Good Morning from Newcastle. Right now. I have exactly
5 hours to go from place to place and take
some photos because it's beautiful fall day and it'll be a shame to sit at home.
Actually, this is the only window for me to take some photos because today is the
only day when it's not supposed to rain. Next 3 days will be rain and then
it's gonna be sunny. So I thought I better take advantage of it.
If I had a choice, I would probably go early in the morning or later in the
afternoon but the only window I'm getting is between 9
a.m and 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. yeah 2 pm.
The first photo I was taking over there in the marina.
It just looks really nice there. The camera I was using is just Canon M50.
I was using adapter and I was also shooting with the telephoto lens 70 to
200 millimeters. I was actually taking some photos with
just the kit lens 15 to 45 millimeters as well. Two days ago I also posted
on youtube community tab, you should check that more often,
requests that you can post any questions you want only about photography, video
obviously youtube. So few of them I'm gonna answer in
today's video but I think I'm done here. Let's go to a
different area.
How about this for location number two? I already took some photos with just 15 to
45 millimeter lens and I tried to take some photos with just
cell phone. Why not? Whatever camera you have at your disposal. It doesn't have to
be exactly a professional camera. Well, I
think it's a good time to answer your first question which I have here.
How to become better at frame composition for video? I struggle at
making interesting video frame composition when shooting videos. Well,
the rules are pretty much the same like when you are taking photos. You just need
to follow the rule of thirds or if you like
the object in the center, mix it up and match. But I think that I should really
make a dedicated video for that. Good point
here. I'm gonna write it down. What are the advantages or disadvantages
of mobile osmo 3 vlogging versus gopro
vlogging? Also, what's the best wireless microphone
options we have now with osmo 4 and gopro? Well, first of all, I don't have a
gopro so I cannot really compare that but I can
definitely compare vlogging on osmo mobile 4 versus vlogging on this
for example Canon M6 Mark ii with a just kit lens or
Canon m50 with just a kit lens. I'm going to be brutally honest.
It is so much easier to vlog with a regular camera. I know that you
have the mobile phone, um the smartphone always in your pocket
but I'm just finding that there's so much more involved if you want to film
on a smartphone. All the settings... sometimes the settings
move on you and all that unless you film in automatic and you
just let it go. If you film manual you have to really keep an eye on it and
sometimes even the colors change. It's hard to match it in a post.
I'm just finding that it's very difficult so to be quite honest
I do make videos about smartphone filmmaking but it's more
about the b-roll. I don't think I would be really vlogging on smartphone.
I just like to vlog with this mirrorless camera. I set it up once
and I know it's always going to be right and there's simply no issues with it. The
quality is nice as well. I honestly love so much spending time on
the beach. It's just, it's a lot of fun. I like the calming
waves even though we cannot really swim in this lake
Ontario because the water is a little bit dirty.
It's said that it's not really safe for swimming but
hey I've done windsurfing here. I wore I think bodysuit and also some just
swimwear and no problem.... no problem.
It's not so warm. That breeze is actually already a little bit chilly.
Here is actually the place I really wanted to shoot today. This is going to
be the main area and it's a lot of railway
crossings there. It's this old wooden bridge. Let me just take you there.
Right there. Whenever you go on that bridge it's kind
of scary even if you're driving the car because it's wooden, you know, it's old,
very old. Here the spot offers so many beautiful
areas to take photos. What I actually wanted to say is that
there is never an excuse. There should be never excuse
to get out and take some photos especially this time of the year. Fall is
just beautiful and it offers so much and it doesn't
matter what kind of camera you have, you just need to grab the camera and go.
Sometimes we have all these kind of excuses not to get out and just.....
I'll shoot tomorrow, I'll take photos tomorrow. I don't feel like it. It's gonna
be too cold or it's gonna be too windy. No, you should not look at that. You
should just grab the camera and you should go.
And I know we've been going through lots lately .....all of us.
With the stuff going on and also sometimes work. I've been working
pretty much non-stop and I was feeling it a little bit so what I did yesterday,
even though I was supposed to write a script, even though I was supposed to
edit video, even though I was supposed to do a whole bunch of things,
I just closed my computer, my laptop I've put everything aside and I went
straight to the kitchen. I've spent the whole day cooking, all kinds of different
things. Then we ended up having an unexpected
dinner with our friend. He just happened to call and I said hey, we have barbecue
going on, why don't you come over and it turned out to be such an awesome evening
and I cleaned my head and it was just a lot of fun. And the same
thing is with photography. This morning... it is such a good thing for me to get
out of the studio, get out of the office, just grab all the tools I have and do
something creative. Have fun, take whole bunch of photos and videos and
enjoy what we really want to do. Enjoy
the creative process.
