Yes, electrical wires that were all connected to the head of my wife's grandparents. Even from their ears. They were sitting together on a coach in the living room and a light with cables was behind them. It later appeared to be the best available pictures of them before they passed away of old age... I had to touch up the entire photo using photoshop many years ago without all the modern options. It is weird touching up photos from dlte deceased, but very rewarding.
My weirdest was a twig sticking out of a portrait shot. A small branch sticking right of my subject's ear. Hahaha looked like an arrow, learned a good lesson there. I will tape HASTE on the back of my camera bag TY.
Unfortunately my latest "tree in head" was literally in my head! Ugh, I was taking photos of this amazing tree stump, had a hat on, and turned around and bam - I hit a limb sticking out so hard it drew blood! (By the way, I love your videos! Thank you so much for all that you share with us)
More so in video. Either my knee or foot gets in the way on pans sometimes. Speaking of photos. Those dang hiking poles always get in the pictures somehow. 😑
My biggest beginner mistake was not stopping to take a photo when I saw it, thinking that I could come back later and it would still be there. Nope. If you see a photo, take the shot then. The light might change or maybe you can't return to the exact spot. A related mistake is not working the shot. Sometimes just moving a little or changing the angle of a shot can greatly improve it.
If you drive to work on a bike (for instance) and you see a buzzard sitting on a pole 5 days in a row, and you return in the weekend, you can be sure the bird isn't sitting there :-). Wildlife is unpredictable
That's so true. And additionally shoot more photos. You might think, you got what you wanted. But chances are, something went wrong with one picture or the other. I started with film, where you had only a very limited number of pictures available. Some of that still is in my mind. Even if I have the feeling I have done so many shots, in the end there is not always the picture I really wanted or too many are not sharp, or I just did one perspective and missed some other, e.g. just tele and nothing of the surrounding or the complete scenery.
@@reinhard8053 I started with film too. So, every shot counted. You only had 12, 24, or 36 shots per roll. It made you slow down and think about all the things you should think about to get a good photo. It was a great way to learn photography.
I'm an amateur photographer, and I've followed several TH-cam channels. This one is by far the best one for learning. While other photographers talk about photos outside with background music and inspiring you to take photos of the great outdoors (nothing wrong with that), Simon sits you down and explains things clearly and concisely.
I bought my first camera this year, and your channel has been one of the greatest sources of information and help to make my photos better! Thank you for making all of these videos!
Sir, my best wishes for you on your new adventure!!!!!! I hope it’s as fun and rewarding as mine has been!!!!!! Yes this is a great channel to learn from and please, please never be afraid or embarrassed to ask any questions!!! How else are we to learn!!!! I learn everyday and I’ve been a photographer for over 40 years!!!!!!
I relate to the "Subject AND SOMETHING". Whenever I review my pictures, the one I'm naturally attracted to are the pictures that has Subject AND something. I didn't notice it until you mentioned it. Will now try to make a habit when I take photographs and hopefully have a higher keeper rate.
Really like your ”You can do it” approach. Assertive, but with an underlying humility. As a retired photo/video teacher I'm guilty of many photo-mistakes throughout the years. Here was a chance to raise my level! Alas, I lost concentration because of the short appearance of two gorgeous models in this video. Always loved portrait work, any age, any sex. A truly unique and exciting way to interact with another human being.
This is a great mnemonic! I especially appreciate the “and ?”-that tip can really take a mediocre or decent shot to the next level. You have an outstanding channel and explain things well without making me feel terrible for the mistakes I’ve made along the way.
I am a total newb to this game and your videos have been incredible. Best of all, unlike so many other photo/videography channels, your videos are actually designed to be helpful instead of just being ads designed to look like something helpful.
Your mentioning of the histogram just saved my life (well... my gallery). I'm an amateur photographer with a Canon EOS 850D/Rebel T8i, and there were so many features I never knew my camera had. All it took was you mentioning histograms, and I was like "ooooh, where do I find that?", and I not only found the histograms but also something that tells me if my camera is tilted too far to the right or left.
Good call on chimping. Sports guys used to harp against it. You don't want to overdo it and miss a moment. But I check constantly with the histogram on to make sure I'm dialed in and no blowing out highlights.
