Landscape Photography Tips - Yosemite in Winter - Part 2 | Image to Print
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Landscape photography tips on location and lightroom and printing tips and techniques in part 2 of my vlog from Yosemite in the winter.
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My photographic gear
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Nikon D800 (D810 is newer model) - amzn.to/2lai6P1
Nikon 70-200m f/2.8 - amzn.to/2lamZrd
Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 - amzn.to/2laltW5
Nikon 16-35mm f/4 - amzn.to/2lajscy
Lee Filters Landscape Pro Kit - amzn.to/2lay5fP
Fujifilm X-T2 - amzn.to/2ku2zKw
Fuji XF35mm F2 - amzn.to/2kFlh3Z
Espon 3800 (3880 is newer model)
Photographic paper I use
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Matt fine art - Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308g
Semi-glass fine art - Canson Baryta Photographique
My Vlogging gear
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Yi 4K+ action camera - amzn.to/2kBdlkz
Rode Lav Mic - amzn.to/2lajVeO
Details of the images in this video (all D800 shots on 24-70mm f2.8)
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Image 1 - Cathedral Winter Trees - D800 - 1/100s f/5.6 35mm ISO 100 (no filters)
Image 2 - Merced River & El Capitan - D800 - 1/100s f/8 24mm ISO 100 (0.9 soft grad)
Image 3 - Winter Merced River - D800 - 90s f/8 60mm ISO 50 (10 stop ND, polarizing filter)
Image 4 - Frozen - X-T2 - 1/750s f/5.6 35mm ISO 320
Image 5 - Yosemite golden oaks - D800 - 1/125s f6.3 50mm ISO 64
Image 6 - Yosemite valley - D800 - 0.5s - f/9 - 34mm ISO 50 (0.9 soft grad, polarizing filter)
My inspiration in landscape photography videos - luminous-lands...
Best most well rounded pro photo vlogger on youtube. Really...
I enjoy your relaxed nature about talking about photography, I didn't know where to begin, so I thought I'd start at the beginning and see where it takes me. Hope I can learn a lot from you.
You’ve got a lot more relaxed in front of the camera, but these are superb output for a “beginner” vlogger. Wow.
For a first vlog you did an amazing job. There are many experienced youtube vloggers that aren't this good mate. Well done!
+Willnot Betracked thanks!
@@NigelDanson Well done Nigel! It might be that I've taken the Classics several times that your Pine tree image is just fantastic, Kudos!
Great job on capturing some beautiful images! It's challenging with so much to work with.
It's a fabulous place Yosemite, but a bit of a victim of it's own success, but does look incredible in Winter. I was lucky enough to live in California for a couple of years in the early 1980's and spent a few days in a log cabin there with friends one winter. Sadly it was before my 'real' photography days, although it did introduce me to the wonderful photography of Ansel Adams which later proved a fantastic inspiration. Tunnel View is irresistible and you bagged a really good shot, but you see so many of these it's hard to become excited. For me the shot of the tree with the suns rays on your Fuji is the outstanding shot by some margin. Well done. Great video.
Stunning photography!
why would someone give this video a thumbs down???? really sad 4 people....get a life! Great inspirational video.
I love that you talk about printing! It's something I have wanted to do for some time, but don't know much about printing so I shy away.
+Steve Smith I will be doing a guide to my printing in a video soon
Great job Nigel. I'm a retired pro of 35 years and use your vids to inspire me to get out and do some work for MYSELF finally. When you make your hobby your profession the hobby isn't fun anymore...keep it fun and you can have both. Mountains and streams are easier to deal with than people. Thanks for getting me going again.
Thanks for the really kind words... and pleasure to know it inspires you 👍👍👍
Love the shots. Just wonderful!
Nice job with the vlog. I HAVE to get back to Yosemite. I've been to many of the major parks and, in my opinion, Yosemite is the prettiest. Being there empties your mind of all the troubles of the world, at least for me. When I was there a couple of years ago, I shot a lot of images, but you never shoot enough. Thanks for sharing.
