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- What's up guys
and welcome to another GoPro vlog.
We are in the beautiful Chamonix
and the sun has just shown its face.
So today, Anna and I are going to be testing
out the GoPro hero nine for vlog settings.
- We're also going to be testing out
whatever that thing is called.
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- So we set ourselves the challenge
of trying to like cross country ski.
- We've never done
- Neither of us have ever done.
And I tell you what, it's not easy.
So this is the first time I've ever been on skis.
So I thought, you know, why not make a fool
of myself and show you how to not ski
but hopefully teach you how to vlog.
So right now we're shooting in 4k 24 wide
which is probably my preferred form setting.
I've also notched the EV comp up,
plus one, just because I don't know,
it's sometimes I feel like if it's GoPro color,
it can be a little dark.
The white balance is on auto.
The shutter speed is on auto and yeah, we'll test
out some different settings, but let's get on with it.
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- So we're in super view.
All right, we'll start with super view.
And since Jake is still in the learning phase
I want to be bite mounting it in skiing a little bit.
Also the sun's peaking out.
Alright, ready?
Alright. Go.
To anyone who says ski touring is not exhausting,
then rethink it and try it.
- It's tiring
- Oh my God.
- We've just had the EV comp plus one,
and the main reason for that
is so we wanted to let a little bit more light in
but we're going to notch it back down to zero
because if you're not happy with the shot
you can always edit the shot in post, but oops
the idea of this, just to give you the best settings
that you can just dial into your GoPro straight away.
So let's just switch it up.
Okay. The EV comp is on zero I'm shooting in super view.
I've got the bit rate set to high.
I just like having the bit rate high just
because it just makes the footage, I think
look a little bit better
especially when you're uploading vlogs in 4k and yeah
I'm going to bite mount it and away we go.
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- The best thing about ski touring are the stacks
So one of the things that I like to do when
I'm using the GoPro here and I have to vlog,
is to just position myself
using the front screen where the light is good.
You know, if I'm shooting this way
and the sun's behind me, it's just I'm dark.
But if I shoot this way and I have the light on my face
just gives a much nicer shot.
So something that I would recommend when you're vlogging,
use the front screen to frame up your shot
especially on hero nine.
And yeah, if you just sort of standing and talking
maybe test the audio by saying, testing one, two.
So the algorithm can pick up
where the sound source is coming from
and then start vlogging.
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- Huh?
So I've just switched up the lens to shoot now
with a max lens mode.
You might notice it's a little bit wider
and we've upped the frame rate to 60
cause we're doing a little bit of action.
No, these skis are fricking hard.
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All right, got the POV shot.
Maybe I should have, I probably should've
at least done a ski lesson before doing this.
Anyway, you learn from your mistakes.
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- High five
- Okay, so recapping this vlog setting,
click the plus button at the bottom of your presets
to create a new preset.
We're going to be shooting in video mode
at 4k in 24 frames per second.
So once that's dialed in, we're all g, I'll leave the lens
and everything else in this area as per normal.
Now let's go down to pro tune and up our bit rate,
so I just like to bump the bit rate up to high.
Cool. Once that's dialed in the EV comp,
we'll leave that to your discretion.
You may like to have that up.
You may like to have that at zero.
We'll keep it on GoPro color.
We're going to drop down the maximum ISO to 800.
I just like to have that down a little lower
especially when it's bright outside.
And then the last thing that will change is our shortcuts.
Now I'm going to pop the EV comp on the screen.
I'm also going to have my lenses on the screen
and the color on the screen as well as hyper smooth.
So I have access to them every time I'm vlogging.
Once that's all dialed in, we'll choose snow.
And you're good to go.
I spoke about this in my camera bag video.
These are the perfect conditions.
- Take camera back.
Take sack,
wrap sack over camera bag.
Pull
- Sack, ready for adventure.
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We're going to Les Granges.
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Off you go little hanky.
