How to Photograph Trees, Mushrooms and Rivers | Woodland Photography Tips
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Sometimes when the weather is a bit rubbish, but you have that nature photography itch, heading into some secluded woodland is your best bet for photographic success.
In this tutorial, official Nikon Ambassador Ross Hoddinott shows you 3 great techniques you can use to properly capture and document a woodland area.
Learn how to take beautiful woodland stream images, as well as macro photos of fungi and some creative ICM images of trees with bold shapes.
This video was produced by NatureTTL.com, in partnership with B&H Photo Video - www.bhphotovide...
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I rarely subscribe...having watched only two of your videos, I did subscribe. Clear, to the point, understandable, helpful. Thank you.
Woodlands are so difficult to photograph, thanks for making this video!
By far the best video tutorial that I've come across on RUclips. Like the other viewer said, you should totally do more videos. Great content, precisely delivered. Thank you for the effort. Learnt a lot!
I had not even thought of using a portable light source to back light a subject. Can even use it as a rim light. Duh! WOW. THANK YOU!
I really liked the description of why you were doing certain things to get the shot you wanted. This was very informative and helpful. The shots were really nice.
Thank you - we'll make sure there's more of that guidance!
off to the woods first thing in the morning ! Thanks for some great tips I can use to improve my work.
Wow! 11 minutes of very useful tips presented in a thoughtful manner. Thanks, so much!
Nice. I especially liked the little LED light as a backlight .
Excellent video. Really great ideas. Thank you!!
Some of the best and precise explained videos in terms of composition and technics. Lots of dense information. Thanks for sharing.
You are doing a huge mistake....by not making more videos!! This is the pace, level of tips and knowledge most youtubers dont have. Looking forward to more videos :-)
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When using intentional movement during exposure, I use the delayed shutter so I am moving when the exposure starts. The reason I do that is to have a smooth image with no hard edges. Good video👍.
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Top tip about white balance and overcast days. It took me a while to get out of the habit of auto WB. My camera does do a a good job of getting it fairly accurate, but it wasn't until i started setting purposeful kelvin levels and carrying a white card to set a custom WB that my nature images began to remarkably improve and have life to them.
What a gorgeous location!
I agree with you that a lot of photographers get hung up on foreground interest. Obviously it's important for many shots but certainly not all of them. I think that's one of the reasons many landscape photographers are switching from wide-angle to telephoto as their main landscape lens. Compressing the background, bringing everything closer to the camera and focusing more on light, shape, texture etc. can create really powerful images. This also steers you away from taking those boring, repetitive postcard shots and allows for a more creative approach that show your unique view as an artist.
Excellent tutorial. Very clear, concise and informative. Thank you
Thanks for the video. Some very nice ideas, both with the motion of the tree and the use of constant light for the macro.
Thanks for your video I leave close to 2 nice forest and your advises will help me to be more imaginative
Great presentation indeed! Thorough, precise, thoughtful, and filled with useful info. Thanks, Ross
thanks Ross, I have had some of my best shots in those woods, I usually visit spring and fall. for uk people this is Golitha Falls in Cornwall.
Thanks for giving the location.
I agree with the prior posting. One of the best instructional documentations of considerations in one's shooting process that I have seen.
Ross you inspire me to take better photos . i love nature and asp by the sea ,clouds asp. and sunrise or sunsets with a wide landscape view. .i get confused with all the maths and calculations , but your approach getting out in the open helps me to grasp the subject.your a good teacher and know you subject well. thanks a bunch.
Absolutely brilliant.... given me the inspiration to go and visit some woodland near me. Thank you Ross.
Awesome, thanks Di!
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Second video I’ve watched from you... great video, and much appreciated.
A brand new photographer thanks you. 🤙
So beautiful thank you for sharing
I wish I have a camera like you...but I don't have camera like you...but I love to watch your video..as I love it n it's my interest to b a photographer
Thanks again for the video and camera tips on shooting in woodlands
Fantastic, a great really informative video, that has me itching to get out in to my local woods, definitely will do when the weather is not great , there are a lot of boring videos on RUclips, this is most definitely not one of them. Where is the next one...?
Coming every Tuesday!
