for years phone manufacturers have been claiming that you no longer need a bulky
and heavy mirrorless or dslr camera to
get professional grade results out of your photography
so to test this claim once and for all we've put together what i would call a
pretty unique challenge it's going to be
me versus brandon but the fight won't
exactly be fair brandon will be using
the pixel 3. the pixel 3 while i will be equipped with the gfx
50r from fujifilm a 51 megapixel what's
it called medium format so to put this in perspective guys this
is the tool you would use for fashion photography or like taking the kind of
picture that would get blown up to the size of a building and brandon gets a
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this thing's heavy hey i mean like hey that's my only that's
the only thing i got going for me here like this thing is i forgot how small the pixel
is to begin with like are you guys ready for your first
challenge yeah i guess so andy hand them the
envelope i feel like i'm on amazing race
there's one envelope we couldn't afford two envelopes that's expensive uh all
right photo challenge number one the action shot for this challenge you will
be judged on these three criteria the sense of speed your photo conveys
your use of foreground and background contrast the clarity of the action you
will have two laps of track to capture a single best photo gentlemen turn on your
cameras and may the photo best photo win turn around
one okay hang on wait what
okay well hold on we don't we're not starting yet i don't
even know how the best photo i don't even know how to turn on the camera so
this is a 23 millimeter i think that means it's a prime
um shut up
this is i think my aperture oh my god my
camera is ready yeah smart guy you act like you're happy about this but i know
you'd rather be using this um
oh my god this doesn't seem to do focus i don't think this is changing focus
i really need to know how focus works also this lens is like fisheye i don't
okay i need to change my lens wow that is a big sensor
oh that is hot i think i want my longer
lens for this one i want lots of background blur okay what do i do hold
on a second ah that goes there oh my gosh shut up watching you change it
you're holding the sensor it's all i am no no no red dot to red dot okay i
shouldn't help you i shouldn't i got this don't worry white balance is
set to under water who the hell did that were they trying to me
highlight tone shadow tone what is this
noise reduction minus two let's set that to default i don't have a lot of
confidence in linus's ability to take photos at the same time oh
i think it's i think it's autofocus that
medium format fuji i've been using for like three months
it's amazing okay i just hold the shutter halfway down i know this uh how
do i pick a focus point is it touch no
go away brandon you aren't helping i'm not gonna help
you i just like watching you suffer i'm gonna turn hdr off because i think that
for action you don't really need and i'm not not quite sure how the processing
will handle the motion blur if james is gonna be running so i really have no
idea um better to just leave it off oh i have
to unlock it we're gonna actually do this challenge ever shut up i'm working on it so where do we go it's up to you
but mr action photographer i'll let you go first
you want to walk fast it's all in the hips
i'm as ready as i'm gonna be
okay i didn't even get a picture no i have to get out ahead of him
okay
one one lap only i think okay yeah yeah sure
oh man
i'm so this is one of my images
it's a picture of the track at my feet
that was really hard like i knew i wasn't gonna know how to operate the camera but the
part that i didn't account for was
being having to get in position against a moving target um
i mean i guess that is the challenge is brandon has the know-how and i have the
better equipment okay brandon you're up
three two one go
see the way he stands up doesn't he with that yeah no kidding
it's my whole strategy of like trying to just wait for the parts where james was
in good light didn't work out quite how i thought because i've never done a 400
meter sprint while somebody while trying to take a photo of somebody
and surprisingly that's not that easy to do now
i think i'm pretty happy with that last shot that i got because with a little
bit of editing and a crop
i think it'll look pretty good because i'm getting that nice like texture of the building area and the lines from the
track this is also showing me that uh maybe i should take up running
because i'm a little bit out of shape when it comes to that i feel good though
like overall like i could have done maybe a little bit better but i'm
feeling good okay then
it's like a fun house in here there's there's a is that is that the trophy for
whoever wins this oh my god it is amazing photographer genius hey wait
this is a reused trophy this is from uh nerd sports
oh okay so what is the challenge the challenge is
editorial fashion photography oh lord is the glitz and glamour of the photo
world you need to use the lights the space and most importantly the star to