- Look, you see the footprints?
There's a bear that's been there!
- There's a bear! Big bear!
YE! All right.
We have 40 minutes to go still because we're so bad
at taking in due time because we always stop.
But I think the shot we got was really cool.
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- Now one of the most common questions I get asked is
in regards to ND filters.
I often choose not to use ND filters and essentially
what an ND filter does is it balances the light.
It's a neutral density filter
and it's a cap that you stick on top.
I'm sure loads of you have already seen them
and considered purchasing them.
I however, have I don't choose to use them because I
I just like to keep things really simple.
However, when the lighting changes,
what you can do to adjust for the amount of light
that's coming into the center is,
you can adjust the EV composition.
Now, right now I have bumped the EV composition up.
Yesterday, I was experimenting with this
and I think it looks really good essentially
right now it's sort of diffused.
We just have this nat-
we have this one light with one sort of balanced light.
It's overcast, it's gray.
It's just neutral.
- It's just meh.
- It's there's no sun, it's just white.
So what I like to do
and what I experimented with and what I'll experiment now
with is to not shop the EV camp
and just show you how it adjusts on our face.
So let's go,
At the moment we're at 0.5
and now we're at EV comp plus one.
So we've gone up half a stop.
This is 1.5 stops up
and this is EV comp maxed up at plus two.
- This is when we start to disappear.
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- We're fading away!
Our teeth are so white.
So you see how much you can raise and lift the shot.
So maybe if it's a super overcast day
or if you have an ND filter on and you want to
bump it up a bit, you can just adjust your EV comp.
Let's go back to zero.
We're just normal.
This is something that you might like to experiment with.
It's also something that I would use in conjunction
with your ISO settings.
So we've set the ISO to a maximum of 800 and the minimum
of a hundred.
If you were to bump that ISO up to a maximum of 1600
you'll notice the difference in the EV comp
when you go up or down.
So at the moment, I think this is what, what I like.
I've got the EV comp on zero, but I think I like it at
plus 0.5, just so I don't have to do much
in the grade afterwards.
And I've got the ISO settings to a max of 800
Why?
- Well, I think keeping your ISO rather low is a good thing
because that means your footage will be less grainy.
If you allow the camera to go to 1600, then that means
that it's going to take advantage of that and often bump
up the ISO more than necessary
and therefore you'll have grainy footage, so.
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- And the sun came and left!
- I'm finally starting to get used to the crampons
like getting used to the feeling.
To be honest, the first day that we went for a little hike
I was not into them,
but I see that purpose.
See my bag as well.
See how it's sort of snowing a little bit,
but mostly raining, again,
if you saw my what's in my camera bag,
that's why I use this.
Just to give it that extra protection.
I think I got this from Intersport or some, some camps, some
like outdoor outdoor camping sort of shop.
It's like 10 bucks or something.
Yeah. Yeah.
Good to know, all right.
Let's keep going with the hike.
Hope you've been enjoying the hiking vlog,
if you are post a thumbs up button.
Shout out to Fausto shisha.
- For this cookie!
- We got it from the Shamonics street food
- Street food!
- Sham street food.
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- Well we just wrapped up the hike,
still on the same battery,
I was also really surprised at how well
this camera handled the cold, like the climate.
Often with GoPro, in these conditions,
like the battery will just cut out or freeze,
if you know, you know.
So it's actually handled it really well.
I do remember them upgrade for a release and upgrade
and update firmware updates a little while back.
And that was one of the bugs they fixed.
There's this road that brings you here.
I think we're going to drive a little further down
and you know, it would be rude not to try
and get some drone shots.
Oh, look at this.
And the sun, like the sky is getting blue.
So yeah, we pretty much hiked just sort of up around here.
Like on this patch, nowhere near that high,
but just like up through these woods here
and across and just a little loop.
I'll put all the links
to exactly that little hike if you're interested
in the description,
but let's go fly some drones.
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