Portrait Lenses for Travel Photography in Prague
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Hey everyone! I'm so excited to share this vlog from Prague with you all today. This is SUCH a gorgeous city and I got carried away and took sooo many photos. In today's vlog I am using my portrait lenses to do travel and cityscape photography. I also take photos in so many different lighting situations including harsh light, dusk and sunrise. Just like my last vlog, I also have lots of film photos to share with you today! This time I'm shooting on my Contax T2 and also Olympus Mju-II. Let me know which ones are your favourite photos in the comments!
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Thanks for watching and I hope you are looking forward to more vlogs coming soon as this is part of a big roadtrip I did around Europe :D
I'm french, now living in Czech Republic. It was really cool to discover the city again but this time through your eye :)
35 GM.. my favorite lens for walkabout in the city like this.. I will always have a 85 or 70-200 in the bag too in case I need that extra reach. But sometimes I just end up using the 35 only.
Wow that sound change going through the walled garden...
Our city is indeed amazing! And not only the old town! :) Glad to see you enjoying Prague ❤
I love watching these travel vlogs so much! You two always seem like you're having the best time.
You both are so fun to watch together! Great video , didn’t know Prague was that beautiful!
Loved this video Julia!!!! It was so fun and y'all seemed to really enjoy it! Safe travels!
Many Thanks for this. Glad you both had a wonderful trip. Such wonderful buildings 💥📸💥
Such a dreamy video! Love these travel photography blogs ♥️
Prague is always a nice city to visit bin there many times and i never gets tired of it , great video Julia merry christmas to u and yours 🎅🤶🌲❄❄❄
beautiful city and beautiful video, love the details and all the photos you've taken and shared with us. I extremely love the film photos, i gotta buy another roll of film now that i think about it
I absolutely love this series. The both of you are so adorable and fun. Thanks for sharing your travels and videos with us! As usual, the photos and video look great! ✌🏾
Thank you so much, I'm glad you're enjoying it because I have a few more videos from this series in the works too!
Wonderful video, what a beautiful city.
I've never been to Prague, but you and Dan made it look like such a fun place to explore and hangout in. Loved all the variety of candid shots and video. Super impressed that you are shooting on film and processing your own images. I haven't shot on film in a few decades. Great video as always Julia.
If you ever have the chance to visit, I highly recommend it! Prague is so beautiful. And yeah I used to send my film to a local lab, but I love the editing process of photography so I decided to give scanning a go first, then eventually decided to just develop it myself too haha. I really enjoy the process!
Hey Julia.. Its reallyy amazing photos... And almost videos very helpful for us.. Thankuuu soo much.. For explaining about lenses you are using🥰🥰all the best...🌹🌹God Bless 🙏🙏😍😍
Thank you so much for this video, it was nice to see you in all these places I know so well 🙂
Loved this so much! Prague is such a beautiful city and you captured it perfectly. It made giggle when you were like, "aww, people" because that I say that all the time when shooting. Thanks for sharing. 😍
Thank you!!
it`s nice vlog travel photography, I see how both of you are enjoying travel and photographs and video great 😁
Loved your tour. Your infectious sunny personality really enhances. There’s one selfie of the two of you towards the end that is really wonderful. I’m now a subscriber. Also use Sony
Thank you, glad you enjoyed! :D
Gosh I miss being over there. Prague was about an hour from where I lived in Germany. On the border of Czech and Germany is a town called Chodovar, the restaurant Ve Skale serves amazing food. It's built into a cave. Your video has me reminiscing a little. ❤❤
Hi from Czech rep 📸✋ Prague is our diamond 🙂
Great job Julia thanks for sharing .. for me If there one lens i can have while traveling it’s definitely the 24-70mm range .. I used the 24-70mm GM II and it did the job for portraits streets landscapes,and it’s incredibly sharp! unless you need fast aperture and don’t mind taking 2 primes .. it’s the jack of all trades!