I just watched this out of curiosity, but to my amazement, found that it was a very good video, TTL knew what he was talking out, no waffle, l shall take a look at TTL's other video's
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Super useful tips. I’m keen on ICM and you were spot on with your tips.
Great suggestions. Am actually heading out to a national park and we have rain in the forecast for the first half of the week. So i'll take the macro and try this out.
Great video!
Just subscribed. Excellent tips, all very well delivered. Thanks!
Always inspired by your macro work and try to emulate your style - unsuccessfully of course but your work always makes me strive to improve - thanks
Thanks for the tips, can't wait to try it out! Your works are amazing!
So good. Thanks heaps.
Excellent Tips, Ross!. Thank you
Without a doubt the best informative video I’ve seen in ages...excellent and learned so much,, thank you for sharing...just subscribed!
An excellent and timely video Ross!
Thanks Les!
Very Nice!! Loved the fungi shot!
Thanks Mike! :)
Great ideas, I'll definitely put them to use in my next photo projects. Thanks
Great camera height. If lowered you would lose the little stream coming in on the left side which sort of indicates an island in the center of the great composition. Thanks for all the tips.
Terrific video - the macro tips at the end were very helpful
Again great video. Well done. Professional. Your presentation is spot on.
Good video. I enjoyed your discussion about decision making and strategy for making your photos. I learned from this video.
I love capturing images of fungi. Great tips! Will definitely get an LED light and reflector. Thanks for the video. Subscribed!
Great tips! Never considered a polarizer in the woods.
Loved this, such great usable info. thanks
Great share!
Some really great tips and content thankyou!!!
Great video :)
Great tips! I especially like the bit about the mushroom lighting! Thank you for sharing!
great. very informative and getting to the point quick. good job.
Hi Ross just stumbled across your channel whilst looking for inspiration and i was not disapointed great video and tips. Can I ask which woodland you was in the fast flowing river was awesome. I live in cambridge so its very flat and do not have rivers like that around here but was just curiuous as to where you where.
Great video, the first I have seen of your though I recently started getting your brilliant news letter. Personally, and this is purely a taste thing, I’m not a lover of ICM. Fantastic information all the way through with great advice. A very professionally presented video.
I love your videos. Keep up the great work!
well done, Absolutely images. Thank!
Thank you
Great video really enjoyed it.
Great video very informative and very well presented
I love that place!! one of my favourite places!!
Very well done! You covered a lot of great tips. Thanks!
I really enjoyed watching this!
Very good information , straight to the point , but I got question as I'm not pro ..well do you use manual setting for your macro pics or built in macro setting .
Thanks
I might try shooting a mushroom using a mirror and light with the camera on a timer in order to get a low angle shot, that way I'll still have both hands free for lighting and angle.
Thank you! I have taken notes :)
Awesome - hope it helps Angela.
me too :)
when using a sticky tripod use a piece of elastic like a bungee cord attached to the handle. It will act as a damper and reduce jerkiness
Great advice, thank you.
Autumnal 😎🔥 lol
I learned a lot, thank you.
Nice video but it would be nice to know what camera settings you used for each shot. Nothing too in depth, maybe just ISO, aperture and shutter speed 😊👍
Beautiful fotos 🥰
Great Video thanks
Some good advice nice one
enjoyed your video, like its helpful tips and well presented :)
I think I would have focussed more towards the stalk of the fungi rather than the front edge and used a narrower aperture to capture the whole of the toadstool in focus using like a hyperfocal distance in order to keep the whole item sharp. Depth of field is always narrow when shooting macro so the background would still remain out of focus.
Thank you for this video.
today u have a new subcriber good job!
Спасибо! Отличное видео!
How do you like the Nikon D850. Black and white would make an interesting pic. I use ICM to take pic of lights. Christmas make a great shot. Thank you Ben
Thanks for sharing
Excellent video,great,Thanks!
very helpful tips
Thank you.
Enjoyed your video. I just purchased the D850 and I am in the process of setting it up. Do you have any recommendations for settings?
Where were you shooting? The forest looks amazing!
I like the use of the polarized lens. Is there one that will fit all different lenses without having to carry a lot of kit ? Also looks like a d850. Did you try the focus stacking on the 850?
taking into account your a professional and I'm an amateur, the mushrooms DOF seemed to narrow to me, or for my tastes in photography I would have gone for a longer DOF
Nice one Ross
Do you adjust for the LED light in post production?