capture the raw emotion that an outfit conveys
and to sell that merch oh my god
oh i'm so excited oh my god
for this challenge you'll be judged on how much the judges actually want to buy
the clothes presented well i think that's a foregone conclusion yeah i
think that's decided for us already you have 15 minutes with the star to get
three photos of three different merch items that's not a lot of time i'll be
honest i'm pretty worried for this next one you can only use the lights that are
on that set but you can use any props any chairs anything else that you find
inside this room i think you should go first this time oh okay
all right go ahead brandon i think you're supposed to leave the room for the shoot oh okay
you can't watch me use these lights and you got to watch me go around the track
that was different there's no parameters of helpfulness there for me
okay colton you ready for this what am i doing put your pants on oh
thank you put your pants on uh uh here put this
shirt on don't force it to be a sexy shoe i'll just dress down
let's see how this goes hold it sexy hold on okay so colton sit down
hold that like in front of me okay i need something more interesting than
this okay drink from the water bottle like
how do i pour it all over myself and then give me like
your sexiest like what sexist what dabel
hasselhoff stare hold the hat like this like grab two two sides
no i just look at this open whoops
okay nevermind no that's fine um okay okay
okay oh you're killing it what's my expression you're about to watch the
last episode of game of thrones when you were actually excited about it
oh man they rushed it they rushed it so bad yeah oh
sit back yeah so sit behind this table
yeah like sexy photo table like but you're just in the background think
about being the french girl you're the french girl
okay cool try wearing three hats three hats okay
so like one another sure another okay and then just like look up
at your head you're like i'm i'm so so awesome wearing three hats on this is a
new trend you're wearing the new trend of wearing three hats at the same time
okay hold this hold it okay okay got it yeah there you go perfect
colton hold on and then eyes to me
come back to me turn back to me here all right
that was hard holy crap oh my god this
experience was weird because it was with my co-worker but i had like i started
with all my clothes off wait not all of them i had my boxers anyway
so this is just it's just weird i think brandon did a great job i mean brandon does this stuff all the time so like
he's just a he's a natural-born professional you know so i love colton
we've worked together for like four years having him be a model is it is a
weird turn to our relationship but no it was fun it was a lot of fun
fingers crossed anyway that i managed to pull something that was good off so
brandon better watch out because i spent the last 15 minutes going through the
menus of this camera and uh i wouldn't call myself an expert but i figured out
how to change the iso now so i've got that going for me all right
your time is starting now what now go
oh god what's the plan linus look i'm thinking right now i need to figure out
how to get you in focus and then we're going to go from there
i'm going to move this though because he looks kind of too dramatic right now i'm
into more like you know bright and fun holton can you do bright and fun or is
it all soulless with you all the time
oh my god okay oh boy
i don't know how to do this
okay you want me to do linus i want you to win i want you to help me
okay let's cross your arms let's do like uh
give me like a smug smug smile why is the light so low
oh my god it's so heavy okay you know what let's do something
sensual start unzipping it with one hand then you got the other hand like on the
thing so you're kind of you're kind of eye contact eye contact no that looks
you look like my disapproving father all right you know give me a give me a dab
who knows the kids like dabs right a dab give me like a dab oh my god this
backdrop is tiny can you move a little bit to your right here hold on let's
just let's just go like let's just do like more of like a close-up no maybe
that's not good yeah maybe that's less good that's what i thought um here's a
fun mug yup fun mug no that's bad it covers your face that's
terrible it's a bad idea sandals put these on
let's go please okay wait wait wait wait what you need
socks no no give me i don't give me some fun give me
like a like i like wha you know
oh hold on that actually wasn't that bad
where do i get my paycheck you got to look at me
uh put my pants back on don't i don't
make the rules man more intensity can you do more intensity oh my god i feel
like it's like a mug shot okay uh give me like kind of like a hat tip like how
you doing ladies i'm married oh god oh my god that's not
in focus okay hold on yeah yeah look at the camera a little more smile you have
more smile yeah i got more smiles now it's just kind of weird it's weird it's
weird i don't like it i don't like it okay oh like that's not actually bad i
