Love the "bokeh balls" beach shot and the "island" in the fog.

I love the point you made of leaving something to the imagination; not telling the whole story. I'm gonna try this in my next production

Brilliant visual explanation! Directly to the point. You're really taking money out of all those Udemy authors that helplessly trying to teach people photography in 15-hours courses. You just did it in 15 minutes. Thanks a lot for such videos. It's worth to be saved to the favorites for the future reference.

@NigelDanson

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much

The two photos around 11:36 are absolutely splendid!

@NigelDanson

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks... they were lockdown finds in my lightroom catalogue

I've recently discovered the joys of using a long lens (actually, 18-135mm on APS-C) and I really love what it does with sunsets if you have an interesting subject in front of the sun. Mads' videos and photos inspired me to try it, and I think it's fantastic how the two of you cover the same topics in your videos but still both remain original and provide fresh insights. Thanks!

Really glad you addressed this subject and you backed your claim up with stunning photos. Whenever I watch your videos I get the feeling that I have learned something. Thank you!

Your composition videos are really helping me understand why my images so often suck, and what I need to practice to change my game. Thanks.

Whenever I'm shooting Wide, I wish I had my Teli. Whenever I have my Teli, I wish I was shooting Wide. Can't win.

@Mudvayne479

4 жыл бұрын

This reminds me why I always carry both on me! Thankful my 20mm is super small

@sgpork

4 жыл бұрын

And this is why u carry both or use a multi purpose zoom. Cant win all.

@vedranb87

4 жыл бұрын

Shoot wide for composition then take out the teli and shoot the individual points of interest and stitch them together with amazing detail and months of work. :D

@johnwatt6863

4 жыл бұрын

Might be an idea to switch to M4/3 then you can carry both...

@chrisklugh

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnwatt6863 I rock a GH5! ;) PS: I make the most of that little sensor with some heavy post color manipulation. Check it at KelownasGoodStuff on FB and IG.

I love my 70-300 and would say it’s the lens I use most, and mostly at the latter end of the zoom scale 👌

I just love the small details that you add to your videos, 6:49 adding the moving clouds next to the cropped frame was simply amazing

@NigelDanson

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you noticed 👍🏼

Amazing how you can find a new picture within a picture with a long lens! I use a Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 G2, and this video has inspired me to try out new things! Thank you so much! Love your work!

It's amazing how fulfilled and happy I am watching your photos and videos. I just realize that it is what I want for my life. Thank you for that!

That foggy tree island is absolutely stunning

Always a pleasure to follow your channel, plenty of good tips, and boosting our creativity for landscapes.... Thanks for all !

I personally love the compression of layers you can achieve with a longer lens. It can create such a unique effect sometimes. Nice video Nigel!

Haha, literally just got a 70-200 last week and have been scouring KZread for a few videos this morning, then this pops up! Good timing :)

@burhanuddincolombowala2239

4 жыл бұрын

Have fun messing around with that bad boy!

@Arcticfox7

4 жыл бұрын

You need someone to tell you how to use your lens. How about using your imagination?

@ryancdallas

4 жыл бұрын

@@Arcticfox7 lol

Thank you so much Nigel. I always use 24-70 for landscape and a friend of mine said I should have 70-200. ---Still I only used 24-70 as I thought only that can catch wide angle good vista shots. I was so wrong! Use long lenses to capture drama---thank you I will remember that and this clip is SO convincing!! Now I can't wait for my next outing with 70-200!!

Brilliant! Thank you! - So many great examples which illustrate that the higher level of abstraction and mystery you can get with a longer lens can create photos that are much more captivating than well-made, well-composed wide angle shots revealing the entire context! The invaluable artistic surplus really mostly comes from leaving things open to the viewer's imagination. Hats off!

This is awesome, Nigel! I'm still trying to find my footing in photography and feel that Long Lens shooting seems to be where I'm most comfortable. You're right...it's very versatile and many stories can be created with the different kinds of images captured. I am working on my Nifty Fifty, but it just doesn't seem quite as exciting, but I do think that to have a certain mastery in many kinds of photography is important...for me. Thanks so much!

I regularly use a tele for landscape (and other) images; have been doing for over 30 years and I love the possibilities. Thanks for helping me understand that I've been at least trying the right thing all these years! Thanks Nigel. Excellent content as always.

Really enjoy your thoughtful, well delivered videos. Inspiring and educational!

