Yes, the beast is on my H1 for 75% of the time! It is a greating lens if you take all the time all kind of foto's with it. It's take stunning toto's even portret. I love it. Tsanks for your interested video. I sell 16- 1.4 and 23- 1,4 for the beast, not for a moment disapointed!!!!!! Manygoodmoments end pictures and tsanksss fot jour good video....Roel
In your panos, in addition to left to right, did you also say you rotate up and down? Does that all go into one series (stitching) or separate? I usually just stitch 8-20 images in a horizontal plane. Anything above 12 and they get very thin and stretched (is this normal?) I use Affinity photo. I shoot in Landscape orientation usually around 100mm.
I do rotate up and down when I do a multi row pano. For example I will shoot 7 images left to right shooting the top half and the 7 images shooting the bottom half. I stitch the top and bottom half together in Lightroom then blend the top and bottom panos together in Photoshop. I almost always shoot my panoramas in portrait orientation anywhere between 35mm to 100mm, I am usually at around 50mm.
nice pics. any recommendation on a good indexing pano head? I want to hear and feel the clicks. i bought one but in the field, i can't feel or hear the stops. inside I can a little bit. I dont want that big acratech head. I have a great FLM ballhead and level base.
I do know what you mean about wanting clicks. It would be super helpful to speed up the process of shooting a pano. I do not know of any decent pano head with clicks. I stick with my acratech head because the build quality is amazing and I can abuse it and it never fails, but it can be tricky to see my marks in low light.
@@MOAB-UT I think that is a great option. I love Manfrotto and that panoramic base looks amazing. I did consider it at one point but the price point steered me away. Kinda kicking myself not.
@@GabrielOakPhotography Thanks for your reply. I agree. It is the best option I have found so far. I just returned the other one I bought today. It was solid and heavy but the clicks were super soft. Just went to Death Valley and Zion NP. In the field, sand storms, wind, sun, I could not feel or see a single click. Hoping the Manfrotto at 2-3x + the price should be better. I have a Manfrotto Focus Rail I use for Macro- it works amazingly well- very solid as you said. I use that focus rail on my German FLM ball head with an L bracket so I can establish the correct Nodal Point. I'm pretty new but it works great- in post, it is very even and very little cropping was necessary. I also have the FLM level base. I use my own large bubble level to make sure all is right- the tiny built in ones are not accurate enough IMO. I am a little OCD which in photography is actually a good thing. So was Ansel Adams - Group f/64!
I've tried every fucking setting in the fucking t4 there is and i still can't get focus bracketing to work. what the fuck is wrong with this fucking shit. I've got bkt on the dial, i've got 2sec timer, i've got bracketing set to focus, i've tried both auto and manual. i can set point a. but then ive tried every motherfucking button on the fucking camera to get point b. nothing works. on auto the motherfucker just shoots 1 shot as if i've cancelled out of bracketing and on manual it takes all the pics i've set but no focus is shifted. fucking cunt camera. i need to find someone to make a baby proof indepth step by step tutorial how to do it. the manual says nothing, all the vids and forum threads i've read say different things. some has set manual settings for their buttons so it doesnt work. fucking shit!!!
Glad you like the videos. Yes I am ok, thank you for asking. Actually I have been filming some new videos for upload. I have not given u, just had multiple events put a temporary halt on my videos. I will be back into full swing shortly. Thanks for reaching out.
Both lens are excellent performance on Fuji's line up. I'm a traveler and amateur photographer, with these two lens, I must choose XF14 2.8, light weight is most important, and the price. :))
Lovely images and fantastic location. I have to say ... hats off to you. I could never be a vlogger - when I see pink clouds like that I would have no time for talking to a camera. Mild panic normally ensues whenever mother nature is so kind.
Ha! "Hidden gem" till every yahoo feels the need to blast it's location over the interenet. Mind posting your personal address on here so people can come visit and trash your home? You don't seem to mind blatantly sharing the location around mine. You must fancy be surrounded by people, used toilet paper and garbage. Get over yourself, don't be part of the problem.
Last I checked...there's this thing called "Google" that shows all of the beautiful places to go see...things to do...and how to fucking get there. I'm sorry...is this part of the country only for YOU to enjoy? Just because you live nearby doesn't make the location "yours". Get over yourself. It's a free fucking country and your type of mentality IS the problem.
As someone who has both lived in Northern Idaho previously and has family who lives there, it's absolutely absurd to see how entitled you are. I know alot of Idahoans hate Californians for being the same, a bit hypocritical of you. Lmao
thanks for this Gabriel, I was weighing up between the two. I will go with the 14mm prime as I also think it will be great for video work on a gimbal + double up as an UWA for landscape photography
8-16mm f2.8 I bought today for $1600 inc tax. Lock down price maybe? Seems like it is more representative of value at this price would you agree.? I use 16 1.4, 23 f2, kit lens and 55-200 on an XT3.; Thanks for uploading and your thoughts on the 2 lens. You are a good photographer. Thanks
Osama Alsaadoun Thanks so much. Glad you liked it. I will have more content coming soon as they begin to relax the stay at home orders in my State. Cheers!
