Struggling with woodland compositions? use a telephoto lens
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Struggling with woodland compositions? use a telephoto lens, it'll help!
Earlier this week I ventured out to my local woodlands for a spot of photography. Woodland photography is brilliant on so many levels. There is an endless supply of woodlands, you can photograph them at any time during the year and you don't necessarily need to be up with the larks to get the best images.
Some people however struggle to find compositions in woodlands. It's a known fact that chaos ensues in the woods and some people wrestle to tame it. Not that you really need to tame it of course.
Since I mainly use my 70-200mm telephoto lens to capture woodland scenes I thought I would demonstrate just how good a long lens can actually be.
I hope you enjoy the video.
Feel free to leave me a comment
ATB Gary
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'Walk, ...Stop, ...Look'. Great advice to a nature photographer. Keep up the good work, Gary. And thanks for reminding me to stop viewing landscapes as something that has to be done with a wide angled lens.
Cheers Riko 👍🏻👍🏻
I watch all the photographic vloggers! You are the very best! You educate, motivate and entertain! Plus you are the real deal when it comes to being a legitimate working photographer! Thanks for all you do!
Very kind of you to say Randy, cheers 👍🏻👍🏻
Love that you share your thought process as you go along:) It's very helpful!
Pictures from a fairy tale - love it!
Cheers Simon 👍👍
Something I learnt today, the next time I am in my local woodland, crop or zoom in and look for some gems that I would normally miss. Thanks Gary.
So much work goes into these blogs, but so worth it for people like me. Such great advice and do easy to watch. Much appreciated and keep them coming 👍🏼
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We are here in lockdown ,again, but luckily I am able to walk into our local bush (forest) as we call it here in New Zealand , and gives me the time to lookout for things I would just walk past . Thank you for just giving me a nudge, to slow down a bit more, and look around me.
Lovely and inspiring. Makes me want to get back out into the woods asap.
Thanks Sara 👍👍
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Hi Gary, nice to meet you. I discovered your channel about a week ago and I just wanted to say thank you. I have learnt more in the last week watching you than I have over the past 10 years. I am hoping that my photography will now move to a new level and that will be down to watching you. So thank you again and I will be watching from now on in. Oh and you seem like a nice guy with it :) cheers Mark
All that hard work has just paid off. Very kind of you to say, cheers 👍🏻👍🏻
You sounded like David Attenborough when the video started I thought why are you whispering?... never the less it was a very interesting talk in the woodlands and yes the rule of the thirds will always produce nice compositions, I loved the moss on the trees and the fungi pictures and they were typical of what you might find in the woods and parkland, that was a nice video to watch and its always a pleasure to listen to what you have to say about compositions and how you find your pictures....Thank You.
Hi Gary, totally in sync with you about the use of a 70-200 lens for woodland photography. This is my goto lens for this. Though I am not taking enough time to look around, I must say.
Great video. Was a pleasant "walk" in the woods. The picture at 21:58 is gorgeous.
Glad you enjoyed it, cheers 👍👍
Great vlog as usual Gary. Walk Stop & look, good advice.
Wonderful Gary Gough Video, thanks for sharing
Cheers for that Gary. Will give my 70-200mm a go around local area.
Nice video Gary, I find woodland photography difficult, it always seems chaotic, great tips, keep up the good work matey
What a great way to start your day wandering through the woodlands, great tip on using the 70-200 and zooming in, great image of the fungi but some of those trees with the moss and zoomed right in were amazing. Thanks for sharing and we will look forward to seeing Scotland images.
My go to lens is the Canon 100-400mm IS II. I often carry just that and two extension tubes for some really good closeups with some distance.
Great combo Mark 👍👍
Last image was 👍
Cheers Mike 👍👍
Great photos as usual. I may give woodland photography a try. I keep shying away from it because I have never done it before and I am not sure what would work so this vlog may have inspired me to give it a go. I did set out to take woodland pictures once at Golitha falls but my husband fell in the river. So we ended up having to cut our trip short and drive him home in just his underpants. So I will choose somewhere that doesn't have a fast moving river this time or just leave him at home.
Lol you made me chuckle. “or just leave him at home” that’s the best line I’ve heard in ages 😁😁😂😂
It could only happen to him! 🙄 The river water doesn’t smell great either. It was an unpleasant journey home. 🤢
That shroom shot was psychedelic:)
You can teach people the technical aspects of photography fairly easily but it's far more difficult to teach them how the see the shot. Great video as always.
So true but I’m trying 😁😁 cheers John 👍🏻
Another great video, Gary! I appreciate you taking us on another awesome adventure. Such a beautiful area with that spectacular mill. Thanks!
looks like a fun guy to me
Great video Gary. When you go in the woods, just do like they say. "Stop to smell the roses". Take your time and open your woodland eyes, not your city eyes. This was a very relaxing video. 👌👌👌
So true :) Cheers 👍👍
Wonderful Vlog Gary, can relate to the usage of a telephoto lens as I do the same on a Z Nikon setup using a 24-200 mm. It is so versatile and have used it too with extension tubes for that Macro image. It really does at times looses the chaos and makes the photo a lot cleaner with in the composition.