want that i want you wow dude i look like my rap album's about to yeah i want
you i want you putting the hat on okay all the way off and then like
you know what it's a terrible direction we're going
oh actually here's the idea okay i haven't just wait just wait
i just want some of the water uh what is going on just wait give me a classic
like billy mays here billy mays here
you're like you're having a great time you're a sports ball player oh my god
it's a it's horrible you look like it's killing you
that'll sell that'll sell people will buy that ltdstore.com
okay i want something playful here playful so i want you to splash me with the
water splash you have a camera just like like you're having fun middle of a water
fight and you don't have your hand on your hip like that you're just like just like oh my god do it like you gotta get
the shot i'm gonna move i'm gonna get you i'll get you get the shot though
hold on
this is going to be the greatest photo shoot of all time all right give me the
greatest photo shoot of all time poses
what have i done with my life
so pull give me the give me the water bottle there you go give me a water bottle pull your arms under the sleeves
put the hood on i should have done that just flip it on just just wait just chill just chill
it's all good that's not bad okay and wiggle around in
there just like get loose wiggle okay yeah wiggle around
okay now look at me and hold still okay
take a picture okay
i don't know i'm sorry for swearing
look the experience of linus was a little crazy but it was fun it was
exciting you know brandon he's just all well turn the lights on put your hands
on i put my pants on this entire time right see
what is that picture new profile i put on my linkedin dude
okay it's time for challenge number three
oh boy here we go there's a lot of dog stuff on the table that's exciting this
is weird does this mean i could have brought my dog to work today
challenge number three food photography
aftering still life may seem easy but the devils and the details for this
challenge you are tasked with capturing the most appealing photography of drumroll
dog food what you wow each be giving you the same
instead of backdrops lighting and problems you have 10 minutes to get one
photo this is literally a silver can with gaff tape that says
dog guys we don't even have that much to work
with can i get a spoon to like work with anything in this room okay anything in
the room anything in the room well i'm going to use the two dog food
dishes
you said i could use anything in this room i'ma let you do this one first
because i i want to just listen from a distance
how you deal with because you've never had a dog you have cats i had a dog when
i was a kid oh you did okay and it's not complicated i know how dog food works
how am i supposed to make this look appetizing you have 10 minutes what now
i haven't even had a chance to think yet
oh my god i was actually feeling okay about the last couple of challenges but
this one i'm deeply worried about like if you guys
gave us a meal that's actually nice
then it wouldn't be a challenge that might have been nice yeah what kind of challenge is easy oh my god you need two
allen keys just okay
so maybe we don't have him eating it maybe he's just present
and he looks happy so we've got the tail up
this looks disgusting i mean can i warm it up
i think it'll help sure
yeah you don't think warming this up is gonna help it's gonna help a lot
i need to get all this camera crap up here
what am i supposed to do with this see if i remember how to use the bloody
camera this smells so bad look at this it's like
juicy i'm mixing it
i don't think you guys could make this look appetizing either
what if i put like a small like garnish
this is lipstick on a pig if i've ever seen it
is my battery dead this is not working maybe i do need dog things
this stupid thing out of here
this is like dirty
is there anything else that i can use to like present it
this is actually the worst thing i've ever done one time
i'm screwed i'm done this is it it's
over oh boy oh no okay oh my god all right
jesus okay one of these might work let's see
oh this is gross oh it's hard
jesus okay oh oh god
oh no okay wait um
can i break this
okay i'm done calling it how do you feel like
you did you know as good as as appetizing as you can make
dog food i mean i have a dog she's small and she'd probably love eating that
photo challenge number four the professional head shot one of the most
reliable ways to make some quick cash as a starting photographer is to offer
headshots although it seems easy it demands a steady confident hand which is
why you'll be shooting from a moving car
you are in charge of directing the subject to produce a pose and expression
that would get the most appeal to a potential client you get three drive-bys
at 20 kilometers an hour oh god i'm so
glad you're going first because i need to figure out how to change my shutter speeds
all right wait i have to drive the car don't i yep
james loves taking his shirt off i'm gonna ask him to take his shirt off and
