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I've never used the
timer on my watch before.
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That's all right.
Whatever.
It probably make a noise like pee.
Well, that, that's just
food in the microwave.
Guys.
We did not eat breakfast.
Yeah.
All guys.
Welcome to ISO Insiders.
Woohoo.
Um, which is what?
Episode eight?
I don't even remember.
All I know is the first episode of 2025.
2025.
We are back.
Y'all back in the studio?
Yeah, it's, you know, we
started this in the middle of
the holidays where we all have.
You know, obligations, it's
like, you know, it's like,
you know, a lot was going on
families,
you know, other gigs
and stuff like that, so.
Right.
So we get busy and stuff like that.
We are a working studio, so,
but we did make it past episode
seven and you know what they
say about podcasts, right?
Fail after they normally fail.
Yeah.
Right.
Episode seven.
So we are already doing better than
the majority of them out there.
Yeah.
I think this is episode eight.
I don't know.
I don't remember.
We can check
later.
We'll check later.
But, so maybe, maybe we're there
or we're just over the customer.
Mm-hmm.
I dunno, how's your vacation, bro?
Uh, pretty good.
I'm actually still on vacation.
Oh, aren't you?
Lucky I won't go back to work until,
like, the next couple days or so.
Um, but, uh, overall pretty good.
Mm-hmm.
Um, how's the, your, the year's been so
far?
I mean, listen.
It was a little slow at first, but then
last night had to do a big power shoot.
Had a lot of gorgeous
women running around.
Uh, scarcity clad apparently.
And, uh, you know what?
Fun story.
I packed a whole lot of equipment.
I came last, uh, I came yesterday to the
studio, picked it up, got to the house.
I took my bag inside being
paranoid for some reason.
Mm-hmm.
With the cameras in it.
Got dressed up with Chris left, made it
all the way down to Queen's FD Studio.
Parked up only to find out
I left the cameras at home.
I left the cameras at home, bro.
Do you?
I was about to do a little U-turn and
just drive right back home and just
call it a night and eat some popcorn.
And then I went up, I was like, you know
what, I'm gonna go upstairs and just
say hi to everybody and then bounce.
And then when I got up there,
I was like, you know what?
I probably could just shoot
everything on my phone because I've
done shoots on my phone before.
My phone is nice.
I got the S 24 Ultra.
I was about to make it work.
Yeah.
And then I remember when I was working
at an old car company, um, an EV company,
we used to ship plates back and forth.
Using, uh, using Lyft.
Oh.
So I called Stephanie my wife,
and I was like, yo, can you
put my camera bag in a Lyft?
Oh, waited 45 minutes package.
I just tracked my freaking,
no, it wasn't even package.
It's my, it's my book bag.
Took a Lyft.
Yeah.
No, it's a package.
It's
like a package delivery.
Yeah.
It was Uber.
Does it?
Yeah, Uber has it.
Lyft, that's not, so I just, so I
had to book it as a regular ride.
Oh, I just put it as a note in there and
say, Hey, you're bringing my book bag.
Okay.
And I have to wait 45 minutes.
But, you know, I made it work.
They, the models loved it.
Got some great shots.
Mm-hmm.
You know what?
And modern problems require modern
solutions, so I made it work.
So that's what up.
Okay.
It was a very, it was adventurous
last night, but that, that works.
That works.
But anyway, uh, this, this episode
is like, like first episode of
the new year as a special one.
'cause we have a guest with us.
You.
Uh, Mr.
Gill, uh, sorry, I don't think
your last name Gi I'm sorry.
What was your, what's your last name?
Uh, Dous Ian?
No, Dous.
Dous.
Dous.
Oh, okay.
Sounds like a character
out of, uh, Warhammer.
I feel like
Dous, the barbarian Yo
Matter fact, he got the, he got the voice.
He could listen one of
those characters right now.
It could be a Space Marine right there.
Oh, you know
about Space Marines, man.
Oh bro.
Oh Lord, don't get him started.
Oh, bro, I'm a huge war Hammer fan, bro.
This is a huge, I'm a huge
war Hammer fan.
Like, don't even get me started.
Yeah, don't even, I'm, I'm over
there playing Space Marines
tour right now on Xbox though.
Lemme get me started.
Yeah.
So, you know, welcome, uh, Gail.
We, uh, appreciate you.
He's, uh, pretty much calling in
from Florida, uh, you know, while
we we're freezing in New York.
Oh, what's the temperature
down there, bro?
It's still, it's kind of cold here.
Uh, so it's like 50 something degrees.
'cause we're getting
that cold front as well.
Kind of.
Hold on.
Kind of cool.
Lemme take the temperature back right now.
I think we got twenties.
Gotta be twenties right now.
Oh, lemme see.
29.
This morning I went for a run.
I ran like four miles and it was 53
degrees, so it was pretty chilly.
And that's chilly.
And also it was by the beach.
So windy.
Ooh.
And, and the thing I tell people all
the time is like, Florida isn't cold.
Right.
Because we, you know, it is pretty hot.
Mm-hmm.
But we do have more
moisture and more humidity.
Mm-hmm.
So it's like, even if it gets colder,
it's more colder because it's.
A lot more moisture in the air.
Yeah.
Versus like New York or wherever
else where it's more dry.
So that's like the most annoying
thing when, when I tell people,
oh gosh, it's super cold.
No, it's not, it's not snowing.
But dude, there's like so much
moisture in the air that we
just feel it and it's windy.
I, I live by the beach, so
it's just constant wind.
Every single time
I give you props for saying
that you did a four mile run.
I'm trying over there just
to get a regular mile run.
You gotta get it in,
man.
You got,
and I'm, I run with a, a run group,
it's called, uh, we run on Sundays.
It's a, a group.
It's like almost like
an accountability thing.
And I do content front.
So it's like, all right, I'm coming
in there every day, every Sunday at
6:00 AM and we run and I take photos,
videos, and then I get my workout in,
and then I could do a podcast like this.
Then do gigs.
So it's like, it's, it's a full day.
