Daily Vlog in ATX FIlmed with DJI Osmo Pocket 3 | Active Tracking, Mic Test & Low Light Performance

[Music] [Music] good morning y' welcome to the Vlog my name is SN and I got a new camera so I wanted to do a full Vlog testing it out it's the DJI osmo 3 pocket or osmo pocket 3 I've been eyeing this camera for a very long time now but I just didn't think that it would beat the quality of my main vlogging camera which I shoot on the Sony a74 but this year I almost gave up on vlogging because it just seemed a little bit less convenient than vlogging on your iPhone for Tik Tok and I would have to bring my chunky camera and nowadays it's probably more normalized to bring your camera around but with the rise of Tik Tok and being able to do those shorter Vlogs that honestly get more attention than my YouTube videos do I was kind of transitioning over there but then I was like okay I can't just give up on something I have built for like 10 years 10 plus years so I wanted to get back into YouTube I'm so glad I am so I thought getting this pocket camera would help that and just like make me Vlog in spaces that I might not Vlog with my bigger camera but I wanted to test out the quality because I know they're not going to be the same like nothing's going to beat my Sony but I do feel like I Vlog on my iPhone a lot more two years ago I was on people vlogging on their phones but now I have the mentality that it's better to get something out and about rather than nothing thing and just like telling people that you're doing things like a vlog is supposed to be showing you out and about and showing you doing things so I think this camera will definitely help with that it is currently 7:26 I have to walk over to a location I am a photographer and my Niche is UT grads this is my second to last session of the year so I'm super excited it is a very cold day so I brought my big um jacket back there I have like my personal Instagram and Tik Tok account but I also have all my photography socials and I do love posting short firm content so I also thought this could help for that so let's go over and meet my grad over at the tower anytime I walk up this hill I'm like dying I'm always out of breath also I forgot to mention but I want this Vlog to be a day in the life of a self-employed person I got this new little pocket camera and I'm so excited about it so just going to take some content with this go all the way to the top come to the edge with your shoes perfect and then set in your necklace for me and like leave it unzipped and then yeah the stole will kind of cover the zippers so I just want you to make that you're walking kind straight you walk [Music] you like hook them or something cute perfect yeah got and let's do the back toe a little toe we went a little over on the shoot because the lighting was just so pretty I could not stop myself it is 9:18 and I'm about to go over to a coffee shop to meet another photographer I've actually never met her before but I recently followed her on Instagram like this year she's also a grad photographer at UT I mean she probably does a lot of other stuff but I love her grad photos they're very different from mine and I just really appreciate like the art of her photos so I thought I'd reach out and see if she wanted to meet up anytime I do this though I do feel like the other photographers going to think that I want something from them which I really don't I just want other friends that do similar things to me so that they could relate like I could vent they could vent as much as I love venting to Ryan he just doesn't understand it on the level that other photographers understand you know what I mean so it's just nice to have other photographers that you can meet up with especially if they're doing it full-time too because a lot of my corporate friends like they can't just meet up at a coffee shop on a random what is today Thursday Wednesday um so it's just nice to be able to like get out of the house and socialize basically with my co-workers I used to do the all the time and I really want to get back into it cuz I feel like ever since we moved into our house I love it so much that I don't want to leave and I now have a beautiful office and just a lot of spots around the home that I can work at but I feel like I need to like socialize with other people other than my boyfriend because me and my boyfriend work from home so I feel like we're around each other 24/7 and like it's not the worst thing cuz I actually really like that he works from home but I do need to get out of the house sometimes these were my first couple of hours using this little camera so I thought I would talk about things that I've noticed number one the little camera lens is like popping off so I'm using the wideangle lens right now I'll show you guys what it looks like with it taken off see okay so this is without this little attachment that comes with the Creator combo package and then this is with it on so that's wide angle and it will literally like pop off sometimes so I'm really scared that I'm going to lose lose it also I feel like my fingerprints are already all over the lens so I need to start carrying like a microfiber cloth around with me which I do have one in my camera bag um but maybe I just need to like put one in my purse because that's going to annoy the out of me because then the quality is going to decrease and I feel like it's already not as amazing as my Sony as I said like multiple times so those are the things that