I’m from California I just found your blog and love it I too have dyslexia and yes it has been our time learning but my dyslexia is a lot older than yours ha ha I took a class in photography very very young and through that process I was discovered that had dyslexia it was a photography Brooks Institute for photography back in the day back in the 70s late 70s anyway so I got my degree in photography of making it the teachers are very understandable knew of my problem with I would teach me in three different ways so I can keep the information this is not a sob storyBut it is a tribute to people and difficulties learning so anyway I’m at photography at the top of her I’ve been on for about 45 years but not really showing off my work now I’m starting to show it off cancel Recom back comp comp ask a lot of people like the work that I do just the younger me I like that thanks I’ll keep watching and by the way your blog was fantastic
I accidentally did an abstract blurred trees photo by moving unintentionally. I loved it. Didn’t know to call it abstract. I was loving the effect but figured people would laugh at my mistake. Thanks for the interesting video
ICM works really well in woodland and can use that chaos to your advantage. I like to mess around with movement and also twisting the zoom to create a zoom burst of light. Good video Nigel, some great ideas there
Every landscape photographer in the country must be glad that summer's over (what there was of it) and that we're now into the best time of year. I'm watching this as storm Ophelia whistles around the house but know I'll be out in the Beacons first thing tomorrow, putting your 7 ideas to good use. I've learned loads watching your VLOGs Nigel so a massive thanks for sharing.
+tim scanlan thanks Tim! Really appreciate that! I am listening to Ophelia as well and hoping a tree doesn’t fall on my car! It is mighty windy out there!
Just getting started with bird photography, and very excited to incorporate fall colors into pictures. I've always just taken animal/bird photos if they happen to fly by, but now that I'm actively identifying them, learning their behaviors, I know where to look to see them (and at least at home, where they like to perch best). Knowing where a subject of interest is going to be, really helps in thinking about and setting up a mental picture ahead of time that I can then try to take. I haven't actually done this much yet, but it's a plan. Autumn can put a lot of colors quickly into the background of a bird photo, so I need to remember, that when zoomed way in, I may only need to take a step left or right to get a totally different and maybe better color background for my subject. Applied to any object, this is still a great way to experiment with different backgrounds for the best complementary colors, etc.
Another brilliant video, Nigel. I have taken note of all your suggestions and will put them into practice next time I am out with the camera. I especially like the idea of ICM as I like abstract images. I'm also really into water photography and have tried capturing swirls and patterns in water with limited success. Thanks for sharing your tips and thanks for sharing a glimpse of Pebbles, she is adorable.
You've just motivated me to get my camera out and do some Autumn photography. I had been waiting for peak foliage but now I think I have some ideas to shoot while there majority of the trees are still green.
A great shot in the autumn is the one looking straight down at the carpet of leaves. Lots of different colours and textures. If you can find them floating on water it works even better. Also get up early and hope for a bit of mist or fog
This is absolutely brilliant! I've seen tons of photography tutorials on youtube but this is better than most, more of a mindset. Will have a look at your other videos.
Nigel, if you look closely at your vertical ICM, you can see a dog or a wolf walking from left to right. It's ears can be seen at the junction of the upper and middle third of the image on the right and it's body and legs can be suggested where you might expect. Great photo. Richard
Thanks, very good video! I have another tip. Try B/W. It sounds paradox, but if one lightens the red and yellow colours this looks very nice and yields nice separation and contrast - for example with dark fir trees.
Beautiful images, great tips and vlog - thanks Nigel. Just loved that ICM (never heard of that acronym before) and look forward to your video on the topic. All the best.
Oh I love your idea of the ICM, I work with it a lot in still life and I find it super satisfying - I'll try it in landscape too, thanks for the great tips 😊
Great video Nigel. Done a bit of ICM myself and great fun to do with bands of colours like your lovely autumnal one and also works really well on bluebells of course in the right situation. But you are totally correct to tell people "you need to take lots of images to get ones you like" !! Explains why no one did when we were using film !!
