The Most Epic 5 Days of Woodland Photography (I have ever had!)

[@kristeencochran4753]

Sunday mornings are best with Nigel, Pebbles, and a walk in the woods.

[@stigfloberghagenphotography]

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[@gailmager4147]

Great sunday morning, pebbles and some beautiful scenery. Those last few images,rays of light, tree shot awesome.

[@waltervermeiren6860]

Stunning pictures Nigel... That proves your class!

[@robertstonephoto]

Great to see Pebbles again... a wet dog is a happy dog!

[@ianpinion4997]

Some great conditions for shooting woodland scenes in and some beautiful images captured too. The light on the final day was epic! I'm so envious. I'm usually driving to work when I witness anything even remotely like this, with no time to stop let alone capture anything. Of course, on my days off I rarely see epic conditions, but when they do happen it makes it so special and I appreciate it even more.

[@TLM823]

Thanks for this, Nigel. Always enjoy your enthusiasm about "getting out!" Hoping you hit 500k soon! Happy holidays.

[@unsenzrd]

Incredible images (and video) as always Nigel & your enthusiasm is inspirational! Great to see Pebbles enjoying her woodland walks.

[@johncameron6853]

The shot with the bloke and his dog in it is almost perfect Nigel, so well done mate.

[@joshreis8672]

Great video. The shot with the man and his dog was wonderful and adds a bit of storytelling to the photo. Thanks for the tips and inspiration.

[@gerwin5492]

The polarizer made a huge difference in that woodland shot, but how do you know when to apply the filter?

[@dogblessamerica]

I love Nigel's woodland photography sessions. As much as there's skill that goes into capturing mountain scenery, it seems a greater challenge to assemble the jumble and mess of a woodland into striking compositions.

[@kuriouskhemist3395]

Thanks for another great video Nigel. Your light ray woodland shot with contrasting warm and cool sections is absolutely amazing…

[@joynkeast-qz7oe]

Stunning, and you were right to include the dog walker.

[@millymucci]

wow those woods, conditions, images, prints, especially one majestic image, at 20.36. sooo good. and light beams. one!!

[@richdoak9349]

Awesome vid Nigel, some beautiful woodland images too

[@Larry_Odom]

So inspiring Nigel, I love the way you bring out the path into the details of your creative compositions. I always learn so much from each of your videos. Thank you for all the effort you put into each and every one.

[@woflgangdurst6752]

WOW WOW WOW truly amazing images and your comments are super educational and infectious! Wolfgang

[@destrewilliams6589]

After a long work week, a quiet Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and photography with Pebbles and Nigel. Just what I needed.

[@Ed-davies]

My gosh what a stunning set of images! The ones from the final day were just next level ❤

[@comartse]

I really liked the image of the man and his dog in the forest. Thank you for a nice video!

[@starbucksguitarM-jc5oy]

Excellent work.

[@antonoat]

Beautiful work Nigel, the side light rays and the following beach trees are my favourites, beach trees in the Autumn are to die for photographically ! Cheers! 500k so very close!

[@vimal.moments]

Awesome photographs, The Last print with a person and his dog waking the path was best of the set. Thanks Sir.

[@PrinceJvstin]

Once again, this really shows how printing photos really gives a sense of what you did better than on a screen

[@rolsonn]

Nigel, love the photo with the guy and dog walking the path. The foggy sunbeams; priceless!

[@philippr8600]

So beautiful images - and absolutely true that it is always worht going out! Thanks for sharing

[@rhiannonlawler7313]

What a week! Those shots you printed were absolute stunners!

[@NigelDanson]

Cheers - it was a good week

[@musiqueetmontagne]

Wonderful photos Nigel, thanks for this lovely video... 😊

[@dominicmcgrath]

Your best video for a while. The photos and commentary were really helpful. Thank you.

