How to use a wide angle lens effectively | Valley of Fire
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In this video, I explain what to look for when using a wide-angle zoom lens to photograph the landscape. And spend some time discovering the landscape in the Valley of Fire, Nevada.
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Adam. Thanks to the f4 gang, a friend and I left Tacoma a couple of days ago to go to this park. Damn. I didn't even know it existed until you tipped me off. Whoa! What a place! We left Death Valley after our own blizzard and headed directly to the Valley of Fire. Hell! It's remarkable and astounding in every way. Now the Spring greens of the desert plants are something I've never seen. The colors are glowingly surreal because we are further into the season. The cerulean blues are nutty! You need to return. Colors unlike anything I've ever seen!
No gear. Just some phone snaps, but it was a terrific way to escape the Apocalypse madness for a bit, especially in a place I didn't even realize was there.
Your vlogs are inspired, fun, hugely informative and bring a smile to thousands.
Thanks for posting them.
They are a bright spot for everyone.
Beautiful! Your eye for a composition continues to inspire me. Thank you for posting this!
Love the photo with the big-horn sheep!
Enjoyed your video. I just spent an incredible day in Valley of Fire. I need to go back and spend more time there. Thanks for the photo ideas.
I really quite like how you do those transitions from RAW file to final outcome. 👍
Paul Downey I also like that - gives a sense of the potential in each image.
Good tip on camping in Valley of Fire, because our rig is too big for the park I boondocked up the road and drove in. However, I talked to a ranger who must have had a soft spot for me and allowed me to come a half hour before sunrise. Otherwise they are very strict, don't get caught sneaking in!
As usual, your photos are inspiring!
Very much enjoyed the video especially the transitions from raw to final.
Great video.
You can still access the park. There is a drop box with envelopes that you can place the $10 fee into and detach a receipt to hang from your review mirror. I went twice this weekend. And yes I was the one that used $5 in quarters (if anyone from the park service is watching) and I’m really sorry about that 😬 . I had forgotten about the fee. But keep in mind that certain areas of the park are not accessible until sunrise otherwise it’s a trespassing charge.
Anyway I really like your work and is truly inspirational. You guys are the reason I’m rediscovering the valley of fire again!
Incredible looking place. After seeing your vlogs I am definitely adding this to my bucket list.
Lovely area and fantastic shots! Thanks for sharing. 🙏
The Bighorn Sheep photo was fabulous. Sign me up for your upcoming workshop in the Valley of Fire - hint, hint. Safe travels.
Great stuff (as usual), Adam. Your example of stepping back and zooming vs not is a great one 👍
I really appreciate that you show both the raw file and the image after processing!
Thanks for another wonderful video your approach to photography is interesting and informative to watch and your use of before and after shots is so helpful. Thanks again - love your channel
The big horned sheep was truly fantastic.
Beautiful shots Adam👍🏻 specially that first and second for me! I would image that light is even more important in this area. I’m a strong believer of light over composition.
very enjoyable as always Sir Gibbs.... the image 14:20 looks like the hole Gavin was looking to thread :-)... great work and shots as usual .. Bravo
Perhaps you didn’t the area enough justice but for sure your photography tips and the related images are very useful and inspiring. Thanks for sharing Adam.
Behind you @ 16:14 looked nice with foreground rock ripples & rocky spires in the background.
yes and I was planning on going back the next morning but ended up going elsewhere.
Thanks for the tutorial Adam!
Your shots make me want to visit so badly. Mind you, your images do that to pretty much every place you shoot! Great vlog Adam. Thanks so much for the wide angle and 35mm advice, too.
Hi Adam, I really like it when you show the RAW file and settings, as well as talking through the composition...And then the finished image. It's so helpful in getting an idea of what has gone into making the image. Thanks again for sharing this with us. :)
You may not feel that you did the area justice but there are some great images in the video. The 16mm shot, the shot of the shrub in the small arch, the shot from within the cave. I wanna go there!
