DO THIS to ALWAYS get PERFECT exposures! (2)

[@peterbxxx]

I can recommend Mads' E Books. Very helpful advice.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thank you ever so much, Peter! 🙏

[@jimbean532]

Excellent! Great instruction plus a thundering herd of a bazillion deer with a happy elf!

[@robertwhite-photography]

2 years ago and you still teach me things... !!

[@johnl1160]

Thank you for clarifying the bad habit of underexposing the exposures without thinking about the scene.

[@KellyPettit]

I really enjoy your channel. Your photos are stunning and your KZbin channel is entertaining and engaging. Thank you.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thanks a lot, Kelly 😊

[@treyfoerster8759]

You are so lucky with some of your shots ... deer coming into the scene. Another wonderful vid, thank you!

[@JaypeaFoto]

Your exposure is spot on. Great videos and some great shots.

[@mrjiggawatt]

That’s the most deer I’ve ever seen in one place!

[@katherineblake7607]

That herd of deer photo bombing on you was so cool!!

[@mvo5720]

Great presentation tips and photo's on these video's and a great help to an old folkie starting out on his photographic journey. Thank you.🍷

[@Chris_2023_]

Love your work, Mads…👌🙏

[@lennartphotography]

Thanks for all tips, nice group of trees.😍

[@salomekruger4176]

Thanks for the time you take to explain the best procedures to follow. I recently went to a photography class, which was not very helpful at all. The presenter just sat down and played various videos and clips he has found on the internet. He also told us, that unless your histogram is perfectly balanced in the middle, you have the best shot. It should not be to the right or left because then your photo is grap. This has put a lot of strain on my practising, which resulted in me no longer wanting to try photography because my histogram is not perfectly centred. But thanks to you, I feel inspired again to pick up the camera. Thanks for that!

[@mikiethebikie]

Thanks Mads, that made a lot of sense.👌

[@marilynrichards979]

Excellent explanation. Thank you for all you do.

[@neiljones3154]

I love the deer in that first shot. It just made it for me.

[@jonathanputsman]

I like your big gloves/mittens although for a moment I thought you were doing a sock puppet routine during the intro! 😀

[@janroos7518]

Learned again from it about exposure. Love to see this swamp tree scene with cloudy or foggy conditions

[@MadsPeterIversen]

I am eagerly awaiting the proper conditions ;)

[@robinmartin1395]

Great images! Loved the deer running through, that was a lot of deer. Thanks for the exposure tips.

[@davegrenier1160]

Good video, Mads. Thank you. Mike Perea described ETTR (expose to the right) in a way that made the process clear to me. He says the point of ETTR is to capture the highlights in the field and to adjust the exposure in post.

[@randyschwager2515]

More great information! Thanks!

[@paulclark7664]

Wonderful..just wonderful

[@victor-ferreira]

Excellent tips about the exposure!! And stunning photos!!!

[@DanFox]

Just a quick, likely very obscure note re: zebras on your Alpha camera, Mads. Zebras on Alpha cameras are not constrained by the same "jpeg preview" limitation of the live histogram. Zebras are based on raw data. So you can use them all the way up to 109. Personally, I set mine to lower limit - 107+ when shooting raw stills. Hope you're well!

[@magezimagezi]

You are really a master of your art, I really like your photos and videos and I have learned a lot. Thank you! 😊

[@foldby37]

Thank you for sharing your experiences with us, I think your fotos are stunning so butifull, I wonder, how can I be able to print some out, and have them hanging on my wall to injoy..?? Greetings, Gerner from Denmark

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Hi Gerner, thank you for the kind words. I have prints available on my homepage. If there is some missing, let me know via email and I'll upload it ASAP. Here's the link: www.mpiphoto.dk just look in the gallery folder from Denmark.

[@lylestavast7652]

I'll give you a comment just for the algo ... gnarly, dude... almost tubular ! (deer is already plural in english btw) So where people mess up with ettr, is they do it mechanically without considering what that brightest/hottest highlight actually IS, and if it's important to the photo... you might have a specular reflection of the sun on a chrome bumper on an older car - well, you'll likely never get all the way to not "blowing that out" - so pay attention what is next to it, and make sure you retain detail in that bright area as your limit.... and likewise you can shift a generally dark scene to the right and clean up some of your noise in exposure, but shift it left when you're adusting in post... I do this with an older camera that had horrible noise in shadows (D70 nikon...) Good video sir.

