Street Photography & Compression with Nikon Z 24-120mm
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I would say this is the best video about photography I've seen this week. It's at right pace, totally not boring, nice amount of technical details. It feels like you really enjoy teaching people photography. Really nice advices and examples!
I like how you improved video quality, watching in 4K was like I was there, near you, watching over your shoulder. Some dynamic effects, like camera goes around, changing perspective made video alive!!! Keep doing this!
And, as always, Tokyo is so beautiful!!!
Thank you so much for the nice feedback!! We really appreciate it. I am especially happy to hear that our production quality is solid! :)
this video is so good to get the idea of focal length and the frame size in practice.
Thank you!! I'm so glad you found it useful! :)
The explanations of the technical aspects of photography are really useful. Never new that about perspective. Keep it up!
Glad to hear that! Thank you! :)
i could watch you for hours just taking amazing pictures of buildings and skyscrapers!
Thanks man!! :)
I'm actually shocked at how sharp this lens is. I think a lot of people will be selling their 24-70's (even the 2.8) and getting this lens. So versatile and so sharp. You really demonstrate its capabilities so well. Thanks for the great video!
Thanks!! Yeah, it's a very high quality lens and totally worth it if you're not often shooting in very low light. And even in low light it's pretty capable since many cameras now have IBIS. :)
Olympus makes a 12-100 F/4 with Image Stabilization.... that's 24-200mm range...
The legend is back 🙏
Ha! Trying to release 1 video every 2 weeks. :)
24-120 f4 z mount is lens is an awesome one...love it
It really is! I also discovered recently that is has an extremely close focus distance, so it can be used kinda like a macro lens. :)
27:01 in Axel's shot right there the walkway windows line up with the tracks in a cool way.
Yes they do!! Great catch. I think he already knows everything I'm talking about in regards to perspective and tension. :)
Thank you for another fantastic video!!
Thanks for watching!! :)
2 minutes in and something about your style has me hooked. Thank you very much for all the information!
Thank you so much for watching! :)
Omg. Super excited!
:)
Thank you for your sharing!! 👏🏼
Thanks for watching! :)
I stayed in Hamamatsucho the first time I visited Tokyo, seeing these streets again years later has been lovely, I'm very much living vicariously through these uploads, thanks for sharing 😁
Thank you so much for saying so! That is something I didn't realized in the beginning: the vicarious living aspect. I'm glad to share that with you as well! :)
One of the things that i like the most about your videos is that always remind me of the places that i've visited myself (this one included, in fact, in a little square that is beyond the gates towards the tower i discovered that drinking in public, in good behaviour, of course, was totally legal. What a world) Besides that, as a rookie, i still find kind of odd to make compositions with zoom lenses, as i started with primes. Great video as always! and the explanation about compression was something i just needed! Thanks! Cheers from Chile
Thank you so much!! Glad you can relive nice times in Tokyo, too! :)
Super informative video! I've been doing photography for a long time, learned mostly through trial and error, and do a lot of these things intuitively, but wouldn't be able to put it into words the way you did. I've also been considering that lens and specifically was wondering how useful f4 would be at night, so I'm looking forward to the next video!
Thank you very much!! The night video will be out in a little while. We shot a new batch and I am working on them these days. :)
Great explanation in the video. I just started photography not long ago as a personal hobby and your videos are always helpful and informative. Thanks for posting and keep up the great work.
Thank you so much!! Glad you find them useful! :)
Getting the sillhouette was very informative. I sometimes struggle with that. Also the part with the compression was interesting.
Thank you! Glad to hear my ramblings were useful! :)
Your videos are the most informative compared to others on YT. Also, Tokyo looked a bit different when I was there 50 years ago. I need to dig out my photos (slides) someday and reminisce. All the best.
Thank you for saying so!! This is our goal! And I wish I could have been in Tokyo 50 years ago, or even 20 years ago. :)
Middle of the gate is for the spirits, the living take the sides.
Ah! Now that you mention that, I have indeed heard that before! Thanks! :)
Very insightful information in this video. Not about what particularly looks cool or not cool, but a little fact check of how we understand light physics. And of course the whole experience of going through Tokyo and its ambience is very enjoyable as well. Looking forward to your f/4 at night video!
Thank you so much!! Glad you enjoyed it! :)
llloooovvvve it!!! thank you for another awesome video lukaz!