Great tips..
You great, I learn alot with you. Please which tripod is that please. Regards from Perú.
Are you at Golitha falls on Bodmin Moor?
Interesting, thanks, however I feel for the water photo, the tripod was too high, the camera was pointing downwards and the trees were chopped off. I think if you had lowered the tripod & looked straight along the river you would of got more of the trees in, they just didn't fit in the image being cropped off like that, your first image was so much better, zoomed back to show more of the trees. Thnx tho for a good informative video
Norman Pimlott I’m sorry I disagree with you. He mentioned in the video the danger of blowing out any sky so he had to eliminate it. But even if that wasn’t the case he has created a perfect leading line with foreground interest whilst extenuating the way the river rises going back into the image. This means the leading line doesn’t just lead you through the image but also rises, which is an exceedingly clever thing to do. I think how you are abdicating the image should have been taken would have created an image that doesn’t go anywhere and would require quite heavy cropping to remove the blown out sky. The trees are not the subject of the image and you don’t need to get the whole tree in or anything above a couple of feet high. That’s where many of us go wrong, desperately trying to "fit things in" when it usually tells more of a story with less in. But this is photography and there is no right or wrong.
Actually in the video he also said don't get hung up on having to have a foreground interest, and the line of the foreground interest goes left to right, how is that leading you into the picture ? He said the river was the leading line ! Did you watch the same video ? Plus I never said leave it out ! If you had bothered to digest what I said ! If the camera was lower and pointing straight along the river, that wouldn't necessarily given a blown out sky, just more tree ! and left the foreground ! If you have read the rule book about third lines and foreground etc, well done, now read the next chapter that says rules are made to be broken !
"It doesn't just lead you it also rises" ? I think you meant the foreground doesn't even lead you ! And if he'd lowered the tripod the stream wouldn't of still gone up the hill ? Of course it would !
We are all entitled to our opinion ! I gave mine ! if you don't like it fair enough, but fancy words will not change my mind ! Were you there ? Did you bend down to see the other picture ? Would you be happy if someone photographed your wedding and cut everyone off at the knees ? be happy with pictures of feet and path would you ?
There is a large bank to the right of shot, fairly dense vegetation to the left, my suggestion would not of done what you presume ! When he first gets to the spot he shows the greater picture, I don't see too much sky, too many leaves and branches for that ! I never said it was a bad picture ! It's a good picture, I would of preferred lower camera !
Oh and in your comment you said "I'm not a lover of ICM." Should I now slag you off for your thought on that ?
Norman Pimlott I'm not sure where you are going there. You seem to be arguing the foreground interest and leading lines being the same thing, where I said he gets a leading line "with foreground interest" and not "by using the foreground interest." Also you argue because he gets the subject of the image in the frame, ie the river, in landscapes he would then leave them, ie the wedding party, out of a wedding photograph. I certainly don’t want to get into an argument over it. You said the image should have been taken a different way, I disagreed, just like you disagreed with the photographer, it’s no biggy, it’s photography no two photographers will ever agree. But at no point did I "slag you off.", I wasn’t even discourteous in any way, I merely said I disagree with your opinion, that is not personal to you and I certainly wouldn’t take it personal if you disagreed with any of my opinions on a piece of work, even my own.
Ty so much
very good video
With regards to polarizers, can’t you just boost saturation in post and decrease highlights
Thanks for a very useful video - beginner question please - in the first shot - where are you focusing and what sort of aperture did you use?
Hi Robert. It tends to be a case of focusing not right at the foreground, but a little bit further in. An aperture of around f/11 will render the majority of the scene sharp on a wide-angle - just check on the LCD the front to back sharpness. Check this article for more information on more precise focusing techniques: www.naturettl.com/how-to-use-hyperfocal-distance/
One tends to wonder how well a lens hood might have helped...
How do you describe the difference between a "Polarizing Filter" and a "ND Filter" and how do you choose to use one or the other..? Thanks Great Video..
Think of a polarizing filter as sunglasses for the lens. The will knock down the amount of light hitting the sensor. A ND filter is basically to protect the front of the lens from scratches. You should always have a UV filter on a lens, to protect your investment.