[@DecvsJapan]

Hey Mads just got your Landscape Photography E-Book! You talk here about using optimal exposure and focus stacking instead of exposure bracketing (and focus stacking). Would love to see a video where you do both and compare the differences (if any). Obviously exposure bracketing takes longer, but to get optimal exposure in a scene is it as simple as using the zebra stripes? Unfortunately my Canon doesn't have them so was wondering if you could do a video talking about how to get optimal exposure through sight and "feel" alone. Thanks man!

[@DecvsJapan]

Oh damn, like 4 minutes later you answered my question haha.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

@@DecvsJapan Hehe great, else you can also watch my first video about this from last year :)

[@rodzimmerman8436]

Great tutorial.

[@martinsprout846]

Hi Mac’s, like your videos very much, very informative. I think the notion of underexposing photos has probably come from us older folk who are used to shooting 35 mm slide film. It was common practice to slightly underexpose to produce punchier images. Think this is where I have been going wrong now I’m using digital!. I’ll have a habit of interrupting my histogram in a different way in the future.

[@lizr7979]

Mads, really appreciated this second video on the perfect exposures topic. Full of useful, clear information. An ah-ha moment for me was when - after saying you have the camera in aperture priority - you said the next thing you do is to use the exposure compensation wheel to determine the best exposure. Fabulous!

[@arvidjohansen5628]

Well done 😃

[@stevenpitts6290]

I retired last year and do a ton of hiking and landscape photography Thanks for ur videos they made a huge difference in the quality of my pictures 😊

[@MadsPeterIversen]

You are welcome, Steven! I am happy they work :)

[@stevenpitts6290]

@@MadsPeterIversen most definitely keep those videos coming they are awesome I definitely push others who are getting into photography to watch and subscribe

[@heatherthompson911]

Love your images Mads

[@OutdoorActionPhoto]

You must be a deer magnet. It seems they show up in a few of your videos. Being at the “enthusiast” level, I did not learn about ETTR until a few months ago. On another note, you are correct in saying, in so many words, that new photographer’s should be very selective with who they receive information from. Thank you!

[@andybusard6694]

Great video! thank you. You have the biggest deer herd I've ever seen! I also hear you and understand the need to put as much light on the sensor WITHOUT clipping. Very important point you made.

[@ronlander2120]

It would be great to have an ebook fully explaining the use of Lightroom. I know you have one for Photoshop, so just wondering if you have or are planning one for Lightroom?

[@kurtwangphotography5038]

Thanks for sharing your amazing skills

[@avnerbelisha1457]

Thanks again

[@BigWillSD]

Thank you

[@judywright2051]

Beautiful images as always!

[@marilyngiannuzzi9867]

Just beautiful photos,my very favorite subject,trees!Thank u for sharing your videos with us!

[@JohnPaul-ii]

Now there’s a location just waiting for a really foggy morning to shoot. Wow that’s certainly a lot of deer there Mads. Stay safe 🇦🇺

[@Snickers_GLNY]

Great video!

[@theresarice7289]

Most of my photographer friends already follow you.

[@randyschwager84]

Always good information! Thanks!

[@Paws2Explore]

I am so pleased that KZbin recommended you to me, this was an amazing and easy to follow description. You have such a relaxed and chilled manner about you that made this even more enjoyable. I have like and subscribes and will now start binge watching your other videos. Thank you for taking the time to create and help others.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

I am very happy to hear that, thanks a lot! :)

[@williampetersen2899]

Nicely done Mads. You've taken exposure, a very important, often discussed and easily misunderstood aspect of photography and reduced it down to the most important practical elements in one of the best explanations I've seen. I think one of the things that might lure folks into under-exposing their images is that they tend to look better on the LCD screen with apparent higher contrast and better color saturation compared to an image that has been "exposed to the right." However, thanks to RAW files and cameras getting better and better dynamic range, all this is done much more efficiently in post-processing with an ETTR image. Thanks for another wonderful video Mads!