I have noticed already I think the battery is already going down like pretty fast I did think that it was going to last a while um I think it started at like 80 this morning and it's probably like around 50 I was filming like a good bit I would say but if I was traveling I would be filming way more and I feel like the battery would already be at zero with a Creator combo pack it does come with an extra battery pack but that's just another thing that you kind of have to bring along with you so that's kind of annoying but I just wanted to make note that I do see the battery going down pretty fast it is getting lighter out thank goodness it's a sunny day and so it's probably a little bit better quality than the morning since I was filming in lower light but I am curious about the low light situation on this camera so I'll try to get some Vlog Clips tonight so that we can kind of test that [Music] [Music] out we got Maz I'm here with Natalie hey cheers perf I got this like ginger syrup in mine so let's do a taste test we just got simple syrup right yeah I got simple syrup this one's good Asian approved M it yeah I feel like it is you like the ginger yeah it's good okay I'll get it next time that's not dumy I love like the different kinds of syrups I was just telling her though I feel like lavender should be like a staple yeah yeah I feel like it usually is I guess this place doesn't have it yeah have to choose [Music] from want to do a quick touchup after drinking my matcha Natalie was so sweet I'm so glad I reached out to her and now I have a new tuer for friend which makes me so happy just to know another face around campus I need to look on my calendar of what I have to do next I do have some admin work on the computer um and then I have a shoot at 300 p.m. it is a 2hour session so we're going to start a little bit earlier which next year I'm going to stop offering 2hour sessions cuz I just feel like it's not necessary most times I can get everything done in an hour and 30 minutes unless they have like locations that they want want to go to that are pretty far away from the tower but I'm just so glad it's sunny out today because like I feel like my mood is just better and obviously the photos are just going to turn out so good one thing about me though I'm very tight Bay and I never want to be super late to anything so if my shoot is at 3: and then let's say like the drive is 20 minutes I like to leave my house at 2:00 and then I can always edit in the car um but I just never want to be late because that's like my biggest fear one thing I need to do right when I get home is upload all the photos to my computer get them off this SD card and somewhere safe also I just got a matcha and no food and I desperately need to eat something usually I eat a little bit earlier than this I never was a huge breakfast person but ever since working out a lot more I feel like I need protein and it definitely helps with the energy so I need to get something in my system when I get home also update on the battery it is 20% like what the freak when we were at the picnic table I tried to show you guys a comparison of like the lighting behind us when it was back lit and the lighting in front of us and lowkey liked the lighting behind like this it just looked a little bit better in my opinion I don't think I realized how freaking hungry I was but I am sto so I'm just going to heat up leftovers I made like these chicken tacos last night but well not really tacos I guess it's just like a rice bowl there's not much rice in here it's just like pretty much all chicken but honestly think I just need some protein also while I'm home I think I'm just going to put this thing on the charger even though I have the battery pack I don't really want to use it if I don't have to you know so I'm gonna put it on the charger after I eat doesn't look great but it's gonna taste amazing it took about an hour to charge it to 100% but we are back I didn't realize the glamour filter was on this whole entire time so now it is turned off I don't know if you can tell a difference but I'm going to probably keep it off for the rest of the video usually when there's like a softening skin filter on cameras I feel like the quality just is a little bit worse but obvious obiously then it makes you look like you have really great skin I also wanted to test out this little DJI mic it comes in the Creator pack and so this is with it on and the last clip was with it off what do we think do we like the mic or do we think the audio is good enough to not have to use the mic I'm in my house right now and it's pretty quiet so it's probably not the best place to test this it's not really windy outside though I'm really hoping that the audio is good enough just with the osmo pocket 3 because this is just one other thing you have to charge and bring around with you I know there's a bunch of accessories that you can buy for the pocket 3 and I have a couple coming in the mail um I bought a screen protector and I think I also got a magnetic case so you could like prop it up pretty much anywhere that's metal and there's a ton more that you can buy I have seen this case where you can mount other things onto it but then it just makes it a little bit more clunky and really the whole point of this mini camera is for it to be as small as possible but I'm pretty sure you can prop this little mic onto that case so so if I look back in the audio is night and day I might end up getting that case just so