I'll make sure to take good care of the group! It's so stupendously unlucky for you and lucky for me that the eruption has started just now. I know how painful it is you're not going to experience the volcano right now. Let's hope it lasts long enough for you to get there ☺️🙏
It is amazing that we can take such detailed "lessons" from photographers like you, Mads, and James (and others like Mark Denny and Michael Shainblum) for free on youtube. I have learned alot in jus a year of really taking landscape photography seriously and I always feel like I am gaining just a little more knowledge every time I watch one of these videos
The two best things I have improved with my landscape photography are to use Manual nearly all the time, and knowing the sweet spot of each lens with knowing where to focus for correct depth of field for where I want it sharp...!!
Excellent advice as always, thank you Nigel. I always take a ‘gem’ from each of your videos which are so helpful and inspiring. Today, five little gems! Many thanks!
Great advise Nigel. Something crucial I’ve learnt lately is asking myself- “is this helping or harming my scene” in regards to finding what makes a photo work. Also, I see that giant Antarctica pano photo is still on your desk. That baby needs to be framed and placed on your wall!!😯
Getting to know your camera and having quick access to buttons, etc. really helps. Being able to customise buttons is a great feature in newer cameras. With the Canon R5, I've set up quick access to change the crop view by clicking one button instead of via the Menu - very useful when composing a scene.
Nigel, you have taught me so much over the past 3 months so a massive thank you! I look forward to your weekly videos now to see what else I can learn! Huge inspiration and incredibly clear and detailed advice. I can't wait to see your photobooks which I've just ordered too. Thank you!
I love all of your points. The one that is really sticking out to me is going back to the same location over and over again. I have begun to do that. I honestly believe that helps more than people realize. Great tips on the camera too. That's the first thing I did when I got the Z6ii is set up the I menu (for delay, timer, etc) and then used a function button for the bracketing. Those tips are absolutely spot on Nigel.
Good topic! People ask me why I photograph certain locations over and over? Scenes change over time based on weather, lighting and your mindset at the time. I second watching Ben Horne.
Getting too know your equipment is vital for capturing those fleeing images that we’ve all seen. Hope your recovery is progressing well Nigel, even if it’s not as quickly as you might want. Stay safe 🇦🇺
Five great tips Nigel! The one about repeat visits to a familiar location really hit home with me. Many of us have limited travel options so familiar places close to home are the main option. Your tip stresses the importance of exploring/scouting these places and how that can be a real time-saver when conditions are awesome. Great examples with the River Braithwaite images! BTW, my Sunday morning routine always includes 1) Breakfast with my beautiful wife 2) Watching the latest Nigel Danson video. Thanks!
Talking of revisiting locations I recommend a return trip now to the heather moors above Hathersage - they are at their peak this week and the weather forecast is looking good! You may finally get your elusive shot!
Great advices! I will try to put them into application on my next trip. I like a lot when you mentioned to stay calm, pause for a bit and eat an apple 🙂
Love Ben Horne's channel. His voice is so relaxing :-) I watch Baumgartner Restoration channel too for the same reason. Interesting subject and great voice 🙂
Such an excellent video, really gave me a lot of great tips to work with! Especially the part about you only want to include what adds to the scene, what bennefits the composition. I tend to capture to much at once.
There is a plethora of really good info in this presentation, what I don't understand is there are less than 11% of people who bothered to hit the like key who watched the video? All of us have different things which appeal to us, however, 99% of the videos I watch from all photographers give me something sometimes a lot and sometimes one little gem. Hope you are up and about pain free soon, looking forward to more content.
Hello Nigel. You are looking much better, thankfully. I have done Ben Horne's Zion drive and I am amazed how he can endure that drive, weekend after weekend. He is SO patient and lugs that huge camera and tripod around. Stops me moaning about my A7Riii with a 150-500 lens at four pounds.
Excellent advise for us Nigel. Thank you very much. I've just bought myself a Canon R7 (as I do mostly bird photography) but have a new RF lens of 18-150mm which I am finding most interesting and versatile to use.
