Be careful of ANY scams in the comments. Sadly they're becoming more and more aggressive! Some even try to impersonate me. The real "me" has a grayed out name! I DO NOT run ANY competitions or give-aways and I will NEVER EVER ask you to contact me! If you see a comment like that please click the three dots on the right of the comment and report it as spam / scam / misinformation.
We are often advised to slow down and appreciate the World around us. In this video and in your photographs you can clearly see how worthwhile it is to do that. Just beautiful pictures of Wales!
Mere words cannot express how spectacular and valuable this video is. I put my last Nikon away over a decade ago and have just picked it up again as I moved to full-time RV life. Your detailed reminders and tips don't just apply to long lenses (my max is 200mm). Even the "micro-jitters" reminded me that I have a tripod in my closet, and which I could have used yesterday morning out in -4.4°C temperatures phtographing my neighboring llamas here in Tennessee. I'm trying to help a few aspiring photographers in my Twitter feed to understand the importance of composition, color, and contrast; and will be forwarding them your TH-cam address. Mange, mange tak; og jeg kan næsten ikke vente med at komme ind på flere af dine videoer (venner i Stavanger og København inspirerer mig til at prøve lidt norsk/dansk).
In addition to the wonderful photos you capture, along with the teaching narrative, I also find I’m appreciating the countryside of Great Britain more and more. Thanks for your dedication!
Thanks for letting me take part in your photo trip Mads. Around 8 minutes I prefer the zoomed version of the tree, the other one is somehow missing a subject. Really admiring your style of photos. The way you compose is so different to mine - my landscapes are mostly boring. Main reason is that I do not take time to compose.
I definitely liked the zoomed out version of the trees on the horizon the best. As you suggested, more visual interest. It grabbed my attention immediately
I like the zoomed out version better, to my eye, it is balanced better than the zoomed in version. I also appreciate being able to see the scale. 13:40 is my favorite of the entire video. Breathtaking.
Isolated Trees on a Ridge: the zoomed-in version has some of the treed-ridge showing. Including the treed-ridge seemed to be your necessary need to keep the picture from being "boring." Thus, you have accomplished your goal in both photos. The zoomed-out version has so much of the ridge that it may ask the viewer to consider the ridge as the main focus instead of just the few trees. The isolated trees merely serve to grab the viewer eyes to look at her ridge instead of the sky. Both photos are fine - to me they simply have slightly different subjects. The horizontal photo goes even further to ask the viewer to look at the mountain range in total. Nice instruction!
Always a pleasure to see a new upload of yours. Fantastic photos and I really appreciate the enthusiasm you show. It motivates me every time to get up early and enjoy nature and of course, take some photos!
I tend to use a lighter tripod when hiking and carry the 100-400GM as well. In addition to the longer delay and a remote, I’ll switch the camera to silent shutter for this type of situation. The a7riii is much more forgiving than the a7riv, I started using the technique with the iv and have adopted it to the iii. Great video, scenery and results, definitely enjoyed Nigel’s version of your adventure too.
Oh the two vertical tree silhouette photos, I prefer the zoomed-out one at left. Not just the composition: the sky on the other one is just too bright for my liking, making the contrast very harsh. The horizontal photo is definitely the best of the three.
Definitely made me proud to be Welsh here Mads. Epic photos!! It'll be cool to see you do a video in the Brecon Beacons and the Gower Peninsula in South Wales where I normally like to shoot 👍
Wonderful video as usual. Great information/tips to remember while out shooting. The only thing I would like to see in your video is the Raw file before the edited shot. It’s always fun to see Nigel and James in the videos too.
As always your videos are very informative regarding what your shooting and why. The use of and predicting the light is a real talent that you master. I really enjoy your travel locations and how you find the best vantage points. Thanks again Mads :)
Really great video as always Mads. I prefer the zoomed in version, You can direct your gaze towards the trees using the lines generated by the mountain slopes and the contrast and the contrast of the light against the clouds with that reddish colour. Spectacular.
Absolutely beautiful photography Mads, I really like this video and the side lit photos that you took, and thanks so much for the tips about subject separation and depth, much appreciated !