[@michael195b]

Fantastic pics in the fog

[@albert25hoo]

Good to see you being happy in your local woodlands scenes. Being there on the right moment, that's your message for the coming year and I will take it to heart. We had a lot of grey covered days, not inspiring to go out and the few brilliant hour there were, I had to much appointments in my agenda. But I bought a Z 105 macro lens. That in combination with my new Z6 III camera offers so much of fun playing with light and depht of field, even with the autofocus. Makes waiting on better conditions bearable. Nice Christmas days, Bert.

[@davidstevenson1950]

Some wonderful photos here. You're fortunate to have such photogenic forests near you. I particularly like the shot of the beech trees at 23:00. Well done.

[@marlenehazlehurst8666]

Had my knee replacement on Tuesday so feeling a little sore and sorry for myself but on the brighter side I will definitely get out more in the NY with my camera....thanks for all the inspiration

[@schmidt28117]

Felt like the OG Nigel with the fog, Pebbles, and music. And that is a great thing! Thanks for the video. Looking for my camera now.

[@hylkeheidstra2274]

Nice one again Nigel. Good to see you out again. Really love your woodland shots. The woodlands at your region are beautiful 👍 Have to visit that area once, such pretty scenery..

[@mikebartow9415]

Thank you! Love your work. The image with the man and dog walking, adds some mystery to the photo, it draws you in.

[@LauraF4848]

Haven't had fog in ages, but it's very thick this morning. I got my daughter up and we went outside before breakfast, and I was able to get a nice shot of her to use for her Senior photo for school. No dramatic sunbeams like yours, but she's happy with it!

[@CaptuRadiance]

cant find the right words, breathtaking is the closest word i know to describe this video

[@craigmaisfield3247]

Brilliant Mate. Some great images. Love the beach one.. Good old pebbles playing in the mud.. 😆

[@karenbergmann209]

Love the images from Day 5!!

[@mariamullin4031]

Great video , fabulous photos

[@cameraswedishguy]

what a fantastic photo´s nigel

[@brendanwaters9646]

This has made my Sunday - another amazingly inspiring video full of joy and the love of photography! Epic stuff, Nigel! 🎉

[@NigelDanson]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@nickarmitage]

Fabulous video Nigel thanks for sharing - some great foggy conditions and nice to see Pebbles enjoying the mud!! No meta data on the photos which was a shame as it's always good to see what aperture, shutter speed and ISO you are using for your superb photos so we can learn from them...

[@forthebears]

My favorite type of video. I set a calendar notification yesterday to remember to watch this as soon as you put it up

[@hjones451]

One of my first photos had beautiful light rays. It ended up winning a National Trust competition. Beech are my favourite trees. Your second print (seen when walking with Ann and Pebbles) is stunning, Nigel.

[@ianperkins1360]

Great video, Nigel! Those images you printed and talked about at the end were off the scale stunning!! 👍 Five days of fog!! Must have been amazing!

[@samelogio7441]

It has never occurred to me to use my phone in order to assess the shot before taking it. This will be a game changer for me. Thank you sooooo much for this wonderful video.

[@photosonthebay9341]

Great video as usual. The light on those last photos was incredible. Well done 👏👏

[@KatherineMann]

Nigel, your mistakes tend to resemble my best shots! LOL. What a wonderful project and what a great time you had with Pebbles. Thank you! Looking forward to seeing this work on Squarespace.

[@juliacruttenden5907]

Stunning pictures thank u for sharing

[@barryj1956]

Love the one at 18:24

[@lechindianer]

Thanks for this fantastic video Nigel. Really inspiring. You mentioned it briefly in one scene: check your individual color channels in these foggy conditions because one channel might hit the limit. Maybe you could do a video on that? That's one of the things I always forget after taking a shot

[@hamsterneckliving]

Another great video and beautiful photos. Thanks for walking us through your thinking. It’s so helpful.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Oh my! Those photos you got on the last day... wowsa! :D

[@stevenmarvinranger]

The days we live for. :)

[@chinmayeed]

Classy .. inspiring ❤

[@paulfowler3416]

Day 5 was by far the best - shows how valuable bright sunshine together with fog is for photography. I usually see that when it is not possible to drop everything….so frustrating.

