Stunning!! The drone shots at the top really give you the scale and grandeur of that peak. Amazing video Alex! 👌 the selfie at the end blew my tiny mind!
Really loved this Vlog Alex. Awesome scenery and photography. Truly inspirational. Great to see the lengths you go to to get the wilderness mountain photos. All the best, Rob
Phew, you never fail to impress me with your photography. There are many things that separate you from other vloggers for me but I love the way you take the viewer through the image, your love of mountain photography is so evident in your work. I was mesmerised at the pink hues on the snow as your were talking through a few of your ideas for images - it was such a magical scene. So glad your are persisting with the vlogs Alex as it gives us a real experience of what you go through to get these images - thanks.
Great video, a lot of fantastic images, especially the Island shot and the blue hour one but both are trumped by the final image with the aurora and the person, that sums up what looked like an amazing day in one final image.
The closing images were magnificent Alex by far and away the very best images I have seen of Lofoten my compliments to you sir! Thanks for detailing how you put your compositions together I found that very helpful. The second composition when you broke down the panorama where you used the diagonal that reminds me of the Walker Spur on Les Grandes Jorasses in Chamonix.
Unreal! Great effort getting out there especially feeling under the weather, so obviously worth it in those conditions! Thanks for producing these videos.
Another superb video Alex. In my opinion there are not many people on RU-vid who can produce a video of 24 mins and manage to keep it interesting all the way though. Well done.
Really nice one, Alex. Can't wait for the second part :) We actually just came back from Lofoten and the weather was pretty much the exact opposite than what you had in the video...
Wow - What a stunning video, the scenery is spectacular! So glad you're sharing your photo travels & adventures with us. Beautiful photography and I especially love the 'Blue hour' image.👌 I'm not usually a fan of images with people in them but your final image with the Aurora is amazing.
Andy Chattaway thanks Andy, and likewise I generally avoid figures but in this case it was a solution that blocked out the lights from the village below!
Wow. Superb video. Super informative and what stunning conditions you got. Made me want to be there. Beautiful images and that last one. What a bonus. 👍
Superb video Alex - really high quality production, a great story and such a privilege to hear your thinking on compositions. just lovely images throughout
Incredibly good photography video. Beautiful scenery and captures. Great advice and sympathetic character. It was the first video I watches from you. I will subscribe. Wow.
This was a cracking video Alex. Really enjoyed watching while I was drinking a nice cup of black coffee. I thought the photographs were stunning and I enjoyed learning how you go about positioning the camera to make use of the foreground and background elements. What a location though! If I didn't have to cut the grass today I'd probably be on a flight to Lofoten...well maybe not, but you know what I mean! :-) #inspired
Thanks Julian, Lofoten is certainly a wonderful place and its nice to get up the mountains away from everyone! Thanks for sharing the video as well, much appreciated!
Nice one, Alex (and Harsharn). Lucky you didn't have any wind or it would've been pretty brutal. I agree with you and like the blue hour image near the end the most. I noticed another opportunity at 17:04 with the alpenglow on the foreground and I think you might have too as there was a slight double take with the camera - of course it may have looked very different in real life or was too obvious for you. Look forward to the next one.
Nick McLaren compositionally that definitely works, I just wanted to avoid the human element and there’s plenty of that going on in the valley down there! Glad you enjoyed it Nick!
Thought that might be the case when I noticed the road down below, difficult to see the other human elements on screen. Out of interest, what are the mountains like to climb there compared to Scotland? Do you need to stick to certain paths/routes and are most ascents fairly straightforward as far as technicality goes? Cheers and have a great time in the Burg!
@@nickmclaren3898 well there are only a small fraction of the mountains that can be walked without technical challenge but otherwise they are fairly analogous to Scotland. Some of the marked routes do include technical sections sometimes, as you'll see in my next video!
I assume you mean White Balance not ISO? My 5DSR is always set in the 5200-5500K range, whilst yes, my video camera was set to auto WB. I might change that in future so that the video camera gives a consistent idea of the natural light. Although of course the white balance you choose is highly subjective. The corrected WB is closer to what we see whilst the absolute WB (say 5200K) seems more 'true' and consistent if that makes sense. So I think there is freedom to operate between the two at blue hour/sunsets/whenever there is a strong colour cast.
Mikel Manitius thanks Mikel. Perhaps you woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. But I am a photographer still learning the art of presentation, much like you are someone still learning the art of tact.
