I always love seeing these videos with the photographer actually out in the field instead of talking about tech specs in the studio. Great choice of photographer too, Ira was awesome to watch :)
Note: not all of the pictures are Ira's. He doesn't typically take animal photos (the dogs were mine. His would have been much better) Also, we're both wearing black leather jackets and look very very cool 😎
Paul Scott - What? Your post here made me go look at his website and I have to disagree with YOU completely. Those photos are exactly what I would expect to see in a National Geographic.
Zoom with your feet is great advice. I damaged my "go to" zoom lens a couple months ago and haven't replaced it. Rather, I use my 28mm and 50mm primes and haven't looked back. It has forced me to think more about composition and find new angles to take my photos.
" You can't be lazy as a photographer " I think it's true for everyone who wants to do *great things* in arts or while creating something.. Very interesting video! *Thanks for sharing the meeting with beginers like me* !
I was lazy on my very recent bird shoot at the CT shore. I failed to get down for birds on the beach. But, I was rescued cuz I was using 600 mm so I was shooting from further away, so the birds looked very similar to me getting down. I shudda unclamped my camera from my monopod.
1/250 sec shutter speed and don't be concerned about the ISO when taking candid pics of people. "Once your picture is blurred you have to throw it out anyway." What a great tip as I've missed great shots getting lost in what my ISO is. Auto ISO baby! I love this interview and could have watched it for hours. Thanks to the T & C Team for this interview with Ira. Great stuff.
Chelsea you can really look happy as you were interacting with him. Full attention, love it, almost like awe struck. We need a full Wanderlust with him too!
This at be the best and simplest short list for great pictures I have ever watched... interesting photographer with great insight. Thanks Chelsea for bringing him to us.
Great! I love seeing my old home town...and what Ira said is so true. I didn't look at NYC as a photo opp and now that I'm away, I regret the lost opportunities.
She has a photography channel and composed that in the middle. I don’t think he could’ve taken an hour of that. Have mercy or poor Ira. What’s worse is she wasn’t even really listening. She was just pretending.
MORE like this! Short and informative. I don't have the attention span or bandwidth to sit through long videos and hope I learn something. This one delivered. Thanks.
Ira is great -- agree 95%. I'll stay with a slower shutter speed while shooting close allowing staying sharp on the focus but allowing the motion to go Jacob's Ladder. I've never had a submission not run in nine years.
This was a nice intro to the world of a truly great photographer. If we want to know more about the man and his photography, we'll need to do the work ourselves. After all, you can't be lazy as a photographer. :) Thanks, Chelsea!
Interesting collaboration, thanks. As to shutter speed and ISO and Ira's little tripod, I have hypothesized for a long time that digital cameras suffer more from motion blur than film cameras. At 14 F-stops dynamic range, assuming 3 stops from metered setting towards the highlights, we have 11 down. This means the camera still records things that would need 8 seconds exposure time if that element had to be rendered as neutral grey. With film that would not be recorded. Some pixel recordings we perceive as, and call, "noise" may actually be motion blur.
That is an excellent point about being scared of using high ISOs. Even though there's great technology that reduces noise, I'm still self-conscious about where my ISO is. Screw that! From now on I'm not gonna care anymore. Thanks T&CN and Ira!
Recently I've been doing two things. using whatever iso's needed and I try my best not to need any cropping. To be honest with these two major changes. I get pictures even portraits with iso at 1000 -2000 iso and without cropping, it's very good. Noise doesn't show much. I have this picture of my cat at iso 5000 and noise is still not an issue.
I have a pretty old dslr, it really doesn't handle high iso very well, at all. I'm thinking it's finally time to upgrade my camera body, 7 years is old enough.
Same. You always see stuff about "ISO 100" and I always feel like I'm doing something wrong if I am using higher ISOs, especially if I'm outside. But I agree with him, I'd rather have a noisy but otherwise decent photos than a bunch that I have to throw out due to unintentional blur.
Aristotle76 We just ended our very short trip to Rome, shooting low iso with e-m5 all the time. Now I wish I did try use higher iso's. I had to compromise on certain high contrasty situations and need desperate shadow pulling :-(. But my e-m5 still holds up pretty well and I'm curious about the 5 bracketed HDR shots after post processing...
Leading lines as well, stacking. As far as leading lines are concerned, that is extremely important to pay attention to. It guides the eye to a subject maybe not so interesting turning it into interesting. At the end of the day, if the subject is boring, at least the lines are exciting!!
Very interesting video, the saying about the importance of unwanted blur is something to think about! Chelsea using the XT-2 with the 16-55 2.8, great combo!
Interesting video and great production. Quality job all round. I think that any broadcaster worth their salt should be glad to licence and broadcast this.