Loved your video would love to get there myself. You can see why Ansel was captivated with it all his life.
Loved this vlog, I'm going to Yosemetie in mid May. I can't capture your creativity, but as an amateur I'm inspired to try.
Thank you Nigel, for sharing your knowledge with us all. Loved your very clean smart office and your interpretation of your processing; printing and your thoughts and passion. Once again thank you, this has made my day. Regards, Allan Davies.
Thanks Allan - really appreciate the feedback! Not sure my studio has ever been described as clean ;-)
Those prints look fantastic Nigel that place looks amazing.
Dear Nigel, I hook on quite late....because you started a year ago....but i subscribed just now.
Your video's are interesting and authentic (wich for me is a must see). Your story about the accident that made you turn around your view on what you are doing impressed me.
I am in a kind of same proces (although the cause is something different then a accident), what you do is inspiring me. Not to start a vlog, but lifestyle wise.
Thanks for this and keep up your nice work.👏
Regards,
Ben
This set of two videos is great! I've really enjoyed them. Thanks for sharing!
+Vincent Knaus thanks a lot!!!
Enjoyed your vlog, good camera work on the video and nice images on the camera. Keep up the good work
Great vlog . Great to learn more about printing
Nigel, really enjoyed your videos and totally agree regarding printing. Look forward to seeing more!
stop biteing ya nails...your blog...you got it nailed,love it,well done
beautiful shots... lovely the video. thanks for sharing Nigel. There is so much peace there.
Really interesting thanks. A place that's been on my list for a few years now. You have made some lovely images.
Superb vlog Nigel and a more superberer collection of photos.
Thanks John!!!
Excellent for a first time vlog! As a Canson Baryta user myself, it was nice to see them in print! Looking forward to future videos!
+Nikhil Nachappa great paper - I will be printing some photos this weekend and making a vlog
Great first video, excellent pics too..
I enjoyed your video, and am envious of you being in Yosemite in winter. I was also quite pleased that you shared actual photographs with your viewers, in addition to web images. I don't remember any other videos from photographers that did so. Keep it up. If I may, I'd like to offer one suggestion for your future videos, concerning showing actual prints -
When showing your actual paper prints, try setting up a "stand" for them to rest on, where they can be set at an angle similar to the way you are holding them. By having them on a stand of some sort, instead of hand holding them, they will lie still. Plus, you can preset a light on them, so that when you are actually taping them, the light will remain constant, and you will not have any hot spots.
PS - have your video camera back far enough initially so that the viewer can "see" the entire print plus stand, etc., so that we, the viewer, know we are looking at an actual print. Then, if you desire, you can zoom in closer to show more intimate detail.
Looking forward to more from you. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for your thorough comments - I will take that onboard! Glad you like the vlog !
Nigel, these are really great vlogs. I want to encourage you to continue. Like you, I feel the print is an amazing thing to hold in your hand at the end of the journey. Nobody ever goes that far in their videos and you did. Thank you. Early on I attended a workshop with Robert Rodriguez Jr. on printing. Such an important aspect to printing and like you I use Canson papers (Thanks Robert). Keep up the work and the videos. I want more.
Thanks for the great feedback and encouragement - I will be doing a lot more around prints :-)
I love the image with the sunbeams and lone tree! I'd say your Fuji X-T2 did fantastic!
+Patricia Davidson thanks!
absolutely beautiful prints. I love Canson paper. My favourite is rag photographique and platine fibre rag. I love rag touch of paper. Thanks for sharing that prints with us.
+Peter Svacho thanks for the comments! I love Canson as well (not just because it is one letter from my name :-) ) - my favorite rag paper is Hahnemuhle.