One tip I picked up from a photographer that I follow (Bill Fortney, who does a range of different subjects but mostly landscape and travel type photography) is to slow down, and also work the scene. He recommends taking multiple shots from different FLs. So for example, take an overall shot of the scene (not a snapshot, but an overall composed shot) and then start to work on the details and zoom in a bit. That way you have various images of the scene, from different focal lengths (and even angles if you choose). I mean I assume most people are shooting digitally so this shouldn't be a problem from a cost standpoint, and while you don't really want to be "lazy" with your shots or taking too many of one particular scene, I'd rather have a wider selection of images to choose from later for post processing. Maybe the image I thought that was going to be the keeper wasn't the image I really wanted once I get it on the big screen, or another image really spoke to me more than the one I had originally thought was "the one". So having the variety is also important, and it's all digital, so it's like like in the film days where each click cost you money.
Hi Nigel very happy to see you again making video's,.. ;-) On the Vulcano story i can tell you that we are leaving to Iceland on August 19 till 26,... Just after Mads his visit,.. And we are planning now how and when to get to the Vulcano,... as you can imagine,..I am bumping up and down on my chair at the moment and can't wait to get the plane to Kevlavik,..Lovely and helpfull as always in this video again,... ;-)
Thanks a million for the mention Nigel! Really sorry you couldn't make it for the workshop but I'm sure we'll make another attempt. Hopefully with another eruption. Seems more and more likely this will be a reoccurring thing!
I think a lot of these suggestions can be encompassed into one single term: practice. Practice changing settings and know where things are in the menus (or better yet, program the "quick" menu button on your camera for faster/easier access to menu items you use a lot, like bracketing and image stabilization or WB and ISO settings). Also practicing to figure out what shutter speeds work for waterfalls (I think we can all agree that something like 20s should be plenty for even the fastest moving waterfalls, but practicing will help you sort of figure out the best shutter speed that's not too long or too short for smooth water). Lastly, I feel that knowing when to use what AF modes and metering is also critical. For landscape shooters, this isn't very hard but for sports or portrait shooters, this can be more of a task, and knowing when to use AF-C or eyeAF and when not to, is important. Same for metering mode (most of the times I find myself in HDR situatins so I tend to opt for spot metering and just meter various parts of the scene to determine my exposure strategy which half the time involves bracketed shots of some sort.
Very useful advice! Thank you!! I’m still learning how to use my camera, but a tip I got from your college Mads is to use P mode when you don’t want to miss out on an opportunity! (The different programs are there for a reason, one just have to be humble enough to admit your own capacity when it comes to photography). I think it’s better to get the shot, maybe not 💯 but you still got it, then being a snob, insisting on using M mode, when you can’t really handle it. It takes a lot of stress out and meanwhile you can learn more deeply about your camera. Thanks for sharing this tips, saving this video for educational purposes 😍
Great video like always . Before I pull my camera out my bag I always think about you and wish I brought a apple with me . Thank you for all your information
I hope that new landscape photographers noticed that Nigel mentioned zoom lenses rather than primes. Zooms give you the flexibility to look at the Vista and then concentrate on the critical part to include without guessing which prime to start with (and likely stick with).
Great tips. As to the time of day to get the "right light" - often low angle of incidence (sun low above or near horizon) - it is good to have the following rule of thumb: sunrise light is less warm than sunset light and at sunrise the atmosphere has less haze. This has to do with two things: how the sun's warmth impacts the atmosphere and near human activity how humans impact the atmosphere. The sun heating the earth causes evaporation of water that is absorbed more and more in the atmosphere when the day gets warmer. While the day gets hotter, moist in the atmosphere rises, the sun gets higher and the light gets bluer. Warm air can contain more moist in an absolute sense and we can turn this around: on a cold winter day there is little moist in the air, hence less haze, hence more crispy landscapes and the lower angle of sunlight helps us too in that time of year. Human activity causes dust to build in the air and this again causes haze, plus the dust makes direct sunlight warmer. This may have some counter-effect to the day getting bluer but the addition of haze ruins that completely. Of course specific winds may blow that carry geological matter (like desert dust) or biological matter (when plants pollinate en masse) and this can impact our light again. As white sunlight is refracted in the air, the red part of the spectrum is inclined to go straight on, when the blue goes off at an angle. So when we see warm sunlight (that is direct light), we have to understand that the light in the shade is much cooler in tint (more blue, higher white balance) as it predominantly stems from the refracted blue. And this may present us with a dilemma in post, setting white balance and tint. Such differences will be smaller at sunrise than at sunset. You see, motivation to get out of bed early. I did not read the publication and do not have the references to it, but some researcher modeled the lives of early birds versus the later ones and decided the latter have an evolutionary advantage (I guess they're less likely to fall victim to predation). So the majority of us needs real sound motivation to get out of bed in the middle of the night when "being there" at "7AM" generally is really not early enough. You have to be there before sunrise, set up, and start at the break of dawn. Oh, I am so motivated for studio portraits.
