Overcome These 3 Photography Obstacles

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[@c.alcazar2584]

Have a great Birthday 🎂 🥳 enjoy. Hope camera Lady is feeling much better take care be safe and enjoy...

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

I completely agree with your comments about image noise. De-noise software is so good these days, it's ridiculous. I've gotten near-portfolio-quality images at ISO 25600. That also makes me less afraid of lenses like the RF 200-800. Image noise just isn't a problem, and you can fake bokeh with clever masking if you know how.

[@scooter5193]

3 good points Brent. I totally agree with the ISO and that’s exactly how I shoot. I do put a roof on the upper end I find 12800 works for me. Have a great birthday!

[@2mcarp]

I agree on all 3 points. Some of the best advice I got was someone told me to sit in a dark room with your camera and change settings until you can do it without the lights on. Being able to find the buttons and settings is a big advantage when you are out in the field. As an "old" person (my first camera was an all manual Pentax K1000 film beast back in 1978. So, ISO was something you set when you put the film in the camera. Over the past 2 years I've been shooting more birds and Auto ISO is a game changer. And, I'm always thinking about editing when I'm shooting. Thanks for the video.

[@martharetallick204]

Right now, it's Martha vs. the front yard birds. And the birds are winning. But I will keep trying. My bird will come.

[@mikeandjoannie]

Spot on! Have a great birthday celebration!

[@NatureLenzPhoto]

Hi Brent. I'm one of those "old school" people who's afraid to bump up the ISO. However, since I went mirrorless I almost always keep my camera set to Auto ISO and tweek exposure on the fly. Works out well for me, and as you said -- less stress.

[@hugozeelie3438]

Pearls of wisdom!

[@user-bn4tb9js7d]

I appreciate your common sense point of view and agree with your 3 points of things holding people back. Perhaps some of the old die-hards that struggled with noise/grain still hold on to the importance of ISO and get their shorts in a knot with others but I do think many people are starting to recognize what denoise software can do for them and are embracing the concept of high ISO readings. That being said, I do get annoyed with myself when I get a high ISO number due to my own carelessness to some detail in my set up or settings that resulted in a higher count than what I could have obtained. Otherwise I always keep my settings in auto ISO and let the camera decide. You commented on your photography sometimes feeling too much like work. I can completely relate to that and it can become a problem. From my own experience, I quit doing an athletic sport I loved because it had become too much of a "job". I regretted that many years later and wished that I had just backed off a little and kept the interest. This became very apparent to me many years later when I rediscovered my passion for the sport but had lost many years of enjoyment. Allow yourself to have that space.

[@Richardisonline]

Birthdays are great.. wishing you an early Happy 40th Birthday, Brent for end of July.. your channel is awesome for any aspiring beginner photographers on the way up and learning.. I'm always learning about camera settings and more from you.. your pictures taken with the Canon R5 and various lenses motivate me more than anything else.. huge congratulations on your success and camera ladies to with your photography business so far, and long may it continue 👏😁

[@mcdond2512]

Great point on not getting hung up on low ISO. 👍👍

[@KIDDYLAN]

happy Birthday and thanks for another informative birthday,. I gave this a "thanks". this can at least be a start (very small) in purchasing your new toy.

[@BrentHall]

Thanks Erick, I really appreciate that!

[@KIDDYLAN]

Thanks!

[@TLOverlander]

I'm with you, Brent... I set auto ISO and have my dials setup for aperture and shutter. Why would you do it any other way? (Except for astro obviously)

[@7inrain]

Concerning camera settings and ISO/denoising - yes, these were my two personal eye openers. The one thing I've only dipped my toe into the water is editing. Yes, I do the usual little stuff like cropping, brightening up parts of the image or enhancing the colors a bit to make the image pop. But removing unwanted stuff? No because then the little devil on my shoulder is telling me: "It would make the picture unauthentic. Blame yourself for being the idiot who didn't pay enough attention on the composition of the image."

