The Secret Ingredient to 90% of my PHOTOS
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2024
- Location scouting is often the key to getting the best photos, and I explain why as I look around a new area of the Lake District.
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Thanks for sharing your scouting process and letting us tag along Nigel. I have come to realize I may be afflicted with VLS (Vicarious Living Syndrome) 🤪.
Thank you for a nice non-epic ordinarily photo exploring walk with a lot of useful tips.
I like the idea of keeping notes when exploring/scouting. Good point to be noting potential times of day and lighting conditions too in different seasons.
Thanks, Nigel! During this crazy period, when the world has gone mad, it is always comforting to watch your videos and hear your talking about photography!
Hi Nigel. Thanks for the video. Haven't seen Pebbles lately.
Have a good day from Greece/Athens ,Nigel!I'm a fan of your content !I wish you a happy new year!
Lovely video. Speaking of Fanal forest you might be interested to know that this week there was a huge storm that destroyed big parts of the forest. One of the trees from your wonderful family photo is now toppled over😢. Lots of branches has fallen down. Nothing lasts forever. It still looks great there, but I got a bit heartbroken seeing the difference from one day to the next.
Great vid Nigel, I really need help in finding great woodland scenes. I am in Western Australia and our woodlands are very different to yours. We dont have moss as it is dry, even in winter. We also have a lot of undergrowth shrubbery which makes it hard to shoot a clean scene.
Would love to see a video about how you find a location either with google maps or other apps and then the scouting of the area and then choosing the shots.
I also need to get more time with my drone.
Keep up the great work.
Great video and super tips.
Some great suggestions! Thanks for taking me along!
It always amazes me how little underbrush there is in those woods
Pebbles will really love those streams. 🐶 Good scouting tips. Carry on. 👍🥂
Thanks Nigel, fascinating as always!
Very good Nigel. The value of using a mobile phone while scouting or checking for a composition cannot be understated. Taking shots with your phone to review later rather than trying to remember the area you scouted is invaluable.
Me too
Very cool woodland and looks like a beautiful day for exploring.
Thank you for the video!
Brilliant video as always. Fantastic to have the Lake Dsitrict on your doorstep was there at Christmas for 4 days and loved it so much to see, it's a tad flat here in Suffolk.
Great video and tips
Another awesome video, thank you for all you do. For 3D printing, the most useful tool I’ve made so far is a filter wrench for a 95mm filter, so simple to custom make one for each size, but so valuable when you need one. I’ve also made several battery pack and accessory holders that clip to the tripod. Plus a holder that connects to the L-Bracket for the Camranger that I use a great deal of the time. I also have single battery cases for travelling. With a 3D printer the possibilities are as wide as your imagination or as limited as your time.
Great suggestions for scouting areas out, thanks for that Nigel. Hopefully, you're enjoying the Cairngorms, I'm a fairly big fan of the area as I live in Aviemore 👍
Nice video and advice for woodland photography
I enjoyed the video as usual Nigel.
Some good tips and advice.
Like you it's a nice change to do woodland photography and a challenging one for everyone to try and overcome,but sometimes with great results.
Nice image's as usual.
The only thing i can think of is making a copy of a camera or like a rubber stamp with your name or something like that with the 3D printer.
Amazing video my fiend,,i liked your photos
As always, a lovely video, easy to watch, a great start to a lazy Sunday morning… and yet there’s inspirational hints and tips.
This video made me think about how you ‘journal’ the area, with future tips about sunrise and setting times for future visit you will make. Do you make notes/records on a spreadsheet file, or can you somehow add notes like that in the photo data, somehow? Interesting to know how you do that, re sunrise, sunset times, etc. Thank you Nigel.
Nice Video live always
Enjoyed this video as it was educational to see how a professional landscape photographer spied the lie of the land for future visits.
