Thank you Nigel, I’ve followed your tutorials for 3 years or so. I’m a 75 year old Aussie Bloke and learn virtually day by day. I have wonderful assistance from a few SPECIAL PEOPLE. I will keep on keeping on. Thank you.
Very good explanation!!! I live an ultrawide when I am right too close to the background (on purpose) and can find a compelling foreground object that may actually start just inches away from from the front of the lens. Keeping mess out of the foreground is also so important. I also find that there are times when shooting at an angle instead of level can add a lot of interest and creativity to the shot.
Really enjoyed this Nigel. I find wide angle creates so much foreground it can be difficult to eliminate and isolate my landscape so this has been really helpful. Loved the images captured. Thanks for sharing.
Appreciate the wideangle shooting tips! I'm playing with a 12-24mm DX lens on a classic Nikon DX3400, and along with a 18-55mm kit lens, am loving the wide angle perpectives! Thanks again...
Thanks so much Nigel. As always your videos get me thinking about my photography. That has to be a good thing. Also, just when are Mads and you coming to Australia? 😀
Thank you so much for the extensive thought and work you put into your videos. I know how much time this takes, adding in the drone shots, setting up the camera and walking in and out of shots, especially if you are on your own, plus the time thinking about the shots themselves. Great tips too about wide angle shots.
Really good points as usual Nigel. I feel like good Wide-angle photos are a good indicator of someone's skill/experience, because it's such a difficult lens to create simple, pleasing images with. Hope Antarctica has treated you well (it certainly looks like it has!) 😁
I really enjoy all your clips and got quite a lot out of this one. Your lessons - and they truly are lessons, for you take your time, and methodically, patiently explain the principles you follow. You also reinforce the thoughts of others that I watch and that is always a good thing - it helps me to learn. I'm so very grateful to have found your channel. It is a finely-crafted resource, informative as well as entertaining.
Love the content! One thing that I still struggle is with focus, I’d love to see you show where you focused on your pic examples. Sometimes I don’t know if you had to focus-stack the photos.
That shot you printed Nigel was a worthy contender, what a awesome location. Have a safe trip and look forward to seeing some images. Thanks for sharing.
The biggest mistake people make with wide angles is using too wide an angle, so all you see is the foreground. But I agree that an L-bracket (and a levelling base) are essential game changers for a tripod!
Great video Nigel. I love where you get in the image and show how far the mountains appear and I love love the photo you printed at the end. Safe travels to you and the crew! Can’t wait to see the videos!
Thanks for this video Nigel, some really usfull info i have picked up from it. Liked the printed shot. Envious of your Antarctica trip, went there on ship a few years ago visiting places like South Georgia Sandwich islands, Falklands and on to Antarctica itself. Looking forwards to your shots. Good luck with the ships internet, we had limited availability and quite costly.
Granted, you do find some amazing spots to shoot - but there's so much more. The way you can take in an entire scene, and find the beauty, the sweet spot - it's a talent very few have. I'd love to be shooting your "mistakes". But really? Your "mistakes" are "happy little accidents" (Bob Ross quote). I truly admire that you look to your own work, and critique that. You don't take other people's work and say "they should have done this or that". You are a true giant in your profession, and I cherish the knowledge you share with us. Thank you for another great video tutorial.
Nigel, great video as always. I recently got the Fuji 10-24 and I have to say its completely transformed the way I think about photography. It provides huge scope for creativity and I love overcoming the technical challenges that come with it, focus, shutter speed, tripod positioning and I especially love getting that super sharp detail in the foreground that really draws the eye in. As always I learned from your videos so keep up the good work and have a fab time in Antarctica.
I have TONS of respect for anyone who can find truly interesting compositions with that wide of a wide angle. It is very, very hard to do. Often one has to trick themselves into believing that a foreground element is far more interesting than what it _actually_ is. (Of course this is coming from a portrait guy that lives life between 70-105).
@@journeytoaphotograph Ha!! Yeah, I think geologists might be the only people who appreciate rocks more than photographers. And even that is only sometimes. But I apply that foreground belief filter myself, of course. As a portrait guy I have a collection of pictures of blurry bushes, tree limbs and leaves that could make a Home & Garden catalog. Followed by sometimes running that belief filter through some frequency separation, too .