I gotta do it.
AM is crazy.
That is a full day right there.
I used
to do actually runs at, uh,
whenever I drop, uh, Stephanie at
a train station in the morning.
'cause you know, she gotta take like
the six, six in the morning train.
Mm.
So what I used to do was actually do like
little walks around the park, uh, the park
by me or do, runs around that whole track.
But because the, the
track doesn't even open.
As early, it opens at
seven and I'm there at six.
I gotta walk outside the track.
Oh.
So I have been motivated lately
to do that because I just, I'm
tired of having to dodge cars.
I wanna actually go.
On the actual track, but by the time
I make it back home inside toast
and warm, I'm like, I'm over it.
I don't even do it anymore.
I need to.
That, that is,
that's a
lot.
But, uh, but yeah, it's, Gil,
thank you for being here.
Word for like, you know, just
introduce you to folks like Gil
is a, uh, studio owner in Florida.
Ooh, part of club.
Yeah.
If you're trying to do podcast
stuff or just like, uh, I would
say, uh, production work in Florida.
Hit 'em up, man.
You know, it's like, uh, that's a.
You know, he does, I think he
does pretty good quality stuff.
Um, he uses your favorite cameras,
Sonys my, my, my ecosystem of choice.
Yes.
But the crazy thing is
I'm not a Sony shooter.
I still consider myself a Nikon guy, even
though I, I have a bevy of Sony cameras.
My heart still bleeds Nikon Gold,
so, okay, so what do you
shoot photography with
Sonia?
A seven four.
All right.
So what do you use the Nikon for?
So the Nikon for me, I
have the Nikon D seven 50.
That's more so like my backup Yeah.
Photography camera.
And I really love the
dynamic range on that camera.
Okay.
It's really high and the photos to me look
more realistic and they're less sharp.
Compared to the Sony A seven four.
Mm-hmm.
And it's so weird, even for video,
what, uh, I used to, I have a YouTube
channel and the videos that I have
shot with my Sony, uh, a seven
four or a, or a seven C compared
to my Nikon D seven 50 look better.
And I've gotten way more, uh,
compliments on my look and the lighting
and my setup versus the Sony, like,
I'll, I'll make a tutorial about.
Shoot.
Yeah.
Green eggs and ham on the D
seven 50 and like a 30 comments
is like, yo, this looks so good.
What is this?
What camera are you using?
The Sony Great information, bro.
I love the video.
Uh, I love your dialogue.
Awesome points.
But then the, the Nikon, they're
like, what are you shooting with?
What is that?
It is just a really nice.
Soft, not too sharp, not artificial.
Look, and I love it.
I need to check out these videos
because at the same time, you know
what, it could also be lens choice.
Hmm.
Yeah.
So lens choice, obviously.
Yes.
The lens I was using was a
50 millimeter F1 0.4 lens.
Mm-hmm.
But it is just the glass, the
coating on the, on the lens is it,
it probably a little bit better.
And it's dated, it's, I use older nik
icon lenses versus the new super sexy
Nik uh, Sony cameras and the Sonia lenses
with all their super high sharp glass.
And it just looks great.
But when you put an older
glass on, on your camera.
It does something to the eye.
It makes it, especially us old folks.
Right.
You know, like I, I remember
one time I did a photo shoot.
I was doing a photo shoot and
I threw like petroleum jelly.
Mm-hmm.
On my.
Yep.
And then the client was like,
whatever you did that was amazing.
The photo looks great.
And I'm like, yeah, I
just made it more blurry.
But for us, we just love nostalgia.
Mm-hmm.
And it's like anything like out of focus,
like out of focus photos and videos now
are kind of coming back to some reason.
Yeah.
It's weird.
Yeah.
So it's funny.
It's weird.
It's funny that you said that because as
soon as you said, talk about the Nikon D
seven 50, I was thinking about, uh, lens
stretches, like I said, and I actually
have, um, an older lens back from World
War ii, apparently in Russia or Ukraine.
I don't remember which one.
The Helios 44 22.
Yes.
It's a, yeah, I have, have that, that same
lens.
And I have the adaptive frame.
I haven't shot with it in a while.
I was just like, I should
probably throw that bad.
Yep, yep.
I have that right over there in that
cabinet and I was like, I need to
throw that on there and take some,
uh, try some shoots with it because
it's such a nice vintage look with it.
Yeah.
The only thing is you have to, you
know, it's manual focus, so you gotta
sit there ready to take your time.
I really, you know.
It's manual focused.
It's manual focused and
also has lots of radiation.
So if we own it, we all have cancer,
like it
is
straight out of Chernobyl.
No, I'm kidding.
No, I'm kidding.
It's,
it's, no, I mean, I remember
reading like about the lens and
being so super excited and watching
maybe Caleb Pike and a few other.
Uh, uh, creators and I bought the lens.
Mm-hmm.
And then I went on Reddit.
Hey guys, if you guys bought this lens,
you guys, you guys gotta demagnetize
it or de radiation it or whatever.
I'm like, why?
Yeah.
This thing probably been through
war and it has like radiation.
I'm like, oh, okay.
Well bought this eBay for like 12 bucks.
Yep.
Years ago.
Yep.
I bought mine back in like 20 18,
20 19, somewhere around there.
And I used it a few times,
probably around the time.
And I got some good, I got some good
footage out of it, but it's been so
long, I've been so hung up on these, uh,
on the newer lenses, like Tamron, I've
been really rocking my Tamron lenses.
Mm-hmm.
Um, I got a Sigma 30 millimeter 1.4
for crop sensor that's really frigging
sharp and beautiful for, for video.
Yeah.
So like, I've been really hung up
on those lenses and like right now
I was talking to my boy, say like, I
really wanna get that, uh, the Tamron
35 to one 50, uh, F two to F 2.8.
I rented it once for a wedding.
Gorgeous glass, gorgeous,
gorgeous piece of glass.
And I got so many compliments on those.
But there is something to be said about
that vintage look that's just giving
you that sense of nostalgia where it's
just like, it's a dreamy atmosphere.
