 Cool. All right, everybody if anybody's in here weird. I'm getting some stuff cleaned up at the end On the back end here. I apologize rookie at this You're doing better than I would I would not know what to do Let's see where that link is All right, there's Turn my point down All right. Hey, Samuel. Okay. We got Samuel with us Cool on buddy Says we got six watching. Hey, if everybody can do me a favor and you guys can just Just say hey, you're here or whatever so I can kind of get make sure this thing is running, right? Like I said, this is the first time we've done this streamed live So I'm gonna have a few a little issues trying to deal with both ends of this, but Let's give it a second more and we'll start rolling here All right, there we go. There's Ryan black and Michael Thank you for joining us. Hey guys. Hey, John hanging with John's here. He's got a YouTube channel friend of mine Hey, John Let me go to this Let a few more people get in here guys and then we'll start get going. This is Megan Lupian if you guys and never I know I've talked about her But I didn't pronounce her last name last time because I was afraid I was gonna say it wrong So you did good just fine Okay Let me jump Okay If anybody else is in here go ahead and shoot a comment. There we go. There's file assassins also a friend of mine Got a channel waterfowl channel. There's a lot of reviews and the cutting videos also himself Hey, we are just about to get rolling guys promise Get a few more things sit up We'll introduce Megan to you guys Hey, let me anybody Go ahead and say in the comments. Let me know how the quality is. I know it's not gonna be the best Is it glitching really bad or can you guys see? Okay? Somebody others. Okay. It's saying there's 11 viewers Yeah, that's good This is a pretty good turnout honestly. We just barely having started yet. So thank you guys for joining. Yes. Thank you All right Well, I Think we can get going out. There's anything else. I need to check and Okay, Ryan black said it's not bad file assassin says a little blurry, but not bad We test this the other day guys and would to do it high quality. It was kind of glitching a little bit So We'll just stick with this. I guess if it's not too bad for you guys. How about Our volume as she sound can you guys hear her? Okay, and I know it's a little bit delay Megan too It's gonna be just a little bit of delay Yeah, and do you have it pulled up on your on your phone where you can see the questions and the live chat? I do. Okay All right, I guess they can hear you. Okay, sweet. All right, then let us Get right into this Okay So thank you guys for having a little bit of patience with us We want to have everything obviously very smooth, but on a live stream It's there's no editing. You just got to go straight into how it is. So thank you guys for joining us It's actually a pretty good turnout for just starting the the Livestream so thank you for joining us today. I want to say thank you to Megan for being with us and coming on here live I'm taking time out of her day for a week ago We just spoke on through Instagram for the first time and already we're Livestream a week later. So that was pretty cool that yeah, we're willing to come on there that quick for us So I appreciate that So, thank you for having me. We want to go right into Megan go ahead And if you can tell us about yourself and what's going on your life and what you do for a living and all that good stuff So I'm a wedding photographer slash outdoor photographer I have been in the industry for the past 10 years and I Decided I picked up my first camera and immediately fell in love with it And then I decided to take my business full-time about eight years ago So the benefits of that is I get to kind of make my own schedule and my fiance Chase He works at a hunting outfitter in Kansas. So I get to be pretty selfish and go out there So I spend about three months of my time for waterfowl season out there So that's a lot of fun. I take my camera and help them and just high and have a blast Definitely a lot of fun. That's awesome And you guys when so you just do you guys have early till season? Do you guys do that or is it just start kind of when everybody else's does normally they start booking about? November they don't really do a lot of early till hunts. They're so busy Yeah for deer and stuff When does that season start? I know that's coming up. I know they have youth clients coming in And like I want to say it's mid-September. They have youth coming in then muzzle loader Yeah, they've definitely been out there busting their butts working really hard. Yeah, that's awesome Okay, what? So anything else you want to say to what's going on or anything like that. I don't want to miss anything No, that's pretty much it. I Love I started out kind of as a landscape photographer then switched more into portrait work So with now doing my hunting and outdoor stuff It's fun just to be creative and kind of get to do a lot of cool stuff And it's interesting to see your work get featured by some people and all of that and it's definitely it's cool And very humbling. That's awesome Okay, so let's I guess let's jump right into questions. Is that okay? Yeah, absolutely Okay One of the things is my biggest question. I think we were gonna hope I got I got the different list I think we were gonna start out with ISO and and all that stuff, right first. Yeah, I'm the three What do you call that the three bigos pretty much? It's yeah There's so much that goes into making a properly exposed picture and like I always look at your ISO your shutter speed in your aperture It's kind of like a pulley system because you need all three and a lot of people have a really hard time with that because you get your camera and you want to go take awesome pictures and And So you want to take all these cool awesome pictures really? Okay, where do I start? So typically a lot of people kind of put their camera on auto But when you decide that you want to take that initial step and start shooting manual That's just where you kind of need to know like your ISO your shutter your aperture and Once it's confusing at first and definitely takes