One camera one lens with Helen Bartlett
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- Family photographer and Canon Ambassador Helen Bartlett leaves her usual equipment behind to experiment with using just one camera and one lens. By limiting her options, she challenges herself to use her tools in different ways, to add variety to her photos and to become a more creative photographer. Join her in this challenge and explore your creativity.
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Great energy, great story! Definitely agree, many people would say they enjoy the convenience of zooms and multiple lenses, but once you tried pushing yourself with just one lens you see yourself getting better. I used to be a 50mm guy back in my FF days, now switched to mirrorless apsc and been dabbling with the 35mm equivalent focal length. Love it!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. It's such fun pushing yourself with a prime lens isn't it? I'm having a 50mm moment currently, it's been glued to my camera this month. I like mixing it up, shooting with one lens for a while then moving to a different one, I always see such improvements to my photography overall when I concentrate like this. Enjoy your mirrorless!
Thank you for this Canon Europe & Helen :)
Loved her images and her energy and enthusiasm! Great job!
fantastic, I could listen to Helen all day, fab stuff!! JP x
Aw, what a lovely thing to say, thank you JP
Helen Bartlett Family Photography in London credit where credits due 😉😊x
Helen Bartlett Family Photography in London I’m a complete canon fan too used eos film cameras all over the world back in the day now have 80D 90D and 5D mk4 and waiting for the R5!!! Can’t wait!!!
@@JPLamoureuxsTravels you and me both :-)
Lots of positive energy and great photos here - thanks :).
Thank you so much Pierre, I'm really glad you enjoyed it
I like a lot your way of seeing photography. I would love to see more videos like this one or the ones on your channel. It would help a lot of new photographers and inspire them while documenting their family life and the growth of their children.
Thank you so much Gennaro. I'm really new to video (the other Canon Connected one was my first ever) so I'm learning as I go along and your kind words mean a lot. I'll try to do some more, it's lovely to be able to help others on the journey.
"One camera, one lens" is a great philosophy. I'd love to see Canon make digital Canonet. Something like the Fujifilm X100V or Leica Q2. Great Canon hardware and software in a compact form. Yes, Canon makes some excellent point-and-shoot cameras but they're all very modern looking and all the high-end ones have zoom lens.
I spent a couple of years working as a freelance photojournalism in Southeast Asia and while I had two excellent bodies and a bag full of the best primes and zooms most of my images were captured on a Fujifilm X100T with a fixed 23mm (35mm) lens. Having "one camera, one lens" was always quicker and more discrete than using a more traditional mirrorless camera.
Great,inspiring. I now feel more confident leaving home with one lens. Thank you
So glad you enjoyed it Adnan. Enjoy using your single lens, I bet you will see a big difference in your pictures.
Lovely video Helen, very inspiring. What great B and W images! I tend to use the old 70-200 f2.8 for portraits - great lens: but somewhere I have an old 50mm F1.8 I must dig that out and have a go!
Thank you so much Mike. Do dig out that old 50. The 70-200 is fantastic but there is something great about getting a bit closer, you can have more of a conversation.
Alleluia !!!
Learnt a lot. Thank you!
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment, I'm really glad you found it helpful
yesss,,,,
excellent
very nice job
Thank you so much Ampon
Very good video helpful and interesting 😊👍🏾.
Thanks Ruth, I'm so glad you have found it helpful
Great video. Great images. Thank you.
Thanks Dan, I'm really pleased you enjoyed it
Wonderful vid. I'm the same. All about the canon primes!! 👍👍
Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I do love the primes.
i do alot of wildlife as a hobbyist smudger, so my goto lens has to be the 100-400mm , i have taken it out on its own a few times but i do usually put a 9mm in the bag too for any wide stuff
There is a place in my heart for the 100-400, for me it's usually if I'm on the beach and the kids are likely to be going deep into the water or if I'm photographing them doing a sport like horse-riding or waterskiing. It's a great lens and I can see why it would be your lens of choice for wildlife.
@@helenbartlett its a very versatile lens, i can increase the telephoto side of things by stacking two x2 converters or i can add ext tubes and converters to go as deep as 2mm of ruler on my M50 crop sensor for some extreme macro
@@messylaura wow, that sounds incredible. Are you on Instagram? I'd love to see the results. I haven't used extension tubes for years, maybe this year I should dig them out again. I love how inspiration is a two way street, thank you for the ideas :-)
You make me want to update my old 35mm lens!
