Fantastic shots, think I preferred the first pano. Such an interesting technique which lets you shoot just what you want to feature rather than lots of foreground.
Not sure what i am more excited about,the images or that i actually understood what you talked about lol,stunningly beautiful pictures from a stunningly beautiful place,thank you as always Henry.
Great vlog Henry. You mentioned in one of your recent excursions that it is all about getting out there, and sometimes involves getting up at 'stupid o'clock' to arrive at a location, or the opposite stying late until you can compose that perfect image, and this is what you do. Photography is a mixed bag, as the weather and colours are not always how you would like it, and I have been out in the field to capture sunsets (mostly) and it just was disappointing, but that is photography. Not all the time, but often this happens, and you just have to adapt to the situation as best you can. I wish I had more time to get out there, but I have to work 5 days a week, and recently here in the south east of England the weather has been rubbish, overcast and even though I do go out at times when the conditions are like that, it is not as inspiring. It is exciting to go out when the conditions are just right, leaves you feeling appreciative of nature.
The passion you put into what you do is not seen very often. Great tuition, thank you for taking the time to do videos of this kind and keeping the DSLRs alive
I have two of my images in an exhibition for the first time and they have just been hanging there for months with the silliness. Hopefully first of many exhibitions but not how I thought my first would go
Raw earth stuff again ‘H’, that’s the magic of your channel. Cd’s under the feet on sand works a treat and weigh nothing. Love it when it kick’s off me......
Beautiful work Henry. I've used this technique too, but as usual you gave me some more things to think about. Appreciated! If you find yourself without a tripod, don’t despair. I took a hand held pano at Glen Coe on a trip through Scotland last year that I’m very proud of.
Arrrgh! I thought sure at 0.50 you were going to shoot a 3-stack exposure group of those beautiful sunrise colors above the buildings. How could you see that and keep walking?! Man on a mission, I guess. However, you did get a most beautiful pano "of the tallest mountain in England" and it was so impressive that you could keep talking while repointing the lens and snapping each delay shot - never missed a beat with the great detail. Enjoyed this vid a lot, thanks for sharing.
Great video but I am afraid the focal length doesn't change the perspective of the scene, only your relative position. You can test it yourself by shooting from the same spot with different focal length of a zoom lens and cropping them. You will get the same perspective. So, no perspective or compression change if you shooting panoramic (that would be very convenient). You can look it up in a book like Kingslake R. Optics in photography.
Hi Henry, if you reckon those panos are "all right" how good would excellent be!!! ... Awesome stuff. Excellent .. entertaining, really useful info presented in a matter of fact and down to earth manner - and really appreciated. Don't ever lose that enthusiasm. I did note one comment about the sound in your video ... maybe its the accent - I understand you perfectly, and I'm from t'other side of t'Pennines
Love your passion Henry, plus the fact your a Lancashire lad like myself. Been to good ol Morecombe many times. So sad to see the Cafe you photographed all closed up when I came a while ago.... Damn Covid!!! Do wish you'd tell us where you are sometimes, then we can follow in our RU-vid hero's footsteps : )
I agree sun rise / set is amazing as seen in you video. Have you considered the app 'PhotoPills (OS & Android) as its a must to predetermine such as sun set (and so much more). Have you also tried portrait , hand hold, scan the view L to R? If you capture in manual it can be' stitched' easily in Lr /Ps. Great to listen to you and share your experience
Both images are stunning photos & I will definitely be giving this a go. I have a question please. Do you post process the RAW files first & then blend into the pano or do you blend the RAW files first & then post process the final pano?
Love those panoramic images you made here. Nice work! I have that same 11-16 mm Tokina Pro and love it but I struggled for years with wanting to get too much in an image too often. Definitely using telephoto lens for more landscape shots now!
Hi Henry, Thanks for the video again. May I ask a question please? (Maybe something for next video) Should I have 'highlight tone priority' (Canon) enabled or not. I believe this pushes ISO to 200+ on a Canon. Maybe this outweighs the benefits. I think it affects RAW files. Many thanks. Marcelo
I see you using the 55-300mm lens. I am looking to invest in a new telephoto lens for my crop Nikon and looked at the 55-300mm but remain undecided. Some reviews say the sharpness is not that great but you seem to nail it perfectly, may I ask your personal opinion on the lens?
