Taking my New Camera on It's First Photography Trip
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Today, after months of waiting, I finally took delivery of my brand new Nikon Z8 + 3 lenses and I'm taking the new camera on it's first photography adventure to the north west of Scotland, just in time for autumn colour. Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this video, Use HEATON For 10% off & visit www.squarespace... for a free trial.
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The photo of the lily pads is exceptional - a shot most people would miss unless they're willing to slow down and spend time looking at their environment.
10:36 Thom, homie, dude... You don't need to add the qualifiers. Your photos are art, that one very much included (it's gorgeous!), and no one is going to fuss about it. Or no one should. Call your work what it is: Art. You are an artist. Just not a pretentious one, which is why we love you. Or one of the reasons. It's on the list. It's a good list.
Love the Lily Pad shot.
Enjoy the videos. Wondering why you stop adding the f-stop and iso to you photos that you captured? As a hobby photographer, I found that little bit of information useful.
as someone has been shoting for sometimes, camera setting info is the most toxic info you can give to someone in modern-day camera
Different camera have different limitations, different camera size format has different depth of field, Sometimes in the field You may try to cut time and you may not be using the most ideal setting too, Sometimes to also include focus stacking and exposure bracketing ,giving all this settings Without the full set of mentality details is basically pointing people to more confusing direction
Technical specs are not important.
You'll learn this after a few thousand shots.
@@JohnLamjohnlsl thanks, lots to learn.
I usually include them, but I was late with this edit and ran out of time. Next time 👍
Scotland is my most favourite places on earth, the close second is Tasmania. Stunning countries to take photos
I'd say the lily pad image is for sure a work of art. It's really beautiful!!
I always appreciate how you do 'photo gear' videos. You make them about how the gear fits into your creative process and the images you can make with it instead of just making it about the gear itself. Well done.
Congrats on the new camera!
Exactly. Very well said!
Hi Thomas,
I’ve been following your channel for quite a long time. For some reason, I stopped watching for almost three years, don’t know why? I love your channel and how you take us with you and explain along the way, your thoughts behind the shots and what you did to achieve them.
Having just recently returned and catching up, I have to say your storytelling and video editing skills have massively improved, from an already high standard. I don’t know how you maintain, nor dare I say elevate your enthusiasm for your craft? From the outside looking in, you seem happy and love your life. You seem to have found your footing into the photography world, meeting other creative people to share and learn with.
Just wanted to say, Well Done. I love your work, having bought many of your previous calendars, and will definitely send away for the 2024 one as well.
Great Work Thomas.
Lilly shot fabulous
Second image is fantastic
That lilypad shot is awesome
the lily pad shot is very nice, very nice!
Fair warning: I haven't even watched the video yet but RESPECT your work so much that I already KNOW the camera has passed w/ flying colors. I'm looking at the same in 1-2 years, finally making the mirrorless leap after a lifetime/52years of Nikon SLRs.
The lily pads shot is a banger! Might be my favorite shot of yours. Thanks for sharing your thought process and descriptions of the compositions.
Thanks Thomas! Subscribed to the weekly letter.
The lilly pad shot was epic bud! It looked like a painting!
Love the lily pad shot!
I loved the lily pad photo!
God that lily shot, exquisite !
Loved your final, lone tree image!
i dont even have much of an interest in photography but I love your videos keep them coming!
I'm very pleased to see you using a Nikon Z8, you'll love it. Thanks for sharing your insight and emotions. I just ordered your 2024 calendar.
The Nikon Z8 is a dream camera for landscape photography.
With a 45.7 effective megapixel stacked, full-frame CMOS sensor and
No mechanical shutter, there's no shutter-slap to affect the image plane.
Add one of the better or best Nikkor lenses and a highly trained photographer, like Thomas most certainly is, and you have a recipe for spectacular images!
Hello Thomas, thank you for this new video. Your images are very beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for sharing. Have a nice week.
Oh, this shot of the lily pad was it worth to watch this vid - to say at least.
Loved the Lilly pads.
light is always changing
The 10:55 lilly pad shot, I’d hang that one on the wall. Terrific!
Beautiful shots Thomas. I feel like that throughout the years you have found your style of photography more and more for every year. It has been a pleasure to be on that journey together with you through your videos.