Hi Mads, that was another great video and I'm going to pencil in Wales for future visits. Good tip about how to handle lens flare. I've got a few images with that problem so I'll remember your tip if I'm doing sunset photography. I do have problems with tripod movement and I noticed it very recently when I was focus stacking. I hadn't moved the camera and the leaves in the image hadn't moved, so it must have been when I adjusted the focus each time. I have noticed the image drifting down with each set up even with the tripod on a hard surface. I think the problem may be with the ball mount not being robust enough to support the camera when the lens is extended. My favourite images were the ones that included the sheep. Lovely dark background sky and bright foreground giving that feeling of depth. Nice one Mads.
Thanks for the new video, always happy to learn from you! Regarding the first set of images I also like horizontal crop the most, and the zoomed out version of the vertical ones. I guess (partly) because I think context helps telling the story.
Quite simply, an epic video Mads, what a collection of images from Wales. So many stunning images to choose from and hard to have a favourite this week but the one at 10:30 was probably one of my favourites. Ive just bought the Canon 100-400mm mark 2 lens and from the short time I have used it, I am blown away by the level of detail it can capture and very much look forward to getting out with it in the coming weeks and months ahead
You’ve done it again 🙌🏻 video! Loved the photo with the photogenic sheep in it. May I ask- do you Manual focus all the time? I find it very difficult to get my focus right. Learned from your video the importance of a steady tripod/ circumstances when using the long lens, I use mine a lot, sometimes if my back isn’t to good I only take the long lens because of its diversity but other “photographers” have come down on me because of that. Now I can show them your video 😜. Thank again for making these epic videos and show of this worlds beauty! 💚
Overall, a very fine use of one subject (the isolated trees) to explore the value of constantly shooting one photo from many different angles and time points. Thank you very much!
Beautiful photos @Mads. Good job! You mentioned once that you would have died with your gear and big tripod etc, one reason why I switched to an OM-1. You can do easily handheld pictures with a 40-150 2.8 (equi. 80-300). This is such a relief to travel without a tripod. Last time I managed a focus stacked, 150mm with 1/8 of a sec (10 pictures) or a 2 sec single shot with 150mm - no problem. And I can print easily the pictures 1-meter size without seeing a difference compared to my FF gear. I use my tripod only for Autora/Nightsky, otherwise, it stays at home/in the car. You have to try it once when you travel light. Ever tested? Greetings from Finland.
As always very inspiring. Thanks a lot. Just one question, you was not thinking to make some black and white? I am specially thinking of one of the last photos. The one you called “the hero of the morning”. Anyway; take care! Göran from Latvia
@7:54 if the trees were just a tad more left the scene would feel more balanced in my opinion on the zoomed in version, but eh that's just my personal feel to it. Also the clouds on the zoomed in one look like a smilling face that's swooping down to consume the trees which is cool and adds to the subject and imagination. Great photo.
Yes the ‘Shires’ offer a visual feast… as always lovely images. Slightly off topic, but what pc do you use for editing, how much RAM & what processing speed is optimum?
Using a shutter release cable also can be really helpful I do wish that they made a longer bracket for bigger lenses and one that stabilises the actual lens at the further end I’ve looked at the design of big lenses on tripods and I think they’ve got it wrong. But that’s another story I think definitely a two second delay. And definitely use a remote shutter release or shadow release cable at least so you reduce the sugar shake and blend shake as well. I would probably in that scenario bump the iso-up to 3 or 400 I see you no issue with shooting iso-up around even 500 to get a faster speed
Great Video and surely some epic shots was taken :) When I saw the part about micro vibrations it might answered my question to my large amount of blurry/smudged images from Teide Volcano , Tenerife wich I took last week. It was handheld, but never under 1 / focal length, so I was surprised that so many shots was unsharp. I had never before had an issue with handheld 300-400mm images with reasonable fast shutterspeeds as 1/300-1/640 specialy with IS and IBIS in the body. Still confused. Maybe was some Volcano vibrations :) Cheers from Sweden
GGreat video and some beautiful images Mads. With the pic of the waterfall, and some of your earlier backlit shots of the trees, there was some very high dynamic range. Were they all single shots or did you bracket some and blend them later?