+Nigel Morley thanks Nigel - I actually started doing this when I shot film and developed it myself. Loads of fun with tulips! And the. Printing cibachrome glossy photos! In fact I Athena sold one of my ICM images back in the 90s...
Haha..Cibachrome, didn't that involve a drum and rolling it to spread the chemicals over the paper etc?..always did my own black and white but never took the colour plunge..i feel slightly sorry for anyone who's never watched an image appear in a darkroom tray or dodged exposure with their hands or bits of card on wire ! ..keep up the great content..wish I could allocate more time to doing mine
Nice video, lots of good suggestions and I especially liked the ground level shot of the leaf with water drops. Working on the ground would be a lot easier for me if I had a flip out back screen, which my 7D doesn’t. Wearing varifocal glasses makes it tricky to use the back screen in awkward positions.
Thanks for the great tips Nigel! I'm about to go out and do some photography and film a video so this has given me some good inspiration. I enjoy these videos where you give tips about photography.
Thank you Nigel!! Love your ideas and I can't wait to apply them. I love to shoot things backlit. Fall leaves are great but in the past I haven't used a lower f stop...and while the photo was pretty good it could have been better. Not much in the way of colorful leaves here yet...give it another week. Can't wait to try ICM. Have a great day!!
I just had the idea to take screenshots of the suggestions that I want to try and save them in a folder so I can remember them. Maybe do the same thing with things I learn in these videos, a folder of things I learned. Because I tend to forget, especially since I watch a lot of photo videos.
Great video...great tips. Loving your autumn photography. Your photography is massively improving from when I first started following. Great work! Keep it up.
This was full of great ideas! I have one piece of constructive criticism, which is to please keep your images visible while you're discussing them, instead of your face. I found myself pausing and rewinding often to see what you were talking about. Other than that, great images and really useful tips! Subscribed.
Great video Nigel. You have some really good ideas. I am really looking forward to your intentional camera movement video as well. I have done a little which yielded some interesting images, plus it was fun!
One technique is to shoot a close-up of a large, colorful leaf, such as a maple leaf, with the sun behind the leaf. This creates a backlight effect with a small amount of light filtering through the leaf. If you use a wide aperture you can create autumn-colored bokeh from other foliage that makes a nice contrast with the leaf.
It will soon be autumn again. Will try to get some photos of changing colors along the rivers here. Also planning a trip to Colorado for October. Thanks for the inspiration.
Awesome! stumbled upon your stuff by accident! watched a few of your vids before this one and found this to be really inspiring. You also use most of the same gear that I do so that makes it easier for comparisons! You do the simple things so well and its made me think more about the stuff that although I have already been doing, I haven't necessarily been thinking deeply enough into why I've been doing these things so I can make slight tweaks giving me dramatic improvements. Keep up the good work mate and thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing those great ideas. I stumbled across ICM in Acadia National Park on a very windy day and thought why not exaggerate the movement with the camera and got some pretty cool images.
Good Video, I like to get images hat are 'backlit' some work really well and some are not so good, particularly in bright sunlight when the contrast is too great. I guess practice makes perfect! The tip about looking for 'swirls' is a good one!
Thanks so much, Nigel, I always enjoy your videos and these photo ideas are really helpful. Fall is upon us and though I live here in Tuscany, I'm headed back to the U.S. for a couple weeks to visit a family member in ill health. I'll also have some time to visit my family up in the Sierra Nevada north of Lake Tahoe, so I'm going to get out and try some of your suggestions. As always, I love the SF cap, but sadly the tragic fires in NorCal are just heartbreaking. All best wishes to you. Bob
Great ideas to try out. Have now watched a number of your videos and found all ver informative. My question is though who is the girl that sings on all your videos?
Thanks Tim - Zion is amazing. I actually didn't do a huge amount of photography when I was there believe it or not. But would love to go back in the fall.
Great ideas man! I've just been out this morning and pretty much did most, forgot about ICM and need a macro lens but i find the 50mm does a pretty good job for getting close and isolating as long as you manual focus!