I could kind of prop it up back here and I won't have to hold it what does it sound like when it's back here where the camera is is it better is it worse is there a difference they also have an app this is DJI mimo and you can kind of change the settings on here you can change the settings on the camera itself but I feel like this is just easier um because it's a bigger screen had to do some research for the next thing I wanted to show you guys but I've been curious about how the camera kind of follows you if you just prop it up all you have to do is double tap on your face and you can see active track is enabled so basically I'm going to start the camera and we're going to put it down here as you can see the camera is following me this active track is going to be so useful for so many things like even just random Vlogs if you're cooking in your kitchen and you're grabbing a spice over here but your face still wants to show or if I'm photographing a session and my client moves that is going to be very helpful because most of the time I'll have my client move to different areas and I'll forget to pick up my phone and my tripod and like move it to have them in the shot so this is going to be so freaking cool and it's as easy as double tapping the subject on the screen I'm going to be really sad when I have to take this Christmas tree down it's just so festive and makes me feel so cozy in my house um but I wanted to take the time to talk about being self-employed recently actually somebody asked me how it's going and if I could just give an update I quit my corporate job I want to say it's been three years now or maybe two full years I can't really remember but it's been a while and I have not looked back once I feel like I've said that multiple times I'm so so thankful that I have multiple streams of income so I don't have to rely on one or the other I'm a photographer and I also do content creation so when it's my busy season of photography I don't take as many brand deals for my personal accounts whereas December and Q4 is a huge time for taking brand deals and so I feel like I definitely have a lot less shoots during that time it honestly just works out that way being in the photography industry for a while now I kind of know what months are going to be busy and what months are going to be slow so I can kind of prep myself for that because when I first quit my corporate job I didn't know the slow months for Content creation and unfortunately I quit my job in December and then the slow months for January and February so I was kind of freaking out but I've realized you know it kind of just like es and flows for both of my careers one thing I will say is that I still have not been able to get my priorities straight because I'm balancing two businesses and I never know which one to make a priority even though I'm pretty sure I do make more from content creation I just still want to make photography a thing and I want to be able to be consistent post on my Instagram post on my Tik Tok um but it's hard when you're balancing the personal stuff too especially when you're working with Brands because you don't want all your content to be branding content so I feel the need to put out even more organic content my boyfriend likes to say I'm a control freak which honestly he's not wrong because I've tried to delegate things in the past like I've hired a couple video editors I've had an assistant um and it was pretty helpful but at the same time you have to take the time to train someone else and it's hard to make the time for that and also just making sure that they have enough work um so that they can make money to I did a trial period with a management company this year and I went exclusive with them I've never done that before I've pretty much negotiated my own brand deals for the past how many years have I been doing this I think like 10 plus I decided to see what it was all about and I don't think it's for me I just don't think I have enough volume of brand Partnerships that I need someone else's help like I could be doing that I know how to send invoices I've been negotiating for myself for the past like I said 10 years it's honestly not a big deal for me to be emailing back and forth with a brand because I do have the time to do so I mean even though I'm like always scatterbrained and everything I am on my computer and I'm around my phone all the time so starting January I will no longer be in the trial with them I am really proud of myself for at least giving it a try because I would have always wondered what it would be like you know being with an agency but like I said at this time it's just not needed unfortunately I need to sit down and kind of go through all my goals for the next year I feel like I haven't been really motivated lately for the longest time my biggest motivator was buying a house and we did that so I just need to kind of find the next goal of mine obviously saving money will be one of them but I feel like I want more of like a visual goal just like that we are back on UT's campus I have one more shoot for the day I am losing energy by the minute I had to pop open a Diet Coke because it was a little too late to crack open and Nani new drink coffee anything like that so I was like okay let's do a Diet Coke mini and hopefully it gives me a little bit of energy I'm waiting for it to hit but I'm going to go walk over and meet my grad I'm not sure how much I'm going to film um for this session just cuz I feel like