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Gear for Motion

Lesson 7 from: The Outdoor Enthusiast's Guide to Photography & Motion

Ian Shive

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Lesson Info

7. Gear for Motion

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Bootcamp Introduction

06:35
2

Storytelling with Stills and Motion Overview

14:35
3

Elements of a Well-told Story

22:12
4

Storytelling in Motion

34:19
5

Choosing the Best Gear for Your Outdoor Project

16:24
6

Gear for Drones

02:53
7

Gear for Motion

05:23
8

Inside Ian's Gear Bag

20:07
9

General Advice for Preparation

14:19
10

Virtual Scouting

03:54
11

Weather

10:17
12

Permits and Permission

03:09
13

Model and Property Releases

04:43
14

Health and Fitness

03:04
15

Checklist

03:20
16

Location Scouting Overview

15:18
17

Location Scouting in the North Cascades

15:24
18

Drone Introduction

14:59
19

Drone Safety

03:26
20

What Kind of Drone Should I Buy?

02:58
21

FAA Part 107 Test: How to Prepare

06:18
22

Telling a Story With a Drone

06:15
23

Drone Camera, Lenses and Movements

04:34
24

Selling Drone Footage

02:39
25

Why Does a Photographer Need Motion?

10:59
26

Establish the End User

06:35
27

Identify Your Audience

03:12
28

Build a Production Plan

05:28
29

Create the Story Structure

04:26
30

The Shooting Script

07:08
31

Production Quality

08:37
32

Composition for Stills

08:04
33

Composition for Stills: Landscape

08:15
34

Composition for Stills: Telephoto Lens

14:48
35

Composition for Stills: Macro Lens

07:50
36

Techniques for Capturing Motion in the Field

25:15
37

Lenses and Filters for Outdoor Photography

26:20
38

Capturing Landscapes - Part 1

28:12
39

Capturing Landscapes - Part 2

23:36
40

Capturing Movement in Stills

32:17
41

Shooting Water, Sky and Panorama

29:40
42

Understanding Stock

20:45
43

Editorial vs Commerical

03:57
44

Pricing Stock

05:40
45

Producing Stock

14:49
46

Shooting for Social Media vs Stock

11:37
47

Choosing an Agency

08:58
48

Assignments and Capturing Stock

13:49
49

Stock Photography Market

05:28
50

Create A Style Guide

05:30
51

Stock Shoot Analysis

21:29
52

Workflow for Selecting Final Stills

27:43
53

Initial Editing in Adobe Bridge

21:02
54

Reviewing and Selecting Motion Footage

11:02
55

Keeping Track of Your Story Ideas

22:40
56

Script and Story Structure Evolution

04:34
57

Editing to the Content

05:00
58

Music as a Character

05:41
59

Business Diversification

07:07
60

Business Strategy

04:57
61

Pillars of Revenue

17:09
62

Branding

06:36
63

Partnerships and Brand Strategy

05:12
64

Galleries and Fine Art

03:11
65

Budgeting

05:21
66

The Future of Photography

26:12
67

Q&A And Critique

1:09:39

Lesson Info

Gear for Motion

year includes things that mentioned like sleeping bags, diving if you're doing underwater lenses, rain jackets, the therm, arrests, filters, snow shoes, all that kind of fun stuff. One thing I want to mention, you know, an assignment versus personal work is the difference between risk and no, really, not a whole lot of risk. I don't care if I mess up. I'm on assignment. I'm being paid to go in. There is my reputation. They're expecting me to come back with something. You have to be as diligent and as methodical as possible. And I will say not gonna would. To this day, I have never come back without an assignment. I've always had 100% success rate, and my clients know that I always come back with a bank. I've never lost our footage and I'm superstitious, as you can tell. But you know, it's very important to do that. This is what the gear system sort of looks like. This is my pre planning phase. I'm a big advocate of laying everything out. You can see it all. You know what? You have ever...

