I'm Scott Walker (Walks) and this is Walks On The Wild Side: the channel where I help you capture the beauty of nature through your camera lens. I take all aspects of nature photography - wildlife, macro, woodland, landscapes and more. So if you enjoy nature, photography or both, then this is the place for you.
Newish subscriber to your channel....Weird I picked this one to watch!!! I'd just looked at the images I had taken on yesterday's 'jolly' to waterfalls at Pontnedddfechan....Felt a bit deflated looking at them...I think you made some good points in your video...I have aways been full of self doubt (worked hard to change it) as social media has crept into our lives I think for some its increased that 'doubt' imo...One way to change/live with it I agree with you...planning and keep trying 'stuff'...
great video! lens looks amazing for macro -how do you feel for just wide angle lens like landscape or real-estate? or should i just get the 15mm f2 non-macro for that?
Yes but you do know that when you use the second native ISO you lose some dynamic range. So just because you have it doesnt mean you should keep your camera fixed at that ISO. If you have plenty of light always stick woth lowest native ISOs.
Great video! This seems to be about an 8-year-old lens now, judging from when the earliest reviews were published on youtube. Any idea whether they might ever come out with an updated version of this lens or an RF mount for it? Any other similarly-wide-angle close-up/macro lenses on the market from other brands yet?
Thanks for this great video Scott and as always with great advice, I tend to always want to improve from my last image and love to experiment and try to be more creative, your advice and tips always come in handy, mant thank 😀
Thanks for this video. I see so much judgement on certain social media platforms from experienced photographers, either by gate keeping or professing general distain for new photographers. I do think that perhaps the negative posts are to drive discord whilst attracting engagement. I've only been taking photos for a couple of years and probably quite foolishly I chose one of the more challenging genres in wildlife photography- but I enjoy it. I don't always get it right, some times I plan and don't get the images I want and at other times I don't plan at all and get lucky with the subjects I see and the images I create. But importantly, I do see the improvements in my images, my subject and camera knowledge which gives me hope that I'll continue to get better. After all, I'm only competing against myself and would rather play the long game and enjoy it than berate myself for being less than perfect and end up hating something I currently love.
I find when I walk out the door with an idea of what plan to visit and what I expect find there I'm better prepared. I think looking back at my older work helps understand my artistic and technical journey.
Dude, i doubt myself in every element of my life. Work? Yep, cooking? Yep, did i lock the door when i left the house? Yep. Even as i type this, im wondering if i swirched off the grill! I judge my photography more than any of my photography friends, i try to plan.... Then i doubt my planning! 😂😂😂
Blimey. I've noticed a bit of a trend creeping in with people's self-doubt. I think it might be driven by social media and AI and all sorts of other stuff. So I just wanted to put some things out there that might reassure people they're on the right track, it sounds like you are. I've got another video coming (after a few others) that will address this topic from a slightly different angle. Thanks for watching.
Good video. I have a long trip this fall to Nova Scotia and have already planned to take pics with whatever the weather so your point is well taken. As always great content nice pics.
I agree, I've said something similar in the past: no such thing as bad light - just the wrong type of photography for it. That being said, I was not in that mindset at that point in time, I was just focussed on some particular things that I wanted to get - which isn't a good way to approach things. Thanks for watching.
yeah... I would strongly disagree. I mostly shoot live music, and some of the stuff is absolutely horrible. I'm taking bright spotlight on half the podium, nothing on the other. Mixing light colours in ways that aren't fixable in post. Running the whole stage with red front lights, with a red curtain, good luck with faces there. Drummers that generally just don't have any lights on them at all. Stuff like that. Oh and ofcourse everything is very dark, so shooting iso 6400 at least, making any corrections in post even worse, due to the limited dynamic and colour range.
That was the point of the phrase I used “no such thing as bad light, just the wrong type of photography for it”. So yes, there could be bad light for concert photography, but another style of photography could work well in that light. One of the advantages of being a nature photographer is the ability to switch. So what was bad light for landscapes could have been great for some macro, for example. But I was not in the right frame of mind for macro because I had my heart set on landscapes.
Absolutely, I've said a similar thing in the past myself. I just wasn't in that mindset at that point in time. But it's a good reminder. Thanks for watching,
A great attitude, Scott, and inspiring, as well. I liked the blue edit of the waterfall, as well. As you said, the ICM is not my cup of tea, or, in my case, coffee.
I like the blue edits. I done something like the zooming during exposure effect myself a few times but never thought to combine it with filters for a longer exposure time - makes it easier to do it without shaking. Never thought of using filters with that, goed to show I haven’t treated it as seriously yet as you did! 😂
Hi Tim. Yes, I think it's something worth experimenting with. I've been finding it works better with a single subject, like a tree or a flower that you can compose in the centre of the image. I'm definitely going to keep playing with it. Thanks for watching.
I just use my Voigtländer Macro Apo-Lanthar 65mm 2.0 Aspherical and Voigtländer Macro Apo-Lanthar 110mm 2.5 Lenses which I both can highly recommend. I have not used flash for macro photography for 45 years, I like the natural light.
I have used a gimbal on a monopod a lot in the past. What I tend to use now is a simple tilt head on the monopod, which seems to offer all the advantages of the gimbal at less weight and less corners to grind into the shoulder or wherever. I have never seen anybody else use or advocate this, and the only tilt head I've found on ARCA is the Kirk one.
Impressive cliff site and very beautiful photos👍🏼 Although I don’t like the blurry foreground, I find it distracting, my eyes always wander to this bright blurry spots instead of watching the nice bird🤔
I really am liking your concept of “foreground bokeh” and showing the environment in which the bird Iives. I am really trying to incorporate those concepts in my shots this summer and it is making a big difference! Thanks!!
Great video, excellent information and fantastic photos. Only negative...please don't stand so close to the edge of the cliffs when talking to camera...it makes me very uncomfortable :)
Glad you enjoyed it, other than me being near the edge of the cliffs. Don't worry, if the footage made it on to RU-vid it means I didn't fall. Thanks for watching.
Great as always! Also, congrats on your massive health transformation. I have been working on my own for the past 8 months or so I know how hard it can be. Great work!