Now, technically you could do
that with like a blackness filter.
I've done that just to take
off the sharpness a little
bit.
Literally just bought a,
a few black miss filters.
Mm-hmm.
And also just bought me a small
rig, uh, what do you call that?
The, the, the, the light box thing?
The mat box.
And, um, I bought the glass, so it's
like a quarter, uh, black mis glass
that I'm gonna put over the map box.
Yeah.
Wanted to be more, trying to be more
cinematic with my, um, a seven four.
Mm-hmm.
Kind of take advantage of it because
I do kind of feel like, um, I'm not
using it to its fullest potential.
Like at this very moment I'm using it, but
I'm using it in, um, auto mode, not auto
mode, but, you know, auto white balance.
Yeah.
No picture profiles.
Just good to go.
Like all my, my whole
lighting setup I have.
1, 2, 3, really like
four lights on mm-hmm.
In my studio and all the
colors, they're, they're great.
The color is great, but I feel like
I can probably take it up a notch
if I kind of like, you know, started
shooting with, uh, maybe slog two.
Um, but it's, it is, it's a lot of
things that happen in, in photography
world where clients don't bother.
No.
Why not?
Clients?
I shoot podcasts all the time.
No client has ever told me, can you
give, can you shoot this in 10 bit?
4, 2, 2.
They've never said that they,
they don't know a damn,
they dunno the difference.
They dunno a damn thing about that.
Us in the industry will sit there
and pixel peep and be our worst
critics and be like, oh, we should
have this, that, and the third.
But at the end of day, you know, what
I've come to learn is we're literally just
problem solvers and clients are really
care as long as whatever they're trying
to get is accomplished unless they happen
to be in the industry and they've heard
some buzzwords and then all of a sudden
they start throwing them at you and right
then you sit there and you ask them.
What does that mean to you?
Like, what do you think
that actually means?
What value does that bring to you?
Uh
uh, yeah.
Oh, they, they love saying raw, but
there, there was a more recently, uh, uh,
I forget what word it was, but a client
of mine told me, Hey, um, this is like.
I'll just say raw.
Can you gimme the raw files?
And I, I gave them raw files.
I shoot the, I mean like y'all, I shoot
with the A 10 mini extreme myself, Uhhuh,
and that's just for my benefit, so I
can have just in case I screw up on a
camera switching Of course, of course.
Formally, uh, I give my clients
my uh, uh, ECA M live recording.
Mm-hmm.
My camera connects to
the, uh, AAM Mini Extreme.
I'm recording ISO files via SSD,
and I have my camera in, well,
the AAM connected to my computer.
So ECA picks it up like this?
Yeah, and it's sending a 10 80 p signal.
And I'm recording.
It records all the cameras
switching the program and all that.
And I just give my client that video file.
Mm-hmm.
Which is like four or 500 megabytes.
Yeah.
And then my client asked me,
Hey, can you gimme the raw
files like every camera angle?
I said, sure.
They don't know what they're asking for.
They don't know they're asking.
I said,
I said, Hey, um, you need
to buy a one terabyte SSD.
Mm-hmm.
I sent them my Amazon affiliate link
'cause I gotta get credit for that.
Smart.
Mm.
I gave them the file
'cause they wanted to edit.
Mm-hmm.
And it was, you know, with each,
with a, uh, a 10 minute extreme.
I saw each camera angle they
had three, maybe it's depending
on how long the podcast was.
I think it was like maybe I.
Uh, thinking told me like a 78
gigabyte project and they didn't
underst what to do with it.
You know, it's, it's like
I'm giving it to you.
You asked for this, so whatcha
gonna do you ask for this?
You know, and it is just one of those
things where people hear buzzwords.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, but yeah, it's, it's interesting
to see how clients are becoming
more, uh, aware of the content
create world and then understanding
that they don't know anything.
But they'll try to pretend.
I think that's very interesting.
I've, I, I've, you know, speaking
about that, like, you know, I've
always had like some motto say,
Hey, can I get the raw photos?
And I'm really just be tempted.
Not even give them JPEGs, I just
give them the, the, the, the ar
w raws and like, here you go.
Yeah.
I don't think people know.
Here you go.
No, you wanted the raws.
This is my raw fo Yeah.
So
I used.
I used to like, there was like, I don't
know who made up the rule, but there
was like a lot of rules in photography.
'cause I got trained uh, with
a really dope photographer.
Shout out to Jacob Downs.
Mm-hmm.
And shout out to Arvin
Ben in South Florida.
They both were like, they're
phenomenal photographers.
They're like my mentors and they all
always told me, never give off the raws.
Don't ever give the raws.
Mm-hmm.
Don't ever give the raw files.
'cause that's just a photographer thing.
Photo, yes.
For rule.
I just listened and then one day
I just, like, a client just kept
badgering me, can you gimme the raws?
I need the raws.
I just gave her the raws and she said,
well, it was, uh, Nikon I was shooting
with at the time, so it was NEF files.
Okay.
Which are like 70 megabytes.
Oh, 70 megabytes.
Large files, you know, uncompressed
raw, you know, they didn't
know what to do with him.
How do I open this?
I was like, well, you asked for them like.
It, it just, you are just asking
for this because you, somebody
told you online or something.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
They don't, I mean, most of the
times they don't have the software
to open, the actual don't files.
They don't, you don't
have the computing
power to use, nor they don't either.
It's like you don't
understand, do it properly.
You don't understand why we charge
what we so much for what we charge.
We gotta pay for the software, we
gotta pay for the computers to be
able to handle the software storage.
Um, it's a storage space for,
for storing all this stuff like.
I just ran out 10 terabytes of space
two seconds ago, and I was like,
God damnit, I just bought a new one.
Now I gotta get another
NAS to update, to upgrade.
Like
I, I got, I got one NAS right now
that I'm looking at and I need
to definitely get another one.
Yeah.
We, Lance, what's your, what's it 40?
We have a, we have a
cold storage, uh, NAS.
