in Norway.
We ended up staying at the same cabin again.
And today is gonna be all about droning.
We're gonna talk about droning,
some different tips, throughout the day.
Hopefully we're gonna get some really cool drone shots,
and I thought I'd just share some tips and tricks
that I've learned over the years.
Alright, gotta pack and get in this car,
and drive to the next spot.
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Alright one last look at this beautiful view
before we leave, and it doesn't get much better than that.
Decent spot for a tent there too.
These doors are beast mode.
- Today we are taking you guys to Gerunde.
It's one of my favorite spots too.
- Quick fun little fact, Norway has a bunch
of these kinds of roofs with grass on them.
I think they're, like, good for insulation
or something like that, but they just look cool.
I like 'em.
And if anybody wants to know,
we were here at Sande Camping.
Cool little spot with super nice views,
I'm pretty sure it was really cheap,
I forget how much it was, but it was pretty cheap.
Nothing fancy, but really cool little spot.
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Today's a special day guys, it's Samuels birthday!
- Whoo whoo whoohoo!
Oh, it's me? (laugh)
- How old are you Samuel?
- I'm 25.
- Oh sweet young dude.
Young buddy - Inside, but somebody says,
in my birth certificate, I have 32 years on.
So I don't know which one is true, you go and figure.
- Go and subscribe to this guy,
give him some birthday love.
Actually this will be late but,
send him some happy birthday love anyways. (laugh)
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Alrighty, we're gonna try and find
some breakfast and get this day started.
- Have you ever had dabbing in your?
- No that's the first time.
First time dab at Travel Feels videos.
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Mine, Samuels.
- It's like father and son.
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- Alright first stop here, found this nice,
epic, glassy lake, look how still this is.
Don't fall in Samuel.
- Almost in bro.
- Don't do it.
Unreal.
And you know what you gotta do when the lake
is that glassy, or ocean, or whatever this is.
You gotta drone it.
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So I wanna give you guys five tips on how to take
your drone footage to the next level.
These are all things that I've kinda learned along the way.
I've done a lot of drone shooting
over the past three or four years.
Number one is check out the area before you start flying.
Especially for things like power lines,
or things that are really hard to see
in the camera once you're flying.
Flying a drone can be kind of nerve-wracking,
and there's a lot of nervous energy going on,
so if you're not checking out the area first
that can lead to a lot of bad stuff.
And not only is this a safety thing for your drone,
you're probably gonna crash it if you don't check
out the area, but it also leads to better looking footage
because you kind of know what's going on in your area
and then you're not gonna be flustered and freaking out
wondering "Oh is there a power line,
"or is there something over there?".
You've already checked it out.
So number one, check out your area before you start flying.
Time to land this sucker.
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Boom, just like that.
Alright, there we go first drone session of the day.
Beautiful glassy lake always makes for good drone footage,
just cause of all the reflections
looks super cool, I love symmetry.
Alright and we're off to the next spot.
- Have you ever seen a fly-by of a drone?
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Whoa! (laugh)
Smashing to the core!
- I think you almost gave yourself a haircut man.
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Alright guys next spot, this is a super epic spot.
I've been here a few times before.
But I've actually never droned it,
so this time, we're gonna drone it,
and we're gonna see what it looks like.
It's one of these interesting spots where, people miss it.
There's like this tourist spot here,
and there's tourist spot up in the other direction.
And right in between, if you take
the picture from the right place,
and have the person stand in the right place,
you get this insane, epic photo of this, like, cliff thing.
And I'll show you guys in a second.
But let's try to drone it, see what it looks like.
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Number two, have a spotter if possible.
I find this is really helpful, to have somebody else,
that's just having an eye on the drone.
That way if something happens
you know exactly where the drone is.
But also, more importantly for me,
I like to fly really close to things.
For example, I like to fly really low, close to water.
And so if I'm flying by myself,
I have to keep an eye on both the drone and the camera,
so that I'm not going too close to the water.
I've had a few times where I think I've dipped the legs
of the drone into the water a little bit.
But you don't wanna go too close to the water,
and it really helps to have somebody else spotting
and telling you "Okay, now you're going
"a little bit too close.".
This way you can get really cool footage,
while still keeping your drone safe at the same time.
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Alright guys you know how I said,
you gotta be in the right place to get this shot?
Well check this out.
Drone, Samuel.
How epic is that shot?
Alright, let's drone it.
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Number three is to use ND filters.
Now you should be using ND filters
with all cameras that you're filming with,
but especially with drones.
ND filters are basically just sunglasses for your camera,
and it allows you to keep your shutter speed much lower.
