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Hello everybody, this is Ty Schwartz with
Snap Lens Education and I am here talking

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a little bit today about travel
photography and what kind of things that

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you think about when you're getting ready
to go on a travel.

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So I travel a lot and I'm constantly
before I even pack my bags and put all my

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clothes and everything in there, I will go
through my camera bag and I will say, okay

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so...

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What am I going to be doing on this trip?

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Who am I going to be photographing?

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How am I going to photograph them?

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And then I realized I have so much
equipment.

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I don't want to say I am a equipment hog,
but I have more equipment and then I'm a

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hoarder.

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I don't get rid of stuff because, oh, I
never know when I'm going to use it.

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And so it's very rare that I don't keep
everything.

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I'll put them in boxes.

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I'll put it on shelves.

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If you've ever watched our YouTube video
and some of the videos I've done you see

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this shelves behind me Some of those
cameras are 10 15 years old.

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I found a camera in a box that I used in
1999 It was a film camera.

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It was an old Nikon f5.

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Oh my gosh It just brought back so many
memories and I can't even remember The

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days of film well, I can't remember the
days of film, but I realize how much I did

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not like

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processing film, I didn't like waiting for
film, but at the same time, I dragged my

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feet going into digital photography
because back in 2000, 2001, I had gone on

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a couple of missions and I used a digital
camera and I wasn't able to get the same

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color or the same results because digital
cameras just weren't ready yet.

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But...

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They started to come in I think 2004 2005
I said, you know what?

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I'm gonna break down.

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I bought a Nikon D 100 12 months later
about a D 200 12 months later I bought a D

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300 and then 12 months later I bought a D
300 s and the 300 and 300 s Definitely

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work horses Nikon Bravo on the great work
that they did for those cameras and I

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think the 300 300 s that I had

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think it had almost a million actuation
before I said okay I'm not gonna use you

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anymore.

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I really really love that camera.

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So let's talk about what to take on your
trip.

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So I'm a complete nerd and I will I take a
full frame camera and I'll take one or two

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lenses.

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Now when I was younger I could easily slug
around 40 -50 pounds on my back all day

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long walk around.

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But I realized this last trip to New York
I'm carrying forty five fifty pounds on my

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back and I am dying I want to sit down.

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I want to take a nap.

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I realized that I over equip myself And
and now I'm afraid this is what I'm afraid

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of is under equipment myself is because
what if I get into a situation where I

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want to create And I can't because I don't
have the equipment, but then I realized

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that When I go on travel, I have a set
purpose.

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And I don't need a whole bunch of lenses.

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And that's kind of one of the reasons I
started Snap Lens is I wanted people to

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realize that you don't have to create
images using some of the best equipment,

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the best lights.

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It just, you know what?

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When you go to create images, you're
creating images to tell the story that you

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are experiencing.

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And that is really interesting in that
aspect because when I go now, I said, OK,

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well, for example, I'm getting ready to go
to Europe for 15 days in the end of June.

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And I know I'm going to do portraits.

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So I did break down.

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And I'm thinking maybe I'll take a flash
with me so I can do.

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some Rembrandt -style portraits.

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But then I'm also thinking, I need to
learn how to go back to being a purist

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photojournalist.

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Here's my camera.

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I'm going to use this camera, this lens,
and that's all I'm going to take.

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Well, it's a scary thought as a
photographer to go around and not

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necessarily have all the tools in your
toolbox, but at the same time,

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I'm a realist and realize that not all the
camera gear that you take, you're gonna

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wanna use on a regular basis.

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So I wanna definitely think about how much
weight I wanna carry.

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So I think for this trip to Europe, I'm
gonna take a, well, the hardest thing is

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to find the right travel lens.

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A 70 to 200 is I think too much lens.

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Because if you're trying to get stuff
that's a little bit close then you have

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issues You know you got to back up and I
think this trip I'm going to use the 24

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-70mm and That way I can get Definitely
get a wider angle and a whole bunch of

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different things but at the same time that
70 millimeter Lens will allow me to get

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the compression out

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It's going to be a little bit heavier than
I would like for a camera kit, but I think

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it's going to offer the best versatility
of just taking one lens, one camera, and

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that's it.

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And then I am going to look at how that
does for that trip because I am going to

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go to Greece in August and that's going to
be a, that's going to have some models to

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it and we're going to, and we're
definitely going to have some lights, but.

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If I'm just going to go on a family trip
to Europe, I want to make sure that I'm

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not carrying tons of equipment.

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I want to carry something that's
versatile.

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I'm not switching the lenses every five
minutes.

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And that's important because as my wife
will tell you, I spend way too much time

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taking pictures and working out all the
issues.

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So, um,

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that's something that I think is really
important when you're traveling is you

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have to take into consideration who you're
traveling with.

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Now if I was traveling with a group of
photographers, definitely I gotta have a

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million lenses and flashes and whiz bangs
and but the smart thing about traveling

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with a bunch of photographers is saying,
hey, we should all carry the same

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equipment and you carry this, you carry
this.

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Kind of like when I was in the military
and we had to carry a lot of stuff.

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We kind of distributed the items that we
needed and everybody used.

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So I think that's a pretty interesting
concept.

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But when it comes to just basic
photography, I use an iPhone.

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Sometimes just taking photos with an
iPhone is enough and it's not a lot.

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You can pop it in your pocket.

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The cameras are really good.

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If I know that I'm just going to have
something that's going to be on my...

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uh...

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computer and i'm not really looking to do
stock photography and just want to go have

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a good time i'm gonna take my cell phone
and there's times that i will even take

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out the camera take pictures uh...

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because you know there's there's a a
balance between family time and

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photography time and that's something that
i think uh...

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you know us photographers have to realize
uh...

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and be mindful of other people when they
come and uh...

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take a look yet

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walk in our world for a day or two.

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So 14 days in Europe, definitely I'm going
to take a large full -frame camera and by

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taking a full -frame camera I'm going to
be able to do portraits with the 70

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millimeter.

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I'm going to be able to do landscaping
with that also, but also I'm going to be

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able to go inside and take portraits and
photographs, not portraits, but

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photographs of inside of churches, take
building photography photographs.

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I love going to farmers markets and
photographing different kinds of fruits

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and things like that.

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So I think having that kind of lens and
camera is very important.

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I don't carry a flash very often.

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When I do carry flashes, I think about,
hey, I want to bring a studio flash

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because I want to be able to overpower the
sun.

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But a lot of times to save on space,

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I'll find something white and I'll just
push light into it and I won't worry about

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a flash.

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I'll just adjust my camera and I'll make
the best guess and then I'll just push

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light into it using something white.

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It's as simple as a t -shirt.

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So anyway, so those are my thoughts on
travel photography, why I do some of the

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things that I do and I think it's really
interesting to think about that as we're

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moving forward with our photography
learning and our talks.

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I definitely want to hear your feedback
and your thoughts on what you like to take

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on a trip with you.

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And really, it doesn't matter if you use a
Nikon, a Sony, a Canon, as long as you are

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creating images that create memories for
you and you have those stories.

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So again, I am Ty Schwartz with Snap Lens
and I want to thank you for listening.

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Again, you can check us out on YouTube,
Snap Lens.

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and other items that we're teaching in a
photography course you can always go to

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snaplens .com get more information but
again leave a comment talk about something

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that you'd want to learn about or just
give me suggestions maybe I'm just way off

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base and I need somebody to help calibrate

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my thought process.

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Anyway, you have a great day and I want to
thank you for taking the time to listen.