I call it cold storage because
it's like 40 terabytes.
Yeah, that's 40 terabytes.
And I'm already dreading when
we have to upgrade that one.
Right.
And then we have one that's
like four te uh, four terabytes.
That's kind of like hot swappable.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
That one.
That one is a synology.
The other one is a shout
to analogy for wholeness.
Now have to time Q qap
is our cold storage.
Okay.
But the Q is slow.
Yeah, it is.
But it works.
Yeah, I, I have the synology Ds.
Uh, 9 23 plus.
Oh, okay.
16 terabytes.
And then I have a te TE deck or terabyte.
Um, it's called a, I think
it's called a terabyte.
It's a brand, it's another company
and it's not a na, it's a das.
Mm-hmm.
So it's like, I guess what
you call a code storage.
Okay.
Yeah.
And hot swappable.
Um, and I have like 64
terabytes in that one.
Um, but my Sonology Nas I use as.
Everything.
Backup for photos, uh,
clients have access to it.
'cause I would normally send
my clients a Dropbox link,
but that takes time to upload.
So I literally just use a 10 gigabit
ethernet 'cause I have a 10 gig ethernet
adapter that I installed on the back of my
n to upload the photos, upload the videos.
Then I send them a private link from
my NAS so that they can download it
themselves and just be done with it.
And then I tell 'em, Hey, I'll, it'll
be here for like, you know, 60, not
six months, 60 days, or however long.
And you, you can have access
to it most of the time.
I never delete it, but sometimes, like
if I need space, I'll be like, this man,
he had his bar mitzvah like years ago.
Delete.
Yeah.
So wait, when you deliver your photos, you
send them, um, links to your NAS directly.
Yeah, you have a private link.
That you can, like Sonology has the
feature to send them like a private link.
So I just send them.
That's what I'm asking.
It's 'cause I use Pixie set
and I use Pixie set too, so.
So here's another thing
we, I should clarify.
If I'm just doing a run
of the mill photo shoot.
Uh huh.
You know, this is not like a
client that I'm gonna like keep,
or this is not a big shoot.
Mm-hmm.
I'm using the sonology mask.
Mm-hmm.
We're, we're just taking quick headshot.
Here's the link to the photos.
Oh.
If I'm doing it P Power, if I'm doing
like a wedding, if I'm doing like a
corporate shoot, I'm using Pixie set.
Pixie set.
Oh.
Beautiful thing.
So it is like, I don't wanna
bother creating 'cause.
For me with pixie hit, I have
like one profile, like one
professional account that I pay for.
Mm-hmm.
Other times I create like 20 Gmails.
I'll have like Gil do Miss Pixy,
set one, Pixy, set two, Pixy set 25.
'cause I'm like, I'm
just gonna log into this.
And then I have on my contacts if I, if
I'm, if I shot with Lance and his family.
Mm-hmm.
Uh.
I, yeah, I created Pixie Set 2025
February, and that's the login.
So I could just wait.
He was like, Hey, can I
get access to the photos?
What's the, what login I used again?
No, just go to the contacts.
Um, this is all things
I've learned from my wife.
'cause she, she uses,
she's a power iPhone user.
She know nobody uses the
iPhone better than she does.
Nobody, nobody, nobody uses the
iPhone the way that my wife does.
She's so smart.
She's great.
Like nobody.
And I, I, she, she puts like, uh,
information about whoever the contact
is, and I was like, that's brilliant.
Mm-hmm.
You know, the logins or, or, or
a allergy or stuff like that.
So then I started implementing
that in my own business.
So if I do a photo shoot with the client.
What did I use?
Uh, I used the, so A seven C.
We did a consultation, oh, this is
a client that I did the studio for.
Why?
She asked me, Hey, how
do I turn this light on?
Wait, what did I do for her?
Look in the notes.
'cause I use an iPhone.
Okay, cool.
She's, I did the podcast studio so
that she's referring to a podcast or
what was the login for the pixie set?
Oh, I used Gil or Sarah
2025 or I shot her in 2022.
It just, stuff like that,
that kind of, I make, um.
Not networking, more admin, admin stuff.
A little bit more easier on me.
'cause you know, as you guys know, as
a creator, you kind of do everything.
'cause clients kind of expect you
to, uh, have everything down pack.
Um, so I, I try, I try to make sure
that my stuff is super organized.
I get around that by using Studio Ninja.
Studio Ninja?
Yeah.
What is that?
It's a software for photographers and.
What I use for a lead
capture and stuff like that.
So my pixie set website is right now
my, um, my portfolio website, but
I'm about to turn that to separate
website for portrait work only.
But I have a Wix website that I
use for my corporate headshot work.
So, um, both of those have a.
Uh, contact form from my studio Ninja
that this, the clients can enter
the information and it, um, it could
send out contracts, invoices, quotes.
I can have notes on the clients as
well, you know, that sort of thing.
Mm.
So it just keeps me organized.
As well.
And yeah, between that and pixie
set, like I pretty much have
almost everything automated.
So with Pixie set, I always make
sure to have email login turned on.
So I capture emails so that
I can send out marketing
materials to, uh, after the fact.
So even if I'm doing, let's say I'm
doing, whether it's a b wash shoot or
a wedding or headshot, even just basic
headshots, you never know who they send
out these headshot to or the gallery link.
And.
They log into the gallery as well.
So I capture
everybody's
emails.
I got some celebrities that are
randomly in there because you never
know, like I used to shoot for the, for
like the Knicks and stuff like that.
So, you know, they got their coaches and
players logging in and I'm like, huh,
I didn't, they were,
I didn't know they was gonna be in here.
So like, you never know
who's gonna be logging in.
So I used to an app as a.
As a way to capture their information
for future marketing purposes.
So that's why I like using picture set.
Even just delivering like the, even
the power shoots with the models.
Like I still try to treat
them like high class.
'cause you know, not many, not many
photographers of my level are delivering
with picture set to the, uh, the pictures.
They're used to just getting
Dropbox links and, and, no, no, no.