a lot of practice, but once you get the hang of it It's super easy. So like for example, your ISO is the controls how sensitive the camera is sensor is to light And that can arrange anywhere from like say you're shooting at 2 p.m. On a super sunny day no clouds and you'd have a super small ISO like a hundred and then say you're shooting Sunset and it's very dark. No light. What you would want to have a really high ISO And they both have their vanishes and disadvantages. I Personally when you're shooting at a higher ISO, I typically should a higher higher ISO for my style But that come kind of comes with grain So like if you're shooting and sometimes cameras can handle that and then so the next thing is aperture Which also kind of referred to as f-stop and that is how much light is reaching this image sensor So for example, like you see 1.2 f-stop that's super wide open And that's allowing a ton of light to reach the image sensor And that can be kind of confusing because you would think like it wouldn't be that way But then if you're shooting like a pile pick and say you have eight guys and a ton of birds and you need a super You need a lot of them and obviously need need them in focus. You want to have a huge f-stop. So like f-stop eight essentially But like I said your eyes and your aperture kind of all work together And then shutter speed which I think is the hardest thing for a lot of people to kind of grasp I know me personally had a really hard time with this and even I still do sometimes, but it's all just practice But that is pretty much how long it takes for your your camera takes to spend taking a photo It's a length of time your camera shutter is open exposing the camera sensor So it's kind of like the way I like to look at is like your eye like you blinking essentially Because the longer your eyes open the more light you're reaching look like and then blinking or whatever But yeah, they all play into each other in order have a properly exposed picture. That's They all work hand-in-hand Okay, so like on on the the last one that you mentioned which was aperture, right? How fast was an aperture? Shutter speed shutter speed. I'm sorry So like say an action camera someone that's taking pictures of like an athlete running That's when you hear that click click click super fast, right? It's opening closing really quick. Yep You have a super fast shutter speed. Okay, and then like the slow one like maybe when people are taking pictures of Like a starting night or something, right? Yeah, one time. Yeah, like a long exposure You can send them like 30 seconds and just super drawn out. That's great. And you also I would assume you need a How would you call to Stabilize it Okay, this is my that's the hard part and I know that's the part that I was Messing with both all three of those trying to get the right picture or stuff because I'm forcing myself to stay on manual Like you were talking about but my biggest thing I have only tried it a few times and I know this is gonna have some carry a lot of carry over to us video and cuz a few of the people in here have channels And I know we're this year. We're trying to video Birds and water fountain stuff like that the biggest thing for me is What is the best settings for flying birds like, you know When they're coming in and also you got your track and my thing was always trying to get them in focus Like how do you set that up on a camera like that that can go on manual mode? So I always look it depends as far as like your ISO. I always start with my ISO and then my Aputure I'd probably as far as birds and play I do over 2.0 Sometimes even bigger and then you always want to have over 1200th of a second for shutter. I wouldn't yeah, I wouldn't go underneath that whatsoever So one Slash 1200. Yes a second. Okay. Mm-hmm. And what was it? What'd you say before that? You said was that the f stop You were talking about yeah, I would I always do over 2.0 Okay, gotcha. You don't want you don't want to worry as much about the blur in the background I mean, I you do want that right? I do want that but it's just a little bit more in focus It gives you kind of more room as far as say if you shooting wide open like 1.2 It's really ease. It's a lot easier for you to miss focus. Oh, gotcha. Okay and even to essentially I kind of try to go over 2.0 for birds in flight just because You I it's so they're so it's so easy to mess that up. You you want to give yourself kind of room Not soon. Okay Now on that focusing You're using automatic or do you use manual focus to get the get that burden focused or you messing with the I don't even know What's called those little blocks? Like you're talking about that before So I use automatic focus Which is on your lens and then I also use back button focus and I normally try to keep my focal point directly in the center I know with my camera you can look through and it has all these focal points And then I could just use a button and then as far as another thing when you're trying to move Catch something in motion using back button focus is really easy in that way. You can kind of just follow along with it What's which button is that I'm trying to think? So I know for me I have my camera right here. This is a Canon mark 3. It is this button right here The AF oh on the AF So you're tapping that as the birds coming in Hold it down to you. Yeah I yes And then because you know you can hold the button on your camera right here Yes, halfway to focus the back is just easier for me Me personally it's easier for me to just kind of follow along with it And you just hold you just hold it down or do you just happen it as you're getting ready to shoot both? It depends how quick it's going Okay, so would you now say you're holding it down and it's what you want Do you still hold it down and hit the take like snap the picture at the same time or do you release? Yeah, you're like holding it down and taking at the same time It's kind of confusing it definitely takes a lot of practice to get the hang of it There's a lot of like kind of motions at once Yeah, but that totally makes sense. No, I didn't I Shows that's why we're having this Street because I've