I love how an introvert, woman that is a very good teacher, found a way to teach and share her skills, without having to bump into the part of getting confronted with people every day. I find it very inspiring as an introvert myself❤ thank you❤
"Winter reveals what Summer hides", so true. Do you ever notice the bird nests that Winter reveals? Then try and find these same birds nest in the Summer? Just say'n lol, great video as always!
I like your video format a lot, informative and not overly edited with stuff flying all over the screen. Even though I am 25, I like simple and engaging content. It flows extremely well. Thank you
The forest in winter reminds me of old fairy tale books I had as a child,beautiful and mysterious.Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺 where forests are full of snakes and deadly spiders.
Courtney, you should get a tripod clamp attachment for a spare tripod, so that when you come across loose oddities like that hair ice branch, you can have a rock solid tripod and clamp to grab ahold of that branch, keep it steady to do a macro focus stack of. Being able to hold up said object allows you to get more subject separation for shallow depth of field as you know all to well.l
In the Forest of Dean, with its leafless attire, a stark, quiet beauty that will surely inspire. You frame the emptiness, the quiet, the space, finding endless poetry in a bleak desolate place. Though twisted and gnarly, your lens takes its stand, turning those barren branches into an art so grand. Uplifted and impassioned, through your beautiful eyes, of a bare forest stretching, beneath the grey winter skies. Time to say goodbye, to an old trusty friend, your Nikon D750, with its journey at an end. Embracing the future, where new stories begin, now a "Micro Four Nerd", Emily says with a grin. Thank You for your words during my time of grief, just knowing I was in your thoughts, was a loving relief. So in this world of stillness, your message surely extends, To lift up and inspire, your kindly poetic friend.
Courtney, your imagination and eye for detail are amazing! During a walk in the woods today I tried to channel my inner Courtney and failed. Oh well next time. Thanks for the dance lesson bonus!
Courtney never change. Introvert/anti-social? All of us enjoy the person you are. As for the unnamed tree, to me it appears to be yelling: Get back here! Till next time Courtney, we'll continue watching over your shoulder, from the 8* weather, here in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, USA!
I find your enthusiasm and creativity and skill so inspirational! I despise winter where I live, but I'm heading out to see what I can do. Keep up the great work!
I would name it 'cast off'. I can see by the images the winter woodland has a different feel, its sleeping. although life is still going on around, the trees are at rest. what I like most is when most are looking out of the window thinking not today, your out seeing the landscape in a different light (or rain). thanks for the vid.
Hey Courtney. Thanks for (finishing) the video, and glad you are safe. I like to visit and photograph rocky outcrops in the wintertime - the contrast in warm/cold tones with wet/dry rock and then green/grey mosses and moulds is really nice. Sometimes there is an extra splash of colour eg winter berries that is abnormal.
See when you saw the tree you thought "villain" and I thought "fallen hero" and by combining what you saw with what I saw it turned it into the dichotomy of when a hero becomes the villain. Or even more the old saying "you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain". A lot of thought for a single fallen tree. That's why art is so beautiful and why we need everyone's input to help build on what we can see and take from it.
Hey Courtney, long live us anti-social bods is what I say. Don't get me wrong I am happy to tap away here but meeting people does cause huge anxiety levels, hence my need to get up in the very early hours to work on my allotments or like you finding a very large space/woodland to just enjoy the place to yourself and nature. Sadly though I don't do the little dance in real life, more often am falling over and swearing to myself. But your dance made me smile immediately, so thank you. I do love the backlit mushroom shot and "Reign". I didn't mind the large branch you cloned out but I agree it helps with the balance. The wonders of software and a user that is accomplished in how you use it. Have to say my head has been all over the place this weekend, but having just watched your video it has calmed down a tad, so thank you.
Hi! My favorite shot is in the background of your video at 10:18. A vertical shot; the vine covered tree trunk makes a left frame with twisted branches all along it reaching out to the right, backed by that ghostly white grass.