@simon_dentremont actually Simon, I have been enjoying many of your videos since I discovered you. You're one of the best TH-camrs, because not only is your content great, but the presentation is very professional. Brevity, and densely-packed with information. A+
My tips that would have saved a lot of my photos: 1) Examine the photo carefully and critically on the spot. Maybe I can have a better composition. Maybe there's a twig that I can remove from the shot. 2) Reset some settings at the *end* of a photo session to typical settings: ISO (auto for me), aperture (depends, but F/5..F/7), exposure compensation (0), shutter timer (off), white balance (auto), focus mode (auto) or anything such. That way, I will not end up with noisy/blurry photos and/or will not miss a shot when I have to quickly grab the camera. 3) With a moving subject, take the photo. The readjust. I've missed some photos because I wanted to adjust it to be better (especially if I had not followed through on my second tip).
dude, that AND really inspired me well, I went to a trip to a local mansion with my friends, and I took photo basically thinking about AND every time. suddenly my photos are not that boring anymore lol
Another awesome video! My biggest issue is that I never take enough photos of the one scene. I tend to take a photo, think it’s good and move on. Only to discover later, any host of issues is there.
I’m thrilled, but not surprised, to see how fast your subscribers have grown! Wow, I remember when you had less than 20K…it’s a testament to how valuable your content is to photographers! Great to see the growth and thanks for all the great videos!
I’m a relatively experienced street photographer, who mainly shoots film, but even I’m finding this channel useful! The advice is very well presented and relevant to different styles of photography 👍
Thank you so much for all of your videos! I took your advices the last time I did bird photography, especially on the ISO part by keeping it at 1600+, and it was the best advice ever. I have never had so many good photos of birds in motion before, and the noise in the photos aren’t even really that bad and was easily removable in Lightroom.
I use that magnifier all the time. For someone like me with slowly failing near vision that isn't about to give up taking photos that magnifier is critical. I love what digital cameras can do, zebra (instead of blinky), historgrams, magnifiers, changing ISO on the fly versus having to swap out film; not using that little screen because someone said I shouldn't is plain silly.
As mentioned this becomes even easier on bodies from Sony and Fuji with the zebra highlight warnings, make it so much easier to ETTR without blowing highlights.
Was hoping for more footage from Africa, but these tips are fantastic! What I tend to do, especially when taking photos of a species I haven't seen much before, is take a quick picture to lower my anxiety/adrenaline and just add the species to my "collection", and then take time to consider HASTE. The acronym helps a lot. Thanks again!
After over 10 year hiatus, I started to do some photography this year. It's been a pleasure to learn from a professional like you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
My biggest learning moment was going out shooting city lights at night with some friends, but forgetting to turn face-detect on my camera! I'm so used to phone cameras having the feature that I forgot in my digital camera it's a separate setting, and came home with lots of blurry faces! Now I've added the setting as a quick-access menu item and won't forget to use it when shooting portraits
One stupid comment I have, is to practice, then practice some more! I sometimes, before an important shoot (or vacation to NS!) walk around my yard and take photos, then I take photos of the houses across the street, etc. My wife asks, "What are you doing?". So nice to not have to look at the buttons, etc. on your camera and use "muscle memory"!
Spot on acronym!! As an amateur who doesn't shoot daily like a pro it's super useful to have a tool like your HASTE acronym as a reminder to slow down and practice getting it right because that's how you'll get quicker at it eventually. Have a great week!
I know it's counter to the point being made, but that image at 6:13 is incredible. Maybe even *because* it consciously has no single subject in this specific case?
Most stunning Pictures i ever saw on TH-cam. Just brilliant👌. I like that you had so many example pictures to show what you meant. Most often its too much talking and other TH-camrs don’t show so many pictures. And in your case, everybody can clearly say: He is an professional, watch and learn from him👍. Perfect 😃
Tree-In-Head: A great term -quasi-Biblical- I've not heard before to describe a thing I've all-too-often seen [in my work] and strive to avoid, though it may not be a flaw in 100% of cases. Otherwise, another superb session from Monsieur D'E., distilled, practical and applicable to all genres and levels of photography. Merci BCP!