give me like a sexy pose is that a head shot though it's a tinder
profile picture tinder profile picture we're going for a tinder profile picture
yeah sexy pose head shot
okay elias you ready to drive and you want the tire on that line in the road
right yeah okay i'll do my best brandon no promises though
oh my god okay reverse reverse
okay so guys that was seven kilometers an hour and i think that's probably not
yeah
oh god okay
this is so hard all right
i have three photos i see what brandon was doing i don't
think he was using your strengths you like taking your shirt off right oh
so you're uh you're a pickup kind of guy clean but
not too clean you've got the button-up shirt but it's
over the shoulder oh my god i wish i could just use this
right now get just oh don't move let's
go let's go
oh wow
i have a photo hell yeah i don't know which one of us
is gonna come out of this okay that was probably one of the hardest
photos that i've ever had to try to take like just technically speaking
this was not a good performance
i'm not blaming you james you did your best you did great james 100 110 great
so you ready for challenge number five yeah
i'm not gonna lie i felt pretty good about the first two
the third one i never stood a chance and that last one you're gonna be
embarrassed for me how badly i bombed it all right well
we'll see how number five goes then as far as i'm concerned this could go
either way right now yes it could very much so challenge number five
the couple's photographer as a photographer it's often your job to
capture the important moments in your client's lives for your final challenge
you'll have to use all your skills to create a series of beautiful unique and
intimate pregnancy photos of the only couple are you could allow
oh my god
is that what the pregnant cast was for yeah
my actual wife's belly cast oh okay
that's clever so then you can expense it to work but you get the pregnant cast i
don't want why would you why would you want that again well people i don't know
this is a kit that exists people clearly want them so you don't do it with a bra
on i couldn't have my wife's actual nipples
on colton oh my god
all right it's your turn to go first okay
how long do i have 15 minutes 15 minutes and how many
photos do i just one uh three three photos three beautiful different unique
photos well the good news is i've already got my camera dialed in for direct sunlight
photos here oops that's not what i meant to do dang
it okay okay come on over here guys i've got a little clearing here okay
i'm just no no no no i'm just here hold on a second
i'm just thinking okay yeah okay okay yeah so so you gotta yeah i just had
mcdonald's yeah this is and that is what happens
don't close your eyes you're enjoying this moment
i want mona lisa smile i don't know what that means
have you seen the mona lisa i don't really care for it that much but yeah sure dude help me i'm trying to try help
me keep your hands together so it's less obvious how manish they are and then
james yep arm on the belly james you're so proud of her
okay for a quirky smile look at me but
give me like side eyes that's not side eyes okay he wants to be
you're like coy coy look no look at me your head down at
your tummy a little bit but kind of coy okay we're gonna have to work with that
um okay you're walking away from the life that you once knew with happiness
in it you're gonna have children okay how do i do this hold on 45 i'm going
with 45. i want you guys centered in the fri move to your left more left walk
backwards towards me wow this is the worst okay forget it this doesn't work
come here over here uh over here you guys
colton you're sitting here just shut up sitting you look about like
a pregnant lady trying to sit uh james support him no no i mean sit behind him
actually that's not bad good sunbathe yeah kiss on the head that's good
can you look happy about the situation i'm happy oh it's blurry just one moment
please oh my god okay so i want
some playful interaction i want like a i want like a like a playful shove from
colton like you guys are like you guys are yeah
one of those no you want the baby baby
try to do this for me okay if you can do this this is my winning picture i want
you on one knee like you're proposing you know like like a playful a playful
mock proposal because you're pregnant i have no idea what to do with this
background okay we got we got flowers
yes thank you model okay
okay a little bit closer james can you get sort of unnaturally close like i
know you're at like a good distance but yeah just for framing it's oh my god
what if it's just
okay um shut up you're not helping okay we're
gonna pretend that you're not actually eight months pregnant you like just did
it this is your this is your grass bed okay so then your legs are here can you
help getting your legs are out here and you're laying across this lap quickly quickly okay perfect there you go that's
time i'm calling that good all right my turn how's how does it go
at least one of your photography subjects today is pretty challenging to