[@andreajones4932]

Great video and beautiful images. Always pick up a gem or two from your vids - this time your tips on the histogram and checking the individual channels was super useful. Thanks Nigel.

[@NigelDanson]

Glad it was helpful!

[@davidletz9123]

I can only dream of having a "local woodland" like that. 😁

[@DAVID-kl7fz]

Great Shots Nigel wonderful lighting conditions , great when it all comes together, I would like you to add the meta data as woodland photography is Great but difficult , this would help me and many other watching no doubt, thanks

[@martingibbons8021]

Great video thank you - I’m definitely going to walk round the local woodlands and take my landscape camera into the forest not just my wildlife camera and lenses thanks again

[@_._Stefan_._]

Tranks for your Video, greetings from Germany

[@josephschimmer302]

Just WOW! Looking forward to your prints. Mine would be 20:10. Good luck with your 500k!

[@TimvanderLeeuw]

Good shout-out regarding the RGB-histogram, instead of the luma-histogram!

[@tjsinva]

Nice to be able to take advantage of some prime conditions for some great images. Pebbles 🐶 can't resist a good mudhole, eh? Carry on. 👍🥂

[@Erkko69-q3e]

Great!

[@sdrtcacgnrjrc]

18:33 and 21:00 (was looking for the unedited version). Its interesting to see the difference between print and screen (would still love to see it unedited :-)

[@Gary-LX58UDV]

Great video and stunning image's. The image with the dog and man was outstanding and gives a sense of scale. Perhaps you could do this again in the future.

[@sdrtcacgnrjrc]

14:07 my favourite, so far

[@sdrtcacgnrjrc]

19:37 is the previous shot - does look great printed

[@LeeFreeman-1986]

Shot with the man and dog at the end is class. Different for you, but awesome.

[@manugeee]

Some of the stents look like a beautiful bob Ross image with a Nigel bluescreened into it. But then you walk out and it becomes obvious that the image is real. 😊

[@samki_foto]

QQ: How often you go back to old photos and realize that previously bad photo is actually good one? That happens me from time to time.

[@Xo1ot1]

Nigel, I have to ask... why is this 5:00 not the thumbnail?! :D

[@gary.kenyon]

Tree-mendous shots 🙂

[@oriwo99]

I use the Viefinder Mark II app on my Apple smartphone to find the right image section and the best composition ...

[@jpdj2715]

The core theme here is the separation between fore, mid, and back ground, as a way to have more depth in the 2D depiction of a 3D world. "Wanting more fog" makes this main theme fogged. Here, I would try to shoot what Nikon call "focus shift shooting" - manually - and in that way have a simpler possibility to deal with each separately. Before stacking. Or towards each of the layers separately. Let me add to this "what" concept, that I'm no Photoshop wizard so I would have to do some puzzling before the "how" turns the "what" into reality. Or, the jury on my idea is out.

[@callumjohnson9433]

Good morning Mr Danson. I'm liking the compact tripod head, what brand and model is it please?

[@kqschwarz]

Love your videos. I wonder if you might explain something to me. Early on in the video you said "shooting at F8, it doesn't get better than this" and then shortly after "I wish there was more fog to give the image some depth.". There in lies my question..."Why do landscape photographers all seem to use a small aperture in their photographs?" This is particularly vexing to me for close-in woodland photography, where the "background" might be only 20 feet from the "foreground". I don't own any normal or wide angle zooms, preferring to compose with the field-of-view constraints prime lenses offer (I am admittedly weird in hamstringing myself like that). However, one of the benefits of a "prime-strategy" is wide-aperture photography becomes possible. Personally, I love the look of woodland photography that has the subject in a narrow plane of focus and most everything else is dreamy out of focus. Sort of like having a fog-machine available anytime that perfectly adjusts sharpness to the subject. I used to have 4x5 cameras that not only naturally have a narrow plane of focus due to the size of the "sensor", but also have swing and tilt motions to allow for sharpness in any narrow plane, not just those parallel to the sensor. Anyway, that's my question, "why not use wide-open apertures once in a while for woodland photography?". It might be worthwhile for you to pick up a 35 or 24 mm f1.4 lens to try out. Who knows, you could start a whole new movement I landscape photography. All the best.

