What APERTURE to use?

[@MadsPeterIversen]

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[@AndyCuthbert]

Great stuff, Mads. 👏🏻👏🏻 As always keeping it simple. Sometimes people think too much about the setting rather than enjoying the moment and capturing it.

[@cjlee5621]

You are the first guru who talks of the beauty of photographing one subject (2 trees) many times. It's a great way to experiment, learn and yet capture the timeless beauty of a subject. We should share our subjects globally; to follow the seasons and changes of our little corners of the world !

[@tombrook32]

Great video. I’ve been a photographer for years but always sucked at landscapes. I thought I understood aperture but I’ve been using way too small apertures for landscape. Like f22 everytime. Thinking that would get me the best DOF. And because I knew about Ansel Adams I thought this was the best. I had no idea the equivalence was actually f8. Thank you man!

[@verlenelewis9866]

Fantastic shots! I loved the simplified explanation of why you chose a specific aperture for each photo. Really helped explain why to use a particular one.

[@SilkKuts]

I thought I needed a Windows update and started clicking on the icon 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Great video sir!

[@dougheizenrader2280]

Great video as always, Mads! You have such a wonderful eye for serene compositions.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thank you, Doug :)

[@jens_voigt]

Hi Mads, Thanks for the lesson about aperture, there was something new and something to refresh. Thank you for showing

[@MadsPeterIversen]

You are welcome :)

[@kittyclerico18]

Beautiful images and really helpful, clear information. Decision making regarding aperture choices is so appreciated!

[@williampetersen2899]

Always enjoy your choices when it comes to the technical side of landscape photography. So concise, easy to understand, and they always have that "enjoy the moment" feel to them. So nice to see you using f/16 when needed, especially in focus-stacking. Others put a pox on anything past f/11 but I like f/16 when focus stacking with great results but now feel a lot better about it after seeing your vlog. BTW, you should do more intimate, close-up shots. Those anemone photos were beautiful!

[@davidknight6981]

Thank you Mads, this is good stuff.

[@janettemitchell6864]

A big fan of your work

[@marycarron5118]

This is a really clear explanation of how to choose the right aperture, much appreciated Mads. And those flower images are beautiful. You have inspired me to go out to the woods before the spring flowers have disappeared.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Happy to hear that! Hope you get something delicious :)

[@michael-4k4000]

Hey you! Am a huge fan of the channel 👏!

[@DarrenJSpoonley]

You are a fantastic resource for spot on advice as always !! Really great episode buddy

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thank you, Darren :)

[@JaypeaFoto]

Good video, nice explanation for new photographers.

[@tjsinva]

Nice rundown. 👍🥂

[@mikejohnston9113]

I really liked the photo of the two trees at about 8:21. Lots of good information. Thanks

[@valk-photography]

Enjoyed the video and your explanation choosing the right aperture. Always learning something from you ! Thanks Mads !!!!

[@shaungoddard8417]

Hi Mads, this is yet again another great video that has given me so much to work with moving forwards.

[@edc641]

The Tamron 28-200 isn't exactly known for its excellent bokeh. Yet you managed to get some stunning images of those anemones! Thank you for another great video :)

[@marilynrichards979]

Beautiful photos! I always look forward to your videos. This was an easily understandable explanation of your choices. Always learn so much from your instruction. Your enthusiasm and positivity are contagious. Flower shots are delicate and beautiful.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thanks a lot, Marilyn :)

[@AliasJimWirth]

I learned a lot here...again. Thanks Mads.

[@colinreidcr]

I’ve always liked using the 5.6

[@PMCN53]

Always love your very practical approach to any photography topic, Thank you👏🏻

[@Slimer-kf6ss]

It is a great reminder to check the pictures before leaving the spot. I struggle with seeing on the small display if the pic turned out well enough or not. Not only the display is mostly small, but zooming in is not working out. Fuji X-T4 only zooms in one time and that is not close enough. But carrying the laptop with me is too much - this is good for people who rely on the greatest quality and I have seen photographers checking it on the laptop in the field. I take then more than one picture just to get more sure that I get at least one good shot, but this does not work out all the time...

[@great-stuff-6688]

Amazing drone shots. Fantastic photos 👍 thank you for sharing. Always support you

[@glynparry6598]

Nice photos and good advice Mads

[@scotty4418]

Great start to the video with the drone images Mads and agree your flower photos turned out very well indeed. Hope you had a good birthday despite the challenge of getting the video ready for today

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thanks, Jim. Hehe, I did, everyone around me were working anyway ;)

[@jamiemaxwell9649]

Really great video, as always 👍 and I especially appreciated the inclusion of some drone examples, thank you!

[@mikekeller8871]

Excellent teaching and techniques.