Thank you so much for watching!! :)
Man, this blew my mind. It's all about distance. I had no idea that focal zoom and respective cropping would produce an identical image. So I can just shoot with my favourite 28 free of worry, if I have a ridiculous enough megapixel count?😂
Yeah, pretty much! But there is also DOF, which I mentioned briefly but didn't go into. I was only talking about perspective. If you want a shallow DOF, then you'll need a longer lens. :)
great tip about silhouettes ! i tried it and it worked 100%!!! :) thank you
Thank you so much! Glad to hear that! :)
Laudable post, pics and concepts. Cranes w/tower a fav - both have red and white coloration. Guy walking up stairs also a plus. Technique demos of light trap, framing, and compression helpful, but need replay to sink in. New “tension” concept worthy of expanded coverage in future vid, IMO. Compression comparison shots might have been easier to understand if images were side-be-side. Ever dine at “MOs Burger” as shown here?
Thanks for the feedback!! I'll have to get into tension more in future video as you say. Mos Burger is a common burger chain here in Tokyo. I've eaten there years ago but it's just a step above McD's. :)
Great video and explanation on compression and perspective.
Thank you!! :)
Another great video! I still have my f mount 24-120 f4, I loved that lens on my d750, I’m going try it on my Z6ii.
Thanks!! I'm sure it works great with the adapter. The new one is a bit lighter and smaller though I think. :)
Many of the pictures of mainly buildings would have looked great in contrasty black and white. Nice video of an area I never heard about.
Thank you!! Yeah, BW, looks cool. I'm just addicted to color. :)
Your video camera operator has a perfect eye for framing. Best framing on youtube. What picture profile are you using on the z50?
Axel is a beast on the camera! We are shooting in the Flat profile and I am doing some minor color grading in Premiere. I can't push the colors that much since it's only 8-bit h.264, but generally it looks great, especially in the day time. Even at night, it's impressive how good the IQ and colors are from the Z50. :)
@@EYExplore ahh yes, glad to hear the confirmation of what I suspected. Flat on the 8bit nikon cameras is so nice. My z50 died because of flipping the screen down into vlog mode too many times. It's an actual design flaw. That ribbon cable is fully crimped and you're constantly uncrimping and recrimping it every time you go in/out of vlog mode. Dont flip that screen down!
@@EricLouisYoung Yeah, that's the one major flaw. They changed to a better flip-out screen for the Zfc.
nice video but at mark 2:34 how did you miss that SS American muscle car.. red & white nice against that back ground...I really liked the video
Thanks! I actually took a photo of it and we shot the moment, but the video was super long and something needed to get cut. :)
The photo @ 7.21 shows the temple building and its arch and behind it a plain grey skyscraper towering far above the left side of the temple arch roof. The video feed at 9.38 shows the top of the temple arch being now higher than the same skyscraper behind it. This is change in perspective
Yes, that is also a good, clear example. Sometimes one thing looks smaller than the other and suddenly they switch apparent size. :)
@@EYExplore Great work Lucas. As I've said before there's a good spirit in your work.
@@tonyhayes9827 Thank you for the kind words! :)
Olympus E-M1 Mark iii or OM-1 with a 12-100mm f/4 Pro with IBIS and Lens stabilization would get you the same results with sharper images at half the weight and size of that setup...... and 12-100mm in M43 = 24-200mm on full frame.
Cool. I don't care about weight and size. I love my camera. Glad you love yours! :)
Definitely wanna see f4 at night. I saw a video on 2.8 onvsuper 35 is most used t/f stop
It's coming! We shot it already, along with a few other videos. Editing them these days. :)
2:30 you missed juxtaposition with a cool car (red & white) :-)
Actually, I did shoot that a little bit but with the light falling on it a weird way it just didn't look particularly good. In the end some stuff has to get cut as the video was already 30 minutes long! :)
Hey man,. Enjoy your channel.
I am based in Tokyo as well. I am going on a night helicopter tour at 'blue hour' for a surprise anniversary treat.
Trying to figure which lens to take.
50mm 1.2f
75mm 1.0f
24-80mm 2.8f
70-200mm 2.8f
I understand you can only take one lens so I am thinking 50mm or 75mm prime and leaning to 50mm. Also would be shooting through glass. Is there much reflection in the cabin ?
Any words of wisdom are much appreciated!
Keep the great videos coming! 👍👍💯
Thanks! I would take the 24-80 because of the versatile zoom range. It gives you plenty of options. I think 50mm is a little long honestly, but I guess it depends what you're going for. Every time I flew I shot no longer than 35mm, mostly 24mm or less. And yes, there are some reflections but the cabin should be dark overall. So, stay close to the glass.