Handsome video. I really like the wall with the path where the rocks are falling. For the 3D suggestion. It will be great to have kind of a plastic sheet that can clip to the Lens hood to extend part of this one when the sun is coming by one side. It will be great to be able to mount one side to extend the hood to avoid flare without having to use our hands. I don't know if it is possible to make a flexible plastic, shaped like a hand fan with something to attached it on the side of the hood or the lens.
Thanks for the ideas using Google maps for recording locations. For 3D printing if I had a 3D printer right now I would be printing cases for my hard drives.
OH 3d print! I made a lens collar to cover my focus ring on my UWA lens for astrophotography so that I don't accidentally bump it after setting the focus manually. I also made a special cap for silver film holder for eclipses, lens and body caps that get lost, a little picker tool with a ring on it for opening the flippy screen in icy weather when I don't want to remove my gloves, a key-ring for USB and SD cards, SD card holder/organizers, battery organizer, and a jig to mount my circular polarizer in so that i could mark at predetermined intervals around the edge to better quickly establish how I want to orient it as it's a magnetic one. The projects are endless.
3D printers are great for camera gear!
I've designed and printed my own shoulder clip (peak design was too expensive for my taste - can afford it but why buy it when I can make it!)
I've also modified my sigma 14-24 to remove the lens hood, and added a magnetic filter system! That way I don't need the super bulky and expensive filter system. Everything from the attachment to lens cap and the sun shield are magnetically fixed and hot-swapable. Cost a fraction of the price and reduced the volume I need to carry by a good 50%!
Also printed my own tripod holder, much easier to take out/ put back without removing my backpack.
Plenty of things to do with a 3d printer, hope you'll enjoy it!
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8:35 where you did the walking transition, with the low moss covered rock wall and path, that was a photo for me. 📸😎
My husband just bought himself a 3D printer! I got him to make me a ground pod to get down to ground level for bird photography. For the bit of plastic that they are, they are terribly expensive online. Now I have my own for next to nothing. Have fun in Scotland!
Good morning from British Columbia.
3d printing holders for solar film that I have used for previous and the coming USA solar eclipse in April. I also have printed ones that fit on binoculars for my grandkids. I tape the solar film on and have quick press on and off filters for 500mm f/4 and 300mm f/2.8 and others.
I think remembering where you were when you saw something worth photographing is a natural editing factor, you either remember it’s significance and impression and go back, or it’s been archived in the mind as ‘meh’ and you don’t. It’s not necessary to sign everything off as ‘remembered’ with a snapshot, particularly as expectations and re-discovery may change at a later date and worse may cement in the mind a wrong initial impression.
I think it would be cool to 3d print a snap on guard that goes around tripod joints when you are at the beach or in the water. That way you don’t have to clean them when you go home! 😂
Oh boy! What a can of worms you opened up, asking people for their ideas on photo gadgets that can be 3D printed.
As a nighttime photographer (hobbyist, not pro), I've thought of a hundred or so gadgets that would come in handy out in the field. The one idea I keep coming back to, though, is a makeshift easel to hold a field monitor or tablet on the tripod. Every single clamp system I've tried is just rubbish, always failing. I would envision just three pieces of plastic, one of which has a bit of a tray, maybe 1 - 1.5 inch, with a lip. The other two pieces would be flat and hinged to the bottom piece, but freely moving until connected at the top. The angle would be shallow so that the side pieces would brace themselves against the tripod legs and thus provide backing support for the tablet or field monitor. The bottom piece would have some method of connection to the tripod legs, perhaps just a simple velcro strap at each end. But the whole thing would be low profile and collapsible and would easily fit on the side of a pack with the tripod, or even strapped to a tripod leg.
Interesting video as usual.
Will you use a polarizer filter to reduce the reflection in the stream at 13:56 when the condition are right?
Enjoyed the video! May I ask what ball head you use on your tripod?
Just got back from 4 days in the Lake District after seeing it on the channel for so long. For 3D printing, I use a PD capture clip, and I often have a problem where I want to set my camera and bag down, but it’s hard to fine a good, stable surface to rest the camera on. Would be neat to have a little slide-in holder for the tripod plate to keep the camera off the ground for a few moments without having to open the bag.
