📷 5 COMPOSITION SECRETS You NEVER Heard Of || Landscape Photography Tips 

Don't go to Alaska. 100x worse;)

Lol, here in Edmonton it's worse in summer. I usually have a layer around me 😂

haha!

I useto chug up Xtra 12 pounds of gear with me on top my 35 pound backpack. Many many many times I wished it not in my pack. Then when you use its all good. Best benefits I get to look at them in my 60s and I remember takeing every shot❤ I carried a 35mm Pentax K-100 in 1977 it was all stolen in the mid 1980s on a trip to Florida. So in the 1980s I started useing a minolta X-800 35mm I used the same X-800 until late 2022 . At this point I purchased my first auto focus 35mm its the minolta alpha 9 a very nice full auto + auto focus fantastic camera. I fell so in love with the alpha 9 that in early 2023 I purchased another camera a sony a77ll wich all my lenses fit and it very familiar to my alpha 9. So I finally gave in to digital. The instant gratification of looking at my work on site blew my mind. I always wanted to creat the vision in camera on site. Then the suspension of opening my package for the first look. DIGITAL IS FREAKING COOL❤

I wish I could of backpacked Nero canyons just never did. Butt I did alot of hicking in Mojave desert California around a place called last chance canyon. So beautiful bright red canyon was with giant swaths of quartz cutting through it. This canyon was huge no hicking just 4×4 through it. Once a yr trip. All my backpacking has been big mountain and big timber. Mostly started after dark.

Thanks Drubber!

@@DaveMorrow You're most welcome Dave. Love your content, keep up the great work mate 👍🏻

Great to hear!

Glad it was helpful! The Cascades are awesome:)

Thanks Chip! Really appreciate it:)

Thanks for watching! Using a Z7 now. Much lighter in the pack. You're welcome. Glad the videos are useful. Fun to make!

You too brother!

Thanks man!

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks so much for taking us to these remote locations and sharing the adventure and accompanying photography tips . Always enjoy ( and look forward to ) your content . You're technical breakdown of photography and processing is far and away better than anyone else on yt .

Appreciate it:)

Thanks brother!

Glad you like it!

Thank you!

You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

Oh yeah. Bugs at all altitudes this time of year.

@@DaveMorrow Bummer

Thanks, glad to hear it! You can apply them to anything you want, but I only optimize for landscape as that's the only type of photos I take. All videos & written guides here --> www.davemorrowphotography.com/2013/01/tutorials-photography-post-processing.html Have fun!

You're welcome! I don't get vignette from CPLs. Lower quality CPL or lenses often do. Have had that issue in the past. Make sure the lens distortion setting is on in Lightroom when you import your photos. It will read the lens meta data and & should remove any vignette.

Thanks. I don't use any. Like you said. Too nasty. Doesn't really do much either.

On it!

@@DaveMorrowalways look forward to the next adventure, appreciate you !

I use this inside my backpack: amzn.to/46WqGbO Just use the backpack while hiking from basecamp.

Hey! Depends if you're into ultra-light backpacking and looking to cut weight. If weight was not an issue, then I'd go with my previous setup all day. I like the Aziak tripod and ball head a lot. But only picked that bc I could cut a lot of weight & size off the previous setup. It's never going to be as sturdy as what I was using before. If you're looking to cut weight, I'd upgrade backpack and tent to dyneema before spending the money on the tripod. That was the last item on my list for UL, so finally updated it. Full camera setup + tripod is now 7 lbs. Base weight with camera gear, for spring / summer temps, now 19 lbs. About as light as it gets with camera gear. Updated my gear list last week here - www.davemorrowphotography.com/backpacking-checklist

I have already made the backpacking mistake years ago. My first time out 40+ pounds. I’m decently dialed in on gear, it’s all similar to yours. I still make mistakes like to much food, clothing that I could work on. I’m trying to not make the same mistake I made back then on the camera equipment. I haven’t yet taken camera gear but starting this spring. I pause your video and try to see what you’re using. I’m buying lenses to take with me in the next couple weeks and always changing from f2.8 heavy or look for lighter f4. You can find on RU-vid thousands of backpackers and photographers but not many that do both. You’re knowledgeable at both and that’s hard to find. Thanks for your time

