The Best Day of Photography, Ever | Photography Tips from the Field
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ม.ค. 2018
- Photography 101 is: go to amazing places. And today, that's exactly where we were.
For my travel photography check out my IG at @brendanvanson.
What an amazing day of photography at Havasu and Mooney Falls. When I say that this was the best day of photography ever, I'm not exaggerating. It was legit the best day. And, I just felt so in my element with the landscape photography here.
Havasu Falls is such an incredible place, and even though I've shot it 3 or 4 times, I love how I can still come and get different pictures and shoot different styles of photography each time.
This place is a landscape photography dream location, and there are just countless angles and compositions to be had here. And, today's episode was basically a photography class. It was full of lessons, tips, and tutorials. In so many ways, this was photography 101, and also a bit of a master class.
So, I shot photography from dawn all the way into the night. I took pictures at dawn, sunrise, midday, sunset, and of the stars. It was the kind of day that will go down in history as the best day of photography. And, from a business standpoint, I also think it might have been the most productive day I've had in ages. I mean, if this photography doesn't sell, nothing will.
Aside from Havasu Falls, we also went and did some photography at Mooney Falls which is just down the way. The light wasn't great all day, but it still just really worked. And, I'm very, very happy with the way things went down today.
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Fantastic images Brendan. Living here in AZ we see photos of Havasupi nonstop and it’s been done to death, but yours definitely stand out! That place is iconic and so popular for good reason! Great info on the star trails exposure calculations as well. I use photopills for iPhones that has an exposure feature that can do that for you as well. 👊🏼
19 minutes! Fantastic, soon we can expect a 30min daily episode, only kidding that's a mad amount of editing to get it that far, not even thinking about the amount of filming needed. Thanks for sharing the adventures!
Absolutely love the one with the still stars, dude!! Glad I found your channel. I’ve been binging the hell out of it the last few weeks and feel like I’ve learned some stuff. I’m just a casual shooter but I feel like the passion is just the same. Thank you for putting all your work and tips out there for us to enjoy and learn from
HOW
EPIC
WAS
THAT
DAY!!!!
Awesome! Love this Location and your Pictures Brendan! (And also the length of the Blog!)
Epic! Just epic! wonderful location and vlog, some stunning images there, one of your best
This is the best video of 2018 so far. And the photos look amazing.
Thanks buddy!
This is one of your best Vlogs yet, great tech info. and and a what a location. The images are some of your best yet, keep them coming.
Doood your almost at 100k! Good vids, good work. Keep up the grind.
Great Vlog & tips- learned a lot today!!! So happy for you for an awesome day& for the amazing pictures
What an amazing place - looks incredible! Great video and fantastic shots.
Brendan, an epic vlog and hopefully you will get your images picked up. Loved the astro images and thanks for the explanation about ISO and Exposure time. Youve nailed this episode big time
That was awesome. Loved every minute of it. Great tips at the end too.
Wow! Wow! You two are fantastic.
I could watch your videos everyday and never get bored.
Thank you very,very much to you for sharing such beautiful work.
Excellent, excellent, excellent...I will be watching this as a master class study on landscape/astro photography. You outdid yourself on this video. Look forward to more!!!!😁😁😁
Loving the long vlog Brendan :) The more the merrier! Lol Wow, Havasu & Mooney falls are just breathtaking! Absolutely love the images :) That icy blue water of the falls against the colour of rock looks stunning.
Those sun starburst shots are really cool & so interesting hearing al the info behind creating them. And that cave shot was awesome! Fab vlog!
Really a great blog and great images! Thanks Brendan for sharing with us!
Truly enjoy this vlog, thanks so much for sharing. Hope you bring more like this!
Brendan, you rock, amazing images, great tips, all we all need now, is Havasu Falls 👍😜👍👍🤪🤪🤪
Glad to see you weren't chucking any filter holders off the cliffs...lol (sorry , couldn't resist). Seriously, though, that was definitely the coolest episode ever! I'm looking forward to the Phoenix meetup this weekend.
A superb video, Brendan, and your explanation concerning the astrophotography was the clearest and best I’ve heard. Thank you.
My pleasure, Tom. Thanks for watching.
Best of everything .... see the sites, great images and video, learn the techniques ...Thanks Brendan
Wow, what a day. The enthusiasm really is infectious too, I felt really stoked after watching that. Then the grim drizzly reality of the weather in the south east of England today bought me back down.
+Steve Bennett glad it provided somd escapism! I'll be out in drizzly England soon. And I look forward to it.
Great images, Brandon. Well worth the hike down.
👍 it’s always an awesome feeling when you know you got some great shots and shared the experience with your mate (and a bonus to share with us on youtube)! 👍
Fantastic photos and lots of them, a long vlog but packed with quality!!! Cool stuff
Great video! Love the photos! I also love how you turn everything bad into something good, like with the light painting astrophotographer, we need more peaople like you!
One of the best vids yet! Great job!
Thanks for watching, Andrew.
Merci Brendan,
Really enjoyed this vlog 👌
Camping, exploring and photography....baking your cake and eating it too 👍🎂🎂🎂
Bonne journée !
