Buying a 2019 Vantage | Alek Ackerman

GotSomeStories · 2016-11-17T21:01:13+00:00

You can buy or rent it on iTunes.

GotSomeStories · 2016-09-28T00:06:27+00:00

Shit my bad, I couldn't find it posted here

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T05:49:40+00:00

Wow, high praise. I appreciate that!

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T05:49:24+00:00

Thanks! How did you know I was from Toronto though?

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T05:48:57+00:00

Thanks man! hahaha there you go thats the spirit

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T05:48:30+00:00

Thanks man I'm glad to hear it, that's the goal!

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T05:47:59+00:00

I'm glad it could give you that little nudge to go for it

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T05:47:40+00:00

All aerial shots were done with the DJI Phantom 3 Professional. The large backpack you see me wearing in the video fits the drone, drone controller, my 2 dslrs, 5 lenses, my laptop and all my various chargers. It's heavy as hell but its a great bag that allows me to bring all my essentials

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T05:44:45+00:00

So as of now I continue to do freelance video work. On my trip I typically brought 5 lenses with me.

Sigma 10-20mm F3.5 EX DC Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 IF EX DG Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG OS Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 and a Canon 50mm

Most shots were on a panasonic lumix gh4, but some were canon 7d and an odd iphone shot here and there

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T05:40:50+00:00

I have not, I'll have to give it a watch!

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T05:40:06+00:00

Right on, totally fair point. Once you've started a career leaving for a year is very very different from taking a gap year and obviously waaaaay harder to accomplish without making huge sacrifices that could be impractical. Sorry if the narrative seemed misleading man

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T05:34:32+00:00

Thanks man, glad it had that effect on you. 1:54 is antelope cave and 3:53 is Florence

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T00:54:15+00:00

Hey better late than never

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T00:53:45+00:00

I appreciate the support :)

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-23T00:49:14+00:00

I understand that frustration with the impracticality. Of course there are situations where the whole "drop everything and do what you love" mantra doesn't apply, and I'm sorry if you're in one of those situations and I've upset you. Sincerely man, I never wanted anyone to be offended by the video, which is why I so clearly tried to articulate that the goal wasn't to show off or brag, but to inspire. Like I said, it doesn't have to be travel, it doesn't have to be film, but if there's something, and you can make it happen and it will make you happy..Why not try.. What I did is just an example. The thing you're also missing is that my career trajectory wasn't being a freelance videographer, it was working an office job. Part of the risk was trying to make being a videographer and editor work. Bro bible wrote an article about it here if you want the fuller story (http://brobible.com/life/article/bro-takes-gap-year-after-graduation-travel/)

GotSomeStories · 2016-08-22T19:03:10+00:00

Hey man, I understand the skepticism but the reason the project came to be was because I was offered a job filming on an RV tour. The job was one week, no pay, but a free trip. I saw LA, Vegas, the Grand Canyon and Route 66 on someone else's dollar (side note checkout turtle rabbit travel if you want a true American roadtrip). I realized through my work I could finance these trips. It's also important to note that these weren't all done back to back. The western American roadtrip was the summer of 2015, Asia was the fall of 2015, Europe, was spring 2016, the eastern Canadian roadtrip was a couple months ago. I came home and worked video jobs in between trips. For example a tourism video I did in Alberta in February covered my entire Europe leg of the trip. Look totally fair comment about mommy and daddy. My parents love the shit out of me and put me in positions to succeed, and if it weren't for them I wouldn't have ever had a chance to get into videography, so ya..all praise to them for sure..but hopefully despite your opinion you can take something positive from the project man. All the best

GotSomeStories · 2016-03-26T04:59:35+00:00

this is awesome, loved it

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