15:37 in: “Payment within a couple of days.” I wish! I’ve been a bit disappointed with MPB lately and I’m considering other options. Regardless, another enjoyable watch Ms. Courtney. 💜💜
Missed not seeing you and the little happy dances for awhile. Love your videos always so happy and informative . Keep up the great work and never give up playing.
It’s funny that you’re saying goodbye to your D750 while I just welcomed the D750 to my camera bag not too long ago. I bought it to replace the D610 I have been using the past couple of years both of which that I purchased from MPB. I been using them before I stumbled onto your channel a couple of years back, matter of fact, you’re the reason why I got the D750 in the first place. Keep up the great work that you do both with your videos and photography.
Another great video and good to see you make sense of the chaos that is a forest in winter. It’s all your fault that I’m now getting into woodland photography myself. 😊
It's great seeing Courtney dancing again! I'm surprised to see the D750 in the title. Looks like a D850. I just wish my D750 did in camera focus stacking! I see where "aweek earlier" that the camera is indeed the D750!
Fantastic work! You are quite gifted as a photographer and your images back that up! Just started watching your content a month or so ago and have enjoyed watching. Keep up the good content and enjoy the journey! Thanks for sharing.
Love the trees. Where I live, it is mostly Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock (Southwest Alaska). Not a photo, but I love "Hair Ice". I missed getting out to find it this winter, here. But, winter has been a weird. Lots of rain. But, freezing weather coming, so maybe this weekend.
lovely video once again I like the way you explain your technical use of the camera.and the way you explain fame your photography i looking to shoot some trees in the New forest soon thanks for the tips many thanks
Hi , Courtney. Thank you for your videos. I like them really. Please, more forest and trees videos. I love trees but it is very difficult take pfotos from. Unfortunately I have not old and spectacular trees in my surrounding as you show in your video. Would you ,please, make videos to this thema? Thanks in advance.
13:20 I kind of see two things. One is if a portal that tiny people have to climb into, starting their journey from the fallen branch. So maybe call it “portal”? But also, I see a tree hanging on after catastrophe. Like it’s falling and using its hand to claw at the dirt, exposing itself in its final act? So maybe call it “the reach” or “quiet desperation” or “the prayer of the fallen”? “The heart of desperation”? You could just call it “unmade”, because it’s not a tree like it used to be, and because it’s unknown what caused it, “unmade by unnamed”?
06:33 Do your round Tripod legs not rotate inside each other? This might seem dumb to ask but You extended Your Tripod legs and thightened them down from the lowest pair upwards which looked like a magic trick to me
Great video. I too enjoy photographing mushrooms. I took 35 shots of one group of small mushrooms recently growing inside a rotting out log. Like one of your photos there were two small groups separated by a few inches. I used the focus shift on my D850 but the smaller mushrooms off to one side weren’t in focus. I thought I focused on the larger group which was closer. My question is, where should I focus with the first shot to get both groups in focus. Keep up the great videos.
I'd love to go to forest more but wildlife scares me. We had a bear right in the middle of our city just last week, so either there's not enough space for them in the forest or they're all migrating over.
I too mainly use a D850 for all my creative and critical work. I have also been in the market for a second lower resolution DSLR and have my eye on the D750 but also the D780, and being that the D780 is more closely in line with the D850 in controls and imaging, with 4k video if I need, I'm kind of leaning that way. I want to minimize my collection to one mount system being I have a history of F lenses dating back to the 70s and it seems the D780 would be the proper little brother to my D850... but then for daily carry/street shooting and my old Ai-S, Pre-Ai and D lenses I also have had my eye on the Df for years now, it's a nod or a return to my FE and F2 days where manual and a slower deliberate pace fuels my creativity. At least six different brands and systems are currently in my possession for different reasons and these days they are not being used anymore as they should be, which is why as I get older I find that going back to mainly one system, a camera or two is what will get me out shooting more as it did when I first started with one or two film nikons. I found over the years where I thought all these different cameras will cover all I need but in reality it is more distracting. I think we all fall in that same trap these days and somehow have to face reality that what little we started with is really all we need.