The new lenses are amazing, the difference between the old 35 and the new one makes it worth the upgrade.
Very inspiring!
Thanks Dave
Beautiful photos, thanks for sharing! I only have one camera lol (80D, which I still love), but I definitely like leaving one lens on to see what I can create. I’ve done a couple outdoor portrait shots with the 135 F2 L (might still be my favourite lens)...on APS-C! Yes I’m backing up quite a bit to get shots, but the results are beautiful. And it doubles as one of my indoor hockey lens (along with the 70-200 2.8 IS III). In fact, I’ve left the 135 on for entire tournaments sometimes. By the way, the first prime I tried was the 50 1.8 STM...and for the price, this is a great option for someone to try a prime.
I love the 50 1.8 too, it's always the lens I recommend to friends and clients who want to improve their photography. The 135 is glorious too, I find it's a bit too far away for me (I love to chat while I work) but it's a beautiful lens and good at the moment too with social distancing :-)
Lovely video, indeed a great insight. True that primes push us more than pushing the zoom rings in the zooms. Great video series 👍. Even though currently not a canon user ,still find the content pretty good. 📸💐
so glad you are enjoying the series and thank you for your kind comment
Reading off screen mmm. I closed my eyes and felt the need for taking photos rising in my bones.
how wonderful, I hope you have had a wonderful weekend of photography.
amazing.. u oooze energy
Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed it
A great video and I have gone out with one fixed focal length. A 17mm for my Oly. It does help your creativity and makes you think
Your video is great the way you changed it up so not to be boaring .
Thank you so much, I'm really glad you enjoyed it
Been shooting for 20 plus years my best shots were taken with a standard lens and adjusted my shooting accordingly was concerned more about the image than the gear.
Good one , very educational. Thanks . Where is your accent from ?
Do Canon make an 85mm f1.4? Not 1.2?
Hi Wayne, check out this lens here: bit.ly/2zXC3Wg
Working as a professional during the 1970s/1980s, I can't recall having to agonise over, which lens or lenses to take on any particular job. Most of my work was either industrial, weddings or architectural. For the latter I relied chiefly on my Hasselblad SWC with its unmatched Biogen optic and an elderly Rolliflex. Weddings were very easy to plan: Hassel with 70mm and standard zeiss lens, plus a minolta with a 50mm f1.2 rokkor - A great portrait lens from f2. O but useless at f1. 2. In addition, my fiddly Leica M3 for colour work, using the superb Summichron( Canada version) 35mm f1. 4. The real weight and bulk of my equipment case was due to my brace of Metz flashes and a spare Courtney battery pack.
I use a Panasonic GH4 and I love zoom lenses. 🌝 However I own some prime lenses and my favorite is a 19mm Sigma lens (38mm in 35mm) for the same reasons you and many others like the 35mm focal length. It fits between wide and telephoto focal lengths. I like your enthusiasm and thanks for what you do.
Thanks so much Jesse, I'm so glad you enjoyed it and nothing wrong with a zoom lens, they all have their moments when they are the best tool for the job.
My get and go camera is a Sony a6300 with a 20mm 2.8 pancake lens I got cheap from eBay. It complements my Nikon system. It’s my first take and preview shoot on project sites. I find no need for additional lens for it.
Using one lens is such a great skill to have, it really makes you think. Pancake lenses are brilliant.
Nice one :)
Thanks John
I use a 24mm 2.8 af lens on my Nikon D300s for travel photography.
I can also use it on my Nikon F75 with Tri X and pretend I am still a press photographer.
Tri-X I remember the days :-) When I was given my first camera as a child we developed Tri X at home, those days in the darkroom with my dad are where my love of photography came from.
Nikon is shit
@@Maz-wf3eg 35mm cameras are all toy shit. Medium format is for tool users.
For years I shot everything on a Nikon FTn with a Nikkor 43-86 zoom!
word!
Another great video you should check out the FujiCast or photography daily. I’ve emailed the guys to suggest they interview you for the show :)
Thanks Matt, I have spoken to Neale recently so hopefully that will be broadcast soon.