Wonderful Glencoe. Loved that. Brought back fantastic memories of our winter photography trip there four years ago. Hopefully I've learned something since then! Hope you have a great time in Antarctica!
Great video! One of the best bits of advice I can give regarding compositions and how to frame a shot is to spend some time using just one prime lens and no tripod! It teaches you to use your feet and move around the scene before getting in the bad habit of mounting it on the tripod straight away. I’ve just got back from the Coe this week running a workshop my god the weather was difficult!
Thanks for this great video on wide angle lenses Nigel. I struggle a lot with compositions with my 10-20mm Sigma (cropped sensor) so I do not use it very often. Your tips have given me encouragement to go out with my wide angle lens and experiment. I watched your video twice as there was so much information for me to take in in your video. Thanks again.
Thank you for addressing the wide angle lens, great compositions with the 14-24mm tend to be one of the biggest issues I have with my personal photography currently.
Good advice Nigel, and wow, some insane weather conditions there. From your vlogs it seems like you're in the right place at the right time nine times out of ten.
Funnily enough when I first purchased my wide angle lens I barely used it because I didn't know how to compose well with it. Now it's always in my bag. Great video and points, a stunning location to show examples too.
Thanks Nigel , great tips again. Nigel will you ever do a video all about your settings within the camera ?? Be good to see how yours is set up ect... ( Nigel , I visited your gear list and done an approximate quote to get all your gear lol...) £89.000 can I have a loan please. Lol wow that's some gear. I'm putting the lotto on
Nice one Nigel. The use of foreground material is one which is so, so important in w/a photography, especially when in portrait format. Also, the notion of getting very close to larger background elements if you wish to still use the wide end is very important. Otherwise, I believe you have to have some decent sky formation to balance the foreground.
13:55, headless chicken mode : ON 😁 Amazing conditions you got there Nigel! Very interesting tips, even though I don't have wide lens for now, 24mm at the lowest. But still, all you say also works somehow in my case 😊 I'm following your insta stories in Antarctica and I'm very much looking forward to seeing the videos you've prepared!
Great video and absolutely brilliant final print! Contrast is spot-on, and everything balances perfectly, like you said. I tend to struggle with all of these aspects when using my 20mm, so I always appreciate the tips. I think my biggest are no "star" and wrong focus point. Then definitely not quite getting the framing right.
Nigel, all great points and inspiration to challenge me when out with my camera. I fail all the time with getting my tripod out too early and failing to do the work in finding the composition to get a foreground subject become an object of interest. I rarely go below 24mm because I simply don't challenge myself enough (and I should) with those wider focal lengths. What I do to go wide is to shot panoramas. I don't know if it would make a good video topic, but I would enjoy your take on the pros/cons of wide angles against a panorama. Thanks again for contributing these wonderful stories and tips.
Great vlog as usual Nigel. Love the printed image, which reminds me of the time I was up there in September 2021 and took a very similar image, albeit in very different conditions. Also, love the way you have processed it.
Another great video, Nigel!! Thank you so much. You really pointed out some of the things I struggle with in photography and gave some wonderful advice for making my photos better. I will definitely keep this tips in mind during my next photo opportunity! Thanks for sharing your journey as a photographer with us!!
Foreground interest is important on any picture, the problem I have is trying to accept all the distortion that wide-angle lenses produce in landscape pictures, quite often the finished result is unreal! Thanks for the tips and video.....
you really leveled up your videos with this absolutely beautiful music! thanks so much again for this very informative and inspiring video Nigel. would you be so kind and let me know the artist and songs you have used for this video?
A great, moody and atmospheric shot of Buachaille Etive Mor Nigel. I've got a 20mm prime lens in my bag, and I must admit, I've hardly used it. I wonder these days whether the pano shot, where you've maybe taken three or four shots to capture a composition gives you the best of both worlds? Perhaps the subject of a forthcoming vlog? I love that you print those favourite images, it brings them alive! A final thought from me - does using your Apple setup give you a good fidelity between what you see on the screen, and the final print, because this always feels like a black art to me. Again, perhaps the subject of a vlog in the future. Have fun in Antarctica!
