Platypod, platypod do you like the platypod?
Would you like it hare or there would you like it anywhere? Would you like it in a house?
Would you like it with a mouse? Would you like it in a box. Would you like it with some lox?
Would you like it high or low would you like it on the go?
Would you use it on a car trying to try it you'll go far you can use it. You will see it's as easy as
1-2-3 the best tripod is always the one that you have with you
Hi, this is JP Morgan filmmaking and stills are about getting unique images, images that no one else gets. Most people stand
At this height and that's the image they get today
We're going to talk about unique
angles with a device the plateau pod that allows us to get our camera in places that tripods can't always get to and
It gives us the ability to carry it with us wherever we go
Now do I hate tripods know I love tripods I use them every single day
But there's a platter pod help me get interesting and unique angles. Yes, it does and let's take a look at someone
one of the reasons that I love the plateau pod is because they've got a couple of different sizes and it's just really easy to
Keep it with me. I've got the Platypus Mac. So it's better for larger cameras
We use the c200 on this all the time. Then you got the platypus ultra, which is better for smaller cameras
You can put a plate on this either one of these and slide it on the camera
So you're shooting on your tripod you say okay?
I want to get a little angle you yank it off and you throw it on the ground and you've got an immediate access to?
a low point you don't even have to reconstruct it because it's on
Your tripod on the plate on the tripod and it's ready to go to work
Put it on your backpack carrot when you're out camping backpacking
Put it on your bag when you're gonna be walking around the street and shooting if you're gonna pull it out and shoot with it
Just easy access easy to have in your camera bag easy to have with you when you're going around the best tripods always the one
You have with you the platter pot is an excellent B camera platform
It makes you put your camera in unique places. You can put your camera on the floor give you a up
look
You can put it on a shelf to be able to look past
Things and to see into your your a scene if you put on a chair, you can screw it to the ceiling
I shot them into the door at the top of a door. So it's just a matter
It makes get that camera and allows you to get that camera into places that you wouldn't put it in normally light to carry
interesting angles great be camera device
So in a museum and put it on the stanchion or replace a little platform here or a little spot there
Can set your camera up and take those long
exposures you'd like to get in a museum that a low ISO to allow you to get the shot that you really want because it's
Not a tripod. It's a platy pod
Sometimes tripods can't get rolling up. The pilot pod gets you just at much lower
So you get that super low angle looking out to make that hero shot
Break four down into the dirt if you're looking into a landscape scene see things in the foreground
It's scraping being on set when you want that low angle to see an actor walking into the scene
I actually have a low profile thing by made by edelkrone that gets that camera
Right down as low as you can get so you drive over it with a car
Just a simple way to get your camera down on the floor
If you're in a crowded place want to slide your tripod in there, sometimes very difficult
We were shooting in Bryce just a couple of weeks ago. There's no room
There was like 30 people trying to get a shot riding this one little spot
We wanted to see down the river
Wouldn't any do he just set the penny pot on a square column that held up the bridge fence that no one could get into
That area because it's a square you kick your tripod up there
He set the Platypus Olivet the top was metal and a little uneven
one screw leveled out the camera and he's looking right down the river the spot that everyone wanted to be and
We got to watch the Sun come up hit that shot
For those super low shots, so you want to get right down on the water
the plateau pod is perfect because you can get the putter putt actually right in the water if you want to and you get a
Camera right there super low on the water or on the rocks
Next to the water give you that super low angle and that rock and water in the foreground
Great way to get your camera down low when you're outside shooting nature and landscape photography
It's a great device for tabletop product photography because you can get your camera right on the table
Right up next to the subject matter that you're shooting when you're using a tripod you hit that point where you got to get over
Got a sling an arm over and that's sometimes very difficult to work with whereas you drop this onto the table
You can look at the back of it and still do your video or your still shot and get right and close right an intimate?
With the product of the things you're shooting makes it very easy to do product photography right in the middle of of the product
We use a platter pot before on a table. We use a card Alenia to lock it down
So it's not going anywhere and then we use that C pan the small C pan arm on that to give us that little sweep
Around to look at the things that we're at the product that's on the table
That is a fabulous look because I can get that little arc looking around that parallax move around the subject matter
so it goes a little arch around keeps the second runner in the middle all the time and
The title pod gives me a base to support that little bout the sea pan arm on
Cardellini locks it to the table. I'm ready to go. One of my favorite things to do with it is get it overhead
Shoot it into the roof. You just just got to places where screws shoot it right into the ceiling
We just did this shoot that we were doing over at a barn had an old rusty board the top boards get rusty
Well, it's got an old warped board the top when you shot a couple screws screws in it now
I've got an overhead camera angle. That was excellent
So it's just easy to be able to to get it up there and shoot a couple screws and look down if we do it
Inside on our set on the side lens. We shoot it into the 2x4 overhead, and we've got a camera suspended from overhead
So it's a great way to stabilize your camera and be able to see from overhead
This is one that I never
Really thought about but we've started to use and all of a sudden it's opened up a huge world for me
Now that's strapping it to a tree the first time I said strapping it to a tree
I mean how many times are gonna strap this thing to a tree?
You know
I mean it just it seems so obscure to me
But what's happened is we have kind of taken on that thought and we start to strap it to things in the scene
We just wrapped it to a fence
Over the Krell's where the horse training in the facility it we shot out a couple of days ago
So it's right there on the fence. It's not on the side of the fence that it's right there
Just looking straight down the fence
It allows you to strap it to things to get it into places that normally you wouldn't be able to get your camera
So strapping it to things not just trees
telephone poles
Parking meters a fence any service we can get a strap around tighten up gives you the ability to get a shot
But normally you would never get it's a very interesting concept to strap it to things to get those really unique angles it comes with
a strap
So you can strap it around things with a double clip on it. So you pull it tight
You can secure your camera and can shoot video or stills and just go to town
Did an entire lesson on this topic that is getting it into tight places
Into a microwave into a fridge into I mean, I love shooting in really those interesting places looking out
So it's the Mel box looking out its the microwave looking out. It's the fridge looking out
I'd love to get one or two of those shots just about every time we do a commercial every time we do and it kind
Of pieces. I want it to look interesting. I want the covers to open. I've got a camera sitting there
This makes it super faster to get my camera into place
Position it get my shot and go on and that's the thing that I want
I want speed and I'd be able to move fast pull my camera off the tripod. It's got the plighted pot it
Shove it on to the into the microwave
Open it up. Take my shot close it pull the camera out back on the tripod and off we go
so there you have it unique angles of the plant pot look for ways to use it why I use it is the
First point I made in the lesson and that is because it makes me put the camera in
places that I normally wouldn't put it and
That I think is a great way to make you get interesting shots and interesting angles and then make your video and your stills even
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