Patients, something we all need to have more of. Thank you for sharing this amazing place Nigel, truly stunning scenery . Hope you are staying safe, certainly looking grim for many other places over there.
Nigel saying: “I could actually throw a pebble into the Ocean” My first thought: “Please do not throw Pebbles into the Ocean” 😁 Thanks for another great video! 👍
I worked out a main reason I look forward to your videos so much. Your actual content and photos are amazing, of course...but it's how you present everything more as a chat than something more formal. Like you could've cut out the part about the dynamism of the waves, and it seems like you decided midstream that you were going to show photos on the iPad (rather than the prints you had ready to show). I really appreciate your effort to pull us in as if you're talking directly to us, rather than posting a video on a massive social media platform.
I live in a coastal town in East Yorkshire so these are some great tips for me. We have many caves and sea stacks so thankyou for these. You've motivated me to get back out shooting these. Sounds silly but I guess you get tired of shooting what's on your doorstep, but now I want to get back out!
Yeah. I know I can get so used to what is always around me that I become insensitive to it and overlook its beauty; beauty which was and is there still. Thanks for your comment on this, Ben.
@@NigelDanson Ahh yes Hornsea is lovely. I'm Bridlington, just a 20 minute drive further up! It is a great coastline, I just need to get out photographing what's on my doorstep again rather than wanting to go further afield!
We just get use to our local landscapes. I love the excitement wich comes with exploring new location. But at the same time many of my favourites images were taken locally - I just spend so much more time near home than surrounded by great vistas
Excellent video, you are a new discovery for me but I'll be catching up on your videos in the coming weeks. Some great tips. I'm off for my first seascape exploration tomorrow!!
I love all your videos and have been learning a lot. But, being a native of Madeira island, well....makes this special. Thanks for doing justice to this amazing island.
My words fail me in describing the beauty of your work. And your always cheery disposition and positive attitude makes me look forward to your videos. That and you are an excellent teacher. Your work is stunning. Thanks for the time you put into sharing with the rest of us. Best wishes to you for the new year,. John in NJ, USA.
This video is marvelous. I would very much appreciate it if, at some point in the future, perhaps, you were so kind as to consider sharing your vision of and ideas about photographing ponds, rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Thank you for the inspiration and for revealing what pure professionalism in photography is.
Love your videos, very informative. You've inspired me to take up photography again in a personal capacity. I've learned so much from you that helped me better and enhance my photography both for work and pleasure. Keep the videos coming, and take care.
phenomenal last part of Madeira trilogy. Amazing photos, great tips - all of them. I have been to Madeira 8 years ago, but now seeing your videos, i want to go there back again.
Thank you so much for this video. I am leaving in the morning for Oia, Spain, a coastal town on the western coast. Will be spending a month and hope to get some wave photos at sunset.
Great end to the mini-series Nigel and suffice to say, I think you have put Madeira on the photography map. Loved that seascape image with the sea stacks, had an Icelandic feel to it
As a beginner in photography, I am learning a lot from your channel and the one from Mads as well. Some family members mentioned some kind of improvement in my photos but I am still frustrated not getting the shots I would like. I am working even harder, getting inspired by your work and I hope one day, I will get one picture I will be proud of. Your shots are stunning and seeing all of the preparation behind is, again, inspiring. Definitely, a huge thank you and I can't wait to a second book of yours, Vistas being awesome. Thanks for everything even though we don't know each other !
Thanks for those tips Nigel. As we are in lockdown I have been going down to the rocky Berwickshire coast near my home, last week I took hundreds of photos and managed to acheive quite a few gems! The next time I am out I will put your tips into practice and see if there is an improvement in my photos.
Thanks Nigel, interesting video, great tips and stunning location, view from your room was fantastic too. Desperate to get out again now after lockdown
Useful tips. Two especially for me. Great images all around. I really loved the capture of those waves crashing. And I must say I was really taken with Rachael's shell on the beach. That is one beautiful image. For me it is a great reminder to not be stuck in one mode to the point of not noticing something rich right under my nose. Thank you, Nigel.
I always learn so much from your videos, Nigel, and I loved seeing the stunning light and great captures from this beautiful place! This location will have to go on my “wish list”!
