- If you're here just for my explanation of why
I use prime lenses on a micro four thirds
and why it's so important then just go
to this time right here.
This is actually kind of a vlog mixed with
a little tutorial in here but all right
so we are in Washington and we're heading to Tucson today.
It's a travel day between the shoot up here
which was out in Sequim.
It's been fun, we had a couple days in the studio
and then we had one day where we just kind of explored
outside and just played in the woods
and that was a ton of fun.
And our client is a local up here so we got to see Sequim
and do some stuff outside.
(acoustic music)
Now we're headed to Tucson to shoot with another client
at a resort down in Tucson so we have to get there
but first things first is we gotta pack the car
and we have a lot of gear.
(acoustic music)
Now you might be wondering why we have so many bags
but we went from Washington D.C. which was a wedding
to Creative Live to here to do a shoot to Tucson.
So we kind of had to pack for a variety of different types
of weather and just different situations
so we have a lot of stuff.
You guys ready for an adventure?
- We vlogging today? - Yes I am.
- Oh uh hi everybody.
- That's Danny the sound guy. - Hey.
- I do production sound.
I hold heavy things over my head,
sit on my car and play solitaire.
- Good bye cute little Airbnb.
Back in our fancy van.
Beautiful. - Fancy van.
- [Female] Fancy van. (laughing)
- Fancy van.
All right here we go. - Danny do you mind
doing directions?
(light music)
- I had to sneeze. (laughing)
- Oh don't sneeze on my camera please.
So we have to drive from Sequim to Bainbridge Island.
- Squeem. - Squeem.
- Squeem, squeem. - The squeem team is leaving.
- And that's about an hour and a half drive
and then we can take a ferry and then we go to Seattle
and we have to drop off all this gear that's in the back
and then we have to get to the airport, jump on a plane,
take all the rest of our bags which is eight bags
onto a plane.
(upbeat music)
All right so now we are on the ferry going to Seattle.
- Goin' to Seattle.
So let's talk about primes for a minute.
I know that's something that you guys
are probably interested in why I think
that primes are very important
and especially for a micro four thirds shooter
so I shoot all of my footage on micro four thirds
which means that your sensor size is super small
so when your sensor size is super small,
it's harder to get that shallow depth of field
so what you're seeing right now, it's harder to achieve
that look when you're shooting on micro four thirds
because the sensor is smaller.
So what happens is that when your sensor is smaller,
it takes opening up your lens wider
to get shallow depth of field.
So right now I'm shooting at a 1.7 which lets a lot of light
into the camera but also gives you
that nice shallow depth of field.
Now a lot of zoom lenses on the other hand
don't open up past a 2.8 or even a 4
which basically, you go down to a 4,
you can still get some shallow depth of field
but it's not the same as if you open up to a 1.7
where you get that really kind of buttery, nice background.
So beyond the shallow depth of field
which is a very important factor for using primes
and I'm shooting this entire vlog today on my 15mm 1.7
just because sometimes it's nice to shoot
on just primes and force yourself to use one focal length.
Another thing with primes is that obviously they open up
wider which means they can let more light into the sensor.
- [Ferry Announcer] The following message
is an important safety announcement.
- Prime lenses will open up wider so you can get
that shallow depth of field, you can get more light
into your sensor but another thing is that prime lenses
in general are typically sharper so you get a sharper image
out of your footage.
Now with primes, you might think that they are more limiting
in terms of what you can do just because you don't have
that zoom lens but personally, I think that the trade off
is there where I would rather use a prime than say
a zoom lens just for the fact that I can get
that shallow depth of fiend, I can get this more cinematic
looking image than if I am to use a zoom where everything's
in focus especially on micro four thirds.
So that's kind of one of the reasons why I really like
using prime lenses in general.
And one last thing about primes on micro four thirds
is that theyre' super small lenses so they're easy
to pack with the rest of your gear.
So I always carry a 15, a 25.
In general, the 15 and the 25 are tiny
so they're super easy to throw in your bag and always have
on you and just having those with some indie filters
gives you the ability to just get some awesome
cinematic footage in any situation
'cause you can pop on your prime
and get some awesome shallow depth of field,
super sharp shots that you couldn't get on zoom lenses.
I like to play a mix, I always carry primes with me.
Super important to get that cinematic look
when you're on a micro four thirds camera
and it just gives you so much more flexibility
to be creative and do some cool stuff.
Also when you shoot just on primes,
sometimes it makes you more creative in general
because you're forced to only use one focal length
which is a challenge sometimes.
I like doing that once in a while like today,
I'm only using the 15 because I'm really just want
to play around with the 15 and see what kind of shots
I can get, not always having that ability to zoom
so you physically have to move forward to get closer shot.
Something to think about for sure.
All right, boat's almost in Seattle.
We're gonna continue on this journey to Tucson.
(light music)
Where are we? - Uh we're in Phoenix.
- Yeah. - And yeah.
- That's it? - That's it,
whatever works, we're in Phoenix.
- Danny?
- [Female] We're in Disneyland!
- Wait, we're in Phoenix?
- Oh. - Guys, this is
the wrong airport.
- We got on the wrong plane.
- Oh shit. - Crap.
What do we do in Phoenix?
- So we flew into Phoenix and then we're driving
to Tucson to our resort.
The lighting crew's already lit the entire room
that we're shooting in for the next few days
which is awesome.
All right so we gotta find our oversized bags
which we'll see if they made it and we gotta find
a rental car.
- You know what we'll do is our last photo was on the boat
and then we'll take a photo by a cactus.
- All right so I got sent ahead to get the mini van.
That's right we have another mini van here
and I'm gonna go pickup the rest of the crew
at the airport and this is so easy here in Phoenix.
Well besides the fact that I had to drive 15 minutes
to get to the rental car area but I am the only one here.
(light electronic music)
Okay so we finally got to Tucson,
we are here, we are at the location
and you gotta see this place.
We have a giant house, we're at a resort but we're in
a giant house that has a big room here
and then Danny has one room off to that side.
- Ayy. - Me and Rachel have a room
off to this side and this is where we're shooting
in the middle room.
Let me show you what this looks like.
We got our... - This is unreal.
I'm gonna connect my phone to the speaks
in the ceiling and we're gonna have a party
throughout all three rooms.
I can't figure it out.
- So as you can see, we have this whole space here.
We had a gaffer show up today
while we were flying here from Washington.
They have plastic cups?
What?
- Sick. - For the wine?
Yeah we went and did a little wine adventure to get here
so then to make sure we had wine, beer, all that good stuff.
But the gaffer came, he set up all the lighting.
He ND'ed the windows because this is a epic view
of a mountainscape so we put ND gel on the windows
so he has that all set up so that when we arrived,
I basically just have to come in, set up my cameras,
Danny's gotta setup the audio gear,
talent's already here and we start rockin' n rollin'
bright and early in the morning.
- 8:30. - 8:30, Danny
let's see what's outside.
Look at that pool, nice view,
there's an amazing mountainscape there
that you can't see and there's some cactus, yep.
So Danny has a hot tub over there that's private by himself.
We have one over here.
Our room is there, there's a hot tub here,
more cactus there.
This is an amazing resort here in Tucson,
really cool place to shoot for sure
and we get to hangout and enjoy the resort
while we're shooting here.
All right, Danny, it's time to get some music playing,
get all of our cameras set up and yeah.
Danny, get that music goin'.
(laughing) (beat boxing)
Technology problems apparently.
- I can't figure out how to do this.
- Can you say hi? - Hi.
(laughing)
And bye.
Okay before we end this, I do just have to show you
this view, it's the next morning, check this out.
But that's it for the vlog.
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