Quote from: tickstock on November 15, 2013, 13:14

Quote from: topol on November 15, 2013, 12:52

Quote from: tickstock on November 15, 2013, 11:50

Remember he's sponsored by Profoto and Hasselblad and sells his monopod.  Those companies want to get something in return for their investment.  It's just part of his job.  I wouldn't mind setting up a few shots like this if someone is going to give me tens of thousands of dollars in equipment.

But it's a rainy, semi-boring video at best. Look at the kinda stuff gopro or redbull have on youtube, thats what you need to compete with for people's short attention span... next to that this is about as exciting as watching granma' mow the lawn.

Gopro's videos cost a lot more to make than Yuri's and they are different things.  Yuri is promoting himself, profoto, hasselblad, and his monopod in the video.  If you look at profoto's last youtube video it's only had 6,000 views in 6 months compared to Yuri's which had 10,000 in a day.  Seems fairly successful to me.

If you account for athe cost of the strobes, etc, I don't think most of the videos cost more at all. Most of profoto's videos are startightforward ads, Yuri only has some logo peek-a-boo.