How to Photograph Trees, Mushrooms and Rivers | Woodland Photography Tips
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Sometimes when the weather is a bit rubbish, but you have that nature photography itch, heading into some secluded woodland is your best bet for photographic success.
In this tutorial, official Nikon Ambassador Ross Hoddinott shows you 3 great techniques you can use to properly capture and document a woodland area.
Learn how to take beautiful woodland stream images, as well as macro photos of fungi and some creative ICM images of trees with bold shapes.
This video was produced by NatureTTL.com, in partnership with B&H Photo Video - www.bhphotovide...
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I had not even thought of using a portable light source to back light a subject. Can even use it as a rim light. Duh! WOW. THANK YOU!
When using intentional movement during exposure, I use the delayed shutter so I am moving when the exposure starts. The reason I do that is to have a smooth image with no hard edges. Good video👍.
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By far the best video tutorial that I've come across on UA-cam. Like the other viewer said, you should totally do more videos. Great content, precisely delivered. Thank you for the effort. Learnt a lot!
You are doing a huge mistake....by not making more videos!! This is the pace, level of tips and knowledge most youtubers dont have. Looking forward to more videos :-)
Ludvig Yttergren ua-cam.com/video/gTa7jZjClxo/v-deo.html
Nice. I especially liked the little LED light as a backlight .
Woodlands are so difficult to photograph, thanks for making this video!
I rarely subscribe...having watched only two of your videos, I did subscribe. Clear, to the point, understandable, helpful. Thank you.
off to the woods first thing in the morning ! Thanks for some great tips I can use to improve my work.
I really liked the description of why you were doing certain things to get the shot you wanted. This was very informative and helpful. The shots were really nice.
Thank you - we'll make sure there's more of that guidance!
Top tip about white balance and overcast days. It took me a while to get out of the habit of auto WB. My camera does do a a good job of getting it fairly accurate, but it wasn't until i started setting purposeful kelvin levels and carrying a white card to set a custom WB that my nature images began to remarkably improve and have life to them.
I agree with you that a lot of photographers get hung up on foreground interest. Obviously it's important for many shots but certainly not all of them. I think that's one of the reasons many landscape photographers are switching from wide-angle to telephoto as their main landscape lens. Compressing the background, bringing everything closer to the camera and focusing more on light, shape, texture etc. can create really powerful images. This also steers you away from taking those boring, repetitive postcard shots and allows for a more creative approach that show your unique view as an artist.
thanks Ross, I have had some of my best shots in those woods, I usually visit spring and fall. for uk people this is Golitha Falls in Cornwall.
Thanks for giving the location.
Wow! 11 minutes of very useful tips presented in a thoughtful manner. Thanks, so much!
I just watched this out of curiosity, but to my amazement, found that it was a very good video, TTL knew what he was talking out, no waffle, l shall take a look at TTL's other video's
simplyphil.photography ua-cam.com/video/gTa7jZjClxo/v-deo.html
What a gorgeous location!
Excellent video. Really great ideas. Thank you!!
Thanks for your video I leave close to 2 nice forest and your advises will help me to be more imaginative
Some of the best and precise explained videos in terms of composition and technics. Lots of dense information. Thanks for sharing.
So beautiful thank you for sharing
Absolutely brilliant.... given me the inspiration to go and visit some woodland near me. Thank you Ross.
Awesome, thanks Di!
Di Jones ua-cam.com/video/gTa7jZjClxo/v-deo.html
I agree with the prior posting. One of the best instructional documentations of considerations in one's shooting process that I have seen.
Ross you inspire me to take better photos . i love nature and asp by the sea ,clouds asp. and sunrise or sunsets with a wide landscape view. .i get confused with all the maths and calculations , but your approach getting out in the open helps me to grasp the subject.your a good teacher and know you subject well. thanks a bunch.
I wish I have a camera like you...but I don't have camera like you...but I love to watch your video..as I love it n it's my interest to b a photographer
Great suggestions. Am actually heading out to a national park and we have rain in the forecast for the first half of the week. So i'll take the macro and try this out.
Great camera height. If lowered you would lose the little stream coming in on the left side which sort of indicates an island in the center of the great composition. Thanks for all the tips.
Great presentation indeed! Thorough, precise, thoughtful, and filled with useful info. Thanks, Ross
Excellent tutorial. Very clear, concise and informative. Thank you
Second video I’ve watched from you... great video, and much appreciated.
A brand new photographer thanks you. 🤙
Thanks for the video. Some very nice ideas, both with the motion of the tree and the use of constant light for the macro.