never really honestly have never even read or seen that anywhere that that's like a tip almost They're not saying or something and another thing that can be really helpful for people who are trying to get into photography And they don't really know where to start When I had first started on your camera, you have on your dial you have different modes So manual automatic TV AVP or whatever. I would set mine to the P which is our priority Setting so all you do is you have to plug in your ISO And that's a great way because technically like if you're shooting on auto your camera picks your settings for you But this way on priority You're only setting your ISO and then your camera is kind of doing everything else for you And it allows you to see like where your settings should be Okay, so that's super helpful as far as trying to get in the hang of things instead of driving diving right into manual Okay, that'd be my advice for people who are trying to kind of Learn how to shoot manual as well and all that stuff. Now, would you still? Would you still be holding that auto focus or that button on the back while you're doing that? Okay, I'm gonna do everything for you, but at least it gives you a little bit of a help Yeah, because that stuff's changing all the time right like all that stuff is shifting or needs to be It's just the pin on your level of expertise. I guess on yeah, I feel like cameras stuff. It's always changing Okay, all right guys, I did want to mention real quick stay with us We're gonna have a Q&A session here at the end after making goes over this with us And so if you guys want you can just hope you can put the questions down Now or you can just hold off till the end if you guys have any questions you want to ask and then we'll just We'll start going through it here at the end, but we'll continue on and keep going over the questions So far. I've already actually learned a bunch That's been driving us. I'm gonna have to go out and practice that now. So what do you call that that a of on? What is that? What's it a back button focusing back button focusing? Okay? Yeah, it really I mean it's so much you just have to practice. That's all it is. It's just practice practice practice I can't stress that enough Okay. Yeah, that's the truth. That's one thing too I think would help us is and me myself if I always just kept my camera and my vehicle with me Like oh everywhere I had because there's so many times I've seen stuff I would like to take a picture of and probably would have been good opportunity for me to learn something But they have with me or something. So yeah, I'm sure that goes with you everywhere Yeah, for the most part. There's times where I Don't take it with me because it feels like work essentially But I've gotten better about carrying it with me because same situation. I'm like, oh that light looks so pretty I should have my camera to take that picture and stuff like that Yeah, so I don't know I think if we're gonna get into because I want to skip it, but I Think we got on her somewhere Or maybe we were just gonna talk. Okay. I guess that was the next question So the next question I had was the dark or the washed out which is the isometer that I don't know if you guys have seen it that are watching or you or I'm speaking gibberish to you right now, but on the bottom right at least of mine because I have a can on eos 70d and Megan has they're very nice the mark. You have the mark three or four and the mark three not the mark four yet Okay, yeah, she's working on getting that one right. I just want the mark three because that one looks pretty sweet, too But on the bottom right it if you go and man, which I think it's in auto mode, too But my question to her was is on the bottom right when you're trying to get the ISO right in other words If you guys have and I'll try to put that as simple as I can If you ever seen a picture that's super white like if you look at yourself You're fine, but in the whole background. It's like white if you're outside because it's so washed out. I My question here was as far as the setting do you like it? Where do you like that? Do you like that to be in the center where it's supposedly saying zero or do you like it to lean a little bit to the overexposed side So me personally I shoot a little bit more overexposed just because of my style if you look at my pictures I'm they're pretty vibrant Another fun fact, I don't like to really shoot when it's overcast or cloudy outside. I prefer Sun Fun fact, but going back to the meter. I always shoot about one or two notches Over-exposed in the way you do that is your shutter speed So essentially the quicker the shutter speed the darker the image and the and then the Slower is the right or the don't mess with ISO then don't mess now Yeah, I mean you can it all they all play it together. So for example, like if you're shooting at Seven o'clock sunset golden hour It all depends on your ISO typically I kind of shoot at a higher ISO just because I like to kind of lift those shadows So say I'm shooting at like 1200 ISO and then just a quicker shutter speed they all play into each other But no that's to for your meter you use that like the little dial on your camera to go back and forth And that's your shutter. That's adjusting Okay, does that make you totally make sense So you because I was always more paranoid about the ISO But once you have it set where you want you're pretty much staying there for the most part Yeah, the only thing that really changes is my shutter and that just depends if the lights moving or light If the light is shifting or if I want to up my aperture But I try not to really mess with my ISO ISO too much unless the lights lights moving or it's getting darker or brighter out Which at sunset I guess it would be right like that's the time when you're kind of a hard to deal with that stuff or no It's not too bad. Um, no It can be because it can be kind of bad because it is darker And so you kind of need a higher ISO So when you have a higher ISO sometimes cameras can't handle that if you don't have Like the greatest camera sometimes a higher ISO It's very it can be very shaky if your shutter speeds