[@michellewesson4409]

I learn all the time from your videos. Thanks.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

I am glad to hear that, Michelle! :)

[@ahmedhuusein7961]

Thank you MR. Mads

[@TBuanes_Photography]

Beautiful shots and a great vide full of good tips :) I loved the one with the deer in the background between the trees :) Good job ! ;)

[@brucewiebe6490]

Many of my shots have bright sunny skies and mountains with plenty of shade so I use the zebras and use the compensation dial to under expose so the zebras, at 100, are just barely visible. For the most part bringing up the shadows doesn’t seem to bring that much noise. If I want to print rather than just share on social media I will run it through some of the topaz Products to reduce noise, enhance detail or increase resolution. For my purpose as an amateur that combination seems to work quite well. Thanks for another great video

[@andrestavridis5652]

Love your work and video's. 👌

[@josephstanski5180]

Wow! Such beauty framed Mads - nicely done.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thanks a lot! :)

[@kevinwasserfall2038]

Interesting images

[@robertdavis1255]

Great video & comments... thanks for sharing..the problem you had with deer, I had with kangaroos going across my composition.... cheers from Australia 😀

[@jerrykita8767]

Great stuff as always Mads. Hope you're feeling better.

[@IanWilkinson]

Mads, your English is infinitely better than my Danish but I just have to correct you on one thing - the plural of deer is deer, not deers! It's just one of those idiosyncrasies with our language. Other examples are sheep (not sheeps), fish, grouse, salmon, bison, and a few more - but you're okay with zebras, although not with zeebras (that's American ;-)

[@tomapaunovic]

Btw, you can get RAW zebras as well, at least with Sony. Just set your zebra to "Lower Limit" and set limit to 109+. That will give you the RAW zebras, and thus you can do ETTR super accurately.

[@bartjes2509]

Thanks for sharing, As for the sudden deer runnings: I have 2 preset modes modes, 1 Landscape Av mode, F/11 Iso 100, 2s timer and multiple focal points, the other is sports: Tv mode, auto ISO, 1/1000s only center 9 focal points When underexposing, to little photons get in the sensor and the noise you get is basically rounding error. Always judge the scene for yourself, when it is high contrast (and you wanna capture both highlights and shadows) use AEB - HDR

[@robertwhitemoto]

wow, a lot of deer!!

[@robertleeimages]

I did a focus stack a couple of days ago of a sunset, but i did an exposure bracketed set of images first and then did each focus image at the same exposures of the bracketed sequence and i was pretty happy with the outcome for a first time

[@henri.witteveen]

Mads, what is the music you are using in this video? I heard it also on some of your other videos.

[@garybeat6637]

Thanks, Mads, for the tip on shooting to the right. I am someone who tended to under expose thinking I could avoid blown out areas by lifting the shadows in post; I was wrong!

[@rosssayer6524]

Another very enjoyable video Mads, really like the explanation on exposure as there is a lot of talk about under exposing. Love the image at 15.10 beautifully framed. Those trees were amazing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and images.

[@bernardmcmahon7947]

Beautiful images linked with sound advice as always. Thank you.

[@spidersj12]

I've been using three bracketed shooting regime for a year (-2EV, 0EV, +2EV), likely since watching your video or perhaps another landscape photographer I follow? I predominantly use it for an HDR merge, but sometimes the merge isn't perfect with three images so I have to refuse it to two, and rarer still I just use one of the three shots to produce my final image, but in any event I have options. Having options after the fact is important since that moment in space time is now gone forever.

[@paulseymour7485]

Super informative Thank you so much.

[@markanderson1354]

Glad that you are made it home and are feeling better. Sorry that you missed the penguins. Like a prior commenter, I have been advised that as a RAW shooter I should set the lower limit zebras to 109+. I am new to the Sony system and would like to hear what you think of that advice. Thanks again for all of the great content. I am learning a lot.

[@shengyetang7220]

Thanks, bro. As far as I know, the histogram on LCD also stands for JPEG.

[@AliasJimWirth]

Useful guidance and instruction as always, Mads. Thank you for posting part 2.

[@jerryphilip1019]

Great Video.. !! Started photography as a hobby. But I learned a lot on landscape photography by watching your videos. Watching all your videos now.. !!!

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thank you, Jerry! I am very happy to hear that. I try to share something valuable in each video :)

[@mitzimckay7934]

Awesome photos! Thank you for the great advice and sharing your experience with the deer!