Thanks for all the EDU Simon, I’m a lifer from the Journal of Wildlife Photography but first remember you from Gavin’s videos. Just wanted to say thanks for the meaningful content!!🙏🏼
My husband got me the canon T7 for Christmas. I always love taking photos and only used my cell phone. And now I think I have an addiction.🙂 I have learned so much from all your videos. I listened to you when you said it is better to have a better lens on your camera body than the body itself. I recently got the canon telephoto zoom, 100 to 400 mm. The difference in my photos, the sharpness it also has the stabilizer which my telephoto lens that came with the camera did not have this lens for me has been a game changer. I am definitely ready for an upgrade on the body. I need a much larger range now the T7 is just too limiting, but I can still make that thing hum with this amazing lens. I’m gonna work on what you said in this video shooting pelicans tomorrow.
I spend most of my time in thick woods with terrible light. My photos are always noisey and very often have sticks in the way or coming out of the head. I might start looking for other places to go.
I once photographed fast flying seagulls against a clear white sky. I needed Iso 3200 as I used a shutterspeed of 1/2500 to 1/3200, f11 (to get more dof) and 2 stops overexposing. And that on a bright sunny day ! So indeed, low Iso is not always right ! Noise only shows up in dark parts of the picture, and only when pixelpeeping
My wife and I were hiking and we found an large arch. I had her stand under the arch and hold up her hiking pols. I hiked down in the canyon and took a pic of her. You have to look hard to see her in the photo. I like your suggestions. Again thank you for a great video and training. Ben
The second one you mentioned is extremely powerful as I always looked to add things to my images for years anyway but never knew how to organize a tangible concept to it. THANK YOU!!
Hearing you say "what a bunch of bull" is very confidence inspiring I must say. Good to hear I'm not crazy and other photography TH-camrs aren't accurate 100% of the time. My procedure is always: 1. Take as many creative pictures as I can of the opportunity. 2. Check focus on the screen. 3. If not in focus, retry. This ensures, like you said, that I'm less likely to miss the opportunity.
This is really solid. I mostly explored *real* photography (as opposed to 110 snapshots) in college around 99-2004 (doing some after that, but not nearly as much) on a Nikon F3. Then I took a long break because of life, and recently decided to get back into it with digital. On film I used Fuji 400 as my default film, not really going to any higher ISO, and occasionally using a lower ISO Kodak for specific types of shots. Most of what I learned was from a book that was written in the late 70s, so I got good at eyeballing the light levels, etc, doing the settings from that, shooting, and then seeing what I got back from Wolf Camera. So about a year ago I bought a Sony a7iii, a fixed lens (G-series), and a 24-70 zoom lens (also a tripod, bag, memory card and so on). I got an Udemy course on the technical features of the camera, but it was really overwhelming me with new info and I have to go back and watch it. Also one on digital photography in general. I'm definitely way less confident with my skills, and I feel like not trying to conserve film (because it's expensive) is making me more casual. It is weird to use over 400 ISO, because I pretty much never did with film (maybe used 800 once). I started watching your videos randomly and they are *really* useful for me so far. I loved your tip on overexposing and leaving the gap on the right. I'm going to watch more of yours, and also learn more about the technical features of my camera now that I'm not just being hit with a ton of info with no context. Sometimes when I've gone out for a specific kind of shot, I've looked up ideal setting online in advance. Like I went out to shoot Christmas lights last December. despite using a tripod, a bunch of my shots had a slight shake. I looked up on my phone and found out I actually needed to turn steadyshot off, because it would overcompensate in such scenarios, and the second half of my shots came out better. For the most part, I've been defaulting to aperture priority, and then switching over to manual after taking a few shots. I'm going to watch more of your videos, and possibly sign up for a course at a local community college, if I can make it fit my work schedule.
I wish I discovered this channel 15 years ago ! Most of the tips you give I already know but I had to learn them the hard way, making a lot of mistakes. The biggest thing I learned is manually over-or underexposing when needed. And choosing spotmetering or matrixmetering makes a huge difference
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What’s the weirdest « Tree in head » thing you’ve ever found in one of your photos?
Yes, electrical wires that were all connected to the head of my wife's grandparents. Even from their ears. They were sitting together on a coach in the living room and a light with cables was
behind them.
It later appeared to be the best available pictures of them before they passed away of old age...
I had to touch up the entire photo using photoshop many years ago without all the modern options.
It is weird touching up photos from dlte deceased, but very rewarding.
My weirdest was a twig sticking out of a portrait shot. A small branch sticking right of my subject's ear. Hahaha looked like an arrow, learned a good lesson there. I will tape HASTE on the back of my camera bag TY.
Dust specs or hard water stains on a flower petal of an image created for fine art image.