Great video! I advice a lenscover for the big prime lenses. They come always with big covers but I wish they had a big hard cover like all the standerd lenses. Just an idea…
Great video! Just wondering if you could use a 3D printer to create a scale model of a location (perhaps based on OS maps and their contours) to give an idea about how light might play across the scene at various times of day/ year?
Awesome video and advices as usual!! I've recently got myself a Z8, it's the best camera I've ever used, but I`m having problems with white balance in LR, when I try to warm up the photos they get a green cast... quite weird, although the auto white balance of this camera is very accurate and there's no much need of playing with it. As for the ·d printing, what about a battery case?
Nice video!
If I had a 3D printer I’d try to make something that could fit inside a bulbous front lens element UWA lens hood to fit regular circular filters. (So I wouldn’t have to buy 100-150mm lens filters).
I like the idea of using Google Maps to record various locations, something I need to follow up on. Thanks
In woodland shots you have to find order in the forest chaos!
Suggestion, not sure of the capacity of the 3-D printer or the materials that can be used, but I kicked around the idea of a foam lens holder which can be used in an existing camera bag, table top for storage, to be used interchangeably between different bag everyday or dry bags? Alternatively, making a mold for the foam to be poured into.
I have an old Toyoview 45C large format camera that I haven't used in years. There's a design on Thingiverse for an adaptor, so you can mount a Nikon DSLR on it. I found it didn't work for me, using my D750, the focal point was in the wrong spot, but I'd love to try one for my Z6ii. If only I could get my 3D printer to work again.
for 3D printing it would be helpful to make moulds that would fit your drawer(s) or cuboard to safely store your camear bodies and lenses? thanks for the interesting video on scouting!
How do you collect and store and organize your scouting information logs and drawings? I love the Google maps idea
Hey Nigel!
Are you using a pocket 3 for the standard shots of yourself? As well as the tracking that you use here?
Thanks as always
Would love to see a photo re-created in 3d and then printed. For example one of your woodland photos with the trees in 3D standing out like an embossed version in a block that you can frame.
Did you see the 3D camera battery power bank Peter Lindgren designed?
3D print - Battery Holder / Charger
A side benefit of scouting is that when the weather is nice and miserable you already know where the good spots are and don't have to waste time finding those spots.
hey can you go over your export settings in lightroom classsic for prints to get best quality
Maybe a print of something, say the height of three photobooks, you can use to put your screen up a bit higher ;) As always, very educational video. I look up on maps where the north is, but standing in the spot thinking where the sun is going to hit is next level.
That's a good idea!
Hi Nigel, How do you scout a location that you're going to visit. We're heading to Scotland in October and there are lots to capture! With it being a 9-hour journey, what do you find is the best way to find specific locations to visit in advance?
Nigel, I know it's incredibly variable, but how far do you end up walking in your videos, including or not including all the extra walking you have to do to capture you walking seen in your video and coming back to get the camera and tripod. You might want to talk about cardiovascular fitness in landscape photography.
How about printing a miniature camera to use as a key ring?
Before I even sit down to enjoy this video, I really hope the secrete ingredient to your photos is an apple 🍏 😂
cyclar filter holder for the next 3d printer.
Is the gear in this film z8 and z24-120 f4?
Hi Nigel! What do you use for tracking since 9:01 -...? Thx)
I'd imagine it's that new DJI pocket 3
I do love a gnarly tree.
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How about 3D print a map of your favorite place or a place you are scouting?
At 6:09 there is a deer in the background.
Would take a bit more than 3D printing but I really wish someone would make a right angle connector for shutter releases. It’s near to impossible to use a release for a vertical shot when I have an L bracket on my camera.
Hi Nigel, my proposal to 3D-printing is photogrammetry items. Let me know if you want me to elaborate this topic/technique.
Love your channel, keep up the good work.
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Umbrellas to slot into the hotshoe. ☔
Hi Nigel. Thanks for the video. Haven't seen Pebbles lately.