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!!!!😁😁😁
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.
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... :>)
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! (:
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!
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!
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.
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
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!
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. 👊🏼
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
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!
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?
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.
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.
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!
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,
👍 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)! 👍
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.
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
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? :)
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!
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.
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
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!!!!😁😁😁
Best of everything .... see the sites, great images and video, learn the techniques ...Thanks Brendan
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.
Great Vlog & tips- learned a lot today!!! So happy for you for an awesome day& for the amazing pictures
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!
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.
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.
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! (:
That was awesome. Loved every minute of it. Great tips at the end too.
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!
Wow! stunning shots! & a very well made & interesting video - thanks for sharing!
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!
HOW
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WAS
THAT
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Awesome! Love this Location and your Pictures Brendan! (And also the length of the Blog!)
Really a great blog and great images! Thanks Brendan for sharing with us!
Great photos, nice to see Jodie....
Thanks for another video! I didnt know about the aperture blades. Thanks for the tip!
What an amazing place - looks incredible! Great video and fantastic shots.
This is the best video of 2018 so far. And the photos look amazing.
Thanks buddy!
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.
Again a wonderful vlog about photography. Very inspiring. Enjoy.
Thanks for watching, Ronald.
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
Epic! Just epic! wonderful location and vlog, some stunning images there, one of your best
Brendan, you rock, amazing images, great tips, all we all need now, is Havasu Falls 👍😜👍👍🤪🤪🤪
the picture with the non moving stars and the waterfall is maybe one of the best composing ive ever seen. such a great picture.
Some awesome images Brendan
Great images, Brandon. Well worth the hike down.
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!
One of the best vids yet! Great job!
Thanks for watching, Andrew.
Truly enjoy this vlog, thanks so much for sharing. Hope you bring more like this!
just awesome
Fantastic photos and lots of them, a long vlog but packed with quality!!! Cool stuff
Great to see that enthusiasm, truly infectious.
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!
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. 👊🏼
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
Great canyon! Which tripod do you use? It's looks very slim and seems very good for travelling.
Brilliant loved the night shoots thank you
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!
Fantastic images Brendan and I learnt something!
I'm glad buddy! Thanks for watching.
Merci Brendan,
Really enjoyed this vlog 👌
Camping, exploring and photography....baking your cake and eating it too 👍🎂🎂🎂
Bonne journée !
Merci Richard!
Awesome location and superb images, love the astro shots
+Ralph Goldsmith thanks Ralph.
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?
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.
What a happy man, great images what more can you ask for.
Stunning photos and perfect explanation of each shot. Have you noticed if the new 5D mk4 is getting you better images?
Doood your almost at 100k! Good vids, good work. Keep up the grind.
WOW, dios mio. Beautiful is not enough to describe it...
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.
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.
Hey Brendan, awesome shots! I would like to know why you prefer one long exposure compared to stacked star trails?
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.
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!
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!
One of my favourite vlogs of yours. If it's good it doesn't matter that it's long
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
👍 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)! 👍
Awesome vid and some great tips too! Thanks
Totally agreed. This is the best day of shooting with with.
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.
Pretty damn good photos Brendan.
What make is your orange L bracket ?
Great video dude!!
It’s nice to know that Jody is very supportive. She’s a keeper
These are the types of videos I enjoy!
I'm glad you liked it Donald.
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
I enjoy your channel a lot! It's helping me improve at photography. Thank you
Awesome vlog Brendan
wow what a day!
I really loved the time lapse sir.
+Travel with Shama thanks shama.
Totally awesome!
Thanks! And 5 points for first!
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.
Great video.
one of your longest blogs and by far one of your best as well :)
I'm glad you liked it!
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? :)
Great vlog superb images I don’t care if a vlog is long when the content is this good 👌👍
Thanks Paul!
Excellent vlog from a fantastic location well done. :-D
Great stuff once again Brendan, thank you I was looking for some tips on astrophotography.
PS: What gloves do you use?
Glad you had such a good time, it's written all over your face! :-)
You need to go to beaver falls man!
Yes I do! Do you know if there's a camping area down there?
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.
great video man
Amazing job awesome 👏🏽
+andy_ cro thanks Andy!
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!
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.
awesome! Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Simply superbe 👍👍
Hey man, how’d you shoot those awesome time lapses of the stars?
Some of it on the 5d mark iv, and some on the sony a6300. I'm going to do a vlog of this the next time there are stars out.
Brendan van Son Looking forward to it! Cheers, mate
Epic.
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.
Beautiful America❤❤
Your Daily vids keep me alive!👊
You're comments keep me going!
Awesome
+Daniel Miller 😎😎
Doesn't look like the safest of places but the images are amazing. nice to have such a long vlog as well.
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...
There is no sound in this video from 15:00 minutes onwards. Just FYI.
I didn't have any problems
Right audio channel got messed up. But, there should be left. So, I'm assuming your right channel on your speaker doesn't work. Sorry about that.
Same here.
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 !
I can't hear the explanation of the astro shots. Is it me or is the volume messed up?
I only heard the audio from my left speaker, check your pan control, maybe you have it more to the right?
I actually like the longer vlogs
what gloves are those?
They're from Vallerret. I love them: www.photographygloves.com