(liquid pouring)
(fingers rapping on table)
- Here you go. - Thank you.
- Do you want some?
How about you?
I can't even see you, you're like a shadow right now.
Nevermind.
Good morning.
Today we're starting things off with a new segment
I'm going to be calling the Super Vlog,
which is essentially a full day's vlog
crammed into about two and a half minutes,
and it's a good time to be had,
so we're gonna start with that.
And then I'm going to move over to the Q&A, which
I'm gonna be answering some questions that I get asked
on a daily basis, every, ah it smells so good, sorry.
Every single day on all my social media, so
so it's gonna be a great time, and
check out this sunburn I got yesterday, look at my forehead.
(laughs) What?
(water splashing)
I have something in the truck right now
that I am the only person in Canada that has.
I have the pre-production model of the new Canon C200.
I'm actually leaning on the bag right now.
So I'm just gonna hand it to him in a minute
when he comes over to the truck.
- C200? - Yeah.
- Yeah! - Back again.
Matt holds the world record for the youngest pilot
to fly around the world solo, which is just insane.
Look how young he is!
What? I can't even drive my car very well. Crazy.
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Hey Matty, think you got enough shots yet?
- No. Never.
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- So small.
Plenty of room in here.
That's not half bad at all.
Alright man, don't kill us.
Thank you, appreciate it.
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This here camera is way too big
for the cockpit of that plane.
Just saying.
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(groans)
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The mosquitoes, the mosies, are coming out in a full force,
so we need to get back to the car to get back to the plane
to get back to the city to get back to his car
to get back to my truck to get back home.
That made perfect sense if you think about it,
'cause that's how I got here.
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We are the last people here, like ...
Alright, get us home, bro.
- [Pilot] I'm gonna try.
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One minute to spare.
That's not cutting it close at all.
(slurping)
And I'm done.
I'm done, alright, welcome back to the Q&A today.
I'm gonna answer a bunch of questions.
I get asked stuff all the time across
all my social media platforms,
and I did one of these a few months back,
but I've had so many new subscribers,
new people join the channel, so thank you and welcome,
and I figured I would address some of these questions,
just to get the ball rolling, and you guys can
know a little bit more about me,
dive a little deeper.
And yeah, hope you guys enjoyed the Super Vlog.
I think I'm gonna do those a little more often,
those are super fun.
Super fun, the Super Vlogs are super fun.
Yeah, just cool to be able to cram a whole a day
into two minutes, and just make that a
new thing on the channel.
Every now and then, maybe I'll just drop a Super Vlog
in the middle of the most random thing you're not expecting,
so stay tuned for that.
I asked you guys on my Instagram account,
if you guys don't follow me, the link is below,
I'll put it right here on the screen as well.
I post pictures daily, stories like that,
and I take a lot of questions from that platform,
because it's a little bit easier.
So let's just get straight in.
Caden underscore Bush asks,
"When did you first start grasping
"the meaning of photography and really getting into it?"
That's a deep question.
When did I really start getting into it,
let's start with that.
I didn't do this in high school,
I didn't actually like photography at all,
I actually hated it in high school.
I was just like no interest.
People were like, "Hey, wanna
"next year do you want to do photography and go into the--"
No, I don't.
I just want to go home.
Never, never did it, didn't go to school for it,
didn't go to college for it, it was all self-taught.
I didn't start actually getting into it until
my sister bought me a camera, and you can kind of see it ...
You might be able to see it right, right there,
that's the camera she bought me, way back.
And I started taking pictures, and then I just got addicted,
and you guys know how it is, it's like a snowball
rolling downhill, and you're just like,
"I can't stop."
And here I am, so long story short,
I started really getting into it
when she bought me that camera.
I'd been using cameras and shooting videos,
and using video cameras my whole life as a kid,
I've always been fascinated with it,
so it's something that's always kind of
been in the back of my head that I only really started
to get serious about after I was given that camera,
and then I upgraded almost instantly,
and then continued to upgrade, and I was like ...
I need to do this forever.
I knew.
So that's kind of how that whole thing happened.
Iris bonnet photo asks,
"Did you ever go through a time in your career
"where you felt like you were doing everything right,
"but you weren't gaining any traction?"
Yeah, my whole life.
There's plenty of times I would start a new photo series,
or shoot a bunch of weddings, and think,
"Ah, these shots are so good."
And the clients wouldn't really be happy, or
I wouldn't get anywhere with the photo series I was doing,
or I'd get picked up for some local magazines,
and they'd put my photos on the cover,
and I was like, "Yes!"
But then no phone calls would really come from it,
and I would try to network, and
would get discouraged and stuff like that,
but the key is to just be relentless.
Don't stop trying, even if nothing's coming
from all the work you're putting into it.
It's happening in the background,
it'll all manifest to something.
All of that time and work is by no means wasted, whatsoever.
So just keep at it, even if it's
nothing's coming to fruition, you feel like
all these efforts are just like for nothing,
they're not.