I love how an introvert, woman that is a very good teacher, found a way to teach and share her skills, without having to bump into the part of getting confronted with people every day.
I find it very inspiring as an introvert myself❤ thank you❤
"Winter reveals what Summer hides", so true. Do you ever notice the bird nests that Winter reveals? Then try and find these same birds nest in the Summer? Just say'n lol, great video as always!
I like your video format a lot, informative and not overly edited with stuff flying all over the screen. Even though I am 25, I like simple and engaging content. It flows extremely well. Thank you
Girl! I love your level of enthusiasm and motivation for your photography. I find myself smiling the whole time am watching your videos. ❤
You disappeared from my feed for quite some time! I'm glad you're back. I always look forward to your videos.
Your videos are so peacefully watchable. Really enjoyed this one! Goodbye to your D750 and I´m already curious for what's next :)
Lovely work Courtney amd a big thank you to the D750. I hope it's new owner appreciates it.
The forest in winter reminds me of old fairy tale books I had as a child,beautiful and mysterious.Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺 where forests are full of snakes and deadly spiders.
Great how you can get good shots of what looks like chaos to me! Thanks for sharing!
Courtney, you should get a tripod clamp attachment for a spare tripod, so that when you come across loose oddities like that hair ice branch, you can have a rock solid tripod and clamp to grab ahold of that branch, keep it steady to do a macro focus stack of. Being able to hold up said object allows you to get more subject separation for shallow depth of field as you know all to well.l
The D750 has served you well. Great video, as always.
In the Forest of Dean, with its leafless attire,
a stark, quiet beauty that will surely inspire.
You frame the emptiness, the quiet, the space,
finding endless poetry in a bleak desolate place.
Though twisted and gnarly, your lens takes its stand,
turning those barren branches into an art so grand.
Uplifted and impassioned, through your beautiful eyes,
of a bare forest stretching, beneath the grey winter skies.
Time to say goodbye, to an old trusty friend,
your Nikon D750, with its journey at an end.
Embracing the future, where new stories begin,
now a "Micro Four Nerd", Emily says with a grin.
Thank You for your words during my time of grief,
just knowing I was in your thoughts, was a loving relief.
So in this world of stillness, your message surely extends,
To lift up and inspire, your kindly poetic friend.
Courtney, your imagination and eye for detail are amazing! During a walk in the woods today I tried to channel my inner Courtney and failed. Oh well next time. Thanks for the dance lesson bonus!
Courtney never change. Introvert/anti-social? All of us enjoy the person you are. As for the unnamed tree, to me it appears to be yelling: Get back here! Till next time Courtney, we'll continue watching over your shoulder, from the 8* weather, here in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, USA!
I’m in Montana too and wishing I could go out in the woods like her…!
Nice Forest work out 👍
I find your enthusiasm and creativity and skill so inspirational! I despise winter where I live, but I'm heading out to see what I can do. Keep up the great work!
Split personality, photo thats unnamed, thanks for your videos.
I'd love the music and rain sounds at 11:28 as an ambient sound track lol it's so lovely
Hi Courtney, I admire your ability to find composition in the forest. Thank you for your dedication to woodland photography.
I would name it 'cast off'. I can see by the images the winter woodland has a different feel, its sleeping. although life is still going on around, the trees are at rest. what I like most is when most are looking out of the window thinking not today, your out seeing the landscape in a different light (or rain). thanks for the vid.
Hey Courtney. Thanks for (finishing) the video, and glad you are safe.
I like to visit and photograph rocky outcrops in the wintertime - the contrast in warm/cold tones with wet/dry rock and then green/grey mosses and moulds is really nice. Sometimes there is an extra splash of colour eg winter berries that is abnormal.
That last tree shot with the D750 could be appropriately named “Down But Not Out” it describes the tree, also the D750.
See when you saw the tree you thought "villain" and I thought "fallen hero" and by combining what you saw with what I saw it turned it into the dichotomy of when a hero becomes the villain. Or even more the old saying "you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain". A lot of thought for a single fallen tree. That's why art is so beautiful and why we need everyone's input to help build on what we can see and take from it.