Great video. Ira Block is one the photographers who inspired me as a child to take up photography. Along with Steve McCurry, and Ansel Adams. Thanks for this video.
I love this guy, best bit is he sounds like a NY cabbie or something. All those Nat Geo photographers are awesome. I must say Chelsea looked a little star struck.
So true about shutter speed. I spent a day out today with the D850, and being early prehistoric, my hands shake. With the 105mm macro shooting near and far, even with VR, I need to keep handhelds around 1/1000 or better (I ditched the tripod and I gotta say I prolly need a carbon monopod). So what if I'm using ISO 320? I had a great day... so did you guys from the look of it. Thanks for the vid and make it longer next time, m'kay? :-)
Interesting love creativity and photography is full of it. I'm looking to getting a Sony Mirrorless camera soon I'm waiting for the a7iii so I'll have it in time for my trip to Japan.
Did you catch that at 4:19 he says, "five years from now there might be software to fix that noise" and guess what!!! He nailed that prediction, someone should point this out to Ira.
Could not agree more on ISO and shutter speed -- modern DSLR's are so good you can generally go above ISO1000 with little noise problems and ISO3200 is still usable in many cases.
You would think in Manhattan you would not find much in the way of wildlife but you would be surprised. I have seen a Turkey once in Battery Park just walking around (before my photography days). But my best encounter was the Westside highway park (by the water) around 158st. A huge hawk flew over my head and landed next to me with a city rat in his claws. He was chowing down! I was lucky that day because I had my longest lens that day on me (I was testing it out because I just got it) and I got great photos. I believe it is called a red tail hawk. They have a large population here in NY though they are not easy to spot. Seen one the other day on the highway.
Just now watched this and really enjoyed it. I am wondering about the need for releases of the subjects in the pictures; is it necessary? I am a newbie and think there are so many opportunities for shots of people but am concerned about the need for releases. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Some of my favorite NatGeo shots have a little grain but are all awesome captures. Now I know why! I need to stop pulling back on the shutter speed. 👍🏽
I always love seeing these videos with the photographer actually out in the field instead of talking about tech specs in the studio. Great choice of photographer too, Ira was awesome to watch :)
Ira's portfolio: irablock.com & his book on Amazon: help.tc/iracuba
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Great video. The only thing is it was to short. Would have loved to have seen more.
Tony & Chelsea Northrup wow gold
Five minute master class hosted by the internet’s prettiest photographer. Thanks so much!
in2food Ira IS pretty cute, I suppose you're right.
RetroB3AST 😱
Note: not all of the pictures are Ira's.
He doesn't typically take animal photos (the dogs were mine. His would have been much better)
Also, we're both wearing black leather jackets and look very very cool 😎
Agreed.... Black leather means sadly that summer is over and fall is next... and yes you two looked waay cool in a Lower East village kinda way.
There's a guy in Forest Hills Queens Who walks his Doberman on Austin St with the guys wallet in his mouth..
Funniest thing..
Gewglesux Dobermans make me think of magnum p.i, does that guy have a mustache?? Haha
Chelsea Northrup
CHELSEA, come on girl! We all know that the dog with the newspaper was the best shot in this video... have more self confidence! :)
Paul Scott - What? Your post here made me go look at his website and I have to disagree with YOU completely. Those photos are exactly what I would expect to see in a National Geographic.
Light. Composition. Moment. Amen.
"Zoom with your feet." Worth the price of admission right there.
Zoom with your feet is great advice. I damaged my "go to" zoom lens a couple months ago and haven't replaced it. Rather, I use my 28mm and 50mm primes and haven't looked back. It has forced me to think more about composition and find new angles to take my photos.
" You can't be lazy as a photographer "
I think it's true for everyone who wants to do *great things* in arts or while creating something..
Very interesting video!
*Thanks for sharing the meeting with beginers like me* !
I was lazy on my very recent bird shoot at the CT shore. I failed to get down for birds on the beach. But, I was rescued cuz I was using 600 mm so I was shooting from further away, so the birds looked very similar to me getting down. I shudda unclamped my camera from my monopod.
Chelsea! You’re so Lucky! What a wise man...I learned tons in that 5 minutes! Thanks Ira!
1/250 sec shutter speed and don't be concerned about the ISO when taking candid pics of people. "Once your picture is blurred you have to throw it out anyway." What a great tip as I've missed great shots getting lost in what my ISO is. Auto ISO baby! I love this interview and could have watched it for hours. Thanks to the T & C Team for this interview with Ira. Great stuff.
each pictures looked like they were took from a magazine, 5 mins and he taught us 500 new stuffs... he is a rockstar....thanks for the meetup TC
Always enjoy guests, they offer great insight...Thank you..