4:55 - you got to underexpose it by two stops, you say. That is a handy heuristic to begin with. I would approach this differently, though. You need a very sturdy tripod and head for that (it looks like yours are good enough). The composition you are looking for is in the same "frame" - the imaginative one in reality - all the time and that is also a requirement. Or, a tripod is no problem. So, let's use it and make it a solution. To begin with, I would shoot one shot on manual, inspecting histogram, and in the exposure setting "expose for the low lights". Depending on the aperture for the later shot, I would even consider focus stepping. This becomes the basis or stable layer in Photoshop, later on. Then I would set the camera to "A" and to "expose for the highlights" - which is not matrix, not spot, etc., but in the same menu. With that setting, your sensor's brightest photosite will determine exposure (sort of, the camera "knows" when the sun is in your frame and ignores that). This means the brightest whitest piece of banging waves will determine your "white point" and the automatic exposure cut off. You will not lose detail in the whites, that way. But, experience, your shots will look underexposed and turning up the lowlights may become difficult and is certainly limited. Hence the upfront shot or shots as foundation for the dark and static parts in the composition. Also note, the sensor is analog, that the camera in its analog to digital (AD) conversion may not work linearly, but may behave like film in the old days. If you remember densitometry curves from films (density as function of 10-base log i*t) then you also remember the "S" shape or "shoulders" that implied compression near the extremes of your film's dynamic range. Such a non-linear AD conversion may feel "normal" to humans but reduces detail in the dynamic range extremes and you can undo such compression in part by opening your shot as 32 bits in Photoshop. How much work it is in post, to stack two or more shots into one, depends on your Photoshop skills.
In addition, the video camera illustrates another point about shooting from tripod and using a remote control (with zero latency if possible) You know your frame with the tele lens. You do not need to look in the view finder but can use your naked eye to see what is brewing and will play out in your frame. See it coming, press. Like in the film days before motor drives and autofocus. Bang. One shot. OK, yeas, to be honest, I will do a few bursts too.
Some great advice Nigel (I really liked the talking about speed settings as I always have issues with them), I also like the the tips from Rachael who I followed on a
Such beautiful images with great tips too. I love doing seascape photography and was hoping to focus on it this winter, however due to covid that hasn't been possible. That light was gorgeous when you were on location too, what more could you ask for. Brilliant video.
Awesome! I live in Madeira!! Wonderful place for hiking and photography! You must go and check the Pico Ruivo. Yes, the weather changes depending on where you are. I'm learning more about landscape photography and you've been a great source of knowledge and information. Thanks
Good tips nigel. I especially like the one about the underexposing the crashing wave and not being able to trust the wave pre-brake histogram because as a water goes up the histogram will change and the highlights will be blown out has the water catches the sun.
Once again so fantastic images and so much to learn about your style of photography. I am big fan of your style and you are always inspire me, by using your tips!
Fantastic wave photography. Rachael's tips certainly are invaluable. I am taking notes and learned from both of you. Had a full day of shooting waves and the beach, but still need more refinement and improvement.
Great tips! I've been doing a lot of seascapes lately, and your point about height (getting low compared to wave to heighten drama) is very well taken. Such a simple thing, but I'm sure will make a big difference. Re: shutter speed, I find half a sec a bit slow for my taste. The waves get too creamy and lack definition. A quarter or even a tenth seems to work for me. But highly subjective, of course! Thanks man--you do a great job of NOT resting on your laurels. I find consistently helpful tips on your videos, and also much enjoy your quality videography. Really nice setups and shooting.
Porto Montiz ...... remember it well, beautiful spot. All the north coast is quite dramatic but a bit inaccessible in places .... a big section of the coast road was closed due to landslip/rockfall when I was there. Great photos and tips. Doubt if I'll see the sea again for a few months with the way things are in the UK, though .....
Thanks for another great video and few tips too. Yes seascape is different - water moves and waves changing every few seconds - I always come back with hundreds of images specially if catching waves. Rachael Talibart is amazing, I came across her work when she released her "Poseidon Rising" image - my favourite seascape image of all times by anyone, sorry Nigel :) but your seascape is absolutely fab too.
Such a great video Nigel - it must have been so therapeutic being there for a sunrise like that too - if I had to pick one genre of photography to do for the rest of my life seascape photography would win hands down, just sadly one I can’t do enough living so far away from the coast 😫 thought all your shots were incredible - and the atmosphere of that location was unreal! Huge fan of Rachael’s work too!
That's what I noticed. The way he said: he could throw a pebble into the ocean utterly convinced me that instead of that, he said this: he could throw Pebbles into the ocean. :D
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I'd love a video about how you did the 4 photo stack print.
Thanks for everything you do, learning so much from you! 🙏🏻
And obviously I don’t need to point out your photos are wonderful
As a passioante amateur, I love these videos man! One of the best accounts out there for tips and advice, keep up the good work!
Very dramatic shots!! Nice tips, thanks for the great video
Rachel is one of the very best, if not THE best, seascape photographer in the world. Amazing body of work.
Best Notification all day
Oh my, the pictures brought tears to my eye, they are so beautiful.