[@felder7827]

Let's go storm chasing, soon!

[@FieldingSmith]

Just getting out sometimes is the challenge. It’s been a rough week: C&P results came in and will have to dispute/refile some of them. Blew a tire on my subi doing a questionable trail while camping up in Carson national Forest. RMSP announced they were closing… and now not only are my plans for the next year canxed, but all my hhg are in storage in Montana… and so I’ve been trying to figure out how I’m going to use my GI bill and what I’m going to do for the rest of the year. Not a great week for my MH.

[@Kellysher]

Still learning after 3 years. I think that you get your custom buttons and settings “good”, then leave them alone. I’ve recently been testing new cases and experimenting with different lens settings. We all have FMO, but I need to physically test stuff to really understand it! The new AI tool in lightroom is pretty interesting. It will remove branches and such blocking a subject. I’ve taken some shots recently and actually thought to myself in the field, I can use AI to remove that. Of course if I can take a better image by moving or changing angles, I will. But it’s helped me to recover some amazing shots recently. Like 2 baby minks that were wrestling in tall grass for only a few seconds! I do understand the concerns of professional photographers. But as a serious amateur, I use all the tools in the box. I have to wonder what we will have 3-5 years from now. Will not enough megapixels be obsolete? Denoise tools are getting better and better! Will it be so good that a zoom at F7.1 is just as good as an F4 prime? Interesting times!

[@ptvfr800]

Well said Brent! So many ‘photographers’ get obsessed with things that are really not important, eg. battery life, it takes 10 seconds for me to change a camera battery! Denoise makes iso a complete non issue! 24 mp not enough! rubbish! regarding processing, I have adopted the philosophy of ‘doing as little as possible’ to the raw image and as a result I now process many more shots in half the time and I no longer get stuck trying to decide if I am improving an image or, am I just changing it..

[@jimpchip]

Too often I see creators like you, very good ones, giving trolls too much air play. I wish they were ignored.

[@PartisanZoya1941]

Wow. Didn't know you did workshops in Scotland. I'll maybe think about that for 2026. Like your ideas of freeing yourself from a tripod and ISO anxiety. Will keep getting to grips with the settings and controls of my existing cameras and lenses rather than succumb to R5 Mark II envy.😊

[@BrentHall]

Oh, yeah. You can sign up for my newsletter on my site if you want to stay up with the workshops, and you can also email me anytime if you ever have questions about them. And yeah, going handheld for the majority of my landscape and wildlife stuff is quite liberating! 😁

[@OscarRodriguez-ry1cv]

Do you have a tutorial on how to create a custom water mark into your photography? on comp and phone

[@BrentHall]

No, I don't have anything like that.

[@TheSkilledballplaya]

iam a graphic designer who never owned a camera but i recently went in a bought r6mark2 with 24 105 f4 l and 85mm marco lens..i studied how photography works months before the purchase and i cannot say i know the settings in and out, but there is some really extensive r6m2 settings guides on yt so i changed all the formats and all the settings for photo and video..i still feel so useless when i go out with the camera..so far i have maybe 2 or 3 shots that i like..its been a month since the purchase..i didnt realize in full extend how tough is it to get good photos outside..now i know :D

[@papatcat9547]

I'm so old school I remember when you would put A 36 frame ISO/ASA 400 in your camera and you couldn't (or maybe push it) change it. And the photography world was overwhelmed when ISO 1000 became available

[@BrentHall]

I'm at least old enough that I grew up shooting film before digital came around (didn't switch to digital until 2011). I always shot a lot of sports and wildlife and I almost always had iso/asa 1000-1600 and people used to give me crap about it back then too! 😅😜I always liked the faster film and didn't mind the grain so much because it allowed me to get the shots I couldn't with the slower speed film.

[@papatcat9547]

@@BrentHall those were the good ole days when photographers had to know how to use their gear. No Photoshop, Lightroom, or AI fixing bad pictures.