Thank you Nigel, I’ve followed your tutorials for 3 years or so. I’m a 75 year old Aussie Bloke and learn virtually day by day. I have wonderful assistance from a few SPECIAL PEOPLE. I will keep on keeping on. Thank you.
Very good explanation!!! I live an ultrawide when I am right too close to the background (on purpose) and can find a compelling foreground object that may actually start just inches away from from the front of the lens. Keeping mess out of the foreground is also so important. I also find that there are times when shooting at an angle instead of level can add a lot of interest and creativity to the shot.
So many epic ... not a single "it does not get better than this"!
Love that song... that landscape is great... love your shots..... Thank you for your tutorial
Really enjoyed this Nigel. I find wide angle creates so much foreground it can be difficult to eliminate and isolate my landscape so this has been really helpful. Loved the images captured. Thanks for sharing.
Hello Nigel Danson! Thank you for showing me a nice video! I really enjoyed it! Thank you for sharing! Have a nice day!
I loved this tutorial, as you would say - epic. Great tips for wide angle use. Glencoe looked just magical.
Awesome clear tutorial 😊
Love the print, and enjoy the trip. Looking forward to seeing your icy photos ;)
This, well this is a gamechanger!!!!
Great video, Nigel. Thanks!
Another great video Nigel
love the shot you printed!
Really great video and lovely shots. Especially like the one at 7.58
Appreciate the wideangle shooting tips! I'm playing with a 12-24mm DX lens on a classic Nikon DX3400, and along with a 18-55mm kit lens, am loving the wide angle perpectives!
Thanks again...
Thank you for your work!
Thanks so much Nigel. As always your videos get me thinking about my photography. That has to be a good thing. Also, just when are Mads and you coming to Australia? 😀
Great tips as always. Beautiful images too!
Brilliant! What a gorgeous location. I really look forward to your Sunday morning videos. Thank you Nigel.
Great vid.. I believe you could take a picture of a cow pat in a field with just one bush and make it look epic...
Thank you so much for the extensive thought and work you put into your videos. I know how much time this takes, adding in the drone shots, setting up the camera and walking in and out of shots, especially if you are on your own, plus the time thinking about the shots themselves. Great tips too about wide angle shots.
Brilliant mate. Have a safe trip. 👍
Using my 14-24 has made me very aware of the edges of my photos. That has been very helpful.
Are you kidding this channel has only 300k + subscribers? Amazing to find your channel!
Thank you for queueing up some videos while you are away!
Really good points as usual Nigel. I feel like good Wide-angle photos are a good indicator of someone's skill/experience, because it's such a difficult lens to create simple, pleasing images with. Hope Antarctica has treated you well (it certainly looks like it has!) 😁
Great video Nigel. Thank you for the tips and... enjoy Antarctica!
Hi Nigel, hope your back isn’t giving you too much pain? Thank you for your innovating videos🙏 A huge fan!
love how you explained this! it's like a light bulb just went off!
I really enjoy all your clips and got quite a lot out of this one. Your lessons - and they truly are lessons, for you take your time, and methodically, patiently explain the principles you follow. You also reinforce the thoughts of others that I watch and that is always a good thing - it helps me to learn. I'm so very grateful to have found your channel. It is a finely-crafted resource, informative as well as entertaining.
Love the content! One thing that I still struggle is with focus, I’d love to see you show where you focused on your pic examples. Sometimes I don’t know if you had to focus-stack the photos.
That shot you printed Nigel was a worthy contender, what a awesome location. Have a safe trip and look forward to seeing some images. Thanks for sharing.
Really interesting points, thank you
The biggest mistake people make with wide angles is using too wide an angle, so all you see is the foreground.
But I agree that an L-bracket (and a levelling base) are essential game changers for a tripod!
So much great knowledge in your videos. I am absolutely addicted to your videos. Thank you.
Phone video previews are awesome for simulating for compositions.All Your videos are best tutorial on youtube.Congrats
Excellent video; great shots that really reinforced your points, Thanks, Kathy
Great video Nigel. I love where you get in the image and show how far the mountains appear and I love love the photo you printed at the end. Safe travels to you and the crew! Can’t wait to see the videos!
Thanks for this video Nigel, some really usfull info i have picked up from it. Liked the printed shot.
Envious of your Antarctica trip, went there on ship a few years ago visiting places like South Georgia Sandwich islands, Falklands and on to Antarctica itself.
