I answered on Fstoppers, but figured I should answer here as well 20:34. The Golden Gate bridge shot is a single exposure shot on Canon 60D, ISO-100, F-13, 70-200mm 2.8 @85mm, 25 second expo, used Big Stopper to get the expo necessary to have the motion in the fog. And YES, I didn't clean the sensor spots.
i loved some of these images but i was under the impression that telephoto was like 135mm and above, there were loads of shots that were definitely under 50mm and then when theres a telephoto shot of the green pine trees you say there isn't enough foreground :-o
35:00 - This is shoot done directly to the south and shows north faces of Tre Cime di Lavaredo. Sunset and sunrise are lighting up these peaks, especially on in the time of a year when the rifugio is open and there is no snow. Behind the mountains, there is no big city that could make the glow (Cortina d'Ampezzo is like 20km and behind a mountain range, and still.... it is a small town in deep valley).
The winning shot of Taipei 101 is well executed but it has to be super wide angle. Somewhere between 16-20mm. I've been there on that bridge shooting Taipei 101 several times and you can't get this shot with 20mm and above on a full frame camera.
24:10 I think the composition is perfect. You need the asymetrical and booring to bring up the fantastic and grand. The mountains to the left builds up suspense and adds a pure and dainty look to contrast the extreme and heavy to the right.
Regarding the 4th photo, I just watched a documentary on Netflix called Yellowstone, Battle for Life. Its taken in Yellowstone Park and it is of a thermal spring, it has steam coming off it and was taken from either a chopper or drone. There were some even better video shots of this in the doco. Whoever took it has cropped in a long way to it make it harder too tell what and where it was.
The one shot you couldn't identify the location - Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone - probably shot from the new overlook on the hill. Accurate colors and very telephoto!
I recognized it as a postcard image from a childhood trip through Yellowstone. I couldn't remember the name, but I knew it was a geothermal feature, so it was easy to find and confirm. In terms of saturation, it appears in line with a lot of images I've seen online. I suppose I can understand the skepticism though. If you want to see crazy colors that look unreal, search for "Fly Geyser". That's the geyser seen in photos from "Burning Man/Black Rock". Crazy.
17:58 this kinda looks composite to me. It seems to have different exposure times like lower in the foreground (~1-2s) and higher in the background (~5-10s). Even the clouds seem very hazy as if shot with 30s+ exposure.
Apparently it is which is pretty cool if you ask me. Still curious if it is a single exposure even knowing that bit of info but I haven't heard from the photographer yet
On the last image, the glow could be light pollution from a town. Doesn’t need to be a big town to produce a lot of pollution, especially at high iso or longer exposures.
@fstoppers 26:11 my eyes are bleeding.... this episode has some of the best photography you guys have ever reviewed and you just put daggers in my irises. lol... great show.
Fstoppers Joking, I was referring to the image at 26:11 specifically. The over processed barn/mountain scene. Even if we don't get to see the raw file, even if they just simply adjust the yellow-neon green mountain caps to white, it would be more bearable. Really enjoyed seeing the higher caliber of photography, and in turn the higher rating because of that as well.
Austin paz I checked the Meta Data. You were right. Here's the important bits: Camera: Nikon D800 Lens: 24-70 mm f/2.8 Shot at 24 mm Exposure: Manual exposure, 30 sec, f/11, ISO 100 Flash: Off, Did not fire Focus: At 5.0m, with a depth of field from about 1.3m to infinity
Would be great if you go deep into the Details! Like the advantage if you want to flash against the sun with limited power. Things like... leafshutters. My 1940s medium Format has a leafshutter, maxing at 200th but it actually syncs with flash at this speed. Others offer more, the fuji GW 690 goes to...500th?_ more? So you got a camera With a tiny depth of field relative to its darkened Aperture, no HSS power Loss at a somewhat fast Aperture + the overexposure latitude of color negative Film. All together give you more flash power while still not compromising and being able to get bokeh. Or you can just get a stronger flash, of course.