Thanks so much
Patients, something we all need to have more of.
Thank you for sharing this amazing place Nigel, truly stunning scenery .
Hope you are staying safe, certainly looking grim for many other places over there.
Way too many patients right now. But patience is a required virtue for photography.
Some great images at the end, there - one of the better actual photographers on TH-cam these days
Nigel saying: “I could actually throw a pebble into the Ocean”
My first thought: “Please do not throw Pebbles into the Ocean” 😁
Thanks for another great video! 👍
Ha - probably not the best analogy - sorry pebbles 🤦🏻♂️🙈
Another excellent and informative video. Fantastic photos.
This wave „phenomenon“ u were talking about is called ‚backwash‘ :)
I worked out a main reason I look forward to your videos so much. Your actual content and photos are amazing, of course...but it's how you present everything more as a chat than something more formal. Like you could've cut out the part about the dynamism of the waves, and it seems like you decided midstream that you were going to show photos on the iPad (rather than the prints you had ready to show). I really appreciate your effort to pull us in as if you're talking directly to us, rather than posting a video on a massive social media platform.
Absolutely brilliant photos
Wow your photography is amazing such an unique majestic atmosphere on it
Nigel, another great educational video. May the lockdown soon be lifted.
I live in a coastal town in East Yorkshire so these are some great tips for me. We have many caves and sea stacks so thankyou for these. You've motivated me to get back out shooting these. Sounds silly but I guess you get tired of shooting what's on your doorstep, but now I want to get back out!
Yeah. I know I can get so used to what is always around me that I become insensitive to it and overlook its beauty; beauty which was and is there still. Thanks for your comment on this, Ben.
My parents in law live in Hornsea and love that coastline. Unfortunately covid has meant I haven't been for a year
@@NigelDanson Ahh yes Hornsea is lovely. I'm Bridlington, just a 20 minute drive further up! It is a great coastline, I just need to get out photographing what's on my doorstep again rather than wanting to go further afield!
We just get use to our local landscapes. I love the excitement wich comes with exploring new location. But at the same time many of my favourites images were taken locally - I just spend so much more time near home than surrounded by great vistas
Really beautiful video and great tips, Nigel!
Your work is masterful. Always.
Spectacular Shots. Well done.
All the prints you show in this video are incredible, but that Prima one is something really special. Wow!
So that's some of 2022 calendar sorted then! Lovely images Nigel
Another great video Nigel! Next stop >> Azores
Excellent video, you are a new discovery for me but I'll be catching up on your videos in the coming weeks. Some great tips. I'm off for my first seascape exploration tomorrow!!
Thank you for the great tips Nigel. Always appreciate the advice given
Awesome video Nigel, Thank you for information and amazing photos.
You're so talented dude. Love your channel and work
Without a doubt you are one of the very best. Really enjoy your channel.
Thanks Tim
Tip 1: move to a place that has a very beautiful seascape xD
a wonderful video, very personally presented and as usual, fantastic images! Thx a lot, make this difficult times easier!
I love all your videos and have been learning a lot. But, being a native of Madeira island, well....makes this special. Thanks for doing justice to this amazing island.
Lovely video Nigal, very interesting, and calming, thanks for sharing.
I love that you're printing all of your work, such inspiration!
My words fail me in describing the beauty of your work. And your always cheery disposition and positive attitude makes me look forward to your videos. That and you are an excellent teacher. Your work is stunning. Thanks for the time you put into sharing with the rest of us. Best wishes to you for the new year,. John in NJ, USA.
Thanks so much
Beautiful video and photos Nigel! Seascapes are a bit hard to photograph, thank you very much for your tips!
Thank you very much for your job. Keep doing it because we learn a lot of photography in your videos.
Stunning!
My most favourite of your videos, ever!
Thank you, Nigel.
Stunning place shots and thx for all the tips !!!
Thank you! Stay safe.
This video is marvelous.
I would very much appreciate it if, at some point in the future, perhaps, you were so kind as to consider sharing your vision of and ideas about photographing ponds, rivers, lakes, and wetlands.
Thank you for the inspiration and for revealing what pure professionalism in photography is.
90% of my images are seascapes! Love it! Both fast and slow shutter speeds! I often use 1/6 sec handheld with a ultra wide.
Appreciate seascapes so much more after seeing and hearing you here. Thanks, so much!
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Wonderful prints Nigel , what a fabulous place Madeira is ! You certainly made the most of your time there
Agreed. Madera Island
Love your videos, very informative. You've inspired me to take up photography again in a personal capacity. I've learned so much from you that helped me better and enhance my photography both for work and pleasure. Keep the videos coming, and take care.