Chelsea you can really look happy as you were interacting with him. Full attention, love it, almost like awe struck. We need a full Wanderlust with him too!
This at be the best and simplest short list for great pictures I have ever watched... interesting photographer with great insight. Thanks Chelsea for bringing him to us.
An absolutely fabulous little piece. Thanks Chelsea and team for brining us this.
Hats off to Ira... what a master!
Awesome!!!!! He is definitely one of my heroes!
This video should be much longer
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I want more of this types of videos. Loved it!
Great! I love seeing my old home town...and what Ira said is so true. I didn't look at NYC as a photo opp and now that I'm away, I regret the lost opportunities.
most educational 5 minutes of my photography life..
I could have used another hour of that.
Agreed.
Hells to the yes. It's always great to hear the masters speak, the passion oozing out of every word.
@@PixelPeepShow ...the *experience* oozing out of every word. ;-)
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She has a photography channel and composed that in the middle. I don’t think he could’ve taken an hour of that. Have mercy or poor Ira. What’s worse is she wasn’t even really listening. She was just pretending.
Love the High line!!! Ms Chelsea comin thru...
Can't forget Tony's Video work!
Very nice video, I wish it would have been longer because Ira seems super cool.
MORE like this! Short and informative. I don't have the attention span or bandwidth to sit through long videos and hope I learn something. This one delivered. Thanks.
Very good job , Chelsea! I am proud of you.
I sure hope this was more of a trailer and you have more. Fantastic pictures and insight.
Nice, compose in camera, native instincts and experience.......natural framing after his many years of seeing.
Thanks
Ira is great -- agree 95%. I'll stay with a slower shutter speed while shooting close allowing staying sharp on the focus but allowing the motion to go Jacob's Ladder. I've never had a submission not run in nine years.
Nice video with one of the masters of photography! Chelsea looked so interested
Awesome awesome video. Thanks a million for sharing your experience!
“You can’t be lazy as a photographer.” Words to motivate!
Nice One. Love Chelsea's smile.
Great video! I hope that you do more like these.
I love this ! Great job Chelsea !
Tony thank u sooooooo much u helped me pass my 107 you are up there among my top nemeses you rock..!
Loved this!
Great interview, Chelsea! I'm taking his tips to heart and will try to implement them consistently in order to make them habit!
We need more videos like this!
That was one of my favorite videos of yours on a while.
I really enjoy this format, great job!
Love this! Thank you for your content
Such a great video. I'd love it if it were longer. You left us wanting more!
Great tips, light, composition and moments - photography is all about these 3 aspects. Nice
Great video! I too wish it was longer.
This was a nice intro to the world of a truly great photographer. If we want to know more about the man and his photography, we'll need to do the work ourselves. After all, you can't be lazy as a photographer. :) Thanks, Chelsea!
Interesting collaboration, thanks. As to shutter speed and ISO and Ira's little tripod, I have hypothesized for a long time that digital cameras suffer more from motion blur than film cameras. At 14 F-stops dynamic range, assuming 3 stops from metered setting towards the highlights, we have 11 down. This means the camera still records things that would need 8 seconds exposure time if that element had to be rendered as neutral grey. With film that would not be recorded. Some pixel recordings we perceive as, and call, "noise" may actually be motion blur.
5 minutes of interesting photography ... Thanks .
need to be longer !!!!! great episode
This was great info. Well done Chelsea!
Great video. It's great to hear his perspective on things.
So cool video, very interesting. He is a true master
Please more of these interview type videos
6 years later and still great
It's always cool to take some lessons from pro photographers I bet you learned a lot.
That is an excellent point about being scared of using high ISOs. Even though there's great technology that reduces noise, I'm still self-conscious about where my ISO is. Screw that! From now on I'm not gonna care anymore. Thanks T&CN and Ira!
Recently I've been doing two things. using whatever iso's needed and I try my best not to need any cropping. To be honest with these two major changes. I get pictures even portraits with iso at 1000 -2000 iso and without cropping, it's very good. Noise doesn't show much. I have this picture of my cat at iso 5000 and noise is still not an issue.
I have a pretty old dslr, it really doesn't handle high iso very well, at all. I'm thinking it's finally time to upgrade my camera body, 7 years is old enough.
Same. You always see stuff about "ISO 100" and I always feel like I'm doing something wrong if I am using higher ISOs, especially if I'm outside. But I agree with him, I'd rather have a noisy but otherwise decent photos than a bunch that I have to throw out due to unintentional blur.
Aristotle76 We just ended our very short trip to Rome, shooting low iso with e-m5 all the time. Now I wish I did try use higher iso's. I had to compromise on certain high contrasty situations and need desperate shadow pulling :-(. But my e-m5 still holds up pretty well and I'm curious about the 5 bracketed HDR shots after post processing...