@@EYExplore - awesome advice. May need to bang the ISO up on the 2.8f :) 👍
The next Iexplorer at 1:07 into the video - boy in red and black.
Haha, adorable. Also, never noticed him until just now that you pointed him out. How he skipped across the street was cool. :)
Tony Northrup did an explanation. Saying the ultimate camera will be unlimited megapixel with ultra wide lens. That way you can drop to your desire focal length
Yeah, that's one way to do it. That's just what cheaper cameras call 'digital zoom'. It certainly can work, but it's also not the same exactly because of DOF. :)
Where'd you get that jacket?
I bought it over 10 years ago in a store in Shinjuku. :)
Heh thanks for doing this video I know I keep bugging you about long lens hehe
My pleasure!! I like using long lenses too! :)
Do you do any color editing on your video as well? Looks very warm and comforting
Yes! We shoot with a Z50 which produces and 8-bit compressed video file, so there is not that much leeway in terms of colors, but I can do a few things in Premiere, so I always grade them as well as I can. :)
@@EYExplore would be great if you can do a video on how you edit your videos!
@@TMM6900 Ah, you know, Axel and I were thinking about doing a behind the scenes video explaining how we work, from beginning to end. We may do that eventually! :)
I would politely disagree. While there is no real "compression" happening as nicely demonstrated. There is a "relative" compression happening, regarding to a subject. For example in portrait photography, when the subject doesn't change position but the photographer compensates by changing his position while he also changes the focal leingth accordingly to keep the subject somewhat in the same size relation in the frame. The distance clearly changes, but we experience clear compression, relative to the focal leinght, distance and framing.
You're talking about changing distance and cropping/zooming. Of course, you can use these in conjunction. There is nothing to disagree with what I'm saying because it's not an opinion, it's a fact: only distance dictates perspective. But of course, if you change perspective (distance) and then ALSO zoom (which also dramatically affects DOF) you will get very different looks with various combinations of distance and focal length.
I guess it depends on what you mean by 'compression'. I could be wrong, but compression is not a technical term, just a concept made up by photographers, which make it pretty vague. To me, it just refers to a scene looking 'flat' as in objects look stacked on top of each other. This only happens when objects are far away from the camera. That's all I'm saying in the video. Of course I also use long lenses for portraits precisely because I want to stand far away but I want to keep the subject big in the frame.
I always appreciate a discussion! :)
@@EYExplore Well yes, with "compression" I mean that when keeping a subject about the same size in the frame while changing focal leinth and compensating for the distance to fit the subject in (as you may do it in a portrait shoot), the background proportions dramatically change. Using a wide angle and being close the background seems far away and objects apear small. When shooting with let's say a 85mm and longer, the background becomes magnified to unrealistic proportions in relation to the subject. The "compression" to me is not really a "flattening" of the image, because I noticed that you can get great "three dimensional" effects (also depending on the lens - usually more glass elements and more correction going on, the less 3D effect). I can relate to the term "compression" because it gives the illusion of compressed space, not in terms of flattening out things, but far away objects appear much closer and bigger than they actually are in relation to the subject and I think that is what most people refer to as "compression".
Your example showed nicely that zooming in, doesn't change much and that perspective matters, but there indeed is an optical effect happening when compensating in subject-frame-distance relation.
Yes it seems one could spend hours discussing this topic. It wasn't meant as a criticism, because what you say is in fact true, but to me it's not the full picture. 🙂
@@Project_2501 Yeah, I totally get what you're saying. Obviously, in practice we do both: change position AND focal length to get the desired effect. We did a video on this a while back: czcams.com/video/dTPC6o2b-jw/video.html
For some reason the video almost seems like a green screen because of the light
Yeah, there was something different about the morning light on this day! :)
There is no compression only perspective..
That's what I say in the video ;)
In case you read this, I want toexpress my enjoyment of yor videos. I feel a shared gestalt
. Your openness to the world around you, your sensativity and lack of rigidity in photographic art. I enjoy street photography but die to financial restrictions I still use my original Z 6 2ith the Z 24 - 200 I absolutely love the flexibity of capturing as I see them when I see them. to capture emotion sometimes you need the zoom to capture the image when it is either impossible to get closer due to distance or time involved to get closer, and then there is the element of ruining the moment by being up close snd personal a lens is a tool not a definition of a photographic genre
Thank you so much! I'm glad that sentiment comes across in these videos. That lens is very, very versatile and I enjoyed using it when I tried it out. And I agree, lenses and cameras as just tools. Art comes from within the artist, not from the machine. :)