Another btilliant vlog....Might try this...what photo editing do you use plesse Henry...I am a novice at this malarkey...I am using Photoscape X... Is it best to pay for one?? Seems everyone is raving about one1 at the mo??? Your thoughts. Ta. Spike
Your enthusiasm is redonkculously infectious. Got the perfect place to put this method to the test shooting the Cadair Idris range. Cheers.... Check out the leveling plate Jason Jones Photography reviews and uses £40ish
Well done Henry!! Beautiful pano capturing the subtle pastel colors of the sunrise. I love doing panos here in Glacier National Park near my home in Montana. Wide stunning vistas are abundant in the million acre park. Waiting on the right weather is the hard part and getting up at a ridiculously early hour and driving 70 miles to catch the sunrise ! :) :) 7 image pano of a sunrise back in September. Temp was near 0C and WINDY, but I got this one. Printed tack sharp at 10" x30". photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-5sfTd5s/0/d0b8aaf5/X2/i-5sfTd5s-X2.jpg
Love those panoramic images you made here. Nice work! I have that same 11-16 mm Tokina Pro and love it but I struggled for years with wanting to get too much in an image too often. Definitely using telephoto lens for more landscape shots now!
and of course, you are significantly increasing your megapixels within the pano images, which mimics the size of a medium format camera sensor (megapixels).
“2.99 from aldi, top drawer” had me in stitches. Love your videos man. Going to watch some this weekend and take a shot every time i hear that phrase. Keep up the great work👍
Henry, Those photos were beautiful mate. Your progression is evident in your work. And the way in which you carry out your Vlog is so true to what you want to capture, how you want to capture it and the outcome you look for. Outstanding.
Hi Henry well Brilliant photos. Your videos are A1 as always. Keep seeing you up there and I must get up that way again asap if the covid will let me. You lite up my Thursdays all the time thanks.
I don't think the lens is actually doing the compressing, it's the distance to the subject that does that. If you stand in the same spot and take the same picture with a telephoto and a wide angle lens, then crop the wide angle, the pictures should look the same. But obviously you lose most of the resolution that way, which is why telephotos are good if you want to capture detail from afar.
Exactly. Compression is just the perspective that results from the relative distance to different parts of the scene. If he had taken the picture with a 16mm wide angle and had enough resolution to crop to the same image it would show the same apparent compression. The widespread belief that telephotos *cause* compression is based mostly on the types of photos people take with different focal lengths.
Hi Henry, another great episode. Thank you. Could you tell me, what metering mode do you use for your pano? Obviously, panning the camera can shifts the meter readings. Is multi-metering the best mode to set? Thanks again...! And above all, thank you for your inspiration & enthusiasm..
another superb inspirational and educational video thanks Henry You are truly the "Guy Martin" of the photography world with the same incredible enthusiasm and joy for what you do that Guy has for what he does, right down to the fondness for a "brew", lastly... Man, THAT PANO'.... awesome
I'm close to taking my first pano, eek! Found the spot this morning going to a job on a very quiet dirt track. I'm hopeless at post production ( I work in sound post production, ironic) so I'm not expecting much. Wishing I had some beaches closer..... on the other side of the gulf to us, and now you've got me thinking, is doable and its looking back at our mighty Flinders Ranges....... Could be good.... You are catchy Henry.
I’m very encouraged by this video Henry. Have just decided to take up,photography again after some years, pre digital. So learning quite a lot. Love your enthusiasm I live just in the Lake District and love the landscapes. You’re right we do get beautiful sunsets.
Hi Henry, Geoff from St Helens, Tasmania here. I've been a long time watcher but only a short time subscriber. Love your work mate. I love my long exposure landscape/seascape photography, and after watching this vlog will try some panorama shots utilizing my telephoto lens. Keep up the good work.
Wow! That first pano is absolutely fantastic! Great idea and one of the very best pics I've seen from you (although admittedly I'm a newbie). I, too, love your enthusiasm and zest for life. I'm hooked on watching you. May even a bit of your effervescence seep into my soul.
