Top 10 Tech Travel Tips

My job involves photo and video production and being on the road for about half of every year so that means we travel a lot but in all those miles we've racked up I've learned many lessons some of them the hard way so today I'll give you a few quick travel tips especially if you're into technology like the very first thing starts on my phone before we've even left the house I make sure to turn it into low-power mode just to conserve as much battery as possible and I leave it on for basically the whole trip this is gonna be a theme a lot of these tips revolve around electricity and keeping it flowing in the right directions and actually a new feature in iOS 13 similar to low-power mode there is now low bandwidth mode no that's not.

it's called called low data mode and it actually depends on developers to tell the apps that like look your might be on roaming right now so use less data it's not fully implemented yet but in the future and it could have a big impact on your phone bill another simple one you probably heard this before but is take pictures of your basic documents in case you lose them while you're on the road again really help you get out of a tight spot now let's crack the bag open when it comes to cameras a beginner mistake I still see happen all the times people buy these little action cams you know there's a whole bunch of different brands out there I don't want to name names they're great cameras especially if you want to take them underwater or they might get destroyed but you know what's a better camera probably your phone not only do you have something extra you need to charge all the time and different memory cards to manage and all this stuff but most of these cameras have effectively fisheye lenses very distorted not super flattering honestly it makes way more sense to just bring your phone and shoot most things on that the quality is at least as good.

if not better okay but still I don't discredit these things too much like I'm bringing one on the trip I'm going on right now but specifically to go underwater if you travel even a couple times here I think it's very worthwhile to also get a little accessory kit that has just always packed it has whatever essentials that you will need when you're on the go just duplicate copies so when you're trying to pack for a vacation it's already there and you may not be surprised to see that the most important thing inside here is charging cables but I do have some specific recommendations for it first of all make sure that it has more than one outlet I mean right here I've got six hopefully that's more than you need but at a minimum make sure that you're able to charge your phone and anyone else's phone that you have with you overnight all at the same time.

you don't want to be trading off and wake up so that only one of the phones is charged and that you have a cable to charge your batteries as well I kind of hate this state of things right now where I mean right here I've got I got two lightning cables microUSB another microUSB USBC and my watch charger and then when you're shopping for a USB charger like this I highly recommend getting one that has a cable because if there are limited outlets in the room and this just had the prongs coming out of it you may not be able to fit this whole thing into the wall with whatever else is plugged in so this cable always allows you to have space in the plug explain that right.

if you're like me using a computer that only has USB see you are probably carrying around a dongle that looks something like this it works great you still need it you've probably already got one but I very highly recommend that you go and purchase a bunch of these basic actual USB C cables because they probably didn't come with whatever your product is like this card reader it just came with a normal USB a cable but for like five dollars I can replace it with one that goes to USB C and now I don't need the dongle I try to avoid the dongle at all costs no one likes a dongle next we'll talk about backup for your photos but there's also a backup for the rest of your trip thanks for a sponsor today TD insurance look half of the fun of traveling is to experience the unexpected you don't know what's gonna happen that's why it's an adventure with their travel insurance you can be prepared for the unexpected so before you book your tickets click the link in the description below and find out how to D insurance can help with your next trip so back up photo backup video backup these are my video drives we bring a lot of drivers with us at all times the key thing that you need to do whether or not you're shooting professionally is backup Wow you are there this is a mistake.

I've seen so many times the best exhibit this this isn't you I know you didn't do this but I do there are some family friends that I know we're traveling I think they're in Mexico and they had all of their family photos on their camera not just from that trip but from the past like two years they just kept the memory card in the camera and kept shooting and then the camera of course was lost that's kind of a worst-case scenario I mean they didn't have any backup I you're probably not doing that but I just I'd that reminds me there are people out there that are just keeping their photos only in one place a lot of the time it's on their phone that's like the one place that you keep them and you think they're safe but you know what they're not you really could lose your phone at any time so what we do anyway is we bring multiple drives with us and we keep them in sync during the trip we make sure that both of them are backed up before we empty any memory cards and if you are just shooting on your phone make sure that it's either backing up online automatically or that you are syncing it to your computer or something just make sure there's a second copy before you come home one thing.

when you're browsing the internet online that you should do and sometimes I forget to do is use a VPN when you're accessing the Internet it's a bad habit of mine not to log on because there is always a chance that somebody could be accessing your computer through unsecured Wi-Fi networks there's many ways for them to get in so when you are traveling on other people's networks get a VPN you should probably pay for one because free ones I mean I wouldn't trust them either it's worth it to keep your data secure is the tip of what you should not to just don't bring the tripod maybe you're a youtuber watching or like a professional photographer and you're doing real actual work but you know what we do real photography work on the road a lot of days of the year and honestly never have a tripod with us this is a giant tripod this is a bad example I'm using using my travel tripod right now to shoot this but even that like these smaller foldable ones you rarely need it I see people all the time taking photos in broad daylight just still photos and they're using a tripod I I don't I don't understand why at all the photos are going to come out sharp even if you're shooting in lower light like Suns sunrise sunset it's gonna work out fine this is a lot of extra weight in your luggage just leave it at home if you can but if you really must you know you can bring one of these little and now it's the mug äj-- advice first of all I'm still shocked that I ever see anybody that isn't using a four wheel piece of luggage you guys are crazy the way we usually travels will have two small carry-on pieces of luggage in two large larger than this pieces and that's how we go everywhere we couldn't manage all that stuff if it wasn't on four wheels the point is is that you can roll it like this you can take it one-handed you don't need to leave I mean everything everything about four wheels is just necessary I could never go back and also everybody gets basically the exact same luggage when you're picking up your legs you might notice most of it is just the same soft black pieces of luggage that all look completely identical get something that you can identify I mean this is bright red that kind of helps but we also put stickers on their luggage this is brand new so we we only have one so far but over time this starts to fill up and you can spot your luggage at a mile away you can do anything just something so that in one quick glance you can tell it's yours I mean a luggage tag anything just some piece of design that you know it's yours without reading the name on the luggage I'd also recommend against getting it really cheap luggage we have bought plenty of cheap luggage and it's all broken not surprisingly this advice is kind of common you hopefully you've heard it before when you're traveling especially in a country with different power outlets than you bring a little power bar that can give you more outlets to plug into this one only has three to be honest we usually travel with this one so that we can plug everything in in one place with just one wall converter so yeah I don't have to bring like five of these I can just find one place in the wall plug this in and then everything can get charged out of the same place obviously you don't overload it don't put anything with really high draw in it yeah essential especially if you have as much stuff to charge as we do very last tip this is not tech related rinse your clothes will you're on your trip especially your socks your underwear your t-shirts anything that might make your other clothes smell bad just put them in the bathroom sink run some cold water and hang them to dry or if you feel like that's too much then just put them in a separate bag then your clean clothes inside your suitcase I literally have to pick up onion at the airport in half an hour and then I'm getting on a plane tonight thanks for watching guys you