Hi Mads, just a small question about your Zebra Stripes settings... How do you have them put on in your camera? I mean... Which values do you work with so as not to have your highlights blown out? Greetings from Spain 👍
Hi, I'm curious as to why you would choose f/16 on the first shot of the tree. Presumably at 250mm everything in the shot would be sharp at a larger aperture and the 'sweet spot' for sharpness is unlikely to be f/16 - more likely f/8 or so? Thanks for all the great videos over the years - Cheers!
7:42- probalbly the left one, because the empty space on the right side of the trees leave spectator phantasy working (but if would be composed this way the right image (zoomed one), probably i would choose it over the left🤷♂).
Yes I liked the zoomed in version of that one tree because it had better clouds, but the landscape orientation photo at 8:16 is the best of those three because of the sun beams the dynamism of the clouds and their color range. The subtle silhouette levels of the other trees below the skyline and the other faint silhouetted hills in the distance also as to the compositions beauty. That shot should be printed large format. The multitude of sunbeams in that almost monochromatic photo at 11:30 almost looks like "natures barcode of joy"... the same, even more so at 11:50 as this shot focuses exclusively on the best lit sunbeams. That fiery sky at 15:28 is beautiful. That needs to be a large format print. That stunning sunbeams photo that back light the cluster of trees... another large format print. All these shots that in recommending be large format could be part of a "dynamic light" calendar or photo book, you should think about that. I must say that music with the flute is ideal considering the lighting of those morning shoots and the resulting images you captured and have shown in this video.
At 24:38 you had a very nice leading line from the little stream that hits the stone fence, which beautifully curves around the hill where the subjects is and getting caught by the sun beams which leads you further through the photo. Why didn’t you zoom out and include some of that?
hello Mads Is the Sony camera (A7Rvi) useful for shooting landscapes and cityscapes? Does it have problems with noise? Do you recommend to buy it or something else? Thank you.
Be careful of ANY scams in the comments. Sadly they're becoming more and more aggressive! Some even try to impersonate me. The real "me" has a grayed out name! I DO NOT run ANY competitions or give-aways and I will NEVER EVER ask you to contact me! If you see a comment like that please click the three dots on the right of the comment and report it as spam / scam / misinformation.
I may have been caught by one. From what is here, I assume you didn’t recently give away a Sony A7RIII.
Love the zoomed in image of the isolated trees, a really stand out image.
We are often advised to slow down and appreciate the World around us. In this video and in your photographs you can clearly see how worthwhile it is to do that. Just beautiful pictures of Wales!
That finger over the sun trick is gold. Thanks!
The clouds make the landscape version, the trees add interest, well placed
That last photograph was just fantastic. A crowning touch to the video.
I love the photos of the trees but for someone that lives on the plains of Texas the mountains are my favorites.
The horizontal poto of the loan tree works nicely 👌 adding the layers of mountains and orange 🍊 sky, creates a more complete photo. Beautiful video.
I guess the words are Epic and It Doesn't Get Much Better Than This.
A feast for the eyes. Thank You!
Some great advise Mads. What amazing light you had. Wow!! Looking forward to the next one.
Breathtaking. You e outdone yourself, Mads
I like the photo on the left; the mountains in the background give a sense of a valley in between. Beautiful photos.
One of the best situation describing in depth whats going through you mind before you shoot. The best. Thanks.
Mere words cannot express how spectacular and valuable this video is. I put my last Nikon away over a decade ago and have just picked it up again as I moved to full-time RV life. Your detailed reminders and tips don't just apply to long lenses (my max is 200mm). Even the "micro-jitters" reminded me that I have a tripod in my closet, and which I could have used yesterday morning out in -4.4°C temperatures phtographing my neighboring llamas here in Tennessee. I'm trying to help a few aspiring photographers in my Twitter feed to understand the importance of composition, color, and contrast; and will be forwarding them your TH-cam address. Mange, mange tak; og jeg kan næsten ikke vente med at komme ind på flere af dine videoer (venner i Stavanger og København inspirerer mig til at prøve lidt norsk/dansk).
In addition to the wonderful photos you capture, along with the teaching narrative, I also find I’m appreciating the countryside of Great Britain more and more. Thanks for your dedication!
Thanks a lot, Stephen! Yes, I completely understand why you do that. There are SO many beautiful places :)
Thanks for letting me take part in your photo trip Mads.
Around 8 minutes I prefer the zoomed version of the tree, the other one is somehow missing a subject.
