Matt Shannon is an inspired nature and landscape photographer living on Vancouver Island. His images have captured an international audience and his artwork hangs in homes around the world. He has developed a keen eye for detail and a passion for striking images. He is an enthusiastic teacher and hosts regular workshops aimed at inspiring and equipping photographers.
8:47 Oh, I see. So the images are composites, or one might say artificial, or even fake. Call me a purist, but that's not photography. Anybody can copy and paste. This makes me sad.
Hi Matt, Just watched the video today. I am going to share it with my camera club at tonight's meeting. Have you ever tried star stacking software to blend fireworks images. It works really slick. I use StarStax to blend my images. Much faster than manually blending in PS.
Hi Matt, thanks so much for the video. I’m a new subscriber. At about 4 1/2 minutes into your video you talk about taking pictures of the foreground. You mentioned taking pictures at 20 to 25 seconds is that of the foreground? I’m just asking because I figured with people walking, wouldn’t your image come out blurry? Please excuse me if I misunderstood you.
Hi, thank you for your question! You are correct, at 20-30 seconds some people would be moving around and that is what was happening for a few of my shots. 30-45 mins prior to the fireworks starting, I took photos of the foreground at a faster shutter speed to correct for some of this. I didn't explain it very well in the video it seems. My final image consists of the fireworks, some 20-30 second long exposures of the foreground and a few from earlier that evening at a faster shutter. What is tricky about combining photos taken at different times of the evening, is the lighting, white balance and reflective color (especially while the fireworks are going off). It's nice to have options and images taken at different shutter speeds just in case but all-in-all, a little motion blur adds some movement to the image if people are walking around and for me, that is totally fine. I hope that makes sense! Thank you again for watching and follow up if you have any more questions! Cheers
Huge fan of Simon d’Entremont’s channel and been glued to that for weeks. Now I’ve found your channel Matt and completely blown away by your work and channel. Outstanding content and astonishing images. Subbed!
Hey Matt. I am trying to set up my wife’s Canon R7 on her custom 2 setting. With your settings. I will check it and maybe tweak it if I have too. I am wondering if you are having any macro courses in the future coming up. I would like to enroll her in them if so. Thanks
Hi Dean, I cover macro photography in my autumn workshop if that is something your wife would be interested in. We go over focus stacking, bracketing images, macro lenses, and all the steps in post processing during the workshop and in a Zoom presentation 2 weeks after the workshop with the images we captured in the field. We cover a lot more than macro photography. Here is the link: www.mattshannon.ca/renfrew-oct.html
Interesting that you mentioned that. A few other people have messaged me and commented on my Instagram about one of the eyes being messed up. I’m assuming this male wolf has been in a few fights. The more I review the footage and images I collected from this trip, the more I can see it.
Definitely looks like he had his face caved in on the left side at one point and healed, probably from a big prey animal fighting back or a fight with another wolf. Wolves are amazing, my favorite animal. This one definitely doesn’t have a symmetrical face though I noticed right away. Poor guy nature is rough ❤
You said when you bracket photos you are shooting at 20fps, how many photos are you combining for your brackets? Also I wanted to see what photo you took at the end with the 70-200 but you never showed it 😂
Can you only use this once?.....i currently use it to swith settings from say a static bird to go to bird in flight settings. Can i use this option again on a different button to do something different?
A lot of cityscape, landscape and timelapse stuff down across the way in Seattle. Like to photograph fireworks and milkyway as well which milkyway season will be the best end of July through Aug around these parts !!
Matt, this is impressive , never seen this color dodging before , simple method - just pick a solid color there you go , easy to use and total in control of the area and the color you want , less mucking around on the curve . luminosity.. , really love it . Thanks Matt , see you next tutorial .
Wow, you not making much money, however looks like you have other means of income, that take care of the bills, never the less your videos are great and I will keep watching them. Matt you shoot manual auto ISO?? or AV?? WHAT DO YOU RECOMEND MATE?? REGARDS DANIEL
I was fortunate to catch a herring spawn off Neck Point Park in Nanaimo a few years ago - feeding frenzy doesn't do the sight justice. Great video - thank you!
Absolutely stunning photography and videography. Thank you for sharing. I was just curious what your video settings were in particular frames per second, resolutions, iso and aperture for the bears. Thanks
