Why small YouTube channels can be better than big ones.
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- RUclips channels that keep you closer to your audience might just be the best way to go all around. Size matters, and perhaps you don't want to be too big.
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All my info:
My cameras: Panasonic Lumix S5, Panasonic Lumix GH5
My lenses: Minolta Telesor 28mm f/2.8, Minolta MC Rokkor PG 50mm f/1.4, Minolta MC W Rokkor HG 35mm f/2.8, Helios 44-2 58mm f/2, Sirui 35mm f/1.8 anamorphic, Panasonic 20-60 kit lens, Sirui 75mm f/1.8 anamorphic, Ttartisans 17mm f/1.4 micro 4/3, Meike 35mm f/1.4 micro 4/3.
My gimbals: Zhiyun Weebill S, and Hohem iSteadyX
My lavalier mic: Purple Panda
Shotgun mic: Boya MM1
Audio recorder: Zoom H1n (the red one)
Wireless audio: Hollyland Lark Max
My phones, used for both video and audio: LG V20, V30, V40 and V60. iPhone SE 2020
My lights: Pixel RGB (2), and AMZdeal light wand (a stick light)
My tripods: K&F Concept T254A8, Neewer 75" for my Pixel RGB light, Mactrem 62.5" and Victiv 72", PGYTECH Mantispod
ND filters: K&F variable filters for my lenses, and a 37mm variable for my phone, and Neewer ND2, ND4 and ND8 and variable ND2-400 (all 37mm for my phone),
UKCOCO 37mm CPL filter with clip for my smartphone
Desktop computer: Mac M2 Studio, (upgraded graphics and SSD), Glyph external thunderbolt ssd's in multitudes, Samsung 2TB T7, LG 27UL650 monitor
Laptop: Dell XPS 13 7590 laptop
Davinci Resolve studio version for editing on my computers
Kinemaster for editing on my phone
I make my own music, or I reach out to friends from my former life in the music business.
Brooklyn Quartet mini series, winner of Best Filmed Theatre at the Lonely Wolf International Film Festival:
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It wasn't annoying. You fighting against the sun was a story within itself :) Love your content. You inspire and motivate me to do better.
Thank you so much for this, I greatly appreciate it. i’m always trying to do my best, but some days are more challenging than others. :-) Thanks again, and I hope you have a beautiful day.
A good way to get an understanding of the exposure triangle is to spend a day doing still photography at different apertures. Slow and deliberately go up and down the scale and make observations as you go. MF vs. AF are just ways of getting there in focus. Fundamentals like the exposure triangle will serve a person well. I compare it to understanding and using a a manual transmission on a car. Great points Rock!
@@DanFarrar Yes!! I play with aperture every day. It’s such a critical thing to really understand how to get images that you can see in your head. The opportunity that aperture gives you is the opportunity to be unique from everyone else, to make images that nobody else will create because of the nuance of what you can do when you begin to understand what happens when you stop down your aperture. Shooting wide open is awesome, but figuring out everything in between the slowest aperture and that wide open aperture is the key to unlock your creativity. That “depth of field” and a true understanding of what it actually is, the blurry parts of your frame, the character it creates is everything. And of course, you left this comment because you get it. Because you’re you. :-)
I’ve watched this at least twice and will watch again. Seeing how you process ideas and shots is cool - like a behind the scenes clip in real time. I’m the type of person that will look up trivia when I watch a movie a second/third time. So this style is a unique perspective into your creativity.
More support to be ourselves in our creations. 🙏🏽 thank you!
@@sailormarj thank you so much for this! I greatly appreciate it. Keep being creative yourself, and onward we go!
I was musing on this point this morning as it happens.. how the really big channels actually have zero relationship with their audience.. many come to social media for connection and if a channel is too big to even acknowledge their followers it becomes a sad place for both the creator and those who follow them
@@fragglefragmentedmind I believe it becomes more of what society as a whole is becoming. Less personal, less genuine, less of an exchange, less understanding of one another, less empathy, more judgmental behavior, less intelligent overall. I think the more we lose touch with one another, the closer we come to the end of us. I will always try my best to have genuine interaction with everybody and anybody who comes to my channel, no matter the growth. But I’m quite sure the fact that I do that, and the nature of my videos will keep me from becoming a gigantic channel. which is fine with me, I’m all about the hustle, I’ll figure it out, but most important to me, is my relationship with the people who receive my work. Whether it be on stage in a theater, whether it be in my films, whether it be here on RUclips, I’m all about connecting. that’s the most human thing we can do. That’s everything to me.
@@RockWILK I agree with you 100%.. I want to make a living here on YT... not a killing. I want to make enough so I can live an even more modest life lol.. oh the irony haha. I watched a creator rating youtubers/influencers homes.. it was nauseating.. I commented- meanwhile people go hungry. Its great to be comfortable in life, but giving back is so so important.. I would never indulge in a mansion.. honestly.. id sooner live in a log cabin with millions under the mattress 😝.. joking aside.. being able to give back is more rewarding than a mansion in my opinion and I think, remaining a personal channel helps giving back because humility remains and people appreciate that.
@ Amen. Thank you.
I don’t want to watch big RUclipsrs, I prefer small channels. I’m a small channel myself
@@sinaguso I like any channel that interests me, large or small. But I do think small channels have an opportunity to stay connected to people in a way that larger channels just cannot possibly do. As a matter of fact, I think most of the large channels are just connected to one another.They go to events together, they follow each other, I don’t think they’re really interested in the people who actually follow them who are not other big RUclipsrs. I think it’s rare that they are connected to somebody who is not on their level as far as making money on this platform. At least it appears that way. But I totally understand it, because I think it’s almost impossible to be connected to anybody when you have 10,000 comments under every video. It’s just physically impossible.
@RockWILK
I appreciate your content so much I added your channel to my shout Outs ❤ I love responding to comments, I am grateful for every single comment 🥰
Stay Blessed friend 🎬🌟❤🙏
Thank you so much for that, I greatly appreciate it. It means a lot to me.
@RockWILK your channel is helping and lifting so many New Content Creator's 🌟❤🙏
Very good topic and yes I think we all should get a chance to be monetized I had a old channel from back in old days where everyone was Monetized Only got paid once but it was nice and your quality is good by the way.
@@DiLoFlow thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it. And my hope is for everybody to get compensated for the hard work that they put in, and that they get the opportunity to be as creative as they desire to be. Thanks again for coming through and for taking the time to comment, I really do appreciate that and don’t take it for granted.
@@RockWILK You are welcome and Hope you have good day I will be watching your up coming content and what not good work.
RUclips is crossing out my comment! But I appreciate comment replys
@@Zphora really??? What’s going on?????
Not sure. It put a line through the middle of some NYC bits I was sharing. Who knows. Will see how the others go🌟
@ that’s weird, I’ve never seen that before.
The most annoying was Your exposure!Then i realized the brightness on my phone was half cocked.😂.Georgous🫵💯🔥Thank You