It looks so easy when you explain the process and show the stunning results! But I know it's not, it takes your high level of skills and sensibility. Thank you for the wonderful and inspiring images!! 👍👍👍
Super video and incredible shots !!! My choice is the flowers framing the tree. The photo at 10:54 is a beauty !!! The clouds look like two people reaching out to each other !!
It happens that I was there - with a different group - at the same time. Delightful to see many of the same subjects from different shooting perspectives, and even more delightful to experience again those incredible moments when the light "exploded." Tuscany is a photographer's paradise. If you can get there, go!
To solve your depth of field problem (even at max aperture) get yourself a mount to enable you to mount your digital camera on a 4x5 view camera and use the proper front (lens board movements) and get a bonus in sharpness by using a Schneider or Rodenstock lens, well worth the effort. (Although it will slow down your process, but increase your "thinking" about photography.) AND you will be able to really plan your shot as you cannot get a "zoom" lens of this type, just fixed focal length, so planning is essential.
Thanks for the tips. You always demonstrate some great composition ideas for those of us who live near rolling hills and don't have much chance to travel to lakes with mountains in the background.
I liked the shot with the yellow flowers breaking the horizon because they were the same color as the midground. But wow, that sunset!!! Great Thomas Heaton impression-absolutely stunnin'! Love it! Cheers from the USA!
Beautiful photos ! Wow ! For my choice for the one with the yellow flowers : I prefer the one on the right side with some blurry flowers enveloping the tree.
Another great video Mads. I found it hard to pick my favourite out of the two image's, but i think the one with the flowers sticking up making a frame. Stunning image's as usual. Look forward to the next one.
So went to Pienza and yes one of your viewpoints helpt a lot. A 5 AM waking-up last week and no fog at all were I was staying. But moved on the way and could see ground fog in the distance as I drove down from Pienza. And yes…Poggio Covili was surrounded with nice low fog. Went to one of your viewpoints from your location map....and wow, was able to make an epic shot… So thank you because even if I know the surroundings since many, many years I wouldn’t have the idea of going to that specific viewpoint !!!!
Wonderful and informative video. Great ideas and stunning results. I will use many of these ideas in a couple of weeks at the Palouse in Eastern Washington State. Hopefully, Tuscany will be in my future someday.
Stunning images Mads, especially loved the panos you shared. I have the 100-500 RF lens on my list to purchase as I do miss the longer range from time to time and the options of capturing subjects at a higher focal range
Yes you made it, very nice video and pictures. About the picture at 5:30 prefer the one the right, like very much the flowers out of focus. Very nice, and the image 10:45, 11:00 and 13:15 me blown away, very dramatic and beautiful. Will be in the region myself for the next 3 days and was just thinking of playing more with the foreground like you did rather than making pano’s. So yes, this video confirmed me even more of doing so. Know most of the places but didn’t know the one on 13:15….thanks for sharing. About focus stacking, don’t be afraid to do so. In macrophotography as well and end up with sometimes 70 pictures for a stack. I’m using Olympus for my macro so the images are only 17,5 Mb, nothing to see with my Sony (A7r5). But prefer the out of focus images for the landscape pictures you made. Nice !!! So bought your location map even if I know the most of them…but didn’t find the one of 10:45… And since last year began to photograph also again with Poggio Covili…nice place but found it to obvious…was wrong. But think the 10th picture (with Scooter) is at another place.
Thanks for the long comment, Edward! The location you're asking about is along on the of the gravel roads south of Pienza, which I marked on the map ;)
I'll take it as a small personal victory when I'm looking at the preliminary B-roll thinking, "Hmmm... I think I'd shoot it *this* way" then Mads lines up the composition and it's *this* way! Yay!! 😀 As for the two versions, I prefer the one without the blurry foreground flowers. The scene is not inherently soft and fuzzy, but rather strongly graphical and I think the presence of the foreground blurred flowers dilutes the graphical strength of the composition and colors.
Agreed. I'm sure Mads disagrees, but the "blurred foreground" effect does nothing for me - probably because I used it far too often when I was first taking up photography and now look back and cringe at those efforts. Even in these images, I found myself thinking "I wish that foreground was in focus" about half the time.