Micantropo78 Awesome. I also live in Hayden. I have lived here for 20 years and still love it. Thanks for watching. I will have more content coming soon.
Honestly I can't remember the music I used. I do know that I got it from Epidemic sound. It certainly is beautiful country much like Canada. Thanks for watching. If I remember the music I will send you the title.
Thanks, very informative video. I'm shooting with a lumix G7, the only thing that bugs me about this cam is the poor dynamic range. I love its functionality. I'm really thinking about the XT-3 or XT-30. HOw do you like yours?
My camera seems to not change its focus point. Am I doing something wrong. I have an xt3 and have my bracket settings to 3 photos drive 5 and interval to 0.
Great video to watch. Thanks. I have a Fuji X too. (2). Do you have tips to make the use of a GND easier? I find it very hard to see the result in the EVF or on the LCD about where to slide-in the filter. Sometimes I don't see any difference at all. Do you use specific in camera settings for this to make it easier?
Very helpful video to focus stack on the XT30. How does the water look like it has been taken on long exposure? I thought it was pretty straight forward shots with shorter shutter speeds but water is looking silky!
The 8-16 lens is so tempting with that ultra-wide 8mm reach, 16mm 1.4 is my widest right now. Have been considering getting 10-24 but the lack of WR on that lens is a much bigger issue than the lack of easy filter solution on 8-16. Your videos with this lens have me thinking. :D
Well done, thank you Gabriel. I do have a question. I’ve never been able to understand the relationship between frames and steps. If I set the camera to 20 frames with 5 steps, will it increase or decrease the steps automatically to have the subject in focus? Will it add or decrease the number of frames as needed? I’ve never understood the ‘step’ factor. If I choose 20 frames and 20 steps what will the camera do to get the subject in focus, as in shooting a flower up close or as you did here, a landscape, short as it may have been. Thank you for the video. As you, having the focus stacking feature on the xt3 is a dream along with the 80mm macro when doing that with flowers. I have yet to do landscapes but within the next few days, I’m going out to see what I can do. By the way, I began taking photos when I was in the eight grade in 1954, studied it in high school, ships photographer on the submarine I was on (shot stills with a Nikon of a nuclear missile being detonated above the surface of the Pacific Ocean, shot with every camera I could including Leica reflex, M3, M6, Hasselblad, on and on...) and now with the Xt1 converted to permanent IR, using the Xt2 and 3 as well, typically the 3. I’ll be 80 this summer. Still love photography and meditation. Thanks again, and sorry for the long ‘story’ but for whatever reason I wanted to introduce myself to you. Robert
Robert Yanasak I sure can help you understand frames and steps a little bit better. Thank you for the lovely comment. I love the fact that you’re still shooting photography and have such a passion for it at your age I only hope that I can follow in your footsteps. Now how to respond to your question, I am going to respond the same way that I answered this similar question earlier this week and if for some reason it doesn’t make sense let me know and I’ll try to further clarify. So here I go, the camera will only take as many pictures as it deems necessary, which for a landscape photo doesn’t typically exceed 10 to 15 frames. However if you are shooting macro photography I would set my frames much higher than that. Steps are the distance by which the camera shifts the focus points between images. To further explain, the step is calculated using the distance between the near and far limit of the depth-of-field on the first image captured. Setting the step to one (1) shifts the focus by approximately 20 percent of that distance. A step of five (5) shifts the focus 100 percent of that distance. I have experimented with images using various steps and honestly my recommendation for most photography is to keep your steps at around five. But for example if you’re shooting a very detailed macro shot I would set my steps at one, as that is the shortest distance between focal points. I hope this information has helped you. Thanks for watching the video.
Enrique, I sure can. The camera will only take as many pictures as it deems necessary, which for a landscape photo doesn’t typically exceed 10 to 15 frames. However if you are shooting macro photography I would set my frames much higher than that. Steps are the distance by which the camera shifts the focus points between images. To further explain, the step is calculated using the distance between the near and far limit of the depth-of-field on the first image captured. Setting the step to one (1) shifts the focus by approximately 20 percent of that distance. A step of five (5) shifts the focus 100 percent of that distance. I have experimented with images using various steps and honestly my recommendation for most photography is to keep your steps at around five. But for example if you’re shooting a very detailed macro shot I would set my steps at one, as that is the shortest distance between focal points. I hope this information has helped you. Thanks for watching the video.
@@GabrielOakPhotography Thank you very much for the prompt reply. Yours is the best and clearest (detailed) explanation that I got on YT. Not even Fuji technical support gave me any type of an answer, the Fuji tech told me that it depends on the lens, so I told him that it was an X-T-2 with an XF-35 f/2, guess what his answer was? “you need to experiment”. I was expecting a better answer from Fuji. Again, thank you very much and you definitely got a new subscriber.
Enrique Glad you found my explanation useful. I was confused by it at first as well. I think Fuji is correct when they say the steps and frames may vary by lens but as a general rule my explanation holds true. Thanks for subscribing. Haven’t done any new videos lately but have some in the works.
@@GabrielOakPhotography I’ve been watching some of your videos and I find them interesting and educational, as I mentioned, I did subscribe to your channel so I’ll be waiting for you to upload new content. Thank you again.