Really admiring your style of photos. The way you compose is so different to mine - my landscapes are mostly boring. Main reason is that I do not take time to compose.
Excellent video & shots - you bring it all together with your splendid narrative and B-Roll
Third last photo day one... magnifique
I definitely liked the zoomed out version of the trees on the horizon the best. As you suggested, more visual interest. It grabbed my attention immediately
I so love your images...esp your explanations on your composition...a genius with a camera....
Beautiful landscape with breathtaking images. Candy for the eye. Thanks for sharing your instruction. Enjoying your trip with Nigel and James.
Beautiful, beautiful photos Mads, thank you for showing off the British countryside so well 😊.
Some wonderful photos in today's video. Looks like you had a great trip.
Like the left one best as it has a bit more detail in the foreground plus there are some leading lines that lead the eye towards the trees
Damn, just how good can your compositions be. I have also come to appreciate your natural looking editing process. Complete in every sense.
So many epic photos! What a trip!
Great stuff, Mads! I prefer the zoomed shot of the tree cluster as well.
Brilliant conditions! I hope there is more to come from you and James and Nigel as well.
I like the zoomed out version better, to my eye, it is balanced better than the zoomed in version. I also appreciate being able to see the scale. 13:40 is my favorite of the entire video. Breathtaking.
Another awesome video! Thanks for taking us along!
Zoomed in version is my favorite 😍
Isolated Trees on a Ridge: the zoomed-in version has some of the treed-ridge showing. Including the treed-ridge seemed to be your necessary need to keep the picture from being "boring." Thus, you have accomplished your goal in both photos. The zoomed-out version has so much of the ridge that it may ask the viewer to consider the ridge as the main focus instead of just the few trees. The isolated trees merely serve to grab the viewer eyes to look at her ridge instead of the sky. Both photos are fine - to me they simply have slightly different subjects. The horizontal photo goes even further to ask the viewer to look at the mountain range in total. Nice instruction!
Thank you for an inspiring video. It helps me to get out in all kind of weather at our local enviroment looking for nice compositions.
Always a pleasure to see a new upload of yours. Fantastic photos and I really appreciate the enthusiasm you show. It motivates me every time to get up early and enjoy nature and of course, take some photos!
Gorgeous landscape and photos.
I tend to use a lighter tripod when hiking and carry the 100-400GM as well. In addition to the longer delay and a remote, I’ll switch the camera to silent shutter for this type of situation. The a7riii is much more forgiving than the a7riv, I started using the technique with the iv and have adopted it to the iii. Great video, scenery and results, definitely enjoyed Nigel’s version of your adventure too.
thanks so much for all this precious information! I just got myself a telophoto, and will try to put all this in application. Cheers!
I always enjoy your videos Mads as well as your beautiful photographs. The English countryside seems very interesting and photogenic.
Gorgeous photos Mads! I'm like you and prefer the zoomed in vertical shot. Thanks for all the great advice. I always look forward to your new videos.
Mads, this was a fascinating video. So many great photos. Thanks for sharing your thought process while making them.
Beautiful photos as always but enjoyed the new music 🎶
Oh the two vertical tree silhouette photos, I prefer the zoomed-out one at left. Not just the composition: the sky on the other one is just too bright for my liking, making the contrast very harsh. The horizontal photo is definitely the best of the three.
Definitely made me proud to be Welsh here Mads. Epic photos!! It'll be cool to see you do a video in the Brecon Beacons and the Gower Peninsula in South Wales where I normally like to shoot 👍
Wonderful video as usual. Great information/tips to remember while out shooting. The only thing I would like to see in your video is the Raw file before the edited shot. It’s always fun to see Nigel and James in the videos too.
Incredible shot at 13:40. I'd say, by far my favorite.
16:45 "I don't think Nigel or myself came away with a photo we were satisfied with."
If I took a photo half that good I would faint right there
Great Video Mads. Especially liked the telephoto of the backlit trees and valley with the golden light. Thanks
Excellent points. Some day when I have a telephoto lens I will think about these things.
Thank you Mads.. excellent work
Hard to choose a favorite, but I will be taking this into account in my future telephoto shoots. Thanks
Excellent video as always! Beautiful! Makes me miss home even more!
