- What's up, legends.
So a lot of you have picked up the brand new GoPro Hero10
and you are wanting to know
how you can shoot better GoPro photos.
For many of you that have the older generations,
a lot has changed with the shooting modes.
Like what the hell is live burst?
When would I use burst over single photo?
What is timelapse photo mode?
In today's video, I wanna run you through
how you can harness the potential of your GoPro Hero10
to take incredible GoPro photos
on your upcoming vacation or holiday
or you're just at a beautiful beach like this
in one of Queensland.
All right. Let's get stuck into today's video.
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When it comes to improving your GoPro photography,
the very first thing you need to know how to do
is to shoot and capture with intention.
Now, this simply comes down to understanding your camera
and how you can harness the different shooting modes
to get the shot that you want.
Now, when it comes to GoPro
and specifically GoPro Hero10 photography,
you have roughly five different key shooting modes.
That is single photo, burst, live burst
night photo and timelapse photo.
Now, all of these modes can capture different things.
And today, I wanna focus on two of them
and that is burst photo and timelapse photo modes.
The reason why I love to shoot burst
and I love to capture burst photos,
is for the, purely, the nature of this camera
which is an action camera.
It is a wide-angle lens and capturing
and slowing down motional capturing time
is what I believe this tool was designed to do.
So, let's shoot some bursts.
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That's good.
That is how you take a POV.
A POV.
So one quick simple tip is to just use vertical
as opposed to horizontal.
Now, this obviously comes down to my intention
of posting the content on my social media feed.
Now, I have to two options, right?
I can shoot horizontal like this,
and I can crop into the image to make it look good
on my gram or I can shoot vertical and not have to crop
and have an awesome photo which looks more crispier
and is using all of the image sensor in the GoPro.
So you can just pick up one of these little, sort of,
portrait mounts to set the camera up
in a portrait mounting position like this
and set up a tripod and away you go.
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So you're probably wondering when is the best time
to use timelapse photo mode versus burst photo mode?
It's quite simply comes down to how long you have.
Like if your taking a burst photo,
if you're performing a very fast action,
you can only set the burst to go for 10 seconds.
If you want to perform an action, or if you want to be,
you know, positioning yourself in the photo,
setting it up on a tripod
and positioning yourself in the photo.
And that's gonna take you longer than 10 seconds
like most people, that's when you will use timelapse photo.
Now there is one caveat here and the big caveat is this,
the output of the photo.
You can either choose standard or raw.
When you choose raw as your output, that will change
all of the times, that time lengths
that you have to use these features.
If you're capturing longer format timelapse,
the minimum raw image time interval is half a second.
You can't go faster.
Hope that didn't convolute anything. (laughs)
So in this example, I have the GoPro set up on a tripod
and we are quite simply using the timelapse photo mode
firing at every half a second.
It's a great way to put yourself in the frame
and capture some amazing content
without the need to use a remote.
So the question backends,
when would you use JPEG and when would you use raw?
Or why would you choose raw over JPEG?
Now, one of the most frequently asked questions I get
is why don't I just screenshot my videos?
Why do I even use photo mode in the first place?
And that is because when you screenshot a video,
all you are able to capture is a JPEG.
Raw photos contain much more detailed information
in the file type which gives you
so much more variety
and ability to edit that photo in post production.
So the reason why we choose photo mode
and the reason why we choose burst
and the reason why we use the photo features
of our GoPro Hero10 is because we can capture raw images.
It is amazing when it comes to edit.
And so, I should probably show you the difference.
Let's jump into the computer
and let's see the difference between a raw versus a JPEG.
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Jumping into the lightroom and checking out
the GoPro raw versus the JPEG.
Over on the right, you can see .GPR.
That means this is the raw
and now I've switched over or toggled over to .JPG
which is the JPEG.
Zooming in to have a look at the amount of information
that is in each of the photos.
I think this is honestly,
which separates the reason as to why I choose
raw photos over JPEG.
I've applied a preset. The exact same preset to both images.
And you can see how much more information is held
in the raw in terms of the lights, the darks,
the definition in comparison to the JPEG.
So this is the main reason why I choose to capture
raw photos rather than just screenshots or JPEGs.
The next way to improve your GoPro photography
is to just head down there
and smash that thumbs up button.
But honestly, I would love it if you guys could
'cause it will just share this video out with more ledgers.
Thank you video on that.
All right. Moving on to shooting styles and perspectives.
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- All right. Jump on any sort of GoPro page,
insta360 page or action cameras in general
and you'll notice that there's perspectives
that are being used over and over again to shoot photos.
And we like to categorize them in four different categories.
Number one is point and shoot.
Simply enough, you're just, you know,
framing a subject, framing up and taking a photo of him.
Kinda like you would naturally take a photo.
Number two is POV, which is really fun.
And that just simply means Point of View.
It could be your point of view
where you're putting your camera to your chest height,
it could be head mounted, could be whatever
sort of point of view of yourself you're having.
But also you could have the point of view
from a dog, for example, or from a tree.
Number three is shooting with a tripod.
Simply enough, mounting the camera on top of a tripod
and setting off the camera.
And the last mode is selfie.
And so everyone knows about selfies.
Obviously, you're gonna use this camera on this pole
and framing yourself and maybe other people in the shop.
So, let's shoot some examples.
- Number one is just Point and Shoot.
Look, point, (camera clicking)
That's pretty. - [Anna] Yeah. It's true.
- What you can also do to change
the exposure value of your GoPro
is you can tap and hold on the middle of the screen.
So if I tap and hold on the middle of the screen,
it's gonna bring up, I think it's like five seconds
of tapping and holding. Tap and hold for five seconds.
It's gonna bring up a spot meter
that will also bring up an exposure value.
I can tap on the exposure value
and if my photos overexposed,
I can just drag that slider down a bit.
Very handy tip to getting the perfect GoPro point and shoot.
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- So the first thing you wanna think about
when you're taking a selfie
is which way you're gonna angle the camera, right?
We've talked about that.
Vertical versus or vertical versus horizontal, right?
The second thing that's gonna influence
the look of your photo
is actually the length of your selfie stick.
And that can have a drastic impact
on the look of your photo.
So we'll show you a photo taken with this selfie stick
versus this one right here.
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- Another little tip for maximizing your GoPro selfies
is to try and reduce the amount of arm,
physical arm you have in your photo.
Now you can do this by not having the camera
or the selfie stick, you know, jerks too far back.
If you open up that selfie stick a little bit,
that arm can, you know,
almost, it creates this little semi-circle
and you get a really nice selfie
without having too much selfie stick or arm in the frame.
What comes up. Let's do it. Okay.
- [Anna] Show us how it's done.
- Just like this.
- [Anna] Okay.
- And, yeah.
If you guys wanna check out a couple more tips
on how to maximize all of the tools, sliders, faders
and light removal, then I highly recommend
you jump up here.
Click the card and check out that entire video.
You gotta be in an editing mood though
and check it out. It's super cool.
Thank you for checking out today's video.
If you have enjoyed it, push that thumbs up button
and Anna and I will see you in the next video.
That sounded like one like word,
but it was Anna and I, JR. (laughs) Peace.
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