not where it should be so there could be camera blur as well as grain Which as far as like quality the picture just doesn't look the greatest and that's that's the thing because I was you know This is just people saying it but they all see every scenario is different But they're like, oh you never want to go over 800 ISO because then you're getting washed out And I'm like and that kind of limits you a lot It all depends I think I'm like what gear you have because I personally I shoot a lot higher ISO than a lot of people would Normally shoot at just for my style and the way I edit and the way I shoot But then again, there's a lot of people who won't go over 800 ISO because it does it can create grain But I mean there's been situations where I've shot at four or five thousand ISO. Oh, wow And you have no grain issues. I a little bit, but it's not It's not anything that's awful like grain I'm not gonna sit there and blow those pictures up to where they're massive and huge because you'd be able to see that But I don't know too. I feel like grain because sometimes that kind of has that silmy look and it's kind of coming back Into style a little bit. So sometimes grain isn't a bad thing It can kind of help you be creative Yeah, because it almost feels really limited. It's kind of like, oh, no, you know I'm sitting there worrying about that all the time and then it's like obviously it's not as Detrimental to the shot as it sometimes they may I mean I understand why they're saying that because I can't stand You zoom in a picture. It's just a bunch of blocks. Yeah, I see what you're saying And to you have to really see if your gear can handle it though Great, I'm saying that because mine mine's pretty good on low light as far as ISO and stuff But sometimes cameras like a cannon rebel, which is a kind of a smaller lower grade Camera can't really handle that as good as like the cannon mark 3 I'm sure as the quality moves up. That's how everything's gonna move up together, right? Yeah, so, okay Well, you answered that question perfectly. Thank you. All right, so I Must have skipped something because we had I thought we had kind of talked about focusing but Manual versus auto. Do we have anything to go over or did we kind of already cover that already? I mean a little bit. I like I said earlier. I shoot Auto because manual I'm just not quick enough on my eyesight set the greatest So it's harder for me to see as far as like what's moving and stuff And then to the backbot back button focus But another tip that can be really helpful for you as far as shooting stuff That's in motion is to set your focusing mode to Al servo That's cannon. I want to say like a Nikon camera. I think that mode. I Think that mode is oh, I can't remember. I know though in Nikon. It's not called Al servo Al servo as in like L as in Lima Al then servo S-e-r-v-o What's and what's the difference between that and that okay? That was the other thing is the face recognition That's obviously if you're taking pictures of people or maybe if you're logging or just taking a selfie That I guess that would be what you would want to use for for Al servo, I'm sorry no for the for the The face recognition one, I don't even really know what their technical term on cannon is for that Um, I like one shot. I think oh, I mean, I'll pull it up right here I'm on I should be having us out with as you're talking in ways, but okay. Oh cuz there's servo Servo AF which these that's the stuff that always gets me confused Okay, so there's the AF method and it's saying autofocus watch I guess that's probably what that is if it says if you're in live shooting and Then there's multi-zone Huh, I haven't heard of that before. Okay, that's pride Cuz I know like on my camera Like where the focusing modes are the three different focusing modes or I'll servo One focus, I mean one shot in alfocus Yeah, those are the three focusing modes I do like I know cameras can be finicky and I know like Nikon There's stuff that's different than Canon. Well, this is a like I said, this is a Canon eos 70d I wonder are you changing that on screen? Mm-hmm. Yeah, so I'm going I wonder if you guys can see it so I'm going to the back of my camera right here and So like right now I'm at I originally had an al servo, but the bottom Left hand corner where it's changing. It should be changing at least Okay, I've seen like right there I've seen that screen on mine, but that's not what it it's definitely not pulled I have that that's probably that what I need to have you know might be because hold on I had a video mode that might be have something to do. Yeah, that might yeah, that's probably a little bit more different Okay. Yeah Yeah, someone said I I'm gonna need like a couple pages of notes Yeah, probably will and I know it's we just got a comment about shooting stuff in motion to put a lead on it That's absolutely correct You always want to follow Follow it just like I mean like when you're hunting you kind of lead it Okay, really like so you would say you would want to keep the bird Kind of at the back end of it like you're in front of it a little bit Yeah, you know what I mean, how much do you actually put on that? I will always set my focal point to the direct center and then so like say I'll always try to focus on the eyes But then just so like even it's come to the back just kind of bring it forward that makes sense It's so much easier to like show go in person. Yeah We need to have a live seminar in person. I know That'd be cool. Okay Okay, so I'm I know it's got to play at this letter because I know I got that screen on there But I don't want to take time obviously mess with that But I I'm definitely gonna get it set up on that screen that you were just showing right there To mess with all those settings cuz even to if you're like trying to like take pictures that like a sporting a sporting event Or something to like that's a mode that you kind of want to be on Okay Yeah, let's put a set it up in that one. Okay. It follows it follows the Motion the movement I should say follows the movement Now those blocks those green blocks There's like nine or whatever you can set how many there are