I really like that description. I feel like it captures the emotions it has in it.
Hey Courtney,
long live us anti-social bods is what I say. Don't get me wrong I am happy to tap away here but meeting people does cause huge anxiety levels, hence my need to get up in the very early hours to work on my allotments or like you finding a very large space/woodland to just enjoy the place to yourself and nature. Sadly though I don't do the little dance in real life, more often am falling over and swearing to myself. But your dance made me smile immediately, so thank you.
I do love the backlit mushroom shot and "Reign". I didn't mind the large branch you cloned out but I agree it helps with the balance. The wonders of software and a user that is accomplished in how you use it.
Have to say my head has been all over the place this weekend, but having just watched your video it has calmed down a tad, so thank you.
"I am powerful!" What a great description.
Call that tree Asunder.
Love the videos and your work.
Hi! My favorite shot is in the background of your video at 10:18. A vertical shot; the vine covered tree trunk makes a left frame with twisted branches all along it reaching out to the right, backed by that ghostly white grass.
15:37 in: “Payment within a couple of days.” I wish! I’ve been a bit disappointed with MPB lately and I’m considering other options. Regardless, another enjoyable watch Ms. Courtney. 💜💜
Missed not seeing you and the little happy dances for awhile. Love your videos always so happy and informative . Keep up the great work and never give up playing.
I went from a D750 to a D780 and found it a worthwhile upgrade. The live view and video are the best of any F mount cameras.
It’s funny that you’re saying goodbye to your D750 while I just welcomed the D750 to my camera bag not too long ago. I bought it to replace the D610 I have been using the past couple of years both of which that I purchased from MPB. I been using them before I stumbled onto your channel a couple of years back, matter of fact, you’re the reason why I got the D750 in the first place. Keep up the great work that you do both with your videos and photography.
...and people still seeking D610 as affordable fullframe alternative. From hand to hand, it still pack a puch 😄
Thanks for a great video, Courtney. The fungi backlit really resonated with me. I love the texture and the simple colour palette of blue and orange.
Another great video and good to see you make sense of the chaos that is a forest in winter.
It’s all your fault that I’m now getting into woodland photography myself. 😊
I love your Videos. You are so funny and a brilliant photographer 😊
👍🏻⋯⋯Nice composition 🥰
Great video from the woodlands. 👍🙂
It's great seeing Courtney dancing again! I'm surprised to see the D750 in the title. Looks like a D850. I just wish my D750 did in camera focus stacking!
I see where "aweek earlier" that the camera is indeed the D750!
Scar. Name the tree, Scar.
Fantastic work! You are quite gifted as a photographer and your images back that up! Just started watching your content a month or so ago and have enjoyed watching. Keep up the good content and enjoy the journey! Thanks for sharing.
Mushrooms with panel light. Thanks for sharing.
Throwing some shapes there 😂
I have never seen trees like that before!
I so love and appreciate ALL of your videos!! I think that ice hair is "frost flowers" and called "ice ribbons" as well.
Love the trees. Where I live, it is mostly Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock (Southwest Alaska). Not a photo, but I love "Hair Ice". I missed getting out to find it this winter, here. But, winter has been a weird. Lots of rain. But, freezing weather coming, so maybe this weekend.
lovely video once again I like the way you explain your technical use of the camera.and the way you explain fame your photography i looking to shoot some trees in the New forest soon thanks for the tips many thanks
I love the tree shots before 8 minutes. Great work. On the fungi photos I found the bark in the lower right distracting.
I miss the happy dance😅
Love the video! The unamed picture reminds me of Groot from "Guardians of the Galaxy" reaching out for something or someone.
Love your photographic eye
Nice dance between the photo Session.😂
Best regards from Germany
There is an old German idiom "Danke, dass es dich gibt"
Courtney - THANK YOU!!!!
Hi , Courtney. Thank you for your videos. I like them really. Please, more forest and trees videos. I love trees but it is very difficult take pfotos from. Unfortunately I have not old and spectacular trees in my surrounding as you show in your video. Would you ,please, make videos to this thema? Thanks in advance.