Nigel AWESOME. Second Shot of the day @5:53 is amazing. 3rd shot @ 7:47 you simply nailed it. fourth shot at 10:20 it good but as you were saying Vertical composition could have been better. Here the eyes wanted to see more, may be a little bit of golden sky or rock face on top! Keep them coming mate. Keep visiting awesome places and let us also visit through your Vlogs.
18:49 - I saw this in the prints you have for sale. In your summary you said you only had a few minutes to get the picture. I was in doubt and excited at the same time. I have taken only one similar that was in the fall. Where my doubts come from is I see so many times the sun rays are incorporated into the shot by using PhotoShop. It's a spectacular image and more so that is it natural.
Great job. Wonderful stuff. The photos are stunning. Not sure i could deal with the cold though
Great start to your vlogging. I appreciate seeing the workflow right through to the all important print.
Fantastic 1st vlogs Nigel. It was fun to watch your first vlogs after watching so many of your new ones. Im relatively new to your channel so it was out of order. Amazing to see how good your 1st set was, although I can see how much more polished you've become. I live on the coast only about 4 hours from Yosemite and after watching this today, I'll need to take a photography trip there soon. Lots of snow this month. Glad you kept on going with the videos.
Very, very nice, Nigel. Never been there but it's on my list. Subscribed :) Cheers.
+andy sheader thanks!
Well done sir! Well done
great first vlog and what a location!
+Jason Mac yeah! Yosemite is incredible
Another excellent and very interesting vlog, I particularly enjoyed seeing some of your prints which look fantastic! Keep up with the great work Nigel, you've got the makings of a very good channel and I am really looking forward to the next instalment.👍
Take care on your travels mate.🍀
+Andy Keeble next instalment is coming. Had a few camera incidents!
Loved the fact you showed you printing process. Great video .Looks like an XC90 you have. Likely be my next car ;)
+Paul G Johnson printing is my favourite part! Used to love dark room process. xc90 is brilliant car! You will love it!
great video that is a great place.
Incredible work, thanks for the tips and locations
Your presentation & photography both were outstanding ! I look forward to seeing many more ! Also I am a new subscriber!
+goldrace10 thanks for the kind words.
Great vlogs! Hope to see more!
excellent nigel, many thanks. beautiful place and lovely images - I really like seeing you print them out and enjoy them that way - I would love to see more on that and how you edit in LR please, thanks again
Superb Nigel
Fantastic!
Thanks Carmen!
Really nice video Nigel. I enjoyed seeing the printed images at the end as well. It always feels good to hold an end product.
Nice vlog! Subscribed :)
Keep on sharing your adventures. Love to see more especially on your printings!
+Andy M. Thanks! I will share lots more printing
Excellent really enjoyed please keep going...
A great video. Thanks for sharing! Lg Michael
Pretty nice shots !! That's a wonderful place !!
just stumbled across this video. loving your work and style of video. I'll check more out thank you.
Wow... your photos are inspiringly beautiful. Very good video! And definitely useful... I will subscribe and look forward to more. I just started my landscape videos and watching yours is great inspiration!
Sir, your videos already make be feel so lucky to have have discovered your channel. Thank to dpreview!! A big thanks to you and hope to see many more videos. I loved how you discussed your prints in your lovely room. It felt so therapeutic to watch you go over your lovely pictures.
Thanks - I hope to do more videos around my prints and what thoughts I went through when I took an image
@@NigelDanson Looking again at your lovely videos as I will be in Yosemite tomorrow. Nice seeing you came a long way from when I first saw this video when you posted a link to it in dpreview forums!! Very inspiring!! Too bad there is no snow for me right now as it hasn't snowed there this year at all.
I really enjoyed those Nigel. I wish you every success.
+David Ireland thanks!
Great video, the best picture i think, is the image number 4, i believe, at 13:48. Amazing image
Excellent video liking your channel👍
excellent- very informative and interesting
+Martin Berry thanks for the kind comment! Appreciate it and glad you enjoyed!
