Shooting Portraits at the Beach with Tamron 100 - 400 lens

[@mikekelley]

I like Lee's photos better. Oh shi - wrong video

[@michelswijgman9500]

Legend!

[@RaviTahilramani]

Haha hilarious

[@creativemofoo]

LMFAO

[@BrentHall]

This is the best comment I've ever seen! Loved your shootout video with Lee btw! The image with the birds, and that balcony shot were both incredible!

[@gilberthenri9441]

This video is also a great example of the compression brought by the use of the 300mm and 400mm settings. Thanks guys, great job as usual.

[@StevenSSmith]

I don't know if you've heard but lens compression is not a thing. I saw it on the internet. 2:18

[@FStoppers]

Lens compression is not a thing. The effect is caused by standing far away from your subject. The lens just allows me to fill my sensor with only the subject matter I want so I don't have to crop :) #perspectivecompression

[@StevenSSmith]

Fstoppers I'm sorry. I couldn't resist 😂

[@crystalbaker7325]

Fstoppers The joke obviously completely went over your head.

[@clientaccount7166]

HAhahahahahahahahaha God they suck so much about this reference

[@808islandlife_HI]

Great job Patrick.

[@guffey1989]

did you do all of the shooting for this in Charleston? Recognized the Ravenel bridge several times. Am heavily weighing the Tamron for wildlife, thanks for the video!

[@1603shadow]

Great video & I luv that you include the fails & the amazing final product. Thanks for keeping it real guys.

[@MihaCV]

Thanks for the video Patrick. Was wondering where i could find your kite/wake shots? I shooot almost exclusively kiting ( although mostly video ), and would love to see some of your work. Thanks

[@phaskellhall]

Miha CV I don’t have a public portfolio and I’m actually redoing my commercial site.

[@ijoec]

Thank you as always!! I love your tutorials Patrick!

[@FabiVoltair]

i really do love the shot! Great work!

[@HS-fk6hb]

This lens or the Sigma varient? Most important thing for me is IQ, planning to buy one of these... Or is there a better alternative? Thanks!

[@jibzouth]

Mr Hist I have tested both (on a D750). I compared them at 100,200,300 and 400mm wide open. The sigma was sharper at 100 and 400mm and a bit sharper at 300mm. At 200 they are about the same. If you stop down the tamron to f8, they are almost identical.. On the other hand you can use a tripod collar with the tamron which is a huge plus

[@HS-fk6hb]

Tomas Aamli thank you very much for clarifying! And is it true that the Tamron has better AF? If so, is the Sigma good enough for BIF?

[@Nicofoto]

Mr Hist I've tried both and yes the tamron is significantly better in AF.

[@HS-fk6hb]

Nico Dewantara it's a hard choice between these two... 🙁

[@jibzouth]

Mr Hist the tamron had a little bit better AF. But to me image quality was more important (wide open).. I dont shoot a lot of birds. I returned the tamron.. But the tamron is not a bad lens, it just was not the one me and my use

[@Photomeike]

Great final results!

[@carloslopergolo9950]

Great shot

[@kurtisca]

Awesome video!

[@AustinSlack]

Very cool video. I hope to see more like this in the future!

[@shuttaspeed]

Great video guys, love your stuff around Charleston Patrick 👍

[@Cr3Media]

Great work.

[@367Play]

Wow-400mm shot is awesome. Love the perceived compression and your lighting👍❤️. 4 ⭐️.

[@eliagur]

What af settings using for watersports with this lens to make sure you have your subject sharp?

[@Zack_Darce]

Great shot guys rocking video as well

[@officialtiimo]

Why don't you guys do videos like this anymore? This is awesome

[@guyfawkes7796]

Are Lee's flip flop that one with the bottle opener in it arent they? R**fs - i love them and i have them... great video and cheers from bavaria :D

[@FStoppers]

I don't think they have bottle openers built into them but who knows....Lee hardly drinks. I do hate that I didn't catch him wearing sandals thought; I would have preferred him to be barefoot. Oh and rainbow sandals for the win :) - P

[@Siftedheart]

Thanks Patrick ! Great video ❤️

[@jtx119]

Great video..thanks for the input. I didn't think about using the 400 for this but with the narrow field of view and the lighting it looked great! Nice work

[@arbolplantadoproductions2901]

I shoot volleyball games, and I use a 70- 200. The camera the I use is a Nikon d750. Is it normal that the lens sometimes, not always, slows down a bit when I take the pictures? Most of the times the courts are badly light and I need to go very high on my Iso

[@FStoppers]

Slows down in terms of frames per second or in terms of hunting for focus?

