GoPro Tips - 6 ways to take better photos - Kingston indieHACK Ep. 2

Опубликовано 21 апреля 2015, 17:00

Khail and Mark have 6 GoPro Tips that will help you take better photos. These photography tips include some DIY GoPro mounts and features like the GoPro Burst Photo mode. Want more indieHACK? Subscribe to our channel at youtube.com/subscription_cente...

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Transcript:
Yeah. It's going, it's going. Hey everyone, I'm Khail Anonymous and welcome to Kingston's Indie Hack. Here at Indie Hack we like to give you tips to get you started on that creative project you've been waiting to try out. And in this episode, we are gonna teach how to get the best photos from one of my favorite little devices, the GoPro.
Nice. The GoPro is actually a pretty cool device for taking pictures. And with a few simple tricks, you can take some amazing pictures with this little tiny camera. And since we're talking photos, why not bring in a photographer, our old friend, Mark Dimalanta, welcome to the show again, man.
Hey, Khail, good to see you.
So now, the GoPro's mostly known for taking videos, but it can take some pretty cool photos as well, right? Why don't you tell us about that.
Of course, usually with my career, I built it based on shooting with an SLR.
But with the evolution of the GoPro, these things have evolved into highly, highly capable photographic tools. A lot of my work now, it uses the GoPro, it's a very compact and very, very capable tool.
All right, let's see what this thing can do.
All right, let's do it.
This first hack involves creating a do it yourself type of mount so that we can avoid using a tripod. For something that can fit in your pocket, which is a simple velcro strap, a Tread Wheel from any hobby store. These are 20 for 2 bucks, a quarter inch bolt and nut and a washer, these things can strap to anything.
Awesome, what about this guy? This guy looks like it's very effective and quick.
These are simple hardware type clamps. You just pass the quarter inch bolt through here, affix the nut. What it lets you do is you can put this to anything. Like table tops, even a tree branch, a thin tree branch.
Now with the camera here and it's an instant mount, so that you can place yourself within the field of view.
Perfect.
Very easy, and then you take the image by using the time lapse mode of the camera.
So you get it going, your first initial shots are gonna be you setting up.
But once you get into the field of view, the subsequent later shots are the ones that are gonna be the golden shots.
Okay, Mark, what if I want to get some aerial shots?
Okay, don't knock it until you try it. This sounds crazy, but you're gonna build a rig using a foam block.
You're gonna cut out an x structured type rig to hold the GoPro. One tip I want to advise you of, when you're cutting out the outline of the GoPro, cut it a little bit smaller than the GoPro itself, so that it holds nice and snug. But after you cut out the foam block, it starts to look something like this, okay?
All right.
The kind of use that you achieve through aerial photography are unmatchable and it's worth the effort too to create this rig. How silly as it sounds, you're gonna power it with helium inflated balloons.
You look at these shots that we're showing you right now, I mean the proof is in the shots.
Now Mark, I know there's some pretty cool photo features already built into the camera.
Sure, these GoPros now are armed with a burst mode, something like 10 frames per second all the way up to 30 frames per second. And what it lets the photographer do is freeze an image at the most decisive moment.
So what's the coolest thing we can do with that?
A lot of things people are doing now, it's something called a levitation photograph where somebody's elevated in the air. And we freeze them just before that initiation of the jump and just before they start to descend back down onto the ground.
And it looks like they're flying.
Your micro SD card is gonna fill up quick. Well, Kingston was nice enough to lend us this Mobile Light Wireless G2. What you can do is you pop in your micro SD and then you pop in a USB, transfer all the files to your USB, you're good to keep shooting.
Mark, what about some general photography tips from a pro photographer.
Well, the best thing to do with photography is to create images that are outside the box and outside your normal conventional use of the camera. Most people tend to shoot with a standard, normal eye level. The best thing to do is take the camera from different vantage points.
Either ultra low or even high, because it creates a field of view that's not typically seen and it makes it more interesting. Some people like to take the hero selfie. Makes them a little bit more grandiose cuz it's just shooting from a lower angle. It makes them look larger, could be your Facebook.