I really look forward to my Sunday mornings with a huge cup of tea and the latest Nigel Danson video. Another great episode this week and the location planning segment was interesting. Weather planning is just as important as the actual location itself. I use the Clear Outside, Windy and Weather Pro apps to help predict conditions - what do you use Nigel? I'm also tending to scout local areas more because even though I live on the Swiss/French border and have the Alps and Jura mountains close by, there are some jewels (marshes, forests) locally which I'm really only just starting to discover. It's great to see you looking so well, wishing you a continued recovery. Greetings from France.
Hi Nigel, lots of useful stuff there, thanks for sharing. Even where I am in the cheap seats ( D3500 territory ) I can still do things like exposure bracket, it just takes a little more effort as there' s no in feature for that and no live histogram .. you just have to think a little harder! A very interesting point about shutter speed, as its not something that you would naturally think about for landscapes. .. and most of all ... good to see your recovery is progressing nicely.
One thing I would love to do is to head out to locations yet I always feel terrified to go alone due to the sheer price of the equipment. How would you deal with solo photography when you're plodding along with multiple thousands of £££ in equipment on your back?
Really nice video. I was wondering what app you were using to see the changing light on the 3d map. It looks.quite similar to PhotoPills but it's clearly something different.
Great info thanks. Would like to know about your book publishing source. I’m putting together images from my trek on the Camino del Norte and think they would be perfect for a book format.
Hey Nigel, Nice and helpful video as always! One short question: Which app did you use on your phone that showed the shadow cast? I only have photo pills, but this function isn’t included as far as I know…
Thank you for all these tips Nigel, very useful as always! I have a question about exposure bracketing. I have a Z6II and programmed a Fn button to have quick access to exposure bracketing. However, whatever the number of pictures Im chosing to do, I have to click as many times on the shutter button. Is there any easy way that would allow the camera to take the chosen number of pictures of the bracketing just with one shutter button click?
I'll make sure to take good care of the group! It's so stupendously unlucky for you and lucky for me that the eruption has started just now. I know how painful it is you're not going to experience the volcano right now. Let's hope it lasts long enough for you to get there ☺️🙏
Thanks mads - can't wait to see your images from the highlands as well
It is amazing that we can take such detailed "lessons" from photographers like you, Mads, and James (and others like Mark Denny and Michael Shainblum) for free on youtube. I have learned alot in jus a year of really taking landscape photography seriously and I always feel like I am gaining just a little more knowledge every time I watch one of these videos
The two best things I have improved with my landscape photography are to use Manual nearly all the time, and knowing the sweet spot of each lens with knowing where to focus for correct depth of field for where I want it sharp...!!
Excellent advice as always, thank you Nigel. I always take a ‘gem’ from each of your videos which are so helpful and inspiring. Today, five little gems! Many thanks!
Thanks, Nigel. Hope your back is on the mend
Glad to see you upright. Excellent advice. 👍❤️
Repeat visits to locations you know well is high up on my essential photography skills ! Great video Nigel 😍
Great to see you up and having a good time! Thank you for the tips... really helpful. And thanks for the 2023 Calendar offer!
Great advise Nigel.
Something crucial I’ve learnt lately is asking myself- “is this helping or harming my scene” in regards to finding what makes a photo work.