Good idea - really learn one lens! Another thing to work on would be to shoot a lot less frames. A lot less. Think, compose then shoot. Don't chimp, know whether you have it or not. I used to share a darkroom with a photographer (social, wedding, classical music etc) who would not use an image she could not print full frame - discipline. Get it right in camera. Back in the 50s and 60s when the press boys were on Rollei TLRs they would look to cover 3 or 4 jobs in a day on 1 roll of 120 - so 3 or 4 shots per job. The picture editors didn't like to wade through loads of contact sheets - if you couldn't get it done on one roll, the second was unlikely to get seen. Fixed lenses there too! Just one focal length.
There are so many different ways we can push ourselves aren't there. I love setting these little challenges and seeing what the results would be. I'm not sure I'd only want four shots per job though, that must have been so incredibly hard to do, they certainly knew their stuff.
Now I feel like a lazy bum using my 24-70mm.
No no, not at all. We all have different ways of working and the 24-70 is a fabulous lens. Do have a play with a prime though, they are such fun to use.
Don't let the marketing department see this! :p I was inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson to give this a go a few years ago. 3 years later I'm still with the one camera / one lens combo with no regrets.
Wow, that's good going. I'm not sure I could do three years with one lens but I bet your pictures are amazing, you must know the field of view so well. It's such a fun way to shoot.
@@helenbartlett Its been very fun. Check out my work if you'd like. www.scottq.com
@@ScottQuintavalle Those are great Scott, the man feeding the pelican - WOW, what a moment! Thanks so much for sharing
@@helenbartlett Thank you for the kind words!
Excellent video, very inspiring material, beautiful images ! Thanks ! @ivan.simas
Thanks so much Ivan
Olympus om-d e-m1 mark ii with 60mm f2.8 macro lens, is my weapon. Enjoy the heavy gear that doesn't match olympus.
I do love my gear, much more fun than going to the gym :-) Have fun with your photography
Make the lens create the storytelling...
One lens??? 🤔 My two lens prime system on Olympus is 20mm/f1.7 (40 mm FF) and 45mm/f1.8(90mm FF). Both lenses fit in my pockets. Easy to walk around and get good images.
See what happens if you leave one at home, you might find it takes you in a new direction with the one you have with you. It's fun :-)
Beep, Canon commercial !
I just want her to read me a book. Does she do audio books or anything?
You could just as easily have taken these delightful shots using your phone's camera. Apart from the narrower depth of field in some shots, the image(s) are pleasing but standard.
Filming with only 3 cameras and 3 angels? I wanted to see you from behind and underneath too. I wanted to be so distracted that I forgot to listen to what you say.
Pr Trelawney ?! Is that you ???
..agfa Clack 6x9...
Great content but I've no idea why we need to keep cutting to the side of her head.
I'm very new to video, trying different camera angles. Noted though, will change it in future - got to start this learning process somewhere :-)
@@helenbartlett it's an excellent video all the same
@@sniya Thanks Stephen, I appreciate that and I appreciate the feedback too. It's definitely a learning process. I'm just setting up to make another video and the first thing I have done is move that tripod :-)
Sort of the female versioning of 3 Blind Men.
Please pray for people who be like "My phone has a 32 Megapixel camera, I'll pass thank you" 😒🤦♂️ and do yourself a favor, watch the 1DX Mark III trailer again😇🥵
Wouldn't touch a zoom with a bargepole. Nothing but primes in my bag. Use your feet. I take one focal length on holiday and I've never regretted it.
There are so many situations where my possibility to move around is limited and I need a zoom for better framing...primes are more fun though.
@@ThiLI0n It's fun to try both in different circumstances isn't it? I love the endless possibilities that photography gives us
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one len is a '' LEN ''...
two or more LENS are the '' LENS ''...
not lenses...
look this video about blur focus...
very bad blur depth of field focus
Why is it that when, nowadays, it is used more than one camera that you only talk to the front camera and then cutting to a side view where you no longer are talking to the viewer? I find this really "rude" to not talk to the active camera. It is spreading like a plague...
Ordinary youtubers fine but not a channel like this...
Sorry, can't agree, makes no sense. No offense meant.
None taken :-)
You didn't mention one camera one lense, the fact u have all the expensive gear, liar! Dislike for this video
When its realy true that the overheating is Fake and done By Software on the r5/6 and just should be there for Safe your expensiv cine Cameras, so i will just send my new Canon r5 and my objektives ( rf 28-70 ) instandly back!!!
I come to you Canon because i Love your Detail and quality in your cameras!
But if its True that you Cheat your Customers so i dont want to an Brand like you!!!
If its true i gives Sony my Trust and Money!