Unfortunately my latest "tree in head" was literally in my head! Ugh, I was taking photos of this amazing tree stump, had a hat on, and turned around and bam - I hit a limb sticking out so hard it drew blood! (By the way, I love your videos! Thank you so much for all that you share with us)
More so in video. Either my knee or foot gets in the way on pans sometimes. Speaking of photos. Those dang hiking poles always get in the pictures somehow. 😑
My biggest beginner mistake was not stopping to take a photo when I saw it, thinking that I could come back later and it would still be there. Nope. If you see a photo, take the shot then. The light might change or maybe you can't return to the exact spot. A related mistake is not working the shot. Sometimes just moving a little or changing the angle of a shot can greatly improve it.
If you drive to work on a bike (for instance) and you see a buzzard sitting on a pole 5 days in a row, and you return in the weekend, you can be sure the bird isn't sitting there :-). Wildlife is unpredictable
Yes and often you only a very short window, light can change so quick, and or your subject moves on.
I would be the same for sure!
That's so true. And additionally shoot more photos. You might think, you got what you wanted. But chances are, something went wrong with one picture or the other. I started with film, where you had only a very limited number of pictures available. Some of that still is in my mind. Even if I have the feeling I have done so many shots, in the end there is not always the picture I really wanted or too many are not sharp, or I just did one perspective and missed some other, e.g. just tele and nothing of the surrounding or the complete scenery.
@@reinhard8053 I started with film too. So, every shot counted. You only had 12, 24, or 36 shots per roll. It made you slow down and think about all the things you should think about to get a good photo. It was a great way to learn photography.
That bird in the cold with the visible breath is amazing!
Thanks for that "And...?" tip. It's so simple but I don't think I've heard it put so well and intuitively beforehand.
You're very welcome!
I'm an amateur photographer, and I've followed several TH-cam channels. This one is by far the best one for learning. While other photographers talk about photos outside with background music and inspiring you to take photos of the great outdoors (nothing wrong with that), Simon sits you down and explains things clearly and concisely.
Wow, thanks!
I agree, also Mike Browne is channel to watch, I learned everyhing there.
"This is a photo of my subject and ..." Genius.
The "And?" tip just made me realise, what the biggest problem with my photos was. Thanks, Simon!
I bought my first camera this year, and your channel has been one of the greatest sources of information and help to make my photos better! Thank you for making all of these videos!
Great to hear!
Sir, my best wishes for you on your new adventure!!!!!! I hope it’s as fun and rewarding as mine has been!!!!!! Yes this is a great channel to learn from and please, please never be afraid or embarrassed to ask any questions!!! How else are we to learn!!!! I learn everyday and I’ve been a photographer for over 40 years!!!!!!
I bought my camera more than 10 years ago, but this channel is still a great source of information 😄
Same here
You have answered so many questions for me. Thank you!!
I'm so glad!
I relate to the "Subject AND SOMETHING". Whenever I review my pictures, the one I'm naturally attracted to are the pictures that has Subject AND something. I didn't notice it until you mentioned it. Will now try to make a habit when I take photographs and hopefully have a higher keeper rate.
Really like your ”You can do it” approach. Assertive, but with an underlying humility. As a retired photo/video teacher I'm guilty of many photo-mistakes throughout the years. Here was a chance to raise my level! Alas, I lost concentration because of the short appearance of two gorgeous models in this video. Always loved portrait work, any age, any sex. A truly unique and exciting way to interact with another human being.
4:17 This is a great point to highlight the importance of composition : even something as majestically spectacular as an Aurora needs an 'And?'.
"And?" is some next level advice I tell you! Thank you so much!
This is a great mnemonic! I especially appreciate the “and ?”-that tip can really take a mediocre or decent shot to the next level. You have an outstanding channel and explain things well without making me feel terrible for the mistakes I’ve made along the way.
If you can pronounce mnemonic you have a great memory.
I am a total newb to this game and your videos have been incredible. Best of all, unlike so many other photo/videography channels, your videos are actually designed to be helpful instead of just being ads designed to look like something helpful.
Awesome, thank you!
Simon's videos are around 15 minutes. Then I need a couple of hours to practice each point he brings up.
