Thanks for great, and informative video. I am curious as to the camera attachment that you were using to create these vertical shots? It looks handier than a ball head. Thank you!
Hi Mark. Just catching up on your videos. Growing up in the mountains of NC, I thought I knew most off the waterfalls around the BRP. Please share the name of the one in your last video? Totally agree on using a polarizer filter, especially for the upcoming fall leaves and bright color contrasts with a Carolina blue sky background.
I started very wide 14-24 and cropped a lot, then I progressed to a 24-70 and cropped, then to a 70-200 and cropped a little bit, now I use a 80-400mm and dont very often crop at all
I'm not a beginner but I made a HUGE rookie mistake yesterday evening photographing the sunset...LOw to the ground, long exposure over water & rocks...New landscape tripod with no center column...GREAT for this to the ground shots....BUT...Make sure to look carefully that your TRIPOD LEG isn't in the shot! LOL The legs on my new tripod are a bit longer than my older tripod so I'm still getting used to that. Plus I was under exposing the shot a bit to save the highlights so the shadows closer to me were a bit dark in the view screen. Luckily I saw it when I was looking at the shot while getting ready to go to the next shot. I was able to reset and take it again!
I just put in practice the "get close and embrace the distortion" motto, last week when shooting with a 16-35mm lens. A game changer for me. This video just reassured me that I am on the right path of getting better while enjoying what we do.
Thanks for doing this video, Mark. I enjoy learning from your mistakes. "Scene stuffing" is something I always try to catch myself from doing when I shoot ultrawide.
Confronted by a scene that can't be captured with a single exposure, some folks stitch several exposures together to form a panorama. I learned the hard way that it doesn't work to make a panorama shot with exposures from a wide angle lens. The wide lens introduces distortions that make it impossible to use them for a panorama.
Yup. I've successfully stitched images at 35mm FF equiv, but anything wider than that and your pano program either gives up or the results are very poor. (Tip: Taking portrait orientation images work great for effective panos.)
I love shooting with my Tokina 11-16mm lens and usually stick to 11mm. I get some great results, but do find that I have the same issues with trying to stuff too much in. Also, when I shoot the night sky at 11mm, it shows off the distortion on the edges and there's no easy way to fix it, so i need to crop it.
there shouldn't be a standard for how much content needs to be in one photo. People appreciate art differently. I like the original cut for the light house picture for example.
The 18-55 and 55-200 lenders that came with my camera (Nikon D3200). Then, not wanting to spend a lot of money until I get more experienced, I bought an Altura 52mm 0.43x wide angle lens. Next came a Jintu 420-800 f/8.3 telephoto lens.
HI Mark, I am looking to buy a wide angle lens for my Nikon D 5600 crop lens F mount, I want to upgrade the quality from a kit lens, would you have any sugestions please,Ilove your videos which I find easy to understand and so ,very helpful. Regards Maureen
I literally slapped myself on the head when you said don’t forget to shoot vertical. I visited line rock in Utah and the photo I took of it was amazing but I always felt like it was missing something. Looking back at it I’m starting to think if I shot it in vertical it would’ve been *chefs kiss*
I just returned from a backpacking trip to the Grand Canyon using my Sony a6400 w/Sigma 16mm f1.4. I made the mistake of trying to capturing everything and stuck with that lens my whole trip. I am still learning so I’m not too bothered, but a more experienced photographer would most likely be disappointed in my shots haha
I did watch a video on using a tilt & shift lens to correct an image where you might need to use focus stacking, I haven't tried it with my T&S lens yet, but soon after winter GOES AWAY
Hi Mark, this is the kind of video that makes you pay attention to every photograph you take. Thanks a lot ! Let me ask you something, does photo stacking always requires a tripod ? Thanks. Juan
My first (and only) lens is the Nikon DX 18-135 mm f3.5-5.6. To be perfectly honest it suits my needs well enough and I will hopefully be purchasing a fast prime lens to improve my portraits soon. Much love Mark keep up the good work.