Merci Richard!
What a Fantastic place to spend a day. Shots and use of all the sourses of light, great job. Those two falls are insane
+allan sisson crazy place right? I kove locations you can shoot all day/night long.
Great to see that enthusiasm, truly infectious.
One of my favourite vlogs of yours. If it's good it doesn't matter that it's long
What an absolutely stunning location. I thoughtbmy own country, New Zealand had great places to see and photograpgh, but this has to be on the bucket list now. Thanks for producing this video mate
the picture with the non moving stars and the waterfall is maybe one of the best composing ive ever seen. such a great picture.
Thanks for another video! I didnt know about the aperture blades. Thanks for the tip!
Wow! stunning shots! & a very well made & interesting video - thanks for sharing!
These are the types of videos I enjoy!
I'm glad you liked it Donald.
Epic day/night of shooting, you definitely made the most of all the light! That little walkway tunnel was so awesome 🙌🏻
That tunnel was so crazy. I shot there 2 years ago and didn't even know it existed. And, it was right next to my feet. haha.
Brendan van Son That’s so awesome! This spot is definitely on my list of places to visit now.
Your Daily vids keep me alive!👊
You're comments keep me going!
I enjoy your channel a lot! It's helping me improve at photography. Thank you
Some awesome images Brendan
Love watching these! I spent my time there last week booking it to Beaver falls, so I didn't get a chance to photograph Havasu or Mooney falls as much as I would have liked! Love what you did with the star photography. Some of my photos of Havasu falls have starbursts too but mine were unintentional hahah -_- Next time you should go down Mooney, it gets the adrenaline going!
just awesome
Great video dude!!
Awesome vid and some great tips too! Thanks
I think I like the camping on location style of vlogs better especially when you include the hiking, gives the whole show a bit more depth. It was actually good to see you guys using a pocket rocket type stove too. Awesome! Terrific waterfalls-startrails!
Brilliant loved the night shoots thank you
It’s nice to know that Jody is very supportive. She’s a keeper
wow what a day!
A full day for you! Stunning photographies. (and Jodie vas very brave :)
She was! I think she was less nervous about sitting there than I was.
Again a wonderful vlog about photography. Very inspiring. Enjoy.
Thanks for watching, Ronald.
Sometimes I use the "1 minute rule", (1 second at ISO 6400 equals one minute at ISO 100) ...and other times I just do the math on my fingers. Either way, I'm shooting my test exposures to check my histogram at ISO 6400 or 12800, because nobody wants to sit around for 60 sec. or more just to find out that your histogram was 2-3 stops under-exposed! So even if I'm never going to keeper a shot at ISO "HI" or whatever it is, I use that to test my histogram, at a more reasonable shutter speed, (1-8 seconds) ...then start doing the finger math.
Love that last shot! Man I miss that place. And yeah, it can be an absolute zoo in the summer, night photography galore!
Awesome location and superb images, love the astro shots
+Ralph Goldsmith thanks Ralph.
What a happy man, great images what more can you ask for.
Glad you had such a good time, it's written all over your face! :-)
fantastic! thank you for being my legs - especially near the edge - loved this and the explanations!!! keep safe and live life :)
My pleasure! Thanks for watching. I really appreciate it.
Totally agreed. This is the best day of shooting with with.
one of your longest blogs and by far one of your best as well :)
I'm glad you liked it!
WOW, dios mio. Beautiful is not enough to describe it...
Great photos, nice to see Jodie....
Fantastic images. Great video. Thanks for sharing your insights on astrophotography and making it seem less daunting.
Astro is challenging only because you shoot it blind. Once you figure it out, it's not so hard. Just walk up, set your camera to iso6400, 30 seconds, f2.8 or 4, and go from there.
Fantastic images Brendan and I learnt something!
I'm glad buddy! Thanks for watching.
Awesome vlog Brendan
Thank You so much for taking us with you. I am always working with my other jobs so I don't get out to much. I am trying to change that, with your wonderful videos and advice things are starting to change for me with photography, I still have a lot of work to do, like Vlogs and more travel photography, stock footage and photos, would be nice as well as motivation (you definetly help with motivation being positive and real, don't ever change that), just a slow pace for me but I will pick up the pace for 2018. I have followed your advice and love your photography. I am ready to really work at it for 2018. Thanks again and say Hello To Jodie. P.S. I am a little shy to Vlog because I have tried and I don't think I look good at all on camera, You guys are much better looking than I. I am going to eventually try. Sorry so long I will try to shorten these comments in the future I know your busy, just wanted you to know how much good you are spreading in the world with your youtube channel. Thanks again and Have Fun! Lee James Young
Stunning photos and perfect explanation of each shot. Have you noticed if the new 5D mk4 is getting you better images?
Obviously you had a fantastic day & evening with the lit waterfall/star shots, well done... The vertical at the 13:37 mark, shot at f/11, 100 seconds showing the blue sky with clouds at Havasu Falls was the Cat's Meow for sure, very well done!
Thank you,
Bill Farr... :>)
Thanks Bill! I'm glad you liked this image!
