For the record, your Loon and Bald Eagle calls were right on! We’ll make a birder out of you some day! I’ll need to bring you along to call the birds in.
Hey Gavin, enjoyed the video. I am the photographer with the bucket/pole. It is actually a blue bucket that is painted black. For a number of years, I taught nightscape photography at this location. There is a stretch of approximately 5 nights every two weeks when the tides accommodate being down there just after full dark. Unfortunately, park policy has changed and access is now forbidden after the park closes for the evening.
"orange sand and mud..." that's because the majority of the upper end of the Bay of Fundy, like Hopewell Rocks, are sedimentary rocks, as opposed to the Oregon and Washington coast are igneous basalts. I've owned the Sigma 14-24mm F2.8 lens for two years, and it's my most used lens and I use it for astrophotography, but I want a Sigma 24mm F1.4 for wide angle astrophotography. For deeper sky images, I want the Sigma 135mm F1.8. You'll want to get a Kase drop-in light pollution filter that fits in right in front of your sensor for any lens including the Sigma 14-24mm F2.8, or if you don't have the huge bulbous lens attached get a Nisi or Kase square 100mm x 100mm light pollution filter on a filter system bracket, getting rid of the wavelengths of light associated with sodium, mercury vapour and LED street lights, will take care of most light pollution that messes up astrophotos. WIth the 500 rule and a 40mm lens, if you don't want star trails and relatively pin point stars your maximum exposure time is a shutter speed = 500 / focal length, that's just 12.5 seconds. Now if you want to get 5 minutes of integration time you can use free software like Deep Sky Stacker to stack multiple exposures to get 50 minutes, you'll need 24 exposures.
Hi Amanda, Relieved to see that you are hanging on in there in sunny Nova Scillities. I find I’m slightly missing those clips where you send your van driver Gawain off on perilous, pointless quests to very remote lookouts. When he remembers to drag the camera away from his face and point it at the scenery, he gets some surprisingly adequate snaps! Isn’t Photoshop amazing. Do remember to follow Gawain’s example and bulk up in time for the imminent winter. Maybe gather lots of straw too, because it’s going to be cold hibernating in your huge new shed. Chin up and keep smiling!
Love the band of merry men and beautiful astrophotography. The light painting worked a charm on that stack to balance the street lamp. Looking forward to the sunrise video!
Reminds me of the twelve apostles and other sea stacks on the Grsat Ocssan Road in Victoria Austrakia with the tourists wrecking the sand with footprints.on the beach. I arrived one time in the dark before sunrise and a tourist bus was alrady in the car park
Awesome vid as always, guys. Glad to see you were at Hopewell Rocks....I'm heading that way in a few weeks from Ontario and this covers some 'do's and dont's' to look out for. FYI that light painted M.W. shot of the sea stacks is spectacular!...also that short stack to the right of the big one looks like the silhouette of a big ole' bear standing up!....Great to see Simon along for the ride....and Jason too...new buddies for new adventures!!..Cheers!
"...now, it's mostly fart jokes." LMAO PS -- Ask Simon just what kind of bird photographer walks around with what looks like a 50 mm lens on his camera? :)
@@simon_dentremont We may shoot the same gear but I'll admit you do give me lens envy with that juicy long lens of yours lol. All jokes aside I think we all aim to get one over on you during the eagle watch. We never do but we try lol
@@simon_dentremont No competition, more like chase the ace lol. I'm a landscape shooter at heart but always love how you compose your wildlife images and look forward to seeing what you come away with when we're shooting the same area's
Paint the light bulb black on the side that is causing the pollution, it shouldn't affect the reason the light was put there and it'd cut out the pollution. That's what I'd do anyhoo.
I read a lot of comments regarding the fact that you didn't remove the yellow sign on one of the astro/sea stack images. I don't agree one bit with any of those people. You should remove the sea stacks and keep the sign.