13:20 I kind of see two things. One is if a portal that tiny people have to climb into, starting their journey from the fallen branch. So maybe call it “portal”?
But also, I see a tree hanging on after catastrophe. Like it’s falling and using its hand to claw at the dirt, exposing itself in its final act? So maybe call it “the reach” or “quiet desperation” or “the prayer of the fallen”? “The heart of desperation”?
You could just call it “unmade”, because it’s not a tree like it used to be, and because it’s unknown what caused it, “unmade by unnamed”?
06:33 Do your round Tripod legs not rotate inside each other? This might seem dumb to ask but You extended Your Tripod legs and thightened them down from the lowest pair upwards which looked like a magic trick to me
Go with Treebeard ❤
Great video as always. My thoughts for the image......Torment
So long D750, you will be missed :(
Thanks for sharing.
Great video. I too enjoy photographing mushrooms. I took 35 shots of one group of small mushrooms recently growing inside a rotting out log. Like one of your photos there were two small groups separated by a few inches. I used the focus shift on my D850 but the smaller mushrooms off to one side weren’t in focus. I thought I focused on the larger group which was closer. My question is, where should I focus with the first shot to get both groups in focus. Keep up the great videos.
hi! cette vidéo me donne envie de retourner en forêt pour prendre des photos!! merci
Great video, Courtney! I love your videos, they are so peaceful and informative.
Hey Courtney. Have you looked into the old school Nikon 200mm f/4 macro? I've heard some pretty great reviews in the macro-sphere. Thanks.
🥳 Love your videos
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
13:17 Sounds more like "Redemption" to me
Good Job on putting your ad at the end of your video as it does break the vidoe when done in the middle.
Muito bom ! 📷👍
Could you please tell me the name of those red camera clamps on your set up please.
I thought your fungi photos were the best, I am not much into tree photography. Enjoyed the video.
Where is the Focus Shift on a D750?
13:24 "losing a loved one"
>because i'm incredibly antisocial
ONE OF US, ONE OF US!
Introverts unite!...separately...in our own homes...or forests...
I missed your dancing). Like)
The unnamed image shouts out to me Primal Scream.
I'd love to go to forest more but wildlife scares me. We had a bear right in the middle of our city just last week, so either there's not enough space for them in the forest or they're all migrating over.
I always enjoy dancing with you
13:20 in: ‘Broken Hearted’
😍
Your dance is funny.
Treebeard
Nice moves at the beginning, shame you didn't end with a little boogie. Unnamed photo, Ripper.
Conflicted on the distracting branch elimination.
3:10 - some bad news for you. that's not all mud...
The Witches Arm or Fingers.
First comment what do you get sis?
Love your streams Courtney you explain everything so well and pretty hot too ❤
You’re the one landscape photographer who got a Hasselblad, and hasn’t spent the last three months bragging about it? 😮
Power saw will solve your problem!
Claw
I wish I could have accomplished 30 years of field photography without getting so much as a fingerprint on all of my equipment.
I too mainly use a D850 for all my creative and critical work. I have also been in the market for a second lower resolution DSLR and have my eye on the D750 but also the D780, and being that the D780 is more closely in line with the D850 in controls and imaging, with 4k video if I need, I'm kind of leaning that way. I want to minimize my collection to one mount system being I have a history of F lenses dating back to the 70s and it seems the D780 would be the proper little brother to my D850... but then for daily carry/street shooting and my old Ai-S, Pre-Ai and D lenses I also have had my eye on the Df for years now, it's a nod or a return to my FE and F2 days where manual and a slower deliberate pace fuels my creativity.
At least six different brands and systems are currently in my possession for different reasons and these days they are not being used anymore as they should be, which is why as I get older I find that going back to mainly one system, a camera or two is what will get me out shooting more as it did when I first started with one or two film nikons. I found over the years where I thought all these different cameras will cover all I need but in reality it is more distracting.
I think we all fall in that same trap these days and somehow have to face reality that what little we started with is really all we need.