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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! 😂😂😂

Insightful and inspirational video!

Excellent review mate :) Probably one of the best ive seen for this tripod especially how you show using those different scenarios.

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 was told by an old photographer that there was no such thing as bad light, just challenging light.

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.

It's the secret to life, not just photography!

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.

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! 😂

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 😊

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🤔

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!!

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 :)

Another fantastic video Scott

Brilliant video!

Thanks for that Scott. You introduced me to foreground blur, and I try to incorporate it whenever possible.

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.

Great video and advice, to convey what you see in the capture is success. Recognised the voice before you, looking good. Cheers from Australia.

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!

Great pictures and great advice, and I love the H. D. Thoreau quote.

Superb video! I watched it with curiosity! Greetings from a Swedish youtuber! 🇸🇪

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

Great advice. In any genre,learning how to see takes practice. Once your unique look starts coming through- you know you’re getting close.

Always learn from your videos Scott Thankyou

Excelente! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Seus vídeos são ótimos! E com legenda em português! 😃 Muito obrigado por compartilhar!

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

Looking well fella. Shed a bit of timber... Great advice as always...

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,

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Volucella pellucens

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!

Hi Scott, do I have to manually focus?