Truly some very nice images.
What an incredible area. I really love seeing the transition from "RAW to processed" image - REALLY like that. It's amazing to see how much subtle D&B you do to really make your images sing, and REALLY helpful sharing that. Thanks Adam, gorgeous images.
Gorgeous photos! Thank you for explaining your thought process behind the shots.
Love this series of videos. So many great tips and nice to hear more in depth info on what you're doing and your thought process. Thank you.
About 20 years ago my wife, daughter, and I were looking on the map for a way around Las Vegas. I turned off the road to Valley of Fire. We arrived there after dark (apparently it was ok then) and camped for the night. The desert was illuminated by the moon. The next morning I was astonished by the beauty around me. The light was fantastic. I have been hoping to go back there again. Thanks for the inspiration, Adam!
Beautiful colour and compositions, Adam. Loved the one of the little shrub especially,
Adam, I haven't watched your videos for a while (i was subscribed for a couple years under a different name), but these last 2 valley of fire videos reminded me why i think you're one of the best photographers and you photograph seemingly without effort. LOTS of great information about focal lengths. Thank you for recording this video!
Great vid Adam with good info both on lens selection and raw to post processed images. Thanks :)
Great video, loved the example of the use of different focal lengths. Bravo!!!
Have really enjoyed your visit to VOF, I made a short trip there a couple of years ago. It was great hearing you and Nick both mention how difficult it is to photographic there, as I found it very challenging. Found the CCC cabins to be a great spot, but very hard to photograph, but totally worth it. Like you, I hope to get back and visit again. And as you said, camping there since the park closes at sunset and opens at sunrise, great tip.
Such an amazing video with little nuggets of takeaways for us. Thanks Adam.
Thanks for sharing with us Adam. I really enjoy your videos......you always manage to do an outstanding job of taking your time and walking us through your shots. And in so doing I always learns something.
What a fantastic place! Really loved the image with the little single bush in the arch.
What an interesting area and some neat photos. Love your tips for lens selection.
Nice work...Valley of Fire has been on my list for a while. Really liked the composition of the bighorn sheep with the cliff curving over the bighorn...very majestic looking animal.
I’ve got to go back there when it’s not over 100 degrees. Great comps Adam. 👍
As always - great explanation and inspirational - thanks!
Adam, I appreciate this video and I love your compositions. Thank you for showing your RAW and processed shots, it is very helpful. I was there last year and while it is a truly gorgeous place to behold, it is rather difficult to shoot. Being a photography enthusiast, I thought it was just me having a difficult time finding compositions. I feel so validated hearing you, Thomas Heaton, and Nick Page also state that it is challenging. I just purchased the Nikon F/4 16-35mm lens so I love seeing how you are using it there. Thanks again!
Beautiful images!!! I loved the shot of the Big Horn Sheep. Thanks for sharing!!!
Gorgeous shots! I love the soft light. I also like the 35mm version filling up the sky. As for the rocks with the valley background, I'm glad to see the strobes in the background didn't significantly interfere in the raw image, even at 1.6 seconds.
Looks like an amazing place - you got some epic shots - good to see how your eye/ brain works when you talk through the compositions. Also like the way you present the raw alongside the processed so we can see your take/ transformation. Would love to visit this place myself but somehow doubt it will ever happen... Nice one - john.
I enjoyed the smooth transition from RAW to processed image. It makes easier to understand what was done to the RAW image.
Great video Adam. I really enjoyed my visit there a couple years ago but as you mentioned, struggled for compositions similar to finding compositions in the forrest. Plan on returning again soon.
Oh, here is the video again 😅
Thanks a lot for these tips ❤️🙏🏻, I don't think there is an authorised photographer more than you to talk about compositions.