[@arbolplantadoproductions2901]

Frames per second. It is not as bad as with my GH5, when I try to use it for sports photography.I have to shoot on ISO 3200 and there the rapid shutter won't work at all It will take 3 per second. Thanks for the reply!

[@Bignamestar]

When did Topher Grace take up photography?

[@twistacatz]

Well done Lee!

[@dtj41]

Backrolls are looking good, Lee. You've got plenty of time; throw an extra 90 degree rotation in there and you'll have some backroll-to-toesides down (they look stylin AF).

[@wanneske1969]

How do you remove the salt, coming from the seawater, creeping IN your monopod ?

[@phaskellhall]

johan bauwens fresh water bath when I got home

[@milosgrujic9118]

3 stars, solid image.

[@chmalownikpl]

Lens not too dark?

[@ruelapas6240]

How far you from your subject witn 400mm?

[@FStoppers]

at least 200 feet away if not more. -P

[@ruelapas6240]

@@FStoppers thanks.. I'm new to Photography so I don't have clear pictures to what lens I should buy for Wild life Photography at low cost, so I think I'm gonna buy tamron 150-600mm G2 in that case..

[@tubewatcher314]

Isn’t he the cutest ? 👌🏻

[@ArtKingjr]

Is shooting with a 400 as sensitive as shooting with a macro lens?

[@FStoppers]

It depends. When I shoot with a macro lens, I'm using a TON of flash which allows things to be super sharp because of the fast flash duration. Essentially the flash becomes your shutter. However, if you are shooting with natural light like insects out in the wild, then yes, you will need a fast shutter to freeze your action. Shooting telephoto can be problematic too if your shutter gets too slow.

[@dimitristsagdis7340]

Cool staff, tnx for sharing.

[@SonduckFilm]

Very cool! I was waiting to see a big wave come and soak up the camera. Glad that didn't happen.

[@gordonjohnston684]

SonduckFilm, the camera and lens did get wet.

[@chrisogrady28]

I have a beautiful old manual 400mm f/3.5 just for portraits

[@hawg427]

You guys need to look at my old Daytona Beach Photo college Alum out of Fl. Tom King. He shoots awesome water skiing shots since the 80's and numerous boat and boat related photography, if it's water related he's shot it. Check him out.

[@RandmVision]

Solid pic nice work

[@phynx2006]

Come on David what were you thinking hahaha, Lee, with that hair cut and the expression on your face you look like a real bad-ass, excellent video Patrick.

[@johncantrell614]

Good video.

[@oh_aces]

Damn! I wanna live at that beach.

[@technomaniac1992]

Nice shots, although i would let the ambient light one stop brighter for my taste :P

[@tgmwright]

What happened to Lee's hair?

[@FStoppers]

I was no match for the buzz clippers

[@ohrah2003]

Who do you insure your camera equipment with. That salt water is fatal.

[@FStoppers]

Hill and Usher :)

[@simplevvay]

Nice! But I would try to mix the ground in photoshop to eliminate the circles from the lights on the ground... however the photo is great!

[@nooch86]

Why not shoot with the sunset in the background?

[@WarChortle]

Wait, didn't they release a video about how compression isn't real?

[@FStoppers]

Lens compression isn't real. Stepping back and using perspective compression is real. Distance to subject compresses, not lenses :)

[@allansh828]

Isn’t salty water erosive to metal?

[@FStoppers]

Yep!

[@daviddowling9830]

Erosive?

[@FStoppers]

hah yeah it eats away at the metal like acid in your stomach

[@remig8306]

Perhaps you meant corrosive

[@benmacdougall7485]

I'm between a 2 and a 3 on this one.

[@wilsontique]

Great tips, but for an amateur photographer like my self, it's hard to get all the lights and rest of the equipment shown in this video. Cool stuff!!

[@phaskellhall]

You can use speedlights or any strobes really. Don't get caught up in the gear (well except the lens, you do need a lens to zoom in to get the same effect).

[@vimalneha]

Some good background compression, but the Tamaron lens has failed miserably to produce sharp images.

