(footsteps)
- Good morning from Lake Louise.
We left at a cool five AM, thinking we were
gonna get here before everybody else.
We were wrong.
Anyways, I'll show you guys the view.
Alright, alright you guys ready?
Boom.
Apparently this is Peter's favorite spot in the whole world.
In his opinion, this is the best spot in the world.
Let's check it out.
Hike down this ridge, hands full.
Found myself a wild Peter in his natural habitat.
- Fancy seeing you here again.
- [Cameraman] Best spot in the world?
- Yeah, this is.
- [Cameraman] This your home.
- This is the best spot on Earth.
Like it actually is.
- Alright, I think it's B-roll time.
(electronic music)
[Cameraman] Peter, come aboard
- I'm coming
- [Cameraman] Come aboard my ship.
- I'm coming. You're pretty good on that canoe.
- [Cameraman] I commandeered a ship for you.
- I'm coming. You commandeered their vessel.
- [Cameraman] I'm still waiting.
- Okay
- Still waiting.
- How do I do this?
- [Cameraman] Just jump on.
- What do you mean just jump on? What if it tips?
- [Cameraman] Okay, just don't tip me!
(laughing)
(grunting)
- What side of this bar do you sit on?
(laughing)
Other side?
Oh god!
- [Cameraman] Okay canoe rule number one: stay low.
Stay low with those lanky legs.
(laughing)
- I need my camera back.
- [Cameraman] Actually, you might as well sit that way.
- Oh, I got it.
- Peter's first time on a canoe, clearly.
(electronic music)
Alright, gotta get Peter back to the shore.
Otherwise, he'd be stuck out here forever.
- [Peter] True story!
- By the way, this is also a new vlogging style, right here.
Canoeing, vlogging. You might think that it's
on some sort of mount, but you'd be wrong.
It's just my legs.
Alright, see you on the shore.
- How do you actually get out of this thing?
- Is there a Youtube video we could watch real quick?
Is there a tutorial?
- [Cameraman] How to get out of canoe.
- Okay, I fully feel capable of this. Here we go!
- Alright thanks buddy. Don't worry I got this.
Where is the spot that I get out?
- [Peter] Whoa. I believe in you!
- Nice. - Done!
- [Peter] And the canoe floats away.
- Yeah! Push it off to sea.
Thanks, guys. I appreciate it.
That was very nice of them.
Very nice people. Canadians.
Actually one of them was an Aussie.
Whoa. Almost tripped.
(electronic music)
So that just happened.
Apparently the Aussies are just as crazy
as the Finnish people.
Thanks so much guys.
See you on the interwebs. Thank you.
They were really nice, nice people.
(electronic music)
Alright, that's Moraine Lake.
Thanks, Peter, for showing me.
Let's see what else we can find here in Banff.
Thanks, Peter.
- You're welcome
(electronic music)
- That's a nice place for our little pit stop,
a little rest stop.
We're just doing some driving, and taking a little break.
But there's something that I need to address.
Yesterday we were kinda sitting at this little tourist spot,
and we were waiting out the rain.
And one by one the tourists would come
and this is what they would do.
(campy music)
They literally just got out of their cars.
They were looking at their cell phones.
They'd take a photo, and they'd still be looking
at their cell phone and just go back to the car.
We literally watched at least 50, maybe..
Maybe even more tourists do that exact same thing.
And that's what I want to address.
And not really the paying attention thing
and enjoying the landscape and all that stuff.
That's obvious. But I honestly don't think
you should be using your iPhone
or Android or whatever for photography.
I'm just going to say it.
I think smartphone photography
and videography, just kind of sucks.
And on top of that, why you should just
buy a real camera if you wanna go on a trip
and actually take photos and video
instead of just using your little smartphone.
Heres why: first off, depth of field.
Because the phones have such a small sensor,
you're not really getting any depth of field
unless you're using one of their
gimmicky portrait photo things
and it kind of just fake blurs everything
Doesn't look that good.
You're never going to get that really nice shallow
depth of field look that you can get with real
DSLR's, or mirrorless cameras.
You're never going to get that.