[@MadsPeterIversen]

You are very welcome and thanks a lot! :)

[@scotty4418]

Can't express how much I enjoyed this Mads as I've been struggling to think straight with the horrific events that have been occurring the last week ,so this was nice to watch and divert my attention. The bases of those trees looked epic and could imagine them being the legs of tree giants and would be interesting how they looked bathed in a golden morning enclosed with fog. Good advice too and key lesson for people learning photography is to learn to use the histogram to ensure optimum exposure opportunities can be created

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thanks a lot, Jim. Yes, I gotta admit being in the field and photographing really got my head away from the current events which was a nice little "free space" :)

[@barryobrien1890]

Nice video. ISO invariance in most of the modern digital cameras tends to allow scaling in post, without adding additional noise. Raw helps as it's 12 to 14 bits vs 8 bits for jpeg. Also it helps focus to have more light. Not clipping highlights can reduce dynamic range in the picture and colour depth, so it's best to see what's clipping by using the strips. If it's the sun which has no real information, or a gray plain sky, then let it clip. If its clouds in the sky or reflected light, then protecting highlights might be worth it. Really great points

[@scottk.8494]

That was a helpful video Mads. Can you someday explain how you choose what value to over expose and under expose for bracketing? Do you always choose one stop? Do you ever choose two stops? Less than one stop? I haven't seen anyone explain that part of their process yet.

[@jasonlacey5979]

You use as many as you need to capture the full dynamic range of the subject you are photographing

[@msingrey14]

Very informative vlog (as usual) Mads. Speaking of overexposure, I hope that you're feeling better soon.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thanks, do you mean corona? I'm good again in that regard :)

[@stoettingerphoto]

Very helpful video! The area you were shooting in this episode is so beautiful, the trees are just perfect!

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Yes, very much! :)

[@DinoPozo]

Mads I just want to say thank you for sharing your photographic experiences, it is a great value for all of us even if someone is a professional photographer. I compare photography to medicine, you always learn something new every day. Thank you uncle. It's a pleasure to follow you on all your social networks and to have your great ebooks.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thank you for getting the ebooks! And I am happy to hear such kind words :)

[@paulshew7930]

I have used your tips from the the 1st segment on exposure and realized that I have been under-exposing too often. Love your videos as you are an inspirational and effective teacher. I also appreciate your recognition of the beauty of trees. Sad that you missed out on Antarctica, but at least you can make a great composition wherever you are. Will be purchasing your photoshop course. Thank you.

[@pascalvangerven5769]

Great video and photos (as always)! Just a quick question on the zebra stripes, which you seem to be quite fond of... :-) Aren't they kind of annoying when composing your frame?

[@3082frank]

Hi Mads, always love your videos but I wish you could please share the camera settings with your photos. It may be alot to ask but it helps us noobs. Thank you. 😊

[@johnhubble5156]

Another way to stress the importance of ETTR is to consider light as being analogous to digital data. Light is funny stuff, it can act as both a continuous wave or collection of descrete "particles" i.e. photons. If you under expose by a stop you are halving the number of photons that will hit your sensor. I am amazed at the number of people who stress about moving to a camera with a higher pixel count but are then prepared to throw out half the data available by deliberately under exposing by a stop.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

A bit of quantum mechanics on my channel :D Yeah, I think it's basically down to people not knowing it :)

[@fotodawka]

I use your tips in my photography and I can see good results. Thank you very much.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

I am very happy to hear that :)

[@frstesiste7670]

One comment to your video. Agree that always bracketing often would be a waste for large sensor cameras, but for smaller sensor cameras it can be quite useful to leave it on more or less permanently. For example I've got a Olympus TG-4 which obviously isn't particularly suited for landscapes (or wildlife), but it's quite useful for some purposes. It doesn't support bracketing, but it would have been on permanently if it did and quite a few similar camera allow automatic bracketing.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Yeah, for smaller files it may be fine and probably also more useful as they have a smaller dynamic range :)

[@marcuswagar7246]

A vertical komposition could also been nice here. Last year I underexposed almost everything. That was a misstake. Usefull tips!