Greetings, from a fellow photographer. We are a species in ourselves :). I like the one at 14:00 the most. Do you perhaps sell prints? I consider one of this. Your video has a very tranquil tone. I like that. I now subbed.
There is no such thing as 'empty space'. I notice that you do not follow the one third rule. And these two concepts are related. However, this is why 'art' will always be subjective, and subjective opinion is very different from yours.
How do you deal with the issue when you get down and close and the foreground subject appears large, but then the distant mountain/waterfall looks really small!! Do you ever do focal length blending?
Hi, I'm thinking about compositions you are talking about, and I feel that I photographers should benefit from an external monitor as the videographers . Sometimes I feel the same @4:35, something in frame is not right, not enough in frame, something you cant se on the tiny screen of mirrorless camera.
Dear Mark, thank you for this video and especially for the nice set of landscape examples! I loved them! As for the lighthouse picture, I would do exactly opposite cropping: I would cut off the left part of the frame almost up (or up) to the place where the road starts being visible after passing the trees... I mention this just to confirm that 1) wide angle shooting gives us space to fine-tune the picture even in the case it was not framed perfectly and 2) photography as an art is about personal taste of photographer and his vision and mood at the moment of shooting and processing. Many thanks for your work again!
Why are you doing a slow zoom-in at the start? Those types of methods are used for building tension. This makes me feel tense listening to you talk about lenses. Please don't do that again. :)
Thank you for this video for many reasons as I am reentering the world of photography again with fervency. Another thank you for the awareness that this video's generosity and how the thumbs down is so bogus and arbitrary on so many people's channel. This video was informative, kind, honest and generous - thank you - liked and subscribed.
Am I the only one who thinks that the image with more negative space was better? kind of told the story of how the light house stands against the massive ocean.
LOL - I can't remember how many times I said the same thing to the students I have taught; I.e. it is just as (or should that be more?) important to think about what to exclude, as what to include. Keep on making these excellent videos. Stay safe! Ian :-)
Most times you can just zoom in and see what's in focus most. You can also look at exif data to see the focus distance or download plug-ins for Lightroom/etc that shows you the focus point you used for that photo. Regardless, you just take the 2 or 3 pics you shot at different focus areas and align and blend them together in a photoshop file and it figured out what's in focus for you.
I just got the opteka 55mm .45 wide angle "lens" to go with my 28mm. After figuring the crop factor (1.6) and my speedbooster multiplier (.71), it should be around 17mm field of view. Hope it doesn't affect the sharpness very much. Any thoughts?
Inlcude??😏. My first lens that came with my d750 was the Nikon 24-120mm f/4. Not a bad lens but my Sigma 18-35 f/1.8 that I use with my d500, blows that one out of the water.
sigh i have been into photography for awhile [off and on] for 25 years] and I have only been hearing about focus stacking this past year. One more thing I have to think about that I don't really want to do in my "work flow" My kingdom for a budget friendly f64 lens without diffraction lol I don't think Ansel Adams needed to focus stack so why should we lol I just put it on f16 when needed and hope for the best. Legit question...when did focus stacking become a thing? an invention of the digital age? way before that? what did people do before when PS / LR didn't exist ?
depending on the scene F16 won't always guarantee you get everything in focus and most lenses are sharpest in the f/8 to f/11 range (full frame) hence there comes a point where it's better to focus stack than use a narrow aperture a you get sharper images overall from front to back.
Very helpful video. Great images as examples! Could you say a little about WHERE you focus when your priority is getting what is close and underfoot (rocks, grass, flowers, etc.) in focus? Many of your examples are composed with foreground a key feature and in sharp focus. Without necessarily checking hyperfocal distance, would you get focus from what is underfoot, aim about a third into the frame, or go all the way out to infinity? (If needed maybe assume you are at about 20mm and maybe 11-13 f ???) I know there are lots and lots of variables but would really appreciate a bit of practical in-the-field advice.