like how you set that up when you're doing that for your focus Mine I want to say I have a lot I don't know exactly but when you're looking at them It's like all different blocks and I just use my back button and just try and just move it around to whatever I wear I want my focal point to be Yeah, so if I'm shooting like say like I'm a pile picture I'll focus on the on the eyes and Do that like on the guys of the guys in the picture on their eyes Gotcha, okay, so you're using that even for taking pictures of people and stuff Absolutely, I'm constantly moving my button and moving my focal point And that's from you holding down that AF on but nope on my camera I have like a little like a little toggle thingy right here and that when I'm looking through it I'll press This little button right here it shows your focal points and then I'll just move a little toggle and just move it all All around and I'll see it in the viewfinder Okay, yeah That's why I need that camera All right, so we got several more that's in here with us. Thanks guys for whoever else has joined Appreciate that. Yes. Thank you. I think we're around a 10 second delay So I don't want to and guys are probably like, dude, what are you guys talking about? But I want this too for those let's see it for those of you that come on here after this has already been finished with the live stream I just really wanted to do this with Megan to be able to have an opportunity for myself for you guys If you're interested in water fountain photography that you could come back in later on reference it go over the subjects that we're talking about and You know figure stuff out on your cameras or whatever So it's not only just for a live stream, but it's going to be Posted so that anybody can come on here anytime and it's like hey I remember they talked about that and then come in and find out about it and learn about it. So Okay, then moving on for the next question anything else you want to say about that subject Megan Um, no, I think we hit on that. Oh, I'm pretty good. I'd say okay All right, next question is what's the advantage of running on manual versus auto mode some people I know I just want to keep it on auto and sometimes that's easy for me to want to do too But what's what's the advantage to you? Um, me personally? Um, I Just have my certain style So I just always kind of keep it on manual because the way I shoot is really consistent So when I edit it's pretty easy But auto is I mean it's easy your camera so smart your camera knows What settings to pick but then again sometimes you can't be right So they sometimes the settings like you'll like have a super Low ISO when it shouldn't be and stuff like that I it all kind of depends if you're comfortable in shooting In manual compared to auto Okay, yeah, so yeah don't I mean yeah, we're you're not a terrible person if you want to keep it in auto I guess no and even too like I said earlier if you Want to kind of branch away from auto, but you're still scared to do manual because it really it is scary I mean there's so much there's numbers there's stuff that comes into play Put it on priority that put it on the p on your dial Where you can change from auto to manual and it really does help you kind of pick what settings you need and kind of shows you What what way to go and stuff like that? Gotcha. Okay. I've seen that read about that too. That's definitely something I have to Might need to try that for a little while before I start getting too crazy, but And then it's just practice. That's all it is is you just really Just practice just I keep messing with it. Uh, yeah Just like anything that's there's I've learned so much just in last year editing videos and using different software and stuff and the stuff that was hard for me Now or then it's not now. So I get that to sometimes put the work in and we kind of attend the slack off on that but Yeah, it's worth it. Okay And next question. I just seen how long we've been on here So I'm trying to push through but we don't want to rush Megan. I told her just take your time explain stuff What's the biggest difference between cheap cameras and dsl ours? So, um, you have your point and shoot cameras, which are like your cheap They're not interchangeable lenses. They're like the little box cameras that typically like grandma has Dirt cheap and they're just Don't do it It's good if you're like going on a vacation I mean any of your phone now, but I was gonna say it's good if you're going on a vacation, but just Don't even do it there the dsl ours the difference between the point and shoots the dsl ours is dsl ours You can interchange lenses Um, which is super nice And they too now there's so many of them their their prices can they range from being Pretty not really expensive to really really expensive But like me personally I my mark 3 then I also have the have the canon the 6 d They have a 60 d2, but this is a 60 It's a full frame And the difference between full frame is it just it lets more light into the sensor and it's more It's considered more of a professional grade um But they tend to be a little bit more expensive so Yeah, I mean that's that's the way I I would recommend if you can afford like for example like a canon 6 d. I always try to like um emphasize that because it's 60 d and then the 6 d um That one's full frame and I think like last I checked I want to say it was maybe like 900 dollars Okay, but that's that's a probably good star one if someone wants to spend that money and get into something like that Absolutely, if you're looking at trying to kind of become a professional photographer even to like wanting really good quality pictures That's like the route. I would go Okay, okay All right. We're having some good questions guys already. I'm seeing down here We're gonna save the q&a for the end. We're almost there. We're getting close Uh, I think we got just a couple more questions and then On our end and then we'll get to the the live q&a All right, so the next question is the biggest difference between cheap kit. I just did that repeat myself starter kit, sorry low-end or high-end like Give us a low-end or like, okay, some of these people