Absolutely they're not.
They make you who you are,
they make you better at what you do,
you learn from every single thing that you do
when you shoot and project that you work with,
and people that you meet.
Just eventually, just like ...
It'll just happen, and you'll be like,
"Oh okay, wicked.
"Super happy I stuck with this."
Alex ...
"What's your favorite place in the whole world,
"or where would you want to go?"
I really want to go shoot Antelope Canyon.
I've been wanting to shoot Antelope Canyon since like
2004, when I saw a Peter Lik photo
called "The Ghost of Antelope Canyon," and I was like
"Where is that and how do I get there, and when can I go?"
It's been like 13 years in the making
that I've wanted to go, I don't know if I'm gonna get there
and it's gonna be a huge letdown, 'cause I've wanted
to shoot this place for 13 years.
It'll probably only take me like 3 hours
to shoot the whole thing, 'cause it's a slot canyon,
and the light is only good for a certain amount of time.
It's just one of those shots that I need ...
I need my version in my own personal portfolio,
so I really want to go to Antelope Canyon.
Ava McFarlin asks, "What are you planning on buying next
"to expand your collection?"
Well I just bought the DJI Spark, so
I don't know if that counts.
I want to do a little fun review
and fly it around my office,
see how that goes, so
I just added that, and other than that,
I bought the Phantom 4 Pro,
to take on a super epic trip that's happening
at the end of this month that I still
haven't told you guys about, but
it's gonna be dope.
Grant Anthony asks, "How do you deal with comparing
"your work to others?
"How do you get motivation to carry on,
"when there's so many photographers
"that are better than me?"
Let's start with this, there's always gonna be someone
that does what you do better.
And to me, that's a good thing,
because I don't want to be the ultimate best at what I do.
If I was the best photographer in the world,
I was the best cinematographer,
there was nobody,
nobody better, it would be so boring.
It would be so lonely.
It'd be cool for like a day,
and then you'd be like, "Wow.
"Now what?"
Being not as good as other people lets you
get a taste of what it is that you want to strive towards.
It lets you think to yourself,
"Wow, I want to get to that place,
"and shoot photos like that.
"So how do I get there?
"Let's build a plan, let's make the steps,
"let's get inspired on a daily basis."
'Cause you're scrolling through Instagram, and you're like,
"Look at all these incredible photos.
"I need to be taking photos like this."
So what are you gonna do about it?
Go start taking photos like that.
That's my approach to it, like I'm super happy
that I'm not the best at what I do,
and seeing better editors, and seeing better vloggers,
and seeing better photographers just makes me
love what I do even more, because I just think to myself,
"Man, there's so much room to grow forever."
And that's what I love.
Aaron Bagel asks, "What's your favorite type of coffee?
ChemX, Aeropress, espresso, V60, you name it.
Dude, I like it all, man.
I use a ChemX every single morning,
which is pour-over drip coffee,
so that's probably my favorite, given the fact
that I use it every single morning.
If I had to pick a second, definitely espresso,
because you can do so many different things with espresso.
You can make lattes, and cappuccinos,
you can drink it straight, Americanos,
and you can just, there's so many great things
you can do with espresso, and sometimes when you're
just like dragging, and you're just lagging days behind,
you just boom, double shot,
peace.
Bri dot PNG asks, "Do you support pineapple on pizza?"
This is an interesting thing.
I didn't realize that so many people have
a strong feeling about this, and
my answer is yes, I love pineapples.
Eat pineapple on whatever you want, I'm gonna eat it,
'cause it's delicious.
I've even got a tattoo of a pineapple on my arm
because I love it so much, so yeah, I'll put it on anything.
Yes, please.
Here's a question I get asked
all the time.
Literally every single day on every single platform that I
contribute to, is what camera should I buy.
And there's no easy answer to this, because
I don't know each individual person that's asking me this.
If my mom asks me, "What camera should I buy?,"
that answer's gonna be completely different than if
my friend Matty that you guys saw today was like,
"What do you think I should get next for a camera?"
My answer would be completely different for him.
If my dad asked me, if you asked me, the question changes
all the time based on the individual, so the advice
that I could give you, 'cause I can't tell you what to buy.
You guys know what I like, I like Canon cameras,
and I've always shot with Canon.
But I'm not just gonna go tell you, "Go buy that,"
because that might not be what's best for you.
So it kinda comes down to having to give you advice.
And the advice that I give you is look around,
really break down what it is that you want
out of photography, or out of video.
Are you going to be a cinematographer?
Is photo not as important to you,
or is it more important to you?
Because just those two questions are gonna make
a huge difference in what camera you buy.
'Cause maybe that camera's way better for photos,
that camera's way better for videos.
So if your focus is video, you go with that one.
If it's photos, you go with that one.
If it's in between, that's a whole nother topic.
Then you go for the camera that's pretty good with both.