Thanks Mark, for the warnings on the wide angle lens. I have one but not used it yet so I will now do those intresting low and close to good use, next time I go out will have the wide angle Nikon 12-24mm in my bag. Great subject and good info.
Learning a lot from your videos and your teaching style !!! Thank you. I am also impressed with the production quality of your videos, including sound. I don't see a lapel mic, so I am curious how you are doing sound and how you light your studio. Please keep the content coming . Next stop will be 1 mil. subscribers!!!
So true! I recently purchased a wide-angle lens 10-20 (15-30 in 35mm equivalent) and found that most of my first pictures were taken at 10mm... Thank you Mark, great video!
I believe that one of the biggest mistakes that some misguided landscape photographers make is producing cartoon like renderings by exaggerating the foreground elements of their photos. Each to their own, I guess, but a shame that they encourage others down this distorted garden path where balance and isolation are abandoned. Kind of like wearing size 18 shoes on one's size 6 feet.
Hi Mark. It was first time when I saw your video and must say that the amount of knowledge is amazing! I have Nikkor 10-20 ultra wide lens and I love it. It gives me a freedom to show exactly what I want to show. But there are many traps using such lenses which you mentioned in this video. I need to watch your other videos. It looks like I finally found the channel which contains usefull informations with examples. looking forward for next videos. Cheers
Really enjoying your videos Mark, and your teaching style. Very honest, to the point and easy to understand. I'd like to ask you how do you go about protecting the legs of your tripods when they are submerged in water (especially seawater!) If you are using RRS gear you obviously want them to last as long as possible and I know from experience that salt corrodes! Any advice would be appreciated.
HI Mark, really enjoyed the video. Do you possibly have a tutorial explaining how you get this "satiny" - soft but still crisp look in your landscape photos?
Thanks Mark. An informative and thought providing video, as usual. My first lens was a pentax 50 m lens followed by a Pentax 85 m (God - I loved that lens). On film of course.
Just ordered the Tamron 10-24mm lens. First attempt at wide angle lens. Your video was excellent and has given me some food for thought on practicing with the new lens once I receive it.
Love the experience share!! Wide angler since Canon 1022 and Sony 1635 is great but the Voigtlander 10mm the widest. Like you stated wide is not for "getting it all in" but rather a subject close but getting interesting background. A mistake also is the distortion at the sides say indoors with windows and doors extended widely, better to do a indoor panorama so everything looks normal. Also for panoramas using the wide angle will give a bowl look near the camera so a longer lens setting and you will get more detail sharper of those far off things. Oh! keep it level with a horizon involved, even the camera can show level but it will show. And For those night Milky Ways stars will stream inwards at the upper corners due to lens trying to keep things straight up and down but the wide stretching of doors at the sides indoors happens with the night sky, curved lenses projecting on a flat sensor problem oh and stars are faster moving left and right if shooting eastward faster SS's.
What is the name of the bracket you used to flip your camera from horizontal to vertical on the tripod? That looks so much faster and easier than manipulating your tripod to the format you want.
What was your first lens?
Canon 24-105 Zoom, was nice but heavy :)
18-150 mm EF-M and the 22MM f/2.0 EF-M for the canon M50
Tamron 70-200mm G2 for my nikon Z6
First lens was my 18-55mm that came with my camera. After that was a 70-300mm
My first lens was a pentacon 50mm 1.8 that I bought used for 30 bucks. That's what started my (still small) vintage lens collection :)
i prefer the un-cropped lighthouse picture, it depicts the loneliness of the lighthouse, the Moab one was great wide too.
I was going to say the exact same thing about the lighthouse. It added emotion.
"getting low". it's really great advice.
Your honesty and passionis appreciated. Thanks for sharing your expereince.
Thanks for great, and informative video. I am curious as to the camera attachment that you were using to create these vertical shots? It looks handier than a ball head. Thank you!