Winter is a wonderful time in Yosemite for the photographer. Each season has its good subjects, but the summer through early fall has too many people getting in the way the big vistas. I've gotten many good photos in Yosemite, but my only winter trip can be summarized by my last question to the clerk checking me into the lodge: "Where's the snow?" I picked the only year they had almost no snow. My luck!
Great content. Thank you for making and sharing.
Thank you for this I am going there this winter and I hope I get great images too
very well done Nigel! subscribed!
+yavuz pancareken thanks - I really appreciate that!
Like your style, hope to see more
+Andy Beattie Photography thanks - just published my latest video :-)
Nice video, thanks!
Hubert/Germany
Just found your channel Nigel. Sub'd for all the great information here. Thank You
Beautiful place! It's on my bucket list! Nice video and we'll editied too. Really enjoyed it.
I VlOG on my YT, it was friends and family who suggested I do it, and Thomas Heaton was my biggest inspiration!
Also, beautiful images. I particularly like the S bend in the river
Amazing! What an awesome first vlog video set. The Tripod you were using I don’t think is listed u dear the video description, was wondering what you were using.
Hey Nigel! I really enjoy your videos and I really enjoy printing my photos too. There's just something special about it! I'm currently printing on my canon pixma pro 100 and print on both the pro platinum paper and fine art paper "museum etching". Do you happen to know of a substitute for the fine art paper? It's ridiculously expensive... it delivers, no doubt, but maybe someone knows something about it. It's notoriously hard to find information on it...
+Mads Peter Iversen have you looked at fotospeed papers... ? Inevitably you pay for quality in the end.
What amazing photographs! And these prints are looking amazing. Last Saturday I visited Photokina in Cologne and I recognized for myself, that I have to print much more of my photographs.
My question to you: which printer do you recommend (for private, not commercial use)?
Great video! Keep it up :)
Hi Nigel
Thank you for this beautiful presentation of photos from Yosemity National Park. I have a question if you could tell me from where you made this beautiful 17-18 minute view in this video. I will be very grateful for the specific geographic location. Do you have photos from this place in another month. I have been watching you for a long time and you are an inspiration to me. Thank you for the beautiful videos and your creativity
it would be helpful if you'd mention the gear you use during your shoot. It looks like you're using a video tripod head. We are planning a winter trip in 2020 - snow shoeing with our cameras. I'd like to know more about the filter you use; your shots are beautiful. Any input you are willing to share would be most appreciated. I'd like to make this trip memorable. Thanks for sharing!
Brilliant start to vlogging! I really enjoyed both videos from this series, especially the end of part 2 when you talked us through the prints, you captured some beautiful images. Printing is definitely something I don't do enough of. How do you store the prints which you don't display? And do you always frame the ones which you do?
+S Fergus thanks for the comments - means a lot! I love printing. I store them in a portfolio and then occasionally look back at them. I have had a few exhibitions but don't have many up in my house (cobblers shoes!) for me though I just like the tangible end result!
I’m new to your channel I am looking forward to seeing a few more of you vlogs
Welcome Chris and thanks for tuning in
Just stumbled on your channel. Really great stuff. Was this your first time to Yosemite? I haven't been to Yosemite for about 6 years (moved from SF to Seattle), and it's amazing and sad to see what the bark beetles have been up to since then. I guess last year's drought really exacerbated things, but the tunnel view shots show about 30x more dead/dying trees than the last time I was up there. Cheers.
Sorry, just watched some more of your videos and see that you lived in SF.
What a fantastic experience Nigel; fabulous images and another interesting vlog. Just one question if I may.....you seem to print all your images at the same size, what is that please?
+Steve Ball thanks Steve - what do you mean ‘at the same size’
A long way (literally and figuratively) from Frodsham Photographic Society. Still making beautiful images though!
+Phil Mann Thanks Phil! Hope things are good... I see you are still taking awesome photos...
Nigel Danson You are too kind. Impressive first vlog. Yosemite in the winter - that's bucket list territory.