Google Box.
Use Dropbox for, for photos.
Uh, pixie set for me the.
The, the wallpaper is my favorite thing.
Trying to get the photo the, because
when I take a photo of like a
maternity shoot, I'm like, my brain
goes, which one's gonna be the cover
photo?
Yes.
I always gotta shoot that.
I always gotta pick that cover photo, man.
I'm just like,
yeah.
First impressions.
Yes.
And then they, they get on their phone.
They're like, what?
Oh my gosh.
Mm-hmm.
Hey, my group chat is
blowing up with this.
These photos, I'm like, and
they're able to just scroll.
Mm-hmm.
I love pixie set.
Pixie set is probably
like one of the, the best.
Have you ever printed
photos with pixie set?
Uh, personally, no.
But I have had clients, when I give
them the gallery, you know how you can
set up the, the custom stores so they
can actually sit in there and just, um,
PSET has that option where they take
the photos and they put it on all these,
uh, displays on all these products
that they can order to their house.
Oh, so they're, they, that's cool.
So I, they're the meta man and they
handle the printing, the shipping and
everything, so they cut me out of it
so I don't have to worry about it.
I just set my prices and next
thing I know, just get a check.
Okay.
And I'm
just like, you know what?
I like that.
'cause I don't know a damn thing
about taking a print, a picture
of printing and putting in the
frame or anything like that.
Let the experts handle that
For clients, I really like, you
know, there is that option where.
You can take their favorites and give
them their own custom app that you can
send to their phone and they install
it on their phone so they could quickly
access and show off their pictures.
So like for bar mitzvahs or weddings
and stuff like that, I give them
that option and they love that.
Being able to just show
off their pictures.
Mm.
Gotta shout out Pixie set
for being able, you know,
for says though, hopefully
they do an affiliate thing,
the 'cause that, that's dope.
How long have you been doing pick up?
How long have you.
Probably almost five years
now.
Yeah, probably, uh, the price is going
up, but you know what, they
did add a lot of features, so
I can't even complain too much.
Used to be like $70 a year, and I was
like, 300 and something dollars a year.
I'm like, oh my God.
It's the same thing for like me, where
like, uh, software like ECA m mm-hmm.
Uh,
E Camm Live is like a livestream software.
And I remember I got the, uh, the monthly
plan and price was going up, so then I
went and got a Black Friday deal that.
Promises to never go up.
And it's, it's been 2021 and I've
had the same rate, even though
the price is crazy high right
now, but the software's worth it.
I still keep my same rate,
and I'm like, that's dope.
I, I use Ecamm for everything,
for podcast production.
Um, I work with this
place called Co Space.
Mm-hmm.
And we, uh, me and co uh,
the owner of Co Space Joy.
We produce five minute podcasts.
So that's been like a nice bread
and butter for me, where we have a
small podcast, uh, like set up at
a conference outdoors at events.
Mm-hmm.
And people, anybody can come up.
And login.
It's genius, right?
Uhhuh.
So they send this QR code, a
form pops up with their name.
They, they, they, they give us
their emails and we send them.
We tell them, Hey, so
you, you're next in line.
Just wait.
And they do a five minute podcast
to promote their brand or business.
Dude, we should do that.
It's amazing.
Yeah, you could definitely do that.
We have
the space for that.
Do we have technology?
No.
No excuse.
No.
But this is at, this is at events.
So you bring.
You bring a table, um, especially at
conferences and the way that you're
probably thinking, but Gil, there's
like music, there's people chattering.
Um, I use cap cut to remove
all of the background noise
and it's super dope as long.
Cap Cut Pro.
Yeah.
Okay.
Pro
I I was like the regular one.
Definitely don't have that feature.
I think PRO does.
No.
Yeah, cap Pro does, but also if
you don't have Cap Cut Pro, you
can check out Onic A-U-P-O-C.
Uh, I use Nic for like, everything like,
and it has the ability to do multi-track.
So if I'm, if I have the five Minute
podcast and it's a two, uh, two host
person, like a guest and a host, I'm
able to take each of individual tracks.
Mm.
Upload it to off and it'll clean
it up, is to me one of the best
podcasting tools in a while.
I've been using it for, for
a while, ever since 2021.
Lance, what you know about that?
Yeah, I've, I've heard of those.
Um, I'm, I'm, I'm a more
of a hardware person.
Mm-hmm.
So, like, for me, 'cause I
don't like relying on monthly
payments for a lot of stuff, so.
For something like that, what I would
do to replace a lot of that is get
different microphones that actually
does, um, noise cancellation actively.
Oh yeah.
So, so either these mics or the
lily, Lily put, um, Ray, I remember
you discussing that before.
Yeah.
The Ray mics.
Um, I think those are pretty, I
mean, they're expensive, don't get me
wrong, but it's a one-time payment.
It's a one-time payment.
And
if it doesn't actively in the
moment, that's less work for you.
Right, exactly.
So it's
like, you know, I and I, I like.
Hardware.
So for like, my setup would be,
uh, maybe to road cast a duo.
Mm-hmm.
Since it's two people.
Mm-hmm.
Um, hook that up through some stuff
like, you know, I use black magic
cameras for, you know, these type
of things just because of they.
Don't overheat,
you know, yo, this man just shot
this fired shots at us, Gil.
He just fired shots at us right now.
I mean, listen, I've
rec, I recently had to
do some editing for a client that
shot on a bunch of FX threes and,
and their, their conversations
is like an hour and a half long.
Mm-hmm.
And I had to like, cover up,
luckily they shot in Multicam
setup and the camera I was like,
wide is all the wide would go out.
This shot would go out.
I'm like, what the, he
was like, here, listen,
you know what it is.
They just didn't know that there's
those fans that you can get, that
you can stick on the actual FX three.
That's what I'm looking for.
I'm literally looking for that.
You're looking for that.
Yeah.
You can stick and they have make it
for the A seven four, although the A
seven four is more like you just turn
the um, yeah, you turn the uh, heat.
Limit to the highest, and then
you have the screen pop out.