Fantastic, a great really informative video, that has me itching to get out in to my local woods, definitely will do when the weather is not great , there are a lot of boring videos on UA-cam, this is most definitely not one of them. Where is the next one...?
Coming every Tuesday!
Thanks again for the video and camera tips on shooting in woodlands
So good. Thanks heaps.
Great video!
Always inspired by your macro work and try to emulate your style - unsuccessfully of course but your work always makes me strive to improve - thanks
Hi Ross just stumbled across your channel whilst looking for inspiration and i was not disapointed great video and tips. Can I ask which woodland you was in the fast flowing river was awesome. I live in cambridge so its very flat and do not have rivers like that around here but was just curiuous as to where you where.
Do you adjust for the LED light in post production?
Super useful tips. I’m keen on ICM and you were spot on with your tips.
Very good information , straight to the point , but I got question as I'm not pro ..well do you use manual setting for your macro pics or built in macro setting .
Thanks
when using a sticky tripod use a piece of elastic like a bungee cord attached to the handle. It will act as a damper and reduce jerkiness
Great share!
Some good advice nice one
Great tips! Never considered a polarizer in the woods.
Great ideas, I'll definitely put them to use in my next photo projects. Thanks
Thank you
great. very informative and getting to the point quick. good job.
I think I would have focussed more towards the stalk of the fungi rather than the front edge and used a narrower aperture to capture the whole of the toadstool in focus using like a hyperfocal distance in order to keep the whole item sharp. Depth of field is always narrow when shooting macro so the background would still remain out of focus.
Excellent Tips, Ross!. Thank you
Just subscribed. Excellent tips, all very well delivered. Thanks!
Nice video but it would be nice to know what camera settings you used for each shot. Nothing too in depth, maybe just ISO, aperture and shutter speed 😊👍
Very Nice!! Loved the fungi shot!
Thanks Mike! :)
Great tips! I especially like the bit about the mushroom lighting! Thank you for sharing!
I might try shooting a mushroom using a mirror and light with the camera on a timer in order to get a low angle shot, that way I'll still have both hands free for lighting and angle.
Thanks for the tips, can't wait to try it out! Your works are amazing!
Are you at Golitha falls on Bodmin Moor?
Some really great tips and content thankyou!!!
Good video. I enjoyed your discussion about decision making and strategy for making your photos. I learned from this video.
Without a doubt the best informative video I’ve seen in ages...excellent and learned so much,, thank you for sharing...just subscribed!
I love capturing images of fungi. Great tips! Will definitely get an LED light and reflector. Thanks for the video. Subscribed!
Terrific video - the macro tips at the end were very helpful
An excellent and timely video Ross!
Thanks Les!
Again great video. Well done. Professional. Your presentation is spot on.
With regards to polarizers, can’t you just boost saturation in post and decrease highlights
Thank you! I have taken notes :)
Awesome - hope it helps Angela.
me too :)
Great video :)
I like the use of the polarized lens. Is there one that will fit all different lenses without having to carry a lot of kit ? Also looks like a d850. Did you try the focus stacking on the 850?
How do you like the Nikon D850. Black and white would make an interesting pic. I use ICM to take pic of lights. Christmas make a great shot. Thank you Ben
What happens when you manuel focus in or out with the blurry exposure?
Very well done! You covered a lot of great tips. Thanks!
I love that place!! one of my favourite places!!
Enjoyed your video. I just purchased the D850 and I am in the process of setting it up. Do you have any recommendations for settings?
Great video really enjoyed it.
well done, Absolutely images. Thank!
taking into account your a professional and I'm an amateur, the mushrooms DOF seemed to narrow to me, or for my tastes in photography I would have gone for a longer DOF
Loved this, such great usable info. thanks
Autumnal 😎🔥 lol
What type of polarizing filter is that ?? I can't find anything similar online...thanks
I really enjoyed watching this!
Great video, the first I have seen of your though I recently started getting your brilliant news letter. Personally, and this is purely a taste thing, I’m not a lover of ICM. Fantastic information all the way through with great advice. A very professionally presented video.
Where were you shooting? The forest looks amazing!
You great, I learn alot with you. Please which tripod is that please. Regards from Perú.
is it just me, or are those Toadstools NOT in focus ?
I agree, I think the depth of field was just a little too shallow. It would have been easier to focus with just a little deeper depth of field I think.
He was deliberately shooting wide open (f2.8 or whatever) to isolate the subject from the rest of the background etc. But I agree it was probably too shallow or maybe move the focus point. I used to have a 85mm f1.4 that had insanely shallow depth of field and had superb bokeh.