Stunning wave shots, that light ! Great video!
I loved Madeira, I would love to go back especially after seeing your photos.
As ever, fantastically useful video. The backlit wave shot is simply stunning, inspired to get to the sea ASAP! 👍👏
Such beautiful light on the waves, gorgeous shots
lovely video and some inspirational advice to put to good use too
Really helpful tips thank you Nigel
phenomenal last part of Madeira trilogy. Amazing photos, great tips - all of them. I have been to Madeira 8 years ago, but now seeing your videos, i want to go there back again.
Thank you so much for this video. I am leaving in the morning for Oia, Spain, a coastal town on the western coast. Will be spending a month and hope to get some wave photos at sunset.
Amazing shots.. Thanks for the tips.
Some really good tips. I especially appreciate the discussion vis a vis shutter speed and the type of seascape being shot.
Great end to the mini-series Nigel and suffice to say, I think you have put Madeira on the photography map. Loved that seascape image with the sea stacks, had an Icelandic feel to it
As a beginner in photography, I am learning a lot from your channel and the one from Mads as well. Some family members mentioned some kind of improvement in my photos but I am still frustrated not getting the shots I would like. I am working even harder, getting inspired by your work and I hope one day, I will get one picture I will be proud of. Your shots are stunning and seeing all of the preparation behind is, again, inspiring. Definitely, a huge thank you and I can't wait to a second book of yours, Vistas being awesome. Thanks for everything even though we don't know each other !
Thanks for those tips Nigel. As we are in lockdown I have been going down to the rocky Berwickshire coast near my home, last week I took hundreds of photos and managed to acheive quite a few gems! The next time I am out I will put your tips into practice and see if there is an improvement in my photos.
Thanks for learning
Thanks Nigel, interesting video, great tips and stunning location, view from your room was fantastic too. Desperate to get out again now after lockdown
Can't beat some good seascapes, thanks for sharing!
Stunning photos!! I'm from Portugal, thank you for being in one of our beautiful islands😉🇵🇹🤙
Love your work ❤️
That shot prima. WOW.
With waves like that I half expected Racheal Talibart to come swooping in with the zoom lens :) some epic scenery in this video Nigel
Thanks I really enjoyed this and once again learnt some more tips
That print at 17:37 is my favourite 😍! Thanks for the tips😁
Thx for sharing! Really inspiring!! Greetings from Germany
Useful tips. Two especially for me. Great images all around. I really loved the capture of those waves crashing. And I must say I was really taken with Rachael's shell on the beach. That is one beautiful image. For me it is a great reminder to not be stuck in one mode to the point of not noticing something rich right under my nose. Thank you, Nigel.
Wow what a fantastic location, really enjoyed the video, some great tips Nigel, if we're ever able to visit the coast again I'll definitely use them 🤣
I always learn so much from your videos, Nigel, and I loved seeing the stunning light and great captures from this beautiful place! This location will have to go on my “wish list”!
Excellent as alway thanks for sharing.
Wow im watching your video on the new telly that santy brought stunning as your work is looking at it in 4K on a 50inch your work pops to life !!
Awesome
Another great video and very useful tips. I especially loved the backlit waves.
Thanks Nigel This is one of your best vids. Really enjoyed the tips. And Madeira is on my bucket list now!
4:55 - you got to underexpose it by two stops, you say. That is a handy heuristic to begin with. I would approach this differently, though. You need a very sturdy tripod and head for that (it looks like yours are good enough). The composition you are looking for is in the same "frame" - the imaginative one in reality - all the time and that is also a requirement. Or, a tripod is no problem. So, let's use it and make it a solution.
To begin with, I would shoot one shot on manual, inspecting histogram, and in the exposure setting "expose for the low lights". Depending on the aperture for the later shot, I would even consider focus stepping. This becomes the basis or stable layer in Photoshop, later on.
Then I would set the camera to "A" and to "expose for the highlights" - which is not matrix, not spot, etc., but in the same menu. With that setting, your sensor's brightest photosite will determine exposure (sort of, the camera "knows" when the sun is in your frame and ignores that). This means the brightest whitest piece of banging waves will determine your "white point" and the automatic exposure cut off. You will not lose detail in the whites, that way. But, experience, your shots will look underexposed and turning up the lowlights may become difficult and is certainly limited. Hence the upfront shot or shots as foundation for the dark and static parts in the composition.
Also note, the sensor is analog, that the camera in its analog to digital (AD) conversion may not work linearly, but may behave like film in the old days. If you remember densitometry curves from films (density as function of 10-base log i*t) then you also remember the "S" shape or "shoulders" that implied compression near the extremes of your film's dynamic range. Such a non-linear AD conversion may feel "normal" to humans but reduces detail in the dynamic range extremes and you can undo such compression in part by opening your shot as 32 bits in Photoshop.