Jesus Christ, you have to open the screen.
That way it cools down
and it doesn't stop.
It lands.
Yeah.
You said that they were shooting
on FX threes and it overheated.
Um, I'm assuming they overheated because
they kept on up that the camera has a fan,
but also it does have a
setting for high temp.
Yep.
Like the 8, 7 4.
So they, it's really just the
engineer's fault for not being Yes.
It's, they have
equipment and they don't know exactly how.
Right.
They, it's a use
it.
They have a similar setup to what we
got going on here, but, you know, you've
seen me shoot for a while with
my A seven four and I don't have
that issue, but I know what to do.
Yeah.
But,
but they're, they're
shooting for like five hours.
This is a, a very long.
They, they shot for two days straight.
Mm-hmm.
And it, I think each time was anywhere
from three to five hours of shooting.
I mean, for
something like that, that's when I would
be like, yo, can we get the budget for
FX for FS five or something like that,
or seven, or, you know, one of them
big boys with the built-in Es Yeah.
Fans.
Yeah.
I, I just think that they, you know,
they had decent equipment but not.
You know, when I'm, I'm not gonna go over
the whole microphone issue, but, um, you
know, but that's just how I would go ahead
and like, solve for that sort of thing.
Um, and most likely I would probably
use an app for the sign up part of
it where it's like, hey, it's kinda
like a, an appointment type of thing.
Mm-hmm.
Where it's like, all right, and
then we all get that notification
on our phones or whatever.
Um, like, you know, and that's
kind of like, you know, 'cause
I, I'm, I'm more about like.
Small footprint sort of thing, but
it's like, you know, but an, an app
makes a lot of sense, so it's like,
if it works great for whatever you
do and stuff like, especially like
for you Gil, like you, you, it's
only you like right, you're, you're
like your one man band sort of thing.
Whereas like, 'cause people suck.
Yeah.
People in Florida suck people.
People, there's like not
too many creatives here who
have a lot of discipline.
Yeah.
And like the creative arts that sucks.
Um, people, the discipline that a lot of
people have are just vibing and hanging.
And then when I say
discipline, I mean like.
Uh, studying and passions like yeah,
you obviously y'all disciplines in
photography, videography, and, um,
and obviously, uh, net computer
networking and all that stuff.
Like I could talk about whatever problem.
Um, and y'all have the
solution right away.
Like we were thinking about the
fan, we were thinking about the high
temperature tempera people, right?
We started creators.
Um, and there's a lot of creators here.
But they're mostly like, I'm just going
to learn how to make TikTok videos
with my iPhone and be a master at it.
But when it comes to, when you give 'em
an FX three or an Osmo pocket, they don't
necessarily know how, how to work it.
They dunno
what they're doing.
Yeah.
They
know what they're doing.
And, and, and the thing is,
it's, it's like I grew up.
Learning things and drawing,
learning what's the best pens,
learning what's the best markers.
Learning, you know, mangas different
papers, you know, learning that, hey,
there's a art to this skateboards.
You gotta buy the best deck.
Here's, here's how to set up
the wheels, how to torque it.
Yes.
All of that.
Even, you know, mechanics is like,
here, buy those, buy this wrench from,
um, Milwaukee, whatever the case is.
Try these out.
Mm-hmm.
And a lot of people, a lot of.
Creators now are just
fake it till they make it.
They're gonna buy this expensive F FX cam,
FX three camera and it's gonna overheat.
They're gonna spend six 60
or $3,400 on these lenses.
Yep.
Not necessarily know how to use it.
Mm-hmm.
And it's frustrating, um, like
they had the budget to do all this.
They had, they have the amazing budget,
but they don't but the knowledge
for this.
Yeah.
And they won't pay
someone to do it either.
No, they will not.
Won't.
And they won't pay.
And, and my whole thing is, and a
lot of people would say, well, these
creators are like making way more money.
But it's like, I'd rather, I'd
rather like enjoy these tools.
Mm-hmm.
I, I, I, like right now I'm using
my prompter to look at y'all and
it's being held with my camera.
I have my cal digit.
I have my SD card, I have
my monitor over here.
Mm-hmm.
Everything runs smoothly.
Like I can literally just, I
have a shooter af after this.
I know exactly what I'm
gonna do when I leave.
My brain is not, I gotta
figure out what's going on.
Like.
It's so crazy seeing these creators, which
I love, I love these creators on thread.
These, you know, these beautiful
women, beautiful men, young
people with their Osmo pockets.
But it's like,
yo, that pocket three is so powerful.
It's so powerful.
Powerful man.
It's so powerful.
But then it's, it's like, I don't
know, don't wanna judge, but it's,
I can tell when someone doesn't know
what they're talking about, you know?
It's irritating.
What, what, what's y'all take
on that I don't hate, but
it's just one of those things
like, uh, I always feel like I don't even
know what the heck I'm talking about.
I always have to have other people
tell me, like, obviously bro, you do
know what you're talking about because
you study this thing in your off time.
Like you, I realize this, like photography
and videography is one of those things.
I will sit there and go on YouTube and
just watch other creators and like learn
from the, learn from the, the greats.
Mm-hmm.
Like, uh, like Gerald and
Dun, uh, Peter McGinn, um, uh.
Manu Ortiz.
I'm talking, uh, potato jet.
Like all these people that sit there and
all these reviews and you, you learn now.
I was there, man.
You missed my boy, man.
He forgot my boy.
Who?
Tom Buck.
Who's Tom Buck?
You gotta look him up.
Yo, that look right there.
It was such a disappointment.
I, I've, I've heard of was like,
that's such an appointment.
End
interview.
End
interview.
I need to, you've
seen, if you looked up, if you looked
up any road caster or podcasting
videos, you've seen his videos.
Oh, okay.
So when it comes to road casts and
stuff like that, that's Lance territory.
Yeah.
That's why, why I heard about Tom.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I don't,
I don't deal with the Aams
and the road cats, man.
I'll leave that for him.
Yeah, I ain't gotta worry about that.
