- What's up, everybody? Peter McKinnon here, and I am back. Programming will return to its regular scheduled time. In honor of my return from abroad, today, we're talking about five tips, five tricks that you can do when traveling with your photo or video gear. Intro. (upbeat rock music) First things first. Pete, why is your face so red? Well, I'll tell you.
The wind utterly destroyed my skin whilst climbing the side of a mountain. Needless to say, I was in four countries yesterday. That's crazy. And I started thinking to myself on the flight back, what can I teach you guys that I learned on this trip that would be valuable to you, and I thought, well, this is a perfect example of things you need, things to do, things to keep in mind when traveling with your equipment, be it on assignment or vacation or whatever it is play casino games in Canada. There's kinda something for everyone. A little bit of a mixed bag, if you will. So let's start with bags and organization. Now, these are are the bags I use, these are the pouches I use, the things I use to keep my gear safe, organized, and efficient when I'm traveling to shoot. Or whatever it is, photo, video, assignment, pleasure, doesn't matter, this is kinda my system that I feel is a good one to implement if you wanna keep your stuff together. So, so many bags to choose from. There's roller bags, stroller bags, sling bags, backpacks, I've had 'em all. For me, the best thing... I'm come full circle back to the backpack. You can have your hands free if you're hopping a fence, if you're climbing under something. It's just the easiest bag to keep all your stuff on you without having that side bag flopping around when you're walking, or slinging it, it gets stuck, and all that weight starts hurting your one shoulder. You can't roll a bag up a mountain. Every bag is good for something, but there's just some bags that are better for everything. For me, that's a backpack. Specifically, I like a backpack that opens from the back. It doesn't matter what brand it is, but if it opens from the back, that protects it from thieves. Six days ago, I was in Venice, Italy, and we were shooting some footage and I put my back down to grab some equipment, and I noticed three guys sitting on a bench. The second I put my bag down, they looked at each other. One got up, circled around behind me, pretend to talk on the phone, magically had a phone call. The other guy went around to his other side, and they effectively formed a triangle around me, and the one guy on the bench was keeping watch. I know what he was doing, I know what they were doing, I looked up, and I gave 'em the nod. Yeah, nice little, nice formation there. Real stellar. And he looked over at his friend went like this, and that was kinda the signal to tell them I had caught on and then they all went back and sat down. The phone magically went away and that phone call ended, and I zipped up my bag and left. So, you gotta be careful when you're traveling anywhere because people, people wanna steal your shit. So you gotta make sure it's safe, secure, and in order, and nobody's getting into that bag, except for you. I love the Lowepro ProTactic 450. They're not paying me to say this. It's just a sick bag, because it opens from the back.
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