In this video I discuss things I wish I knew earlier as a landscape photographer. I talk about the understanding of light, camera gear, weather, tripods and more.
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Excellent 😂😂😂 love the Hammer Horror ending.
Love the ending – flipping hilarious!
What ever this video is? one of your most interesting.
Would be interesting to more detail on your first point. You tell us that we should consider light, subject etc, but not what we should consider.
It took me 4 years with my 70d to realize how horribly bad i was to be able to understand where my road to get better started! now 1 year later my images are 10x better but im still just beginning traveling on that road and i have a long way ahead but those few times i get a really good image now i know why and it was intentional…
One secret you almost mentioned towards the end is that you are not going to take any amazing photos unless you actually get out there and take photos. Cheers Thomas, great video
haha…:) great end to the vid
I love this little photography crew you guys have !!! Great Video!!
That ending though! 😀 I'd say, as for everything in the "art" side, practice is key! 🙂
Yep, love the ending 🙂
Stumbled upon this video and really enjoyed it – thanks Thomas!
My secret formula….. don't try to fit photography in with a family holiday….. create a proper opportunity.
Best ever ending to a video. I laughed so hard 😀
Really like the part at 09:00 – 09:05 where you enter the van and see the reflection in the window of you having the GoPro in your mouth (if I spotted correctly) The shot that didn't make the cut hehe 😀
Spr, Good video
I have never laughed so hard watching one of your videos before! The ending, I didn't even see it coming!
Nice Ending Tom
How can you manage to drive on the left side AND produce such a useful video??
dude i gotta say your videos have inspired me. i have just recently gotten back into photography and my fav kind of photography is landscape. i have watched a ton of your videos over the last couple weeks. you put a lot of time and effort into them and it shows. i discovered from your vids that you have been through some rough spots. all i can say is just keep being yourself and doing what your doing because its totally inspiring. and i have a suggestion. why not keep a grand or so in a jar somewhere and if you feel like your heading on another downward spiral then break out that jar and use it to go somewhere amazing again, like you did with the canadian trip. keep up the good work mate. i hope one day ill be able to visit some of the places you have photographed.
Always good to hear/reinforce the basic stuff. Glad to see you are on your second beer. Cheers
Lenses……..great advice for beginners, even though they won’t listen…..because let’s be honest, we’ve all been there. But another reason to invest in glass is the fact that they tend to hold their value much better and are much less prone to consumerism, especially in recent years, where they’ve sort of reached a plateau of almost uniform stellar performance…..I mean, our almost have to try your best just to buy a bad lens it seems!
Officer the driver behind me keeps taking both hands off the steering wheel whilst gesticulating with both hands
Brilliant, uncle grumpy and his mates at the end, love it. Great video though, I'm quite new to landscape photography, your chanel has inspired me to get out and shoot images whenever I can and has helped me to improve my photography as has uncle grumpy and the other nutcase living in Canada so thanks to you all.
L bracket is a good one 👍 Really changes how you take your vertical images, makes it so much easier !
hahahahahahaha cool 🙂 by the way i really enjoy this vídeo
What are your driving?
Great ending!!!
very bromantic ending….
Always reverse park!!!! Makes it easier to get away at speed after robbing the banks!
Some good tips but I don’t agree at all about the lens comment! Technical image quality of the lens is the least important aspect for the large majority of photographers who are printing A3 and smaller or just posting online. If really large prints are needed, maybe a better lens will help, but light, composition, subject etc are so much more important than any lens will ever be. As reference point in the landscape world one could take a great deal from Michael Kenna’s book Holga. How about David Burnett’s portrait of Al Gore, also shot on a Holga? Another great reference in this regard is Zeb Andrews who has an entire Instagram feed dedicated to his pinhole images, you can find him @lens_optional Chase Jarvis reminded us of this too when he published his book of iPhone images (when iPhone cameras were still awful) titled The Best Camera is the One That’s With You. I could go on with names of many, many more artists who create magical work on very basic equipment but you get the point.
If you have loads of cash, by all means splurge on whatever gear you like. If not save your money for a trip or a workshop, it will hold infinitely more value than a lens will ever do.
Sincerely, thanks for the encouragement! Love the ending, too!
One of your best…very funny..lolol!!
Love your content, but vlog while you drive – bad idea and I wish YouTubers would stop doing that.
Great video as always, would be really grateful if you could give me a steer here. I love my Landscape Photography and over the autumn and winter will be all over the Landscape stuff however in the summer months I love taking pictures at motorcycle races such as the TT on the Isle of Man and the Irish road races as well as local trackways. I have been using a Canon 18-135mm kit lens on a Canon 80D and feel its time to purchase a quality lens and have my eye on a 70-200mm L lens however I'm not sure wether to buy the 2.8 or F4 lens at almost half the price, can you keep me right please would really appreciate the help. thanks in advance….Si
LMAO oh man I did not expect that at the end….BRILLIANT!!!! So now I have to watch eating or drinking on your videos too…..almost spit my drink on the screen LOL!!
Focus is such a mine field of conflicting information for new shooters. And even for long time enthusiasts like myself, it can still be a real struggle to decide on what approach to actually take for a given shot. I keep notes on things I've learned or worked out re composition or shooting techniques and have the following for focusing styles:
1) focus on infinity: when there is no specific subject or immediate foreground.
2) focus on subject: when there is a specific subject and no close foreground.
3) double distance focus: shots with specific foreground to background compositions. Find distance to nearest subject that needs to be in focus, double that distance to focus for best DOF (sort of a compromise between hyper focal and focus at 1/3).
4) focus 1/3 into frame: general shots with no specific subject and some fore ground interest. Can be replaced with DDF.
5) hyper focal distance: magic. also for showing off math skills to newbies. Of no practical value in the field 😛
6) focus stacking: how to focus like Thomas Heaton!
Thomas, I'd love for you to devote a video (or two!) to the practical application of some of your various techniques for picking focus (beside focus stacking), on scene with real images that require different focus methods. I think seeing the thought process worked out in real could be a real time help to groking focus (for me anyway).
Haha that ending 😂! Keep up the good work 👍
Lol what a ending! Hahahahaha very nice! Love to see the video's off the other guys!
I bought a cheap L bracket off ebay to go on a manfrotto acra swiss ball head. It doesn't fit. Other L brackets are like $50 which is just excessive for 2 pieces of metal screwed together.
BEST ENDING EVER!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA
you swallowed a lot of pills in this video ;-0
Great video Tom. You forgot a piece of gear that helps you start the whole journey, a reusable thermos!
Focusing on infinity? Is it really infinity?
Theoretically After Focusing on infinity one time, you would never have to focus again for any landscape shot?
"Date the camera, marry the lens" Old saying but still so very true.
LMFAO that ending 😂