Hi guys! Today I want to show you some Behind-the-Scene secret look at how we created the Ultimate Landscape Photography Course.
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Highlights from this video:
0:29 Funny Moments
1:35 Essential Software
1:53 Trello
5:12 Wistia
7:40 Sony Vegas
10:13 Google Hangouts
Funny moments behind the scenes 🙂
Jay, Varina, Johny and I had so much fun recording this course – you have to check out the funny bits in this video above. I love the bit where Jay and Varina try to speak Australian!
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Essential software to manage the team!
The four essential pieces of software that we use to manage this course are:
How do we know who is doing what?
Trello.com
We use Trello to organize the five people working on the Ultimate Landscape Photography course. We live in three different time zones and three different continents; and thus we’re all working at different times of the day. Johny and I are in Australia, Jay and Varina are in the USA, and then we have Russel who lives in Scotland.
Jay, Russel, and I are cutting some of the videos, while Jay and Varina are adding comments and still images to make sure the videos look awesome by the time you guys get to watch them – and help you become better landscape photographers.
Trello is a really cool piece of software. You can list down several tasks to help you keep track of the necessary things needed to be done. You can also leave comments on each card and even tag people to notify them that you left a comment for them. I strongly recommend that you test it out if you need to organize and manage a team working on a single project.
another essential website we use is…
Wistia.com
The second software that we use is Wistia, a place where we upload our videos and you guys get to watch them. Unlike YouTube, Wistia is a private place where only the people who signed-up for the course can actually view the videos. As of the moment, we have already uploaded quite a few lessons that you guys can take a look at.
How do we edit these videos?
Sony Vegas
Of course, we have Sony Vegas, which is the video editing software that we use to create these amazing videos. There are a lot of things happening when filming and editing a video. We actually use two video cameras and sometimes, you get two different audio sources too. We link up the videos and make sure they’re synchronized through the different settings and options in Sony Vegas.
How do we communicate in real time?
Google Hangouts
Lastly, we use Google Hangouts to update each other and make sure that we’re all on track, and that we’re doing the right things for this course.
I hope you enjoyed this little BTS secret look at how we’re managing this huge course, which is going to be awesome by the time we get it out in the coming weeks.
Do leave your comments below and I’ll be sure to respond to them.
This is Brent, have a great day!
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Till now I like the Ultimate Landscape Photography Course very much (I’m just on chapter 10).
It is very nice to see professional photographers also admit on doing errors. The only comment (till now) that I have, is just some artistically view. When you are filming Jay & Varina close up, it seams that you have tracked their heads/eyes so that you reduce camera-shake. I think it is a little bit confusing. Maybe reducing it or adding some kind of tolerance would not confuse about what is happening with the background. Just an idea. Not a critique 🙂
Thanks Michael. Can you give me the time code in minutes and seconds and the video name so that I can see what you mean. There are over 30 videos and a lot of footage in this course. Thanks again for the feedback. Brent
Did not have time to look up all videos. So here are two that caught my eye. It is mostly noticeable when the head (of Jay or Varina) is moving to much or even rotating.
Again it is maybe just an artistically/cosmetically thing. So please don’t be offended. I like what I’ve seen till now very much!!
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Thanks Michael. I’m a firm believer in admitting to mistakes. 🙂 I don’t see any shame in making mistakes now and then – as long as you learn from them. And learning from someone else’s mistakes is even better… so I share mine with you so you don’t have to make the same mistake yourself. 😉
This course looks awesome!…Since taking your courses I am really enjoying photography a lot! I really love landscape photography the best and excited for this new course. You guys are doing a wonderful job and can’t wait to see the final results~Best of Luck
Wow, thanks for the kind words about my courses Deanna. This course is totally awesome, I even learned a lot from Jay and Varina. Enjoy. Brent
Would LOVE to have this course. It looks wonderful! I bought a Nikon D7100 and a 10-24 zoom. Haven’t used them yet, but hoping they are ‘good enough’ equipment (cropped sensor) for great images!!!! Right now I am so broke I am selling things from my storage just to eat. So I was looking where to register for a CHANCE AT WINNING this course!!!! I didn’t find it……am I blind!? Help!
Thanks, Sidney Fry
Whoops, sorry Sid. Here it is: http://eepurl.com/NBjOn Brent
Looks like a superb course !!!!!
Thanks John, it is a superb course. I learned so much about Landscape Photography from Jay and Varina, they are really good teachers – and great people to hang out with too. Brent
Brent : Just watched the freebee lesson ,,,,,,Oh my how exciting !! Very personal real and informative ,,,like being there in person.. This is good stuff.. Makes you want to hang out with you guys and absorb all this great experience and knowledge . Thank you for producing a great course with soooooo much info!! Yours’ truly : John
No worries – we have all put everything into this course – to make it the “Ultimate Landscape Photography Course” and I believe it is. We are getting a heap of comments right now within the lessons in the course, people are loving it – and giving us some really good tips on how we can polish it up for launch date. Brent