Hello Everybody.
We are here in Canyonlands and we've been doing early morning sunrise, and I thought
I have a little time to do some questions and answers.
So what I have here, I have in my cell phone, everything down, and we can start it.
Eivor from Colorado asked me: How do you keep the camera steady enough for 50 second exposure
in those winds?
Uh I am using that's a Gitzo tripod and Giotto head, ball head.
It's pretty heavy, and the tripod is rated up to 70 pounds.
It's overkill, but it works in those winds perfectly.
And also I have on the bottom of that you see those spikes, what it's improved so much,
and especially in the cold if you want to put to the ice or whatever.
It works perfectly, but if you don't have a heavy tripod, I really recommend those spikes
and also, you can weight it from the center, let's say with backpack or anything.
So Eivor, that's the answer for you.
Next question, Suzanna from Slovakia: How do you find such beautiful locations?
I know you live in Colorado, is everything near you or do you have to travel a lot?
Colorado is huge, we live in central Colorado and anywhere I go, if I want to go out of
the state, it's 3-4 hours just to get to the border.
We live on the foothills and mainly we going to shoot to Rocky Mountains National Park
or the mountains around, and everything takes, I don't know, it's not just straight, even
if it's close you have to go through the mountains and be there.
But I shoot everywhere in Colorado, or outside of the state, but what I'm trying to do, not
just go to those famous places, I want to show you people different perspective or whatever
I see.
So I hope it does, I hope it is, good.
And Alex from Dublin: I was on your website and you have hundreds of beautiful images.
How long have you been a photographer, and how long does it take to learn such a skill?
I'm still learning, and I'm shooting, let's say, professionally maybe 5-6 years.
You have to just get out and try new stuff, and step out of your comfort zone.
Ok.
Jose from New Mexico asks: I love your work, I am a beginner photographer and I want to
buy better equipment, what would you recommend?
DSLR or mirrorless? and what brand?
I am shooting with Canon and I never shot with a mirrorless camera.
People are buying mirrorless cameras because they are smaller and lighter, but they don't
realize, the distance between the glass and sensor must be always the same.
So if you have a skinnier camera, you're going to have a longer lens, and that's what I know.
If you have one lens, it's ok, but if you have more lenses you have that much on each
lens longer than I have on mine.
And what brand to buy: any brand is good, whatever brand you buy is good, just make
a research if you want to do any brand, just make a research if they are bringing new equipment,
if they go with the current trends.
So you can buy, I don't know, Canon, Nikon, or if you want to buy more expensive Leika,
or you can buy mirrorless, they are good too.
But make sure you buy something, save the money for little better, and don't change.
Buy good equipment, what lasts longer.
Don't switch from brand to brand, you're going to lose just money, just make on the first
place good decision and it will go.
Ok Fadi Hage from Canada asks: how long did you have to stay under cover to photograph
those grouses?
I was shooting in the hide and outside of hide, but I was, the action started, I would
say, maybe half an hour before sunrise, and I was sitting already there, maybe an hour
before, even longer.
So, yeah, patience.
Laura from Montana asks: how do you get that close to the animals to photograph them so well?
If I'm shooting animals, the first thing what I try to do, I try to learn about the animals.
Some animals they let you go closer, some animals not.
You can just get out, and you will figure it out, how they react.
You can use sounds, like bird sounds, some birds they're attracted, some birds they're
flying away.
So it's just practice, but patience, and don't be, you can approach very close if you let
them know you are there and not threatening any animals or birds, mostly it works.
Maria from Mexico asks: do you do workshops or phototours or what would you recommend?
I am not doing workshops or phototours, sometimes I take my friends or whatever maybe once or
twice a year.
And I never took any workshop.
And I would recommend, if you're trying to take a workshop, do research before, and also
I would say, if you're going out of the country, or you're going out of any, let's say, you're
from Montana, and if you come here to Utah, don't try to take a workshop from somebody
who was here once and already doing workshop, take a local person who knows places and takes
you, the person can take you to the places where you wouldn't go or you wouldn't know,
like regular bus stops there.
If you go by yourself you could see them too.
M. from Floro, Norway: You are published in major magazines worldwide.
How did you start to get published, how did you get recognized?
