Very nice! I do bird and landscape photography around the Bay Area. Some folks don’t think of redwoods when they hear “Oakland,” but we have them nearby in the Oakland hills. Pacific Wrens, Wilson’s Warblers, and Pacific-slope (Western) Flycatchers are among my favorite photo subjects.
Dude, bro!?! How the heck are you getting such sharp images hand holding 500mm at 1/200? You truly are a Jedi Master. How about an episode on your technique for hand holding those giant lenses. How about on the membership side on the page? It might be a great teaser for attracting a few new members.
Beautiful pictures, Brent and love forests, and the wildlife in them, and I do appreciate how you edit your pictures using software. It's amazing just to be able to get great wildlife pictures of birds in forests, considering how the light levels are lower because forests are dense, and even though the wildlife are hidden and out of sight, you can still be lucky and get stunning bird photographs.
Great shots. I live in the PNW and find forests nearly impossible to shoot birds and other wildlife. I wind up with shutter speeds of 1/200 or slower and ISO of 12800 or higher. A f4 or f2.8 would help a lot but there is just no getting around the fact that light does not penetrate in our woods. Around the edge of the forest is all I can really shoot with my gear.
The shots and the video were both fantastic! Beautiful. The editing description is something I really appreciate you doing. Every little bits helps me find my own place. Have often thought that the music accompanying your content was great and wondered where you came up with the selections. Now we know. Another very enjoyable video. Thanks!
If you wanted the redwoods and birds, you should have come to Humboldt CO. instead of Del Norte. Specifically, you should go anywhere along the Avenue of the Giants.
Fantastic shots, especially considering the long exposure times. Right now, I am going shorter and shorter because I had a lot of soft shots in the past. Even for 'slow' buzzards I now set my camera to 1/2500 or 1/3200. Getting a small bird like the Wilson Warbler with 1/200 as tack sharp as it was in your picture? I would have deemed that impossible. Showing your editing is another nice feat. Thanks, that helps immensely.
Always enjoy your videos….Any chance of getting a sample of your guitar playing? As a fellow photographer/guitar player…I would enjoy hearing you play. 😁
I get asked that every once in a while. Part of me wants to, but but I feel like it's a bit too far outside the channel interest and most people just won't care. I think I've done a couple members videos where I played something though.
This was a timely video for me. I recently moved to Vancouver Island and have recently been trying to photograph migratory birds in the forests here. The trees here are Western Red Cedar and Douglas fir, and are huge. Meanwhile the birds, which much are the same species as in this video, are tiny and 200 feet up in the canopy. I can hear them, but it's a devil of a job to see them, let alone photograph them! I feel your pain. :-)
I follow your channel for your excellent tips and art work ... but I also enjoy the superb quality of Camera Ladies' video footage. She seems to always pick the right angles and compositions to show us your locations and your relationship to them. Following you through these magnificent trees and showing the size relationship of you to the redwoods was done about as good as could be done with her equipment. Three Cheers for Camera Lady !!! (also congrats on your sound quality - very clear and noise free)
Thanks man! Early morning and evening are the best for landscape stuff if you want either a chance of fog or the low sun bursting through the trees. We didn't get much fog but had plenty of great light. For birds, morning seems to be better as well, but it's hard no matter what, lol. We got to stout grove at like 7 am and there was no one there, except that random other photo workshop group, but they were pretty chill. I've been to stout grove before during the late morning and afternoon and there were just lines of people everywhere so this was much a much better experience.
Fabulous!! We were there -- maybe a week or two earlier than you guys. We didn't see any fog, no rhododendron in bloom either. But still a fantastic place to visit. Gald to experience it again through your video. The birds shots are great!
Prairie creek state park to the south is a very beautiful place to visit, Fern Canyon is an amazing spot. These areas were where Jurassic Park filmed some of there backgrounds. I used to live up there years ago, it is were I met my camera lady.
Haha, not that you care but when you warned us about you showing your process I thought you were going to be swapping backgrounds and cloning or something, but everything you did was entirely reasonable...
Yeah, I try not to go crazy with it, but you know how the internet is these days. There's always someone out who will still give you sh!t about the little things.
Giant redwoods have been planted in the UK by Victorian landscapers on former ducal estates. Give them another 500 years and they are going to be huge! Great video.