[@tjsinva]

Good stuff! 👍 🥂

[@edc641]

I really appreciate your videos, and I've learnt a lot from them. This one is no exception 👍But I have a technical question regarding camera settings not mentioned in this video (and I can't remember that you've brought it up before). Do you use electronic or mechanical shutter? Every camera has a limited number of actuations the mechanical shutter can take before it needs replacement. Usually a very high number, but you never really know. Personally, I don't see the benefit of using mechanical shutter in landscape photography (unless you want to capture something moving really fast in your scene). To my knowledge there's no wear on the electronic shutter, it eliminates the risk of shutter shock, and it should be easier on your camera wear. Why not always use it, unless you absolutely need the mechanical?

[@yuriajones]

You're right... as far as I know, there's no benefit for landscape photography when using the mechanical shutter and there's no wear on the electronic shutter. So to my mind, it makes most sense to use the electronic shutter when out in the field for landscape photography.

[@edc641]

I was wrong, it's actually mentioned in the video "Get RAZOR SHARP landscape photos with these EASY tips!" (silent shooting)

[@yuriajones]

@@edc641 yup, electronic shutter is silent. But, do you mean that electronic shutter is better for sharper photos?

[@edc641]

@@yuriajones Sorry about the confusion, my bad. With my last comment I only referred to another video by Mr Iversen where he mentioned using silent mode (electronic shutter) to eliminate the risk of shutter shock. I guess EFCS would be fine in that regard as well, and if I'm not mistaking EFCS also eliminates the risk of rolling shutter in case there are some fast moving objects in front of the lens. But I will keep using silent mode for 99% of my landscape photography. No moving parts should give me the sharpest photos possible. And extend the lifetime of my beloved camera.

[@yuriajones]

@@edc641 I get you now. Thanks for clarifying. I hadn't taken the slight shake of the mechanical shutter into consideration. Kudos and thank you!

[@davidargent8428]

Mads, where do you get the music used in your videos. I enjoy and benefit from your videos, thanks.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

All from epidemic sound :)

[@ChrisAlford]

I wish all cameras had the option to use zebra stripes when taking photos. Fortunately most cameras have a histogram. Alternatively to using zebras, you might have the option to turn on highlight alert to check your photos after talking them.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Yes, that's a great alternative, but the histogram is definitely the option to go by if you don't have zebras :)

[@ChrisAlford]

@@MadsPeterIversen I totally agree.

[@itaylorm]

@@MadsPeterIversen I agree I use the RGB histogram on my Canon

[@georgestiros4392]

you are the greatest

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thank you ever so much :)

[@kensalome483]

Wonderful subjects. Highly recommended book - "The Secret Lives of Trees". You will never look at trees the way you do now.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thanks, yeah, I've heard about it :)

[@PixPete]

I really want to buy your books but I hate eBooks! Have you thought about offering them as printed versions maybe through a print-on-demand supplier or even Amazon's self publishing platform?

[@malhayes4725]

Did you say "Willie room"?

[@martinbyrne6643]

Wriggle room 🥸

[@jowb575]

This may be a really rookie question but how do I apply these exposure concepts to night photography such as the histogram or exposing to the right.? Or do I use a different standard for exposure?

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Night photography is a tiny bit different as you don't want to blow out the stars. There are exposure videos about night photography here on KZbin. They are probably better to find than me trying to explain ;)

[@movieman2009]

Is most of the advice for JPEG shooting only?

[@johndwilliams]

Hi Mads. I tried to use the zebras on my a7rii after the last video and was getting lots of blown out areas, especially in the sky. I've since gone back to using just the histogram only. I know there is a difference in the zebra settings between mine and your a7iii. Could that be the problem? I've also found that applying a linear profile to the raw file can bring in an over exposured file at times but when I use the zebras I get purple blotches inn the sky that are beyond help.

[@TBuanes_Photography]

By the way.. I see that you often use Zebra warning on your camera.. Is there a reason for why you use that instead of using the histogram ?

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Not a big reason, I just prefer the visuals of the zebra stripes over the histogram :)

[@BengtMalm]

Hej. Jag tar det på svenska. Var i Danmark har du varit och och fotat detta? Väldigt fina bilder.

[@michaelgoodwin4480]

How “far to the right” should you expose the image? I’ve tried this by exposing as far as I could before clipping the highlights and I feel like it degraded my image quality. Is there a breaking point? Thanks!

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Theoretically there shouldn't be as long as you don't clip the highlights and you pull back the brightness in post :)

[@michaelgoodwin4480]

@@MadsPeterIversen Much appreciated Mads! Thank you for your reply, and ALL that you do for us!