Who uses a wide angle lens knows how hard and challenging it can be taking a decent composition with it, I really struggle sometimes with my 10mm lens (15mm Full-frame)
This was great Adam! Keep them coming :)
Another great video of the never ending adventures. VOF is one of my favorite places as I have mentioned before, though with the beauty everywhere it can be hard to get the perfect picture and composition. Fantastic photos for sure and so glad that you did show the Big Horn, very majestic creatures for sure. Agree about camping there, though be aware it is first come first serve for most and though there is some RV hook up sites, still first come first serve (20 for tent-30 for hook-up), exception is if cycling which they will go out of their way to find a spot for cyclist. Plan to be there on the way back from the Outsider Conference in March.
Another super video. Love the compositions and the post-processing. And on behalf of some of your constipated followers, thanks for including some silliness! 😉
Thanks, Adam. I enjoyed watching this as I always do.
I really liked that side by side comparison between the wide and the 35mm. Great tips!
Great. I‘ll be there in April. 👍🏻
I liked the wider comp too in the first shot, great vid as usual!
Love the shots, and the ideas... especially around compression. Easy to forget in the moment when it’s sunrise or sunset etc.... glad you got the Goat!! Gavin worries me and probably many others lol!! Cheers Jase
Enjoyed that Adam 👍👍 some great tips as usual and lovely shots. Loved the goat one.
Seeing you photograph the area in great morning light made me jealous. When I traveled through the area on my way to Zion I was stuck in mid-day light and 105 degree heat. It was so brutal I had to hop in and out of the air conditioned rental looking for compositions because it was too hot to hike. After seeing this definitely inspires me to want to go back.
Great video-- I love the 35 mm version of the shot with the spire closer in.
Beautiful stuff sir!
I love the way you transition each shot from raw to edited, it demonstrates quite how subtle your editing is. Would it be possible to screenshot your Lightroom edit panels next to the finals so we can see how to achieve similar results?
Big horn sheep shot was nice as well! Great job!
Love all shots. I guess the first one is my favourite though.
Cheers Adam!
My favourite of the first composition(s) was the 16mm version as it captured some very interesting formations in the lower left that cropped out in the 35mm version. The second morning had me holding my breath thinking you were going to talk yourself right out of the best light...:-). Thanks for sharing!
I am always amazed at how long the sun takes over that side of the world here in the top of Australia it goes from pitch black to sun blazing in thirty minutes thanks for the depth lesson
Great stuff Adam that place looks overwhelming with comps galore!
Very inspiring! Thanks!
Great Video. Great shots
Watching your videos is like meditation. Thanks for that well done ✌🏻
Nice pictures Adam. I liked the second picture the best with the shrub.
Fabulous photography loved the shot with the goat would have liked to see it in colour 🤘🤘🤘
brian mcfarlane Actually the animal in the photo is a Bighorn Sheep. There are small groups that roam the park. Pretty astonishing to see them scale some pretty steep slopes. This state park is fabulous for photography: rocks, critters, birds, plants & colors. The visitor center has some adorable Antelope Ground Squirrels and Gambol’s quail that often come around the bird feeders behind the buildings.
I have never seen so much winning about the light by the FAB 4. Come down here to Arizona and get a sunburn from our daily bright light. Enjoy your work!
Awesome video, new friend from London UK 🇬🇧👍
Love that old man Yoga at 10:40 ;-)
Nice Landscape shots. incredible to watch that desert when sitting at home and outside the landscape is drowning. So much rain here…
Same here, it is coming down in buckets
Really enjoyed the video, as always.
One day I'd like to go back and spend a week or so in that valley. Just magic. You'll be seeing more of Delbert the ram ion a couple of months ;)
Looking forward to it! Are you providing Yogography workshops? lol
Perhaps we could offer Yoga with big horn, spin off from Yoga with goats.
@@QuietLightPhoto It's a sure fire winner
Hell, I might have to attend one that offers Goat yoga and life coaching.
Couple of months? Love the fact that you named him.
