Stoked I saw this at the time it aired... participating in the live chat was great. Thank you (and the Mikes) for sharing your insights.

I could happily watch you three critique photos all day. Very informative. Great advice. Thanks guys.

Once again another really informative tutorial, Nick. It was helped by the fact that you three guys all seem to get on so well together, so the conversation flows really naturally. Your attention to details and encouraging photographers, when we nail something special in the field, to be that extar bit more demanding back home in post-processing to be sure we extract the maximum impact possible. Once again, a great tutorial, many thanks. Eamonn

Thanks for sharing this! Not only did you critique, but you gave a plethora of helpful advice.

This was really good. The photos were great but the tips and tricks shared were what I really appreciated. I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about landscape shooting and processing and I still learned several things. Thanks Nick!

I’ve been following Mez on Instagram for awhile and it’s was a nice surprise to see him on here. Awesome video with super helpful insights from three of the greats in storm/nature photography.

Tons of great advice in here, and it’s great to see and hear what each of you are looking at and what you think about.

Those images were incredible and it was really useful to hear your thoughts on the improvements that would've taken them to the next level.

Great photos Nick. Can't wait to see the ones that won the contest.

That was some great insight guys thanks for putting that together Nick 👊🏻

Wow. Nick Page and Mike Olbinski in one video! And now I get to follow Mike Mezeul! Good stuff guys!

I really enjoy the Critiques. I always learn a lot from these

Although these were really beautiful pictures, I enjoyed the critiques because I'm sure I will try to remember these important things when I am shooting next time! Its a bummer I could not watch this live :) Thank you Nick for sharing this with us🙏🏽

Nice job with the critique guys. Not an easy thing and you guys did a great job and gave lots of helpful information. Thanks

Great advice to everyone Nick, & Mikes x 2 :) Looking forward to see the finalists (y)

This was great! I am weather enthusiast, grew up Okie. I tour every spring..this was incredibly helpful..thank you!

Thanks guys great video. Very constructive comments, so helpful to us budding photographers still learning the trade. More like this please.

Great insight. As someone who has not chased storms it gave me things to store in the back of the head when I do. Many thanks!

This was fun - and very helpful to better understand the importance of every single detail in the frame.

An excellent critiques of photographs that did not make the top 30. Thank you for sharing.

Can't wait for the winners 😊😊

Really thoughtful and constructive criticisms. I picked up a number of great tips. Thanks for doing this

Nice to hear about the little things to look for that can hold back an otherwise great photo. Some our in our control and some are not. Thanks.

Very good advice and commentary that will be very helpful with my photography going forward.

Excellent and useful feedback guys!

This video is gold !!

Great insight, thanks guys 👍

This is a really valuable service... Heck, I'd pay for this kind of critique of my work.

Great critique video! Applies even beyond just storm photos. Missed the premiere because of a work meeting. :(

Awesome! Great critic that will help down the road!

Thank you to you three for this constructive criticism which will allow me to better reprocess it! This lightning photo was taken at the top of Mont Bouquet, and free of all protection ...! A memorable storm chase ! Wait to see more ... ;) Gwenael

Great review. Inspired me to up my post-processing game.

I at least hope all these people printed those! I’d kill for that lightening bolt photo where you can see where it lands. That is a goal

Nick your studio is boss!!!

Very interesting them explaining their pano shooting techniques. For some reason I always start my panos from left to right, back button focus and expose for every frame. I figure while exposing each frame there is enough overlap that the each exposure won’t be that far off from each other and it seems they’ll blend together better...

thank you Nick for the constructive critique.

the is the greatest collab to ever hapen

In lightroom, the Dehaze slider works great on dust spots. It really makes them pop. Thanks for a great video..

Was great to get a new podcast episode man. Especially cause I’m just coming out of a creative funk and was really able to relate with what you had to say.

Overall, enjoyed all your the suggestions for the photos, though I think this whole concept would have been helped immensely by actually making some of these adjustments on the photo while you were talking about it. Perhaps, something to think about doing next time?

Having Nick Page withdrawal. Your fans miss you bud. Hope you are well and having stress free rest.

The little pano bump could be blended out smoother in post. Panos have to be shot wide because some will be distorted on the edges that have to be cropped out. It definitely needs more sky at the top. * Nature sometimes messes with you almost like it's on purpose. I got up a 3:30 AM one day. There were great clouds outside that would make a great sunrise. But the time I got to my location, set up, and waited for the sun the clouds were gone. After the sun was up and the good light was gone clouds drifted back in again. Go figure. * i wouldn't crop from the right, but I'd remove the bush. * The tractor is close th rule of thirds horizontally and vertically.

Nick, where did you go too? I have not seen anything from you in a long time. Are you finished with You Tube? I always check to see it you have posted something but nothing. I love your stuff and you teach really well. let me know

A very instructive video. Thanks. I would have loved to see the "after" if you had the chance to add your post changes.

Nice info and suggestions! Nick time to dust the top of your desk and tablet...

Hello to everybody, thanks for the all the explanations, I would like to question the second photo (with the tractor). Could it be that the guilty one for the problem in this photo is the automatic focus stacking in the photoshop. When we take the photos for focus stacking we have to change the focus from close to the camera to far from the camera... and that creates a little zoom (which could explain a little level difference on the horizon) and then when photoshop creates for us auto focus stacking sometimes/often it chooses some strange places as the sharp ones... so its always good to check it after. Maybe it should have been auto aligned first and then auto focus stacked? Would you agree or I'm just trying to be smarter than I really am? Thanks for the answers in advance. Good day to all :)

That tornado image is nuts

Nick, is that a Rogue Dead Guy Ale 🍺 hat? Love it!

8x10 crop would focus the subject better?

