- Without a doubt, Instagram's one of the most popular
social media platforms out there,
and despite the Insta name to it,
there's several different ways of taking shots
to make your Instagram pictures look amazing.
Here's how.
(upbeat instrumental music)
So to get your ultimate Instagram posts,
what you're firstly going to need is a decent camera.
Now of course these days,
most people's camera is on their mobile phone.
There's nothing wrong with that.
They take an excellent photo.
With a bit of tweaking, you can get some really,
really good results, so we're going to take a look at those
in a minute and show you some really useful apps
and hidden locked features that you might not know about.
Next up, of course, is the mighty GoPro.
So it's just an onboard video camera, right?
Well not so.
You can actually take some amazing still photos with this,
and because of the fish eye lens on them,
it captures a really wide angle of view,
so it gives a very unique perspective
and can actually capture some pretty dramatic results.
Again, we're going to have a look at that in a minute.
Next up is some sort of compact camera.
So most people have got a holiday snaps camera,
whether it's a little Panasonic or Sony,
something like that, or maybe you've got
a Micro Four Thirds, or some sort of compact camera
with interchangeable lenses like this little Fuji here.
Now these, you can get some really professional results with
because they're a lot more capable
and they've got a lot more manual features,
so with just a single lens,
we're going to show you how to get the best
out of your little compact camera.
And finally, the mighty DSLR,
undisputed king of taking photos out on a mountain bike,
but it can be quite complicated bits of kit,
so even the basic level DSLRs,
we're talking about entry level price points here,
you can get some really, really good results
with just a few key settings,
so we're going to take you through those as well.
- Alright, this, my friends, is a mobile phone
that you carry around in your pocket or your backpack
for safety, or in the need of calling someone
or a friend if you're lost,
but that little thing right there is a camera.
It's a great way for capturing images of you
or your buddies out there on the trail.
The great thing about a mobile phone
is that you can download a number of applications
for your phone for taking certain photos
or to doctor the photo to make it look even better,
to enhance it, but there's a number of apps out there,
and there's two that I really do use a lot,
and that is Snapseed and Lightroom.
With Lightroom, that can open a lot of hidden features
that the mobile phone camera has to offer
that you can't access through the normal phone app.
Also, within Lightroom, you can adjust your shutter speed
and your ISO.
By ISO, what I mean is it gives you a digital gain
within the phone, but I could go on so much about
all of those settings.
They are just a few great apps for you to use
and download to your mobile phones,
so that's a good way of taking a photo,
but you got one of these little fellas,
the GoPro, or an action camera,
these are super wide.
There's a lot of great ways to take photos
using one of these sports cameras.
Now you can shoot a number of settings,
which I'll go through, but there's a few settings
that I like to use within the GoPro
to capture my perfect action shot,
well, to be honest, a few shots really.
By using time lapse mode at 0.5 seconds,
so that means that every 0.5 seconds,
a photo's being taken,
so just before you're just about to drop into the trail,
select the right setting, hit record,
drop in, let it do its thing,
get to the end, press stop,
and then it comes up with like a hundred photos
and you can choose from a hundred of them,
so it doesn't matter where you've been on a trail,
if you've done a cool shape and you manage to capture it,
you got a perfect shot,
but if you have a buddy with you,
these things come with a little remote control,
or you can use your mobile phone by using the app,
is you get your buddy to put this into burst mode
and click a button, and on a certain section of trail
by pressing the burst mode,
it can capture you riding through a bit of trail.
That's how I got this photo of me at Nine Nights,
so that brings me onto all of these mounts
that you can mount to yourself,
mount to your bike,
putting this action camera in places
that no other camera can go to capture a rad photo.
My favourite is the unicorn mount,
and that's basically taping a huge pole to my head,
sticking a GoPro out front,
capturing my person, or me doing some action,
doing some tricks, doing whatever,
hence why I got this rad shot at Nine Nights.
- So one of the coolest shots you can have
on your Instagram page is a pan shot,
because they're such an effective way
of capturing movement on a bike.
They're relatively easy to get
with a few basic settings,
and just a bit of practise and trial and error.
As for actual settings, you want anything
down from 1/100 to about 1/30, depending on stuff.
For this shot, I've got my 23 mil lens,
which pretty much lives on my compact camera here,
and I'm going to shoot this at about 1/60,
and then this should get a really nice shot of Blake.
So I'm going to shoot this on a high speed feature,
like the burst feature,
because it's going to maximise my chances
of getting a really nice, sharp shot.
I may need to get Blake somewhere here
roughly in front of me,
so get down nice and low,
and when he comes into shot,
going to hold to half focus,
and let it rip, and there should be a good shot in there.
Okay.
Pretty good.
I reckon I could go for a slower shot speed,
but nice shot of Blake here.
The background's blurry and he looks pretty,
that's pretty pin sharp, you know.
Really simple for such a basic section of trail.
Great result for Instagram, that.
So hopefully our Instagram video's been helpful for you
and you're going to start making
some amazing Instagram videos.
There's a couple more coming in the series,
so really exciting stuff.
Next time we're going to be looking at making
the ultimate selfie, and following that one,
I'm sure you're all going to be keen on
how to get your bike in the bike filter.
In the meantime, click down here
if you want to see Blake's video
on how to make an epic video all by yourself
and edit it, the whole lot,
and if you want to see Martin's video from Whistler,
where a lot of that stuff Martin self shot,
click right down here.
Don't forget that all of these Instagram posts
and all the stuff we've been making in this video,
you'll be able to see it on the GMBN Instagram account,
just down there.
And of course, as always, click on the globe to subscribe.
Brand new content coming straight to you every single day,
and if this video's been good for you,
give us a thumbs up.