Hi Nigel, I love the macro approach to Autumn. I have managed to shoot running waters so far and some colour but I really like macro. The idea of creating something abstract or really looking into autumnal details is fascinating. Any chance you would be inetrested in shooting a vlog about mushrooms? This time of the year is wonderful for shooting the little guys. 😀
Nigel, have been thinking about your ideas and giving them a try. Will be giving my subscribers a connect to this vlog if it is ok with you. I think it is a worthwhile view. Will send you a link to my vlog when it is finished. So far I have a couple of pics that look pretty good.
Yeah my long lens is a circa 1979 fully manual 300/4.5 so 450mm equivalent on my D7000, it's very rich in colour and I love the look it gives. I'm looking for ways to finance filters and a 100mm macro.
A great video Nigel, thank you buddy. Have you tried the different way of ICM: zooming in or out when taking a shot? You can get some great effects and I bet it’ll work great with Autumn colours. Tony
I would add - get down on your hands and knees. Autumn is a specially good time to take pictures at ground level, but you will need to be able to get a good depth of view with a wide angle lens and high f stop.
If you need your phone camera to look for compositions, then you want to train your observational skills, which is actually very easy: Just try to draw some sketches of the scenery. You will nearly automatically find the most interesting composition, because the process of drawing is highly selective. Another advantage is that you are not tied to the 28 mm perspective of your phone camera, and will easier find the right perspective for you. -- You don't have to make masterpieces, just simple sketches. All you need is a cheap small notebook and a ball pen (which you even might get for free).
Hi Nigel. I realise this video was nearly a year ago but I still really enjoyed it. It's all the more relevant because THIS Autumn is approaching. I just wondered if you know whether I can get a polarizer for a bridge camera?
Excellent video and great suggestions to try out, I see in you recommend the Nikon 16 - 35 f4 for landscape photography, I am looking to buy a wide zoom lens and thought the Nikon 12-24 f2.8 was the lens to get.I was wondering what made you pick the 16-35?
Tony, the 14-24 has long been the daddy of ultra wide zooms. I have had one for years and love it but if I were buying now I'd go for the Tamron 15-30 which out performs it and is considerably cheaper to boot.
I looked at both the 12-24mm and 16-35mm. The 12-24 is sharper but not by a huge amount. Certainly it is thought of as a better lens. However, I didn't need f2.8 and I wanted IS as use for video as well so the 16-35mm was better. It is a lot cheaper as well. In terms of the filters - be careful as the 12-24mm has a big front lens element.
Hi Tony, the only filter kits that work with the 14-24 are the Lee SW150 and Wonderpana sets because of the bulbous front element and no filter threads. I would expect the same from the Tamron as the front end looks very similar. If you have a 100mm filter kit then you wouldn't be able to use it on either. In that case the 16-35 might be a good option as it does take standard 100mm filter kits.
Well spotted - not sure what happened there - it was in premier pro. My mistake!!! Here is a link to that image www.flickr.com/photos/nigeldanson/8139527428/
Believe it or not I used an 8mm fisheye to get a great shot of the trees. Pointing straight up, the trees straighten out and look massively tall and add a lot of drama. That can be kind of hard to explain so I'll link to the picture here instagram.com/p/BahoERkBwdA/?taken-by=matt_angley_photography Also, panoramas of a changing woodland are a great way to get a new perspective because it creates a cinematic feel and there are many different trees with different colors
Best advice for super photos.. Hehehe stop wasting ur time watching internet & videos like this instead go out & take thousands of pictures.. Hehehe yes most will be crap... Hehehe but u will learn on ur own.. Hehehe
Share your ideas for Autumn Photography below
Where are you from? Looks very nice there.
I’m from California I just found your blog and love it I too have dyslexia and yes it has been our time learning but my dyslexia is a lot older than yours ha ha I took a class in photography very very young and through that process I was discovered that had dyslexia it was a photography Brooks Institute for photography back in the day back in the 70s late 70s anyway so I got my degree in photography of making it the teachers are very understandable knew of my problem with I would teach me in three different ways so I can keep the information this is not a sob storyBut it is a tribute to people and difficulties learning so anyway I’m at photography at the top of her I’ve been on for about 45 years but not really showing off my work now I’m starting to show it off cancel Recom back comp comp ask a lot of people like the work that I do just the younger me I like that thanks I’ll keep watching and by the way your blog was fantastic
Please change your microphone
Leaves just slightly frozen beneath the water are quite nice.