Thank you! I am yet to travel with a zoom lens as my main lens for the trip haha I might have to try it eventually! I was also thinking with the 24-70 or the Tamron 35-150
Prague still remains Architecture is a safe bet. Of course this city is a space of creation. If in addition there is light, we can only create emotion. Congratulations for this atmosphere.
Cute vlog, nice photos!
Glad to hear you got to check out Prague, I heard it is good too from those who travelled there and some made decision to even move there! Thank you for sharing the video :3
Yeah Prague blew me away, definitely one of my favourite cities I've ever visited!
Great adventure - good balance of candid and casual images. I’ve had similar success with the 85 focal length in the city for urban landscapes. Decided to go with a 135mm and 50mm to get more separation and add in either the standard lens at 28, or ultra-wide at 14 to capture the space. Really enjoyed this, looking forward to more.
Thank you! I really love the 135 for street photography, I agree its great for separation. I need to try it for some cityscape photography too!
@@juliatrotti You’re welcome! You made Prague look incredibly inviting, hope to get there someday.
The Sony G Master 35mm f/1.4 is an awesome lens.
I really enjoyed this video. Keep up the good work!!
Thank you!
Really FUN!
I visit this city in february ! This is an insane trip 🥰🥰🤩🤩🤩
I was in Prague at the end of June 22, great place with just too many great places to photograph. loved getting a look around again with your video. Though I know how difficult it was to get any street with no people.
Yeah, we were there in mid July. Can't believe how busy it gets haha glad you enjoyed my video :)
Welcome in my hometown. I hope you enjoyed the Prague.
Watching this video, I pointed at the screen and went "oooh, I've had beers there!" around 30 times🤣 I miss Prague, it's such a lovely city.
I was there in April. Such a beautiful city. Nice to relive it again. And yeah you definitely gotta go out at like 5a to get a good shot of Charles Bridge.
Oh man, you even need to wake up at sunrise for Charles Bridge in April? I thought maybe it was just so busy because it was the middle of summer for us! But it was definitely worth it, not only is it empty but you have great light to work with too :)
@@juliatrotti Now that I think of it, we arrived there on Easter but it was still packed on the days after then.
Amazing!!! 🥵
You should come to Nicaragua in central America. For sure you are going to enjoy here. Lot of nature, lot of old cities, lakes, volcanoes and beaches 🌊
I spent a week in Prague in June I shot around 700 pictures such a photographic city with excellent mass transit and interesting things to photograph. I used my Sigma 18-250 lens for most of my photography
Yep it's really a photographer's dream city! So many things to capture
It warms my heart to see you in Prague, because I live here. It would have been great to have met you, because you were the reason I chose Sony.🖤
Cute preset ❤
I am so happy my favorite Photographer went to my home city. Prague is the most charming city in the world, I would say :)
Prague is definitely a special place! I loved it
Nice. Olympus best :-)
The best photo is at 17:05
Have a good trip and enjoy !
very nice! just wow, I cant even afford to go to Prague in my bucket list! omgee
It's a lot quicker, easier and more affordable to just hire a car out there to live in and to get you about in rather than use a hotel, hostel or Air BnB etc...That way you have the means to get around and explore the whole of the Czech Republic in one holiday, and not just Prague. I once hired a car in Zagreb, Croatia and in one 2 week holiday I visited seven countries in all, most of which I had never been to before...They were: Zagreb (Croatia), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Triest (Italy), Vienna (Austria), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Belgrade (Serbia) and then back to Zagreb. If I had had one more week I could have visited every single East European country in my hire car...You just can't do that when your tied to fixed point like a hotel.
thanks for this great vlog. 🙂
I actually went to Europe this summer. I went to Switzerland, Italy and France for about 45 days. My favorite photogenic city was Venice. I loved it a lot more than I expected too. It was just spectacularly photogenic.
I was struggling with what camera equipment to carry especially since I was traveling within Europe by train and wanted to be as light as possible. I landed up taking an A7R III with a 35mm 1.4 GM and Sigma 85 mm 1.4. In addition I took an A7R IV with a 12-24 2.8 GM on it for landscape.
