Michael Tomas is a London based timelapse, architecture and travel photographer.
On this channel you will see behind the scenes of my shoots, tutorials how to timelapse, reviews of equipment I use as well as travel vlogs in London and around the world.
Often when I wonder around London I'm on the search to find elevated views of the skyline to shoot unique photos or timelapse and that's how the idea behind "London Viewpoints" came about. I always enjoyed exploring London for new and epic viewpoints and architecture to share on my instagram and now I share it here on KZread in video form.
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Great review. Any thoughts on using this lens for aviation photography? Thanks
Thanks, yeah sure, as long as there’s enough light, 5.6 should be enough
If you change from SDR to HLG you get 10bit 8k timelapse video. 👍
Oh really ? Thats neat, I got to try it, wondering if that’s the same on Zf, Z6III and Z8 ?
@@LondonViewpoints I have only tested on z9 and z8. 😊
"Can Caseoh Fit To The Big Ben"
Dare I ask - what’s a caseoh ?
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Calicut beach sunset
I’m using a Nikon D7500 and cannot find how to set the maximum shutter speed. When I use P* the first thing the camera changes is the ISO
I’m not aware with the options in the settings of the d7500, maybe it doesn’t do it
@@LondonViewpointsThanks. Could you tell me where you found out about this please? Perhaps I could research it but I cannot find how to set the minimum shutter speed.
I compared a used 500mm F4G with 500PF F5.6 and the 500mm F4 G was slightly sharper due to the larger objective's resolving power. However the PF weight was less than half the big lens. The one stop advantage sealed the deal at twice the light. However as a portable lens the PF cannot be beaten.
Maybe you got lucky with a good one, my one had rather soft sides and corners while the one stop difference didn’t maybe much difference for me
Feeling very smug about nabbing a house on the west of Moordown - yes, the view is as good as you said!
Well, all I can say is congrats and well done, I’m sure living there with that view is and will be awesome, as well as an investment in a property with a view like that surely will only go up in value 👍🏻
Was there anyone in the morning to check permits ?
Not the one time I was there, but that doesn’t mean it’s a rule
The employees take the first cable car around 9. Don’t think they hike up there.
wow😊
Thx👍🏻
There is an FTZII adapter, without the foot, which will solve all problems.
Yes, this is an old video before the new adapter existed
I would recommend investing in a circular polarizing filter to remove the reflections.
These are not the kind of reflections a circular polariser will fix😉
Free and the shard charges a lot
Yes that’s true but I think for best photo results Shard is better
The last appears to be a composite. The sun size (0.5°) in relation to The Shard (310m) would mean the camera is around 30km away. Yet the foreground appears to show Greenwich Park. Even Shooters Hill would not give this perspective.
I don’t do composites, all three are just as I shot them timelapses, the middle one was the further away one, last one is just from Greenwich Park and not that telephoto as the middle one (500mm)
@@LondonViewpoints As mentioned, the shot at 0:17 is not possible (without composition) from Greenwich Park or even Shooters Hill, which are around 7 km or 14 km from The Shard. This is because the apparent sun disc size in that shot is larger than the height of The Shard. The sun subtended angle is always around 0.5°, regardless of lens used. For the sun to appear the size as The Shard the camera needs to be around 30 km away. For the sun to appear even larger (as in this shot) the camera needs to be even further away.
@@matthewjones255 oh so you mean the middle shot, that one was shot from Brands Hatch with a 500mm lens and probably cropped middle from the 6k resolution, but it definitely ain’t a composition 😀
@@LondonViewpointsThat explains it, thank you! To be authentic, I knew it must be from much further away, and even Shooters Hill didn’t match. The cropping does not affect the relative ratio of two objects in the shot (sun disc and The Shard), so it has to be about 30km away (estimate).
Who? is going to London with me
You and 100m other tourists annually ?
love it
Thanks
*Imagine if England won the Euros what the Big Ben at Night would look like*
Yeah imagining is all we can do with that 😂
Still no Bridge?
Sadly I don’t think so
WOW
Thx 👍🏻
IShowSpeed is coming here, prepare yourselves!
Haha I’m sure he’ll do something funny up there
Yes well. Nice show. But of course real aurora borealis is just of a number of magnitudes more interesting ti see. And they can be seen in England, just know when the chances are there and move to a dark spot (so surely not a city like London).
Well we all know it did happen just recently, I was just outside by the M25 and saw it, but seen photos taken on Millenium Bridge with it clearly seen above St Paul’s, so yeah it can happen
@@LondonViewpoints Exactly, I live in The Netherlands and over here we can see it about 8 times per year in darker places. The last one which I watched and photographed for about 3-4 hours was exceptional but I have seen much better ones especially from 2000-2005. I would go outside with KP=7. With KP8 you will surely see them outside London. Kp9 is not needed but tends to be more impressive of course.
