35mm & 85mm Travel Photography in Kyoto, Japan Vlog

35mm & 85mm Travel Photography in Kyoto, Japan Vlog

hey everyone and welcome to Kyoto [Music] Japan 
I’m going to be here for the next 3 days with Dan hello and I’m going to be filming this entire 
video on the Lumix S9 so if you’re interested in seeing more video footage from this camera 
then watch today’s video cuz every single clip that you see is filmed on this camera so we made 
it to Kyoto yesterday from Asaka so if you haven’t watched the Asaka Vlog yet I’ll leave that link 
down below as well as my review video for the S9 which goes into more like tech details and 
like opinions and stuff about the [Music] camera jump cut to now because I wanted to do the 
intro tomorrow when my hair is nice and curly now I have it on so it’s the day before the intro but 
we are currently walking to dinner Dan’s with me but he always works ahead of me we’re going 
to a place to have katsu cuz it’s something that we haven’t had yet we’ve had sushi we’ve 
had udon we’ve had Ramen we’ve had a bunch of stuff but we haven’t had CSU yet so I’m very 
excited also testing out the weather ceiling on this camera because it is currently raining 
I’ll keep you guys posted I hope I don’t break this camera are we filming in 30p by the way 25 
25 okay doing 25 we were considering filming in 30 60p cuz of the lights here but I guess Dan’s 
decided against that can all deal with a bit of rolling shutter as as always I’m taking the 
opportunity to consider this a photo walk not just a walk to the restaurant so I’ve got the 
S5 2x with the 35 f1.8 of course and I’m just doing like some Street photos and taking 
photos of the things that I see along the way mostly Suzuki and mirrors the mountains 
are so cool professional [Music] [Applause] [Music] love the raindrops [Music] [Applause] [Music] pretty 
mirrors we’re just as obsessed with mirrors we as we are live we stayed at the NOA hotel 
for our entire trip to cuer and it was in a really good location for us it’s within 
10 minutes walking distance of the Kyo traditional town where all the famous streets 
and shrines are and about a 20 to 30 minute walk to all the food areas get right back and 
get like a white sh Japan is so inspiring for photography I absolutely love all the home 
and Shop fronts the streets have so many interesting colors signs and textures so it’s 
really fun to walk everywhere with your camera we went for dinner to nigata katsudon Tatu 
please forgive all my pronunciations I’m trying my best but it was really good Kyoto is a 
super popular tourist destination so at a lot of places you have to wait in line for dinner we 
waited around 10 15 minutes to be seated here but I usually take that time to read the menu on 
my phone and decide what to order we went for the simple katsu which comes with rice cabbage and 
miso soup dinner was amazing I loved it you so good so good yeah we’re just going to head back 
to the hotel and get ready for tomorrow tomorrow we’re going to wake up nice and early there’s no 
Sunrise so we’re not going to do sunrise tomorrow it’s going to be raining at 5:00 a.m. but we are 
still going to get up nice and early and we have like a full day of photography I had to turn on 
Synchro scan by the way because I was getting a lot of rolling shutter from all the lights now 
that it’s night time so I have my shutter speed set to 150° so hopefully that looks good that’s 
the point of this video you get to see what the quality looks like can you get a full body shot of 
my pants do they look funny because after Iceland they were so dirty from like all the black sand 
and the mud and stuff that I had to wash them and soak them and I shrunk them and I didn’t 
realize until I got here and I put them on and I was like oh there’s one left should we share 
we’re matching with our clip hello oh you very sweet good morning it is the following day 
and we were so exhausted so we woke up a bit later than we wanted to but either 
way we heading to the train station to catch a 20-minute train South to fimi 
Inari TAA Shrine the trains are really easy to understand in Japan especially if 
you use Google Maps it’ll tell you what platform to go to and we’ll show you all the 
different routes you can take to get [Music] somewhere this is our fault we can’t wake up early 
the shrine was absolutely packed when we got there but I knew that was going to happen since it was 
already getting a bit late at 9:00 a.m. so just a warning that you’re going to have to be a super 
early bird if you want to do photography at this location without too many people around either 
way this place is so beautiful it’s nestled in the forest with Pathways lined with hundreds of 
traditional Gates I love the contrast between the red gates and the mossy Green Forest although it 
did make it a little tricky to work out my white [Music] balance pretty cool I actually wish I 
had brought my drone with me on this trip but here kind of early like us it is possible to 