I agree. I like when he explains the composition & such. Really like the 2 leaf photo. Came out better than I thought it would when he started talking about it. Don’t know why when I have a few that are some of my favorites.
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Lily pad pic is a great shot.
The lily pad shot really is exceptional. I also enjoyed the last sequence with just a bit of wind noise and that lone tree came out beautiful. Love your work and channel.
Thomas, that lily pad image is (subjectively) in your Top 10 images of all time, in my opinion! I know it's simple. I know it's "only" lily pads, but...WOW. Phenomenal nature image! It's all in the composition. Really well done!
Still one of my all-time favourite Photography channels. Always enjoy going on these adventures with you. Enjoy your personality and of course your photos. Thank you, Thomas.
Thomas, I think you and the new Z8 are going to be inseparable. I admire your choice of lenses, too. These images are among some of the most vibrant and beautiful that you have done. Can't wait to see more.
Tom and cameras ... neverending story ...
Thomas, that's so exciting about the new cameras and lens! I'm actually in the same boat. After shooting with my D810 for the past 7 years, I just went mirrorless-on order is a Z8 with almost the same lenses as you. I got the 14-30, 24-120, and 100-400. And yes, is cost me a fortune, but it will be all mine! Now, I'm looking for some extras like the L-bracket and perhaps some filters for the 82mm on the wide 14-30 lens. I've got a bunch of old filters for the mid- and tele-zoom. I can only hope I love the Z8 system as much as I've loved my D810! And stunning images in this video, to be sure!!!
Good choice, love my Nikon Z8!
I think Autumn just changes all photographer's energy. Great video Tom. Congrats on the gear.
Very nice shots, all of them.
The Lilly Pad Shot is a stunner. Honestly!
the Nikon zfc would be a great camera for you Thomas
Scotland is magical. Particularly loved the lily image 🤩
Nigel that picture of the Lilly pads is exceptional, well done!
another amazing set of photos as always
Great first session with the new camera. I agree with what you said about the lily shot, it was great.
Love that Lilly pad shot. Just stunning.
There are at least two absolute keepers from this day's shoot, Thomas. Very well done!
I'm so pleased I watched this, this is your best work I've seen, lily's were sublime, and many thanks. Just Superb.
Great vlog Thomas, so glad our Scottish scenery was kind to you & great images.
Always enjoy it when you discuss your approach to composition.
The lily pads picture 😍 The best shot in the whole video in my opinion, killer shot.
Welcome to the Z8 Club. I'm sure you're are going to love this camera.
Another great vid. I have to say, though, that as you were shooting that last lone pine, there was an amazing group of trees behind you. 14.26 in the video. Found myself talking to the monitor telling you to turn around. Hahaha.
I def recognized that landscape as I confess I was the one who left a cheery hello note on your windscreen as I spotted you heading off ( a few miles from Applecross)! It was a beautiful light and nothing beats the West coast highland’s for amazing beauty..loved your deer pic… 🙂atb vee
I lost my shizzle for my second visit to Scotland in full autumn bloom. So it was great to see you filling your boots and as always making the complex immense 😁 I had the Z8 for a week and wow I didn’t want to give it back, enjoy Tom, the shot on the 100-400 exquisite!
Wow, what a location that is. Ample opportunities to add to the portfolio from appearances.
ThanK you ❤
Yes, the lily pad shot is art.
Lilypad shot: definitiv art! Love your choice of making the water black.
Great shots!
I love the Lilly Pads shot. I have tried to do something similar at a local botanical garden, but I can never get the composition right.
I have to say the lily pad shot is superb. Enjoying the channel.
observation and obsession are the most important input into composition and youve shown just that. love all your videos and congrats on the Z8!
Great Video Thomas, 8:56 stunning image, wonderful colour (s) composition and framing is excellent, 10:57 almost abstract and surreal, the almost 100% black water makes you focus on the soft colours of the subject, 14:41 cracking image the side lighting is brilliant, it highlights the detail in the trees and the soft curves in the hills, Thanks for sharing
Thanks for all of the feedback. I was unsure about cranking those blacks in the lily shot, but I'm happy with the starkness of it 👍
It works. Gave me ideas I hadn't previously considered.