Enjoyed this a lot. Great advice. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing Gary. Just discovered your channel. Beautiful place. I have subscribed buddy.
Great video Gary, I've just started adopting the 'zoom and find' tip...it has given me a couple of great(well I think great lol) photos already, you really can find compositions in places you've probably walked dozens of time before ... thanks again👍
Loved the mill and the fungi was absolutely beautiful.
70-200 is pretty much my go to lens when walking in the woods. Lets you get closer to the wildlife too
This is everything I love about a woodland.
Some of my favourite woodland shots have been from rummaging what’s underfoot or as you’ve found here the fungi growing from the most interesting of placed.
Great vlog!!
I love when you do woodlandphotography! 😊👏👏
It's very great video gary...
Loved everything about the last image. And, I learned something. Thanks!
You looked like you enjoyed that vlog as much as we all enjoyed watching it Gary. It was just what i needed. The fungi shot was great but a shame your macro wasn't in your bag. Looking forward to seeing the Scottish vlogs.
Excellent perspective Gary! Sometimes I go out shooting with friends and they wonder why I stop and take shots of those things!
Great as usually Gary. Love watching ur videos. Welcome back
Been there many times, if u nip across the bridge and go upstream a little further, there is a magnificent waterfall.
I know it well too. I’ll have to vlog it 😁😁
@@GaryGough infact I'll go today with the tele :) another cracking vlog.
Great stuff. Very inspiring.
Gary I think you could take a photo of a telephone directory and make it look amazing thanks for sharing always a pleasure
Wonderful video, Gary! I will certainly remember this next time out! I tend to rush things too much and I am sure I have missed MANY shots! Thanks for the instruction and Glad you are back!
Great Video Gary- I shoot a lot of close up with my 70-200 lens - Lots of backyard floral and bee shots with it-- Yes a lot of cropping but I do not own a macro lens and I have been pleased with my results. One shot I saw in your video that you did not take or vlog about-- The path you were on at the 19:30 time of the video-- Maybe you have shot before, but the wall on left and the path and the tree tunnel looked like a good potential shot. Enjoy Scotland
You are always enthusiastic! I intentionally stopped IG-Facebook and have been rather isolated from my photo friends. Been working on editing, printing and learning. Just what the doctor ordered. 😄 thanks Gary.
I had a day on Holme fell recently and happily packed a long zoom. I did use my WA but got some super isolated crops with the long focus. A very instructive vlog. thank you.
I have been along Hardcastle crags so many times and stopped for a nice coffee in the mill cafe. I also have the same image as you have of the mill reflection, as I'm sure so do many others. Living in Huddersfield leaves you a bit spoilt for choice, but wouldn't have it any other way :) No shots or b roll of the river in the valley make a nice change, great vlog Gary.
Cheers Harry 👍🏻👍🏻
You’re making me very homesick Gary
Very enjoyable video Gary! I'm always inspired by your wanderings!
Nice video Gary, and some cracking images as always, loved the Fungi shot and the tree at 21.53. Enjoy your trip to Scotland wish I was there. Thanks for sharing
This is just what I needed ! I’ve been spending too much time shooting the “low hanging fruit” and not doing any real “looking”. I need to stop being so lazy. Thank for the kick in the pants I needed !! Lol. Have a great day !!
Finally a new video. I couldn't wait. My nd filter arrived a few days ago, so I'm off to take some long exposure photos. You're an inspiration to me, thanks Gary.
Love your videos, Mr. Gough. This one really makes me wanna go out and visit the woodland in my home area. Looking forward to your new Scotland vlogs, Scotland is definitely my "favourite-landscape-photography-country"... 😊
Keep on with your awesome work!
You're right Gary! You can't beat being out first thing in a morning when there's no one else around having a stroll (or in my case a roll because I use a mobility scooter) through your local woodland. I'm fortunate enough to live pretty much on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border so there's no shortage of lovely woodland around me. Also isn't it strange that I've just taken some photographs at my local mill too, within the past day or so in fact!
Loved this Gary so calming and your images were beautiful and different 👍
I just came across your video and I have to say, I love it! I like to paint in watercolor and am very inspired by your camera work. I just might paint something some time from your video if you wouldn’t mind. I have subscribed and look forward to seeing more. I have a camera, not near as good as yours, that I haven’t been using much. Time to get it out, I think and look for some treasures of my own!
Great video, with a lot of interesting points. Always look forward to your vlogs, good tutorials, thank you for sharing.
Great B-roll introduction. Must be so time consuming both in creation and post...
Both 😁😁 Cheers btw 👍🏻
still another joyfull and pleasant video but interresting as always : Thanks Gary !
First class as usual Gary, last shot does it for me.
Nice one Gary, many thanks learnt some more today, any chance you might show us what you take with you on some of these forest walks in your back-pack.?