[@mrtaffspoon]

Some beautiful images there Nigel. Where abouts are you in the UK ?

[@oliversteiner0815]

The picture with the man and his dog almost looks Caspar David Friedrichesque. I mean if you subtract depression, emptiness, death and so on from Friedrich. 😁

[@johnlangford7788]

great video nigel but hurry up with next van one lol

[@JosephBartalisPhotography]

Hi Nigel, I have a question, what is the model and the brand of your tripod you are using in this video more interested of the tripod head ? (the tripod you used at beginning of your video) It is not listed on your gear details

[@jpdj2715]

Fog makes the Autumn landscape of the European mixed trees landscapes (biotopes) really very much more interesting, as you say. As you have revealed some of the tools (apps) you use to predict weather and light for a location, the question here is if you can better predict the fog you want/need, artistically. As you and I live under the influence of the Warm Gulf Stream, our winters begin about at the Winter Solstice, but the winter climate starts roughly one month later due to the warmth still present in the seas bordering to our countries. I have been thinking if we have to distinguish different kinds of fog, in the sense of "causes". We would, in general either need a sort of "cloud inversion"- difficult in my flat-as-a-pancake country, but not completely impossible [1] - or we would need moisture condensed or desublimated on or near the soil because of cooling down followed by a warming episode that causes evaporation/sublimation where the warmer air cannot completely absorb the moisture as invisible-to-the-naked-eye gas. Our local traffic-weather forecasts may predict some fog in a way, but away from main traffic paths, in larger nature areas, we will have different chances. [1] The best one in my lifetime was "so sad I didn't have a camera with me". On the early morning PT commute to my photo studio, in winter, the sky was brilliantly clear due to the absence of any moist in the atmosphere. Kit at the studio and kit at home, not en route. This was a case of (a) freezing temperature and (b) the fields around the single carriageway while being frosted got warmed by the still very low angle sunlight. This caused an about 60 cm (2 ft) high layer of very dense fog - like a cloud layer. The cows in the fields seemed to float on that cloud layer. Saturated colours due to significant light, good contrast, bright pure white. This was what is called "magic realism" in painted art history.

[@neilbarford2456]

Hi Nigel , can you do a video for woodland photography for December time (UK) , when the colours have gone and when its just gloomy weather.

[@NigelDanson]

I have done quite a few - just take a look at my last few years

[@JFW5358]

I think I have a problem with greens. I find it very difficult to get them right in my photos. In some of yours shown in this video, I perceive them as oversaturated and rather too blue tinted. Is it all down to me? Great video anyhow. Lovely compositions.

[@OtmarGultlinger]

It is always funny, when Pebbles is with you. But I fear she needs a shower after every trip.

[@entertherealmofchaos]

❤

[@NickHansonPhotography]

Video went a bit weird at 12:42 (black screen for round 5 seconds), then when you reappeared it is like the footage has been positioned too far to the left. Regardless, nice shots, especially the ones from the final day.

[@doderiolarkisso4038]

poisoned?

[@NickHansonPhotography]

@@doderiolarkisso4038 Oops 😂

[@NickHansonPhotography]

@@doderiolarkisso4038 Oops 😂

[@Ericbjohnston5150]

632 I would hang that photo on my wall.

[@scortius9875]

Did youtube mandate vocals in all music now ? Seems everyone has jumped on that band wagon at the same time. Surely there is enough instrumental music in the world to last a lifetime .....

[@NigelDanson]

I have used music I love since the beginning 👍🏼

[@paulm944]

These are good videos but the music in the transitions is just horrible. Please find something better!

[@Jake-vt4ow]

I’ve complained before, to the point of sending Nigel an email. It is awful. He’s been using her voice forever, and the same old songs. I stopped listening after a while. Terrible. So much better if he had nothing or simple music with no voice, like Mads Peter Iverson. I thought I was the only one, so thanks for commenting!