At concerts I shoot at iso 10.000 if necessary. It's better than using Iso 2500 and brighten the picture later on in LR and get more noise
Thanks for this wonderful video short but great!!!
I enjoyed this short! great job guys!
Loved this short video.
Great video, and some great tips too! Thanks
Leading lines as well, stacking. As far as leading lines are concerned, that is extremely important to pay attention to. It guides the eye to a subject maybe not so interesting turning it into interesting.
At the end of the day, if the subject is boring, at least the lines are exciting!!
Thanks for sharing, more great stuff.
Very interesting video, the saying about the importance of unwanted blur is something to think about!
Chelsea using the XT-2 with the 16-55 2.8, great combo!
Wish i could double thumbs up!! Cool simple well edited in a word nice ver nice
Ok tgat was 3!! Ha
Interesting video and great production. Quality job all round. I think that any broadcaster worth their salt should be glad to licence and broadcast this.
Great video. Ira Block is one the photographers who inspired me as a child to take up photography. Along with Steve McCurry, and Ansel Adams. Thanks for this video.
You guys rock so much!!!!!
Interesting , I hope that you do more like these,(the black leather jackets are very cool)nice work!
I love this guy, best bit is he sounds like a NY cabbie or something. All those Nat Geo photographers are awesome. I must say Chelsea looked a little star struck.
Very cool guys. I love the Sony camera gear. It was thanks to both of you that I started using the A7ii and VG30. Keep up the good work. Aaron
lovely video, love the new style
Interresant interview. I hope more will come. thanks
Master Ira, teach us more!
That's a impressive thought about shooting with noise :) Shows his experience :)
That was great. More please :-)
Great job! what camera was used to fill this video?
+Eric Tobias thanks! The GH5.
A GH5. Nice! What settings did you use on it? 😂🤣😎😋
This is where they ignore you lol
hahaha
So true about shutter speed. I spent a day out today with the D850, and being early prehistoric, my hands shake. With the 105mm macro shooting near and far, even with VR, I need to keep handhelds around 1/1000 or better (I ditched the tripod and I gotta say I prolly need a carbon monopod). So what if I'm using ISO 320? I had a great day... so did you guys from the look of it. Thanks for the vid and make it longer next time, m'kay? :-)
Loved it thank you 😊
Chelsea looks so cool and chill in this video.She might be taking lessons for tony!
Thanks for this, enjoyed watching.
Interesting love creativity and photography is full of it. I'm looking to getting a Sony Mirrorless camera soon I'm waiting for the a7iii so I'll have it in time for my trip to Japan.
I love the high line park and the Whitney museum.
Sage advice from the Masters.
Did you catch that at 4:19 he says, "five years from now there might be software to fix that noise" and guess what!!! He nailed that prediction, someone should point this out to Ira.
Could not agree more on ISO and shutter speed -- modern DSLR's are so good you can generally go above ISO1000 with little noise problems and ISO3200 is still usable in many cases.
Great choice with that Fuji!
Nice what he says about shutter. With anything candid that isnt for sure still, i shoot 400th until the ISO really really hurts
Nice picture of Cuba in the beginning!
you guys have amazing video quality.
excellent video and good info regarding zooming, now a days nobody wants to move closure to the subject
You would think in Manhattan you would not find much in the way of wildlife but you would be surprised. I have seen a Turkey once in Battery Park just walking around (before my photography days). But my best encounter was the Westside highway park (by the water) around 158st. A huge hawk flew over my head and landed next to me with a city rat in his claws. He was chowing down! I was lucky that day because I had my longest lens that day on me (I was testing it out because I just got it) and I got great photos. I believe it is called a red tail hawk. They have a large population here in NY though they are not easy to spot. Seen one the other day on the highway.
So lovenly docummentary, thank you
Great video Tony and Chelsea (more Ira please)
;-)
Make A Series, NOW!
like if you guys agree
😍😍😍
Great video. What are you guys using to record?
Just now watched this and really enjoyed it. I am wondering about the need for releases of the subjects in the pictures; is it necessary? I am a newbie and think there are so many opportunities for shots of people but am concerned about the need for releases. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Very interesting. I always enjoy seeing young photographers. I assume your videography assistant was that , mmm, that guy, mmm, Anthony?
Some of my favorite NatGeo shots have a little grain but are all awesome captures. Now I know why! I need to stop pulling back on the shutter speed. 👍🏽
This video was so comfey it gave me the warm fuzzies :D
Light, composition and moment :)
So true, when you're in your hometown you really do need to force yourself to "see" differently and high iso fear is REAL! Must work on that
Great video!