Also, I see that giant Antarctica pano photo is still on your desk. That baby needs to be framed and placed on your wall!!😯
Getting to know your camera and having quick access to buttons, etc. really helps. Being able to customise buttons is a great feature in newer cameras. With the Canon R5, I've set up quick access to change the crop view by clicking one button instead of via the Menu - very useful when composing a scene.
I've learned so much from you Nigel ! Thank you so much !
Nigel, you have taught me so much over the past 3 months so a massive thank you! I look forward to your weekly videos now to see what else I can learn!
Huge inspiration and incredibly clear and detailed advice. I can't wait to see your photobooks which I've just ordered too.
Thank you!
Great to hear! Thanks
I love all of your points. The one that is really sticking out to me is going back to the same location over and over again. I have begun to do that. I honestly believe that helps more than people realize. Great tips on the camera too. That's the first thing I did when I got the Z6ii is set up the I menu (for delay, timer, etc) and then used a function button for the bracketing. Those tips are absolutely spot on Nigel.
Good topic! People ask me why I photograph certain locations over and over? Scenes change over time based on weather, lighting and your mindset at the time. I second watching Ben Horne.
Some top advice from a top photographer👌
Getting too know your equipment is vital for capturing those fleeing images that we’ve all seen.
Hope your recovery is progressing well Nigel, even if it’s not as quickly as you might want.
Stay safe 🇦🇺
Five great tips Nigel! The one about repeat visits to a familiar location really hit home with me. Many of us have limited travel options so familiar places close to home are the main option. Your tip stresses the importance of exploring/scouting these places and how that can be a real time-saver when conditions are awesome. Great examples with the River Braithwaite images! BTW, my Sunday morning routine always includes 1) Breakfast with my beautiful wife 2) Watching the latest Nigel Danson video. Thanks!
Amazing video. Perhaps one of my favorites from your recent productions. Thank you!
Talking of revisiting locations I recommend a return trip now to the heather moors above Hathersage - they are at their peak this week and the weather forecast is looking good! You may finally get your elusive shot!
Great content, Nigel! Well thought out and useful tips. Thanks
My pleasure!
Great advices! I will try to put them into application on my next trip. I like a lot when you mentioned to stay calm, pause for a bit and eat an apple 🙂
I found the comparison between your photo and Paul Newcombe's to be really helpful.
As always, the highlight of my UA-cam week. And it's great to see you upright again! ☺ Cheers from DownUnder 🦘
Thanks for the mention and the kind words Nigel!
Thanks for the amazing images and inspiration!
Thanks Nigel , you’re looking so much better. Take care fella
As per your comments a few videos back, I purchased the 24-120 lens. Love it too, surprisingly sharp considering the zoom range.
Love Ben Horne's channel. His voice is so relaxing :-)
I watch Baumgartner Restoration channel too for the same reason. Interesting subject and great voice 🙂
Such an excellent video, really gave me a lot of great tips to work with! Especially the part about you only want to include what adds to the scene, what bennefits the composition. I tend to capture to much at once.
Glad it was helpful!
Packed session with good solid advice, thank you.
There is a plethora of really good info in this presentation, what I don't understand is there are less than 11% of people who bothered to hit the like key who watched the video? All of us have different things which appeal to us, however, 99% of the videos I watch from all photographers give me something sometimes a lot and sometimes one little gem. Hope you are up and about pain free soon, looking forward to more content.
Great advice again Nigel, Thanks!
Another excellent video with good tips. And, it’s great to see you sitting up for this one.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excelent advice, the comparison of the rocks was very educational.
Thank you!
Hello Nigel. You are looking much better, thankfully. I have done Ben Horne's Zion drive and I am amazed how he can endure that drive, weekend after weekend. He is SO patient and lugs that huge camera and tripod around. Stops me moaning about my A7Riii with a 150-500 lens at four pounds.
Thanks David
Excellent advise for us Nigel. Thank you very much. I've just bought myself a Canon R7 (as I do mostly bird photography) but have a new RF lens of 18-150mm which I am finding most interesting and versatile to use.