Could you try a video shooting landspace photography with film ? This could make for a fun challenge as well and surprising results. I would love to see what you'd come up with. If you do, I definitely recommend you use medium format cameras rather than 35mm camera. Nice insight into your photography trip, as usual.
I love the one with out of focus poppy flowers, and the one with rain clouds bursting is epic. BTW I've seen many of your videos and today I saw you first time without the wooly hat, and it felt weird for a split second. Didn't even notice that before, but that hat became your permanent feature in my head 😂
Once again, great video Mads! Although I understand your reason not to focus stack one of the images you presented, I would have liked you to focus stack one of your images with the red flowers in the foreground. Just curious how that would look.
Hey Mads! Tuscany photos are absolutely stunning it's almost surreal. You inspire! Do you think that tuscany hills are going to be still green at the start of july?
10:55 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 blow my mind!! Amazing! Stunning! I have no words to describe how this picture make me feel. Keep it going! I love your contents. One question: do you use the mechanical or electronic shutter? Thanks an Italian fun!
It's interesting to look at your screen and see zebras - what do you have them set to? On my Sony, I've found that "Lower Limit" and "109+" will show zebras when I will clip any of the RGB channels. Therefore easy to ETTR with no risk of overexposure. Keep up the videos. I look forward to each one :)
@@MadsPeterIversen really worth trying "Lower Limit" and "109+". Allows you to just dial up the exposure till you see the 1st zebras and then knock it down one notch. Basically impossible to over-expose (or at least choose which areas you are willing to sacrifice)
Mads, do you find you have a similar approach to your drone photography where you use zoom functionality for compression and to assist with composition, or do you tend to stay fixed focus? I take a lot of telephoto shots and am wondering if a fixed lens will be too limiting, or if it is a ‘nice to have’ on a drone?!? Thanks as always for your awesome videos
Lovely views and photos, Mads! I have an eos R, and I’m really needing to get me a tele lens. Although I could get any of the RF system, I still also shoot with EF Dslr and slr film cameras, so I think I’ll stick with the EF for the long run. Now, what i’d like to know from you is what tele range do you think is more useful? I’m planing on get the sigma 150-600mm so I can be able to shoot some moon alignments as well, but a bit afraid of its size and weight to carry around for landscape as well as being a bit of overkill length, maybe…
@@MadsPeterIversen the 100-500 seems to be pretty solid, but i meant that I’d like to stick with the EF mount… I guess I’ll stick with the sigma 150-600 plan for it’s a budget lens as well…
Hey Mads! I’m looking to upgrade to a Z5 or Z7 from my rebel t3i - if I only had money for one lens at the moment for landscape, would you go higher zoom (28-400, 70-200, etc) or something like the 24-70 f4, or would you recommend a prime wide angle first to get a feel for a specific focal length? Cheers! Keep up the great vids
It generally depends where, what and how you shoot, but unless you specifically wanna do Astro landscape photography I'd get a wide-angle zoom instead of a prime.
Why do you awesome photographers have the awesome light at every location? When I go to the iconic location, the light almost certainly ends up being crappy. 😂
My thought too. I think if they have too be blurry, they should be super blurry, like fading away. These were just distracting. Would have prefered them sharp.
“But, considering what we captured, I don’t think we can complain.” I should think not - the sky in that second photo looked like an atomic bomb had gone off.
Plenty of people are. I think Canon lost a lot of us pro's to Sony in the late 2010's as Sony really improved everything about their cameras and Canikon decided to lack a little with their development.
I love how this looks more natural than everything focus stacked. This is how I love to shoot
It looks so easy when you explain the process and show the stunning results! But I know it's not, it takes your high level of skills and sensibility. Thank you for the wonderful and inspiring images!! 👍👍👍
Прекрасные фотографии их прекрасных мест, Очень приятно наблюдать за вашими эмоциями когда вы видите этот замечательный свет
Your sensibility is wonderful. Your music is also wonderful. I followed your photos on "X".
Super video and incredible shots !!! My choice is the flowers framing the tree. The photo at 10:54 is a beauty !!! The clouds look like two people reaching out to each other !!
10:59 Mads looks as if there is a battle going on in the heavens 😊!!! another great Video!