The window in the background is doing a pretty good job of face recognition ;)
Hi Mark. Just catching up on your videos. Growing up in the mountains of NC, I thought I knew most off the waterfalls around the BRP. Please share the name of the one in your last video? Totally agree on using a polarizer filter, especially for the upcoming fall leaves and bright color contrasts with a Carolina blue sky background.
Interesting with my wide angle zooms I always find myself zooming in all the way, I'm a telephoto kinda guy
I started very wide 14-24 and cropped a lot, then I progressed to a 24-70 and cropped, then to a 70-200 and cropped a little bit, now I use a 80-400mm and dont very often crop at all
I'm not a beginner but I made a HUGE rookie mistake yesterday evening photographing the sunset...LOw to the ground, long exposure over water & rocks...New landscape tripod with no center column...GREAT for this to the ground shots....BUT...Make sure to look carefully that your TRIPOD LEG isn't in the shot! LOL The legs on my new tripod are a bit longer than my older tripod so I'm still getting used to that. Plus I was under exposing the shot a bit to save the highlights so the shadows closer to me were a bit dark in the view screen. Luckily I saw it when I was looking at the shot while getting ready to go to the next shot. I was able to reset and take it again!
I just put in practice the "get close and embrace the distortion" motto, last week when shooting with a 16-35mm lens. A game changer for me. This video just reassured me that I am on the right path of getting better while enjoying what we do.
Glad to hear it was helpful!
12:50 the rock on the left of the waterfall looks like a frog.
hahaha
Awesome video again! I love how you make yourself “vulnerable” by being upfront about the mistakes you made. Thank you for being yourself.
Thanks for doing this video, Mark. I enjoy learning from your mistakes. "Scene stuffing" is something I always try to catch myself from doing when I shoot ultrawide.
Confronted by a scene that can't be captured with a single exposure, some folks stitch several exposures together to form a panorama. I learned the hard way that it doesn't work to make a panorama shot with exposures from a wide angle lens. The wide lens introduces distortions that make it impossible to use them for a panorama.
Yup. I've successfully stitched images at 35mm FF equiv, but anything wider than that and your pano program either gives up or the results are very poor. (Tip: Taking portrait orientation images work great for effective panos.)
one can always tell a beginner mistake when they use a wide angle lens on a lighthouse and it looks like it's the leaning tower of pisa
Yep, I've done that before as well!
Pisa è il nome di una città e in Italiano la prima lettera e maiuscola per il nome proprio ... 👍complimenti per il video comunque.
I love shooting with my Tokina 11-16mm lens and usually stick to 11mm. I get some great results, but do find that I have the same issues with trying to stuff too much in. Also, when I shoot the night sky at 11mm, it shows off the distortion on the edges and there's no easy way to fix it, so i need to crop it.
haven't watched your videos in awhile, but when did you switch to fujifilm and why? great vid!
Thanks so much! I fully switched a couple of months ago, but have been using Fuji for video for over a year
You can find an interesting video about his decision on this channel.
Get close, get low, do not fear the zoom :)
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Thank you so much. I just bought my 17-35 mm Nikkor lens. These tips will help me making better photo.
there shouldn't be a standard for how much content needs to be in one photo. People appreciate art differently. I like the original cut for the light house picture for example.
Imo the lighthouse looked better uncropped.
Was only about 4 month’s ago you got to 100k subs now you have 135k, 35k subs in 4 months! Good going that, well deserved😀😀
Thanks so much! Very exciting!
I will use some of this knowledge here in the Philippines.
Why flip the camera. Why not just shoot in full, then crop it ?
You lose unnecessary pixels by cropping. It’s best to compose your shot directly on the tripod.
The 18-55 and 55-200 lenders that came with my camera (Nikon D3200). Then, not wanting to spend a lot of money until I get more experienced, I bought an Altura 52mm 0.43x wide angle lens. Next came a Jintu 420-800 f/8.3 telephoto lens.
