Landscape Photography in Death Valley | With Thomas Heaton
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2018
- Death Valley is often referred to as the hottest place on Earth, so when we sent Thomas Heaton to California’s famous salt pans, he experienced torrential rain on the first day…
Thankfully, the weather soon cleared up! During his stay, Thomas searches for a compelling subject on the salt pans, uses focus stacking to produce crisp focus throughout an image and climbs around 5,000ft above the valley to shoot a once-in-a-lifetime panorama.
Find out more about Thomas' adventures via his TH-cam channel goo.gl/QFnYa9 and website thomasheaton.co.uk/
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WEX please keep supporting T.Heaton.He's one of my Favorites.Keep it up Thomas
Mark Leary I agree. He’s my favorite.
Without a doubt Thomas Heaton is a massive influence on both my video and photography. Always inspiring to watch
Any video with Thomas Heaton is a winner!
Stunning video - Thomas Heaton is one of the most engaging landscape photographers in the business.
Thomas Heaton is by far my favourite landscape photographer 📷 he just makes me want to get out there and find them images.
Thank You Wex for sponsoring Thomas Heaton.Brilliant Thomas. . . . . . Absolutely Brilliant.
What a great opportunity to be in Death Valley with the rain. Totally different experience then normal. Enjoy your videos.
That tip regarding the left and right hands is pure gold!
WEX picked a top man to cover landscape photography you are a master of a high class. Love both the salt images really nice wall hanging pieces like the one you did on your channel
Yet another little jem Thanks Wex for sending him.
Thomas Heaton is one of the Best.
What a dramatic panorama and trust Thomas to get the rain and then that amazing cloud inversion in the one trip! Thank you WEX for making this possible
It's also so great to see what a great bunch of positive people Tom's fans are in the comments! Thanks Wex for supporting Tom!
Thomas is such a great ambassador for landscape photography - keeps it real, explains fully without being patronising, and gets brilliant results. Have subscribed to ensure don't miss his further vlogs. Thanks Wex for sponsoring his trip, and hopefully you'll send him on more.
well done Wex, enjoy all of Heaton's work, photos and vlogs
Thomas Heaton does such an amazing job of creating and telling the story - creating the drama. All photographers attempt to tell a story - either through photos, videos or both - but only a small percentage have the creative gift to weave this experience into something to pull at the viewer's emotions and inner drive.
Great video. Thank you Wex for sponsoring Thom's trip.
The Panorama start and finish tip was great. That will make things so much easier in post :-)
Fantastic-Tom is the best, you're lucky to have him, keep it up!
Subscribed so that you keep supporting Thomas Heaton.
Yea, nice to meet his agent!
A magnificent video, highly informative, and Thom just crushes not only the photography but also the personality for the video.
Great wisdom shared in this. I love the mix of conceptual and practical ideas. Thanks, Wex and Thomas!
Another great Thomas Heaton video thanks for supporting him Wex
Thank you Thomas, yet another stunning video...absolutely gorgeous!
Great video with 2 lovely Images.
Great video! Bring more from Thomas! Love it!
Tom is such a good storyteller. That's what makes is videos so engaging. That cloud inversion shot is amazing!
Tom is amazing!
Wex, such a great decision commissioning Thomas to undertake this assigment. Quite simply one of the best photographers on TH-cam and delivers such amazing images whilst capturing the imagination
Cool.
I found Wex because of Thomas. I’m going to write him and suggest that he change the folder in between panoramic sets. That way each one will be in its own folder and still be viewed in Lightroom all the same as needed. I just put my “change folder” setting in my quick menu for and easy 3-click change. 👍🏿
Tom never fails to inform and inspire. Thanks to Wex for noticing this.
Subscribed. Absolutely fantastic video Thomas. Thanks for sharing and thank you Wex for making this possible 👍🏆
Awesome video! Thank you Wex for choosing Thomas. The video was very interesting and the pictures from Thomas are as always truly beautiful.
Superb video Tom, as always. Been looking forward to this for a while now 👍
Another superb video from Mr. Heaton!
Awesome video. Thomas is a professional.
Another great Thomas Heaton video, as a follower of his own TH-cam channel, I expected nothing less.
Excellent choice of a photographer to send on this project. Thank you. And thanks, Thomas, for the Pano beginning/end tip!
The best in the business! 👍 amazing as always Thomas!
Great video. Thank you Wex and Thomas!
Great video! Love Tom's work.
Subscribed to support more great photographers like Thomas
Genius tip for panoramas Tom, the left hand right hand thing... brilliant!!
Thanks for this Tom! Hugely instructive. Cheers!
Great video Thomas looking forward to the next.
How many of us have shot from that exact spot, I know I have, thanks, brings back memories.
What a great video! It's a gorgeous mix of tutorial and storytelling. Pretty amazing shots, as usual.
Hey Thomas,
I love DV also. So lucky you were to see the inversion. I take lots of panos and have always used my left hand to start and stop the series, using my right with the remote button. Your idea of using the left to start and right to end makes great sense. I will adopt the method and thank you each time I shoot a pano!!! Thanks for another wonderful video and appreciation to Wex for sponsoring the trip. Good shooting...Bob
Such a relaxing video this one, feels like you took your time a little more than usual 👍🏻
Beautiful video and great tips from a Pro!! Loved it!