[@C6Sick]

good video!!

[@jensritchie]

Bruh, Patrick always pack your gear I don't have much, but what I do have I pack all the time, everywhere I go so I can pull something off. Even if the conditions are not right, I can still make something happen.

[@ParadoxdesignsOrg]

Some of my best shots were done from hundreds of feet away :)

[@FStoppers]

You know, I have attempted so many super telephoto shots and I feel like they give me the most trouble. Besides sports and wildlife, I have a very hard time finding subject matter where I want to zoom in 300-500mm. I see other photographers with incredible long telephoto shots which makes me appreciate their work even more but for me I really struggle with it sometimes.

[@snapshopped]

You should have advertised the Fstoppers Swimwear tutorial. Lee's the perfect model! ;)

[@gordonjohnston684]

If it was me, I would but the camera and lens in a plastic shopping bag. Cut a hole in the bottom of the bag, pop the frount of the lens through the hole and use a couple of large elastic bans to hold the bag in place. Shoot through the back of the bag. This is bit of Heath Robinson idea but the camera would survive a splash. I have done this my self. I have also used cline film to cover the camera body!

[@herreraid2010]

I have a hard time accepting night time looking shots in sunny days. Great video nonetheless

[@simonwalter7142]

BTW, lightning isn't a verb

[@Keyoung44]

ok, i'm taking portraits with my tammy 150-600

[@dramamine755]

Kay EY i usually like take portraits with a 1200mm

[@davidlevine5773]

I thought that the shots with a partial kite during actual kite surfing were good and action-ly. The clever thing would have been to take the land picture toward the ocean (in the morning) so it could be cropped to appear that he was actually actively kite surfing.

[@Apalapse]

Nice vid.

[@danield416]

4 weeks ago you made video titeled "Lens compression doesn't exist...", and now in this one, you have used that expression at least twice! Why? How? I dont get it🤔😒😕🙃

[@FStoppers]

I don't believe I ever said "lens compression" in this video and if I did, well that's a mistake. The effect I'm manipulating is perspective compression which is caused by move my body far away from my subject. It would be the same effect regardless of what lens I was using but having a 100-400mm lens allows me to "crop" into the scene more so I don't have to digitally crop my actual photo. The lens isn't doing anything special, it's me actually stepping further away that's doing the trick. The lens just lets me shoot the composition I want.

[@djxcel23]

They need a 2.8 version asap

[@TheShockwave44]

The lens would be enormous and over $3000.

[@alex0589]

lol do you even physics? Go look at the sigma 200-500 2.8, it's fucking dumb.

[@sulev111]

is there any 100-400 2.8 existence? they are mostly f/4.5-5.6

[@Dmsstudios64]

hold the camera up by the monopod lol

[@FStoppers]

I'm always nervous to ever take my hands off the camera body when on skyscrapers, helicopters, or above water. I trust the tripod plates but if they fail, that's a lot of gear that is instantly ruined.

[@00BlackPanther88]

Or with two hands (one on body, one on lens) above your head. May be incl. a plastic bag over it. Better deal than splish-splashed by a huge wave... oh... yes.. you were splashed by a wave :D Hope your gear is fine!

[@FStoppers]

Yeah it's fine, it didn't really get wet wet but enough to where I didn't want to proceed any further. David scouted out this "easy to reach sandbar" a few days before but I wasn't convinced the sandbar had moved during those days inbetween.

[@terrydavidson7481]

Great video, nice shoulders at 2:08 jokes aside love all your content!!

[@mohdnayeem8893]

thanks sir

[@ericknorpp8238]

Too bad the Beauty dishes were made for the older "better" Profoto heads. The new inset flash bulbs stink in my opinion for most all of the profoto modifiers, But especially for the beauty dish. I always pull out my Pro7 heads when using the beauty dish myself. The light is much much better. Supposedly there is a glass extender or something that helps a little but never tried it myself. But your finally shot looks good.

[@FStoppers]

We did a test of this theory a few videos back on our channel. I found no difference between a head that sticks out and the B1 head. If there is a difference, it's like 5% at best. I love Profoto but to me this is a marketing trick that photographers eat up.