HI Mark, I am looking to buy a wide angle lens for my Nikon D 5600 crop lens F mount, I want to upgrade the quality from a kit lens, would you have any sugestions please,Ilove your videos which I find easy to understand and so ,very helpful. Regards Maureen
Just noticed the Sony Sport Walkman on the desk! Hahah. Love the vids. Keep it up.
I literally slapped myself on the head when you said don’t forget to shoot vertical. I visited line rock in Utah and the photo I took of it was amazing but I always felt like it was missing something. Looking back at it I’m starting to think if I shot it in vertical it would’ve been *chefs kiss*
It's one of those, "Wow! I coulda had a V-8"! moments!!
I just returned from a backpacking trip to the Grand Canyon using my Sony a6400 w/Sigma 16mm f1.4. I made the mistake of trying to capturing everything and stuck with that lens my whole trip. I am still learning so I’m not too bothered, but a more experienced photographer would most likely be disappointed in my shots haha
Great tips/instruction. Thanks! Would you mind sharing the name/location of the fall waterfall (tall) in the video? Thank you. Jackie (Asheville)
I would cut the cliff and keep the sea. It makes you think about departing from very last tip of safe land into the void of the ocean.
Thank you so much~! This really helped me get things in the right perspective :) I am just a hobby photographer but I wish to learn more. Subbed :)
Very GOOD videos
I did watch a video on using a tilt & shift lens to correct an image where you might need to use focus stacking, I haven't tried it with my T&S lens yet, but soon after winter GOES AWAY
Hi Mark, this is the kind of video that makes you pay attention to every photograph you take. Thanks a lot !
Let me ask you something, does photo stacking always requires a tripod ? Thanks.
Juan
My first (and only) lens is the Nikon DX 18-135 mm f3.5-5.6. To be perfectly honest it suits my needs well enough and I will hopefully be purchasing a fast prime lens to improve my portraits soon. Much love Mark keep up the good work.
Thanks a million Dominic!
Mark Denney anytime my friend
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Greetings, from a fellow photographer. We are a species in ourselves :).
I like the one at 14:00 the most. Do you perhaps sell prints? I consider one of this. Your video has a very tranquil tone. I like that. I now subbed.
There is no such thing as 'empty space'. I notice that you do not follow the one third rule. And these two concepts are related. However, this is why 'art' will always be subjective, and subjective opinion is very different from yours.
Mark, where'd you find the old Sony Walkman Sport? Those were the BEST back in the day!
My first lens was the Canon 24-105, f/4
How do you deal with the issue when you get down and close and the foreground subject appears large, but then the distant mountain/waterfall looks really small!! Do you ever do focal length blending?
Hi, I'm thinking about compositions you are talking about, and I feel that I photographers should benefit from an external monitor as the videographers . Sometimes I feel the same @4:35, something in frame is not right, not enough in frame, something you cant se on the tiny screen of mirrorless camera.
With this video you have earned my subscription. More tips for beginners please, great content! :)
Dear Mark, thank you for this video and especially for the nice set of landscape examples! I loved them! As for the lighthouse picture, I would do exactly opposite cropping: I would cut off the left part of the frame almost up (or up) to the place where the road starts being visible after passing the trees... I mention this just to confirm that 1) wide angle shooting gives us space to fine-tune the picture even in the case it was not framed perfectly and 2) photography as an art is about personal taste of photographer and his vision and mood at the moment of shooting and processing. Many thanks for your work again!
Your pictures are amazing!! I'm new to photography. Do I need to use a tripod to take this type photos when using a wide angle lens?
Why are you doing a slow zoom-in at the start? Those types of methods are used for building tension. This makes me feel tense listening to you talk about lenses. Please don't do that again. :)
I did landscape photos with a 100mm lens and loved it. Break the rules. No one's going to die.
For waterfalls, I like to use a vertical approach. Then you can get a lot more of the details
Is that an old school Sony Walkman?!?! Please say it actually works
I was scrolling down to see if anyone else caught that! I had that thing in high school...
