- What's up, guys?
Today we're filming a vlog; (car passing)
it's a photography vlog, and we're gonna capture the images.
(pictures snapping)
(laughing) So we're shooting a bunch of
winter photos today because...
it's wintry.
- (laughing) It is so wintry.
It is wintry as hell. Look around us.
I mean, it looks like we're in ski heaven.
- We are, absolute ski heaven.
Look at this, look at this.
Oh my gosh!
- Oh my gosh...
- Anyway, so let's kick the vlog off right here.
We found this cute little chalet.
Anna...
We drove past it, Anna's like,
"(gasp) That's a beauti-" - I want a photo!
- Pop for a photo.
So yeah. So, we're gonna shoot on the Sony.
I think we're gonna shoot 24-70 to begin with.
Let's get some photos.
(exuberant music)
- THAT! That thing.
My hands...
my hands are actually pretty cold.
- (camera snapping) Yeah, I'm freezing.
- Yeah - (laughing) It's really cold.
(camera snapping)
(harsh winter wind drowns out Jake)
- [Jake] I'm gonna put you out of focus.
Walk towards me.
(camera snapping)
All right. Let's get some (indistinct).
(upbeat music)
- Yeah, so when I'm shooting on Sony,
I like to use the focus of Manual Flexible Spot.
So I can just use this little joystick thing--
I say that in all my vlogs--
just to position the focal point.
And then, yeah, what I think I'll play around with
is focus.
Putting Anna in focus.
And putting the chalet in focus.
And just having the subject...
I don't know...
Just having fun with the subject.
(cars passing)
(yells)
The cops just drove past!
All right. Let's give it a go.
Super fast shutter.
(Jake faintly speaking) (camera snapping)
That's the shot there.
(camera snapping)
(Jake giving Anna posing direction)
Stay there.
(Jake faintly speaking) (camera snapping)
Shutter.
Chalet.
Chicken Chalet...
I got it!
- Say, "Chicken Chalet!" (car passing)
- Yeah. Have a look at those and approve.
Ahh. My hands are freaking freezing!
(laughing)
Okay, my hands are freezing.
I need to jump in the car.
Ahhh...
Do you wanna drone?
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(melodic piano music)
(piano music with rhythmic drums)
- Okay, so this second shot...
Heavily inspired by Hello Emilie,
aka The Hat, (musical triangle dings)
the perfect Instagram hat. (laughs)
I think... (both laughing)
- [Jake] That's pretty good!
You can just be like two more steps, and we'll get it.
(camera snapping)
(piano music with rhythmic drums)
(camera snapping)
Yep...
2.8
Okay (camera snapping)
(cars passing)
(Jake giving posing direction)
A little bit wider. (camera snapping)
And stay with me like that.
Yep...
(melodic music with drums)
(camera snapping)
That's good...
(laughing)
(Cars passing drown out Anna)
(smooth, joyous music)
- All right.
It's my time to create a little vibe,
and we saw this little house right there.
We thought it was super cute, so we're gonna take a photo
of Jake in front of it.
Right now, I'm using the 24-70 lens with the Sony.
(camera snapping) (Anna giving posing direction)
(birds chirping)
(camera snapping) (faint melodic music)
I think we got something.
I tried to keep him in the center
and make sure I was keeping his face
out of the windows of the house,
so his face was actually coming out in the picture
and not lost in the window because it's dark.
So, yeah, just trying to do that,
and hopefully it turns out well.
(mid-tempo, joyful music)
(snow crunching underfoot)
- Okay...
So we're cruising to our next location,
which is up the mountain.
(breathing heavily) It's so pretty!
Oh.
There's something that's so special about days like today.
When you get to spend it in this environment
with someone special. (snow crunching underfoot)
- That, being the sun.
(speaking French)
(laughing)
(speaking French)
- AHH
(laughs)
- Guys, what you are looking at right now
is our next photo spot.
You can't see it so great in the GoPro,
but wait 'til I get that camera out,
and I show you this incredible landscape.
So there's like a little window here.
That's where I think it looks epic,
so we're gonna shoot it.
So, most of the time, if you're shooting landscapes,
it's better to have the aperture at like 10 or 11...
