Thomas Heaton does such an amazing job of creating and telling the story - creating the drama. All photographers attempt to tell a story - either through photos, videos or both - but only a small percentage have the creative gift to weave this experience into something to pull at the viewer's emotions and inner drive.
WEX picked a top man to cover landscape photography you are a master of a high class. Love both the salt images really nice wall hanging pieces like the one you did on your channel
Thomas is such a great ambassador for landscape photography - keeps it real, explains fully without being patronising, and gets brilliant results. Have subscribed to ensure don't miss his further vlogs. Thanks Wex for sponsoring his trip, and hopefully you'll send him on more.
What a dramatic panorama and trust Thomas to get the rain and then that amazing cloud inversion in the one trip! Thank you WEX for making this possible
Wex, such a great decision commissioning Thomas to undertake this assigment. Quite simply one of the best photographers on UA-cam and delivers such amazing images whilst capturing the imagination
Well done Wex for supporting Tom. Another great vlog from Tom. Great tips on the "pano-hands" lol. I normally use lens cloth each side for a black out.
Hey Thomas, I love DV also. So lucky you were to see the inversion. I take lots of panos and have always used my left hand to start and stop the series, using my right with the remote button. Your idea of using the left to start and right to end makes great sense. I will adopt the method and thank you each time I shoot a pano!!! Thanks for another wonderful video and appreciation to Wex for sponsoring the trip. Good shooting...Bob
The textures and the tone gourgeous, images. Havent tried a panoramic knew to take several, you've mentioned that with images before. Thanks for mentioning the use of your hands. I would've been lost. That panoramic, just amazing.
I like the simple hint on how you separate the series of images, taken for one panorama. It is so simple and effective, that i almost feel embarrassed, for not thinking about it myself.
Another delightful landscape video, Thomas.... but one thing that surprised me was your feeling compelled to use focus stacking for those wide angle closeups of the salt hexagons vs. shooting with focus at hyperfocal distance, which for my FF sensor, and 16mm lens at f/11 should yield everything from 1.5 ft to infinity in focus. Do you other factors for that that decision? Thanks
Thanks Thomas! I'm heading there myself in a few weeks. I'm hoping to capture that classic image myself (minus the rain hopefully) and I appreciate the tutorial.
Cool. I found Wex because of Thomas. I’m going to write him and suggest that he change the folder in between panoramic sets. That way each one will be in its own folder and still be viewed in Lightroom all the same as needed. I just put my “change folder” setting in my quick menu for and easy 3-click change. 👍🏿
Paul Barnard me too! I just got back from Iceland where I shot so many panoramic images and trying to find where to start/finish was really time comsuming
Any journal featuring Tom is a must watch and this is no different. Despite the awful weather he succeeds in making beautiful images that most of us would never see. His enthusiasm is infectious and he is a fantastic ambassador for both WEX and landscape photography in general.
Hi Tom my wife and I went in May a few years ago and, like you, we thought we’d taken UK weather with us as it was torrential, so bad that they were using snow ploughs to clear mud from the roads. It cleared mid afternoon and I got up at 4am next day for sunrise at Zabriskie Point, the cars temperature gauge was reading 104°F which in centigrade is bloody hot!
i guess Im asking the wrong place but does someone know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account? I somehow forgot the password. I love any tricks you can offer me!
@Rey Ray thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm trying it out now. I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
Thomas - my first trip to DV is coming up in 4 weeks. I've lived in CA for 30 years, and will be leaving in 1, so this is a bucket list item for me. How did you zero in on where you'd go?
Awesome video. It's great to see a master at work. You should send him off to the Dolomites with Mad Peter Iversen, now that would be an awesome combination of probably the two best landscape photographers out there at the moment.!!
Just left Death Valley a couple days ago. Decided not to visit the race track because it rained and I thought maybe the Playa would be super soft and I would leave foot prints. Drove to Canyon de Chelly and wow such an amazing place. Do yourself a favor and check it out. I am in Monument Valley right now waiting for the sun to rise.
That hand trick over lens is a good idea and one that helped a while back. Kinda like the clap board for filming. Ha ha. I always have said it would be great to be able to easily comment on images with voice to text for the comment field. Ha ha. Perhaps they can do that someday rather than the awkward typing in. Sometimes we forget our thoughts while out shooting and forget them back at the computer. :-)
Enjoyed the video as usual but cant understand focus stacking a 16mm lens at F11. With a hyperlocal distance of less than 1 metre the DOF is 12 inches to infinity. Am I missing something?