One tip I picked up from a photographer that I follow (Bill Fortney, who does a range of different subjects but mostly landscape and travel type photography) is to slow down, and also work the scene. He recommends taking multiple shots from different FLs. So for example, take an overall shot of the scene (not a snapshot, but an overall composed shot) and then start to work on the details and zoom in a bit. That way you have various images of the scene, from different focal lengths (and even angles if you choose). I mean I assume most people are shooting digitally so this shouldn't be a problem from a cost standpoint, and while you don't really want to be "lazy" with your shots or taking too many of one particular scene, I'd rather have a wider selection of images to choose from later for post processing. Maybe the image I thought that was going to be the keeper wasn't the image I really wanted once I get it on the big screen, or another image really spoke to me more than the one I had originally thought was "the one". So having the variety is also important, and it's all digital, so it's like like in the film days where each click cost you money.
Hi Nigel very happy to see you again making video's,.. ;-) On the Vulcano story i can tell you that we are leaving to Iceland on August 19 till 26,... Just after Mads his visit,.. And we are planning now how and when to get to the Vulcano,... as you can imagine,..I am bumping up and down on my chair at the moment and can't wait to get the plane to Kevlavik,..Lovely and helpfull as always in this video again,... ;-)
Thanks a million for the mention Nigel! Really sorry you couldn't make it for the workshop but I'm sure we'll make another attempt. Hopefully with another eruption. Seems more and more likely this will be a reoccurring thing!
Terrific footage!
Thanks for the amazing footage!
I think a lot of these suggestions can be encompassed into one single term: practice. Practice changing settings and know where things are in the menus (or better yet, program the "quick" menu button on your camera for faster/easier access to menu items you use a lot, like bracketing and image stabilization or WB and ISO settings). Also practicing to figure out what shutter speeds work for waterfalls (I think we can all agree that something like 20s should be plenty for even the fastest moving waterfalls, but practicing will help you sort of figure out the best shutter speed that's not too long or too short for smooth water). Lastly, I feel that knowing when to use what AF modes and metering is also critical. For landscape shooters, this isn't very hard but for sports or portrait shooters, this can be more of a task, and knowing when to use AF-C or eyeAF and when not to, is important. Same for metering mode (most of the times I find myself in HDR situatins so I tend to opt for spot metering and just meter various parts of the scene to determine my exposure strategy which half the time involves bracketed shots of some sort.
great tips (as always) Nigel. Hope the back is doing well.
Excellent tips
Very useful advice! Thank you!! I’m still learning how to use my camera, but a tip I got from your college Mads is to use P mode when you don’t want to miss out on an opportunity! (The different programs are there for a reason, one just have to be humble enough to admit your own capacity when it comes to photography). I think it’s better to get the shot, maybe not 💯 but you still got it, then being a snob, insisting on using M mode, when you can’t really handle it. It takes a lot of stress out and meanwhile you can learn more deeply about your camera. Thanks for sharing this tips, saving this video for educational purposes 😍
Helpful video! Thank you. Just pre-ordered the calendar!
Awesome! Thank you!
Great video like always . Before I pull my camera out my bag I always think about you and wish I brought a apple with me . Thank you for all your information
I hope that new landscape photographers noticed that Nigel mentioned zoom lenses rather than primes. Zooms give you the flexibility to look at the Vista and then concentrate on the critical part to include without guessing which prime to start with (and likely stick with).
Great tips.
As to the time of day to get the "right light" - often low angle of incidence (sun low above or near horizon) - it is good to have the following rule of thumb: sunrise light is less warm than sunset light and at sunrise the atmosphere has less haze.
This has to do with two things: how the sun's warmth impacts the atmosphere and near human activity how humans impact the atmosphere.
The sun heating the earth causes evaporation of water that is absorbed more and more in the atmosphere when the day gets warmer. While the day gets hotter, moist in the atmosphere rises, the sun gets higher and the light gets bluer. Warm air can contain more moist in an absolute sense and we can turn this around: on a cold winter day there is little moist in the air, hence less haze, hence more crispy landscapes and the lower angle of sunlight helps us too in that time of year.
Human activity causes dust to build in the air and this again causes haze, plus the dust makes direct sunlight warmer. This may have some counter-effect to the day getting bluer but the addition of haze ruins that completely.
Of course specific winds may blow that carry geological matter (like desert dust) or biological matter (when plants pollinate en masse) and this can impact our light again.