No prob! It just take a lot of trial and error to dial in. Endurance training when you're not hiking helps more than anything. Read Training for the Uphill Athlete Book. Changed my life. Here's my good friends website. He also does both hiking and photography, but his site is more about backpacking technique. You'll find a ton of useful stuff in there. www.irontazz.com/

Thanks

Thanks! Really glad you like the videos. Tons of free guides / pdfs here: www.davemorrowphotography.com/2013/01/tutorials-photography-post-processing.html I always carry it in my backpack. Keeps me from taking a bunch of boring shots on the trail. If the light is good you'll happily put down the bag to get the camera out. If it's not you won't. Here's my video on camera straps: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A_T4GBOb8fk.html

@@DaveMorrow thanks a lot man. I hope that I can book a tour with you one day. Greetings from germany! :) If you ever come to Bayern, let me know :D

@@t0bistr Thanks! Would be great to have you. 2024 schedule is up now: www.davemorrowphotography.com/p/under-stars-photography-workshops.html Let me know if you have any questions!

Not yet, it'll be in here when I do: photos.davemorrowphotography.com/Latest-Work

Hey Erik, Thanks. Glad to hear it! Here's what I'd recommend: www.davemorrowphotography.com/p/whats-in-dave-morrows-camera-bag.html Best landscape setup I've ever used. Been running it for 4 years now. You're going to want a full frame for landscape photography. Don't listen to any "computational" stuff advertised with cameras. Cameras are pure physics and thermodynamics. You can't fake energy capture. That's all a camera is doing. Capturing sunlight and turning it into digital energy (pixels). The larger the sensor the more light capturing potential it has. The Z7 is a beast. Esepcially for backpacking weight. If you read all these guides, you won't have to guess about what's right and wrong anymore. You'll have what us engineers call a first principals understanding of photography. First principles are the building blocks of reality: www.davemorrowphotography.com/2013/01/tutorials-photography-post-processing.html#Landscape_Photography_Guides_PDFs

@@DaveMorrow Outstanding! This helps tremendously!

Nice! PS: You may also enjoy this blog post. Covers my gear optimized over 10+ years of hiking tons of miles: www.davemorrowphotography.com/backpacking-checklist

@@DaveMorrow I have been reading it intently! 🔥

@@ErikHogan Cool. Just updated with my latest gear this afternoon. Refresh the page and it should be updated. PDF is updated too.

hahaha I tried bring you along.

@@DaveMorrow I'll come visit soon!

Sure, here ya go, it's what I use: amzn.to/3tLmNHo . All my gear can be found here, including the ballhead used on that tripod: www.davemorrowphotography.com/p/whats-in-dave-morrows-camera-bag.html I don't recommend cheap tripods. They will make it impossible to get sharp focus. You can keep a tripod forever once you have a good one. Most beginners struggle because they have cheap tripods and cheap cameras, which makes learning 10X harder bc you don't know if it's your skills or the gear that's messing up. If you're going to really get into photography, get good stuff to begin with and use it for a decade. There isn't a need to upgrade and it makes everything way easier. PS: I have a backup of that tripod linked that I don't use anymore. Would be happy to sell it to you and ship it your way. No pressure either way, if interested dave@davemorrowphotography.com

CPL is all you need. ND not required...

Here ya go: amzn.to/3pVifwy Better in wind & 1/4 lb lighter

@@DaveMorrow boom! Thank you

Nice man! Hope you had a solid trip.

@@DaveMorrow 2 weeeks in a RV, sleeping during the day, shooting during the night. 6 hours of golden hour. Off the Charts great time. :)

Thanks Greg. Those bugs were pretty nasty this trip.

no

A bit south...

haha:)