it's pretty similar to the last but we'll see back home and I ended up vlogging nothing from that shoot because I forgot that I put this little pocket three in my camera bag and honestly it was just like moving so fast the session was 2 hours and she wanted to do a lot of locations so there was no time to like really just Vlog with that being said I am so tired it was an amazing session the lighting was just so good it was a stunning day but basically for the whole 2 hours I'm just like non-stop yapping because I'm like okay move your hair here or bring your sto over here so I'm just like constantly telling them exactly like how to pose and like how to move so I am drained especially after two sessions today and a coffee meet up that was just like a lot of socialization for me which is funny cuz earlier today I was like I don't get enough of this but sometimes when it all happens on the same day it's like okay that was a little too much so I'm cooking dinner and I'm going to make Trader Joe's Habachi fried rice I'm on a mission to go through all of my in my freezer I actually cleaned a lot out of this freezer we have um a garage fridge so I just found this and honestly it's perfect because I didn't grow grocery shopping this week and I really don't know why I didn't I should have but I just go in waves of wanting to cook and not wanting to cook and I knew I had a lot of photo sessions this week and sometimes when I get home it's like late so I'm just like a we should just like get some food out we don't do Uber Eats like that much but I still feel like we do it too much like every time we order on Uber Eats I feel so guilty because the service charge the delivery fee like it all adds up and I'm just like how is it so expensive I mean I get it but like also it's just crazy cuz we could just literally go pick it up ourselves but we don't it's all about convenience today was a very jam-packed day for sonali Productions which is my photography business and not so much my personal stuff and honestly it's a mix of everything on a daily basis I almost never just focus on one side of it like I always am just so scatterbrained between both of them ran is coming home he is actually in the process of looking to buy another car he went over to a car dealership and apparently they said one thing and then they like had a miscommunication he is trying to find a car and I swear it's been months every night he is just like looking for cars online and I'm just like when will this end so I was excited that he was about to buy a car and then it didn't work out and I was like dang he's coming home right now hopefully this fried rice will be ready by by the time he gets home I think he's going to go to the gym after dinner which is nice cuz then I can have a little breather and alone time in bed I just have a lot of to edit I always have a lot of to edit whether that's photos or Tik toks or Instagram reels for both of you know my accounts like my personal and my photo account so there's always I could be doing my brain literally never turns off but I would not give it up for the world I'm currently thawing salmon I'm hoping THS out in time um so we can just get a little protein in this meal I always put some sesame oil in my fried rice I feel like the flavor is just so much better a light drizzle for now I just made homemade yum yum sauce and it's so good I'm actually so excited for this meal um I put the salmon in the oven we like our fried rice EXT extra crispy and salmon oh uhoh the salmon is looking good and smelling good all right guys look how freaking good this looks it is 800 p.m. and I'm about to get in bed I have no shame honestly I'm just going to do some editing I already started editing a reel for my photography Tik Tok and I just need to finish that up and post that because it's going to be too late in like an hour I always think my Prime posting time at least on Tik Tok for both accounts is like 7 to 8 so I need to quickly edit that and get that posted but I wanted to end the Vlog here I hope you guys enjoyed this Vlog of seeing a little Peak into my daily life as a self-employed girly and let me know what you guys think about this camera if you're curious about what I usually use you can go watch any other Vlog um I usually film on my Sony like I said and the quality is definitely going to be better and I know that for sure but like I said this just is so much more convenient so I'm really really hoping that the quality is like maybe somewhat compared terrible at least like out and about um because then maybe I could just film on my Sony at home and like have that good quality at home but then when I'm out and about I can take this little guy so what do we think also this is in low light I just have my Christmas tree lighting me up and I took off my makeup so sorry for the jump scare I don't know why my lips look so freaking red right now seriously please comment and let me know what you guys prefer I'm always just trying to find like the best set set up for vlogging but let me know if you guys want any other comparisons like maybe this versus my iPhone camera or if you want to see me use a specific setting on this camera um I'm planning on doing some Tik toks for it but I wanted to kind of get this live before posting about it on Tik Tok so if you guys want to go follow me on Tik Tok it's @ soor narly without G if you guys are new here don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you guys in my next Vlog bye [Music]