70-200mm is my all time favorite lens, If I had to choose one - that would be it. From landscape, to portraits and even "macro" shot when zoomed in. I recently picked up 18-35mm and it is a completely different beast I enjoy learning with

11:30 looks like a masterpiece painting. Just lovely...

I don't have a 70-200, but some of my favorite shots I've taken were with my 100-400 or 70-300. Telephoto landscape photography is underappreciated imo.

Keep up the great work Nigel. As a newbie, I've learnt so much from your YT videos and also your Masterclass series - highly recommended!

Just yesterday evening I went to a bluff overlooking the Straight of Juan de Fuca with the expectation I would be able to get good sunset shots to my left and photos of a Bald Eagle in a tree to my right. The lens I used for about 80 % of the many shots I took was a 55-250mm on a crop sensor camera. I needed every bit of the long end to get good shots of the eagle. The sunset with an amazing array of shapes in the clouds had me busy working the zoom from end to end and many places in between. As you said in this video, the wider shots were really good, but there was so much going on, it really helped to be able to get close to some of the cloud formations to keep potential viewers from being overwhelmed with everything there was to see. With a 200 or so foot drop right in front of me, the clouds 20 or so miles away and the sun millions of miles away, i needed a telephoto zoom to be able to make compositional changes.

Very good. What i like in your videos ist that you always show great examples.

These were some really good points! :D

One of your best ones so far! Keep it up!

Excellent tips as always Nigel! Next Sunday looks epic! Looking forward to that! All the best!

Great video Nigel. Thanks for the tips.

your video editing is massively underrated. always such a good job in every aspect of your production.

@NigelDanson

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

simple, concise, tasteful, and classy. outstanding!

Nigel, you’re very good at teaching this stuff, your enthusiasm is infectious! Now shopping for a long lens!

Lovely perspective of adding drama and creativity. I'll take out my long lens and have fun with it. Thanks Nigel, really enjoy your great tips!

Really lovely video. Calm and really nicely edited and put together. Thank you!

You sir, are a gift. Bless you!

Thank you Nigel - this was really helpful to shift my thinking. Many thanks!

I enjoyed this video. You have showed a way to be more creative when using a long lens. Thanks for the inspiration.

Always helpful, looking forward to getting out more! Thank you ND.

Great video. Finally a video that makes a case for the long lens.

I just bought my first 70-200 a few weeks ago so I'm still in the learning stage. Great video Nigel!

You gave semi macro shots one of your examples. It's worth pointing out that you can still use extension tubes with lenses of this length to reduce minimum focus distance.

@raynerp

4 жыл бұрын

or just crop

Thank you so much. Your videos help me get thru this hard times and made me dream again about photography.

Just got the 55-200 for my XT2, I'm pretty excited to get out and use it more! Probably not a tip that's gonna blow anyone's hair back, but using a 10 second timer, (instead of my usual 2 second timer), seems to help with vibration reduction when using a tripod :)

Amazing photography! Really enjoy your videos!

Amazing video, amazing tips and amazing photos!!!! thanks!!!!

Thank you for great and down to earth paced videos. Cheers.

Always come back to your channel, great video 👏

I have just acquired a 70-200 f / 2.8 for my Z7 and look forward to getting started using it for landscape. So your video was really helpful and inspiring. Thanks, Nigel.

Great tuition and easy to follow in layman's terms; an eye opener for the beginner

Beautiful shots! Thank you for the tips.

Superb video Nigel, I have to agree with everything you’ve said re the 70-200, been using them for over 20 years, wouldn’t be without them. Cheers.

Brilliant video! Thank you!

I really related to this one Nigel. I treated myself to the Nikon 70-200 just before a 3 week cross country trip last summer. After 2 days it was the lens that I left on my camera strapped in the seat beside me. As to hints: I have a Nikon 200-500 which is a beast to carry. I tried the Black Rapid sling which was a pain to rig and a bigger pain when it came time to use the tripod. Just switched to the Peak Design Slide. It carries the camera/lens beautifully and is a cinch to put on the tripod. BTW - I’ve taken contest-winning closeups of frogs in my water garden at 500mm with this lens.

Nigel, you never disappoint. Well done Friend. Next Sunday looks to be another good one. Thanks for sharing.

Such excellent information. Very talented. Thank you so much for the video. Truly amazing .