on here, you know They're like now. I just can't put the money into that like what would you say would be An affordable low-end and then go ahead and just give us kind of a high-end starter kit set up So I'm pretty biased because I shoot cannon. I'm shot cannon for years. So I'm pretty biased with that but I will say cannon is phenomenal I mean, I'm familiar a little bit with an icon. Um, but I personally I just feel like cannon works better for me but um, so a good recommendation for a cheaper starter kit would be like a cannon rebel and They couple hundred dollars and I know like best buy they Normally do a lot of sales where you get like a kit lens, which you can have like one or two lenses which I personally I'm not a fan of kit lenses because they're just They're just not good. You want to invest in good now You They're just uh, I hate kit lenses My always I always recommend selling the kit lenses and buying like a good lens Because essentially like in order to have you really need like good good lenses So Yeah, so that a cannon rebel would be what I'd recommend as far as like a lower end And they're only I want to say a couple hundred dollars And then like a full on like if you have a limited budget do I would say either like the Nikon like d850. I've heard amazing things about that I personally have never shot it, but I've heard great things or like the cannon mark 4. Um I've shot that before I've rented that and that's great. And then another tip too for some people. Um It's really easy to rent lenses and rent cameras So if you're on the fence about you don't know what you want to buy or if you're like, hey I don't know if I want to spend that money You can go to like borrow lenses or like rent lenses.com And you can rent them for like three days to see what you like how it feels And do that that's what I would really recommend That's a great tip. I actually just right as you were talking about that before you had mentioned that I heard that When you did the podcast with foul front I was like I actually wrote that down my phone. I was like because I'm definitely gonna try that out because You know Now let me ask you this just let's say to rent a the the body and the lens Like if you just pick one body and one lens and I know it's probably varies depending on the Price of the camera, but I mean is it Is it like astronomical is like 200 bucks a day or is it No, I want to say um, I had rented um My goal within the next six months is to buy the mark for so I rented it and I um, I want to say I rented it for like a week I think for like seven or eight days. It was like 200 dollars. Oh, wow It wasn't that it was that's a high high in camera, too They did make me I had to um, send them in like a A picture of my license and then a piece of like my business license as well just to show them like I'm legit like I have Like I'm like my stuff is matching up because it is. I mean it's so expensive It's a I want to say it's like a 3500 camera So they don't want you to like run away with it like take it and seal it Uh, so if you don't have a business license or anything they're not going to let you rent from that No No, they will um, you could send them like a like send them like a photocopy of a piece of your mail or something Um, you don't have that's just something that I had like on file really quick And I was trying to do it fast and then also like I sent them like a picture of my license Okay, gotcha And it's really easy to do. I mean they have a huge huge huge selection um And even to like a lens like a 50 millimeter lens 1.2 is I think like $20 a day to rent if that it really it's not that bad Okay Okay Learned a lot already Yeah, like you said, I'm sitting here writing this down trying to pay attention to what you're saying So it's a little tough. We've got quite a few people in here. We've got some other channels too in here We've got what's up to somewhere in wisconsin Um That gun chronicles foul assassins hanging with john. I don't know if the guys that there's valley boys I don't know if you guys got a channel. It's good to see obviously, you know how to take pictures You didn't mention that we also got on the x. He's got a channel too. So a lot of guys that are actually trying to make videos and using Equipment so that's which is really the guys that I'm trying to we're the ones that really focus on it You know other people just like the they like to watch it. We like to film it. So Anyways, we can go ahead and get guys if you want to start asking The questions I I'm seeing only just a couple right here in it and it don't it's not it doesn't have to be limited to um Photography, I mean We want to talk about that too, but if you want to ask Megan any questions about Uh, what she does or where she works at or taking pictures for um the hickory creek hickory creek Farms, right Outfitters hickory creek. Yep. It's out the actual name is hot hickory creek. Mm-hmm. They have some sweet I uh all them on social media They have some sweet Pictures that Megan is taking so she's doing a good job with that And I thought that was pretty cool that you are offering that kind of service To the people that have come and hunted that they got pictures. I mean, that's that's a pretty I'll tell my brother about that I was like, man, that's like a really good package that I don't I've never heard of anybody doing yeah, we um started offering it like two years ago and Like everybody loves it. I mean they get to kind of because a lot of people too like they want to bring their camera They want to take pictures, but it's hard to do both if you're hunting and trying to enjoy the experience and in this way I um Love to kind of captures those moments and those memories and the blind I want you to be able to look back at those pictures and be like, wow Like this was a hunt of a lifetime type of thing So that uh, that's what I really enjoy doing and we've everybody has really loved it That's awesome. Okay. So first question guys, we're going into the q&a One question very good question from duck gun chronicles was he asked he has a uh channel too if you guys want to check him out Go go hit duck gun chronicles become good