This way you can keep the 180 degree shutter rule,
which means that your shutter speed is gonna be double
whatever your frame rates is, so
if you're shooting in 24 frames per second,
your shutter speed is gonna be 48,
if you're gonna be shooting in 60 frames per second
your shutter speed is gonna be 120.
This means you're gonna get the most cinematic looking
footage, the right amount of motion blur.
But also, there's a really big thing with
drones when you're using ND filters.
And that has to do with the little micro-vibrations
in the drone.
If you're using a really high shutter speed,
then you're gonna get this weird looking
jello-warping effect going on because
the shutter speed is just going so fast.
So you wanna slow your shutter speed down
and you're gonna get rid of all that micro-jitter.
And there's bunch of different ND filters that you can buy
for drones, but here's a couple really good ones.
One is from Sandmarc, and these ones
I think are around $60.
And there's basically just different strengths
of ND filters depending on how bright it is.
There's also a polarized filter.
I tested these out, really high quality, really like them.
Then probably the most popular filters are these PolarPros.
And it comes with different types of ND filters,
and then also ND filter combined with a polarizer.
So that's kind of interesting that
you have a two-in-one solution.
But these guys are a lot more expensive too,
I think this was around $160 or
something like that for these guys.
So, depending on what you need,
you can get the cheaper ones or these more expensive ones.
And both types of filters they just screw right on
your drone, it's really easy to put them on and change them.
So number three ND filters, super huge,
always use ND filters if it's a bright day.
There we go, got some sweet drone footage.
Actually looks super cool.
I've only ever done it in video,
so that was really interesting, trying to drone it.
Looked pretty sick.
But as you can see from here, it doesn't
really look like that much.
But if you go to the right spot,
down there, looked pretty good.
Guys, look, Samuel's taking blogging to the next level.
- It's like you can actually, like, take the camera
away further than you than you want,
just like, even further dude. - That's so handy.
- You got it, you got it dude.
You wanna see the footage?
Possibilities are endless when you
shoot with the tripod!
What up?!
- Extendable selfy-stick.
Awwww yeah. - You can see me close, far.
Close, far.
- It's all about innovating the game.
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- Tip number four is to plan out your shots.
This really helps to get the best possible shots.
So before I take off with the drone,
so I'm not wasting battery, I plan out
a few different types of shots.
For example if I'm doing some car shots
I kinda plan out, "Okay I'm gonna do this one,
"then I'm gonna do that one, and this one.
"I'm gonna fly straight through,
"I'm gonna circle around the car.", or whatever it is.
I'm gonna plan out a few different shots.
So that way when I start flying
I can get straight into those shots,
and I'm not wasting any time or battery.
Then once I've gotten those planned shots done,
then I kinda start freestyling,
I start looking for different kinds of shots,
or trying to do different angles.
Just coming up with different kinds of shots
than I could come up with beforehand,
because everything looks different
once you're flying up high.
So it's really good to freestyle a little bit,
but you want to come into the drone flight with a plan.
I guarantee you if you plan out your shots
you're gonna get way better quality drone shots.
And you're also not gonna miss shots
because you planned them out and you thought about it ahead.
So when that adrenaline kicks in that you're flying a drone,
you're not gonna forget and miss those shots.
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Then number five is to not fly through
every last bit of battery.
I've had a couple few close calls
where I've just flown it a little bit too long,
and the battery starts dying and
then I've run into some troubles.
For example this one time I was flying on Lake Ontario,
which is the big lake here in Toronto,
and it was winter, it was super cold,
and so all of a sudden the battery just
didn't have enough power anymore,
and I couldn't bring the drone up anymore,
it was staying kind of at the same level and slowly falling.
And the problem was that I was flying over water,
and there was this big ice-ledge that I needed
to get over and land the drone on top of.
So I was going, going, going, and
I just barely made it, and if I would've
waited a little bit too long I would've
just hit straight into that ice-ledge and
it would've fallen into the lake.
So don't risk it, don't fly to the
very last bit of your battery.
Because hey, it doesn't matter
how good your drone footage is
if you don't get your drone back,
you don't have that footage.
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Alright guys, last drone session of the day.
We just got it done, we thought we were
gonna get rained out with all these clouds and stuff.
But it ended up being pretty dang crazy.
One of the best sunsets I've had in a long, long time,
if ever, going in the top 10 probably.
Epic times.
So I hope you guys enjoyed these tips.
If you liked them, if you enjoyed them,
if you learned something, hit that like button,
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Guys enjoy the filmmaking process and go get
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