hey what up y'all I'm tight shirt Terry Warfield and I'm a content creator I like making videos
about photography filmmaking Gear reviews tips and tricks tutorials on editing and getting better on
camera and things like that I'm a father I'm a whole lot of other different things too but
I love making videos and photography today I'm gonna talk about vlogging the gear IU
tips and tricks anything that I could give you to make it a little bit easier for you to feel
comfortable on camera I got you look what we got over here light right there and we
got lights on the other side and hey this is this is what vlogging is all about man
my number one tip if you're looking to get into vlogging is to not care about what people think
I remember being in New York and we were walking through a park and I was holding the camera and a
few people that had way more subscribers asked me like Terry how are you so comfortable with
vlogging in public with these people staring at you and my answer to them was I just don't care
you just got to get over the fact that people no matter what you are doing or who you are or how
good you look or how bad you look or whatever it is people are always going to have something
to say my second tip is to just be free on camera people want to see the personality
so don't feel like you need to get on camera and be somebody that you're not because when
you try to do that it shows and people kind of see through it and my third tip will be to be
ready to be consistent and persistent because there will be times where you will put a lot of
work into a video and you won't necessarily get the result that you wanted but I promise you if
you keep going eventually you'll start to see the results it only takes one view the Right
View to change everything for you vlogging is all about storytelling sometimes the story and
vlogging is the Vlog itself it's the experience it's the natural Discovery as the day progresses
that is the story if you're vlogging is all about sharing the experience real time as it's happening
when I make Vlogs this is what I like to do I mean obviously I'm using gear right so if I am
using like a camera like a zv1 or fx3 or whatever the case may be I always try to include people
into what I'm using to create the Vlogs so for example I did a couple Vlogs where I did use the
zv1 because I think it's the perfect travel camera I shared my experience throughout the day using it
I guess I'm just mindful of the gear I'm using and anytime I have thoughts about it I share them and
then I just edit it all together obviously gear is important but it's only important once you nail
the basics down right once you master the ability to make a video and you get comfortable on camera
then you start introducing the gearing because at that point the gear will only help you tell that
story better if I had to give a beginner right one camera that I would recommend it would probably be
the Sony zve E10 it's the perfect little small camera it's not too expensive it has a ton of
features that help content creators out like the flippy screens so you can see yourself on camera
has super crazy reliable autofocus so it's got a lot of tools built into it to really help our
content creators and there's a huge assortment of very inexpensive lenses that you can get from
Sony to kind of complete a kit so it's a really really good starter camera what's in my bag my
go-to these are my babies so my first baby is the Sony a74 my second baby is the fx3 now the
a74 is probably the camera that I grabbed first because it's such a good blend between quality
and photography quality and video great battery life it's got stabilization built into it if you
had to pick one lens right to go along with your Sony a74 whatever other camera that you're using
24 to 70 is the way to go and the reason I say it's the way to go is because it is so versatile
especially as a vlogger and content creator most of the focal lengths that we use are within 24 to
70. if you want to do like handheld vlogging or sometimes you want to be able to just punch in
and maybe get a close-up on somebody's face or maybe you want a super blurry background of a
flower or something like that in a 24 to 70 covers all of that so the reason I carry multiple lenses
is because although a lens like the 24 to 70 is great it's a very very good general purpose lens
there are other times where I want a different look from taking pictures of somebody or if I
want like a super shallow depth of field or if I'm taking pictures of something like a car and
I want a really realistic perspective something like a 85 millimeter in that case would be better
I carry multiple bodies for two reasons number one redundancy because it doesn't matter what
camera you have how much it costs every now and then camera gear fails just like cars every now
and then a car fails and I never want to be in a situation where I need to create content and I
don't have anything else to create with also now this is like Advanced Vlog stuff right it's way
more interesting to look at a single object from two separate angles right so this is a perfect
example I'm looking at one camera but guess what there's another camera over there looking right
at me and just having that ability to cut back and forth makes a otherwise boring shot into a
more interesting shot so aside from camera gear and things like that I will really focus on a
good quality microphone and at least one or two small lights that could really help you out in
dark scenarios even having something like this ECM B10 right here is super inexpensive but it gives
you really really really good audio and it takes the guesswork out of you know I need to adjust my
audio levels and all that stuff the biggest thing I want you guys to take from this is to just do
it I know a lot of people have doubts and uh they say hey I want to start next week or I'm going to
start next year my advice would be to start today if you're thinking about getting in a photography
filmmaking vlogging online content creation we don't live in a better time that we do right now
to get started stop procrastinating stop being so scared about what people think of you and if
you want to put yourself out there put yourself out there and don't pay attention to the results
all right so how can we connect with each other first of all I'm on YouTube you guys can look at
my YouTube channel it is literally Terry Warfield my Instagram if you want to connect there I like
having a lot of Instagram friends also we could be friends there it's Terry underscore Warfield
and there's a whole lot more content like this on Alpha universe so make sure after this video
you go and you check some of that out man hope I gave you something useful in this video till
next time y'all know how I say it piece of chicken grease much love y'all peace foreign