Your images are amazing as all your awards show,. I also like how you keep things simple but with a great deal of thought if that makes sense. Research or know where you are going, take care were you walk, keeping your lens clean, allow for drop off to make your photo flow more, use a grad with a ten stop are all common sense. But as you show, those of us who aspire to be as good as you, need to slow down, think what we are doing, slow down again compose our shot, slow down check everything again and we will be moving in the right direction. Even your prints have a great deal of thought in them and no comprises made. All we need now is your talent and amazing eye and the job will be a good 'un. Thank you for this amazing series and I hope you make some more.
This was such a wonderful tutorial. Thanks! I usually find myself much further inland for landscapes. But this August will have me on both the west and east coasts of the States. Can't wait to employ some of these tips. Cheers!
I can only dream of being able to use the Lee stopper kit, there is the saying, think we've all heard it. All the gear and no idea, well for me its 'No gear, and all the ideas. :) Great video guys.
Excellent photo and tutorial! If I may ask, what kind of "head" do you use on the tripod? I see it can handle micro adjustments by using knobs. Very good option. Thanks.
great video! quick question: I've also got the Lee Kit and I've noticed you have 2 spaces for 100mm Filters in there plus the 105mm Polarizer. When I use that on an 18mm lens, I get quite a bit of vignetting. How come you don't seem to have that problem? I'm using a Haida ultra-slim polarizer and a Wide angle adapter so that shouldn't be the issue.
+e1337air Hi, I use the Lee landscape polariser, which is pretty slim, havent used the Haida but I presume its about the same. I can only presume on your 18mm lens the filter ring is a little further away from the front element than the Zeiss I use, I used to get vignetting with the standard polariser, but dont using the landscape one. Thanks, Lee
Good tips!! What is the seize of the pictures you are showing on display?? Did you print them your self ? Canon printer ? On what material ? I also use the 5 D M II (still) - but more and more the 5 DS for the greater detail... and I use the 17 TSE from Canon instead of the Zeiss! Greetings from Belgium. Enjoy the videos - thanks for shearing!
+Patrick GEVAERT Hi Patrick, the prints are A2 and are printed on aluminium by a UK company called Loxley Colour. I'm glad you're enjoying the series so far. - Ben
great tutorial, i noticed you keep your strap on the camera during long exposures, personally i take mine off, i always change my strap to a quick release type, i found it can cause some tiny shakes when flapping about in the wind.
Interesting. Personally I keep mine on and often have it round my neck even on a tripod as round here there is a risk of the whole thing being blown away by the wind into the sea. At least that way you should still keep the camera.
In most cases you have no extra control in full manual than you do in aperture priority. You are almost always choosing your aperture first regardless. At that point there is no difference in spinning a wheel to change your shutter speed directly or spinning the same wheel to change exposure compensation. The only difference is that in aperture priority during the day you will almost never have to adjust exposure comp where as you will constantly be setting you shutter speed. Yes there are some situations where full manual is better (ie. long exposure night shots where exposure comp maxes out at 4-6 stops) however if you are walking about during the day telling your self you are amazing cause you are shooting manual while at the same time doing nothing more than using the cameras meter to set your shutter speed to what the camera tells you to then all you are doing is acting as a human aperture priory.
That crappy bit of rubber Canon have on their straps is the reason I actually moved to Nikon in the end. Canon only provide the eyepiece shutter on their 1D series cameras and when the 5D came out they decided to cut cost and replace it with a strip of rubber which is a nightmare to fiddle around with in cold weather. Now coming up to the 5dIV and still no sign of a proper shutter. Poor show Canon.
+sh9683 Using live view is usually beneficial to your shot, especially if you're doing a long exposure because using it will require the mirror in your camera to go up therefore reducing the chance of camera shake.
***** that was one thing i was wondering, perhaps I will turn it to live view after i have focused, to take the picture. {maybe i can turn this on} but i cannot view the light meter on my camera in live view, which is frustrating, it is hard to see in daylight, also frustrating, drains the battery faster, focus seems to not work as well in live view mode. perhaps some of these are corretible via settings i am unaware of?
+sh9683 I think it very much depends on your camera and preference, the live view on the canon is very good, and shows the metering, but lots of people prefer the viewfinder. I tend to use both, but find that live view enables me to examine the composition much more closely
Only made it three minutes into it, before I stopped watching. Reason? because of the "tip" boxes in the upper right-hand corner. very distracting. I won't watch videos that do it anymore...waste of my time.
I love the last shot of the shingle and the white house. Thank you.
Your images are amazing as all your awards show,. I also like how you keep things simple but with a great deal of thought if that makes sense. Research or know where you are going, take care were you walk, keeping your lens clean, allow for drop off to make your photo flow more, use a grad with a ten stop are all common sense. But as you show, those of us who aspire to be as good as you, need to slow down, think what we are doing, slow down again compose our shot, slow down check everything again and we will be moving in the right direction. Even your prints have a great deal of thought in them and no comprises made. All we need now is your talent and amazing eye and the job will be a good 'un. Thank you for this amazing series and I hope you make some more.
Brilliantly done and masterfully conceived photography!! Nicely organized tutorial with great information! Thank you!
sorry but how can people not like this it is fantastic
This was such a wonderful tutorial. Thanks!
I usually find myself much further inland for landscapes. But this August will have me on both the west and east coasts of the States. Can't wait to employ some of these tips.
Cheers!
This is one of the most informative seascape video I’ve ever seen. Thank you for making it. I would love to see how this gorgeous image was processed.
