Thank you very much Danny! This is a great location in the Mendips and not too far from where we live so it's a nice spot to head to when we have a spare evening. Glad you liked the image and are enjoying the videos! Sam.
Found your channel from Chris Sale's video and subscribed. I'm enjoying it. On an interesting side note. I knew that in the UK, buzzard refers to hawk-like birds of prey. Here in the US, almost everyone uses the word buzzard when referring to vultures (the black vulture and turkey vulture). They are hugely ugly and no one except bird experts photographs them. As best I understand it, when English arrived in the Americas 300 years ago, they mistook the vulture for what they knew it as, hawk-like birds of prey, and called them buzzards. The name became commonplace and today, few people here know that our vultures are not truly buzzards.
Loved it Sam, very enjoyable video, who doesn't like a 'backlit bunny'?! Loved the landscape shot, I'm not much of a foregrounds man so I don't have to focus stack very often and even then I do like the way that the focus falls away in the distance just as it would with the human eye. Excellent selfie mate - look forward to meeting you on Saturday.
Thanks Chris, yes I certainly don't think focus stacking is always the way to go, and soft focus in the distance can often work really nicely, especially if it's quite a hazy day with soft light. It's not something I do very often. In actual fact the selfie wasn't focus stacked and I don't think there's a huge amount of difference in the sharpness of the two images, it's probably only really noticeable to 'pixel peepers'! And everyone loves a backlit bunny, especially Hannah, she is rabbit obsessed!
Sam and Hannah Bose Photography I've been thinking about that. Background blur is a legitimate technique used in portrait photography to draw attention to the subject. I don't see why not in landscapes.
Sam and Hannah Bose Photography it was. Alex Cearns was talking about shooting animals. Tony Hewitt talking, loosely, about landscape photography. I saw three other speakers, there were ten all up.
I already posted a comment but as I noodled over what you were doing with your landscape shot I wanted to ask about it. Since you bracketed and focus stacked, I assume you process all three sets of three in Lightroom to blend the exposures and then send the resulting three blended images into Photoshop for exposure stacking?
Hi Philip, thank you so much for subscribing! That's pretty much it, basically in lightroom, after doing some general processing I took the three images at different focal points for a given exposure level and opened these as layers in photoshop. Then I blended these layers to create a focus stacked image and repeated this process for each exposure level (i.e. to give three separate focus stacked images, one for each bracketing level). I then did an exposure blend in photoshop using the darker image for the sky and the mid image for the rest. I didn't use brightest image in the end, I think it would have made the image look too 'HDR' which hopefully it didn't, but I'll let others be the judge of that! I hope that makes sense, perhaps I should make a video to show how I did this as it would be easier to follow? Really interesting story about how vultures came to be known as buzzards in the US, I hadn't heard that before! I may have to disagree about them not being photogenic though, there is a photographer called Charlie Hamilton James who did a project on vultures that was in the National Geographic last year and also in Wildlife Photographer of the Year, some stunning images! They do look ugly though!
That's great, thank you! And no I'm not his brother, but I am his cousin! Great drone footage by the way, I'm trying to persuade Hannah to let me buy a Mavic Air but she's not yet convinced!