I heard an evp but didn't hear what it said
Evp ?
How well in advance do you recommend booking the passes ?
The standard ones as soon as you know you’re going, they apparently get snapped up to 3 months prior, but the sunrise 6-9am one is easier to get , there was free spots even 2 days before I went but also that’s because I think no one bothers booking it before 9am and people just go anyway
Geat video
Thanks 👍🏻
Thanks
Are there any good views/locations in West London?
There are, just… it seems I’ve not done a single video about the west side 🤦🏼♂️
Your ‘best views in’ videos/series are the best videos.
Thanks, glad to hear😁
Amazing!!! Such a great wee video
Thanks a lot Kash, it was a great couple of days, and even though I wasn’t even planning to shoot anything, this was a cool side quest 😄
Awesome 👌
Thanks👍🏻
@@LondonViewpoints 😎😁🫶 hope Yr good
i lived on the top floor of one of those houses at the top of Woodland Rd 30 years ago, lovely to see that view again though much changed over the years of course
I bet even 30 years ago that must’ve been a great view to have
Went up today. The views are really spectacular. The reflections were nowhere near as bad as the narrator kept moaning about.
Glad to hear, i mean im a perfectionist 😜and also all depends on the weather, sun strength and angle of your shooting
Cyclist with top speed big up!!!
Good luck, I’m sure you can do it 😀
Hey the method you tell I always theoretically wanted to do this, but the camera I have (Sony A7C), somehow treats Auto ISO Min SS very differently , and i can never achieve this method very aperture starts to open when Max ISO and min SS are reached. can you provide any help?
Yes Sony’s work but only in Aperture priority mode , don’t know if they do it right in P mode hence it’s just one of the reasons I shoot nikon
I've visited the 'above ground' areas of Twoer Bridge but would love to see one of the bascule chambers. Are they still accessible to the public and, if so, when can a tour be booked? Many thanks!
Afaik you can still book these tours, best check on tower bridge website
@@LondonViewpoints Thank you!
I,m seriously gonna give this a try
Good luck, results vary depending on camera systems and models
Looks like the aperture flicker issue has been solved in the Z8. In the interval shooting mode, the aperture is fixed according to the f-stop value selected.
Yes, even in manual but oddly one has to have the flicker reduction on, even thought it’s manual but that what seems to drive the aperture rings to not move
Does this work if for example sellers on eBay and Amazon + Alibaba have copied images?
If it’s your image it’s yours copyright, but alibaba is Chinese and as of yet I don’t think they cover that country
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Can’t wait
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Stunning video, Michal!! I couldn't sleep last night so I watched this. Definitely need to do a visit sometime! It looks even better than the Hainault view!!!
Thanks a lot Phil, glad my video entertained your non-sleep night, Hainault view is good too but the further away the better the compression
Loved the video. Brought back memories. I served my apprenticeship in horticulture at Greenwich 1967.
The views must’ve been totally different back then
Top video man. Appreciate the effort and view looks insane. Have u ever tried going to Top of buildings in canary wharf or high rise flats at 02 or Greenwich to get photo from up there. That would be amazing if did a video on that or the thames barrier area got amazing cluster. But that few ideas but as usual keep it up
In some of my previous vids I sometimes included timelapses and photos from skyscrapers in Canary Wharf, and if you mean Royal Wharf by the Thames Barrier then also yes just recently I had a shoot there too
great view, i love it
Thanks, glad to hear it
Thank you 👍🏻
Bravo, Michael! Well done!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
Ah, wish I'd been with you on this one (so relaxing :-) ). I'm surprised at how clear the air was, usually those ultra-long locations have all that blurry atmosphere in the way!
Yeah it’s the perfect Timelapse spot, nature yet no one there but weather indeed has to be clear, as the footage I didn’t include is when we were there as didn’t almost see anything due to haze
Lovely spot mate! That pink in the end was perfect! 👌🏼🤩
Thanks mate, defo worth the wait even if not quite as spectacular as some of the other visits
By the way, do polarising filters work against the reflections?
No, they’d make things even weirer
Wow after having a Naff day my mate comes on with another Top Vlog to cheer me up & he's done well well done buddy Envy you them Views Need some more vlogs soon buddy :) How Many Miles is it from Both Clusters Michael?
Glad you enjoyed it, 22 miles to the Shard and 6 outside of m25 so that should give you some indication 😀
stunning work as always!
Thanks mate, just a chill vlog 😀
looks awesome!!
Thanks
@@LondonViewpoints 😎😁👋 hope Yr good
Lovely spot, thanks for sharing! Potential Aurora location..? 🤔
You’re welcome, well if it’s as strong as last time I would’ve as it went way above and you only see the skyline with a telephoto and barely with a wide angle so for the next big Aurora I’d go somewhere south but close to the city