friends with jordan and uh his question was is I think we kind of discuss this DSLR versus camcorder, which acts a little different than we have discussed because we were talking about point shoot But as far as video, I mean, I know your specialty is photography But I think you could still make that that call pretty easy camcorder versus dsl r everybody's switching to that now even the tv channels and stuff That's what would be my reasoning behind that is if everybody is switching to dsl r So I would go that route. I um, think you just get more from it than it like a camcorder I'm not super familiar with them. Um, so I don't really know but I think just Technology now with dsl rs. I I would go that route Okay, okay Also, duck gun chronicles asked, uh, what's your favorite lens on your dsl r? That you're like You use all the time. It's your favorite one I have two. Um, I love my 70 to 200 2.8 And that's a telephoto lens and that is great for waterfowl stuff And then I also love my 50 1.2 Um, and that's that's more wide angle and that's kind of more of like a portrait lens But that also kind of lets me just get to sit back And kind of capture those moments and those memories in the plan So those would be that my two number one go-tos Gotcha, perfect. And do you do the 70 to 200 as your kind of your main one? Just because you can do close-up and then you can do Zoom in and get far out to you Yeah, normally when I take get my back together for the day I always have my 70 200 on my camera and I don't normally take it normally change it or take it off Okay, okay Kind of off the waterfowl, but it's still at the same time It's important to love us because and mine is the landscape photo because I'm gonna get ready to go to well here in a couple months Me and my brother and my dad are going to Idaho for like a elk and deer hunt. We're just It's just they're packing us in that we're not They're not guiding us or anything But I want to get a lot that's a beautiful part of the country where we're going to and I want to get really good pictures so I know From what I've read you want to use that wide angle lens But here's the thing as far as focus goes, you know, if I want the whole thing in focus Because it's landscape. I mean how's that work or like say if we're taking like you I heard you say on thought front like a hero shot like where you're trying to get the whole group the ducks the background What's your settings on that? Like are you focusing on certain things or like say if it's a whole mountain range? I mean, how do you set that up? You want a really really high aperture to get all of that in focus So the way you look at it is a when you're taking a picture you have your focal point And it's a plane you want everything for like a hero shot you want all of your guys on one exact plane And focus on the eyes and that way everything is in focus and you want just a super super high aperture Um as far as like landscapes if it's like a mount on top Um, I personally like when I'm shooting landscape stuff I would like focus on the mount on top or focus on something like say if there's like a tree or something and do that and as far as settings um ISO depends on what your light is like if it's super bright or super dark And that plays into your shutter and that also plays into how high your aperture can go because remember The higher the aperture you have it's the less light you're letting in Gotcha So even though like say a mountain range or whatever and you've got the trees you got the valley You got the mountains way back there If you focus on If you focus on it like that like say pick the mountains out, it's still going to bring the whole mountain range into focus Mm-hmm. It should as long as you have a super high aperture Okay, okay, because I got you now I'm with you. All right. Let's see here Um Well, okay, here's off topic, but it's it's a question Um We won't make it too much longer. It's already been a little while so but we would do one of the questions are important to us Uh, Megan, what was your favorite hunt last year? um So Okay, I have two favorite hunts and I'll go really fast. We had this amazing group and it was um This group in from Louisiana just awesome awesome guys So much fun and we shot a nine man limit within like not even an hour Just straight crushed it and it was phenomenal. And I mean it probably all melons too, wasn't it? It was You guys in your mountains were jealous big time out here. Yeah, and it was awesome I mean we and it helps too We had such a great group of guys in and it just helps too because it's just an awesome experience And then so that was definitely a favorite of mine and then my second favorite was It was late um late goose season. Um, we had a bunch of really cool friends in And um, I had no obviously had no idea and um, we just got done hunting We were cleaning up and chase was like hey, Megan chase is my fiancé chase like hey come on over take a picture And um, then he ended up proposing in the goose field full camo everything. That's awesome Our dog. Um, he's actually from southern oak kennels. Our dog jack brought the ring box with the ring in it In his mouth over to us and so I definitely say those were my two favorite hunts last year just because that's cool That's cool. Yeah, it was pretty cool. I'd have to say mine's uh Me and my brother had we had a lot of great hunts Last year we started hunting some different places that we normally do locally. We've made the drive But it was well worth it. But me and my brother It was definitely one of the most memorable hunts. He was on here. I don't know if he still is or not, but Uh, we shot that banded pintile The only bummer was is that we shot the bird even on the gopro. You cannot tell Who hit it first? So we both claimed it. So now my buddy, uh, Travis McDonald. He's a taxidermist And so we're gonna have him mount and throw the band on and I think we're gonna stick it in our gym We got a garage gym I think we're gonna stick it out in there and argue about the rest of our lives who shot it first So that no that was that was unbelievable. We even made a video of that. Um, I think it's called best refuge Our