apio:

New video! This was one of the first things Chloe and I ever shot, before I had a gimbal and a YouTube channel and a hope and a dream and a data redundancy, so I almost lost this footage in my Harddrive Crash of 2018. Back up your files, folks! Also you get to see me struggle-hike. (Ironically, since this was shot, I’ve become a pretty avid hiker and hiked around 15 miles across the Sierra Nevadas last week. Who’da thunk!)

This was such a fun and challenging video to shoot. I’m always doing portrait photography; branching out to landscape photography took a minute to get used to! But I’m really proud of how the video came out, and I hope it can help you improve your landscape photography too!

As most of my friends and followers know, I’m currently in my English credential program and learning all kinds of cool stuff about teaching. The topic I’m most passionate about is making learning accessible to EVERYONE, and I love that we can apply these same concepts to our Tajreen&Co videos.

Today we have a new episode out, PHOTOGRAPHY GEAR YOU SHOULD SAVE MONEY ON. This video is close captioned, includes a glossary of technical and industry-specific terms in the description for beginners or those who aren’t native English speakers, and is also all about saving money! Photography can get prohibitively expensive pretty fast, but @apio and I made this video with the hopes that it will help people save a lot of money on their equipment and thereby welcome more people into the photography world!

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One of the cool things about launching the YouTube channel at this time in my life is that my credential program has me constantly thinking about accessibility and culturally responsive teaching.

And that’s bleeding over into the channel! I close caption each video by hand, I listen to the voiceover with the ear of a beginner so I can define more technical or industry-specific terms for newbies to the field and for people whose first language isn’t English. And the whole point of the channel is to make photography financially and practically accessible to pretty much anyone, which I’m pretty excited about.

Accessibility is something I care so much about. Having another outlet through which to make this world more accessible for everyone makes me happy.