I took Pegasus down the highway this morning at this kind of fun little beach
time for some photography
so yes the quads now called Pegasus I wanted Medusa but Jodi's the boss so so
Pegasus is the name to me it doesn't make sense I'm not a Hercules type so
why would I be on Pegasus I really like the name of Hermes I think Hermes was
probably my personal favorite but as somebody pointed out the quad
should be what Hermes is driving but I don't think Hermes chariot or anything
had a name but I know nothing about Greek mythology
so Pegasus it is the reason we're at this Beach is because I need to do a
product photography shoot
I have a product shoot that I've been neglecting that I've been
putting off for way too long and this seems like a cool spot to start I have
10 photos I need to make over the next three days
and I wanted to start here but now that I'm here I see so many cool shots that I
want to do some landscape photography first so I'm going to reward myself with
some landscape photography and then do the product photo shoot kind of like dessert
before the main meal
so choosing the landscape photography spot can be as simple as finding a rock
yesterday when I was scouting I just saw this rock from the main road and I
thought that looks like a good rock to shoot and what I'm doing here is I'm
just setting up my camera really quick close right behind the rock let's get a
little bit closer jabbing the tripod way into the sand let's get even closer and
I'm fixing my exposure to about a half a second so it's ISO its ISO 400 half a
second f11 there's a four stop grad on there and here comes a wave I'm just
gonna fight this and what I'm hoping for is catching one
of these waves bouncing over top and getting this spray in the shot but I
don't think the waves are really high enough it looks ok actually it doesn't
look as dramatic as I hoped if you want to see a dramatic version of this shot
I'm gonna point you towards the Instagram of my buddy Mike Perea who
also has a YouTube channel and go and check out his image because he did an
awesome version of this comes another wave that he did an awesome version of
this that I really love as for this shot I think I'm going to move on to a
different one because I don't think the waves are hitting this hard enough I'm
gonna just compose with this rock but I'm gonna use the retreating sea to kind
of work like the leading lines that leads straight into the rock again about
F eleven maybe ISO 200 at about a full second fun spot to shoot
it's as simple as that sometimes if landscape photography just finding a
really cool rock nice waves crashing on it love it I'm happy with how that came
out I'm now gonna start doing what I'm
supposed to be doing I'm gonna do the product photography I'm really bad at
product photography I don't feel like I have a really creative mind and I feel
like product photography you need like a creative mind I have friends that are
food photographers and food bloggers even and I'm always amazed at if we go
up for lunch they can create this incredible scene for their food and I
can never do that but the reason I chose this location to start my product
photography is that these waves rolling up this is the Sendas extreme SSD
extreme portable SSD I've been commissioned to make a video as well as
shoot 10 product photos of this and I should also mention I'm not being paid
to post this to YouTube I'm not being paid by SanDisk to make youtube videos
about their products I've been paid to make some photos in a video and I just
thought it would be fun to take you along with that process here over the
next couple of days so the reason I came here is this is an extreme disc meaning
its water resistant dust resistant shock resistant and what they want to
highlight about the product is that you can take it anywhere you can smash it
around you can get it wet and it's gonna hold your files you're not going to lose
your files is going to be resistant and one of the things I thought would be a
good idea would be to come to the beach where there's this foam that rolls up
and just get the SSD somewhere on the beach with this foamy water hitting it
it's gonna be a little bit tricky I'm gonna put on the 100 to 400 and
hopefully it works hopefully this doesn't get washed out to sea
I think I got that took about 20 minutes to time everything right and get it just
the way I wanted but that was actually fun yeah I don't like brown that
photography but the one thing I can feel already is it's gonna push my creativity
which is always a good thing it's always good to give yourself
challenges and yeah this is gonna be a challenge for me I think I'm gonna hit
back directly on I'm going to have a nap because I'm exhausted and then I think
we're gonna try to find a cafe to do some more product shooting kind of like
digital Nomad style I don't know we'll figure it out later let's jump on
Pegasus and head home
so part of the daily battle in Crete the only thing that's been a real struggle
and Crete the own the fact that it can be really hot is cafes the Internet at
our place is pretty slow and everywhere we've gone the Internet's been slow
download speeds are fine but when we're uploading like blogs it's incredibly
slow so we've gone to like I think eight different cafes and it's been slow
everywhere we've come to a place that's kind of turned into our favorites called
s Enda and the internet slow there too but at least it's a nice space and I'm
gonna try to get another one of these SanDisk photos kind of the idea behind
it is working in a cafe
I'm just don't I don't feel like I have an eye for product photography at all I
really struggle when I mana space like this and I have to create an image I try
to look for textures I try to look for tables that have really cool textures
that accent the product I look for colors and almost most importantly I
look for background but at the end of the day I hope these images are good
enough and it's gonna be one of those cases where I'm gonna have to take them
and put them onto my laptop and check them I shot them all on the 50
millimeter F one point eight that lens is incredible I love it I said when I
bought it that it was kind of like having a bit of buyer's remorse I'm not
anymore I love that lens yeah phenomenal yeah I got the shots and I guess the
part of product photography that I can get behind is when you do it and you get
cappuccino Fredo or Fred Oh cappuccino
I'm not a product photographer I'm pretty obviously I don't particularly
like doing product photography I find it a hard and I find it to be a lot of work
and a lot of planning I think that good product photographers spend a lot of
time working on things like props going and buying props and and building a
whole story around the image and when you're a travel photographer it's really
really hard if not impossible to find those props you need to go to cafes or
beaches and you just kind of need to make it work but even though I'm not a
product photographer it is something I have to do every now and then and it is
something that I am brace the challenge of doing every now and then and I'm
gonna embrace the challenge of doing this over the next three or four days I
think I got two maybe three images that'll work for the client so I need
eight seven or eight more and that's what's gonna happen over the next couple
days I'm gonna do what we did today kind of mix in some landscape nature
photography maybe some urban photography with the the product photography
shooting just kind of take you on that journey and take you through that
thought process I do have a plan for this product photography I'm not just
totally winging this I have a list of images I want to make in some ideas and
some concepts and yeah I guess that's what's happening on the video is to come
over the next couple days here in Greece yeah it should be fun I'll see you guys
there peace
you