Do you think that last one might actually be better without the bolt? The cloud and the foreground were so cool...

great chat full of info

i love the first photo very much because it is NOT so much post processed (i say it as a retoucher). It looks almost film like. I am a bit tired to see all the portfolio shots which are often great, but where i see there is more time spend behind the monitor then behind the tripod… At least it was a photo contest not a post contest…

Judging critiques are my favorite to watch.

The tractor pic was my favorite

It looks like that supercell with the tractor was shot landscape pano not vertical pano? If so, I think vertical would have worked better to catch the top if the cloud. Awesome image though 👌

Some incredible weather-related shots, that's first. I don't have any weather shots like this so from the standpoint of experience with the challenge of creating compelling well-related shots, I have little experience. I say all of this as a caveat to address what is often the challenge of critiquing someone else's work. What is offered is simply an opinion, and the tendency if you don't like the opinion is to challenge the source and say, well, if you know so much, show me YOUR great images... so, well, as I said, I don't have any similar shots, nor if I did would I say that therefore makes me an expert. Moving on...since the viewer of an image is arguably as important as the image itself, I feel like I have an opinion worth sharing, so I will. My reaction to the images presented here is #1, to agree they wouldn't/shouldn't make the cut. That said, my reasoning is a bit different than some of the comments, and tends to be more composition-centric than post-processing centric. So for example, the first shot of the road and rainbow... I felt like the composition was unbalanced...very right-heavy, and although the road is a leading line, the point of a leading line is generally to take you through the image, or at least to the main subject idea. In that respect it succeeds by taking you to one end of the rainbow. However, the rainbow itself also acts as a leading line and when you follow the rainbow to the left side of the image, there's nothing there for you. So to me, that imbalanced composition is what's lacking in this image. Similarly the incredible storm cell with the tractor...composition is what I think holds this image back. Because of the unusual nature of the storm cell (and certainly in a collection of storm-related photos) makes it a main subject, and most likely THE main subject. The tractor could very well be an excellent supporting element in the frame, but it's central location tends to compete for attention as the main subject idea. To get to the storm, your eyes generally have to go through the tractor first...and therefore to me, that compositional choice is why this image didn't make the cut. Regarding the tornado photo, Nick I completely agree with your assessment regarding the unfortunate (again composition) aspect of the business end of the tornado not being visible but rather being obscured by the trees. While some might argue that introduces some mystery and allows the user to use their imagination, I would argue it's very much similar to clipping off the wing of a bird in flight shot... It would have been a much more interesting photo I think if you could see the touch down point, or at least the ground where the tornado would be touching down... I thoroughly enjoy this video, and I have great respect for photographers that not only demonstrate the understanding of weather-related opportunities and the skill to anticipate them, but more than that, the courage to put themselves in a generally risky position to be able to make the captures. My comments about this photos doesn't diminish one iota my total respect for their efforts.

Sorry, this is off topic! Where are you Nick you seem to have dropped off the radar, it has been longer than two months? I hope you are well. You are missed. Lang may yer lumb reek.

Devils Tower ?? Isn’t that the close encounters film ?

When Lightning is near I set up on my tripod and sit in the car with a radio trigger

Hey nick watching from italy..the first picture looks like from luminar free sky replacement.but im not sure..great critique.

Foregrounds: Always ask - "is this adding or subtracting from the point?"

belle foto ( beatiful photos )

Nick, Are you ok? No video for so long time. I hope your ok and all your fans can see More of you great videos!

Great commentary from three really fabulous photographers. I am fascinated by the Devil's Tower image. I understand the points of criticism, but what stands out to me is that the tower seems to be leaning backwards. This is inevitable if you use a wide angle lens and tilt it up. Here it seems to be checkmate, since you have to use a wide angle lens to get the entire composition in but I suspect that the road points uphill. If I had a really wide angle lens I could set the camera level anyway and then crop the composition out of the top of it. Personally I would use a perspective transformation if that were allowed by the contest rules. So, are others bothered by the lean or is it just me? If they are, how would they correct for it?

Damn. I completely forgot to enter the contest :(

This message come from Finland.

You guys are maniacs. Step closer, walk more to the side and so on. If I had seen tornado like that one behind the bushes here in Sweden I wouldn´t even think of stop and taking a photo. I had pushed the paddle to the floor and drive away as fast as possible from that thing. 😂

Omg, when do we see u again? Have you quit? I hope not.

That first photo looks like no post processing was done at all

I failed at looking at the camera more like Nick Page taught me, forgive me everyone! :)

I appreciate Nick’s photography, but if I were to enter a photo contest I’d fair better with Adam Gibbs or Thomas Heston as judges. I tend to avoid “heavily” processed images, prefer natural light (film) , with a touch of dodging and burning.

It's just a sad fact these days that pretty realistic Lightning images can also be built directly in Photoshop. Not saying that it's here, but I'm pretty sure it can be done.

The lighting strike at 21:15 looks fake to me..

I think the almost made it shots are probably more important to hear.

So the fact that Devil's Tower is leaning to the left doesn't bother anybody.

Is that guy in India Piximperfect? lol

Not bad for a intro.....

The third shot had garbage in it. You missed that somehow. Lol

Hey! Could you kindly go help Adam in the forest photography. It’s unbelievable that Canada is destroying valuable natural sites for little money. You always have time to shoot the mountains, go help Adam if the crazy people start to destroy the forest. Thank you! This message comes from Finland.

what happened to the content. it dried up

I can understand the ups and downs one goes through. With that said, I do want to remind you that your subscribers make you money. I expect at least video updates regarding where you are at. I am unsubscribing because I find your position understandable but your actions I do not! You are experiencing a lul.....got it! Leaving your audience in the dark largely is bullshit. You said something on one of your channels and I suppose that covers it all. Sooooo disappointed :( You created this!