take some portraits if you wait a few minutes for a clearing of [Music] people let’s keep 
going yeah we found a nice spot here if you wait a little bit it gets like super quiet and 
there’s no one in the background and the light is really nice too cuz there’s like bits 
that’s really really dark also my hair is can I have my camera back D’s holding it for 
me thank you there is a stunning Viewpoint of the mountains up in this Shrine there is 
about a 40-minute walk all the way to the top but we decided to just walk the main part of the 
shrine instead before heading back to CUO [Music] [Music] I got the this is so cute so this is cherry 
blossom soft serve I know any soft serve in a color that I haven’t tried I’m going to try 
it cheers he wanted to stop filming at the most important part taste test what is cherry 
blossom I don’t know I’ve never had that before actually that’s really nice yeah cherry 
blossom I don’t know I don’t know what it tast like now that I’ve had a bit more time with the 
ice cream it’s like a very floral strawberry like that’s what the flavor reminds me of 
and this is why I review cameras and not food that’s how I feel my Instagram 
stories I’m just like eating and made we had some amazing sober noodles for lunge 
and then later that night we headed out to dinner does this happen to anyone else when 
they decide to head out just one time with out their camera that’s so beautiful wow I 
wish I had a camera D you cuz we’re going to just get food it’s so pretty the light is so 
nice but I was looking I downloaded a menu it’s got the QR code they’re like scann to see the 
menu and I took screenshots of each of the PDF Pages cuz it’s not in English to open in Google 
Translate when I it’s always when I open it in Google Translate that’s when I see it does have 
the English just there right there good morning it is almost 6:00 a.m. and the street there’s like 
I see two people last time we were here there was a thousand when we came with the bus tour it 
was like there wasn’t a th mid possibly 100,000 so like you could barely walk on this street 
and now it’s empty except I think where we’re going now that’s where all the people are going 
to be cuz not that early the sun rose at like 4:00 a.m. it was bright already I’m not getting 
up that early forget it uh right here [Music] actually we should take a pH L Now versus 
[Music] midday this street here looks so cool I definitely want to sh here yeah this right 
here oh that’s the Starbucks right there Dan really Goes Ham on the shutter while he’s 
taking photos of me does he know I have to sit through with then call all these images 
yeah that’s cool let me get a nice one of you oh that’s so [Music] cute we got 
some really nice portraits down that street it’s so cute but because it’s like a 
downward angle Street like the composition looks so nice cuz you’re just surrounded 
by these beautiful buildings around you that looks so pretty there’s a nice Shir 
there with that one [Music] too this is the street we were walking on with 
the bus tour oh my gosh I just realized no I know from the car park but like the exact 
street we’re walking on to this shrine [Music] W very cool I can’t believe 
how empty it is and it’s back [Music] lit I reckon we should go down the street 
we had the sober noodles which is just there cuz there’s a nice view of that from that building and 
it’s going to be back and then we get coffee also I feel like my hair is like let’s not talk about 
it we finds so nice sometimes not for portrait shoots but I do love using them for landscape and 
travel 200 mm plus if you’re wondering why we are not visiting any of the main shrines during this 
Cura trip it’s because just a week earlier while we were in Asaka with Lumix they did treat us to 
a date trip to Cur and took us to a few of the main shrines so if you want to see more of that 
please be sure to check out my Asaka [Music] Vlog I’m going to walk down the street Dan’s on an 85 
so that compression makes this street look so cool cuz it’s just straight down it’s like a roller 
coaster it’s only a 1H hour trip from Asaka to get to Kyoto so it’s very easy to come here for a day 
[Music] trip do you like the way I run for [Music] photos I just found like the temple 
he through this street little Alleyway I have been wearing these for ye 
maybe I should get some new ones no on a 35 I need to get really close to 
get a good shot otherwise it’s like too much sky looks better from back there maybe 
I should put an 85 on okay yeah do you have the 85 yes that I require wow 
look how cute that is that’s so cute you want the 85 yes please here’s the 
invo I don’t have money I don’t have any money no money just give me out of 
the kindness of your h please your money no5 please I have no money oh no wow okay when 
in doubt put on a long lens usually I use a 70 to 200 as my long lens but because Lumix has this 
teeny tiny little 85 I like using an 85 cuz primes for life except for my 70 to 200 and the 200 to 
600 I just like taking portraits of everything people objects animals streets trees moons a 