Your mentioning of the histogram just saved my life (well... my gallery). I'm an amateur photographer with a Canon EOS 850D/Rebel T8i, and there were so many features I never knew my camera had. All it took was you mentioning histograms, and I was like "ooooh, where do I find that?", and I not only found the histograms but also something that tells me if my camera is tilted too far to the right or left.
In addition to the useful content and the lack of anything that is off-putting, I enjoy listening to your voice.
Loved this video. "HASTE" - so helpful ! Thanks Simon d'Entremont
Glad it was helpful!
Good call on chimping. Sports guys used to harp against it. You don't want to overdo it and miss a moment. But I check constantly with the histogram on to make sure I'm dialed in and no blowing out highlights.
After watching your videos I just want to get out there and apply what I have learned from you. Thank you
“And” is a super tip… so many technically perfect photos with no impact- great advice to take it to the next level.
Glad it was helpful!
Oh, my GOD, the breath on that bird during the intro bit!!!! Fantastic!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@simon_dentremont actually Simon, I have been enjoying many of your videos since I discovered you. You're one of the best TH-camrs, because not only is your content great, but the presentation is very professional. Brevity, and densely-packed with information. A+
Hi thanks for your video.
AND - this is the reason why I watch your channel.
You are the best photography teacher I have seen here on this app Most guys stick to ISO 100 😂😂😂😂
My tips that would have saved a lot of my photos:
1) Examine the photo carefully and critically on the spot. Maybe I can have a better composition. Maybe there's a twig that I can remove from the shot.
2) Reset some settings at the *end* of a photo session to typical settings: ISO (auto for me), aperture (depends, but F/5..F/7), exposure compensation (0), shutter timer (off), white balance (auto), focus mode (auto) or anything such. That way, I will not end up with noisy/blurry photos and/or will not miss a shot when I have to quickly grab the camera.
3) With a moving subject, take the photo. The readjust. I've missed some photos because I wanted to adjust it to be better (especially if I had not followed through on my second tip).
easily the best photography on youtube
Too kind!
I’ve been shooting for years and have not had a good way to put the “and?” into words. Thank you!
You’re awesome. Your tips can be applied even to my amateur photography with iPhone, and theyre very precious. Great job, cant wait for next tips!
Awesome! Thank you!
Simon is a Great Tutor.
dude, that AND really inspired me well, I went to a trip to a local mansion with my friends, and I took photo basically thinking about AND every time. suddenly my photos are not that boring anymore lol
Awesome!
Good tips for all levels of photogs.
I still can't get used to using the back LCD
I couldn't figure what blinking black light thank you!
Perfect revision before a trip
I could never compute hyperfocal distance in my head on the fly. That 1/3 distance focus tip is gold - it will help me greatly
Bottom third?
Excellent video and tips. Heading to the East Coast tomorrow so will put them to use. Many thanks
Good luck!
Glad you got a sponsorship, you deserve it.
Another awesome video! My biggest issue is that I never take enough photos of the one scene. I tend to take a photo, think it’s good and move on. Only to discover later, any host of issues is there.
I’m thrilled, but not surprised, to see how fast your subscribers have grown! Wow, I remember when you had less than 20K…it’s a testament to how valuable your content is to photographers! Great to see the growth and thanks for all the great videos!
Thank you so much!!
I’m a relatively experienced street photographer, who mainly shoots film, but even I’m finding this channel useful! The advice is very well presented and relevant to different styles of photography 👍
This channel should have way more subscribers! It´s one of the best out there. You’re such a good teacher!!!
Wow, thank you!
Thank you so much for all of your videos! I took your advices the last time I did bird photography, especially on the ISO part by keeping it at 1600+, and it was the best advice ever. I have never had so many good photos of birds in motion before, and the noise in the photos aren’t even really that bad and was easily removable in Lightroom.
I use that magnifier all the time. For someone like me with slowly failing near vision that isn't about to give up taking photos that magnifier is critical. I love what digital cameras can do, zebra (instead of blinky), historgrams, magnifiers, changing ISO on the fly versus having to swap out film; not using that little screen because someone said I shouldn't is plain silly.
I love the "AND" tip! Thank you Simon!
Yaaay new video!!!❤
Wow that’s the angriest I’ve ever seen you!! And I’m GLAD!! I see that ‘real photographers don’t’ crap every day on social media.
Exactly!! I plan to make a whole video on this soon!
As mentioned this becomes even easier on bodies from Sony and Fuji with the zebra highlight warnings, make it so much easier to ETTR without blowing highlights.