I, that's like a whole other, I stick
to photography, videography, and drones.
Yeah.
So that's, yeah.
My thing over video there on, and of
course like lighting and posing, so like
I'll stick, I don't know those people,
but when it comes to the road, castes
and Manny's the goat, Manny's
the goat for lighting and posing.
I watch, I've been watching him for years.
Um, yeah, you remember, uh,
Kabisa, I forget her first name.
Um, she's, she's also a creative,
uh, something, I forget her name.
No, but yeah, there's like
many, you remind me of Peter Re,
uh, Peter, Peter Ling.
Heater lingering is great.
Um, yeah, I love,
oh man, he, he put me onto the a, uh,
the Sony 8 7 4 and, and editing log,
editing and log and stuff like that.
And, um, this one particular plugin
that he uses for color grading, cinema,
something, I forgot what it was.
Motion.
VFX,
huh?
Yeah.
'cause I started off in college for
VFX and um, and motion graphics.
So like, looking at his work was great
and, you know, his editing style and you
know, how he did his studio and stuff.
That was a real big integration for me.
I, I got this, uh, 16 millimeter
lens because of Peter Lingen.
It's, so the XI 1635 F four.
Years ago because of him.
And, um, I'm like shooting
on a a seven three.
I was like, I gotta get that camera.
Never got a seven three.
But, um, I did get the, um, Sony
A seven S two Uhhuh at the time.
It was great.
It was like 2011 or 2014, I remember.
Something like that.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, but now I got the A seven fours great.
A seven C got got two of those.
Fantastic.
I, I really love shooting Sony for video.
It, to me, it's.
To me it's the best because it,
it just, uh, makes things easier.
Yeah.
Um, connecting things.
Um, also the USB uh C streaming.
That way I could just connect to
my, you know, computer anytime.
Uh, it's great.
A seven four.
I never have any issues with it.
It's the one of the best
hybrid cameras ever.
Yep.
Um, it's just, just works.
It's just a workhorse.
Yo, shout out to Manu Ortiz.
'cause Manti is the one who actually
put me onto this, the Sony system.
'cause I started shooting Cannon.
Or, or Rebel.
T seven, uh, T seven.
And you know, I was over there,
you know, doing work with my
little 85 millimeter, trying to get
some paid shoots off that joint.
And then I started watching him and he
was talking about, I think he was at
a switching the Sony or he shot Sony.
I don't remember what, what the
case, but 'cause of him, I ended up
getting my first, uh, Sony camera
was the, a 6,500 crap sensor.
I still got that bad boy in there.
That's crazy.
And then, um, somebody on Facebook,
um, my mentor, uh, I was like, yo.
Somebody selling the A
seven three for like 1800.
At the time it was 2,400.
They were selling their, their a seven
three for 1800 because they shot with it
a couple of times and then they said, you
know what, I'd rather go back to Canon.
So they had like a, they threw a
lens in there and stuff like that.
My mentor was like, yo, grab that camera.
You would never regret it.
I grabbed that camera, that camera still
sitting right there as my backup body.
So yeah, shout to Sony, bro.
They make hybrid shooting so much easier.
I'm surprised.
Are familiar.
Sorry.
You familiar with Becky and Chris who they
No, uh, they're YouTubers, they're the one
who kind of, who pushed me into to Sony.
Mm-hmm.
So, like I said, I was shooting
mostly Nikon and I loved, um, it
was Becky and Chris Toss up between
Becky and Chris and Tom Buck.
I was more so leaning toward Becky
and Chris 'cause they were shooting
with the camera that I had access
to, which was the Sony 87 S two.
Mm-hmm.
And, um, they were shooting with that and
I was like, I like their video quality.
I think I'm gonna get a Sony camera.
Then I've seen a bunch of
YouTubers moving, like Manny Ortiz.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, moving over to Sony
because it's easier potato jet.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, then I was waiting for
the goat, Peter McCannon.
But you know, he is,
he's a cannon for life.
He is canon.
So that never happened.
Yeah, but you know what, didn't change
his name to the last name to Cannon
because he just, I wouldn't be surprised.
It would be funny as hell though.
No, but I, I'm, I'm what I was
going trying to say earlier, I'm
surprised Sony hasn't entered
the, um, video switching world.
They just kinda, maybe they're
just sticking to what they know.
Yeah.
I mean, don't get me
wrong, like there's even.
Uh, even so as a comparison, right?
When it comes to podcasts,
like the biggest podcast in
the world is Joe Rogan, right?
Mm-hmm.
But a lot of people don't
know he's using PTZ cameras.
This podcast, this podcast is
the biggest podcast in the world.
Hmm?
He said, this podcast
is the
biggest podcast.
Oh, this podcast.
Well, that'll be nice when we get a
$100 million contract, like some people.
Then I'll know.
Um,
but it's like, you know, just
to, as a, like I've said, like
it's like as a comparison.
So Sony do make PTZ cameras as
well, but if you look at the
prices for those things, those are
stuff you use on, um, movie sets.
Yeah.
Uh, it's like $30,000 just for the body,
like, you know, and that's something you
put on a crane and it can do everything.
But it's like, whereas a bunch of other
companies, it's like, I would say only.
Two other companies that's like
entered into the market of like, what's
say Black Magic does with the Aams.
That's Road
Uhhuh
and Terra Deck.
Um, but Terra Deck has been in that.
They've, they've been into
the game for a long time.
Mm-hmm.
They, they do stuff for broadcast.
Yeah.
You know, so it's like if you go
into one of them big broadcast
space, it's gonna be Terra Decks.
It is gonna be everywhere just because
that's just what they do and everything
like that has been working, but they're
not for your consumer level stuff.
Even though Black Magic has.
Comparable equipment.
Mm-hmm.
Like it.
Mm-hmm.
Um, but they've, they've made
it more easy for, uh, the
regular consumer to get intover.
And then Road now has entered the
chat, um, with their video caster.
Mm-hmm.
Um, which I think, you know, and
they solve the, they solve a lot
of stuff for that particular entry.