It happens that I was there - with a different group - at the same time. Delightful to see many of the same subjects from different shooting perspectives, and even more delightful to experience again those incredible moments when the light "exploded." Tuscany is a photographer's paradise. If you can get there, go!
To solve your depth of field problem (even at max aperture) get yourself a mount to enable you to mount your digital camera on a 4x5 view camera and use the proper front (lens board movements) and get a bonus in sharpness by using a Schneider or Rodenstock lens, well worth the effort. (Although it will slow down your process, but increase your "thinking" about photography.) AND you will be able to really plan your shot as you cannot get a "zoom" lens of this type, just fixed focal length, so planning is essential.
Is it just me that saw two giants about to kiss in the clouds at 10-55? Beautiful shot.
the one with the flowers sticking out into the sky! It looks like a surreal painting
Beatiful and well thought out photo's. Nice variety in weather conditions too.
My favourite photo of the tree with yellow flowers clean lined one because I found it less distracting
Thanks for the tips. You always demonstrate some great composition ideas for those of us who live near rolling hills and don't have much chance to travel to lakes with mountains in the background.
Great insights and ideas. My favourite is the farmhouse under the storm clouds which bring great drama to the image.
I liked the shot with the yellow flowers breaking the horizon because they were the same color as the midground. But wow, that sunset!!! Great Thomas Heaton impression-absolutely stunnin'! Love it! Cheers from the USA!
Your photography work and your videos are mesmerizing, they really bring peace to my soul. 😍🥰💯
Stunning scenery , I loved the shots with the out of focus poppies in the foreground ❤
Soaking in every single one of your videos, so so good! ❤
Oooooo…. Storm sunsets are the best
I preferred the one without the flowers sticking up. The image is superbly balanced and striking in its simplicity!
Beautiful photos ! Wow ! For my choice for the one with the yellow flowers : I prefer the one on the right side with some blurry flowers enveloping the tree.
Another great video Mads.
I found it hard to pick my favourite out of the two image's, but i think the one with the flowers sticking up making a frame.
Stunning image's as usual.
Look forward to the next one.
So went to Pienza and yes one of your viewpoints helpt a lot.
A 5 AM waking-up last week and no fog at all were I was staying. But moved on the way and could see ground fog in the distance as I drove down from Pienza.
And yes…Poggio Covili was surrounded with nice low fog. Went to one of your viewpoints from your location map....and wow, was able to make an epic shot…
So thank you because even if I know the surroundings since many, many years I wouldn’t have the idea of going to that specific viewpoint !!!!
Sorry, but meant: an epic shot by my standards...
Wonderful and informative video. Great ideas and stunning results.
I will use many of these ideas in a couple of weeks at the Palouse in Eastern Washington State.
Hopefully, Tuscany will be in my future someday.
Beautiful locations!
Amazing what you extract from these locations and opportunities
I liked the photograph in which those two clouds seem to have an argument by sunset. Nice video
Stunning images as always. Having been to most of the locations you showed, you gave a completely different viewpoint on those iconic locations.
That's great to hear! :D
Absolutely gorgeous photographs - of one of my most favored places on earth. Superb work Mads Peter! 👏🏻👏🏻
Beautiful photos, I especially like those at 10:40. But where did that EPIC! vibe go? I kind of miss it 😀Take care, Mads.
Stunning images Mads, especially loved the panos you shared. I have the 100-500 RF lens on my list to purchase as I do miss the longer range from time to time and the options of capturing subjects at a higher focal range
Yeah, If I was using Canon I'd probably go 15-35, 24-105 and 100-500! :D
Beautiful location. Beautiful light. Beautiful shots.
Yes you made it, very nice video and pictures. About the picture at 5:30 prefer the one the right, like very much the flowers out of focus.
Very nice, and the image 10:45, 11:00 and 13:15 me blown away, very dramatic and beautiful. Will be in the region myself for the next 3 days and was just thinking of playing more with the foreground like you did rather than making pano’s.
So yes, this video confirmed me even more of doing so.
Know most of the places but didn’t know the one on 13:15….thanks for sharing.
About focus stacking, don’t be afraid to do so. In macrophotography as well and end up with sometimes 70 pictures for a stack. I’m using Olympus for my macro so the images are only 17,5 Mb, nothing to see with my Sony (A7r5).