What a nice moment to have you here! Thank you for your work.
Welcome!
Please someone at the CBC give Simon his own show. We like him! He's a good egg. Come on CBC!
Your are my favorite sir ❤❤❤❤
Wow, thanks
Was hoping for more footage from Africa, but these tips are fantastic!
What I tend to do, especially when taking photos of a species I haven't seen much before, is take a quick picture to lower my anxiety/adrenaline and just add the species to my "collection", and then take time to consider HASTE. The acronym helps a lot. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for your advice and knowledge 🎉
Any time!
I'm honestly glad they put the digital screen on cameras now days, cause I have trouble seeing threw the eye piece and arm shaking
After over 10 year hiatus, I started to do some photography this year. It's been a pleasure to learn from a professional like you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
My biggest learning moment was going out shooting city lights at night with some friends, but forgetting to turn face-detect on my camera! I'm so used to phone cameras having the feature that I forgot in my digital camera it's a separate setting, and came home with lots of blurry faces! Now I've added the setting as a quick-access menu item and won't forget to use it when shooting portraits
Im glad you enjoyed my country😊
A lot of great info here. You're channel is my favorite when it comes to photography tips!
Wow, thanks!
Also 1 tip I found is we can change the auto focus mode to servo for moving target which will keep tracking the subject.
You have just perfect approach to photography. Tank you for all your tips and advices
Glad you like them!
One stupid comment I have, is to practice, then practice some more! I sometimes, before an important shoot (or vacation to NS!) walk around my yard and take photos, then I take photos of the houses across the street, etc. My wife asks, "What are you doing?". So nice to not have to look at the buttons, etc. on your camera and use "muscle memory"!
Simon, thanks for this great tip set and the HASTE acronym to facilitate memory, when it counts ie. , in the field.
Spot on acronym!! As an amateur who doesn't shoot daily like a pro it's super useful to have a tool like your HASTE acronym as a reminder to slow down and practice getting it right because that's how you'll get quicker at it eventually. Have a great week!
You are an amazing teacher, and all this knowledge for free? Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Man, your tips are so reasonable. Thank you so much!
Glad you like them!
I know it's counter to the point being made, but that image at 6:13 is incredible. Maybe even *because* it consciously has no single subject in this specific case?
EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of your videos is just extraordinary. THANK YOU for all the help and inspiration!
Glad you like them!
Most stunning Pictures i ever saw on TH-cam. Just brilliant👌. I like that you had so many example pictures to show what you meant. Most often its too much talking and other TH-camrs don’t show so many pictures. And in your case, everybody can clearly say: He is an professional, watch and learn from him👍. Perfect 😃
I like your tips, I love your photos and your voice is pleasant to listen to.
I'm so glad!
GREAT tip Simon , haste makes waste
I just bought my first camera because of your videos:
Tree-In-Head: A great term -quasi-Biblical- I've not heard before to describe a thing I've all-too-often seen [in my work] and strive to avoid, though it may not be a flaw in 100% of cases. Otherwise, another superb session from Monsieur D'E., distilled, practical and applicable to all genres and levels of photography. Merci BCP!
You make photography easy to understand.
Thanks for the acronym, Simon! It is very helpful.
Thanks, Simon! Great tips. I am making all of these mistakes.
Happy to help!
Brilliant tips, Simon, thank you.
Very welcome
The photo of the fox was outstanding and so the others shots also, and ofcourse your teaching skills 🙏
Fan from India.
Awesome, thank you!
Blinkies made me laugh :). Hadnt heard them called this. I always worked with zebras.
Terrific summary of basic considerations. Love the HASTE acronym!
Thank for the acronym! Love your channel, knowledge, and work. Looking forward to more videos about your Africa trip!
Huge respect for you sir❤.
You resloved my problem.
Thanks for all the EDU Simon, I’m a lifer from the Journal of Wildlife Photography but first remember you from Gavin’s videos.
Just wanted to say thanks for the meaningful content!!🙏🏼
My husband got me the canon T7 for Christmas. I always love taking photos and only used my cell phone. And now I think I have an addiction.🙂 I have learned so much from all your videos. I listened to you when you said it is better to have a better lens on your camera body than the body itself. I recently got the canon telephoto zoom, 100 to 400 mm. The difference in my photos, the sharpness it also has the stabilizer which my telephoto lens that came with the camera did not have this lens for me has been a game changer. I am definitely ready for an upgrade on the body. I need a much larger range now the T7 is just too limiting, but I can still make that thing hum with this amazing lens. I’m gonna work on what you said in this video shooting pelicans tomorrow.