It does seem like some areas over there would be an ideal climate for them. That would be cool to see them in a few hundred years, all grown up and majestic-looking!
Yeah, I did quite a few panos with my 24mm out there. The last video I put out a few days ago was me doing pano stuff with the 24 and then showing the editing process.
got to say i love the photos of these beautiful birds but then seeing you editing and enhancing the photos wow and look more fantastic then before thank you Brent
Yeah kind of like doing birding in Canadian forests. Can't see birds because of the forest canopy and shrubs everywhere, mosquitos everywhere, black flies everywhere, deer flies everywhere, no light so high ISO and long exposure times, 30 bites in 10 minutes (not exaggerating this is daily stats here).... start birding they said... fun it will be they said... Every time we hear Mr. Brent H. complain about how many sunny days he has to struggle with in NM we laugh :). When we are in New Mexico or Arizona, or Nevada or Utah we wonder where the mosquitos are :) oh yeah back north of the border :) . We do get snowy owls in the winter though just 10 minutes from the city so there is that I guess :).
@@BrentHall Sorry if that comment of mine came across as too sarcastic, was trying to be a little funny, but yeah I do get it, when you leave your backyard things are just exciting, brain stimulations at its best IMO :). Thanks for another great episode!
I always enjoy your videos Brent and if you’re ever wondering, you have my vote on showing us full editing.
Very nice! I do bird and landscape photography around the Bay Area. Some folks don’t think of redwoods when they hear “Oakland,” but we have them nearby in the Oakland hills. Pacific Wrens, Wilson’s Warblers, and Pacific-slope (Western) Flycatchers are among my favorite photo subjects.
Yeah, that's such a beautiful area! I haven't been that way since I was stationed in Lemoore in 05-06, but I used to go up there whenever I could.
Dude, bro!?! How the heck are you getting such sharp images hand holding 500mm at 1/200? You truly are a Jedi Master.
How about an episode on your technique for hand holding those giant lenses. How about on the membership side on the page? It might be a great teaser for attracting a few new members.
Thanks man!😁😜 Yeah, I can definitely do that for the members!
Brent getting such sharp images with the big lens at 1/200 sec handheld is a real achievement. Congratulations!
Thanks! The struggle was real! 😜
How come my Luminar doesn't recognize bird faces? 🤷🏻
Beautiful pictures, Brent and love forests, and the wildlife in them, and I do appreciate how you edit your pictures using software. It's amazing just to be able to get great wildlife pictures of birds in forests, considering how the light levels are lower because forests are dense, and even though the wildlife are hidden and out of sight, you can still be lucky and get stunning bird photographs.
Great shots.
I live in the PNW and find forests nearly impossible to shoot birds and other wildlife. I wind up with shutter speeds of 1/200 or slower and ISO of 12800 or higher. A f4 or f2.8 would help a lot but there is just no getting around the fact that light does not penetrate in our woods. Around the edge of the forest is all I can really shoot with my gear.
The struggle is definitely real out there!
The shots and the video were both fantastic! Beautiful.
The editing description is something I really appreciate you doing. Every little bits helps me find my own place.
Have often thought that the music accompanying your content was great and wondered where you came up with the selections. Now we know.
Another very enjoyable video. Thanks!
Hey thank you, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
Who was the chap that when to President Lincoln i think to get them saved from being cut down
If you wanted the redwoods and birds, you should have come to Humboldt CO. instead of Del Norte. Specifically, you should go anywhere along the Avenue of the Giants.
Yeah, I love that area too, but we didn't have time to stay there for this trip, unfortunately.
Fantastic shots, especially considering the long exposure times. Right now, I am going shorter and shorter because I had a lot of soft shots in the past. Even for 'slow' buzzards I now set my camera to 1/2500 or 1/3200. Getting a small bird like the Wilson Warbler with 1/200 as tack sharp as it was in your picture? I would have deemed that impossible.
Showing your editing is another nice feat. Thanks, that helps immensely.
Yeah, it definitely wasn't easy. Good handholding techniques and healthy stamina certainly helped, but so did burst mode and luck!
Always enjoy your videos….Any chance of getting a sample of your guitar playing? As a fellow photographer/guitar player…I would enjoy hearing you play. 😁
I get asked that every once in a while. Part of me wants to, but but I feel like it's a bit too far outside the channel interest and most people just won't care. I think I've done a couple members videos where I played something though.