Excellent and informative video. Your captures are stunning. Your compositions so creative and inspiring. You truly are an artist in the truest sense.
I think I like the zoomed out version a little better. That downhill slope seems to add more balance. Both beautiful.
Beautiful video and photos 🙂👍
Beautiful images and great tips and advice Mads 👌
As always your videos are very informative regarding what your shooting and why. The use of and predicting the light is a real talent that you master. I really enjoy your travel locations and how you find the best vantage points. Thanks again Mads :)
Really great video as always Mads. I prefer the zoomed in version, You can direct your gaze towards the trees using the lines generated by the mountain slopes and the contrast and the contrast of the light against the clouds with that reddish colour. Spectacular.
I feel a Ryder Cup style competition is on the cards. You guys vs the F4. Just not sure where to put Greg.
Incredible video Mads. Learned so much from this one. In the initial trrees photo, i liked the zoomed out version best. Thank you so much.
Hey Mads, I like both of the mountain tree shots. To my surprise, I like the zoomed out picture the best🙂. I enjoy enjoy your channel.
Absolutely beautiful photography Mads, I really like this video and the side lit photos that you took, and thanks so much for the tips about subject separation and depth, much appreciated !
Beautiful photos and video Mads!
Hi Mads, that was another great video and I'm going to pencil in Wales for future visits. Good tip about how to handle lens flare. I've got a few images with that problem so I'll remember your tip if I'm doing sunset photography. I do have problems with tripod movement and I noticed it very recently when I was focus stacking. I hadn't moved the camera and the leaves in the image hadn't moved, so it must have been when I adjusted the focus each time. I have noticed the image drifting down with each set up even with the tripod on a hard surface. I think the problem may be with the ball mount not being robust enough to support the camera when the lens is extended. My favourite images were the ones that included the sheep. Lovely dark background sky and bright foreground giving that feeling of depth. Nice one Mads.
Always benefit Mads, awesome light and location. Thanks for the tips.
Thanks for the new video, always happy to learn from you! Regarding the first set of images I also like horizontal crop the most, and the zoomed out version of the vertical ones. I guess (partly) because I think context helps telling the story.
Quite simply, an epic video Mads, what a collection of images from Wales. So many stunning images to choose from and hard to have a favourite this week but the one at 10:30 was probably one of my favourites. Ive just bought the Canon 100-400mm mark 2 lens and from the short time I have used it, I am blown away by the level of detail it can capture and very much look forward to getting out with it in the coming weeks and months ahead
Beautiful images
Gorgeous shots! Epic location.
I prefer the zoomed in version but the horizontal one right after appealed to me the most.
We're off to mid Wales on Friday, looking forward to doing some photography. Cracking photos
You’ve done it again 🙌🏻 video! Loved the photo with the photogenic sheep in it. May I ask- do you Manual focus all the time? I find it very difficult to get my focus right. Learned from your video the importance of a steady tripod/ circumstances when using the long lens, I use mine a lot, sometimes if my back isn’t to good I only take the long lens because of its diversity but other “photographers” have come down on me because of that. Now I can show them your video 😜. Thank again for making these epic videos and show of this worlds beauty! 💚
Overall, a very fine use of one subject (the isolated trees) to explore the value of constantly shooting one photo from many different angles and time points. Thank you very much!
Beautiful photos @Mads. Good job!
You mentioned once that you would have died with your gear and big tripod etc, one reason why I switched to an OM-1. You can do easily handheld pictures with a 40-150 2.8 (equi. 80-300). This is such a relief to travel without a tripod. Last time I managed a focus stacked, 150mm with 1/8 of a sec (10 pictures) or a 2 sec single shot with 150mm - no problem. And I can print easily the pictures 1-meter size without seeing a difference compared to my FF gear. I use my tripod only for Autora/Nightsky, otherwise, it stays at home/in the car.
You have to try it once when you travel light. Ever tested?
Greetings from Finland.
The idea to shoot into the sun is new it might help in my shooting the Joshua trees here will give this a try thanks.
One word. Epic 👌
Great video. Great shots.
I love your videos man ! Thank you !
Great video - thanks for sharing!🙂
As awesome as ever, thanks Mads.
Another great video. I do like long lens landscapes.