I spend most of my time in thick woods with terrible light. My photos are always noisey and very often have sticks in the way or coming out of the head. I might start looking for other places to go.
I once photographed fast flying seagulls against a clear white sky. I needed Iso 3200 as I used a shutterspeed of 1/2500 to 1/3200, f11 (to get more dof) and 2 stops overexposing. And that on a bright sunny day ! So indeed, low Iso is not always right ! Noise only shows up in dark parts of the picture, and only when pixelpeeping
My wife and I were hiking and we found an large arch. I had her stand under the arch and hold up her hiking pols. I hiked down in the canyon and took a pic of her. You have to look hard to see her in the photo. I like your suggestions. Again thank you for a great video and training. Ben
Great video and advice. I really appreciated the “and”.
Love the AND! I may have done this before but it wasn’t defined. This is an excellent lesson!
Very useful video. Thanks Simon.
Glad it was helpful!
Wonderful videos, and so much clearer when you show the bad and good results. Merci beaucoup!
The second one you mentioned is extremely powerful as I always looked to add things to my images for years anyway but never knew how to organize a tangible concept to it. THANK YOU!!
Glad it was helpful!
Hearing you say "what a bunch of bull" is very confidence inspiring I must say. Good to hear I'm not crazy and other photography TH-camrs aren't accurate 100% of the time. My procedure is always:
1. Take as many creative pictures as I can of the opportunity.
2. Check focus on the screen.
3. If not in focus, retry.
This ensures, like you said, that I'm less likely to miss the opportunity.
Well said!
Thank you Simon, very handy video :)
Congratulations Simon. An excellent video with very useful tips. Thank you so much. Best regards from Bogota, Colombia.
My pleasure!
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I'm buying my first camera for film and photography with a basic 24-70mm f/4 lens the Sony a7iii. I've been watching all your videos 🩷
Common Simon great video
Those are really the best advices on photography I've ever heard
Thanks Simon
This is really solid. I mostly explored *real* photography (as opposed to 110 snapshots) in college around 99-2004 (doing some after that, but not nearly as much) on a Nikon F3. Then I took a long break because of life, and recently decided to get back into it with digital. On film I used Fuji 400 as my default film, not really going to any higher ISO, and occasionally using a lower ISO Kodak for specific types of shots. Most of what I learned was from a book that was written in the late 70s, so I got good at eyeballing the light levels, etc, doing the settings from that, shooting, and then seeing what I got back from Wolf Camera.
So about a year ago I bought a Sony a7iii, a fixed lens (G-series), and a 24-70 zoom lens (also a tripod, bag, memory card and so on). I got an Udemy course on the technical features of the camera, but it was really overwhelming me with new info and I have to go back and watch it. Also one on digital photography in general. I'm definitely way less confident with my skills, and I feel like not trying to conserve film (because it's expensive) is making me more casual. It is weird to use over 400 ISO, because I pretty much never did with film (maybe used 800 once).
I started watching your videos randomly and they are *really* useful for me so far. I loved your tip on overexposing and leaving the gap on the right. I'm going to watch more of yours, and also learn more about the technical features of my camera now that I'm not just being hit with a ton of info with no context.
Sometimes when I've gone out for a specific kind of shot, I've looked up ideal setting online in advance. Like I went out to shoot Christmas lights last December. despite using a tripod, a bunch of my shots had a slight shake. I looked up on my phone and found out I actually needed to turn steadyshot off, because it would overcompensate in such scenarios, and the second half of my shots came out better.
For the most part, I've been defaulting to aperture priority, and then switching over to manual after taking a few shots.
I'm going to watch more of your videos, and possibly sign up for a course at a local community college, if I can make it fit my work schedule.
Thank you for the tips, Simon. The accronym is very easy to remember!
Another note for my field notes back pocket booklet. Thanks , Simon.All the best for 2024.
I wish I discovered this channel 15 years ago ! Most of the tips you give I already know but I had to learn them the hard way, making a lot of mistakes. The biggest thing I learned is manually over-or underexposing when needed. And choosing spotmetering or matrixmetering makes a huge difference
Great to hear!