Brilliant thank you
Hardcastle Crags..... I used to go camping there when I was a Boy Scout many years ago. Thanks for the video.
Always quality. Thanks Gary.
Good V,log Gary, nice images. Indeed, look with an artist,s eye, got some top shot,s in my local park, a heron posing still, a lone tree framed by close overhanging branches, with a cyclist in left of frame to give scale. 2 Uni courses and still learning, rule?, I prefer guide of third,s. In Scotland end of Sept, post midge, hopefully, Mull, should be good.
Interesting point about using your 70-200; someone I know does a lot of woodland photography, and when he has interrogated his catalogue the most common focal length is 135mm.
Great video as usual Gary.
I must admit I don't do enough of Woodland Photography and i don't use my big zoom lens, but after watching this video i will have to try it. I normally use my 17-35mm or my 28-75mm lens.
Great images as usual.
Cheers Tim 👍👍
If you want to do macro but only have tele lens with you. Then lock the aperture on the lens, before unmounting it. Take the lens off a use reverse macro 😊 but don't do it it in wet conditions 😅
Great video Gary, I look forward to a video of the same location with the macro lens. I'm out tomorrow just up the road in Oxfordshire Jt10 M40 to an ancient woodland I never knew existed and I will definitively apply these techniques. Thanks
Great footage ! Beautiful photographs !
Have to admit that you are incredibly inspirational. Can't wait to have a day with you and maybe, just maybe, you might be able to inspire me to try to get a shot like you find everywhere. and yea, I guess you are "untouchable". Imagine dat den, yea, imagine dat. !!! Untouchable, Untouchable, My Gawd, UNTOUCHABLE, U..N T..O..U..C..H..A..B..L..E... !!!!!.....!!.......!
Consider yourself added to my Christmas card list :)
Great video!
Them brown things would look even better wet, after rain or with some cobwebs as well maybe? Though the shorts with them legs in a woodland risky. Have a great time in Scotland & stay safe my friend.
The 70-200mm has become my go to lens in the harsh summer light. Great video and 500 yards in 3hrs? Just me speed! PS I just bought myself an iFootage tripod and I love it!
Ah I live on the Moray coast, hopefully see you out there!
Wonderful Gary!!
Fabulous, as always! Thank you.
Magical Gary!
Love your videos
Nice ice cream from there Gary, if its open, use the scout camp near by.
I like trees but I couldn't eat a whole one. I liked the mushroom / Fungi pic, but wouldn't dare eat them.
I always search for intimate compositions in the woodland
16:51 super :)
Cheers 👍👍
I'm from NYC and this makes me want to explore Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx and just take.my.time with my kit ... EOS Rebel T7 and ALL my kit ... I'll probably look different once I get done! 😂
The second photo I would of called dancing in the wood as the shape of those branches between the trees look like they are dancing in a foolish way. I would say fungi on dead tree, and I love the mill shot and to have a cafe there aswell.
Hi Gary, lovely video yet again, thank you. I noticed you cloned out a direction post seen at (12.52). What's your 'rule' on removing unwanted elements please? Thanks.
Garry stay healthy! Understand the shorts but be very aware of Ticks (I’m sure you know that though) it’s only I know of several lives now, human and animals who have been severely effected by Tick bites.
Fair point, cheers 👍🏻👍🏻
21:48 - I have the weirdest deja vu, you might have done that nice composition in another video, looks so familiar and good
I've been enjoying your videos since I found you a few weeks back. I didn't know you were local (assuming that is Gibson Mill in Hebden?). I'll keep an eye out for you and your van haha.
I use my 100-400 in the same way
Hi Gary love your videos keep them coming ps can you please tell the title of that song that was playing as you parked the van up and was walking away ?? . cheers
Cheers Rich. This is the song... Stay (Wide Open) (Instrumental Version) - Loving Caliber
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@@GaryGough Thanks mate !!
"I'm headed off to Scotland on the weekend." I wish I could do that. Kind of difficult from Wooster, Ohio, USA.
I've been exploring the telephoto approach in a "big way" recently 🤣 That is I've been wandering about in the woods with the 150-600 on the camera hanging at my side. 😉
When in doubt I default to fungi.
Great minds and all that 😁😁
How do you keep that dead cat on the Rode Wireless mic? Damn things fall off with instantly..... Great shots, good watch. Thanks.
I super-glued it Andrew, it's the only solution :)
You brits are spoiled... Im def comming over some day!
Some bits are amazing 👍👍
Too bad about that branch on the left in the first photo, I see that post got cloned out in that other image. I find DOF can be a bit not ideal with telephoto things, but have not tried to stack them. Nice video - thanks!
Beautiful photos Gary, my favourites were “The Mill” and the tree portrait orientation one with the overhanging branch mid Vlog.
Richie x
when not carrying a macro i always pack the raynox 250... just in case
Great vlog as always.
Going off the trail: do you have ticks where you live?
I always regret leaving my 100mm at home when I venture into the woodlands. Really want to get a 70-200mm.