RdyPlyOne but why? every photographer had to post process with film, and is no different witj digital. No one will present a photo straight out of camera unless they are some pretentious fineart guy
can anybody tell the location of the photo shot at 35:00? I saw many picture shot here at the same angle at different moments, but not sure where it is.
24:30 Idk how that's a 5. To me it's a 2. I feel like almost anyone that happened to be up there at that time could have taken that picture with any camera. There's nothing particularly striking about it either.
My only complaint would be that it is more educational to rate and make suggestions about images that are 2s then it is to rave about 4s and 5s. That said I am jealous of those able to travel to exotic locations and photograph them which is something you guys seem to love.
Awesome to get '4 Stars' on my first critique the community submission. Mine was the city pano at 33:09. Three frame landscape pano of Auckland City, New Zealand
Refering to the star photo at the end: The yellow horizon is somewhat the bane of every astro-landscaper, it's light pollution and this sort of fade is common. It could be light pollution from shooting too early still in the evening or too close to dawn depending on the time of year but it's probably from city lights. Yes, it is likely that the land is a different exposure, either lit by the moon, earlier in the night, or just a longer exposure. In my opinion the stars are too out of focus and look too denoised to be perfect, AND this is NOT A TELEPHOTO unless it's a pano, if so my mind is blown because the image is too clean for long exposures of the stars like this.
I feel like it would be better to have random shots chosen instead of good ones. There isn't really much to say about an image that's already really good, and therefore less for us to learn from.
I agree but people get really upset when we post a lot of 2 and 3 images and complain "what would it take to be a 4 or 5?" This critique def has more highly rated images than usual which I prefer looking at but maybe it's less helpful.
This might be a little late, but: 1.) the last picture is from the Dolomites / Italy. 2.) the yellow light is not a sunset, but light polution. Cheers from Switzerland :)
To be honest , I was little bit bored watching this episode becasue there was nearly no surprise ( relatively weird - bad ) shots :D I think choosing photos randomized is a better way :D
I really love this series you are making but I have to say that it was totally unfair to the other entries to award the tutorial to a shot which didn't even meet the competition parameters. The shot should have been excluded. It really bugs me that you permitted a 24mm shot to not only enter but win a competition for over 50mm (I clearly have issues!). Anyway love your other series too (Amateur vs Professional).
I answered on Fstoppers, but figured I should answer here as well 20:34. The Golden Gate bridge shot is a single exposure shot on Canon 60D, ISO-100, F-13, 70-200mm 2.8 @85mm, 25 second expo, used Big Stopper to get the expo necessary to have the motion in the fog. And YES, I didn't clean the sensor spots.
Erick Castellón thanks for commenting on here too. I liked to know
Fantastic shot. That and the image of the mountains and clouds where the best in this one IMO.
Great job!
Is that picture something you'd be willing to sell as a print? I think it was the best picture in the whole video.
Incredible photo
That winning shot is with a 19 mm... lol
ironically the highest rated image gets the tutorial, I think the worst rated image needs a tutorial the most to better their technique
DEVUNK88 agreed but then people will upload crap. That’s why we will have one random winner and one rated winner.
good counter point haha
Winners 'IS' & Runners up 'ARE'. 'I' never inflate but 'WE' inflate. There is always a way to know the weak but zealous photographer.
That's actually a pretty valid point
This make total sense Devunkk...
When you point to something on your screen can you do something in the edit to indicate the area of the photograph that you are referring to
Just a guess, but I'd say the yellow in the Milky Way shot is light pollution - not sunset.
Light pollution for certain, happens in all my night shots in Southern California
Yes, I shot in this direction last year and got similar pollution
Yes I would agree on the light pollution. I tried some milky way shots last year and thats what it looks like having civilization "nearby".
That was my thought too!
Of course it's light pollution from a city or town. Nice shot regardless.
i loved some of these images but i was under the impression that telephoto was like 135mm and above, there were loads of shots that were definitely under 50mm and then when theres a telephoto shot of the green pine trees you say there isn't enough foreground :-o
Hi guys! I live close to the location of the last image. The halo behind the 3 mountains is due to artificial lights of the nearby villages!
