Taking you to Sin City for some Bangers!

That takes you straight to the casino so I'm gonna get unloaded we're gonna go up to the hotel room. Hello and welcome to today's vlog. Of all the time that I've been doing content creation there's one thing I haven't done and and I really don't know why and that's go to Las Vegas. And if you can imagine right now in your mind all of the Vegas City Lights and the potential for video and photography I mean it's got to be endless. So more on that in a little bit. Now this might be your first time to the channel if so welcome. All I ask is that if you enjoy any part of this production that you hit that like button down below. It helps spread the message around helps build the channel and I would greatly appreciate it. Leave your comments below on when last time you went to Vegas was. We're gonna jump on the bike right now I'm gonna show you the different stops along the way from San Diego to Las Vegas. It's gonna take us about four and a half hours. Let's get on the road. So do you see that right up there? That is the world's tallest thermometer. We're in a place called Baker, California. We're just about a hundred miles from Vegas itself and let's go check this thing out. So I'm really not sure on who's responsible for measuring the tallest thermometer but yeah it's it's pretty tall. Try to give you like a perspective here. It's way up there. So when you're going to Vegas this is a staple that you know you see when you're coming around the bend and you know that you're about a hundred miles away from Vegas and you get all pumped up you get excited. And this is in the town of Baker. Very small old-school kind of run-down town. Not a whole lot going on. Nothing really around here besides Baker. And now from here we'll head over to State Line which is right there at the California Nevada border. I'm gonna stretch the legs and get back on the bike. Let's go. Okay so we made it to State Line. There are a few casinos here but you know our main goal is to get over to Vegas. We're like 34 miles away and we're all gassed up. Once I get into the hotel room I'll I'll explain to you on why we're actually here. But it's starting to get dark and I just want to get into Vegas and check into the hotel room. So let's go. Okay so I tried greasing the guy when I first got to the hotel. We're at Caesars Palace in Vegas. And to see if I could park the bike in the front of the casino because I can just come and go and it would have been nice and easy. That didn't work very well. So I went to another guy, another valet spot at the same hotel. Tried to grease him. That didn't work. But honestly the motorcycle parking here. I mean you can see this is the elevator. That takes you straight to the casino. So I'm gonna get unloaded. We're gonna go up to the hotel room. Get all checked in and then we'll talk. Okay let's get changed. So we're all changed up and the question being why am I in Vegas? Well if you follow this channel and the Instagram you know that photography is also a big passion of mine. And in order to get better at photography you always got to be a student of the game just like videography. So we're here for a conference. It's called WPPI. It's a wedding and portrait photography conference. But they have everything from video setups, camera setups, and they have booths you can test out and try new equipment. And that's what we're gonna be doing. But we're also in Las Vegas which means that we're gonna take advantage of the city lights and get out there and hopefully take some photographs of the motorcycle since we're in Vegas. I found a couple of rooftops that I'm gonna test out tonight and see if we can get some really good photography of the Harley. And I don't know I'm gonna take you guys with me. At the very end of this video I'm gonna show you a few of the other still shots I took in Vegas while I was here. But for right now it's gonna stick strictly with motorcycles. And one of the things you should know, so obviously I have my Instagram account which is full underscore throttle underscore hog. So if you're into photography type of stuff and not just motorcycle photography you can check out my other Instagram account and that's Ryan dot Anderson dot photography. And you can see some of the shots that are not necessarily motorcycle related but that Instagram account has more cityscapes and landscapes and night photography. I'm a big fan of night photography and even while we're here we're gonna go try to get some light trails on the main strip and see what we can come up with. But let's get over to some rooftops and see what kind of night shots we can get with the bike. Let's go. It's actually not that bad right now so I think the smart move is gonna be to wipe it down here then in the Sun even though it's starting to set. Yeah let's go ahead and get to work. Totally not sponsored but pick this stuff up in Sturgis. Big fan. It is a washer, cleaner, polisher, all-in-one. It's great to travel with. So that's just the quick wipe down. We'll see what happens when we get in the sunlight. So where I found the location that I'm gonna be shooting at is actually through the iPhone and Google Maps. And if you like I can do another video on how to pick out those spots. But basically finding the different rooftops, dropping a pin so I knew exactly how to get there. So let's go take a look at this location and we'll get some shots of the bike. Alright so maybe I don't do a separate video on how I found this location because the rooftop that we need to get to is up there and this parking lot is closed. So we're gonna have to go to plan B. I'm gonna snap a couple shots and I will show them to you right now. This is what I came up with at this spot. It might stay till dark actually. This is what we're working with back here and I think that that that will light up at night and a long exposure might be pretty about 30 minutes from the strip with a little bit of traffic. Not too bad but the views here are insane. Check this out. We're gonna grab not only some drone stuff but some still shots. So I'm gonna be waiting for golden hour and then I'm just gonna start snapping away. I do want to give a very big thank you to Tamron. They set me up with a 24 to 70 and a 70 to 200 both f2.8 and just an amazing lens. Great sharp images and yeah let's take some shots. I will show them to you right now. So interestingly enough what I realized here in Vegas is trying to vlog is almost impossible when you're out in Vegas. There's always music playing. It's really hard to do and I just kind of stopped along this trip. So things are a little scattered for this vlog so I apologize for that. But we also had some difficulties flying the drone last night because we were in a National Park and you can't fly a drone in National Park. So the filming process kind of is all over the place and that's really frustrating when you're trying to put something together because you have an idea of how things should flow and it just didn't work out that way. But you just roll with the punches and we're gonna put together the best product with the footage that we have. I did take over 2,000 still shots which I'm really excited to go through. But I'm gonna end the vlog right here. I'm heading back to San Diego. You guys thanks for checking out. Till next time you ride safe, be safe, and we'll catch you on the next one.