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 RU-vid in video form.
Ideally you first get down to lowest iso and then only start increasing ND , but if you start before f22 start opening up, you’ll be basically fluctuating the low ISO’s , not terrible but , I prefer getting iso to lowest 100 first
@@LondonViewpoints Well.. Actually I love London and I love all of the heritages. ^^; So I found the heritages and make the Real Heritages as like the Big ben. Not the Replica. Please don't take the misunderstand.
Just tested out your Holy Grail P mode method last night with my Z6III (USB battery Powered!) for a sunset street scene out my window and it worked like magic, with smooth transitions all the way into night. I noticed after the fact that I had left the camera in Auto WB. It seemed to have no ill effect but if I had been intentional I probably would have set it to daylight. What are your thoughts on WB setting for this method?
Thanks for the tip, and glad this worked for you, well if you’re saving raw images the wb doesn’t matter as you’ll transition it with key frames in LRTimelapse, but if you’re doing a video only interval timelapse then auto WB does a decent job as you say, while also on some of the modern Nikon’s probably including your Z6III (not tested, waiting for my order, but expecting it to behave same as Zf/Z8/Z9) there should be no aperture flicker either so super smooth 👍🏻
@@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.
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 👍🏻
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).
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.
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
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
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?
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!
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