Great video, looking forward to more like this. 👍
Wonder video! And great tip about bracketing your panorama with hands! I will definitely be trying that! Keep up the great work!
Well done Wex well done Thomas another great video
Great video can't wait to go and take photos.
The textures and the tone gourgeous, images. Havent tried a panoramic knew to take several, you've mentioned that with images before. Thanks for mentioning the use of your hands. I would've been lost. That panoramic, just amazing.
Thomas Heaton is one of the best story tellers even when he is alone in the midst of ..... almost nothing.
Excellent video - throughly enjoyed following your trip Thomas
PURE GOLD
Lovely video Thomas, keep up the good work.
Absolutely stunning
Great work Thomas, keep it up!
Nice location / job Mr Heaton.
Thank you @Wex on the choice of Mr Heaton. #Wex
you need to bring some of that rain to New Mexico! Thanks for celebrating the minimalist perspective.
Well done Wex for supporting Tom. Another great vlog from Tom. Great tips on the "pano-hands" lol. I normally use lens cloth each side for a black out.
I like the simple hint on how you separate the series of images, taken for one panorama. It is so simple and effective, that i almost feel embarrassed, for not thinking about it myself.
Great tip about marking the pano sequences with hand shots, I'm going to use that one for sure.
Great vlog Wex and Heaton!!
Great video and I loved the tip about using your hands to mark the panorama. 👍
Using your hand to mark the start and end of a panoramic; great tip, thanks!
Thanks Thomas! I'm heading there myself in a few weeks. I'm hoping to capture that classic image myself (minus the rain hopefully) and I appreciate the tutorial.
Wow, that hexagon salt flat image is stunning.
Awesome video, thank you.
"ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS"
thanks Wex, Like TH videos.
YESSS! Thomas Heaton :)
Striking indeed!
great video - really enjoy the approach
Very good. I was expecting shooting 120 degs but this is great also. I learnt things.
Hi Tom my wife and I went in May a few years ago and, like you, we thought we’d taken UK weather with us as it was torrential, so bad that they were using snow ploughs to clear mud from the roads. It cleared mid afternoon and I got up at 4am next day for sunrise at Zabriskie Point, the cars temperature gauge was reading 104°F which in centigrade is bloody hot!
That hand trick over lens is a good idea and one that helped a while back. Kinda like the clap board for filming. Ha ha.
I always have said it would be great to be able to easily comment on images with voice to text for the comment field. Ha ha. Perhaps they can do that someday rather than the awkward typing in. Sometimes we forget our thoughts while out shooting and forget them back at the computer. :-)
About time ❤️
Great tips thank you
WOW, that panoramic tip with using your hands to show the end is GENIUS! Why haven't I thought about that!?
Paul Barnard me too! I just got back from Iceland where I shot so many panoramic images and trying to find where to start/finish was really time comsuming
I use front and back of left hand using my thumb as a pointer
Top video and pictures! greetings from Dubai. Erik
Awesome video. It's great to see a master at work. You should send him off to the Dolomites with Mad Peter Iversen, now that would be an awesome combination of probably the two best landscape photographers out there at the moment.!!
I really enjoyed this. :-) Great story with some wonderful photographs.
epic.... !!
Just left Death Valley a couple days ago. Decided not to visit the race track because it rained and I thought maybe the Playa would be super soft and I would leave foot prints. Drove to Canyon de Chelly and wow such an amazing place. Do yourself a favor and check it out. I am in Monument Valley right now waiting for the sun to rise.
excellent video! Such rare and beautiful conditions you had Tom!
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Any journal featuring Tom is a must watch and this is no different. Despite the awful weather he succeeds in making beautiful images that most of us would never see. His enthusiasm is infectious and he is a fantastic ambassador for both WEX and landscape photography in general.
Thomas brought rain to one of the driest places on planet earth !! *LMAO*
Great video. Now they need to send you on the John Muir Trail. It will change your photographic life.
Another delightful landscape video, Thomas.... but one thing that surprised me was your feeling compelled to use focus stacking for those wide angle closeups of the salt hexagons vs. shooting with focus at hyperfocal distance, which for my FF sensor, and 16mm lens at f/11 should yield everything from 1.5 ft to infinity in focus. Do you other factors for that that decision? Thanks
In case anyone is wondering, the two locations he shot were Badwater Basin and Dante’s View.
Enjoyed the video as usual but cant understand focus stacking a 16mm lens at F11. With a hyperlocal distance of less than 1 metre the DOF is 12 inches to infinity. Am I missing something?
Does the lens you're using for the focus stacking shot have any focus breathing? Will that make it harder to stitch the stacked images in post?
I swear Thomas, I watch a lot of your videos and every time you're in the rain you look like Chris Martin in Coldplay's Yellow music video
Ha,yes I thought that too. Thomas should do a slow-mo walking sequence talk-to-camera for the full effect :-)
This vid made me really want to get out of my usual photographic "hot spot" circle
Thomas - my first trip to DV is coming up in 4 weeks. I've lived in CA for 30 years, and will be leaving in 1, so this is a bucket list item for me. How did you zero in on where you'd go?
great videro... btw, why don' you use a tilt-shift lens? I suppose it could be a nice solution for landscape photography (it's just an idea...)