35:00 - This is shoot done directly to the south and shows north faces of Tre Cime di Lavaredo. Sunset and sunrise are lighting up these peaks, especially on in the time of a year when the rifugio is open and there is no snow. Behind the mountains, there is no big city that could make the glow (Cortina d'Ampezzo is like 20km and behind a mountain range, and still.... it is a small town in deep valley).
The winning shot of Taipei 101 is well executed but it has to be super wide angle. Somewhere between 16-20mm. I've been there on that bridge shooting Taipei 101 several times and you can't get this shot with 20mm and above on a full frame camera.
10:30 It looks like Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park.
That’s what I thought too!
I agree
You can hike up to an overlook and get this tele shot
38:30 - that yellow glow won’t be setting sun; it’ll be light pollution sky-glow from a city
8:42 is Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone NP. You have a platform up high, to shoot this kind of compositions
24:10 I think the composition is perfect. You need the asymetrical and booring to bring up the fantastic and grand. The mountains to the left builds up suspense and adds a pure and dainty look to contrast the extreme and heavy to the right.
26:09 I was watching on my laptop with the lights off and i swear that image gave me a headache
So many of the images you picked are not telephoto ..........
I love your programs! Would it be possible to have a mouse pointer so when you point out something specific it would be more visible.
Hello. The third photo , around 6:20 in the video , is taken with the Canon 24-70mm at 70mm the author said.
P.S. Glad I could help 😁😁😁
27:14 Patrick brings up a cool idea, is there a place that this happens? I upload my RAW and the community can play with it in post?
the last image is taken from Dolomites, I get there once, the light you see behind the mountains is the light pollution reflecting on the clouds/fog
Regarding the 4th photo, I just watched a documentary on Netflix called Yellowstone, Battle for Life. Its taken in Yellowstone Park and it is of a thermal spring, it has steam coming off it and was taken from either a chopper or drone. There were some even better video shots of this in the doco. Whoever took it has cropped in a long way to it make it harder too tell what and where it was.
The one shot you couldn't identify the location - Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone - probably shot from the new overlook on the hill. Accurate colors and very telephoto!
James Parker totally. It was crazy obvious to me maybe since i live 5 hrs away from it
I recognized it as a postcard image from a childhood trip through Yellowstone. I couldn't remember the name, but I knew it was a geothermal feature, so it was easy to find and confirm. In terms of saturation, it appears in line with a lot of images I've seen online. I suppose I can understand the skepticism though. If you want to see crazy colors that look unreal, search for "Fly Geyser". That's the geyser seen in photos from "Burning Man/Black Rock". Crazy.
I've hiked up the hill for a shot myself except mine is a wide angle shot. Definitely not a helicopter shot.
James Parker they missed the small plant unless they thought it was a tree, def a hot-spring and not a beach from a helicopter 😂😂
The location of 34:40 is called Drei Zinnen and it is located in South Tyrol
You need another guy to pick the photos, its not as fun this way
17:58 this kinda looks composite to me. It seems to have different exposure times like lower in the foreground (~1-2s) and higher in the background (~5-10s). Even the clouds seem very hazy as if shot with 30s+ exposure.
It is a pity that most pics were not shot with a minimum 50 mm focal length but clearly with a wide angle lens.
really? What other images do you think were below 50mm?
The last shot was definitely less than 24mm
Could the light behind the mountain in the last picture be light spill from a town or village?
Apparently it is which is pretty cool if you ask me. Still curious if it is a single exposure even knowing that bit of info but I haven't heard from the photographer yet
On the last image, the glow could be light pollution from a town. Doesn’t need to be a big town to produce a lot of pollution, especially at high iso or longer exposures.
21:29 Yup, that's a single long exposure. I'll tell you from first hand experience...that's what SF looks like fogged in ;)
It's a fantaaastic shot. My winning pick if I could
Yes SF
dam i love this series
Wow really good crop of images this time around.
That winning shot at 18:12, I find it hard to believe it was a telephoto focal length. The distortion gives it away.
i am going with 21:37 great channel.
