Excellent advice! We are still waiting for our first snow of the season in Iowa! I agree, it provides a great canvas for our photography! Thanks for taking me along!
Most are very weather resistant, and we covered how to keep it safe in snow in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WioInLQCzDE.html
Fantastic practical video with great tips for winter photography! That fox is so gorgeous in the snow! I’ve never seen a white raven before! I would love to see a video in which you discuss how you approach skittish wildlife. For many of us getting closer is often a challenge!
Ive thought about doing a how to find and work towards an animal. it's sometimes a little easier in AK as the lower 48. I think for starters its knowing the animal in THAT environment ( a Mose in anchorage acts differently than one in the interior for example) and then reading the animals behavior once it sees you and as you move.
I see a lot of ravens here in California, but have never seen a white one before this video. I suppose it would be an advantage for the bird in snowy Alaska, but a disadvantage for them here in coastal Calif. where it almost never snows. Now in Calif., but after many years in Colorado, I sometimes miss getting out to shoot (ski and play) in the snow! I don't miss the cold fingers and toes, but enjoy snow scenes and particularly love the wolf shot you've shown several times in this series! The red fox, ptarmigan, and otter are great, too. But there is just something really special about that wolf photo! Thanks for these videos!
Thank you for the thorough video, photographing in these conditions took me a while to learn with a DSLR, I even had a DOPE card for it. Histogram will definitely help me when using a mirrorless. Didn't know about the foreground technique 🙂
Great Video, here’s a tip for you when shooting in AF-C mode on the Z 9, you can have the focus point change color to green when it locks focus under setting A11…… AF-C In-Focus Display Choose whether the focus point changes color when the subject is in focus in focus mode AF-C. [ON]: The focus point is displayed in green when the camera judges that the subject is in focus. This is a good choice in cases in which it is otherwise difficult to determine whether the subject is in focus. [OFF]: The active focus point is displayed in red or yellow at all times, whether or not the camera is in focus.
Great pictures of the red fox. We don’t get much low land snow here in the Puget Sound area but I don’t have to drive very far south to get into snow. Great information. Snow really does make for some great images. The next time I get a chance I will try to remember what you said in this video.
Beautiful work! I enjoyed this two-part series and hope you do many more snow photography videos. I love winter and this series inspires me to get out more! Wonderful suggestions about including foreground blur. I think I could have really improved some of my past pictures if I had watched this video first! I will try the idea of overexposing but I think I sometimes like to see some texture detail in the snow (depending on the scene).
Thanks for the kind words. You can capture the snow more, if the lights right, but you may loose darks in your subject. But if you don't clip the shadows and darks and you have headroom for raising the exposure in post on your animal then its its a go. I have some images where I made this happen. Issues is usually some blue on the edges of the branches of the snow usually.
Awesome video!! I can’t imagine the work that you put in to produce such amazing videos. We almost never see snow in South Carolina. But I have saved this video in case I am able to travel to a destination for wildlife photography.
Nice content.......we are currently in monsoon season, some migratory birds (some from Siberia, Japan....not sure if any species from Alaska) expected in next few weeks
Loving this Channel Bro! By the time I get my 180-600 |6.3, I shall be able to hit the ground running. Don't know when the lenses will be available for regular orders but I would LOVE to have it when I go on Christmas break by mid-December....wishful thinking. I have the z50 but hopefully move into full-frame sometime next year. But to be very honest the z50 just truly delivers wonderful images.
Another great video. Just wondering when you were talking about heat haze from your vehicle and lens hood, how do you get on taking your gear from a warm vehicle into the cold air. Do you get your lens fogging up at all going from one environment to other and how do you deal with it?
No lens fogging. Just the heat that is in the lens and body plus the air trapped in the hood slowly dissapate and for a minute to 2 you can have softer images due to shooting through the differences in air temps. Usually its not a quick step out and shoot, but if you do this is what helps
My eye goes firstly to access the image on eye cup. Sharpness and image contrast I have to train myself to check the big three iso f stop shutter speed. Depending on the light i can see if the image appears sharp but only to a point. Not done a lot of snow shooting here in the UK.so ii wonder has i have the 180-600z on order how well it auto foucs works with a z 8 in the snow and if the light from the snow helps it's f stop to let in more light. I use the z 8 and found I have a habit of touching the mode function button that was a dialon my z 7 .2 and altering the setting .. So keeping an eye on the iso shutter speed and f stop means getting out of old habits while shooting.iwondef with gloves on if you have found the mode functions To be a pain . (I'd rather have the dial back). Next question using the blue lines to check for focus area on the F 1;8 to 6:4.stops I AM not getting the sharpness I expected so have had to test my lens for sweet spots . Are you experiencing any or all of these problems? The manual foucs peeking requires an up grade shallower depth of field with focus peeking seem off.is it me or does Nikon need a firm wear upgrade ? Could ask for feedback on this ? Thanks nice fox cheers
The camera's exposure meter wants to expose the subject to 18 percent grey. From what I have read, depth of field previewed in the EVF and on the Monitor of a Nikon Z is down to the aperture setting of f/5.6 only. Thanks for your great videos!