With macro even at f11 you still get a serious BOKEH! At f2.8 the depth of field is paper thin.
Beautiful fotos 🥰
Thanks for a very useful video - beginner question please - in the first shot - where are you focusing and what sort of aperture did you use?
Hi Robert. It tends to be a case of focusing not right at the foreground, but a little bit further in. An aperture of around f/11 will render the majority of the scene sharp on a wide-angle - just check on the LCD the front to back sharpness. Check this article for more information on more precise focusing techniques: www.naturettl.com/how-to-use-hyperfocal-distance/
How do you describe the difference between a "Polarizing Filter" and a "ND Filter" and how do you choose to use one or the other..? Thanks Great Video..
Think of a polarizing filter as sunglasses for the lens. The will knock down the amount of light hitting the sensor. A ND filter is basically to protect the front of the lens from scratches. You should always have a UV filter on a lens, to protect your investment.
Great advice, thank you.
Great video very informative and very well presented
Great Video thanks
I love your videos. Keep up the great work!
Interesting, thanks, however I feel for the water photo, the tripod was too high, the camera was pointing downwards and the trees were chopped off. I think if you had lowered the tripod & looked straight along the river you would of got more of the trees in, they just didn't fit in the image being cropped off like that, your first image was so much better, zoomed back to show more of the trees. Thnx tho for a good informative video
Norman Pimlott I’m sorry I disagree with you. He mentioned in the video the danger of blowing out any sky so he had to eliminate it. But even if that wasn’t the case he has created a perfect leading line with foreground interest whilst extenuating the way the river rises going back into the image. This means the leading line doesn’t just lead you through the image but also rises, which is an exceedingly clever thing to do. I think how you are abdicating the image should have been taken would have created an image that doesn’t go anywhere and would require quite heavy cropping to remove the blown out sky. The trees are not the subject of the image and you don’t need to get the whole tree in or anything above a couple of feet high. That’s where many of us go wrong, desperately trying to "fit things in" when it usually tells more of a story with less in. But this is photography and there is no right or wrong.
Actually in the video he also said don't get hung up on having to have a foreground interest, and the line of the foreground interest goes left to right, how is that leading you into the picture ? He said the river was the leading line ! Did you watch the same video ? Plus I never said leave it out ! If you had bothered to digest what I said ! If the camera was lower and pointing straight along the river, that wouldn't necessarily given a blown out sky, just more tree ! and left the foreground ! If you have read the rule book about third lines and foreground etc, well done, now read the next chapter that says rules are made to be broken !
"It doesn't just lead you it also rises" ? I think you meant the foreground doesn't even lead you ! And if he'd lowered the tripod the stream wouldn't of still gone up the hill ? Of course it would !
We are all entitled to our opinion ! I gave mine ! if you don't like it fair enough, but fancy words will not change my mind ! Were you there ? Did you bend down to see the other picture ? Would you be happy if someone photographed your wedding and cut everyone off at the knees ? be happy with pictures of feet and path would you ?
There is a large bank to the right of shot, fairly dense vegetation to the left, my suggestion would not of done what you presume ! When he first gets to the spot he shows the greater picture, I don't see too much sky, too many leaves and branches for that ! I never said it was a bad picture ! It's a good picture, I would of preferred lower camera !
Oh and in your comment you said "I'm not a lover of ICM." Should I now slag you off for your thought on that ?
Norman Pimlott I'm not sure where you are going there. You seem to be arguing the foreground interest and leading lines being the same thing, where I said he gets a leading line "with foreground interest" and not "by using the foreground interest." Also you argue because he gets the subject of the image in the frame, ie the river, in landscapes he would then leave them, ie the wedding party, out of a wedding photograph. I certainly don’t want to get into an argument over it. You said the image should have been taken a different way, I disagreed, just like you disagreed with the photographer, it’s no biggy, it’s photography no two photographers will ever agree. But at no point did I "slag you off.", I wasn’t even discourteous in any way, I merely said I disagree with your opinion, that is not personal to you and I certainly wouldn’t take it personal if you disagreed with any of my opinions on a piece of work, even my own.
Thank you for this video.
Nice one Ross
Thanks for sharing
I learned a lot, thank you.
very helpful tips
Thank you.
Excellent video!
Thanks Chris!
What is the name of the place where you shooting? Will you please reply me please please please 🙏
How would you go about Photographing Ghost Mushrooms ( they glow at night time)
Why use some white balance presets? Why don't just don't use RAW?
If you're shooting in Raw you can adjust in post, sure. But some people don't shoot in raw. Also, adjusting whilst in the field helps you to get a better feel for the final image.
today u have a new subcriber good job!