y little wire. I'll lay out individually. The wires go through my checklist in my hand and make sure that I have all the pieces for motion. I've got this giant case I get all my tripods and light stands in. This is my underwater gear of maestros in my housing, you know? And the other thing is, always use the same cases for everything and everything has its place when it has its place. If something's missing, you know exactly what it is. If something is not in this hole here, I know that that's that stroke. If something's in, this backpack is not in the top left corner. I know exactly what lens it's gonna bay. Everything has a place, and that's because you have Eventually you may have so much stuff, you might even have that much. But if you need to figure out like, oh, do I have anything to do? A quick mental check If there is one of the, uh, spots empty, you know you've left something behind, so it's a good it's a good habit to have for sure. Um, and it's it's helped me pretty much for many years in the field. So, like I know this is audio. I know this is drone to I know that this is my, ah, my red camera and all the other peripheral elements for it. But here on the floor and making sure I have everything testing it, looking at the lenses. This is my field red case. So this is the big one when I bring, like, the kitchen sink. This is when I have very limited room and I'm going someplace. And you see the batteries, reflectors, etcetera. This is not part of it just keeps you cool. You have other cases and things everywhere. Not all of them going to the field with me. This is a pretty typical field set up for me. You'll notice else of a scale in there. And that's how I weigh my gear to figure out costs. Make sure my cases aren't going over certain amounts. And then, of course, for remote projects. A lot of times, the little they'll need to know your final weight before long before you ever set sail for the trip. So, uh, usually, how I did. Of course. I just hold the case, stand on it, and then subtract my weight. This is what I bring Typically camera, body sort of lenses My motion lens set is exclusively Zeiss. I've is ice compact primes. See twos have a 15 mil 25 and 85 1 35 It's a beautiful set of cinema lenses, honestly shoot huge difference. I've noticed I've been very, very happy with those lots of lithium ion batteries. Like I said, I can fill this whole bag pretty much with, Um, with exception of my hard drives. I should actually point out I have another case just like this. I do have a hard drive that goes in a large pelican as well, but that's like the 72 Terabyte Raid Array. And I'll bring one or two of those on a project if we're shooting motion because you might go through 150 terabytes 120 terabytes on a project, Um, fluid heads a glide rail. All that stuff audio stands for shock on all that will go in here for a field shoot. I might have an led light panel on reflectors. It really just depends on the situation. Matt box flags, rain cover, etcetera and on and, of course, mentioned the audio. So that's just a quick list of what I've got gear for motion. Ah, this is I'm not gonna get into this because this is a whole nother thing. But I just want to give you a little taste of sort of set up. This is our editor, Ian Malin. AC. Um, he's clearly not thrilled with me walking on the office taking photos. You'll see. I've got more cases over here. More stuff. It's all in this list that I showed you, but essentially, we've got, ah, client monitor so that we can get a sense of water. Stuff looks large because when you're shooting four K and six k, these smile smaller monitors are not great indications of sharpness, grain and other things that you might be looking for us to have a client monitor or a large review monitor. We have a box. It's a 40 core PC. 40 cores thing is a beast. This is basically almost the same system that's used to fly unmanned drone missions for the military. 40 cores liquid cooled. It's built using reinforced steel casings. Military grade 256 gigabytes of RAM with doing video M GP use, and then we have one more in video I think I am 5000 GPU, which is just for powering or two monitors in the TV large wakame, which isn't in the shot. These Air Duel four K's Bose audio system, which is really just for a view. We do all of our audio at a house right now at a mixed house and then lots of other various software, mostly working on Abbott. And you probably need the editor to depending, especially if you're working with this kind of stuff, so were able to process and edit in riel four K Ah, and higher with this system, that's important to us for quality and sharpness, especially when things are gonna get blown up gigantic. You don't need this, but I just wanted to get a sense of sort of what the situation looks like in general.

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monica4
 

Ian was an amazing instructor.; very fun, enthusiastic, encouraging, and comprehensive. I hope to be able to return as an audience member for another of his classes. It is a privilege and a gift to have access via Creative Live to such a wealth of expertise. Thank you!

Cindee Still
 

Ian Shive is a dynamic speaker with a wealth of knowledge he is willing to share. He has had a magical path that led to his success. He touches on so many aspects of making, selling and creating images as well as how to market them and make an income from your work. It is so much fun to be part of the studio audience. The Creative Live staff are always so warm and friendly and they feed you like your on a cruise ship! Wonderful experience.

Cindy
 

What a great class this has been. Thank you Ian Shive and Creative Live! Recently retired, I have set out to learn everything I can about photography and pursue this passion to capture the beauty in the outdoors. Creative Live has served as an amazing educational platform to help me learn everything from how to use my camera, the fundamental technicals, and learn about software and tools. This class brought it all together. At the end of this class my approach to photography and my images are different. Ian shares so much valuable knowledge that will change the way you go about taking a picture; from scouting a location, to thinking through the story and adding elements to an image to evoke an emotional response. My personal growth has been significant and I have changed to the way I approach creating an image from an Outdoor Landscape to an Outdoor Experience. Loved every minute of it, sad the class is over.

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