The hand at the start and end is a good idea, however if you are importing these into Lightroom you can stack pictures based on capture time, if you taking each shot closer together by time, you can add this as an import filter and it would automatically stack them in Lightroom. Eg each picture in a panorama is taken approx 5sec apart. You would not normally start a second / next panorama seconds apart from the last, when you import you tell Lightroom to stack all pictures that were taken say upto 10sec apart, it will then include all You panos stacked together......
Very nice video! I just want to make a point about lighting, unless you are a professional photographer trying to sell your images there is no real reason to stop taking pictures because of the quality of the light. Most of us travel to a specific place, usually only once, with the idea of bringing back awesome pictures of those unbelievable places. I rather use filters and editing software to try to "fix" the images rather than to come home empty handed because the light was not perfect. At least that is my opinion.
Will focus stacking work on a fast flowing stream with lots of rocks in it. I used a 14mm, f2.4 lens, f8, 1/50 sec (stream was flowing quick enough to get good motion blur) and ISO 200. The closest point of focus was 35 cm and the maximum point was about 20 meters. The far bank was not in focus . Now if I had the correct plate attached to my camera, I could have used a tripod and would focus stacking have made the whole picture in focus?
WEX please keep supporting T.Heaton.He's one of my Favorites.Keep it up Thomas
Mark Leary I agree. He’s my favorite.
Without a doubt Thomas Heaton is a massive influence on both my video and photography. Always inspiring to watch
Any video with Thomas Heaton is a winner!
Stunning video - Thomas Heaton is one of the most engaging landscape photographers in the business.
It's also so great to see what a great bunch of positive people Tom's fans are in the comments! Thanks Wex for supporting Tom!
What a great opportunity to be in Death Valley with the rain. Totally different experience then normal. Enjoy your videos.
Thank You Wex for sponsoring Thomas Heaton.Brilliant Thomas. . . . . . Absolutely Brilliant.
Thomas Heaton is by far my favourite landscape photographer 📷 he just makes me want to get out there and find them images.
Thomas Heaton does such an amazing job of creating and telling the story - creating the drama. All photographers attempt to tell a story - either through photos, videos or both - but only a small percentage have the creative gift to weave this experience into something to pull at the viewer's emotions and inner drive.
WEX picked a top man to cover landscape photography you are a master of a high class. Love both the salt images really nice wall hanging pieces like the one you did on your channel
Tom is such a good storyteller. That's what makes is videos so engaging. That cloud inversion shot is amazing!
Thomas is such a great ambassador for landscape photography - keeps it real, explains fully without being patronising, and gets brilliant results. Have subscribed to ensure don't miss his further vlogs. Thanks Wex for sponsoring his trip, and hopefully you'll send him on more.
What a dramatic panorama and trust Thomas to get the rain and then that amazing cloud inversion in the one trip! Thank you WEX for making this possible
The Panorama start and finish tip was great. That will make things so much easier in post :-)
Yet another little jem Thanks Wex for sending him.
Thomas Heaton is one of the Best.
A magnificent video, highly informative, and Thom just crushes not only the photography but also the personality for the video.
well done Wex, enjoy all of Heaton's work, photos and vlogs
Wex, such a great decision commissioning Thomas to undertake this assigment. Quite simply one of the best photographers on UA-cam and delivers such amazing images whilst capturing the imagination
That tip regarding the left and right hands is pure gold!
Awesome video! Thank you Wex for choosing Thomas. The video was very interesting and the pictures from Thomas are as always truly beautiful.
Great video. Thank you Wex for sponsoring Thom's trip.
Excellent choice of a photographer to send on this project. Thank you. And thanks, Thomas, for the Pano beginning/end tip!
Well done Wex for supporting Tom. Another great vlog from Tom. Great tips on the "pano-hands" lol. I normally use lens cloth each side for a black out.
Hey Thomas,
I love DV also. So lucky you were to see the inversion. I take lots of panos and have always used my left hand to start and stop the series, using my right with the remote button. Your idea of using the left to start and right to end makes great sense. I will adopt the method and thank you each time I shoot a pano!!! Thanks for another wonderful video and appreciation to Wex for sponsoring the trip. Good shooting...Bob
Genius tip for panoramas Tom, the left hand right hand thing... brilliant!!