I actually landed up using my A7R III with the 35mm 1.4 GM for 95% of my photography. This combination worked really well, even in low light on the streets of Europe or canals of Venice.
If I had to do it again, I would carry only the A7R III (or a Sony A1) with a 35mm 1.4 GM and the Tamron 35-150 2-2.8 for moments when I need additional reach.
What did you carry and how did it work for you?
i traveled many cities with my Sigma 30 1.4 (APSC) so 45mm. I shot like 98% with it. but I often found myself it being just a bit too tight. so 35 or 40 (FF equivalent) would have been great. the rest I tiim with the 18-105 F4 at the tele end.
looking what I can replace that long end with. 700-200 is too heavy. thinking Sigma 90 2.8 maybe, but would want a bit more reach.
so maybe 35 + 70-200 would be a great combi for me. mayve throw in a cheap and light 24 like a Samyang 24 1.8
Great video Julia, I’m married to a Czech so Prague is like a second home to me. Watching your video makes me want to go there again. You should try to visit this time of year if you get chance. Great atmosphere with the Xmas markets and amazing Xmas lights etc. nothing like sitting outside a restaurant with Mulled wine and a provided blanket :) how did you like FotoŠkoda? I love that shop :)
Thank you! Yess I would absolutely love to see Prague covered in snow, I think I will visit again in winter :) FotoŠkoda was great, I spent heaps of time looking at all the vintage cameras.
Dan took amazing pictures
Informative thank you so much for sharing
10:51 for night light what settings you will recommend me ? For Christmas lights. As i have sony A7iii and lens is sigma 85 f.4.1
Amazing channel I'm a video guy but you made me to want to start photography
Praaaaague iiis beeeeautifulllll.......
Love from Bangladesh❤️
Hie 👋 Julia, you are so Beautiful..
Love to see you smile 😉❤️
N one more thing, I just bought A7c with Sony 35mm 1.8 few days back, it's so sweet...
Already started Wedding with it ..☺️
I saw you as long as your hair was open. You are really amazing ♥️❤
Nice ❤
I wish you could have visited my friends at Prague Boudoir! Niki is an amazing model who also owns the studio!
That great selfie of you two is at 17:05
Julia...Can you recommend just one lens for Sony A6100...I want to shoot my daughter and Fiance in Ireland and Florence...Just for fun. And also B Roll video.
Thanks joev.
greetings from padua italy 😍 Im a photographer mom ☺️.
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Hope you enjoyed our city! 🥰
I did, I really want to go back!
Huge fan of the channel , please answer this one question , why is Dan always wearing black 😂😂😂
16:54
Great video! I hope you will show me how to shoot and pose for chubby people :) Love you ❤️❤️
nice video
I love Prague!
The tree with red berries that you saw is called mountain ash, it is not seaberry.
Surprised the A7sIII has so much jello shutter when walking around 🤔
Background looks jiggly...
Hi, can you spend an episode explaining your settings. I noticed later in the day, you would raise your ISO higher. You always keep your f-stop wide open, f1.x. Thanks! ... Sorry, got it! Just saw your "How to Shoot in Manual Mode for Beginners + Examples". Got the answer! THANKS!
Please don't emulate her technique. She's talented (and entertaining!), but shooting all landscapes wide open is just ridiculous.
You should do a shoot in Galle Dutch fort in Sri Lanka...
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Is it ideal to shoot at f/1.4 in travel photography when your intention is printing photos?
What does that have to do with printing a photograph?
@@bngr_bngr let's say you've clicked a nice landscape photo and you want it for your living room wall
And you print it
Only to notice that only the front structures are in focus but the remaining background is not
As your aperture is so wide
That is my concern
@@itmamhasan well if your intention was to have everything in focus then you would stop down your lens or use a shift-tilt lens or view camera.
