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- What's up everybody, Peter Mckinnon here
and welcome back to another video.
It's Monday morning, we got a lot to get caught up on.
The first thing I wanna do is open the box
that's been sitting in my hall downstairs
for the last week and a half, gotta get that done.
Number two, I wanna talk about the GoPro Hero6.
Number three, I wanna talk about my first ever
gallery event happening this weekend,
which is also my birthday.
Number four, hats.
Number five, Adobe MAX, all the new updates,
and why I just, I blew it, big time.
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Look what that is!
Yes!
Okay, so I've been waiting for this machine for,
I don't know, my entire life.
But now that it's here, they already sent me the grinder
and I couldn't wait, I set that up like weeks ago.
It hasn't been used because it's specifically
for espresso, I didn't wanna, I mean
you could use it for pour-over, you wouldn't because
you wanna make sure it's dialed--
Whatever, we'll get into that maybe in another video.
But, all of that to say, I set this up a couple weeks ago
and I've just been looking at it every single day
waiting for its counterpart to arrive, which it has.
So, enjoy this B-roll sequence of me
ripping this machine apart and trying to figure out
how to make coffee come out of it.
Okay!
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Oh my God.
I kinda thought it would be bigger.
I'm just kidding.
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Here's the moment I've been waiting for.
(electricity crackling) (screams) I'm just kidding!
Imagine? (laughs)
Okay, "boom", it's in.
Power button's over here, and...
Oh yeah.
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Ran out of water.
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Okay, well, I managed to finally get the right ratios
after making 50 shots of espresso.
Don't worry, I did not drink them all, that would be crazy.
But, yeah, 25 seconds, 32 grams, good to go.
Now I gotta froth the milk but
that's a whole 'nother story.
Ooh, not bad!
Not bad at all.
Let's see, not bad for first time on this new machine.
(kid squeals) Yes!
The box has been opened, you guys already knew
it was a coffee machine, come on!
La Marzocco is an incredible brand from Italy.
They make the best espresso machines ever
on the globe, on the planet!
And they saw my Kenya vlog when I was drinking coffee
in and amongst coffee trees with
the farmer himself drinking his coffee in Kenya.
We're surrounded by coffee.
- I know, right?
- Is there any other better place to be?
- If I was drinking a cup of coffee, while being surrounded
by coffee trees--
(gong banging)
- Ooh, this is your coffee?
- Yes.
- Oh, that's so cool.
How cool is this, drinking the farmer's coffee on his farm.
Oh wow, that's actually really good, is there sugar in this?
Has to be.
They can't, they can't be that sweet without it.
There's no way. This is incredible.
This is like the best day ever. 100%.
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That would be pretty sweet.
- It would be sensory overload.
- And they got in touch and they were like,
"Hey, you've ever used one of our machines?"
And I was like, "Oh ho ho!"
Fast forward to today, and oh baby.
Yes.
Secondly, I wanna mention that I am doing my first ever
gallery exhibition event this Saturday,
October 28th, my birthday.
Super excited for that, I just as a test put out
an Instagram photo yesterday being like,
"Hey, link in bio if you wanna attend the event",
and sold out every single seat within like a couple hours,
so I did not see that coming at all.
So I quickly emailed the girl, the event organizer,
and I was like, "what do I do about my channel,
I didn't even get a chance to offer it to them",
so she's gonna open it up to like another hundred seats.
So the link is below, if you wanna attend.
It's gonna be this Saturday, my friend Matti's speaking
from TravelFeels, we've got Dennis the Prescott speaking.
He's the guy I went to Kenya with.
He's the chef that does all the delicious photos of food.
And then third, we've got Jesse, he's gonna speak, talk
about stories, that kinda stuff.
And then I'll say a few words, maybe do a magic trick.
Probably not, but I'll speak and then we're gonna do
a little panel, and then just hang out,
get to know each other, say hi.
Hopefully there'll be some coffee there
but if you want to go, there's only about a hundred spots
available 'cause it's a smaller, kind of intimate venue in
the heart of Toronto, so the link is below, click on that.