work with can you guess which one
good luck good luck yeah thank you and three two one all right colton james
colton james come over here stan both of you stand like right here look deeply
into each other's eyes like as if you just love each other yeah no just yeah
hold your belly a little bit colton sit down sit down sit down yeah right now
yes you know what you lie down a little okay why don't you lie down like lie
down with your head here like this yeah
i love it all right nice guys okay james
stand behind colton and hold his belly interlock your hands
my hands yeah wait oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's great it's great
colton put your put the flowers in your hair james i
want a shot of you kissing his belly
stand a little bit more towards james look i'm sure it's fine okay okay okay
oh that's too much too much okay there we go perfect
okay both of you stand right here
how much time what no what i'm just trying to think like this one minute
buddy one minute just start taking pictures dude james colton stand here
james sit sit at his put your head against his belly both of you look in my
direction cool all right i'm done
it's fine this was far harder but i think i
actually managed to get a couple shots that i'm pretty happy with so we'll see
how linus did welcome back to ltt's
scrapyard cupcake drag race island we have just made our way through five
grueling challenges where our two contestants have faced off using a pixel
3 and a gfx 50r adjudicating this panel
is three experts in the field first edzil yago
second david gautier
and third dennis liao i love jogging who
will vanquish their foe we'll find out next
okay so that's mine i asked hoffman to enhance it but he
said he didn't have time yeah you didn't edit your photos so i really like the
contrast with the track and the green but then the green kind of mixes in with
the trees behind him what was i supposed to do about him wearing a weird outfit i
think that's what you're supposed to use your imagination for you could have gotten a higher shots that more of the
track was behind them you could have gone this is my longest lens
i'm just criticizing you okay you can't really argue it's done one of the
criteria was kind of the whole background's contrast versus the
foreground and i think you do lose james it does feel like he's posing it doesn't
feel like it's quite capturing the subtleties of what jane was accomplishing on that day the way that
the light is hitting his face i don't particularly love and i think i might have chosen a different part of the
track are you a photographer okay you're not supposed to even know
who took which photo so you should probably just judge the photo obviously
you took this picture
i like the contract after the outfit and the right track so i'll give you a
thumbs up now let's move on to brandon's photo technically speaking i think this
one is a better photo than the other one just technically i like yours better i'm
not sure if i'm looking at the guy or the stands i wish you could have
captured it where the track was a uniform color and there wasn't the blue
uh but overall i think this is actually an excellent photo and the subject's
pretty pop-up but it's a little bit dark he looks happier than yours
oh not bad i think where this one kind of fails is
that i don't see the merch so i don't know what i'm buying you did a good
photo here but i don't think it quite sells the merch to me i would argue that
most of the best advertisements just look like people having fun using the
thing and are not focused on the product well then it's good you're not judging your own photos
you're just not showing much about the products more about accordance face
which is not important i think we have a very biased judge in the panel
it looks like he's happy and just doing something the problem is i don't know
what it is i want to buy interesting idea of having your subject posing in
the background but i don't see enough of him so i get my like my fancy tickled
but not quite satisfied and so it's not a bad photo but i don't love this one
well i appreciate the logo being visible
the hat on that dark table doesn't tell me anything about how it fits i think it
was a waste of having your model in the back and not wearing it i don't like
this one either yeah i'm not so i really like this photo i think it's lots
of fun you use the sandals which i think is excellent i think that's a great use
of part of our branding and so i really like this i think there's obviously a
little bit of trouble with the exposure the fun more than makes up for it and i
love this photo coda's face is a little bit hot on his right side colton's just
a hot guy as a consumer if i see this on your
website i wouldn't want to buy this hoodie all i want to buy is a pair of
jeans for him to wear
this picture actually sells me on something the best from what i've seen
so far i can see myself being in that hoodie excellent i also
don't wear pants all the time so it really speaks to me
i think it's a good smile but yeah it's just an okay photo i actually