The contrast of the seemingly black wood of trees against the leaves it carries is wonderful.
It’s summer, and I’ve never gotten the chance to do landscape photography, and yet here I am
I accidentally did an abstract blurred trees photo by moving unintentionally. I loved it. Didn’t know to call it abstract. I was loving the effect but figured people would laugh at my mistake. Thanks for the interesting video
Love the silver birch trees around 10 mins. It's MY sort of picture.
ICM works really well in woodland and can use that chaos to your advantage. I like to mess around with movement and also twisting the zoom to create a zoom burst of light. Good video Nigel, some great ideas there
Every landscape photographer in the country must be glad that summer's over (what there was of it) and that we're now into the best time of year. I'm watching this as storm Ophelia whistles around the house but know I'll be out in the Beacons first thing tomorrow, putting your 7 ideas to good use. I've learned loads watching your VLOGs Nigel so a massive thanks for sharing.
+tim scanlan thanks Tim! Really appreciate that! I am listening to Ophelia as well and hoping a tree doesn’t fall on my car! It is mighty windy out there!
Just getting started with bird photography, and very excited to incorporate fall colors into pictures. I've always just taken animal/bird photos if they happen to fly by, but now that I'm actively identifying them, learning their behaviors, I know where to look to see them (and at least at home, where they like to perch best). Knowing where a subject of interest is going to be, really helps in thinking about and setting up a mental picture ahead of time that I can then try to take. I haven't actually done this much yet, but it's a plan. Autumn can put a lot of colors quickly into the background of a bird photo, so I need to remember, that when zoomed way in, I may only need to take a step left or right to get a totally different and maybe better color background for my subject. Applied to any object, this is still a great way to experiment with different backgrounds for the best complementary colors, etc.
Another brilliant video, Nigel. I have taken note of all your suggestions and will put them into practice next time I am out with the camera. I especially like the idea of ICM as I like abstract images. I'm also really into water photography and have tried capturing swirls and patterns in water with limited success. Thanks for sharing your tips and thanks for sharing a glimpse of Pebbles, she is adorable.
You've just motivated me to get my camera out and do some Autumn photography. I had been waiting for peak foliage but now I think I have some ideas to shoot while there majority of the trees are still green.
That is awesome news!!! never too early to get out and try things so you are ready for the colours!!! Good luck!
Excellent tips! Thanks very much, Nigel.
A great shot in the autumn is the one looking straight down at the carpet of leaves. Lots of different colours and textures. If you can find them floating on water it works even better. Also get up early and hope for a bit of mist or fog
Thank you for all suggestions but using your video for my Apple IPhone & Tablet.
Another brilliant video with some wonderful images, better still, some great and inspiring ideas.
Thanks Mark - quick of the mark today! (ha!)
This is absolutely brilliant! I've seen tons of photography tutorials on youtube but this is better than most, more of a mindset. Will have a look at your other videos.
That is kind - I may use that comment on my website if that is ok!
Of course, use it!
Thanks NIgel, some really great ideas. Appreciate your time.
Wonderfully creative ideas ! Thank u for sharing ! 😇
I love this video! Too often we get stuck in the same old ruts. Changing things up with new ideas is an excellent video!
Nigel, if you look closely at your vertical ICM, you can see a dog or a wolf walking from left to right. It's ears can be seen at the junction of the upper and middle third of the image on the right and it's body and legs can be suggested where you might expect. Great photo. Richard
Thanks, very good video! I have another tip. Try B/W. It sounds paradox, but if one lightens the red and yellow colours this looks very nice and yields nice separation and contrast - for example with dark fir trees.
+Thomas N yep - quite correct and something that it easy to do now in lightroom! You can get great results!!!
Brilliant, Nigel! You are an excellent photographer and artist!
+Sean Robert Ramuno thanks Sean - that is really kind!