[@caroleneame4974]

Great images and so easily understood. Thank you

[@CookedLight]

Skies were epic 👍🏻

[@txhunter144]

Thank you for your great instruction! Your photos are amazing

[@mrdarryljones1]

Yup.

[@thesharpercoder]

Personally, I have found the best way to set my aperture is referencing a DoF table or app to check the hyperfocal distance. I also use the DoF table or app to estimate how much DoF I will have at given shooting distance and size of subject.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Yeah, that's just too slow of a process for me, but if it works for others it's completely fair game :)

[@OutdoorActionPhoto]

Thanks Mads.

[@norlmerk]

Oh I don’t know your really good at flower emotion!

[@anthonyplancherel8274]

Excellent video with lots of useful information. Do you have a video about focus stacking something complex like the old tree with the foreground grasses? That'd be really useful to see. Great stuff as always!

[@lisasimpson9343]

Love the flower images especially the yellow ones. That was very interesting Mads, sometimes I learn the hard way with aperture, and its always with something I can't go back and do better. A dog I took at work I missed focus on the nose but nailed it on his eyes, I wished I had used a different aperture but I was struggling for light and had already upped the ISO and because it was a dog had to keep the shutter speed up.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

I think as long as you nail the eyes the photo is usually great ;)

[@lisasimpson9343]

@@MadsPeterIversen Ok thank you

[@cmichaelhaugh8517]

Really good summary!

[@daelpixphotography]

I've seen images like the one at 13:17 and I have no idea how they do it without any processing. They do it with the Canon 100mm f2.8, same lens as I have.

[@shot2death876]

Interesting.

[@fotojo7334]

MADs, you are my favourite 16er 😜👌👍

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Haha! :)

[@Tbonyandsteak]

Have to be said when there are no near objects, only far distance objects. There are no need for high f numbers. You can get all in focus with low f numbers. In the end it depends on where the lense are most sharp. Have a 200 mm lense that needs 50 m before all are in focus. But that is rare.

[@zambesis]

hi, thanks for the video. I believe that you could improve it by showing us exaclty how the picture looked like at around 9min in the movie vs when you adjusted it and show exactly the stats for both pictures so we can see the difference. anyway good video

[@eileenconragan1064]

I am half way thru but love this video. I don’t trust my eye when viewing shot in camera and I don’t believe I know my lenses well enough to be completely confident. Sometimes I retake the shot with different apertures or focus stack to and end up w too many photos. I love your idea of Comparing them all in PS. I am going to try that with my different lenses. What is your preference when you want to smooth out water - do you use 16 or 22 to slower shutter? Or do you instead keep the aperture mid range and add a 6stop filter for instance? maybe that’s another video! Happy for you that your viewer numbers have increased because I’ve been watching you for a while and you’re always sharing great info! Thank you.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Thanks Eileen, I hope the last discussion may have answered what I do. Generally I try to stay away from f/18+ unless forced. I use a filter if need to smooth more ;)

[@photographyandthecreativeyou]

Great video!

[@robertnystrom289]

I wonder at what f stop are the artifacts from stacking worse- or better- than diffraction? There has to be a crossover somewhere.

[@omranmohammed4811]

Hey peter bro i wish you all the best . Please i want your advice which is the best aperture do i use if im shooting moutains and lakes videos 🥰

[@norlmerk]

I must have trees on my mind….I even dreamed of taking a picture of a grand tree and deciding best place to shoot from. Or perhaps the trees are communicating with me on some level? I do love trees…a little too much?

[@IanWilkinson]

11:13 * A-nem-o-ne - _four_ syllables ;-)

[@craigmantle5362]

I remember when I first started doing landscape photography and I didn’t have any ND filters and I would always shoot at f22 to drag my shutter 🤣 so many soft photos

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Yeah, I luckily avoided that early on :)

[@Bonsainz]

Really enjoyed your explanation on Aperture, also are you still using the Tamron 28 to 200? the reason I asking I have found for major travel the 100 400 is too big and sometimes I don't use it, and when I do its a round about the 135 to 150 mark I use.I have both 16 35 and 24 70 GM lens as well as 135 prime which I love for sports and Portraits etc, Have listened to lots of reviews of the Tamron and your but now 2 yrs latter hoiw do you feel about it? would want it for those mid tele photo landscapes etc.

[@briacpannetier6477]

I have a question. I really like the way you take photos and how much you use your tripod. Everytime I use mine (whish is a cheap plastic tripod) I get kinda blurry images. Do you have any good entry level tripod ?

[@CluelessYoutuber]

Stunning photos as usual, Mads! Brilliant explanation of the sharpness at each aperture setting too, never thought to do such test for myself. Usually just have a set on f/11 if i want most of the scene in focus by rule of thumb 😂 and open up if I want to be creative in depth, or needing some more light (like for astro)

[@BigBadLoneWolf]

I looked up my camera body/ lens combination on DXO and when i am focus stacking i use the sharpest aperture, other than that it is depth of field that determines what aperture i use

[@masterloretta]

🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝

[@CGadney]

As always, a great lesson Mads. Just a thought, for flowers have you tried adapting a Helios 44-2 on the sony? If not, try it, the out of focus rendering is amazing!

