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Do you ever find yourself in need of additional photos, but there's no one there to take photos of you
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Don't worry, you don't need a boyfriend, girlfriend, colleague, sibling, anyone else to take amazing photos
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You can use your camera, you can use your cell phone. So here is the Sony app that I'm using right now, that I've been using for a couple of months now
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I don't know how I didn't discover it earlier, where it's really great to be able to control your camera right from here
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So I can right now, I can stop this recording. I'll start the recording again right here
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So you don't need anyone else's help. Just the app for your cell phone, your camera, a tripod, good to go
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So I'll put links to all the different apps from the different camera companies down below in the description
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I think most of them essentially have an app like this, where you can easily control your camera
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So I can set up the shutter speed, the aperture, the ISO, stop and start the recording
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And the same thing, there's a bunch of settings for taking photos. So with all that said, why don't we go outside and take some pictures
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Okay, so here we are in Mexico City near Cibeles. So I love the trees kind of on both sides
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And I think the pictures are going to turn out really well. One thing to keep in mind and how we're going to take all the pictures today
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is there's basically, instead of taking one picture at a time, you basically flip a switch and it takes as many photos as it can until you turn it off
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This for me has worked out much better because you don't have to worry about hitting the button
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you know, every second or couple seconds. And then there's a little bit of a delay. So you're not really sure what you're taking a picture of
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I tried actually doing this running. And so, you know, I was running by and then I took like a hundred pictures
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And I was not in frame for any of them. And then I figured out that you could turn on the multiple photos
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And that way it's going to take 50 photos within the period of 30 seconds or something like that
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And so you're going to be in frame, in focus for at least one of them
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I would rather take too many pictures and then delete them later. So if your camera and app have a similar mode
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I definitely recommend doing that when you're taking pictures by yourself. So another great use for this setup is being a tourist
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So you can take your camera out with you, set it up, get pictures in front of monuments
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And you don't have to ask a random stranger to take your picture or worry about them taking your camera
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So one of my favorite places to kind of soak up the scenery, kind of relax a little bit
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is right here in front of the angel statue in Mexico City. So you can see it right here
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But I really like these benches as well for taking pictures. So if you want to look extra smart, kind of bring some props
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You can be kind of taking notes, maybe thinking a little bit, doing something like that
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Let's see how the pictures turn out. So just finished up taking the last photos at my favorite coffee shop here in Mexico City called Cafe Colorado
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Had my notebook, was taking some notes. Obviously, in a place like this, maybe have your laptop out, have your noise-canceling headphones on, get creative
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and you can make the pictures look like you were here getting some work done, but you got pictures while you were doing it
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So what'd you think? We were able to get some good photos from our little photo shoot wandering around the city
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So I just spent, I think, around two hours wandering around, stopped a couple places, took some pictures
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Obviously, if I wanted to do this well, I would maybe bring some more props to the coffee shop, like, you know, my headphones, maybe my laptop, something like that
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Also bring different changes of clothes so I'm not just wearing the same t-shirt in every single photo
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But I did this to kind of show a demonstration of how easy it is to just take your camera, your phone
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and take a whole bunch of pictures. You don't need anyone else's help. If you want to learn more about how to take amazing pictures, check out the playlist right here
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Hope to see you in those and future videos. Bye-bye