Great series of videos Lee & Wex, many thanks and keep them comming.
+S Fayers thank you
Fantastic tutorial, and a beautiful shot of a special place. Many thanks.
Awesome,great work,great channel.
Absolutely gorgeous,stunning work!
I can only dream of being able to use the Lee stopper kit, there is the saying, think we've all heard it. All the gear and no idea, well for me its 'No gear, and all the ideas. :) Great video guys.
Lee, well done that was great. Some fantastic tips there cheers!
Very nice video! Thanks
Great video and inspiring pictures
Excellent photo and tutorial! If I may ask, what kind of "head" do you use on the tripod? I see it can handle micro adjustments by using knobs. Very good option. Thanks.
Great video very informative, does the camera strap not flap in the breeze though.
Another informative video Lee. Suffolk looks wonderful :)
+andy sheader Thanks Andy, its a lovely part of the country if you ever get chance to visit
Wonderful quality photos. What is your post processing software for black & white?
great video! quick question: I've also got the Lee Kit and I've noticed you have 2 spaces for 100mm Filters in there plus the 105mm Polarizer. When I use that on an 18mm lens, I get quite a bit of vignetting. How come you don't seem to have that problem? I'm using a Haida ultra-slim polarizer and a Wide angle adapter so that shouldn't be the issue.
+e1337air Hi, I use the Lee landscape polariser, which is pretty slim, havent used the Haida but I presume its about the same. I can only presume on your 18mm lens the filter ring is a little further away from the front element than the Zeiss I use, I used to get vignetting with the standard polariser, but dont using the landscape one. Thanks, Lee
Excellent shot
+Martin Benford thank you
I do apologise but could you please explain what a reverse grad is I know of hard and soft grads but not reverse, and great video thanks
Good tips!! What is the seize of the pictures you are showing on display?? Did you print them your self ? Canon printer ? On what material ? I also use the 5 D M II (still) - but more and more the 5 DS for the greater detail... and I use the 17 TSE from Canon instead of the Zeiss! Greetings from Belgium. Enjoy the videos - thanks for shearing!
+Patrick GEVAERT Hi Patrick, the prints are A2 and are printed on aluminium by a UK company called Loxley Colour. I'm glad you're enjoying the series so far. - Ben
hi:) good video, it's new inspiration for me. Greetings from Poland.
great tutorial, i noticed you keep your strap on the camera during long exposures, personally i take mine off, i always change my strap to a quick release type, i found it can cause some tiny shakes when flapping about in the wind.
Interesting. Personally I keep mine on and often have it round my neck even on a tripod as round here there is a risk of the whole thing being blown away by the wind into the sea. At least that way you should still keep the camera.
Great images,, what camera using for your video recording please??
Great video and nice filter bag. Who makes them?
great work
beautiful photograph
Great tips! most do not go that far!
In most cases you have no extra control in full manual than you do in aperture priority. You are almost always choosing your aperture first regardless. At that point there is no difference in spinning a wheel to change your shutter speed directly or spinning the same wheel to change exposure compensation. The only difference is that in aperture priority during the day you will almost never have to adjust exposure comp where as you will constantly be setting you shutter speed.
Yes there are some situations where full manual is better (ie. long exposure night shots where exposure comp maxes out at 4-6 stops) however if you are walking about during the day telling your self you are amazing cause you are shooting manual while at the same time doing nothing more than using the cameras meter to set your shutter speed to what the camera tells you to then all you are doing is acting as a human aperture priory.
Where is it again please? - Shingle Beach? UK? New Zealand?
+mateuszpapla east coast of england
thanks
Black rock on beach is beautiful.
+Howard Hearne thanks Howard
Good video.
Crackin vid. Thank you :-)
Hallo )) welche objektiv haben sie da drauf ?
Where is the eyepiece on canon DSLRs ?
Nice tutorials Lee. Eh for a brief moment you also look and sound like Marc Warren :)
That crappy bit of rubber Canon have on their straps is the reason I actually moved to Nikon in the end. Canon only provide the eyepiece shutter on their 1D series cameras and when the 5D came out they decided to cut cost and replace it with a strip of rubber which is a nightmare to fiddle around with in cold weather. Now coming up to the 5dIV and still no sign of a proper shutter. Poor show Canon.
More.......:)
you could work a bit on your delivery. mostly I understood what you were saying cause of the captions . nice video btw
use live view. hahaha nope. i hate using liveview.
+sh9683 Using live view is usually beneficial to your shot, especially if you're doing a long exposure because using it will require the mirror in your camera to go up therefore reducing the chance of camera shake.
***** that was one thing i was wondering,
perhaps I will turn it to live view after i have focused, to take the picture.
{maybe i can turn this on} but i cannot view the light meter on my camera in live view, which is frustrating, it is hard to see in daylight, also frustrating, drains the battery faster, focus seems to not work as well in live view mode.
perhaps some of these are corretible via settings i am unaware of?
+sh9683 I think it very much depends on your camera and preference, the live view on the canon is very good, and shows the metering, but lots of people prefer the viewfinder. I tend to use both, but find that live view enables me to examine the composition much more closely
Only made it three minutes into it, before I stopped watching. Reason? because of the "tip" boxes in the upper right-hand corner. very distracting. I won't watch videos that do it anymore...waste of my time.
Blimey. A waste of your time. Switch off the annotations, its not hard. Takes 2 seconds, literally. There, I've given you some time back.