Beautiful images, great tips and vlog - thanks Nigel. Just loved that ICM (never heard of that acronym before) and look forward to your video on the topic. All the best.
Thanks Trevor - appreciate the kind words. I have a ICM video planned for the near future
Oh I love your idea of the ICM, I work with it a lot in still life and I find it super satisfying - I'll try it in landscape too, thanks for the great tips 😊
Great video Nigel. Done a bit of ICM myself and great fun to do with bands of colours like your lovely autumnal one and also works really well on bluebells of course in the right situation. But you are totally correct to tell people "you need to take lots of images to get ones you like" !! Explains why no one did when we were using film !!
+Nigel Morley thanks Nigel - I actually started doing this when I shot film and developed it myself. Loads of fun with tulips! And the. Printing cibachrome glossy photos! In fact I Athena sold one of my ICM images back in the 90s...
Haha..Cibachrome, didn't that involve a drum and rolling it to spread the chemicals over the paper etc?..always did my own black and white but never took the colour plunge..i feel slightly sorry for anyone who's never watched an image appear in a darkroom tray or dodged exposure with their hands or bits of card on wire ! ..keep up the great content..wish I could allocate more time to doing mine
Nice video, lots of good suggestions and I especially liked the ground level shot of the leaf with water drops. Working on the ground would be a lot easier for me if I had a flip out back screen, which my 7D doesn’t. Wearing varifocal glasses makes it tricky to use the back screen in awkward positions.
Thanks for sharing even your bad shots ,lol . And indicating where you went wrong, like that honesty !
This is just what I need Nigel, New, fresh ideas for my woodland photography.
Loved this video. Now to go out and practice all these ideas. Thanks Nigel for sharing. From the old USA.
No problem and good luck!
Thanks Nigel. I'm inspired.
Excellent video and pictures. ICM works very well in woodland when the bluebells are out.
You could do soft focus, which will give you a similar look to ICM. If your camera does multiple exposures you could do that as well.
Thanks for the great tips Nigel! I'm about to go out and do some photography and film a video so this has given me some good inspiration. I enjoy these videos where you give tips about photography.
Thank you Nigel!! Love your ideas and I can't wait to apply them. I love to shoot things backlit. Fall leaves are great but in the past I haven't used a lower f stop...and while the photo was pretty good it could have been better. Not much in the way of colorful leaves here yet...give it another week. Can't wait to try ICM. Have a great day!!
I just had the idea to take screenshots of the suggestions that I want to try and save them in a folder so I can remember them. Maybe do the same thing with things I learn in these videos, a folder of things I learned. Because I tend to forget, especially since I watch a lot of photo videos.
Loved last shot, very creative.
Nice video Nigel some good tips and ideas lovely to see puppy going up have a really soft spot for liver and white springers .
+Andy Whiteside thanks Andy - it was full on having her on the shoot - but my wife helped out! She is lovely!
Great video...great tips. Loving your autumn photography. Your photography is massively improving from when I first started following. Great work! Keep it up.
Thanks Jeff - appreciate that
I would love to see a summer version of this!! Thanks!
This was full of great ideas! I have one piece of constructive criticism, which is to please keep your images visible while you're discussing them, instead of your face. I found myself pausing and rewinding often to see what you were talking about. Other than that, great images and really useful tips! Subscribed.
+Lance Monotone cheers - taken on board! It is tricky to get the right balance but will experiment a bit more
I really like the water drops on a leaf on the ground now I have to try it thanks!
Brilliant! Thanks
Great video Nigel. You have some really good ideas. I am really looking forward to your intentional camera movement video as well. I have done a little which yielded some interesting images, plus it was fun!
One technique is to shoot a close-up of a large, colorful leaf, such as a maple leaf, with the sun behind the leaf. This creates a backlight effect with a small amount of light filtering through the leaf. If you use a wide aperture you can create autumn-colored bokeh from other foliage that makes a nice contrast with the leaf.
It will soon be autumn again. Will try to get some photos of changing colors along the rivers here. Also planning a trip to Colorado for October. Thanks for the inspiration.