best refuge hunt I've ever been on and it was like so dead in the morning. We didn't get a good blind My brother talked me into staying in the afternoon. We came back out and just literally crushed It was like it was so epic. We're in a pit blind. It was awesome. But uh, that sounds like so much fun It was it was super cool pintile whigen gadwall Even a mallard couple of mallard one mallard. I think so All right, uh next question Uh, summer wisconsin asked he's considering at 18 to 135 Millimeter lands for deer hunting. What's your thoughts on that? I so I have the 16 to 35 and then I also have the 135 fixed um I love my 135 um, and I also love my 16 to 35 and that's kind of in that range And I think that would be great for deer hunting and also too you could kind of look into your the 70 200 um, I personally would recommend that over the 18 to 135 just because it's more of like um You have more of a range as far as as far you can go But also depends to like what you're looking to do with it for deer hunting Okay, megan, uh, if you don't mind if you can type in down here below What's your Instagram is I mean, I know what it is But if you want to just punch it in there in the comments some some people are asking for it Sure, let you do that real quick before we do the next question Did that there we go pretty simple All right, uh, I'll try to get this going here I think we might have god I seen another question up here I'm probably going to get a lot of uh questions later in the comments. I'm sure But uh, I might call you up and say help help Yeah, absolutely that one If anybody has any questions feel free to reach out to me Um, I love to help and all that so whatever feel free to reach out and message me and I'll help you as best as I can Appreciate that. Thank you And megan's been very helpful and she's very uh open to help anybody. So we appreciate that I want to say again, thank you megan for coming on this channel for answering the questions Uh And dan pauntz or if dan pauntzie, however you say that he said he showed up late But he's starting from the beginning so you'll get to this later but uh think I think we got most of the questions Anybody have anything else before we start wrapping this up if anybody wants to Okay, somewhere in wisconsin has another question. He said shooting sunsets Like good setting to get all the color um That is a pretty good question. I so I have my kelvin set on my camera, um my white balance which helps me if you look at my um Instagram or my facebook or my website I have I shoot with a lot of gold in a lot of golden colors browns with a little bit of pink stuff like that So having my white balance set that helps But as far as like settings, I shoot at the higher eye So to help lift those shadows um to kind of get those colors too in and like sunrise and sunset Automatically that's like kind of golden hour the golden hours which already has all those pretty colors So as long as you kind of like have your settings as far as like where your eye So is for what the way the light is if it's not too large light or too dark And then just play off of that but automatically they already have those really pretty colors if it's a beautiful sunrise or something Gotcha, okay And I did off of you saying that I did have I quit another question We're probably about to wrap it up. Thank you michael for he said good job megan and titus so Appreciate that michael My question was is do you always When you're taking your pictures, are you always looking through the viewfinder? Or are you looking on the screen the lcd spring viewfinder always right always? I've never I've never used my lcd screen Minus doing some video stuff. I have But taking pictures. I always look through the viewfinder. Okay now To adjust the settings that you want to set you can do it all right there inside with the toggle switch, right? No, um typically Yeah, typically what I do is I will um Get my camera out and I set my eye so first And then set my aperture for like what I'm shooting and then kind of play with my shutter and that's when I go into my viewfinder And do the dial back and forth to kind of get my shutter to where it would probably be properly exposed And like I said earlier, I kind of bump it up like One stop to a little bit more overexposed because it fits my style a little bit more Okay Okay Well, this is it's I'm gonna have a definitely come back to this several times. It's so call this in I'm gonna Put this into practice Tonight. Oops. It's still kind of late. I know it's late where she's out So I got to let you go and how you work too But um, I don't think there's anything else. We don't got no more questions. I think everybody's um Asked the questions that they want to so uh one final shout out Megan that you want to Shout out for anybody Whatever you want to say just to close this video. What um, thank you so much for having me Anybody if you guys ever have any questions feel free to reach out to me in the same way with you If you have any questions questions for me just message or whatever. I'm here to help And if anyone's looking for a hunt in Kansas, um, hickory creek is phenomenal And we provide photography so you could have your hunt documented So you can always refer always look back at that and remember those memories. Um, and that's pretty much it All right So thank you so much again Megan for appreciate you for being here. Sorry for a little bit of the technical difficulties at the beginning Thank you for answering all the questions Might be like I said might be hitting you up later as far as people asking some questions because I they want the professional help But uh, I'll let you go and we thank you so much for being here Everybody thank you for uh being here on the channel today. If you're new here Don't forget to like and subscribe to our channel and we appreciate everybody that We have built relationship with on this channel and that you guys are supporting so much a little bit more honestly more people on this live stream that I thought there would be so thank you so much for that And uh, we will go ahead and in this live broadcast right now. So thank you again, Megan. Thank you