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In this video we're talking about
how to remove people out of your travel videos,
so you get awesome footage when you're out exploring.
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All right, guys.
This video's all about some different tricks and tips
that I have for you on how to shoot
to make it look like the places you're at
don't have any people, or you know, very few people.
Like if you're with someone,
just that person is in the shot.
And this is something that you encounter
all the time when you're traveling.
You'll get to a location and when you get there
it's just swarmed with people.
I mean there are just tourists everywhere.
It's just one of those things.
If you find a place to travel to and it's like,
on a blog or it's, you know,
on like Trip Advisor or something like that
and it's one of the top things to do,
there's an almost guarantee that
that spot is gonna be just tons of people,
in every direction, just everywhere.
So we encountered this when we were traveling
to New Zealand a few weeks ago.
And when we got to certain areas in the south,
the south is a very popular destination.
And when we got to this one area it was like
location after location, it was just bus loads of people.
And it's really frustrating when you're going
to see something everyone else is there at the same time.
I mean I understand.
It's you know, everyone's traveling, everyone wants
to see the locations and see all these cool places.
But at a certain point the more you travel
the more you realize that you know,
these really awesome places are actually like,
just super busy and super touristy.
So I've put together a few tricks for you
that I use all the time when I go to places like this,
to just eliminate all the people.
So one of the places that we went to in the south
was this unique Church that just sits on a hill.
It's a really cool, it's the Church of the Good Shepherd.
But it's also one of the most touristy places
that you'll go when you go into the South of New Zealand.
So the first thing is just wait for the perfect moment.
And it's exactly what it sounds like.
You just wait it out.
So, if you've found a cool shot
and you're sitting there looking at this,
but it's full of people,
there is gonna be a chance that people will step
out of the frame at some point.
So you just have to be patient.
You have to wait and that's probably the biggest thing
I would tell you when you're trying to get people
out of your shots, is you're just gonna have to wait,
and you're just gonna have to be patient.
Okay, another tip is to do some recon.
So explore the area.
Look at the entire place that you're trying to film.
Look from at different angles, different perspectives
and like really get a sense of what this place is
that you're trying to capture.
And that's gonna help you decide the shots
that you want so you can look at the flow
of how people are moving through the space.
And then you can wait and find that perfect moment
where this shot of this spot is empty,
and you get that footage that you want.
My third tip is shoot in slow motion.
So slow motion gives you more time to play
with when the frame empties out
and you get a cool shot.
So, it just gives you the ability to capture those moments
and not only have the one second or a few frames
where you actually get the shot.
You'll have more time to play with in the edit.
So slow motion is a great tool to capture a spot.
But allow you to get more footage of the shot
that you're trying to get.
Okay, my fourth tip, I've already kind of brushed on this,
and that is look for unique angles.
So go around the place, like I was saying.
Go scope it out, go do some recon,
but find those unique angles where people
are not in your frame.
So it might be pointing up, it might be pointing down,
it might be pointed at like an angle,
or looking over to a different spot
of the location that you're trying to shoot,
that there's no people in it.
So for example, with the Church, you know,
everyone wants that wide shot right from
the front of the Church.
Well if you walk around back there was nobody
at the back of the Church.
So I could get some cool shots
that also showed this location.
You know, and then also I stepped away further
and I was able to get some stuff
with some bushes in the foreground.
And you still get the top of the Church.
So it cut out all the people in the bottom.
You just gotta find those unique perspectives
and use objects.
So that gets into my next tip.
And that is use objects in your frame to cover people.
So, whether it's like bushes, a tree, a rock,
you know, find the different, unique perspective
where you can put the camera and something
in the frame in the foreground is gonna block out the people
and your subject matter is isolated
and it looks like you're there all alone
with nothing around you.
You can get some really cool shots
by just covering part of the frame.
And it ends up being a more unique shot
and something that's actually more eye catching.
So along with thinking about a different perspective
turn the camera around and start shooting the environment.
So this is one of those things that a lot of people forget.
So when you get to a location like this Church
and you get there, you wanna shoot the Church.
Turn around and shoot like the mountain range, the waves,
what is around the object.
Because there's gonna be people around
where you wanna shoot.
Look around, use your environment,
find that unique perspective.
Okay, another tip, and this is more camera specific,
is use a long lens.
So when you use a long lens you can go further away,
punch in, put those things in the foreground.
When you use a wide lens, you're getting a lot of stuff
in your frame and that's when you capture people.
But when you use a long lens you're able
to compress your image.
You're able to pick out a section
of what it is that you're trying to shoot
so you're able to remove all the people
and actually get a really captivating shot
that looks like there's no tourists there.
So all in all, to remove people out of your shots,
you really just have to be patient.
You have to think of your environment,
find a unique perspective
and use different camera techniques
to isolate your subject or the person in the environment.
So it removes everything around what it is
that you're trying to shoot.
All right guys, so let's watch the footage
from the Church of the Good Shepherd
so you can see all of this strung together
and how the sequence turned out.
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All right, so what do you guys think?
You saw the before.
You saw all the people there.
It was a crazy crowd around that Church.
But I definitely found some cool spots to shoot from.
Even with the craziness that was going on.
I couldn't believe how many people were showing up.
Just sitting there for about an hour.
Wild, how many people were being shuttled through.
Get off the bus, they would go to that front,
take their photo, get back on the bus,
and go to the next spot.
There was nobody doing any exploring.
So that's something I wanna throw to you.
When you're out there traveling,
don't just go to these spots and you know,
make your trip all around the hot spots
that you read on a blog or the hot spots
that you see on Trip Advisor.
You know, traveling is not about
just marking things off a list.
There are so many people doing the same things
when they travel.
They wanna see this, they wanna see that,
they wanna do this activity.
But at the end of the day, that's not really traveling.
That's not really an adventure.
You know, the more you travel, the more you realize
that these kind of activities are just mundane.
And every where you go you'll find the same thing
in every touristy kind of spot.
So to really have an adventure,
to really go out there and travel and see the world,
and see cultures, and with me and Rachel,
as we've been traveling we've realize
that we try to do some research online
and we try to avoid these really touristy spots.
In New Zealand everyone told us go to the South.
Go the South, go to these hot spots.
Well, all these hot spots that we went to were swarmed
with tourists, whereas when we were in the North,
and we were just doing it on our own
and just exploring and talking to locals,
we ended up finding some really cool stuff
that we never found when we were researching on line
and reading books or any of that.
The more that you just go out there and explore
and adventure, the more that you have
these real experiences that aren't just checking
things off a list.
So guys, I hope these tips will help you
with your travel videos.
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