Thank you Nigel.. As always your advice is very well received and lets learners like myself who struggle on a daily basis with various photography ideas.. I bought a new lens a couple of months ago. I bought the Tamron 17/28 for my Sony A/7/3 but now find that I'm using my Sony 28/70 90% of the time. learn by costly mistakes seems to be my forte but at least I do take notice of my mistakes and learn from blokes like yourself and others.. Please keep up your tutorials Nigel. Stay safe Mate

Thanks Nigel - really useful video and appreciated. Won't be travelling to any mountains for a while so am going to open my eyes to local shots that would benefit from using my long lens. Excellent video as always, thanks for the time and effort you put into these !

Very well articulated and picked up a couple of gems. Thank you.

I love the bridge and the "floating forest" shots

Fantastic video like always, very informative. Looking forward to next weeks video.

Subscribed. Thank you for the value in this video. It’s tremendous.

I really enjoyed this video. You packed a lot of great information into a short presentation.

WOW! The tree photos, just wow.

Great video Nigel thanks

Thanks for the different perspective

Great storytelling coupled with expert video production. I’d really be interested in understanding your tools and work flow. The way you communicate verbally and visually is brilliant.

Great video Nigel. Great inspiration to get the 70-200 F2.8 lens out of the closet and do some landscape photography.

Nigel, I really look forward to your videos, and I would love to bump into in The Lakes sometime. Great video, especially sharing the photos of your family and the lovely Pebbles!

Thank you for sharing these tips, Nigel. Fantastic photos, and invaluable info,

@NigelDanson

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

The 70-200 is one of my go-to lenses. Great bokeh for macro shooting!

gorgeous images, great advice and friendly channel. Thank you always

Great tips. Thank you. You’ve inspired me to use my 70-200 f2.8 a lot more than I have to date.

Great explanation!!!! Thank you!!!

The videos just keep getting better and better!

@NigelDanson

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Thomas - that is really kind of you to say.

Your abstract bridge shot is beautiful. Bravo! Great video.

I always seem to gravitate to my 70-200 lens. I always have a hard time with very wide angle lenses. I guess I like to get tighter composition and isolate pieces of a scene.

Excellent examples of telephoto lens use for landscape! Thanks for the hard work.

Great video I do love the mysterious photos

Great video. Awesome content. Keep it coming. Helped a lot for me to decide on one single lense to carry when I go for landscape shooting.

Thank you for another lesson in photography!

Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏻🙏🏻💕📷

Very nice! New lenses create new photo opportunities!

Another interesting and informative video. I shoot street photography but love seeing a great landscape photographer at work. I use some of your approaches in my own genre - like using longer lenses to cut out the commotion going on in the public space and to change things up visually from time to time.

I have a 75-300 and i absolutely love it. The compression of longer lenses is so much better than wide angle ones (my opinion).

You make a great case for the long lens in landscape photography. Great vlog.

Got a 16-35 two years ago cause I thought landscape was best done wide. Love the lens and still learning how to use it. This past year I got the 70-200 and absolutely love the different perspective it creates. Now I need a second body so I don’t have to keep switching lenses in the field. Does one ever get rid of GAS. Love your videos

Thank you for this informative Video. You do a nice work!

Thank you Nigel!

Hi Nigel, glad I came across your video, especially since my 70-200 f2.8 arrived yesterday. Beautiful pictures and ideas you have. Great term I just learned, “bokeh balls”, awesome!

Love all you photography but the landscape image of the trees rising through the clouds at 07:42 is exceptional.

Wow! The photo at 11:30 is just amazing!

Hey great video Nigel! I agree!

Loved that beach shot, and the gold flecks. Awesome capture. Ty Nigel

@NigelDanson

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks - one of my fav

That island in the clouds is awesome!

I have the 70 - 200mm and love it. I find it especially useful for Street photography, particularly if, like me, you enjoy the genre but find it a little daunting!

Fab video Nigel. Now i can't wait for the chance to get out and take some more Landscapes.

excellent video Nigel

Nigel, I am not sure how I came across your video but I am glad I did. I think the number of comments is testament to the quality and straightforward presentation of your video and, having subscribed, will watch a lot more I hope. Motorsports is my bag and, notwithstanding the lack of any events at the moment, I was losing motivation. I have a 70-200mm and I will get out now in the hour we have for exercise to try to pick out some scenes in my area.