Top Notch prints
Thanks a lot
When I saw the paper I thought it was so beautiful and wondered what it was and it turned out to be my favorite paper from several years ago. It’s been quite a while since I’ve printed but this video is inspiring me to get back to it! Nigel, do you still use this? I’m also curious what printer you use?
Hi ... than you for the video , need to see more please :
1. can you do Panorama
2. B&W
3. Also can you please talk little about your gear
4. Also the printer you use
i do not know if someone has already asked you about it
Thanks Again
+Sajjad Al-Lawati hi - talked about my gear in latest clip :-)
This is really nice and interesting this way of showing your entire process.
Very pleasing to watch, theres just maybe a little something happening sometimes with your vlogging camera, the background is kind of moving in a strange way,
Anyway wish you good luck and looking forward to the next vlog ;)
Yeah - the shaky video is due to the stabilization in the Yi 4K+ (ironically!)
If you don't mind, may I ask where is the fist place in the beginning of the video? Beautiful images btw
Nice video. That one print of the classic view of yosemeti valley, is that printed on hahnemuhle? it looks very glossy. And the nice one with the tree and the fog, what paper is that?
+Lindstenfoto no all these prints were on Canson Which is a semi gloss
Snowshoes, just watching your winter videos and they would make a world of difference in UK, Alps or the US. they won't make you faster over the ground but you will use a fraction of the energy. £50 for a basic set from Decathalon.
Got them 👍
Hey Nigel!
Quick question, how do you store your prints? Do you have some kind of an album you can add/insert your prints?
Cheers, you're one of the latest finds of mine
Keep it up!
+Chris Nigul no great solution here I am afraid. I have a set of print draws and put them in there. I am careful to separate them with acid free tissue. Most prints are sold or I have then on my wall so not too many to store...
Nigel Danson Gotcha. Maybe I’ll find something next week at the photo+ expo in NY.
Cheers
Nigel - Thanks for such a GREAT video - and your images are AMAZING!! Quick question - what size paper are you using for your prints? And if I may, how are you setting up the margins for your prints in the print module?? Thanks!!
I use a3 and a2 and margins are big enough for name and signature at bottom. Don’t worry about having them same all around
nice content and beutiful photos! I did notice you didn't link a 500px page, do you have one by any chance?
Vittorio Sergi thanks and yes I have a 500px page it is 500px.com/ndanson
How long do you needed to get on this level of photography?
Landscape photography is all about getting out there and taking photos. I have failed a lot and this has enabled me to find out what works and what doesn't. So the more you take and experiment the better you will get. I wouldn't worry about how long it takes though as the journey is what counts! :-)
Nigel Danson Failng is part of photography, you can learn so much of it. I'm photographing now for about 1.5 years and I'm not so happy with my pictures but I love being outside and stay there about 1-2 hours. I'm young (14) so I haven't got chance to drive with the car so it's a big challenge to find and new sport in the same village for one than more year. This is a good training for your eye, I can see so much more things in my village.
Keep it up! I started when I was 14! It is an amazing way to see the environment!
love your videos! but some could benefit from a better audio leveling (music/voice etc.) ;)
I was talking about the dimensions of the print, are they A3? Thanks, Steve
Ah ok - I print mostly on A3 and A2. Sometimes I print on A4. Most of my print sales are A3 or A2 though. Personally I think A2 looks the best as it shows the images off to the full extent.
7:55 Why not bracket your exposures and get the shot? Seems like a missed opportunity.
Great vid though.
+Wrecks yeah - in hindsight it probably was. There is a lot to photograph and sometimes you miss the obvious! Thanks for comments
I like it . What kind of the printer . Could you please give the name of the printer .
Thanks! I had an eosin but now have a canon pro-1000
which one the best and which size can printed
I definitely like your vlogs, very interesting. But when you move and talk to the camera, there is a very annoying "wobble-effect".
wixx is horrible