@fstoppers 26:11 my eyes are bleeding.... this episode has some of the best photography you guys have ever reviewed and you just put daggers in my irises. lol... great show.
Daggers? Why is that? I feel like we rated these images higher than most of the other episodes because the photography was so good!
Fstoppers Joking, I was referring to the image at 26:11 specifically. The over processed barn/mountain scene. Even if we don't get to see the raw file, even if they just simply adjust the yellow-neon green mountain caps to white, it would be more bearable. Really enjoyed seeing the higher caliber of photography, and in turn the higher rating because of that as well.
Theres no way #9 was shot with anything over 50mm. you can see the distortion in the buildings
Austin Paz 50mm multi shot pano??
It was a 19mm tilt shift
Austin paz I checked the Meta Data. You were right. Here's the important bits:
Camera: Nikon D800
Lens: 24-70 mm f/2.8
Shot at 24 mm
Exposure: Manual exposure, 30 sec, f/11, ISO 100
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Focus: At 5.0m, with a depth of field from about 1.3m to infinity
Can I request you do Film Photography as a topic?
splashstrike we will
Excellent!
Would be great if you go deep into the Details! Like the advantage if you want to flash against the sun with limited power. Things like... leafshutters. My 1940s medium Format has a leafshutter, maxing at 200th but it actually syncs with flash at this speed. Others offer more, the fuji GW 690 goes to...500th?_ more? So you got a camera With a tiny depth of field relative to its darkened Aperture, no HSS power Loss at a somewhat fast Aperture + the overexposure latitude of color negative Film. All together give you more flash power while still not compromising and being able to get bokeh. Or you can just get a stronger flash, of course.
The milky way one was definitely not taken with a 50mm. My 50mm lens only manages to fit the white, brightest part
The orange and green shot you thought was from a helicopter is the grand prismatic in Yellowstone.
Hi! When will the next critique be or air?
including the raw image should be a requirement.
You guys should do a "Outta camera" or "minimum edit" critique.
RdyPlyOne but why? every photographer had to post process with film, and is no different witj digital. No one will present a photo straight out of camera unless they are some pretentious fineart guy
Michelin stars should have "raw meat and vegs" category.
34:45 it's Italy. Tre cime di Lavaredo. An amazing place!
17:00 no hate! Hunting is part of human evolution!
Guilherme Checchia incorrect
GODZILLA646 right, 5.000 years ago we were industrial farmers already hahahaha
The yellow light on the last image is coming out from the city/town, not the sun set.
I'm on image 12. They're all Excellent/World Class apparently.
That sanfran pic is amazing not gonna lie
Regarding last picture, I guess there is no sunset causing that light but a city far behind. In fact its very difficult to get rid of those..
can anybody tell the location of the photo shot at 35:00? I saw many picture shot here at the same angle at different moments, but not sure where it is.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre_Cime_di_Lavaredo
I've always loved powerlines for some reason. Maybe because of a painting from nanami cowroy
You guys should do a critique the community VIDEO EDITION! I’m much more of a cinematographer so i think that would be super fun to submit and watch!
Hell yes! It might only be 5 videos though but oh well.
So was it more than 50mm?
24:30 Idk how that's a 5. To me it's a 2. I feel like almost anyone that happened to be up there at that time could have taken that picture with any camera. There's nothing particularly striking about it either.
so many pictures you would hang on your wall.
He has a lot of walls man. He built a house of only walls.
The wall just got 10 feet higher
I love you guys
19:30 This could be shot at 55mm?
What is the name of the music being used in the intro?
The one that won is Nikkor 19mm Tilt-Shift
Castellon work is real. I've seen this in real life.
Its grand prismatic spring at Yellowstone.
My only complaint would be that it is more educational to rate and make suggestions about images that are 2s then it is to rave about 4s and 5s. That said I am jealous of those able to travel to exotic locations and photograph them which is something you guys seem to love.
I agree but a lot of people complain when we don't show enough 4 and 5 images.
Fstoppers I never post my best photos, only the ones I want to learn from....