As always very inspiring. Thanks a lot. Just one question, you was not thinking to make some black and white? I am specially thinking of one of the last photos. The one you called “the hero of the morning”. Anyway; take care! Göran from Latvia
Amazing! I have a place I goto where the scenery is very similar. I always wish I can get photos like this but I'm just not good enough yet. 😮💨
@7:54 if the trees were just a tad more left the scene would feel more balanced in my opinion on the zoomed in version, but eh that's just my personal feel to it. Also the clouds on the zoomed in one look like a smilling face that's swooping down to consume the trees which is cool and adds to the subject and imagination. Great photo.
Yes the ‘Shires’ offer a visual feast… as always lovely images.
Slightly off topic, but what pc do you use for editing, how much RAM & what processing speed is optimum?
Using a shutter release cable also can be really helpful I do wish that they made a longer bracket for bigger lenses and one that stabilises the actual lens at the further end I’ve looked at the design of big lenses on tripods and I think they’ve got it wrong. But that’s another story I think definitely a two second delay. And definitely use a remote shutter release or shadow release cable at least so you reduce the sugar shake and blend shake as well. I would probably in that scenario bump the iso-up to 3 or 400 I see you no issue with shooting iso-up around even 500 to get a faster speed
Great video!
Wow what a great video!
Great Video and surely some epic shots was taken :) When I saw the part about micro vibrations it might answered my question to my large amount of blurry/smudged images from Teide Volcano , Tenerife wich I took last week. It was handheld, but never under 1 / focal length, so I was surprised that so many shots was unsharp. I had never before had an issue with handheld 300-400mm images with reasonable fast shutterspeeds as 1/300-1/640 specialy with IS and IBIS in the body. Still confused. Maybe was some Volcano vibrations :) Cheers from Sweden
GGreat video and some beautiful images Mads. With the pic of the waterfall, and some of your earlier backlit shots of the trees, there was some very high dynamic range. Were they all single shots or did you bracket some and blend them later?
Very interesting, thank you.
Would love a video on dealing with lens flare artifact in PS!
I prefer the zoomed in shot. I think because it’s separated from the clouds. However, the horizontal is the best of the 3 shots. I
Du hjelper meg masse med dine tips🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hi Mads, just a small question about your Zebra Stripes settings... How do you have them put on in your camera? I mean... Which values do you work with so as not to have your highlights blown out? Greetings from Spain 👍
Hi, I'm curious as to why you would choose f/16 on the first shot of the tree. Presumably at 250mm everything in the shot would be sharp at a larger aperture and the 'sweet spot' for sharpness is unlikely to be f/16 - more likely f/8 or so? Thanks for all the great videos over the years - Cheers!
Because I'm lazy and people wouldn't be able to see the difference anyway 😜
@@MadsPeterIversen Finally, I've met an honest man!
7:42- probalbly the left one, because the empty space on the right side of the trees leave spectator phantasy working (but if would be composed this way the right image (zoomed one), probably i would choose it over the left🤷♂).
I love all your videos. Regarding micro vibrations, I'm not sure why you didn't point people in the direction of usng a remote release?
Yes I liked the zoomed in version of that one tree because it had better clouds, but the landscape orientation photo at 8:16 is the best of those three because of the sun beams the dynamism of the clouds and their color range. The subtle silhouette levels of the other trees below the skyline and the other faint silhouetted hills in the distance also as to the compositions beauty. That shot should be printed large format. The multitude of sunbeams in that almost monochromatic photo at 11:30 almost looks like "natures barcode of joy"... the same, even more so at 11:50 as this shot focuses exclusively on the best lit sunbeams. That fiery sky at 15:28 is beautiful. That needs to be a large format print. That stunning sunbeams photo that back light the cluster of trees... another large format print. All these shots that in recommending be large format could be part of a "dynamic light" calendar or photo book, you should think about that. I must say that music with the flute is ideal considering the lighting of those morning shoots and the resulting images you captured and have shown in this video.
At 24:38 you had a very nice leading line from the little stream that hits the stone fence, which beautifully curves around the hill where the subjects is and getting caught by the sun beams which leads you further through the photo. Why didn’t you zoom out and include some of that?
hello Mads
Is the Sony camera (A7Rvi) useful for shooting landscapes and cityscapes? Does it have problems with noise?
Do you recommend to buy it or something else?
Thank you.