The next question is I'm new into video editing
and shooting video. What equipment and software you recommend for us beginners?
I'm just gonna say it very simply, go to the youtube archive of all my
videos and start watching the videos. I talk a lot about the Canon M50, so
something like that on a budget, very simple easy camera. It doesn't have
to be necessary Canon M50 but some camera which works with your budget
is fine. Even your smartphone works fine. And then once you feel that you are
ready to move on, then move on. Right now when it comes to
editing software I would highly highly recommend going
directly, if you have faster computer and download
DaVinci Resolve. It is free and it is as good as Premiere Pro, if not even better.
I've been staying away from DaVinci Resolve. I was always working with
Premiere Pro and I can tell you that last week when I was pushing myself to
edit the whole video in DaVinci Resolve, I actually admitted that it is much
better program. Adobe sometimes freezes, crashes, it slows down the
computer and all that but also there's much faster workflow in
DaVinci Resolve and since it is free, just get started
right away with some very good program because
you're going to enjoy it down the road. If you're going to start with
something very simple, then you will have to eventually re-learn
again. If you're going to go to more complicated programs, so
I would not start with the easiest one. I would directly probably go
into DaVinci Resolve and force myself to actually
learn the first steps of editing. What are your thoughts on black magic 4k
camera versus sony a7s3? Which one will be the best 4k camera for
a cinematic traveling vlog channel? Also is sony a6400 still a good
b camera for travel vlog in 2020? Well, I don't have any of those cameras.
This is what these guys are always doing.... and I've made a very huge
bold move. I've been shooting Canon for 15 years
and I was always, stayed with Canon and I was
staying away from Sony. I was staying away from other brands
but ever since the new Sony camera was released and I've seen many reviews
and I really did my research on it,
I pre-ordered the camera. It is on the way. I did pre-order the camera. I'm gonna
be hybrid shooter. That means that I'm not going away from Canon M50,
I'm not going away from Canon M6 Mark ii but I'm adding to my line also
the new Sony camera for the reason that as I mentioned before. This is my job,
this is not my hobby. This is my job and a lot of the footage will go to
clients, a lot of the footage will go to stock and all that and
because this is my job, I obviously want the most professional tools I can get
and I want to be able to use it for next 5 years so
the investment .....is hopefully going to be at the top of the
line with the camera and that will hopefully work. I also got
an adapter so I can use all my Canon lenses with it. I'm gonna show it
for sure. The black magic camera I really don't know and I think that the Sony
um 6400 I believe that's what it is, I've never had a chance to try it. I've
never had a chance to test it. But any camera these days, there are so
many cameras on the market, they're still good. It is all about lenses, it is all
about actually what you do with those cameras, what you are capable of doing.
How creative you are, what you see through your eyes, that's what it is all
about. Even if you have a smartphone, you can
still get amazing stuff.
Let's see what's inside...
lifesaver.... just kidding.... That wasn't in that big box, that was in another box.
I ordered after nearly almost 3 years. I finally gave
up. OK, This is a remote control for my
camera and it's for Canon camera, for Sony, most of the cameras.
Will it work with it? Well, I don't know if it's gonna work. I ordered it,
it's here, I hope this is best $12. I think it was well spent.
I'm just gonna pair it and can't wait to connect it.
It took me that long to finally get fed up with the fact that
I had to every time reach the record button when I was recording but that
the reaching is not a big problem at all but the problem was lately
always actually is the fact that every time I reached
for the camera to press the record button, sometimes I
turned the camera like a millimeter or two millimeters by accident
and then when I have the black background in the studio I could see a
little corner there and I had to adjust it in Adobe Premiere
Pro, so that's why I decided finally, it's time to get
the remote. So I can just press record and stop recording. But let's go back to
what was happening in this vlog. I am back, it was awesome, close to five
hours on the road. The last stop at the railway crossing I was a little
bit nervous because somebody happened to park beside me. There is a huge
area where you can park but he decided to park
right beside my car and as I was kind of backwards
putting my stuff in a car and organizing in a camera bag and all that,
he opened the door and he was getting something from his car too. So
because I'm a female and obviously I need to be careful, I was
the whole time was watching over my left shoulder what's going on, what's
happening. I was ready to jump in the car and quickly lock
myself but it turned out to be just another
photographer. He was getting his camera and he wanted to say hello.
If you want to see more of those photos I took today, don't forget to
add me to Instagram because that is where it's gonna all show up.
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I'm gonna get working, you get shooting. See you next video....
Cau.... Ahoj......