But prefer the out of focus images for the landscape pictures you made. Nice !!!
So bought your location map even if I know the most of them…but didn’t find the one of 10:45…
And since last year began to photograph also again with Poggio Covili…nice place but found it to obvious…was wrong. But think the 10th picture (with Scooter) is at another place.
Thanks for the long comment, Edward! The location you're asking about is along on the of the gravel roads south of Pienza, which I marked on the map ;)
Merci pour vos conseils.
Stunning images, great explanations… thank you!
Beautiful Shots Mads! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful photos and music!
I'll take it as a small personal victory when I'm looking at the preliminary B-roll thinking, "Hmmm... I think I'd shoot it *this* way" then Mads lines up the composition and it's *this* way! Yay!! 😀 As for the two versions, I prefer the one without the blurry foreground flowers. The scene is not inherently soft and fuzzy, but rather strongly graphical and I think the presence of the foreground blurred flowers dilutes the graphical strength of the composition and colors.
Agreed. I'm sure Mads disagrees, but the "blurred foreground" effect does nothing for me - probably because I used it far too often when I was first taking up photography and now look back and cringe at those efforts. Even in these images, I found myself thinking "I wish that foreground was in focus" about half the time.
@@ravenfallsphotography6254 Agreed, could on focus stack two images so the foreground was also in focus.
I love all the images with the flowers in the foreground. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences.
11:01 would really like to see editing process of this photo. Thanks for videos, you are an inspiration
Could you try a video shooting landspace photography with film ? This could make for a fun challenge as well and surprising results. I would love to see what you'd come up with. If you do, I definitely recommend you use medium format cameras rather than 35mm camera.
Nice insight into your photography trip, as usual.
Wonderful photos, amazing video! I've been missing Tuscany... think I'll get tickets to return ASAP.
Go for it ;D
So nice … well done 👍
Beautiful pictures 👏👏👏
Fantastic photos!
Thanks for sharing, beautiful pics, love them.❤
Beautiful photos. At the 11 minute mark, I am VERY curious about what the two cloud figures are saying to one another!
wow...very very cool
I really enjoy shooting landscapes with my telephoto Zoom lens!
If I needed convincing re telephotos, these shots would do it!
The one with the flowers in front!
I love the one with out of focus poppy flowers, and the one with rain clouds bursting is epic.
BTW I've seen many of your videos and today I saw you first time without the wooly hat, and it felt weird for a split second. Didn't even notice that before, but that hat became your permanent feature in my head 😂
Hehe, I am sure there are other videos where I don't use my beanie ;) But thanks! :D
Great Photos and great video 😎🤌
Bellissime...la mia Italia ❤️
Once again, great video Mads! Although I understand your reason not to focus stack one of the images you presented, I would have liked you to focus stack one of your images with the red flowers in the foreground. Just curious how that would look.
Very messy is my guess ;)
Every single one of these photos was absolutely stunning!!
Thanks for another great and useful video! Greetings from Russia =)
Hey Mads! Tuscany photos are absolutely stunning it's almost surreal. You inspire! Do you think that tuscany hills are going to be still green at the start of july?
Great shots 👍👍👍
Mads, see if you can find a copy of the film Vado a Riprendermi il Gatto. The shots of Tuscan countryside are just stunning.
I guess I'll need to watch that :)
10:55 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 blow my mind!! Amazing! Stunning! I have no words to describe how this picture make me feel. Keep it going! I love your contents. One question: do you use the mechanical or electronic shutter?
Thanks an Italian fun!
I use both dependent on the situation and thanks a lot! :D
@@MadsPeterIversen I would be very interested in understanding when you prefer one and when the other!
I like the one on the left
Wow! It's so amazing. which country there? I love Nature Photography and I do it with Superzoom Camera, like Sony rx10 iv.
It's Italy and the region is Tuscany :)
@@MadsPeterIversen It's soooo amazing
It's interesting to look at your screen and see zebras - what do you have them set to? On my Sony, I've found that "Lower Limit" and "109+" will show zebras when I will clip any of the RGB channels. Therefore easy to ETTR with no risk of overexposure.