Looking forwards to your shots.
Good luck with the ships internet, we had limited availability and quite costly.
Granted, you do find some amazing spots to shoot - but there's so much more. The way you can take in an entire scene, and find the beauty, the sweet spot - it's a talent very few have. I'd love to be shooting your "mistakes". But really? Your "mistakes" are "happy little accidents" (Bob Ross quote). I truly admire that you look to your own work, and critique that. You don't take other people's work and say "they should have done this or that". You are a true giant in your profession, and I cherish the knowledge you share with us. Thank you for another great video tutorial.
Decent tips for the challenging end of the focal range spectrum :-)
Just stunning results - especially that beautiful print!
This was an enjoyable video. Really liked it.
Oh I hope you took a tripod for the boat, you are definitely going to want one. Hope you are having a great time.
Great music choice
Thank you, enjoy every video you do. Learn so much. Thank you again
OMG the rainbow at 13:53, so beautiful.
Great vid that print at the end is absolutely stunning
Great video! Definitely worth of watching a few times to remember all that and to avoid the mistakes.
Nigel, great video as always.
I recently got the Fuji 10-24 and I have to say its completely transformed the way I think about photography. It provides huge scope for creativity and I love overcoming the technical challenges that come with it, focus, shutter speed, tripod positioning and I especially love getting that super sharp detail in the foreground that really draws the eye in. As always I learned from your videos so keep up the good work and have a fab time in Antarctica.
I have TONS of respect for anyone who can find truly interesting compositions with that wide of a wide angle. It is very, very hard to do.
Often one has to trick themselves into believing that a foreground element is far more interesting than what it _actually_ is.
(Of course this is coming from a portrait guy that lives life between 70-105).
😁😁😅 Very guilty of this! In the field, take one sunset, add a large foreground rock, boom job done. Then in post, heavily apply the belief filter 🤣
@@journeytoaphotograph Ha!! Yeah, I think geologists might be the only people who appreciate rocks more than photographers. And even that is only sometimes.
But I apply that foreground belief filter myself, of course. As a portrait guy I have a collection of pictures of blurry bushes, tree limbs and leaves that could make a Home & Garden catalog. Followed by sometimes running that belief filter through some frequency separation, too .
Super video Nigel thanks for sharing
Absolutely epic Nigel, thank you
Another video filled with amazing images! Safe travels!
Love these so much, you have established yourself perfectly as a high quality CZcamsr and photographer.
Very useful Tipps, Nigel. The printed image is a portfolio one. 😍😍😍
Thank you!
Great video.
Another excellent video Nigel, really liked the image you printed at the end - very satisfying to see images in print. Looking forward to next week!
There's been a few times watching you when I've thought "Nigel stop talking you're missing the shot!" Did it again when that golden glow came out 😂
Wonderful Glencoe. Loved that. Brought back fantastic memories of our winter photography trip there four years ago. Hopefully I've learned something since then! Hope you have a great time in Antarctica!
I've experienced a few times where the light was fantastic, no matter direction you faced. Lots fun
Thanks again for great insights and inspiration. If I had scenery like yours, I would never go home.
I picked up some good tips. Thanks. The second shot turned that rivulet into a scary large waterfall. Amazing what a tight cropped perspective can do.
What a beautiful place and conditions!! Wonderful tips. I love a wide angle lens myself and often find myself doing a lot of these mistake
Great video! One of the best bits of advice I can give regarding compositions and how to frame a shot is to spend some time using just one prime lens and no tripod! It teaches you to use your feet and move around the scene before getting in the bad habit of mounting it on the tripod straight away. I’ve just got back from the Coe this week running a workshop my god the weather was difficult!
Great Images Nigel love your work.
Thanks for this great video on wide angle lenses Nigel. I struggle a lot with compositions with my 10-20mm Sigma (cropped sensor) so I do not use it very often. Your tips have given me encouragement to go out with my wide angle lens and experiment. I watched your video twice as there was so much information for me to take in in your video. Thanks again.
Thank you for addressing the wide angle lens, great compositions with the 14-24mm tend to be one of the biggest issues I have with my personal photography currently.