Awesome once again, keep them coming it inspires me to get out with my D7200 in an attempt to get somewhere near your image standards - beautiful panos by the way. 👍
Henry, have you actually taken the shot with the wide-angle lens and compare it with the pano? I think those pictures would be absolutely the same except the pano would have bigger resolution and the wide shot would have more on top and bottom of the frame. The compression what you talk about is happening only when you change the perspective of the view (moving the camera)...it is not an effect of the lens itself. If you tried to go closer and place the building in the frame with wide angle and then step backwards, zoom in so it would have the same size and shoot it with a longer lens then the foreground building would look smaller because the perspective would change and the relative distance of a foreground object would be much longer to the camera than before. And the distance to the camera of the background would be relatively still the same...I hope it's not written confusingly... But about the pictures - love them:-) top drawers!!👍
Very jealous of your 'local' that's where city living has its drawbacks....I agree with all that you said, although as you said use your zoom lens instead of your wide-angle. There is no way you could have captured those shots with the 'perspective' imposed by a wide-angle lens. A wide-angle is a bit more of a specialized lens and it needs to be used carefully.....such as distorting perspective. The telephoto lens in that sense is far more versatile.
I had a great zoom wide angle for my Nikon D40. The wonderful Sigma 10 to 20mm. I sol it and have regretted it ever since. I still have the images though.
Hi, first time leaving comment. I've been following you for some time and will continue too. This is such a very good way of thinking about using a long lens and the results look very nice. I'll be trying this myself as soon as I can. Thanks for the idea.
Great video, and never mind the Aldi at Morecambe, what about one of the best art deco boutique hotels in England behind you, the Midland Hotel. Used to stay there when I visited the Centrica offices at Heysham, great hotel and very friendly staff.
Nice shouting (with enthusiasm) at about 2:20. That transferred energy now means I HAVE to get up tomorrow and head out to Aldingham and the groynes you shot a few weeks ago as the tide times are about right to coincide with a sunrise even though it isn't a particularly high tide. Valleret gloves have arrived but my wife has claimed them as a Xmas present for me - imagine her surprise when I payback and give her a bag of sprouts and a jar of goose fat in return on the day!
Really nice piano's Henry. I love it when it all comes together. I know what you mean about levelling heads. I think its a bit over the top too. I have to say that I've had a few successful pano shots just hand held. Its not difficult as long as the focal length is not too extreme and you have a nice straight horizon to guide you. Its getting a good overlap that really counts. Worth trying when I'm in a panic because the light is changing so fast!!
Great results Henry with your telephoto pano shots! Would like to offer up a tip with your tripod, I have the exact model and just now realized I can adjust the drag tension of the legs opening and closing by a slight turn of the Torex head screw on the very top of each leg, game changer for ease of use.
Great video and ideas. As with every idea, there is also planning. I know thay you use the TPE app, but at the 3:00 Mark in the video, there is a screen shot of a weather app. That one looks quite detailed, which one is that?
Well the wide angle lenses are an interesting beasts and I do think that there is manufacturing, advertisement and general purpose of usage misconceptions going on, which lead to the point where the buyers and users of such optics were slightly confused on how these optics should be used. Majority of the people buy this lens for the huge angle of view that they give and in general truth this lens is probably the best option to have if you are travelling, since it puts a lot more in to the picture compared to narrower field of view lenses. So if you need one lens, then maybe, 24mm or something similar is your best choice. But in general wide angle is a special purpose lens. It has the huge field of view, but the real purpose of this lens is actually the distortion that it gives. The exaggeration of first plane is all these lenses are good for. Now its the issue of photographer if he knows how to exploit this characteristic or not. These lenses are certainly not the best option of shooting wide vistas with an objects that are further away from you, it just doesn`t work it does not create the depth feel to the image, the perspective is wrong as you mentioned. That is why these lenses have specific uses only. They exaggerate the first plane and that is their purpose.
Yes sir !!! That was a great image of the jetty, well done and a great lesson. I cant wait to try this on my up coming trip to Sedona Arizona and San Diego. Would love to see how the stitching is done if you do that kind of instuction.
That pano shot was brilliant! Great tip Henry, definitely going to give that a try next chance I get. Keep up the good work with your infectious enthusiasm and superb content.
I am behind schedule as usual. But, another advantage you didn’t mention in taking panoramas vs wide angle is that at the end you have bigger files with more information and details.
Hi Henry, great video and thanks for that have never thought of that another great tip, I get the same feeling and energy when I see similar sunsets and sunrise here in Penicuik near Edinburgh 🌅😊