And that's one of the best things,
one of my favorite things, with photography and videography
is getting that nice, shallow depth of field
that just isolates your subject from the background
or whatever you're taking a photo of, or video clip of.
So yeah, no shallow depth of field.
That's probably the biggest reason why
I think iPhone photography, or smartphone photography sucks!
Number two, fixed focal length.
You can't put on a different lens
and get a wider shot, or a more zoomed in shot
You're just stuck to that, and again, that sucks.
I wanna get different kinds of shots.
I wanna get a really wide shot
and then use a little bit more of a medium lens
for portraits and get that nice shallow depth of field.
With a smartphone, you're just stuck with that one lens.
Number three, you have very little control
over the settings, unless you're using some other app
you can kind of control some of them.
But it's just a nightmare, every time I've used
some sort of app to change the settings
and all that stuff, it just doesn't work very well
and if you're not using one of those apps,
then you have absolutely no control over your settings.
Number four, you're not getting raw photos.
Again, unless you're using some sort
of other program you don't have raw photos.
And raw photos are just so much better than JPEG photos.
There's just so much more room to edit them
and so yeah you're missing out on that, too.
And then lastly, you're footage is almost always
going to be shaky, when you're taking video clips
with your smartphone, because it's so small
and light, you're almost always gonna get
a little bit of shaky footage.
Yeah, now they have some good stabilization
kind of built-in: that electronic stabilization.
But it's still not the same.
It's gonna be shaky and whatever.
You're just not gonna get that good of footage
when you're going to these epic places.
And then you go home and you never wanna
watch it again because it's just shaky and gross,
and your photos suck.
But also, if you do have an actual camera
learn the settings!
Again, on this trip, I realized how little
people actually know about camera settings.
There was a few people who asked us to take photos.
And when you look at their camera settings,
you're just like, what the heck is going on?
They'd have F-22 and then ISO super high.
And it's just, what are you doing?
Learn how to use that camera.
Don't just get a fancy camera and put it on auto.
Actually learn how to use the settings.
And then you're gonna get a lot more out of it.
Otherwise, it just it kind of looks the same
as your smartphone shots.
If you're not actually using the settings to your advantage.
So yeah, next time you're traveling to an epic place,
just invest in an actual camera,
instead of just using your smartphone.
Also, for the record, you do not need
to spend an arm and a leg.
Just like get a DSLR or a mirrorless camera, used.
Maybe a 50 mil one point eight.
Get some of that nice bokeh and
that shallow depth of field and you're good to go.
It's gonna be way better than just
using your smartphone. I promise.
What you doing, Peter?
- I'm just happy to be here.
- [Cameraman] Nice. What do you have next for me
on this little road trip?
- Okay, we can head up to Two Jack,
or Minnewanka, cause we did that in morning
but there's some nice scenic stuff.
Maybe a helicopter, I don't know.
Just cause we can't fly drones here
I was just thinking, how could we get in the air?
That's maybe like a 20 percent on the list.
[Cameraman] 20 percent?
So maybe I shouldn't have even said it
but, I think just driving more
through this scenic wonderland
and stopping wherever we please.
Like we just did. I just ate a donut in the forest.
- Well that sounds good to me. Let's go.
- Don't you have a pastry to eat in the forest?
- Should I eat it in the forest?
- Yeah
- Is that where you eat pastries?
- 100 percent you should eat it in the forest.
- Okay.
(electronic music)
- And that my friends is how you end an epic trip
in Banff, Alberta and to kinda just
tie this all in together.
You would never ever be able to get really
any of these shots with a smartphone.
You couldn't get this shot, or that shot
or this photo. Or that photo.
None of these you could get with a smartphone.
So, get yourself a camera and yeah,
you're gonna enjoy your trips way more.
Plus, you're gonna get way better photos and video.
I guess it's time to just enjoy this now.
And I'm gonna enjoy it.
A lot.
One last thing. I really, really wish I could drone here.
It's like I've been filming with one arm
tied behind my back, for no reason at all.
I don't understand it.
Please, Alberta, change your rules.
I wanna fly some drones.
Actually, I guess it's Canada.
Okay, now I'm gonna go enjoy.
(chewing noises)
(paper rustling)