i like this picture among all the others
than the best because i like the happiness his brain to me so
just watching this picture i want to buy two water bottles while all the other
pictures kind of let me imagine myself i
would never be going like this with my water bottles
like anna just screams corporate to me i still like the idea of this photo i
think it's fun to be playing with the water bottle and i think it's important
to sell merch with fun not just style and i think you did a good job getting a
good performance out of colton as an ad for the water bottle this is kind of
terrible uh i think it's actually out of focus
his eyes kind of look a little dead or scary or something yeah i don't think
you nailed it on this photo the logos and the designs actually really pop with his
face he's like really surprised that he got this t-shirt or something this photo
again feels like it's a salesman holding
up a thing that he wants me to buy it happens to be that
in fairness to brandon but it doesn't make me want to buy it it
doesn't make me picture myself wearing it and i actually thought that could
have been a towel actually this picture is amazing you can see the food it
actually looks pretty tasty i know i'm not supposed to eat pet food
but they are selling it to me and i'm not sure if it's actually pet food
but it it looks good when you microwave the food during the
challenge i was a little concerned for your sanity but you proved me wrong and
it actually made it kind of come together and look a little more appetizing you're trying to tell the
audience that the stock you have too much going on this picture i like the
other colors that contrast with the bowl and the food but
it does seem kind of distracting and the food doesn't
look like food i like the pose i like the arm crossing
it looks like he's trying to sell me a house or maybe trying to sell me renovation services that i would
probably consider buying the lighting is a little bit off uh i think i lose his
eyes but i think you did a really good job considering you're sitting in the
back seat of a car and so good job i would not buy a building from this guy
he looks a bit shady the framing is okay could be better on linkedin maybe
that'll work
so i love this photo maybe for the wrong
reasons i think you were going for tinder profile you succeeded i think
using the pickup as a background instead of trying to find a neutral space was a
strong choice for tinder profile yeah you can see a lot of pictures like this
but you might be single forever because it's such a douchey look
what about grinder like for a one night stand he seems like
a pretty good choice a relationship probably not
i want to print this on a canvas i want to put it up in my house i want to make
this a movie poster i want to make it the cover of my 17 love songs of 2004
album and so overall as a set i think it's good there's so much diversity they look
like they're having fun and man that last photo is excellent i love it you
can feel that moment just quiet and happiness the marriage is good it's
working out i wouldn't ask for the full refund but i might ask for a discount
because it's a little bit overexposed if i were pregnant or my partner was
pregnant who really cares if like a picture is perfect but has no emotion
this has all of the emotion and it's good enough this one ended up being by
far my best photos awesome we are gonna we'll print
it on a display i think this is a really strong set and as individual photos you
might have beaten linus on any of them except for the last one that one's so
good but as a set they're kind of like
one note i love the colors i think like the exposure is good i think the emotion
of this is pretty good but then they're in the same pose and so now i can see
more of the world and i like this field but it's kind of the same photo just
like zoomed out as a set it doesn't tell the story uh lance's pictures are like
for about a married couple but this couple
looks like they're getting divorced i don't feel the happiness if i were the
client i think it's the wrong emotion it makes me feel like they just got some
bad news that they're they're going to lose the babies thank
you so much for your photos excellent job to both of you and so good job guys
thank you thank you gentlemen while you untuck backstage the judges will
deliberate their answer and come back with the winner
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that linked below
we have deliberated long and hard and we have come to a decision
this was much closer than anyone expected
and you both did an excellent job but the winner of today's challenge is linus
very one-sided competition honestly like your photo of james
i liked way more than mine if we'd had double
the amount of time i think you would have crushed me on every single challenge
i was crazy lucky more than once
even around the track yep that was the one
action shot that i had that was remotely in focus
brandon your punishment is to take a photo of linus with this trophy with
your pixel 3. all right
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