And when I say entry, I'm
talking $1,200, $1,500.
That's entry.
That is
entry.
But.
Uh, uh, whereas, but Magic has one for
300 bucks, you get a $300 one and you
know, and there's all this other stuff.
I, we have a video up.
Yes.
On i, I was telling people
like, this is probably the best.
Like the Secret, it's like a
stealth gaming capture card.
You know, like, 'cause it's, you could
do a lot, but that's like a whole other
discussion to like figure, like, you
know, how to make that up and running.
I'm pretty much doing that now at my
home for my, my live streams, for the
video game, live streams and whatnot.
Whenever, which I'm probably just
gonna be streaming maybe once a week.
Hey, listen, we all gotta start
somewhere.
Even if it's just once a week,
you gotta do it right, right.
I'm not
like a big, I'm not a big streamer in
that sense or anything like that, but.
Part of what I do, like you guys
said, it's like you wanna mess
around with the equipment and
like, you know, enjoy those things.
That's what I do.
Mm-hmm.
That's like my, my prowess like.
Uh, technically like, it's like I
figure out ways to like, okay, let's
get the hardware to do exactly what
the software can do, but better.
Yeah.
You know, and that way it's
like, and it does cost more
money, but it's a onetime cost.
But that means you can
also charge your people.
You can
actually recoup that
investment, you know, be like,
well, I'm gonna need this amount of money.
It is like, what?
It's like, yeah.
Because this is how much money
I put into the equipment to like
make that work and stuff like that.
Here's the invoice.
Yeah, exactly What we're paying.
They're gonna be like dollar signs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, and trust me, like any broadcast
studio stuff out there, whatnot,
they're using old, like very old
stuff because it still works.
I was say, 'cause it works
because it still works and it's
like, you know, where's it, yeah.
You could do stuff software
wise and stuff like that.
Even what we're doing here, we were
trying to set up more stuff in a
hardware way to get this up and running.
Mm-hmm.
Um, didn't quite work out.
So we have to stick with software.
Software is kind of, I could
see glitching a little bit, but.
The, the good part is
Gil is recording locally.
Ah.
So he'd send that and we
can just replace that file.
So, so you see these are like things
people don't really think about.
It's like, well, if I'm gonna
record this stuff, I can't rely
on software to do everything.
It's like you have to kinda like,
uh, thankfully to get, you know,
for him, he knows what he's doing.
Mm-hmm.
He knows how to get this stuff done and
he knows how to send me that file later.
Yeah.
You know, so it's like, it, it works.
It's in the file.
Yeah.
Email it.
Do I just email you the video?
Uh, yeah, whichever leads just send,
send the videos and attachment.
Send me the Roth, send Roth.
Can you Roth file?
No, just saying.
Yeah, it's like just you email it
to me and boom, we get like this all
replaced and stuff like that, you know.
Um,
well, I just realized exactly that
we actually went way over time.
We're we're over time.
Yeah.
Gail, it was great talking to you.
Um, do me a favor.
How can people reach out if they
want to hire you in Florida?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, just check me out on Instagram.
Um, at g ui l dot D-O-R-M-E-U-S.
Um, you could hit me up, we could
set up a free 20 minute, uh, call
where I can kind of see if I could
help you with your podcast endeavors.
I build podcast studios.
I do consulting, so if you want to figure
out how to do that idea that you're trying
to do, that's in your head for weeks.
Um, I can help expedite that
for you, make it easier.
You can also, um, see all the equipment
that I'm using for this video.
You can go to guild domus.com/list.
Um, that's G-U-I-L-D-O-R-M-E-U
us.com/list to see all the equipment
that I'm using and to see how I
made it possible and, and all that.
So yeah, that's where he could find me.
And what if they wanna hire
you for photography work?
Oh, if you wanna hire me for photography
work, uh, you can go to, uh, gil
dorms.com and uh, book me there.
Or again, just go to my
Instagram, which is super easy.
That way you can kind of like see
my personality because I think with
photography or just any work in
general, you're hiring somebody,
but you also wanna hire somebody.
You could potentially, I.
Talk to or like, yes.
You, you don't, you don't
want to hire a a mean person.
So
you can check out my, my website.
Uh, that's gu dorm.com.
You see all my work there.
Uh, or go to guild dous.com/photos.
You can see, uh, bevy of my photo work.
Um, I've taken photos, uh,
portrait, family photos,
celebrity photos, um, all that
nice.
Alright, cool.
And lens people wanna work with us or
even they, when they'll come on the show,
where can they find us?
Well, you can find ISO Insiders
pretty much wherever podcast or serve.
So that means Spotify, apple Podcasts,
uh, Google Podcasts, I guess.
But I don't think they're exists anymore.
It's like, but you can
find us on YouTube as well.
Um, I, I, I just look for ISO
Insiders, um, or IO Insiders.
Mm-hmm.
And should be able to find us there.
Um, we do have an email.
It's just.
ISO insiders at Gmail.
Hey,
we'll get
to the domain at some point.
Yeah, it's on the to-do
list.
It's
there.
Um, and by the way, everything that Gil
said that he does down there in Florida,
we do here in the tri-state area.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
So if you wanna find us,
we'll travel too.
So
we do travel, um.
Gifted media productions
is where we're at.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, I have my own individual page
too for photography and stuff like that,
but yeah, we can all list that later.
But you know, just this is for
the show where we just like to sit
around and talk technology and our
giant man cave as our wives call it.
Yes.
So Gil, thank you so much for coming
and dropping knowledge problems on us.
Like you are Pleasure to talk to.
We definitely have to
have you on the show.
Um, sure.
If you're ever.
In the tri-state area, you are more than
welcome to come by and sit, chill, shoot
with us and have, you know, in person here
where we don't have to worry about zoom.
Yeah.
Because seriously, that was enough.
Almost.
Alright.
All right man.
So looking forward to talking
to you again in the future.
All right?
All
right everybody.
Thank you for having me.
Peace.
Peace.
Bye.