Great video with 2 lovely Images.
The textures and the tone gourgeous, images. Havent tried a panoramic knew to take several, you've mentioned that with images before. Thanks for mentioning the use of your hands. I would've been lost. That panoramic, just amazing.
Fantastic-Tom is the best, you're lucky to have him, keep it up!
Another great Thomas Heaton video thanks for supporting him Wex
Great wisdom shared in this. I love the mix of conceptual and practical ideas. Thanks, Wex and Thomas!
Awesome video. Thomas is a professional.
Another great Thomas Heaton video, as a follower of his own UA-cam channel, I expected nothing less.
I like the simple hint on how you separate the series of images, taken for one panorama. It is so simple and effective, that i almost feel embarrassed, for not thinking about it myself.
Subscribed. Absolutely fantastic video Thomas. Thanks for sharing and thank you Wex for making this possible 👍🏆
Thank you Thomas, yet another stunning video...absolutely gorgeous!
Great video! Bring more from Thomas! Love it!
Tom never fails to inform and inspire. Thanks to Wex for noticing this.
Superb video Tom, as always. Been looking forward to this for a while now 👍
Great video can't wait to go and take photos.
Thomas Heaton is one of the best story tellers even when he is alone in the midst of ..... almost nothing.
Subscribed so that you keep supporting Thomas Heaton.
Yea, nice to meet his agent!
Another delightful landscape video, Thomas.... but one thing that surprised me was your feeling compelled to use focus stacking for those wide angle closeups of the salt hexagons vs. shooting with focus at hyperfocal distance, which for my FF sensor, and 16mm lens at f/11 should yield everything from 1.5 ft to infinity in focus. Do you other factors for that that decision? Thanks
Great tip about marking the pano sequences with hand shots, I'm going to use that one for sure.
Thanks Thomas! I'm heading there myself in a few weeks. I'm hoping to capture that classic image myself (minus the rain hopefully) and I appreciate the tutorial.
Subscribed to support more great photographers like Thomas
Cool.
I found Wex because of Thomas. I’m going to write him and suggest that he change the folder in between panoramic sets. That way each one will be in its own folder and still be viewed in Lightroom all the same as needed. I just put my “change folder” setting in my quick menu for and easy 3-click change. 👍🏿
Beautiful video and great tips from a Pro!! Loved it!
Wonder video! And great tip about bracketing your panorama with hands! I will definitely be trying that! Keep up the great work!
What a great video! It's a gorgeous mix of tutorial and storytelling. Pretty amazing shots, as usual.
Nice location / job Mr Heaton.
Thank you @Wex on the choice of Mr Heaton. #Wex
you need to bring some of that rain to New Mexico! Thanks for celebrating the minimalist perspective.
Thanks for this Tom! Hugely instructive. Cheers!
WOW, that panoramic tip with using your hands to show the end is GENIUS! Why haven't I thought about that!?
Paul Barnard me too! I just got back from Iceland where I shot so many panoramic images and trying to find where to start/finish was really time comsuming
I use front and back of left hand using my thumb as a pointer
Great video, looking forward to more like this. 👍
How many of us have shot from that exact spot, I know I have, thanks, brings back memories.
Great video! Love Tom's work.
The best in the business! 👍 amazing as always Thomas!
Another superb video from Mr. Heaton!
Great video. Thank you Wex and Thomas!
Any journal featuring Tom is a must watch and this is no different. Despite the awful weather he succeeds in making beautiful images that most of us would never see. His enthusiasm is infectious and he is a fantastic ambassador for both WEX and landscape photography in general.
Hi Tom my wife and I went in May a few years ago and, like you, we thought we’d taken UK weather with us as it was torrential, so bad that they were using snow ploughs to clear mud from the roads. It cleared mid afternoon and I got up at 4am next day for sunrise at Zabriskie Point, the cars temperature gauge was reading 104°F which in centigrade is bloody hot!
Such a relaxing video this one, feels like you took your time a little more than usual 👍🏻
Using your hand to mark the start and end of a panoramic; great tip, thanks!
Great video and I loved the tip about using your hands to mark the panorama. 👍
excellent video! Such rare and beautiful conditions you had Tom!
i guess Im asking the wrong place but does someone know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account?
