Wow! This is one of the most concise tutorials I have heard on the issues of proper exposure, and the explanation of ETTR is awesome. Great job! I learned a lot from watching this video.

Very easy to follow, and nice accurate information relayed concisely. Nice job!

Good and very educational video! Keep up the good work!

F8 for 30 seconds during blue hour? You using an ND filter?

Straight to the point. Nice upload. Thank you for sharing.

Nothing special

Mike when are you coming back to KZfaq?

Very helpful and to the point. Thanks.

So, what kind of settings do i use if its at dusk, and the sky is still too bright?

You forgot to mention "mirror lock"

You guys haven't posted a video for a year, hope everything's fine.

Dude, what happened to you man? It’s been a year. Hope you’re good.

Super helpful video. Thanks!

A refreshing learning experience! Very helpful to the beginner and seasoned photographer alike! Many thanks - with love from Atlanta.

The pure joy! Can't wait to get back home to SoCal ... or to New England ... or Puerto Rico... just give me an ocean and a beach! Thanks for the tips - practical and very useful. Cheers from Atlanta.

Thank you soooo very much for the amazing work and the wonderful quality and clarity of your content! You’re one of the very few natural born teachers. Please, keep enlightening some of us engaged in this path towards mastering the art of photography a lesson at a time. Thank you!

here, here! Well said

Lovely Sonoita images, Mike!! 🌩 I go Full-Rambo on the bright sky bolts! ND 6, electronic shutter, continuous mode, and let 'er rip at ~0.4 seconds per exposure. (As fast as the memory allows.) As twilight sets in I remove the ND and keep blazing away with continuous.

I have used your advise so many times, I miss new videos, I hope you are well

The best free tutorial I had

Thank you very much for the guidance, testing, and willingness to share information.

I´m really interested in buying this lens but very different opinions depending on who is rating it. In this video its super sharp and good all over. Watched another video where there is a warning about how unsharp it is at over 300mm. Who should I believe ?

My first thought was, what if you've got one of the many species of birds in the water? So many locations has this element in it, thus the question! New subscriber, as I liked how you stuck to the topic, reminded me to look for Photopills, which I have...and I haven't done any long exposure for quite some time, so looking for some pointers. So far I just have a circular polarizer, so I'll give that a try, and perhaps upgrade if needed!

Can you run across on the solar and how

Wow...just... Wow...

With 3 square filter slots--as you have here--the M15 does in fact vignette until 17mm on the Nikon 14-24 f/2.8G--something plainly documented in Haida's own materials. I must say that your not mentioning that is a rather disappointing oversight.

Completely agree brother. If I ever have an image where I still can't get everything in focus at F11, then I'll usually open back up to F8 and focus stack. The degradation of quality on anything above F16 with my lenses is very obvious. Great video mate :)

Benro 6 looks out a half stop at least. Skies are all colours

Very useful video ❤

I wish this held a little more weight. I'm looking for something to hold my 400, a TC, and a Canon 1DX body (a little over 7kg), plus incidentals like a rain hood, etc.. An 8-12kg limit would be more usable for telephoto landscapes. Unfortunately, I cannot find anything beteween this 6kg category (along with the K&F) and the huge upgrade to the $1100 Arca Swiss D4. Surely there must be some middle ground as a geared head is perfect for telephoto use.

I miss your videos, I hope you guys are doing well.

No noise at ISO 8000 *Me crying in aps-c

Wow! Just Magical - you captured it just perfectly. I used to live in CB some 50 or so years ago when most of the roads in and out of CB were dirt and the ski area had only 2 or 3 condos. I also would fly fish the whole area in the summer - what a cool area of Colorado - you are sooooo fortunate. :o)

How to predict where the lightning will happen?

Overpriced

Great explanation too bad social media accepts sub par results

Great video, thank you! Beautiful landscape images.

Geared heads are where it’s at. I made the switch this year. Benro was my first choice, but it was gonna take a month to get it, so I ended up going with K&F Concepts.

I rushed out to grab a highly active storm last night. First time shooting lightning. Learned some stuff on this video. #1 turn off auto focus

Awesome video and tips. Btw the fujifilm xt2 from 2016 has up to 15min shutter time.

Thanks! Just need the money to buy camera now :(

Thank you for this

Thank you for such a nice education video!

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With all your respect if you lived in Australia, you would find that you would need a grad filter. The harsh sun in Australia is phenomenal unless you've been here. You would not know you're in those typical American scenes with mountains and clouds and stuff I can see why you would not use a grad filter, but I think they do have their place sometimes, I occasionally use my grad filter the other problem with stacking and doing long exposures is you can't stack a Long Exposure with different exposure times because what's happened is the scene has actually changed in that time that you've done your first exposure so just doesn't work, so there are reasons why you would use a filter if you combine a grade filter and then linear grades in editing, it's actually quicker than stacking thanks for your video and yes there were some insightful things but there were some things that were clearly factual and yes I'm a professional landscape photographer and I teach Photography I just don't have a fancy KZfaq channel I actually prefer to be out with students teaching them in the real world and that is not something I would teach there are times for grad filters in certain situations

Where did Perea Photogaphy go? Looks like no activity in over a year.

Beautiful work guys!!

This is exactly what I've been looking for to do astrophotography. Thanks.

Is this Caddo Lake in Uncertain, TX?