I feel like I need to make a video about this to really dive into the topic.. but yeah I do shoot most of my landscapes and cityscapes wide open. I love the way light looks wide open in a photo and I like that not everything is in focus. That's why I shoot that way. There are times doing landscape photography I do step down because I want more of the scene to be in focus. But the majority of the time I don't want that. Also I do have prints hanging on my walls right now of photos I've taken at f1.4 and they look great lol
I hate to be critical because I generally think it's good to think for oneself and go against the grain, and of course much of art is subjective, but I also feel that the rule of stopping down for landscape photos exists for a good reason, and many of your cityscapes would be improved by using a smaller aperture. Just an opinion of some random commenter on the internet! Otherwise thoroughly enjoy your videos!
How does that Sigma 18-35 measure up. It links to your video lens, how about portraits?
I have a portrait photoshoot with this lens if you use the search function on my channel (I uploaded it about 3 years ago now I think!). But that was a one off for me personally, Dan is the one who uses this lens and its 100% for video!
@@juliatrotti Dan's the man!
Ah hoping that Sony continues to improve the IBIS. I'm guessing you're also using active stabilisation and yet it still gets jerky
I actually rarely ever use active, so it was on normal for this entire vlog (and all the vlogs I have coming from Europe!)
It feels like everyone in comment section lived there at least for a month. Same here 😂
Julia is so beautiful
you look so beautiful
come to malaysia juliaaa :)
Orange & teal ice cream? 😅
F2.8 or even f4 is better for vlogging. Bokeh addiction is real and if you are shooting wider than 2.8 your basically on the hard stuff without knowing it. Don’t even consider going to 1.4 or 1.2. Most photographers never recover from trying that aperture even though they just started out experimenting.
Bahaha this is very true and consider me addicted to the hard stuff. Trying my best to grow out of this for certain occasions!! lol
I always wait for people to walk past too 😂
You have besutiful smile 😊🙄
Hi, you look very beautiful
Can you teach me photography I will come to Australia
you give me so inspired ...give me like for the fist comment
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How much bokeh do you want in your vlogs?
Julia: Yes
This video must be Old. Snow everywhere.
When blogging, using a lower aperture is not a good idea as it's hard to appreciate the surroundings. Every building, park, etc looks blurry when focusing on your face. Other than that, it's a lovely video
I was about to ask, why is she taking cityscape pictures with f1.4? why insist on ISO 100? these modern cameras are capable of much higher ISO to enable more DoF.
You would have been better off with the Samyang AF 24mm f1.8 FE rather than the Sony 24mm f1.4 GM as they have identical sharpness across the frame, but the Samyang has better flare resistance, less CA at the edges of frame, it's almost half the weight (so much better as a travel lens) and it's three times cheaper!
Also if you had used the Samyang AF 18mm f2.8 FE rather than the Sony 20mm f1.8 it would have been far easier to carry for long periods as you wouldn't need to extend your arm as much to get the same framing, and the Samyang is 2.5x lighter! Which again, makes it more suitable as a travel vlogging lens than the Sony.
Nobody gives a s**t about Samyang, their build quality is s**t.
@@jamieday2642 nobody gives a s**t what you think...The reviews show how good they are not their build quality...
I have the Samyang 18mm but I don't like the colours or rendering of that lens for vlogs! The vignetting is also a bit too dark and distracting for my liking. Dan has also used the Samyang 24mm f1.4 MF for many many cinematic travel videos already over the years and it was time for a change.
@@juliatrotti Not the old 24mm f1.4 MF, the newer AF 24mm f1.8 FE...It's just as sharp as the Sony 24mm f1.4 GM, right across the frame, has the same high contrast, but it has less CA at the edges of frame than the GM, better flare resistance, it's almost half the weight (230g). It also has really fast and silent AF, very little focus breathing, it's fully weather sealed and it's designed for Astro so its great for low light shots too plus it's only 1/3rd the price the price of the GM! It's a no brainer for a travel vlogging lens.
Too open the aperture for video. F/4.0 work better at day time.
I like your fun personality but the only thing in focus is your face. We can't see the beautiful city you're traveling in.