It's gonna sacrifice here, you're gonna sacrifice here,
but you're gonna meet at a happy medium.
So first, discover what it is that you want to do.
Once you've made that, you gotta lock down a budget.
You could say, "I only have this much to spend."
So now that you know you only have a thousand bucks,
you look and this one and you look at this one,
and you say, "Which one can I afford
"based on what my priorities are?"
And then you go from there.
You gotta break it down into bite-sized step.
I would love to buy a red camera, but it's just like,
it's not practical for me, because I am equally
a photographer as I am a cinematographer.
So for me, lugging around a red camera is
A) too heavy, doesn't let me flip back and forth
to photos really fast if I want to just start
taking photos instantly.
Yes I want it, but it's not practical for my use,
for my life, for my career, and what I do
in this whole sphere of filmmaking and media and phot,
it just doesn't work.
But the 1DX for me is great at photos,
and it's great at video, and I can flip back and forth
super fast without having to change
the body of the camera and go through different ...
I just carry one thing, and it does what I love to do
equally well on both sides.
So that's kind of how I recommend choosing a camera.
When it comes to brand, some people
just like to use Windows.
Some people like to use Apple, some people hate Apple,
and some people just want an Android phone,
and it kind of comes down to what you're comfortable with.
Like I love the menus in Canon,
I find them super easy to use,
where I look at a Sony camera and I feel like
I'm coding a new script to put into a rocket ship,
so for me, that's something that just
makes me more comfortable when I'm using a Canon camera.
I like Zeiss lenses, so I want to use those,
then that would be a factor that would point you
in a specific direction.
So I can't just come out and say,
"Oh, what camera should you buy?
"You should buy the 1DX mark 2, have a great day."
'Cause it just doesn't, it doesn't make sense for everybody.
Find out what you want to do, pick the budget,
narrow it down and put in the work,
and then go give it a shot, pun intended.
I am Calier
asks "How much coffee do you drink in a day?"
You know that's funny.
Usually around two cups, three on a heavy day.
I've done four cups, but then I just start feeling like
I feel like I'm floating, I feel like I'm gonna walk outside
and just start hovering around.
But sometimes I let on that I drink
more coffee than I actually do.
You guys see it in every episode, you see it in every vlog,
so it appears that this guy is always drinking coffee,
because every time you see me, I'm drinking it.
But in real life, like if we're just hanging out
during the day, I drink it in the morning,
and then maybe I have a second pick-me-up in the afternoon,
and then that's pretty much it.
Zyan Mustafa asks, "What happened to your segment
"'Stupid Places to Mount My GoPro?'"
Ah ...
That's a great question, I need to do that more.
I just, I gotta be honest, I never use the GoPro.
I want to use it, and I want it to be something that
I bring everywhere with me and get
super creative unique ideas, but I just, I never bring it.
I don't know why, it's not that I don't like it,
I just, like I just can't be bothered to bring it with me.
Here's another question I get asked all the time.
Will you switch to Sony?
No.
Alex Snaps says, "I'd like to see a storytime
"about your tattoos."
Well Alex,
I'll link a video right here that I talked about
some of my tattoos in that might
whet your appetite a little bit, but
yeah, I need to do a little sit-down
and talk about all of these.
I have a lot.
Ryan ...
What's his name, Ryan Bomerito asks,
"If you could work with anyone in the world
"for a collaboration, who would you work with?"
That's tough.
There's a couple people.
Like I would love to go shooting with Peter Lik one day
because I think that guy is an absolute beast,
and if you've ever been into one of his galleries,
his landscape photos are just like bonkers,
they're just straight up ridiculous, and
I love the fact that he still sells his prints
and they're framed so beautifully,
and so much work goes into the presentation of them.
I've always wanted to own one of his massive pieces,
but I just think going out and shooting with him
would be an epic adventure.
Someone else I think would be cool to collaborate with is
I really think Tom Delonge is a unique artist,
the former guitarist of Blink-182,
and I kind of like the fact that he just said
"I don't want to do this anymore,"
given that it was a successful band, and he was just like,
"I would rather do other things," and I just think
that's really really cool, and I think it takes balls
to be able to just drop something that is world-renowned
and known by millions and millions of people,
to just go do something completely different,
and follow a passion that people think you're crazy about,
and I have a respect for that, so,
so I would love to collaborate with that guy one day,
I don't know if it'll ever happen, but
even just to high-five the dude and be like "Yes."
That'd be cool.
Okay guys, that is it for me for this episode.
Thank you for tuning in.
I appreciate each and every one of you.
Thanks for watching, hope you guys dug the Super Vlog.
Hit that like button if you liked this video,
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Next week is gonna be crazy, so stay tuned for that.
I am headed out, no I'm staying in the country,
but I'm going to the other side of the ...
Okay, yeah, so it's gonna be good, it's gonna be a fun week.
So subscribe if you aren't already, and
and,
I will as always see you in the next episode.
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