Love it!! Always enjoy your videos, so damn entertaining, and informative, of course. I must admit that I was thrilled when I saw Simon on your channel! I am a wildlife photog at heart so I have been a follower of Simon's from his beginnings. But, recently I have really gotten into landscape, mainly because of Adam, but, that's besides the point. LOL!!! I love your work, really I do, and your videos, so much more entertaining than Adam's, he's so dry, so British. Ha! All joking aside, I always look forward to your new videos, you and Amanda are the bomb! Best wishes.
"Aren't you that Thomas fellow who does those sky replacements..." Brutal! I have to say your hidden talent is getting others to go along with all your shenanigans--and it's a true gift! I think I laughed harder with this video than most. The new "talent" is great!
"You don't know the half of it." So funny. Nice to see a couple more foils for your wit! Should we expect an Uncle Grumpy is jealous video in our future? More please!
Really looking forward to you learning bird photography Gavin. Simon is a great talent for you to emulate. Adam probably did all he could for you on the left coast, the landscape side. Good luck …… from the left coast. Cheers, great job.
Damn man that was an awesome shot once I get some cash will have to buy your tutorial. If you and Amanda ever come to Western New York check out the eternal flame let me know he’ll I would meet ya there!
I do like me some sea stacks too and boy those looked tasty !! Looking forward to next week already, I’ll have some stacks of my own but not as interesting as those ones I feel !!
Haha. I wondered who was going to be your straight man now that you've left The Grumpacious One back on the west coast. Well done, Gavin, and very funny. Looking forward to Part II.
Very hilarious footage with Simon who had a real hard time keeping a straight face. I am following many photographers, many of whom are in Great Britain and northern Europe. However, this channel here has got to be the funniest, while being very informative. The fact that both Gavin Hardcastle and Simon d'Entremont are fellow Canadians is just icing on the cake.
@9:13 I really liked this composition presentation. You and the subject framed by the rocks. For humor, this video was one of your best since moving to Nova Scotia.
As always, awesome video Gavin! What a surprise to see Simon as I follow him closely as well regarding bird photography! I'm really excited to see what the Hardcastle-Gibbs or should I say Gibbs and Hardcastle videos will bring to all of us! ......LoL.
I'm pretty sure the ornithological term for that type of bird is Shite Hawk! That might be its Latin name. 😏 Hopewell Rocks is a brilliant location sadly the only time I've been was on my way through New Brunswick on my way to Nova Scotia, mid day so it was crawling with tourists so the photo opportunities were pretty lacking. I'm looking forward to your sunrise shots next week!
I can relate to the bucket and pole. I once used my car's floor carpets, camera bag and umbrellas to cover some ground lights pointing upwards. You got to improvise........
Great to see you've hooked up with Simon...love his bird videos! Ahem....still like yours as well. But hey, the sea stack would be a perfect place to set up a couple LumeCubes at lowest lumens. Give them a try!
I loved this video of the sea stacks and you and Amanda! I see you met some new friends that you can bond with. 😂 Your shots were gorgeous! I liked all of them even the one in the beginning of the video. I’m wondering if you got a good sunrise shot. Simon is a wealth of information! I hope you can show videos more often and how is your house coming along?
Great vid! I'm a New Brunswiker myself (northern NB). If you get the chance at some point you should visite Mont Carleton provincial park in northern New Brunswick, there is some good photography ops.
If the light has a sensor on top, shine a laser pointer to the top dome (doesn't have to be precise) and that light should turn off for about 5 minutes 🤙
This video was like a birthday present. Right at the time when I am supposed to get first clean moonless night at the dark location after a half year break caused by my equatorial mount being broken down and really bad spell of weather. I wish I would get the same clear skies as you got.
As much as I enjoy your photo tips, composition and, sense of deep woods humor, the smile of your beautiful mate is such a welcoming site when I go to your channel to watch the latest! Thank you sir, for your production quality and shared experience.