Great blog thank you nice to see you doing much more photography and explaining your thinking, very inspirational
I'm glad you liked it Russell!
Totally awesome!
Thanks! And 5 points for first!
Hi Brendan, great episode, as always !
As for the sunstars, it is related to diffraction and basically, diffraction creates 2 rays perpendicular to each blade. When you have an even number of blades, 2 opposite blades are parallel so you'll have 4 rays but you will only see 2 because they are perfectly aligned. With an odd number of blades, you won't have 2 parallel blades, therefore an odd number of blades creates sunstars with twice the number of points.
The star is also affected by the shape of the blades. Straight blades will create nicer stars than curved blades but the bokeh won't be as nice. Some lenses have curved aperture blades (for bokeh when wide open) and "staighter" blades when stopped down (for sunstars) to benefit from the best of both worlds.
Bonne journée,
+César Duchamp great explanation! Thanks!
great video man
Excellent vlog from a fantastic location well done. :-D
Epic.
Great stuff once again Brendan, thank you I was looking for some tips on astrophotography.
PS: What gloves do you use?
Great photos and adventure there. I'd love to visit that place! Gotta be careful when doing your audio though, at the end when you got on the bed the audio changed to just the left channel.
Hey, Brendan just came across your vlogging videos and man this is ridiculous simply AMAZING. You have just put Havasu and Mooney falls on my bucket list. I just recently was terminated from my job of 9.5 years as a police officer who developed PTSD from the mass terrorist shooting that happened on June 12th, 2016 The club Pulse shooting in Orlando Florida. I have been looking to find a way of coping with everything and well I need to say your video of this trip has made me want to get out of bed. You don't know me or maybe you heard about my story anyways just wanted to say thank you for this video I think this is going to be a platt form that I can maybe use to help me and others suffering from PTSD.
Fantastic photos indeed! However, my favourite is the one at 4:06, because that tall yellow tree looks amazing with the waterfall.
I'm glad you liked that one. I was working hard to get that tree involved. It gave nice contrasting colour for the photo.
Absolutely! I noticed that tree in previous clips and was curious to see if you included it to your composition. And later I was glad to see that yo made it. Congrats, Brendan! (:
Brendan, as Thomas Heaton would say - Absolutely stunning! Really amazing, honestly photography and video! Do you already plan to come to Germany or central Europe this year? :)
I really loved the time lapse sir.
+Travel with Shama thanks shama.
Great video.
Beautiful America❤❤
awesome! Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Great vlog superb images I don’t care if a vlog is long when the content is this good 👌👍
Thanks Paul!
stunning Brendan the falls shots were stunning and i loved the astro ones and explenation was great,thank you.
hows Jodies blister hope its ok
What L-bracket are you using? Also - would love to see some of these pics at full-resolution - do you post them somewhere? Really enjoy your seemingly endless positivity and excitement in the vids.
Hey Brendan, awesome shots! I would like to know why you prefer one long exposure compared to stacked star trails?
Great canyon! Which tripod do you use? It's looks very slim and seems very good for travelling.
Simply superbe 👍👍
Amazing job awesome 👏🏽
+andy_ cro thanks Andy!
Hi Brendan!! Amazing video. I have spent a lot of time in Las Vegas but have never seen Havasu Falls. My bad. Was wondering what apps you use to plan locations and shoots? I use the Photographer's Ephemeris a lot and was wondering if you ever use it too?
Awesome
+Daniel Miller 😎😎
Pretty damn good photos Brendan.
What make is your orange L bracket ?
Doesn't look like the safest of places but the images are amazing. nice to have such a long vlog as well.
I actually like the longer vlogs
You need to go to beaver falls man!
Yes I do! Do you know if there's a camping area down there?
Alright dude. Apologies if you've already done one. Would love to watch a brief video on a few key points in turning photography/blogging from a hobby to an occupation. How did you get yourself out there, generating clients and the challenges you've faced over the years etc.
Would be awesome, cheers bro.
You are the most optimistic photogragher on youtube
+jayvin you're the most positive commentor on this video.
Awesome!
Which notebook do you use for editing photos?
+Filip Žídek I use the Dell XPS 15.
I haven’t even watched this episode and I already want to visit the US........
You really should. It's so cool!
How is stacking different then keeping the shutter open? Its literally exactly the same thing. Stacking is actually far superior since you arent dealing with the sensor heating up and you actually have a lower effective ISO (stacking gets rid of noise). You also dont risk having a shot ruined by overexposure. Your comment about "not liking that look" is wrong since there is no difference in look at all (unless you do the "comet stacking" method).
Brendan, you went to Havasu Falls in January but i looked on their web sight and it states that they open in February. Did you manage to get some kind of permission? Thanks in advance…. Enjoy your videos, keep shooting...
Brendan, how does it work when you want to enter Supai in Jan? Ypu just go down and pay? It says on the website the campground is closed for months of Dec and Jan. Would appeciate your advise! thanks
+Iwona Targosz it's totally open. You just cant make reservations. You just rock up, pay the fee at the office in Supai, and camp.
Brendan van Son Awesome! Thanks for getting back to me. Would rather know that before going in. Enjoy the rest of the trip !