How much work it is in post, to stack two or more shots into one, depends on your Photoshop skills.
In addition, the video camera illustrates another point about shooting from tripod and using a remote control (with zero latency if possible) You know your frame with the tele lens. You do not need to look in the view finder but can use your naked eye to see what is brewing and will play out in your frame. See it coming, press. Like in the film days before motor drives and autofocus. Bang. One shot. OK, yeas, to be honest, I will do a few bursts too.
Thank you for sharing Nigel. 🙏
Some great advice Nigel (I really liked the talking about speed settings as I always have issues with them), I also like the the tips from Rachael who I followed on a
Such beautiful images with great tips too. I love doing seascape photography and was hoping to focus on it this winter, however due to covid that hasn't been possible. That light was gorgeous when you were on location too, what more could you ask for. Brilliant video.
Awesome! I live in Madeira!! Wonderful place for hiking and photography! You must go and check the Pico Ruivo. Yes, the weather changes depending on where you are. I'm learning more about landscape photography and you've been a great source of knowledge and information. Thanks
Thanks! I do a lot of seascapes here in Hawaii and these tips are very helpful
I love Hawaii
Loved this video, I live across the road from the beach in North Wales you’ve given me some great ideas, as always thanks Nigel and stay safe
A great video to watch when you are off to the beach. Some excellent tips especially getting lower. A bonus to add Rachael Talibart to my instagram.
Good tips nigel. I especially like the one about the underexposing the crashing wave and not being able to trust the wave pre-brake histogram because as a water goes up the histogram will change and the highlights will be blown out has the water catches the sun.
I was there in the hotel with the natural pool. Great place. Madeira is wonderfull!
Once again so fantastic images and so much to learn about your style of photography. I am big fan of your style and you are always inspire me, by using your tips!
Fantastic wave photography. Rachael's tips certainly are invaluable. I am taking notes and learned from both of you. Had a full day of shooting waves and the beach, but still need more refinement and improvement.
Great tips! I've been doing a lot of seascapes lately, and your point about height (getting low compared to wave to heighten drama) is very well taken. Such a simple thing, but I'm sure will make a big difference. Re: shutter speed, I find half a sec a bit slow for my taste. The waves get too creamy and lack definition. A quarter or even a tenth seems to work for me. But highly subjective, of course! Thanks man--you do a great job of NOT resting on your laurels. I find consistently helpful tips on your videos, and also much enjoy your quality videography. Really nice setups and shooting.
Porto Montiz ...... remember it well, beautiful spot. All the north coast is quite dramatic but a bit inaccessible in places .... a big section of the coast road was closed due to landslip/rockfall when I was there. Great photos and tips. Doubt if I'll see the sea again for a few months with the way things are in the UK, though .....
Great video once again! Really like your work and the time you put into making a single photo. Keep up the great work!
That was funny, "Dynamism" my wife even asked what I was laughing at. Great images, cheers
Gorgeous video, epic images. Wonderful!
Great inspiring video in which you are sharing your knowledge to capture light and motion into wonderful images.👌
I got some great shots in Madeira to. Rachel has an article in this months Outdoor Photography magazine - issue 264. Cover has a great wave shot.
Thanks for another great video and few tips too. Yes seascape is different - water moves and waves changing every few seconds - I always come back with hundreds of images specially if catching waves. Rachael Talibart is amazing, I came across her work when she released her "Poseidon Rising" image - my favourite seascape image of all times by anyone, sorry Nigel :) but your seascape is absolutely fab too.
You’ve a stunning collection from Madeira! Cracking video again.
Yep - it was a good week 👍🏼
Going to take on board these tips for sea scapes. I have been practicing with my new ND filter. Wonderful video as always. Thank you.
Such a great video Nigel - it must have been so therapeutic being there for a sunrise like that too - if I had to pick one genre of photography to do for the rest of my life seascape photography would win hands down, just sadly one I can’t do enough living so far away from the coast 😫 thought all your shots were incredible - and the atmosphere of that location was unreal! Huge fan of Rachael’s work too!
I had to go back to make sure you didn’t say “I could throw pebbles into the ocean”. 😮😂
That's what I noticed. The way he said: he could throw a pebble into the ocean utterly convinced me that instead of that, he said this: he could throw Pebbles into the ocean. :D
Bad choice of rock type
@@NigelDanson hahaha maybe you were just missing Pebbles and had her on your mind.
@@NigelDanson hahaha