@@mitchellmysliwiecphotography saaaame!
I just got a Canon EF S 10-22 thanks for your information from your video
Was that golden gat bridge photo focus stacked? Seems like it would have to be.
I have to laugh about the comments about distortion - I bought a fisheye lens in case I ever *wanted* distortion
Thank you for this video for many reasons as I am reentering the world of photography again with fervency. Another thank you for the awareness that this video's generosity and how the thumbs down is so bogus and arbitrary on so many people's channel. This video was informative, kind, honest and generous - thank you - liked and subscribed.
Nothing wrong with stuffing the scene. Just see some paintings by cannaletto.
Am I the only one who thinks that the image with more negative space was better? kind of told the story of how the light house stands against the massive ocean.
I love your examples and listening to your thought process while making corrections. Great video!
My first lens was the canon 24-70 f/4
Great advice Mark, What wide angle lens were you using here please
One quote I remember very well because it sums up things very nicely: Wide angle photography is close up photography.
The best channel ever where learning from one's mistakes is the best way to improve one's photography skills
I use my wide angle lens vertical only . Sigma art 14x24 lens
I’m learning so much from your videos. Thanks very much Mark.
Would you consider an editing video with that waterfall? It would be great to see your workflow.
why is it better to focus stack at let's say f/11 rather than doing a single shot at f22?
The iron cast rule in photography - landscape or not - less is more.
It will be better adding to much in your photo than too little. You can always crop
LOL - I can't remember how many times I said the same thing to the students I have taught; I.e. it is just as (or should that be more?) important to think about what to exclude, as what to include. Keep on making these excellent videos. Stay safe! Ian :-)
Thanks Ian! Great to hear you enjoy them
Very helpful video. Thank you for the tips.
Is one of the examples the superstition mountain in AZ?
After you do a few focus stack images, how do you remember where you focused on each image?
Most times you can just zoom in and see what's in focus most. You can also look at exif data to see the focus distance or download plug-ins for Lightroom/etc that shows you the focus point you used for that photo.
Regardless, you just take the 2 or 3 pics you shot at different focus areas and align and blend them together in a photoshop file and it figured out what's in focus for you.
Do you use filters to change the color of your sky or do you do it in post?
THANKS FOR THIS...I find myself always zooming to 24mm on my 12-24mm zoom lens....then further cropping the image in camera or in Lightroom! :)
I just got the opteka 55mm .45 wide angle "lens" to go with my 28mm. After figuring the crop factor (1.6) and my speedbooster multiplier (.71), it should be around 17mm field of view. Hope it doesn't affect the sharpness very much. Any thoughts?
at 7:06 point where was that picture taken? (waterfall)
Cristal clear. I'll keep that in mind once I'll use the 16mm I'm gonna get for Xmas. My actual lens is a 24-105mm F.4. Got a Lumix S1R. Cheers
Can you tell me is on a tripod the stabilisation on or off
Inlcude??😏. My first lens that came with my d750 was the Nikon 24-120mm f/4. Not a bad lens but my Sigma 18-35 f/1.8 that I use with my d500, blows that one out of the water.
🤣😂🤣 I SOOOO relate to this episode ....note to self ...work the shot...then work it with a different focal length....then hope you did enough work lol
sigh i have been into photography for awhile [off and on] for 25 years] and I have only been hearing about focus stacking this past year. One more thing I have to think about that I don't really want to do in my "work flow" My kingdom for a budget friendly f64 lens without diffraction lol I don't think Ansel Adams needed to focus stack so why should we lol I just put it on f16 when needed and hope for the best. Legit question...when did focus stacking become a thing? an invention of the digital age? way before that? what did people do before when PS / LR didn't exist ?
Loved it. Going to check your focus stack video but why wouldn't you simply close the lens to f16 and try to get everything in focus ?
depending on the scene F16 won't always guarantee you get everything in focus and most lenses are sharpest in the f/8 to f/11 range (full frame) hence there comes a point where it's better to focus stack than use a narrow aperture a you get sharper images overall from front to back.