When I started to do photography, I was thinking, Ok I'll be photographer, I have 10-12 shots,
and then I started to send them to editors and competitions and stuff.
And I was thinking: Ok now you will see people, I have 17 shots, you're going to sit on your butt.
No it didn't happen!
But I was thinking, but I forgot about those actions anymore.
So what I started to do, I started to try to organize my website.
If you organize your website, people they will search for some images, it comes to your image
That's the first thing.
Second thing, I started to donate pictures first.
When I started to work this way, I started to donate the pictures and let the people
know there is somebody who is willing to help, but also try to get recognized.
Next thing is, if you're sending pictures to somewhere, to editors, or to magazine,
try to pick up first local ones, don't go like National Geographic or wherever, try
to start with local ones, and also try to be not once a year, or try to send the pictures,
not too many, maybe 15-20, but send it every 2-3 months, and editors will know you're good
and you're trying to improve, and also they can count on you.
Uh next question: Morgan from Salt Lake City asks: can you do a review of what's in your
camera bag?
I am planning to do a review of what's in my camera bag but I am not going to do, like
what lenses I have, what cameras I have, because if you don't have it, you will try to buy
it or not.
But I would like to do review what other stuff I have in the backpack, what I'm using for
photography and what backpacks I have.
I have 2 backpacks, I have a LowePro Whistler and I have an F-stop 70 Liters, whatever it is.
So I will do a review on what's in my backpack.
Maxim from Moscow: what is your favorite camera and lens?
My favorite camera and lens is whatever is with me.
Because it's hard to say, if you don't have a camera with you, or if you just have a cellphone,
cellphone is my favorite, if the opportunity comes, you need to have something.
But I am using cameras with full frame, uh yes full frame, and I'm using prime lenses: 35,
85, and also I'm using wide angle 17-40, and uh no, 17-40 and then I have 70-200, and I
have a lens for wildlife 100-400 with extender and 600mm f/4 first generation.
Sandy from Florida asks: you have a cute accent, where are you from originally?
I'm from Europe, from Slovakia.
Sandy from Florida, are you from Winter Park, Florida?
Laughs, Ok, I'm from Slovakia.
Colin from Georgia asks: I enjoy your video of you photographing in the lake, but I would
be terrified to bring my photo equipment near the water.
How did you handle the nerves?
It's 3 months from it and I'm still shaky, laughs.
No, in the water, you have to make sure everything, you have to double check everything, it's
tight and everything, and the main thing is to walk slow, because, like this water was
pretty ok, it was nice and sandy and graduate slope, but the problem was there was on the
bottom, there was like tons of all kinds of old plants, and it was so long I have to be
careful I'm not tripping on them.
Or you can have rocks, you can have anything, but insurance would help too.
Ok Isabelle from Texas asks: what is the most important rule for wildlife photography?
It's many rules, I would say patience and what I'm using the most is eye level.
Get low, whatever it is, if it's tiny bird, get low to tiny birds, when it's on the ground.
That's the most important, to me.
And Sage from San Francisco asks: I am 15 years old and I love animals and I love your
animal photos.
What is your dream animal to photograph next?
I have weird dreams what to photograph.
I want you people to think this way, it's not to go to Africa, or go to wherever you
want to go, photograph first what is around you and you would be surprised what can you
see, just behind your house, you don't have to go to Norway to the same place what everyone
was there sitting, and it's telling you: set the tripod here, take a picture, we're going
to next location, and repeating the same.
It's very bad for photography, I would say, because people they want to have nice, and
they just overlook what they have around, and the same thing is with animals or landscape,
and whatever people they do.
Just use what you have around, it's the cheapest and the most rewarding.
And what animal I would like to photograph: I would like to photograph a Skunk.
I don't have a skunk yet, and I think they're cute.
But here in Colorado, we live in Colorado, we don't have much skunks around.
So that's it for the questions.
And what I would like to tell you, every each month, or each let's say 4-6 weeks, I'm going
to do questions, answer the questions, so shoot me any questions and I will try to answer
them, and also, I would like to give back to my subscribers, for next time I would be
picking up one subscriber for large print.
So comment, ask and subscribe, and you will have a print.
Until next time, see ya!
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