Awesome! stumbled upon your stuff by accident! watched a few of your vids before this one and found this to be really inspiring. You also use most of the same gear that I do so that makes it easier for comparisons! You do the simple things so well and its made me think more about the stuff that although I have already been doing, I haven't necessarily been thinking deeply enough into why I've been doing these things so I can make slight tweaks giving me dramatic improvements. Keep up the good work mate and thanks for sharing!
+Graham Howard thanks Graham - appreciate the comment a lot! 👍
Very interesting and well be very helpful thank you Nigel
Nice video... I just found this looking for some creative autumn photographing :0)
Thanks for sharing those great ideas. I stumbled across ICM in Acadia National Park on a very windy day and thought why not exaggerate the movement with the camera and got some pretty cool images.
Good Video, I like to get images hat are 'backlit' some work really well and some are not so good, particularly in bright sunlight when the contrast is too great. I guess practice makes perfect! The tip about looking for 'swirls' is a good one!
Thanks so much, Nigel, I always enjoy your videos and these photo ideas are really helpful. Fall is upon us and though I live here in Tuscany, I'm headed back to the U.S. for a couple weeks to visit a family member in ill health. I'll also have some time to visit my family up in the Sierra Nevada north of Lake Tahoe, so I'm going to get out and try some of your suggestions. As always, I love the SF cap, but sadly the tragic fires in NorCal are just heartbreaking. All best wishes to you. Bob
Thanks, really good ideas, looking to try all of them out
+Paul Ngumii thanks Paul - appreciate that kind words
Quality content..1st class Nigel..
I love the rays of the sun penetrating the autumn leaves still on the trees on a hiking trail partly covered with the leaves.- if that makes sense.
excellent tips and ideas!
Quality video mate. Some really good tips there. I really liked that shot of the leaf with the water drops on it. Well spotted!
+Julian Baird - Landscape Photography thanks Julian! Appreciate that! It was a time consuming one but worth it!
Totally worth it. I can fully appreciate how even the shortest of videos can take a lot of effort to produce. This one was worth it. :-)
Superb Nigel 👍
Awesome video Nigel some really cool ideas in there, I'll have to go try some I particularly like the ICM style!!
Great ideas to try out. Have now watched a number of your videos and found all ver informative. My question is though who is the girl that sings on all your videos?
Thank you for the awesome tips. Can you please make a video or presets about editing autumn colors?
That tree pic in Zion park. STUNNING.
Thanks Tim - Zion is amazing. I actually didn't do a huge amount of photography when I was there believe it or not. But would love to go back in the fall.
Thanks great tips 👍🏽👍🏽
I think I need to get a macro.. great picture!
Thanks - they are amazing lenses
Great tips, thank you!!
+orcaspest no problem!
Great ideas man! I've just been out this morning and pretty much did most, forgot about ICM and need a macro lens but i find the 50mm does a pretty good job for getting close and isolating as long as you manual focus!
Amazing , on point!!! thanx
Hi Nigel, I love the macro approach to Autumn. I have managed to shoot running waters so far and some colour but I really like macro. The idea of creating something abstract or really looking into autumnal details is fascinating. Any chance you would be inetrested in shooting a vlog about mushrooms? This time of the year is wonderful for shooting the little guys. 😀
wow learned a lot about back lighting, thank you subbed
+Daniel T brilliant to hear - thanks for the sub 👍
Nigel, have been thinking about your ideas and giving them a try. Will be giving my subscribers a connect to this vlog if it is ok with you. I think it is a worthwhile view. Will send you a link to my vlog when it is finished. So far I have a couple of pics that look pretty good.
Yeah my long lens is a circa 1979 fully manual 300/4.5 so 450mm equivalent on my D7000, it's very rich in colour and I love the look it gives.
I'm looking for ways to finance filters and a 100mm macro.
thanks for a great video
I'm liking your thought process. Liked and subscribed!