This was a timely video for me. I recently moved to Vancouver Island and have recently been trying to photograph migratory birds in the forests here. The trees here are Western Red Cedar and Douglas fir, and are huge. Meanwhile the birds, which much are the same species as in this video, are tiny and 200 feet up in the canopy. I can hear them, but it's a devil of a job to see them, let alone photograph them! I feel your pain. :-)
The struggle is real out there!
I follow your channel for your excellent tips and art work ... but I also enjoy the superb quality of Camera Ladies' video footage. She seems to always pick the right angles and compositions to show us your locations and your relationship to them. Following you through these magnificent trees and showing the size relationship of you to the redwoods was done about as good as could be done with her equipment. Three Cheers for Camera Lady !!! (also congrats on your sound quality - very clear and noise free)
Thank you so much, we both really appreciate the kind words!
This is so great! You’ve motivated me to go shoot in the redwoods around the Bay Area. What time did you go? It’s such a hard place to shoot
Thanks man! Early morning and evening are the best for landscape stuff if you want either a chance of fog or the low sun bursting through the trees. We didn't get much fog but had plenty of great light. For birds, morning seems to be better as well, but it's hard no matter what, lol. We got to stout grove at like 7 am and there was no one there, except that random other photo workshop group, but they were pretty chill. I've been to stout grove before during the late morning and afternoon and there were just lines of people everywhere so this was much a much better experience.
Fabulous!! We were there -- maybe a week or two earlier than you guys. We didn't see any fog, no rhododendron in bloom either. But still a fantastic place to visit. Gald to experience it again through your video. The birds shots are great!
I feel you. We didn't really get any fog either, which is what I was really hoping for, but it was still an awesome trip for us.
Prairie creek state park to the south is a very beautiful place to visit, Fern Canyon is an amazing spot. These areas were where Jurassic Park filmed some of there backgrounds. I used to live up there years ago, it is were I met my camera lady.
I really want to get back out to those areas in Sept for the elk!
Haha, not that you care but when you warned us about you showing your process I thought you were going to be swapping backgrounds and cloning or something, but everything you did was entirely reasonable...
Yeah, I try not to go crazy with it, but you know how the internet is these days. There's always someone out who will still give you sh!t about the little things.
Giant redwoods have been planted in the UK by Victorian landscapers on former ducal estates. Give them another 500 years and they are going to be huge! Great video.
It does seem like some areas over there would be an ideal climate for them. That would be cool to see them in a few hundred years, all grown up and majestic-looking!
My trip to the redwoods made be buy a much wider lens. There were landscapes I wanted to take for which my 24mm was to constrained.
Yeah, I did quite a few panos with my 24mm out there. The last video I put out a few days ago was me doing pano stuff with the 24 and then showing the editing process.
got to say i love the photos of these beautiful birds but then seeing you editing and enhancing the photos wow and look more fantastic then before thank you Brent
Hey thanks, I really appreciate that and I'm glad you liked the video!
Yeah kind of like doing birding in Canadian forests. Can't see birds because of the forest canopy and shrubs everywhere, mosquitos everywhere, black flies everywhere, deer flies everywhere, no light so high ISO and long exposure times, 30 bites in 10 minutes (not exaggerating this is daily stats here).... start birding they said... fun it will be they said... Every time we hear Mr. Brent H. complain about how many sunny days he has to struggle with in NM we laugh :). When we are in New Mexico or Arizona, or Nevada or Utah we wonder where the mosquitos are :) oh yeah back north of the border :) . We do get snowy owls in the winter though just 10 minutes from the city so there is that I guess :).
I really enjoy the redwoods every time I go, but I definitely love where I live and don't ever take it for granted!
@@BrentHall Sorry if that comment of mine came across as too sarcastic, was trying to be a little funny, but yeah I do get it, when you leave your backyard things are just exciting, brain stimulations at its best IMO :). Thanks for another great episode!
Another brilliant video Brent. I really enjoy the music too
Thank you so much!
Loved the birds AND the landscapes!
Thanks Mark, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
What a place... wish I can go there someday 🙂
It really is an incredible area.
What a jaw dropping place on earth 🌍
Yeah, it really is pure magic out there!
It's actually insane how big those trees are! What a beautiful place!
It really does blow my mind every time I go there! 🌳 🤯
Great shots Brent
Thank you so much!