I also love the photo of the lily pads, very nice indeed! Seeing the colour results of the filter, it is a reminder I should use them again. Thanks for this video & congrats on the new gear!
The lone tree shot was simply stunning.
The last image didn't need any dialogue, it spoke for it's self, and told all the story for you! Bloody gorgeous shot :D
Thomas another great edition. I’ve been following you for years and I have to say that the color image you created of the lily pads is one of your finest. It is Art!
Bonjour , très très agréables toutes tes vidéos , j’adore suivre tes aventures , moi même ma passion de la photographie de paysage me pousse à découvrir, partir .je voudrais faire que ça , ne penser qu a la photo … c est top ta vie dans ta passion , tu en parles avec tellement d amour . Merci
Great Images Thomas the new camera has done you well. Looking forward to your next adventure
Those opening shots! Lilly pads group of three magic.👍
The Lily pad photo is art to me!! 🙂
Wow… so jealous when I see the locations you go to in your videos. I love how they are part travel and part photography. I think the biggest thing you have skirted but haven’t emphasized is patience. Waiting for that light, the shadows or looking at the location till you work out the picture. Once again, great video!
I was in Skye in mid-October right after the storm and its hard to state how beautiful it was - I was overwhelmed!
Exceptional photos Tom and thank you for sharing with us!!
I've also got the Z8 with those 3 lenses. The camera and image quality produced with all 3 of the lenses is fantastic. They're so versatile.
Hi Thomas! I'm the beginner on UA-cam, but I am not the beginner photographer. It is nice to watch your films and pictures. My photographs represent rather different approach to the photography but it really doesn't matter here. Your job has impressive results, as we can see here... - congratulations! Kind regards, DT
Outstanding pictures, specially the water plant. Thnx.
Great vid as always, love your hat mate
Great video Thomas 👍
good choice of camera and lenses ❤❤😊
Enjoyed the video as usual Thomas.
Congratulations on getting your own gear and you certainly chose well and yes i am jealous.
Although the conditions weren't in your favour you still managed to capture some really nice image's.
Look forward to the next one.
I will have to sign up for your newsletter as i think it will be interesting.
Kinda miss the good old 5d mk4 days. ❤
3 beautiful images TH! Are you enjoying using your new NIKON setup? Love the location in Scotland, we were briefly there in 2018 on a 2 week drive holiday through the UK. We'd love to travel back there (from Australia..... a LONG...Long way). Love your work. Calendar is here and ready to hang in 2024... thank you!
The lily pads, sensational.
That last image was gorgeous Thomas! Well worth the frantic scramble through the tick infested bog. Love it!!👌
I lived near Montrose for 3 years and absolutely loved Scotland. Those were the days of film only and I enjoyed going out on weekends to different places with my Pentax Spotmatic II and filming especially the old castles along the west coast.
Thomas congratulations on getting a new camera, your photos are very good, may you do well.
beautiful photos with a simple perspective that's enough, I like that
Classic video! Hopefully more to come - love the "local" adventures!
Great film, thanks Thomas. I’m loving the light and the colour of the nature surrounding you 👍
Tom, I miss you posting the setting use for each shot, they do help me get into a sweet spot.
Another great video, Fall is a great time of year. In Colorado, USA it means snow is near.
What a debut for the z8 Thomas, the images were beautiful especially the Lilly pad and Scots pine images.
Ha! I was in that exact spot five years ago and took essentially the identical image, with the addition of a bit of mist. It's a beautiful print hanging in my living room. What great memories! Would love to travel back to the UK again some day.
Three WONDERFUL photos thank you . :)
Well I hate to say it but the new camera has upped your image quality big time.
Very nice.
I love the last image, well worth the trudge through the bog.
Stunning images, that golden light at the last location wow. Good to see you enjoying the new kit.
I love the photo by the lake (at 9:00), it's soft and sharp, and a great balance of cold and warm tones, it's a truly a beauty. Maybe not the minimalist scene you fancy most, but I like a lot the complexity within the simple composition. A photo which is worth spending time looking at over and over. The lilies are gorgeous too.
The pace of the video was very nice, a quiet walk into autumn (it hasn't really started here in south of France)
Btw, the newsletter is a great idea, and it's a nice read
Cheers and thanks for another nice video!
Thanks a lot, and glad you are enjoying the newsletter 👍