9, 10, 11
because you wanna keep that in focus.
Just simple stuff like,
if you're shooting portraits,
maybe you want that blurry depth of field,
so you drop aperture...
You open the aperture up to 2.8,
but I wanna get this mountain in as well as, like,
a subject.
But, right now, I'm just gonna shoot the subject
as a landscape photo 'cause it's beautiful.
(snow crunching underfoot)
Okay, kinda looks like it's smoking.
(camera snapping) All right, that's F/8.
That's F/9. (camera snapping)
That's F/10.
(Anna walking in snow) (camera snapping)
And that's F/11. (camera snapping)
(Jake speaking faintly)
(Anna speaking off camera)
- [Jake] No, it's good. It's real good.
Now, what we're gonna try to do is use some of the trees
maybe for a bit of foliage, a bit of something, something
in the front.
(snow crunching underfoot)
(camera snapping)
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(mellow music)
(camera snapping)
(Jake and Anna adjust photo shoot)
(upbeat digital music)
(snow crunching underfoot)
(camera snapping)
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(camera snapping)
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- [Anna] All right, so as you can see here,
we have the perfect frickin' lookout,
and so I'm gonna take a picture of Jake
from right there where he is.
And he's gonna go no further (laughs)
'cause of the cliff behind him.
(whispers) All right, let's do it.
He's right here.
(snow crunching underfoot)
There's a pole between your legs.
(camera snapping)
Bring that leg...
this one.
Yeah...
Yep. Perfect, perfect.
I'm looking.
Catch the sun.
(camera snapping)
Yeah.
Do something else with your hand.
Yeah (camera snapping)
(Anna giving posing direction)
Looking at the sun.
(Anna giving posing direction)
Looking at the sun again...
(camera snapping)
Maybe I'm gonna try to get it through the (indistinct).
It doesn't quite work.
I'm gonna try and go back behind the camera.
(snow crunching)
Head to the sun (camera snapping)
It's cooler where I was initially.
I'm back...
(Anna giving posing direction)
(piano music) (camera snapping)
(upbeat music with drums)
- [Jake] And voila.
We have made it right to the top.
This is where we wanted to hike today.
It's about, I'd say an hour up, to get up here.
But it's been our favorite hike the whole time
that we've been here in Chamonix.
I'll put a link in the description of the video
to the exact hike.
If you guys are interested in doing this hike in winter,
you will need to get yourself some raclettes...
Raquettes? (laughs)
That's a food, and it's a French dish.
Anyway...
Waddaya think?
I'm gonna take a few photos now with the long lens,
the 7200.
There's some beautiful peaks up here
that I really wanna shoot.
The whole point of having a telephoto lens
is to be able to capture subjects far, far away, so...
I've seen these peaks up here.
I'm gonna put the telephoto on and pop away.
Pop, pop, pop...
Let's do it.
All right, so we're gonna be shooting this peak over here.
Now what I'm thinking...
Because I've got a telephoto lens on,
I don't want to shoot too slow.
I don't want the shutter to be too slow because
the lens is heavy, and then I move, then the photo's
gonna be blurry.
So I'm shooting at about 1 over 500.
But I also want the photo to be clean and crisp and clear.
So I don't wanna have the aperture too low.
So I've got the aperture at F/13 or F/11.
And those clouds up there...
At the moment, we're shooting at F/13, 1 over 640 and...
(camera snapping)
Pop! That's beautiful.
I'll go a little slower at 1 over 500.
(camera snapping) Pop.
That's so pretty.
All right, now, I'm just scouring for the subjects.
There's a epic one over here. (camera snapping)
And I like to shoot at almost 200,
so I'm shooting pretty...
quite compressed.
(camera snapping)
I'm just finding subjects.
Because it's really nice,
simple subjects here.
(camera snapping)
Simple things,
that's what I like.
There. That's it.
- [Anna] Simple life.
- [Jake] The simple life.
Yeah. And the reason why I'm shooting over here
and not over here is because of the clouds.
It's just giving a nicer composition and...
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam...
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And as always, I'll see you guys in the next upload.
J out...
PEACE!
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