Keep up the videos. I look forward to each one :)
For now I've just kept it on 100, as long as I see the zebra stripes I should be good, but "beyond" them I clip the highlights.
@@MadsPeterIversen really worth trying "Lower Limit" and "109+". Allows you to just dial up the exposure till you see the 1st zebras and then knock it down one notch. Basically impossible to over-expose (or at least choose which areas you are willing to sacrifice)
was there any filter used when u took the morning shots? Love the photos. Tuscany has been on my bucket list for years... Hopefully someday.
I hope you get to go there! It's amazing! And no, I did use a pol filter for the yellow flower photos :)
Mads, do you find you have a similar approach to your drone photography where you use zoom functionality for compression and to assist with composition, or do you tend to stay fixed focus?
I take a lot of telephoto shots and am wondering if a fixed lens will be too limiting, or if it is a ‘nice to have’ on a drone?!? Thanks as always for your awesome videos
I'm definitely seeing myself using the longer focal length lenses on my drone now that I have them :)
Lovely views and photos, Mads! I have an eos R, and I’m really needing to get me a tele lens. Although I could get any of the RF system, I still also shoot with EF Dslr and slr film cameras, so I think I’ll stick with the EF for the long run. Now, what i’d like to know from you is what tele range do you think is more useful? I’m planing on get the sigma 150-600mm so I can be able to shoot some moon alignments as well, but a bit afraid of its size and weight to carry around for landscape as well as being a bit of overkill length, maybe…
How about the 100-500? :)
@@MadsPeterIversen the 100-500 seems to be pretty solid, but i meant that I’d like to stick with the EF mount… I guess I’ll stick with the sigma 150-600 plan for it’s a budget lens as well…
Hey Mads! I’m looking to upgrade to a Z5 or Z7 from my rebel t3i - if I only had money for one lens at the moment for landscape, would you go higher zoom (28-400, 70-200, etc) or something like the 24-70 f4, or would you recommend a prime wide angle first to get a feel for a specific focal length? Cheers! Keep up the great vids
It generally depends where, what and how you shoot, but unless you specifically wanna do Astro landscape photography I'd get a wide-angle zoom instead of a prime.
@5:50 I like the cleaner left photo. Your biggest problem must be... you don't have enough walls ;-)
Why do you awesome photographers have the awesome light at every location? When I go to the iconic location, the light almost certainly ends up being crappy. 😂
Probably because we try to optimize and go at the right time? 🤔 That said, we don't always get the best possible light.
3:00 where is this Tree pls? I've been looking for this tree for 3 years...I'm a big fan of yours, I always look forward to hearing from you
You've probably passed it many times then. It's at the chapel :)
@@MadsPeterIversen oh very nice thank you maybe I understand where is it. Than you Mads. Where do you come in Trentino in the Dolomites, where I live.
with the tree on the hill, is there any particular reason you don't use a 1:1 format ?
Nah, I generally just tend to prefer the others :)
I personally like less the ones with blurry foreground. I find it distracting.
My thought too. I think if they have too be blurry, they should be super blurry, like fading away. These were just distracting. Would have prefered them sharp.
Beautiful locations. Just signed up for next May's Tuscany workshop. Really looking forward to it.
That's so awesome! Looking forward to it already! :D
Timing
“But, considering what we captured, I don’t think we can complain.” I should think not - the sky in that second photo looked like an atomic bomb had gone off.
haha, we travelled Tuscany the same time and our ways crossed at Baccoleno. I was one of the dozens of people next to you trampling down the clover
F11 seems overkill to me. At that distance I dont find it necessary and you avoid difraction of the lens. But you probably know that anyway 😅
f/11 is the sharpest part of that lens with the best corners ;)
I didnt know that 😅😅
What lens was it? I couldn’t catch it
The Tamron 50-400 :)
@@MadsPeterIversen tyvm cheers
The left one.
I feel like im the only one still using canon none of these UA-camrs use canon.
Plenty of people are. I think Canon lost a lot of us pro's to Sony in the late 2010's as Sony really improved everything about their cameras and Canikon decided to lack a little with their development.
You sound like Dutch reefer! Lol
at 0.21, wtf !
wtf what?