Looking forward to shooting with my wide angle more - will try to keep these ideas in mind
Good advice Nigel, and wow, some insane weather conditions there. From your vlogs it seems like you're in the right place at the right time nine times out of ten.
Just picked up a wide angle lens. So nice timing. Can’t wait to watch this 👍
Funnily enough when I first purchased my wide angle lens I barely used it because I didn't know how to compose well with it. Now it's always in my bag. Great video and points, a stunning location to show examples too.
Thanks Nigel , great tips again. Nigel will you ever do a video all about your settings within the camera ?? Be good to see how yours is set up ect...
( Nigel , I visited your gear list and done an approximate quote to get all your gear lol...)
£89.000 can I have a loan please. Lol wow that's some gear. I'm putting the lotto on
Nice one Nigel. The use of foreground material is one which is so, so important in w/a photography, especially when in portrait format. Also, the notion of getting very close to larger background elements if you wish to still use the wide end is very important. Otherwise, I believe you have to have some decent sky formation to balance the foreground.
Thanks for the tips Nigel, I enjoyed the images.
I definitely fell into the 'getting it all in' camp when I first got mine.
13:55, headless chicken mode : ON 😁 Amazing conditions you got there Nigel! Very interesting tips, even though I don't have wide lens for now, 24mm at the lowest. But still, all you say also works somehow in my case 😊 I'm following your insta stories in Antarctica and I'm very much looking forward to seeing the videos you've prepared!
3:35 Nigel you are amazing!!!
Great video and absolutely brilliant final print! Contrast is spot-on, and everything balances perfectly, like you said.
I tend to struggle with all of these aspects when using my 20mm, so I always appreciate the tips. I think my biggest are no "star" and wrong focus point. Then definitely not quite getting the framing right.
Awesome 👏
Fantastic video. Very helpful. Thank you! Also, please call it a Glen, not a valley. It is a Glen in Scotland. Thank you.
Good work again!!!🏝️ 🤺
Nigel, all great points and inspiration to challenge me when out with my camera. I fail all the time with getting my tripod out too early and failing to do the work in finding the composition to get a foreground subject become an object of interest. I rarely go below 24mm because I simply don't challenge myself enough (and I should) with those wider focal lengths. What I do to go wide is to shot panoramas. I don't know if it would make a good video topic, but I would enjoy your take on the pros/cons of wide angles against a panorama. Thanks again for contributing these wonderful stories and tips.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
Excellent content as usual, very helpful !
Great vlog as usual Nigel. Love the printed image, which reminds me of the time I was up there in September 2021 and took a very similar image, albeit in very different conditions. Also, love the way you have processed it.
Gracias Nigel.
Great tips, thanks for sharing!
Another great video, Nigel!! Thank you so much. You really pointed out some of the things I struggle with in photography and gave some wonderful advice for making my photos better. I will definitely keep this tips in mind during my next photo opportunity! Thanks for sharing your journey as a photographer with us!!
Nigel only makes amazing videos
I have always struggled with wide angle lenses. There are some really good tips here.
Foreground interest is important on any picture, the problem I have is trying to accept all the distortion that wide-angle lenses produce in landscape pictures, quite often the finished result is unreal! Thanks for the tips and video.....
Fantastic advice, really informative video as always!
Thanks again for such good advice. Hope you have a wonderful trip {so jealous) and can't wait to see your images. Stay safe.
make something the star of the shot... good advice on wide shooting...
you really leveled up your videos with this absolutely beautiful music! thanks so much again for this very informative and inspiring video Nigel. would you be so kind and let me know the artist and songs you have used for this video?
Fab video. I really learn so much from watching your channel.
A great, moody and atmospheric shot of Buachaille Etive Mor Nigel. I've got a 20mm prime lens in my bag, and I must admit, I've hardly used it. I wonder these days whether the pano shot, where you've maybe taken three or four shots to capture a composition gives you the best of both worlds? Perhaps the subject of a forthcoming vlog? I love that you print those favourite images, it brings them alive! A final thought from me - does using your Apple setup give you a good fidelity between what you see on the screen, and the final print, because this always feels like a black art to me. Again, perhaps the subject of a vlog in the future. Have fun in Antarctica!
Some invaluable tips there Nigel. Quick question for you what’s your etiquette regarding other photographers straying into your shot?