I somehow forgot the password. I love any tricks you can offer me!
@Dallas Guillermo Instablaster ;)
@Rey Ray thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm trying it out now.
I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Rey Ray it did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. Im so happy:D
Thanks so much you saved my ass!
@Dallas Guillermo no problem :D
Great video Thomas looking forward to the next.
Thomas - my first trip to DV is coming up in 4 weeks. I've lived in CA for 30 years, and will be leaving in 1, so this is a bucket list item for me. How did you zero in on where you'd go?
Excellent video - throughly enjoyed following your trip Thomas
Awesome video. It's great to see a master at work. You should send him off to the Dolomites with Mad Peter Iversen, now that would be an awesome combination of probably the two best landscape photographers out there at the moment.!!
Wow, that hexagon salt flat image is stunning.
Well done Wex well done Thomas another great video
Very good. I was expecting shooting 120 degs but this is great also. I learnt things.
Tom is amazing!
Just left Death Valley a couple days ago. Decided not to visit the race track because it rained and I thought maybe the Playa would be super soft and I would leave foot prints. Drove to Canyon de Chelly and wow such an amazing place. Do yourself a favor and check it out. I am in Monument Valley right now waiting for the sun to rise.
great videro... btw, why don' you use a tilt-shift lens? I suppose it could be a nice solution for landscape photography (it's just an idea...)
Lovely video Thomas, keep up the good work.
Great work Thomas, keep it up!
I really enjoyed this. :-) Great story with some wonderful photographs.
That hand trick over lens is a good idea and one that helped a while back. Kinda like the clap board for filming. Ha ha.
I always have said it would be great to be able to easily comment on images with voice to text for the comment field. Ha ha. Perhaps they can do that someday rather than the awkward typing in. Sometimes we forget our thoughts while out shooting and forget them back at the computer. :-)
Great vlog Wex and Heaton!!
Enjoyed the video as usual but cant understand focus stacking a 16mm lens at F11. With a hyperlocal distance of less than 1 metre the DOF is 12 inches to infinity. Am I missing something?
Does the lens you're using for the focus stacking shot have any focus breathing? Will that make it harder to stitch the stacked images in post?
Awesome video, thank you.
great video - really enjoy the approach
Top video and pictures! greetings from Dubai. Erik
Absolutely stunning
Great video. Now they need to send you on the John Muir Trail. It will change your photographic life.
Striking indeed!
In case anyone is wondering, the two locations he shot were Badwater Basin and Dante’s View.
thanks Wex, Like TH videos.
Dang you were in death valley? Did you swing by the Phoenix area? Great video
why u didnt pay attention to the fog behind u while shooting im curious to know..
The hand at the start and end is a good idea, however if you are importing these into Lightroom you can stack pictures based on capture time, if you taking each shot closer together by time, you can add this as an import filter and it would automatically stack them in Lightroom. Eg each picture in a panorama is taken approx 5sec apart. You would not normally start a second / next panorama seconds apart from the last, when you import you tell Lightroom to stack all pictures that were taken say upto 10sec apart, it will then include all You panos stacked together......
Very nice video! I just want to make a point about lighting, unless you are a professional photographer trying to sell your images there is no real reason to stop taking pictures because of the quality of the light. Most of us travel to a specific place, usually only once, with the idea of bringing back awesome pictures of those unbelievable places. I rather use filters and editing software to try to "fix" the images rather than to come home empty handed because the light was not perfect. At least that is my opinion.
Great tips thank you
Will focus stacking work on a fast flowing stream with lots of rocks in it. I used a 14mm, f2.4 lens, f8, 1/50 sec (stream was flowing quick enough to get good motion blur) and ISO 200. The closest point of focus was 35 cm and the maximum point was about 20 meters. The far bank was not in focus . Now if I had the correct plate attached to my camera, I could have used a tripod and would focus stacking have made the whole picture in focus?
Mark Jarrett it would yes. Just bring back the details in the rocks along the water. 3 images wold have been spot on. Try next time 😊👍🏻
Look for a you tuber Dave Morrow he covers exactly what your talking about with a fast moving stream in one of his recent videos
Enjoyable info .please anyone who is the music artist ?
Hi Tom, your images seem to have a strong blue colour cast over them 🤔
"ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS"