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Walks On The Wild Side
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I'm Scott Walker (Walks) and this is Walks On The Wild Side: the channel where I help you capture the beauty of nature through your camera lens. I take all aspects of nature photography - wildlife, macro, woodland, landscapes and more. So if you enjoy nature, photography or both, then this is the place for you.
Do you doubt your photography skills?
If you doubt yourself and your wildlife photography skills, watch this video. I reflect on the things I've noticed from people who are better than they think they are. Are you one of them?
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Chapter:
0:00 Introduction
1:45 Planning
5:26 Midges
6:52 Improvement
8:07 Experimentation
9:32 Reflecting
10:28 Are you better than you think?
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See my photography gear : walksonthewildside.co.uk/my-camera-gear
Chapter:
0:00 Introduction
1:45 Planning
5:26 Midges
6:52 Improvement
8:07 Experimentation
9:32 Reflecting
10:28 Are you better than you think?
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Embrace the things you can't control in photography
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When you're not getting the conditions that you want, embrace the ones that you get. I'll give you some ideas of how to do this in landscape photography from a recent trip to the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Sign up to my newsletter: walksonthewildside.co.uk/subscribe See my photography gear : walksonthewildside.co.uk/my-camera-gear Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:31 My trip to the Isle of Skye 1:45...
It's not what you look at that matters...
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I this video I'll explore the idea that it's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. So come with me as I head out to photograph seabirds and show you the things I look at and what I see in them. The video I referred to on giving you subject more context by showing more of its environment is here: czcams.com/video/bGZM8v1Uu8g/video.html Sign up to my newsletter: walksonthewildside...
Best vs basic bird in flight photos
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Discover the difference between a basic and the best bird in flight shots. Join me as I delve into the art of capturing gannets in action, showcasing the tips and tricks that will take your bird photography to new heights. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, this video will help you elevate your bird in flight photography to the next level. Watch now and soar to new heights with...
Image stabilisation: everything a wildlife photographer needs to know
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How does image stabilisation work? How should you use it? Which is better, optical stabilisation (OS) or in-body image stabilisation (IBIS)? Do you need image stabilisation? I'll cover all this and more, whilst I head out to get photos of sea birds. Sign up to my newsletter: walksonthewildside.co.uk/subscribe See my photography gear : walksonthewildside.co.uk/my-camera-gear Chapters: 0:00 What ...
Bring your flat wildlife photos to life through editing
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I explore how to use contrast tools to add depth to your wildlife photos and make feel more 3-dimensional. This achieves a more realistic look. You will be surprised at the tools which control contrast in your photos. But by understanding how these tools do what they do, you can use them to your advantage. The photos I edit in this video are edited in Lightroom, but the tips apply to other phot...
The power of the test shot - recognising the potential for photographs
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here I show you how I use test shots to think about the final photo that I want, and to make sure I'm focussing my efforts on achieving images I like. I do this whilst I'm out photographing red grouse, and I show you other examples too. Sign up to my newsletter: walksonthewildside.co.uk/subscribe See my photography gear : walksonthewildside.co.uk/my-camera-gear Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:19 Observe...
See the big picture to improve your wildlife photography
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Taking a wider view in your wildlife photography, to show your viewers the bigger picture can be a much better way to engage them. In this video I'll show you how. Sign up to my newsletter: walksonthewildside.co.uk/subscribe See my photography gear : walksonthewildside.co.uk/my-camera-gear Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:14 Examples 5:17 Choices 10:29 Frame filling vs small 16:27 A landscape appr...
The ultimate guide to file types in photography: part 2 - other
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Part 2 of the series on photography file formats and in this video we're going to cover lots of information on compression, losslessness and in which circumstances certain formats should be used. Take a workshop with me - book online at: walksonthewildside.co.uk/tuition Sign up to my newsletter: walksonthewildside.co.uk/subscribe See my photography gear : walksonthewildside.co.uk/my-camera-gear...
The ultimate guide to file types in photography: part 1 - raw
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There are a lot of misconceptions out there about photography file types. Over the next two videos I will cover everything you need to know and the things people never tell you. Take a workshop with me - book online at: walksonthewildside.co.uk/tuition Sign up to my newsletter: walksonthewildside.co.uk/subscribe See my photography gear : walksonthewildside.co.uk/my-camera-gear Chapters: 0:00 - ...
Photographing waterfalls with innovative filters from Freewell
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I've got the Freewell V2 Magnetic Hybrid VND/CPL 3-7 Stops Filter kit to try, and I'm going to photograph some waterfalls in the Bannau Brycheiniog National Pak (or Brecon Beacons). If you want to buy these filters you can get them directly from Freewell at www.freewellgear.com/en/v2-hybrid-vndcpl/1139-v2-magnetic-hybrid-vndcpl-3-7-stops-filter.html Or on Amazon: amzn.to/3shVQuJ Take a workshop...
A tripod kit just for wildlife photographers from Sirui
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The Sirui CT-3204 tripod and CH-20 gimbal head set has been designed specifically for wildlife photographers. I'm going to take it out for the day to capture red deer portraits and give you all the details about this kit. Contacts to enquire about buying this kit: Asia-Pacific & UK: sales@sirui-photo.com EU: soso@siruioptical.eu Indian: JasonHu@sirui.com DE & Austria: yw@siruioptical.eu Take a ...
Perfect your method for flocks of flying birds.
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Flocks of birds in motion can be one of the most awe-inspiring things in nature. But how best to capture these large groups of birds in flight. In this video I show you how I do it whilst showing you my recent photos of thousands of wading birds / shore birds. These same techniques can be used for starling murmurations and pink-footed geese flying in V-formation. Take a workshop with me - book ...
Review of the Laowa 90mm f/2.8 2x ultra macro lens
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I'm reviewing the Laowa 90mm f/2.8 2x ultra macro lens. Is the image quality good? Can you get sharp photos? Are there any problems? Lets find out. For a 5% discount, until the end of 2023, buy your Laowa lens direct from Venus Optics using the discount code BWYV4GF8 www.venuslens.net/ Take a workshop with me - book online at: walksonthewildside.co.uk/tuition Sign up to my newsletter: walksonth...
Reviewing your creative nature photos
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I'm reviewing your creative nature photos. I'll cover the work of six photographers and explain what they've done well and what they could change or improve. Please take a look at the profiles of photographers who have taken part in this videos and show them some appreciation for their work. The thumbnail image is by John Locke and the end screen is by Mike Gilling Liam Wesselmann - instagram.c...
How do you know if your photos are good?
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How do you know if your photos are good?
Choosing the perfect shot from a burst of photos
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Choosing the perfect shot from a burst of photos
Get the most from your wildlife photography adventures
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Get the most from your wildlife photography adventures
Transform your wildlife photography with 8 quick changes
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Transform your wildlife photography with 8 quick changes
Mastering Autofocus: Proven Tips for Optimal Performance
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Mastering Autofocus: Proven Tips for Optimal Performance
Transforming Dull Skies: Landscape Photography Techniques
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Transforming Dull Skies: Landscape Photography Techniques
Are you the reason your camera misses bird in flight shots?
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Are you the reason your camera misses bird in flight shots?
Making the photo: the difference between photographers and enthusiasts
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Making the photo: the difference between photographers and enthusiasts
Macro Photos Critiqued: Feedback and Tips - Walks with you, Episode 4
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Macro Photos Critiqued: Feedback and Tips - Walks with you, Episode 4
Ulanzi Zero Y tripod review: Ultra lightweight tripod
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Ulanzi Zero Y tripod review: Ultra lightweight tripod
Become a Lightroom pro with these shortcuts you need to know
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Become a Lightroom pro with these shortcuts you need to know
Thanks for this great video Scott and as always with great advice, I tend to always want to improve from my last image and love to experiment and try to be more creative, your advice and tips always come in handy, mant thank 😀
Nice one Scott. An important video for all photographers. Very relatable.
What a very expensive piece of equipment... ridiculous price with the gimbal .
Few common seals in there too.
Thanks for this video. I see so much judgement on certain social media platforms from experienced photographers, either by gate keeping or professing general distain for new photographers. I do think that perhaps the negative posts are to drive discord whilst attracting engagement. I've only been taking photos for a couple of years and probably quite foolishly I chose one of the more challenging genres in wildlife photography- but I enjoy it. I don't always get it right, some times I plan and don't get the images I want and at other times I don't plan at all and get lucky with the subjects I see and the images I create. But importantly, I do see the improvements in my images, my subject and camera knowledge which gives me hope that I'll continue to get better. After all, I'm only competing against myself and would rather play the long game and enjoy it than berate myself for being less than perfect and end up hating something I currently love.
I find when I walk out the door with an idea of what plan to visit and what I expect find there I'm better prepared. I think looking back at my older work helps understand my artistic and technical journey.
Dude, i doubt myself in every element of my life. Work? Yep, cooking? Yep, did i lock the door when i left the house? Yep. Even as i type this, im wondering if i swirched off the grill! I judge my photography more than any of my photography friends, i try to plan.... Then i doubt my planning! 😂😂😂
Blimey. I've noticed a bit of a trend creeping in with people's self-doubt. I think it might be driven by social media and AI and all sorts of other stuff. So I just wanted to put some things out there that might reassure people they're on the right track, it sounds like you are. I've got another video coming (after a few others) that will address this topic from a slightly different angle. Thanks for watching.
Insightful and inspirational video!
Much appreciated. Thank you for watching.
Excellent review mate :) Probably one of the best ive seen for this tripod especially how you show using those different scenarios.
Cheers, glad you thought so. Thank you for watching.
Good video. I have a long trip this fall to Nova Scotia and have already planned to take pics with whatever the weather so your point is well taken. As always great content nice pics.
I would love to visit Nova Scotia. I hope you have a great time. Thanks for watching.
I was told by an old photographer that there was no such thing as bad light, just challenging light.
I agree, I've said something similar in the past: no such thing as bad light - just the wrong type of photography for it. That being said, I was not in that mindset at that point in time, I was just focussed on some particular things that I wanted to get - which isn't a good way to approach things. Thanks for watching.
yeah... I would strongly disagree. I mostly shoot live music, and some of the stuff is absolutely horrible. I'm taking bright spotlight on half the podium, nothing on the other. Mixing light colours in ways that aren't fixable in post. Running the whole stage with red front lights, with a red curtain, good luck with faces there. Drummers that generally just don't have any lights on them at all. Stuff like that. Oh and ofcourse everything is very dark, so shooting iso 6400 at least, making any corrections in post even worse, due to the limited dynamic and colour range.
That was the point of the phrase I used “no such thing as bad light, just the wrong type of photography for it”. So yes, there could be bad light for concert photography, but another style of photography could work well in that light. One of the advantages of being a nature photographer is the ability to switch. So what was bad light for landscapes could have been great for some macro, for example. But I was not in the right frame of mind for macro because I had my heart set on landscapes.
I have heard some say there's no such thing as bad light but we need to adjust our photos to the light at that moment.
Absolutely, I've said a similar thing in the past myself. I just wasn't in that mindset at that point in time. But it's a good reminder. Thanks for watching,
It's the secret to life, not just photography!
So very true. Thanks for watching.
A great attitude, Scott, and inspiring, as well. I liked the blue edit of the waterfall, as well. As you said, the ICM is not my cup of tea, or, in my case, coffee.
Hi Bill, thanks for watching.
I like the blue edits. I done something like the zooming during exposure effect myself a few times but never thought to combine it with filters for a longer exposure time - makes it easier to do it without shaking. Never thought of using filters with that, goed to show I haven’t treated it as seriously yet as you did! 😂
Hi Tim. Yes, I think it's something worth experimenting with. I've been finding it works better with a single subject, like a tree or a flower that you can compose in the centre of the image. I'm definitely going to keep playing with it. Thanks for watching.
I just use my Voigtländer Macro Apo-Lanthar 65mm 2.0 Aspherical and Voigtländer Macro Apo-Lanthar 110mm 2.5 Lenses which I both can highly recommend. I have not used flash for macro photography for 45 years, I like the natural light.
I have used a gimbal on a monopod a lot in the past. What I tend to use now is a simple tilt head on the monopod, which seems to offer all the advantages of the gimbal at less weight and less corners to grind into the shoulder or wherever. I have never seen anybody else use or advocate this, and the only tilt head I've found on ARCA is the Kirk one.
18:55 Up close the corrected version kind of looks like one of those hyper realistic paintings.
Great tips and advice in this wonderful video Scott, so very helpful in getting that great looking image, many thanks 😊
Ah, thank you so much, Raymond.
Wow! This was fun, like.your presentation, gave me tips I hope to use on my career, even though different brand and less. Keep ‘em coming. Thanks, Al
Impressive cliff site and very beautiful photos👍🏼 Although I don’t like the blurry foreground, I find it distracting, my eyes always wander to this bright blurry spots instead of watching the nice bird🤔
Thanks for watching.
I really am liking your concept of “foreground bokeh” and showing the environment in which the bird Iives. I am really trying to incorporate those concepts in my shots this summer and it is making a big difference! Thanks!!
Excellent, I'm glad to hear that and I hope it's going well. Thanks for watching.
Great video, excellent information and fantastic photos. Only negative...please don't stand so close to the edge of the cliffs when talking to camera...it makes me very uncomfortable :)
Glad you enjoyed it, other than me being near the edge of the cliffs. Don't worry, if the footage made it on to CZcams it means I didn't fall. Thanks for watching.
Another fantastic video Scott
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Brilliant video!
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for that Scott. You introduced me to foreground blur, and I try to incorporate it whenever possible.
Hi Scott. Excellent - I'm happy to hear that. Thanks for watching.
Thx ! A lot of useful tricks in your video. How do you set up your focus for macro ? A single point that you adjust to the eyes ?
I could not have picked a better show to start my day. I loved the framing with the flowers. I recently did that with purples at the cliffs.
Hi Jennifer. Thank you so much. I'm pleased to get your day off to a nice start. And your comment was a lovely way to end my day. Thanks for watching.
Great video and advice, to convey what you see in the capture is success. Recognised the voice before you, looking good. Cheers from Australia.
Thank you so much. Glad you enjoyed it.
Great as always! Also, congrats on your massive health transformation. I have been working on my own for the past 8 months or so I know how hard it can be. Great work!
Thank you so much. I've still got some more to go, but I'll get there. I hope yours is going well too. Thanks for watching.
Great pictures and great advice, and I love the H. D. Thoreau quote.
Much appreciated. Thanks for watching.
Superb video! I watched it with curiosity! Greetings from a Swedish youtuber! 🇸🇪
Thank you very much. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I will check out your channel at some point. Thanks for watching.
learn how to use paths in photoshop to create the most precise masks. then utilize those paths to create new masks rather than hand brush the same mask over and over again. great video overall.
Love your videos keep it up man
Thanks very much, glad you enjoy them.
Great advice. In any genre,learning how to see takes practice. Once your unique look starts coming through- you know you’re getting close.
I love that comment, thanks for watching.
Always learn from your videos Scott Thankyou
Hi Glenys, much appreciated. Thanks for watching.
Excelente! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Seus vídeos são ótimos! E com legenda em português! 😃 Muito obrigado por compartilhar!
Fico feliz que você goste dos vídeos. Esperamos que as traduções das legendas funcionem bem o suficiente para acompanhar. Muito obrigado por assistir.
Thanks for sharing those interesting ideas. Wish I could get down lower or in Australia climb a ladder to be at more of an eye level. Cheers
Hi Brendan. Glad you enjoyed the video . Your comment is one of the most frequent ones I get, so I'm going to see if I can work on something to give you some more tips on situations where you can't get down low or up high and might be a future video. Thanks for watching.
Looking well fella. Shed a bit of timber... Great advice as always...
Cheers, I've certainly been trying to. Glad you liked the advice and thanks for watching.
Photos look amazing man. So just wanting to check see if I want to blur everything out apart from the subject do I then place the focus point box on the subject? Colin,
Yes, place the focus point on the subject. And you can increase the blur by any of: - a - using a wider aperture (smaller f number), b - using a longer focal length (zooming in) - c getting physically closer to the subject. d - blurring later in post production. D may have problems if the subject overlaps the stuff you want to blur in the image, while a lens capable of wider aperture, longer focal length or closer focusing distance may by expensive if you're already working at the limits of your lens's capabilities.
Hi Colin. I can answer that. I've also got a video coming out on that subject soon, where I'll be able to go into more detail than in this comment. I think there might be two others videos first, but keep your eye out for it. Coming back to your question. You definitely want the focus point on the subject, ideally on it's eye. There's a really easy way to blur out everything and the key to it is the distances between you, the foreground, the subject and the background. Try to make sure the background is at least twice the distance from the subject as the subject is from you. And try to make sure the foreground is nearer to you than it is to the subject. There are lots of other technical aspects that you can consider, like the aperture, but if you follow the thinking I've outlined in this comment you'll get nice blurry backgrounds and foregrounds for pretty much any aperture. It'll give you a good start until I can go into more details in the video. Thanks for your question and for watching.
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Finally someone that takes the time to really help educate the viewer. Thankyou.
Great video!
Thank you - a real editing masterclass!
Nice review here❤
Hey Scott. Great video. What do I do if my lens doesn’t have a ring mount. I have the RF 100-400 with no ring mount. So I mounted the quick release plate to my camera body but the plate doesn’t move back far enough to balance the camera so it always tilts forward on my gimbal head. Thanks.
So enjoy your videos Scott! They open up a whole new world for us. Loved your 'experiment'.... came away totally inspired! 😀
Thanks!
Thank you very much for the tip.
Hi Scott, do I have to manually focus?