17:00 i don't know why but this made me laugh so hard. it is true though !
the best way to judge a Photograph is to count how meny it sells
i mean would you want to put a lot of these photos on your wall ????
I guess 1st mountain shot iz somwhere in Dolomites (Tre Cime)
The yellow halo in the mountains with the stars is light pollution
Awesome to get '4 Stars' on my first critique the community submission. Mine was the city pano at 33:09. Three frame landscape pano of Auckland City, New Zealand
Misty skyline is sunrise from Dubai Marina.
How about city lights ?
The power lines photo was great. Love power lines. Too much contrast and post imo.
These were fantastic! Well maybe for yellow snow I’d need a bottle of bourbon or LSD to fully appreciate it :)
"The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later." Your website is fun....
TummyWummy should be fixed now
28:27 Opening scene of Twilight.
21 and 28 best
The Submission website is down :(
Lucas Jensen fixed
I’ve been to that shop on kings st. if they didn’t print on metal, all their prints would look so overdone just like that one photo
👍🏼
how about the best unedited to sh*t photo?
The Milky Way image looks sub 50mm. Probably between 16 and 24mm
Refering to the star photo at the end: The yellow horizon is somewhat the bane of every astro-landscaper, it's light pollution and this sort of fade is common. It could be light pollution from shooting too early still in the evening or too close to dawn depending on the time of year but it's probably from city lights. Yes, it is likely that the land is a different exposure, either lit by the moon, earlier in the night, or just a longer exposure. In my opinion the stars are too out of focus and look too denoised to be perfect, AND this is NOT A TELEPHOTO unless it's a pano, if so my mind is blown because the image is too clean for long exposures of the stars like this.
Ummm isn’t that peter McKinnon’s shot that they thought they’ve seen?
The winning shot is in Taipei's Xinyi district, that area is heavily trafficked by photographers.
Next critique should be what can you do with garbage on artistic way
15:00 real? Why doesnt the street continue behind the horizon. It just vanishes... ?
I feel like it would be better to have random shots chosen instead of good ones. There isn't really much to say about an image that's already really good, and therefore less for us to learn from.
I agree but people get really upset when we post a lot of 2 and 3 images and complain "what would it take to be a 4 or 5?" This critique def has more highly rated images than usual which I prefer looking at but maybe it's less helpful.
Fair enough! case of 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation.
cool
What happened to your Microsoft laptop?!
Ben Davies battery died
" composition is too straight forward" previous image is literally a bw snapshot of the side of a building
This might be a little late, but:
1.) the last picture is from the Dolomites / Italy.
2.) the yellow light is not a sunset, but light polution.
Cheers from Switzerland :)
After the discussion it sounds like you need to do a new round of Fine Art with a better focused criteria what you're looking for.
The gentlemen on the left could be the younger, taller brother of Peter Dinklage.
That overprocessed image seem to be the same as this one on Wikimedia commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barns_grand_tetons.jpg
My bad, it's the same location not the same photo after I've crosschecked it with the one in the video.
To be honest , I was little bit bored watching this episode becasue there was nearly no surprise ( relatively weird - bad ) shots :D I think choosing photos randomized is a better way :D
The Milky Way runs North & South. The foreground looks poorly superimposed; weird angle in relation to the background mountains.
Image 19, Its most likely light pollution, from a town/city...
"From Marvel or X-Men" , he doesn't watch movies .
You definitely need someone else to pic the photos.
Peter what??
One of the worst critiques get. I can count 5+ images who clearly wasn’t telephoto.
I really love this series you are making but I have to say that it was totally unfair to the other entries to award the tutorial to a shot which didn't even meet the competition parameters. The shot should have been excluded. It really bugs me that you permitted a 24mm shot to not only enter but win a competition for over 50mm (I clearly have issues!). Anyway love your other series too (Amateur vs Professional).
First? If so I give my comment a 2, some effort but a hack subject, poor post processing.
20:35 The next subject should be "Heavily Photoshopped"... this would take the cake.
the overprocessed image has a cartoonish look, so maybe he went for that