[@ericknorpp8238]

I have been shooting professionally for over 25 years with Profoto and my speciality is Beauty, so I beg to differ with you. But your probably right, the average Joe shooter would not notice the difference. That is why their top packs, Pro8's, Pro 10's,still have the extended flash tube for a good reason and why they are called "Pro" heads. On a side note, it does not take Einstein to figure out the spread of light is not the same as the closed flash tube. Specially for their Octobanks and beauty dishes. It is science and spread of light, Not opinion.

[@phaskellhall]

Eric Knorpp we only tested the extended glass dome for the B1 and couldn’t see a difference at all. Maybe the pro heads make a bigger difference....might have to do a test on those

[@ericknorpp8238]

That makes sense, The answer above "I found no difference between a head that sticks out and the B1 head" was not clear. That is why I did not buy it for my "cheaper" flash heads. I wasn't trying to argue with anybody, just stated my professional opinion. Your final shot was nice in any case. Good job.

[@austinjames8854]

So this is what Getzlaf does in the offseason

[@faizfab1571]

Good

[@JimmyBlanco]

am I the only one who thought it was Johnny Knoxville in the thumbnail???

[@caltetm1891]

A pitty you didn"t show /take pictures from day three that would have been epic as you said... Somehow the composition of the final shot is not working for me.,I don't see the connection to the model, it's more a colored background however the light composition is great.

[@FStoppers]

I wanted to shoot in the storm but everyone packed up their gear right when I got in the ocean. Also the ambient light was so dark (as you can see from my cell phone videos that day). I would have had to shoot at ISO 6400 at least in that situation and because no direct sunlight was being cast through the clouds at all, the kiteboarder would have been lit super flat despite the sky behind him being epic. -P

[@ChadCarney-hu3du]

Lee lookin like a snack

[@TVSly1]

Looks like predator kite surfing

[@RealHankShill]

Ah... watching this video after a video about how lens compression doesnt exist is perfect...

[@FStoppers]

Lens compression doesn't exist, perspective compression does :) Note, I had to move my body further and further to get the effect I wanted, I didn't simply use another lens to create "magic compression" - P

[@swaygfx]

Whys lee head bald ?

[@RealHankShill]

Lex Luthor is his mentor

[@slope1957]

I thought this was meant to be a review of the lens, not the lighting setup.

[@sergeiegorkin7873]

Good job, Pat. Zero words from Lee today, I already miss him. jk, I don't.

[@heresmyurl]

I think the only thing I don't like about this shot is that he has flippy-floppies on. I think I'd like it more if he was barefoot. I dont know why, just looks odd.

[@chez8219]

Patrick is so hot

[@accutus]

fazisa is he the dwarf?

[@FStoppers]

prefers midget -P

[@chez8219]

accutus rude

[@chez8219]

Fstoppers ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@accutus]

Fstoppers Sorry, Bad englisch

[@MF.Productions]

Just Photoshop the living daylights out of that. Sunsets, a Mountain scape and a large Moon with an Astronaut sitting on it next to his Rocket plus a Pirate ship in there somewhere. F.... stopped, peace out!

[@dsdave07]

You need a weather resistant Olympus and their superb 300mm f4. I can't be sure, but that Tamron thing looks a little soft at full extension. Even their 40-150 would give you a 300mm equivalent, with f 2.8 to boot!

[@mogencheng3829]

lee morris is bald?

[@FStoppers]

He is now....he recently joined the club

[@ivan2fast4u]

Remove flip flops and sunglasses from Lee... its like he going on walk not like he kiting

[@autismdad77]

Check out the latest photos by 🇺🇸Daniel🇲🇽: www.eyeem.com/u/21180202

[@MikeMenegus]

You were too close, shoot from the beach, without the monopod and I think you would have done much better. I shoot surfers at 600mm handheld from the beach (tamron 150-600g2)

[@huetuber1204]

This isn’t a bad idea. No, no. It’s a stupid idea.

[@actie-reactie]

Sure was about portraits....sure wasnt about the lens.....got wiser about portraits....learned nothing about the lens.....🤔

[@radugrosu9445]

2 stars , needs more work

[@FStoppers]

Ha, realistically, I'd give it a 3 star. It's high enough to get work but nothing spectacular. I have to say, creating any 3+ star image while also filming a review/tutorial/youtubeVideo adds to the complexity 10 fold. -P

[@pinkeye00]

Terrible shots.

[@lonesurvivor7612]

Another video shows that you only need money and expensive tools to be a photographer.