Very helpful video. Great images as examples! Could you say a little about WHERE you focus when your priority is getting what is close and underfoot (rocks, grass, flowers, etc.) in focus? Many of your examples are composed with foreground a key feature and in sharp focus. Without necessarily checking hyperfocal distance, would you get focus from what is underfoot, aim about a third into the frame, or go all the way out to infinity? (If needed maybe assume you are at about 20mm and maybe 11-13 f ???) I know there are lots and lots of variables but would really appreciate a bit of practical in-the-field advice.
Thanks Mark, for the warnings on the wide angle lens. I have one but not used it yet so I will now do those intresting low and close to good use, next time I go out will have the wide angle Nikon 12-24mm in my bag. Great subject and good info.
Love that pic at corona arch…miss that place
Learning a lot from your videos and your teaching style !!! Thank you. I am also impressed with the production quality of your videos, including sound. I don't see a lapel mic, so I am curious how you are doing sound and how you light your studio. Please keep the content coming . Next stop will be 1 mil. subscribers!!!
Great video. Thanks Mark!
So true! I recently purchased a wide-angle lens 10-20 (15-30 in 35mm equivalent) and found that most of my first pictures were taken at 10mm... Thank you Mark, great video!
I believe that one of the biggest mistakes that some misguided landscape photographers make is producing cartoon like renderings by exaggerating the foreground elements of their photos. Each to their own, I guess, but a shame that they encourage others down this distorted garden path where balance and isolation are abandoned. Kind of like wearing size 18 shoes on one's size 6 feet.
Halfway through your helpful tutorial, I noticed your shirt, I’m from Maui, I had to do a double take then cackled on Makawao.
Hi Mark. It was first time when I saw your video and must say that the amount of knowledge is amazing! I have Nikkor 10-20 ultra wide lens and I love it. It gives me a freedom to show exactly what I want to show. But there are many traps using such lenses which you mentioned in this video. I need to watch your other videos. It looks like I finally found the channel which contains usefull informations with examples. looking forward for next videos. Cheers
Really enjoying your videos Mark, and your teaching style. Very honest, to the point and easy to understand. I'd like to ask you how do you go about protecting the legs of your tripods when they are submerged in water (especially seawater!) If you are using RRS gear you obviously want them to last as long as possible and I know from experience that salt corrodes! Any advice would be appreciated.
The tilte of camra and lens play in on photo
HI Mark,
really enjoyed the video. Do you possibly have a tutorial explaining how you get this "satiny" - soft but still crisp look in your landscape photos?
Thanks Mark. An informative and thought providing video, as usual. My first lens was a pentax 50 m lens followed by a Pentax 85 m (God - I loved that lens). On film of course.
8:50. Actually looks like a wolf howling 😉
Great advice and help
Thanks a million Paul!
Just ordered the Tamron 10-24mm lens. First attempt at wide angle lens. Your video was excellent and has given me some food for thought on practicing with the new lens once I receive it.
Love the experience share!! Wide angler since Canon 1022 and Sony 1635 is great but the Voigtlander 10mm the widest. Like you stated wide is not for "getting it all in" but rather a subject close but getting interesting background. A mistake also is the distortion at the sides say indoors with windows and doors extended widely, better to do a indoor panorama so everything looks normal. Also for panoramas using the wide angle will give a bowl look near the camera so a longer lens setting and you will get more detail sharper of those far off things. Oh! keep it level with a horizon involved, even the camera can show level but it will show. And For those night Milky Ways stars will stream inwards at the upper corners due to lens trying to keep things straight up and down but the wide stretching of doors at the sides indoors happens with the night sky, curved lenses projecting on a flat sensor problem oh and stars are faster moving left and right if shooting eastward faster SS's.
What is the name of the bracket you used to flip your camera from horizontal to vertical on the tripod? That looks so much faster and easier than manipulating your tripod to the format you want.