As white sunlight is refracted in the air, the red part of the spectrum is inclined to go straight on, when the blue goes off at an angle. So when we see warm sunlight (that is direct light), we have to understand that the light in the shade is much cooler in tint (more blue, higher white balance) as it predominantly stems from the refracted blue. And this may present us with a dilemma in post, setting white balance and tint. Such differences will be smaller at sunrise than at sunset.
You see, motivation to get out of bed early. I did not read the publication and do not have the references to it, but some researcher modeled the lives of early birds versus the later ones and decided the latter have an evolutionary advantage (I guess they're less likely to fall victim to predation). So the majority of us needs real sound motivation to get out of bed in the middle of the night when "being there" at "7AM" generally is really not early enough. You have to be there before sunrise, set up, and start at the break of dawn.
Oh, I am so motivated for studio portraits.
Danke!
Really enjoyable and helpful. Thank you 🙏
I really look forward to my Sunday mornings with a huge cup of tea and the latest Nigel Danson video. Another great episode this week and the location planning segment was interesting. Weather planning is just as important as the actual location itself. I use the Clear Outside, Windy and Weather Pro apps to help predict conditions - what do you use Nigel? I'm also tending to scout local areas more because even though I live on the Swiss/French border and have the Alps and Jura mountains close by, there are some jewels (marshes, forests) locally which I'm really only just starting to discover. It's great to see you looking so well, wishing you a continued recovery. Greetings from France.
Nice to see you out of bed my mentor.
great video
THANKYOU..
Your book and calendar gave me a question. If you were to buy a couple photography books or calendars, which artist's product would they be?
Hi Nigel, lots of useful stuff there, thanks for sharing. Even where I am in the cheap seats ( D3500 territory ) I can still do things like exposure bracket, it just takes a little more effort as there' s no in feature for that and no live histogram .. you just have to think a little harder! A very interesting point about shutter speed, as its not something that you would naturally think about for landscapes. .. and most of all ... good to see your recovery is progressing nicely.
I used to just take a quick photo and look at the histogram when I didn't have a live one
@@NigelDanson yep, that’s where the extra thinking comes in !
I’m early to the vid! Have a lovely day!😊🙌
Thank God for the peace and thank you for the beautiful content
One thing I would love to do is to head out to locations yet I always feel terrified to go alone due to the sheer price of the equipment. How would you deal with solo photography when you're plodding along with multiple thousands of £££ in equipment on your back?
Great advice as always. Since you use the live histogram for exposure does that mean you tend to use Manual rather than Aperture Priority?
No - as I use aperture with exposure comp dialled in as well
Really nice video. I was wondering what app you were using to see the changing light on the 3d map. It looks.quite similar to PhotoPills but it's clearly something different.
I had the same question - looks very useful.
Hello Nigel, could you tell me the name of the app at 12.06. It seems really good
11:59 - what app is that?
Great info thanks. Would like to know about your book publishing source. I’m putting together images from my trek on the Camino del Norte and think they would be perfect for a book format.
It was a small firm in the UK. They have minimum quantity of 500 though
@@NigelDanson thanks for the info
Hey Nigel,
Nice and helpful video as always!
One short question: Which app did you use on your phone that showed the shadow cast? I only have photo pills, but this function isn’t included as far as I know…
What do you mean by shadow cast?
@@NigelDanson Sorry for the confusion, English is not my native language 😃 … I meant the app you used at minute 12 of the video. Which one is it?
Thank you for all these tips Nigel, very useful as always! I have a question about exposure bracketing. I have a Z6II and programmed a Fn button to have quick access to exposure bracketing. However, whatever the number of pictures Im chosing to do, I have to click as many times on the shutter button. Is there any easy way that would allow the camera to take the chosen number of pictures of the bracketing just with one shutter button click?
Yes - just put it on continuous shooting and hold finger down or timer does 3/5/7 shots at once.
@@NigelDanson Great. Thank you for the tip!
I want to become a photographer but I'm poor please help me to buy a camera please sir
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It is not THE volcano erupting AGAIN, it is a NEW volcano erupting.
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