Very nice images. I do love the Valley of Fire and was frustrated that I couldn't get in at those prime light times without camping. Red Rock Canyon to the west of Las Vegas is the same way, although there are ways to get around that there. The park gates are so far removed from the best spots that you can't park and hike in early. Nevada has had a lot of problems with park vandalism so I do understand their policy.
Really enjoyed the video.
Love the shrub shot.
Awesome video mate with some lovely images. What a beautiful area 😀👍✌
Cheers Paul!
So cool watching you out with your guys. What a cool place. Can I ask what was you filming on
I’m slightly impressed by the Yogi Hardcastle.
Hey Adam, First off, thanks for the wonderful wonder through one of my favorite landscapes, VOF is incredible! Just for future reference, that central rock formation in the background, "pinnacle" is called Gibraltar Rock. Thanks again mate!
Great tips!
For some strange reason it reminds me of your trip to the Faroes, I think it's the rawness and wilderness of it all . I'm a sucker for some wide stuff but I think I preferred the 35mm shot in the first series, otherwise wonderful stuff as always Mr G
Nice vlog Adam. You really are the dodge and burn King. Just a thought, for one video, could you just take us through some of your approaches to editing?
As you have an ongoing habit of doing, I must thank you for the inspiration!
I wish I had been paying you more attention, as I'm fairly close by to where you've been. I live in a part of Arizona than you and the entourage ( Thomas, Nick, Greg) are probably not aware of: AZ Southeast east and below Tucson, at elevation... home of Cochise's Stronghold, the Chiricahua National Monument, and our Sky Islands..... Also a beautiful part of the American Southwest.
Again, thanks for the inspiration, and if you decide to come back to the area, I'd love to buy you a beer! (BTW, if you remember, I'm the guy who wrote to you a while back, talking about Tigh Na Mara.)
Gorgeous image @9.26 is beautiful.
I know your forte is landscape, but I LOVED the shot with the desert bighorn sheep!
Always enjoyable, and solid advice. What happened to the GFX? I was looking forward to some content with that.
I still have it
Another great video, I really like the way you add your Raw file to the video and then the edited shot , a lot of photographers done share that and i think they should , i will start doing it myself once i .... ya know get out and actually record something decent lol
Excellent video Adam. Hope you're all having fun in Nick's Murderbox!
I was there before and it's a fabulous place to take pictures. Unfortunately we were there for only an hour or so and didn't really explore the area. Valley of Fire and Red Rock seems like they were created at the same time.
So well done Adam! Perhaps a shot between 16 and 35mm would have been the right one, cheers!
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The principles in this video see exactly why my 24-70 is my most-used lens. Too often, the 16-20mm range is just too wide.
Thanks Adam, great video. You had some very nice compositions, however, thank you for saying you didn’t do it justice. I feel better since I have been there twice and have come away with sheep shots. Will stop in there on my way to Death Valley in a few weeks. Was not planning on stopping until I seen your and TH’s video and will look with a different perspective this time. Are you still going to Gobi? P.S. Gavin needs to work on “threading that needle”. 😂
Looks like a fantastic place to explore when time is not an issue. Challenging to just show up and find compositions from the looks of it. 2nd time around would be a whole lot better I imagine. As far as the two images at different focal lengths, I give a slight edge to the 35mm version just because it fills the frame a little better to my eyes. And once again, Gavin is off with the sheep. I’m sensing a pattern...
For someone who doesn't feel he did the area justice, please know that it was good enough that I'm definitely putting Valley of Fire on my list of places to visit.
A very timely set of videos as I plan to stop there on the way to the Outsiders Conference in March. I take it they have gates up that prevent you from leaving the park after sunset? I was thinking I could stay late for sunset and astro and then leave the park.
Enjoyable vlog as usual Adam, I was a little disappointed with this years Landscape photographer of the year winners, I was not the winner lol. I did enter actually but so many awesome images in the competition I had no chance sadly, maybe my vlogs might do better :).
It was a really tough comp to judge, lots of great work out ther