Solo Backpacking and Landscape Photography // Sony a7R IV + 24-105 f/4

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2 жыл бұрын

We've been experiencing a bit of a heat wave in Seattle for the past week, so I decided to head up for a quick solo overnight hike in the Central Cascade mountains near home. Turns out it was still pretty hot there and the mosquitoes were considerably worse than I'd hoped. In any case, I decided to play around with only bringing one camera and one lens for both photo and video, so everything you see in this video was shot on the Sony a7R IV camera and Sony 24-105 f/4 G lens. This is my absolute favorite setup for travel photography, but I'd never used it for both photo and video. Pleasantly surprised with how it all turned out, considering a lot of the clips were shot at ISO 10,000. If the colors look less than perfect, that's mostly because I still suck at color grading scenes shot in forests. Green is tough to begin with, plus the light filtered through the green leaves does weird things to the color that I don't really know how to correct yet. The 8-bit color didn't help either. Nonetheless, happy enough with the results and will definitely consider a one-camera setup for backpacking trips in the future where weight is more important.
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@sarahinscotland 2 жыл бұрын

What a majestic area! A great place to fill your cup

@jamessobredo7847 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome and so beautiful… Cheers!

@barbarootoo 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like a great trip

@mariateran4238 2 жыл бұрын

great video and beautiful pics!

@ervinslens 2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding upload my friend, so relaxing. Mood is just amazing.🥾🥾

@Guille-qy9wy 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible pics, this should be millions of views!!

@philipculbertson55 2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully done Brian.

@charliejg 2 жыл бұрын

Really nice video. I imagine the look was pretty much what it looked like hiking through there with the heavy tree cover making it a bit dark. I love that image at the end of the tall trees bathed in the sunlight. Some of the images including that one had a film-like quality. Reminded me of shots I get with my XT-3. Very nice!! I haven't yet gotten into shooting video with my camera. Videos like this always make me think about it though. Have a great weekend!

@Photofuel Жыл бұрын

Washington and Oregon is all you need to go. Well add British Columbia too

@BackpackingVideos Жыл бұрын

I love Washington--I think I might have experienced the same heat wave while I was hiking southbound in Washington on the PCT around that same time this past summer. I concur with your thoughts on green forest canopies doing weird things to color--I have similar issues as well. As far as a compact hybrid camera--have you looked at the A7C? That's my current go to for photos and video. Not perfect at either, and I'm not 100% happy with it, but I haven't found anything else remotely as compact and lightweight for my long distance style of hiking. Question: did you shoot in slog2 or use another profile such as cine4 or hlg?

@BrianLackey Жыл бұрын

Yeah it was a warm one. I was so used to living in Colorado still that I didn't realize the mountains wouldn't be significantly colder than the lowlands like they are in the Rockies. Oh well. I almost got the a7C a while back, but splurged on the a7S iii instead. Really glad I did though, the 10-bit 4:2:2 color is enormously better for video, which is what the a7C would have been for. If I were buying a photo/video hybrid camera today it'd definitely be the a7IV. And yes, I use Slog 2, probably not the best option on the a7RIV, but LOG works really well on the a7SIII, so it's what I was used to. And for a super light camera, I just picked up a Ricoh GRIIIx, which has been delightful so far.

@BackpackingVideos Жыл бұрын

@@BrianLackey That makes perfect sense--I have been eyeing the A7siii and A7iv for a while...the A7iv is definitely a much better hybrid camera with amazing video capabilities far beyond the A7C. I do like how compact the A7C is for my style of hiking, but the A7iv is a no brainer for serious video / photo work. If I recall, you were using Slog with Becki and Chris' Rec709 conversion LUT, are you still using the same for the A7siii?

@phillobates Жыл бұрын

I love your videos. Where do you take the music from?

@BrianLackey Жыл бұрын

thanks! All from Musicbed.

@heliscat Жыл бұрын

What's your overall thoughts on the weight of this setup? I'm looking at something to take backpacking with me. 61mp landscape shots would be fun.

@BrianLackey Жыл бұрын

Oh it's honestly not too bad, but the rest of my hiking gear is very lightweight, so that helps a lot. I brought a whole analog Hasselblad kit into the mountains for a bunch of trips one year, so this feels light in comparison :)

@heliscat Жыл бұрын

@@BrianLackey thanks for the feedback!