You gotta sign up, limited space available so if you don't
get a chance to see it, I'm gonna do my best to vlog it
and I'll probably be doing more of these events
in the future, so don't worry!
But, if you wanna go this weekend (explosions)
you know what to do.
Number three, this point leads into how I actually
ended up blowing it this whole weekend
when I was at, here's my badge.
Proof that I was there, see I'm self-employed.
I thought, I thought that was funny.
I thought it might say YouTuber but no.
Oh, they also said, if you lose your badge
it's $150 to reprint this little card.
'Cause every time you would go into one of the sessions
to learn stuff, they would scan your card and your name
would come up on their iPad, and be like "Accepted",
and I was like, "Wow, that's next-level convention."
Here's the set-up, I'm going to MAX.
Before I go to MAX I think to myself, "I'm gonna do
the whole thing on a GoPro Hero6.
And I'm gonna go buy that Hero6 right now.
And it'll be like an unboxing, it'll be
this super cool video where I film the whole thing
and then talk about it at the end."
And this is where I blew it big time.
And by blowing it like this, in this vlog,
over this whole trip, with regards to filming,
it made me think about the topic in and of itself
and how there's been many times I've blown it
and haven't actually got to show you guys the stuff
that I've shot, and I thought you've probably been
in that position as well, and I wanted to just kind of
reiterate that it happens to everybody.
So, here's the set-up.
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Boom!
GoPro Hero6.
First out of the gate, I do not recommend buying this.
This GoPro camera is lesser quality than the actual
GoPro Hero4 that is out right on the market right now.
It's got a massive noise issue.
My footage looks terrible.
So, even if I didn't blow it filming this weekend,
I can't use any of this 'cause the footage is just garbage.
So this is going in the drawer until they release an update.
I just combed the internet and found a 15 page thread
on GoPro's website talking, different people,
talking and discussing about a known noise issue
that this has where it's just horrible indoors.
Doesn't even look the best outdoors
and it's just freezing on people.
I had to pull the battery out of this within
the first 10 minutes of owning it
just to set the date 'cause it froze.
Then I went to delete a clip and it froze again
and I had to pull the battery out again.
So this froze on me twice within
the first 20 minutes of even owning it.
And then seeing the footage from this past weekend
when I flew to Vegas and came home,
I wouldn't use it anyway, so.
So, there's your full-disclosure on that.
I actually wore it on my head
the entire way to Vegas and back.
Now, if you think it's awkward vlogging with like a massive
1DX or whatever it is that you vlog with, talking in public,
try wearing a GoPro on your head at the airport and doing
your own whip transitions and talking to yourself to try--
You got this thing on your head and you're going
(heavy breathing)
delicious coffee!
So I had this on my head the whole way there,
and I started filming and I was like, "I'm gonna do a whole
first-person vlog, the whole vlog's
gonna be first-person, it's gonna be great."
And then I got to the hotel and I offloaded some
of the footage to check it out, make sure it looked good,
make sure I wasn't like just filming
the wrong thing, I was actually recording.
And I started watching and thought to myself,
"There's no personality in this, like these could be
anybody's hands, this could be anybody at the airport
just wearing a GoPro traveling to Vegas.
It's inherently not that exciting.
So that kind of defeated me.
I closed my laptop and was like, "Well, now what?"
'Cause I didn't even bring my Rode mic,
I didn't even bring my GorillaPod.
Like, I didn't even have the setup
to start vlogging on my main camera.
I thought to myself, "Man, I could've had one or two vlogs
out of this entire trip, but now because this
isn't gonna work, and I don't even like the footage anyway,
and it just doesn't look good."
I got nothin', didn't even bring any backup stuff.
So there goes an entire vlog.
Last week I had a friend over,
James Coffee, the guy behind the Owl.
He came up to hang out and we actually took him wakesurfing
up on the lake but I wasn't feeling good that day.