+jordanthecat many thanks - appreciate that 👍
Really like the movement image!
looking to see for good idea. Thank you! Nigel....,
A great video Nigel, thank you buddy. Have you tried the different way of ICM: zooming in or out when taking a shot? You can get some great effects and I bet it’ll work great with Autumn colours. Tony
+Anthony Hedger yep - zooming is a great way of adding movement. Thanks!
I would add - get down on your hands and knees. Autumn is a specially good time to take pictures at ground level, but you will need to be able to get a good depth of view with a wide angle lens and high f stop.
Thank u
A longer lens can compress your image and make that barn across a pond appear larger in your image.
so what glass is good for woodland photography
great ideas thank you
+Emery Carrier no worries! Thanks for the feedback!
If you need your phone camera to look for compositions, then you want to train your observational skills, which is actually very easy: Just try to draw some sketches of the scenery. You will nearly automatically find the most interesting composition, because the process of drawing is highly selective. Another advantage is that you are not tied to the 28 mm perspective of your phone camera, and will easier find the right perspective for you. -- You don't have to make masterpieces, just simple sketches. All you need is a cheap small notebook and a ball pen (which you even might get for free).
I actually think this is a really good tip. It wouldn’t work for me all the time but can imagine doing it when I am revisiting a location often. 👍
GOOD VIDEO
Great Ideas
Hi Nigel. I realise this video was nearly a year ago but I still really enjoyed it. It's all the more relevant because THIS Autumn is approaching. I just wondered if you know whether I can get a polarizer for a bridge camera?
Should be able to if has screw thread on
Thanks for your prompt response! I wasn't expecting that! LOL
Excellent video and great suggestions to try out, I see in you recommend the Nikon 16 - 35 f4 for landscape photography, I am looking to buy a wide zoom lens and thought the Nikon 12-24 f2.8 was the lens to get.I was wondering what made you pick the 16-35?
Tony, the 14-24 has long been the daddy of ultra wide zooms. I have had one for years and love it but if I were buying now I'd go for the Tamron 15-30 which out performs it and is considerably cheaper to boot.
Hi Barry, thank you for the recommendation, reviews look excellent. Would I be able to use my Lee filter kit with the lens?
I looked at both the 12-24mm and 16-35mm. The 12-24 is sharper but not by a huge amount. Certainly it is thought of as a better lens. However, I didn't need f2.8 and I wanted IS as use for video as well so the 16-35mm was better. It is a lot cheaper as well. In terms of the filters - be careful as the 12-24mm has a big front lens element.
Hi Tony, the only filter kits that work with the 14-24 are the Lee SW150 and Wonderpana sets because of the bulbous front element and no filter threads. I would expect the same from the Tamron as the front end looks very similar. If you have a 100mm filter kit then you wouldn't be able to use it on either. In that case the 16-35 might be a good option as it does take standard 100mm filter kits.
Inspired. I'm off out now.
great ideas, going to give them a try! anyone have the song at the beginning?
What is the name of the song in this video? great videos !
Geronimo - from Epidemic Sound
5:53 - which image - think you left it out?? very helpful video - thanks
Well spotted - not sure what happened there - it was in premier pro. My mistake!!! Here is a link to that image www.flickr.com/photos/nigeldanson/8139527428/
Thanks Nigel
What is the song and artist from the begging of the video?
+Shona Bohmer sober - windshield
Nigel Danson thanks!
Believe it or not I used an 8mm fisheye to get a great shot of the trees. Pointing straight up, the trees straighten out and look massively tall and add a lot of drama. That can be kind of hard to explain so I'll link to the picture here instagram.com/p/BahoERkBwdA/?taken-by=matt_angley_photography
Also, panoramas of a changing woodland are a great way to get a new perspective because it creates a cinematic feel and there are many different trees with different colors
here is a link to one of my autumn pics
photos.app.goo.gl/twhwvxWKNaefNLca6
Best advice for super photos.. Hehehe stop wasting ur time watching internet & videos like this instead go out & take thousands of pictures.. Hehehe yes most will be crap... Hehehe but u will learn on ur own.. Hehehe
your mic sounds muzzled
+Cole Stoughton Thanks Cole - yeah - I recorded at the wrong quality setting... thanks for letting me know!