that’s so pretty I love it wow I love it you can see the mountains in the background too so I 
feel like that’s really special here where you’ve got the beautiful streets and then the mountains 
that’s why my hair is so big my hair causes me so much stress in life you don’t even know I think 
that’s why I have a headache if anyone has a good therapist that deals with hair issues please send 
me the email and you know what I’m going to look back and be like it looks fine why am I crying 
about it that’s what I tell her all the time I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know I feel like 
it would be cool to get a shot of someone riding a bike past oh yeah so let’s wait for a bike the 
problem is there’s no bikes maybe I’ll take a cab breakfast we were going to get some pancakes 
but the line is even longer than when we were here the first day so we’re just going to get pancakes 
in Tokyo instead actually I was going to say I was saying to Dan that this Vlog is entirely us 
doing street photography on the way to food like literally that’s all we’re doing here I mean 
I think that’s like the best way to travel though right right I just realized that I have my 85 on 
my camera I thought it was a 35 guess where the 35 is in dance bag at the hotel so we’re just going 
to make the 85 work I had like 35 in my brain does that ever happen to you now I need to rewire 
rewire my thoughts I just like held it off and I was like oh disappointment I have 18 you’re going 
to Vlog on at 85 yeah I mean we can’t [Music] vog we are headed to Nya station in Tokyo I think 
it’s like a 2 and 1/2 hour bullet train from Tokyo from Tokyo from Tokyo to Tokyo it’s a 2 
and 1/ half hour train ride from Kyoto to Tokyo and it’s really beautiful like getting to see the 
countryside there’s so many rice patties mountains so much Greenery this is really beautiful also 
we’re sitting on this left side because fingers crossed we get to see Mount Fuji as we get closer 
to Tokyo but it is really cloudy today so I don’t have my herbs up too high I don’t want to talk 
too loud so I’m whispering into the microphone this is in case I forget what my name is I could 
just it’s Julia what no one knows is that I travel with Julia 1 and Julia 2 and this is currently 
jully at two I wish two things number one we’re in Tokyo what that happen we caught the bullet train 
from Kyoto to Tokyo it took like 2 hours and 40 minutes we did upgrade our seeds cuz we have our 
massive big suitcases with us which by the way is super humbling traveling around Japan with giant 
suitcases especially when you can’t find elevators we have to Lug like 30 kilos each up and down 
the stairs it’s fine it’s fine we’re just going to need a good surgeon it’s an experience yeah 
the train was super comfortable we bought some snacks so we could have some lunch while we were 
traveling and the views were super pretty we did pick the left side so we could see Mount Fuji but 
it was covered in clouds so we didn’t get lucky we saw the bottom we saw the bottom second thing 
I’m Vlogging right now on the S9 but also from my brand new lens was not brand new but when we got 
to Tokyo we were like talking about it the whole time in the car about how I want like a little 
but aut Focus lens okay bye it never finishes the story I really wanted a small lens and this 
is a lens that I’ve reviewed already on my channel I’ll leave that video link down below if 
you want to watch it but I ended up buying the sigma 24 mm f3.5 I am really enjoying using the 
the S lenses from Lumix like they work great on this camera as well but we’re going to Disneyland 
tomorrow and I really wanted to bring this camera but not not with a manual Focus lens that the 26 
pancake cuz I’m like I don’t want to work and I’m at Disneyland so I was like let me just get an 
autofocus lens and I can have this as like an everyday camera and it’s going to entice me to 
use it for like little things here and there so I’m very excited okay well it’s so loud here in 
Tokyo but sorry guys sorry for the audio go to a side street she doesn’t listen to me it’s such 
a nice like it’s such a cool street but that is the end of my Kyoto vlog vog I really hope you 
enjoyed that let me know which ones were your favorite photos as always down in the comments 
below and since I’m in Tokyo you know it I’m starting a Tokyo Vlog right now so I’ll see you 
in the next one thank you so much for watching bye

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Hey everyone! Welcome to part 2 of my vlogs from Japan! This time we are in beautiful Kyoto exploring the streets with my camera. If you haven’t checked it out yet, here are some other videos from this trip:

Osaka vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA-CMrafVlc&t
LUMIX S9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Qf3Uro9bI&t
My last travel vlog from Antarctica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMGSIT1mq34

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