So I shot a little bit of a vlog, I started to kind of
shoot and it was just really windy and overcast skies
and again I just instantly kind of felt like,
"Ah, this isn't any good, no one's gonna wanna watch this,
this footage sucks, forget it."
Now that's another half-day of footage
that I shot that I didn't end up using.
So we were just riding the boat out here,
and the waves were mammoth!
We were gonna turn around but they found this
little thing here, this little spit,
is what James was saying.
And that's blocking the wind so that
we can, you know, not die.
So we're just gonna, we're gonna surf this little area
back and forth and then go get some food, alright.
- We've been surfing on this lake for like 10 years
and this is the windiest I've ever seen it
and the waviest I've ever seen it.
Normally it's like perfectly calm, and like, "Yeah, Pete
no worries, we're gonna have a great time out on the water."
No, literally every time Pete and I are near water,
it's just, I don't know, something just doesn't wanna work.
There's signs, it's visible that they don't want us here.
- Every time Chris and I are near water it's miserable.
It's my worst fear every time.
Look at that, it's as dark as my ND filter.
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Alright, oh God, it's really cocky to--
- Oh man, I felt the cold when you did that.
- Thanks, thanks for your--
- No problem, man.
- Thanks for bringing me up to--
(laughs)
- Welcome.
Now had I just stuck through it, I could've made this
into a vlog, I could've made it happen.
You're always your own worst critic.
But I thought it was important to kind of point this out
because I've talked to some people about it before,
some fans and some friends, and other vloggers
and YouTubers and stuff like that.
There's so much footage that you guys don't get to see.
There are tons of days where I film an entire tutorial,
I delete the whole thing 'cause I just don't like it.
Or I film an entire vlog and that
entire sequence doesn't make the cut.
Just like two weeks ago when Chris and I
were on those waverunners, that night we actually attached
an LED light to the Phantom 4 Pro and flew it around a field
that night while we rode the Onewheel.
But I just didn't like the footage
so I didn't use that either.
But it just goes to show that you have all of these
blocks of footage that could've been turned into episodes,
but you let your own doubts and self-doubt
get in the way of producing that content.
And this was more of an episode
to show that it happens to me, too.
It happened to me a couple days ago, it happened to me
last week, it happened to me two weeks ago.
That's once a week for the last three weeks I've had to just
discard footage 'cause I didn't either believe in myself,
didn't believe in the footage that I shot, or didn't think I
could come up with anything for it.
Now in the case of the GoPro, it was both.
But I wanted to leave you with that.
If you are ever shooting and you think,
"This sucks, no one's gonna watch this."
Push through it, just film the rest of the day,
keep filming, don't turn the camera off, keep on going.
Head down, finger on record, and get the job done.
You'll be much happier you did it
when you get home and you start editing.
You might even wake up the next day and look back
at that footage and think, "Oh, this isn't nearly as bad
as I thought it was when I was in the field shooting.
I was ready to format that card."
Hell, I've done that, I've deleted all of the footage
and then two weeks later thought, "Ah, you know what would
be great right now, if I had that drone footage."
Which, I deleted; I don't have it, but I wish I did.
Back to Adobe MAX for a second, I had a great time
so thank you so much to the guys at Adobe for having me.
Also it was great getting out there myself and kind of
participating in tutorials that I wasn't teaching.
So it was great to learn some new tips and new tricks.
So you guys will see some of that on
the channel, don't you worry at all.
And yes, I will be doing a video on the difference between
the new Lightroom CC and the Lightroom Classic.
Learned a few tricks, talked to Adobe themselves about it,
so I have some unique insight.
But, thank you guys for watching, hit that like button
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Subscribe if you aren't already
and guys I will see you in the next video.
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That's it.
Hey, fun fact, I actually light this room with
an Aputure light and two gels, look at this, if I take
the gels off the light.
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Look how it changes the color to completely white.
I don't know, I just like the contrast between this light,
which is like tungsten, and then these gels.
This setup man.
This remote controls 'em both.
See ya!