[@MadsPeterIversen]

I actually have one of those lenses laying around somewhere. I used it on my a6000. Gotta give it another try :)

[@CGadney]

🙂 👍 Now I’ve suggested it, I am going to have to take my own advice! So many bluebells and wild garlic out at the moment. Will post some results.

[@pematamang9268]

I think Mad popular photographer Alex Strohl from France and he most use f4 or barely f4.6 and I like that concept because I like foreground should be little blur and others everything sharp looks like very clinical. Some photographer use f11, f16 even f22 and it is too sharp and foreground should little blur.

[@MadsPeterIversen]

It seems to me, Alex, has a bit of a different style than I do and many of his landscapes can be taken with a wide-open aperture and still have everything in focus. There are a few of the landscape photos where I can see the effect of the open aperture.

[@pematamang9268]

@@MadsPeterIversen his 1.6M Instagram followers was 4 years and I works with Canadian Tourism Board and many others brands. I don't think using Different aperture is own style. You had one video call how to shoot in midday in Moments channel and he said never use more f4 or more than f5.6 aperture. He likes foreground blur. Chris Burkard also use wide aperture and I bought his workshop. I constantly heard others landscape photographer said use f9, f11, f16, f22. And Chris Burkard small aperture for sunstar or sunbrush. I am not boycott your technique and I learned a lots from your KZbin.

[@DUCzillaMonster]

At 19.30, is that Norway? I think I have bin there, do you know the name of the town, could it be vic or something like that?

[@PerJarefall]

Again a nice video. 👍 What are your thoughts on Tilt Shift optics?

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Never used them, so no thoughts :)

[@teamdata]

Damn shame your drone doesn't do up to f16. Would have liked to see the differences, if any, between f8 up to f16. Beautiful photo of the island though. Why do you bracket your photos Mads? Just curious. The human eye does not see everything in focus front to back. So why?

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Well, the drone only goes to f/11, which some smaller cameras also do, but the result is the same for most lenses. Diffraction starts to be quite strong on the three most closed down apertures. When you say bracket, do you mean AOE or focus stacking? In regard to getting everything in focus in a landscape it's a creative decision for at 2D photo is never ever "the same" as what you can see with your eyes :)

[@Lansarin]

Hi Mads. You don't use Bracket shooting for images with a lot of light/dark contrast?

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Depends on how much contrast :)

[@martynunyabussiness8134]

I'm curious Mads, do you ever find that when you edit photos on a computer that they appear much darker on a cell phone screen? For example when posting the social media

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Not MUCH darker, but certainly that there is a difference between computer screen and phone. Several factors can play in, but screen brightness is usually the main course. When editing photos be sure it works both on a dark and a white background.

[@scottk.8494]

This is a helpful video because I often wonder how much of a concern detraction is for you since you use f16 quite a bit. Thanks for explaining your thought process! Sometimes I get too concerned about ultimate sharpness and forget about DOF 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@MadsPeterIversen]

Yeah, it's always a balance :)

[@patrickguilfoyle8884]

Nice images but bad tripod technique. Is it laziness that you raise center column first instead of tripod legs when using longer focal lengths?

[@MadsPeterIversen]

The meme about rising center columns has to stop, it made no difference what so ever in this circumstance, the photo is tac sharp. Also, I had already extended the legs as much as I could ;)

[@patrickguilfoyle8884]

@@MadsPeterIversen Well not everyone has your camera gear Mads,like the novice photographers. If you want to teach sharpness, don't raise center column with telephoto lenses. Yes you had tripod legs extended, but not fully extended for additional stability. Ask Nick, Nigel, James, Thomas, Adam, Hudson....what they do....Are you teaching yourself or others?

[@patrickguilfoyle8884]

@@MadsPeterIversen I did acknowledge your nice images.

[@jdub1963yahoocom]

I find that trying to Focus Stack a foreground that the wind is moving, like the grass must have been on that last sequence, is beyond challenging. How do you deal with that?

[@MadsPeterIversen]

I don't, it's nearly impossible ;)

[@jdub1963yahoocom]

@@MadsPeterIversen lol, that's what I figured. Thanks Mads, at least I don't feel completely stupid now. Keep up the great work!

[@petneb]

I'm too lazy to focus stack. In fact I'm too lazy to stack anything 😂

[@spidersj12]

A person looking at the footage from their done on their own 4K computer monitor but not watching your video on a smartphone screen.

[@michaels7889]

Your negative titles are very off-putting. Stop is an ugly word!