Nikon Z9 + Z 400mm for Wildlife Photography in Scotland || 5 days with Nikon and Land Rover
Episode 1: • Using my car as a Phot...
I am in Scotland to do wildlife photography and landscape photography together with Nikon and a film crew from Beyond Content. The purpose of this trip is to make some content for the Nikon Europe KZhead channel and to try out the new Nikon Z 400mm for wildlife photography.
For the first time I am publishing a video on my channel that is not filmed and edited by myself - this video is made by the passionated and very friendly crew from Beyond Content.
In the video I am photographing with Ricci who is a Nikon School Teacher.
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✦ ABOUT THIS VIDEO
I am in Scotland to meet up with Nikon and the Landrover team. We are going to photograph wildlife with some new equipment and there will be a film crew covering the 5 days.
I went to Scotland 6 days in advance to visit the Cairngorms to try my luck with the mountain hares but I did not see any.
I met up with my friend Joanna and we used her campervan as a basecamp for 3 days.
Together with her, I spent a few days in Glen Etive trying to photograph the Stags. They were very skittish though so I had to use my car as a photo blind.
After saying goodbye to Joanna I headed to another location to meet up with Ricci from Nikon School, Beyond Content and a Nikon PR representative.
Together we spent five days photographing landscapes, wildlife and trying out the new Nikon Z 400mm f/2,8.
I did some interview for the Nikon KZhead Channel and for Nikon Scool.
✦ WHO I AM.
My name is Morten Hilmer and I am a professional nature and wildlife photographer.
I am a Nikon Ambassador and I work as an ILCP photographer.
Nature conservation is very close to my heart.
I have served in the Danish military special unit, the Sirius Patrol, for two years and that has given me the skills and confidence to operate alone in the arctic regions.
See you out there !
All the best
Morten Hilmer
I completely lost track of time watching this video. It was a pleasure following two truly dedicated photographers at the top of their game.
“Look, a pheasant!” Love it!
A fresh breath to your channel but I kind of like more the videos where you film everything yourself (I know it's a lot of work). However, I wouldn't mind more collaborations like this. Thanks for sharing!
It's a lil weird colorgrade right
agreed, i prefer Morten's gentle editing much more - this looks too "instagrammy"...
Yeah, color grade looks over saturated and too blue. I also prefer Morten’s usual look to the video. Also, there’s a bit too much slomo in this video for my tast. But other than that, I enjoyed the video
Agreed, i like the original Morten Style much more. The slowmotion and the subtile showing of trademarks and Logos is a bit too much like a comercial. Especially the scene with those many Landrovers is not Morten Style. Just my opinion....
@@Merijn_Huysmans Yep I agree on that. The look is different. Morten's subtle colour grades are much better in my opinion. :)
I left Nikon just after the D4 to move to Fujifilm. I never looked back..... but boy. The Z9 blows me away. What a monster. I love it. And I love in your hands. Awesome vid eo.
Two of the photographers I respect the most, working together. It doesn't get much better than this!
The quality of the video showing you in nature is a well deserved recognition of your talent. You are an inspiration for so many photographers. So happy for you!
Photographers don't need to make videos
Nice surprise on Sunday morning! 👏😀👍
A car commercial really, but with my two favorite photographers, so that's okay. Love these guys. I hope they got paid well, and enjoyed those scallops.
Another great video. Thanks for sharing it. Already looking forward to the next one.
That's how you shoot wildlife, with a camera, not with a rifle. I appreciate Morten so much for his respectful approach.
That was a very interesting video, Morten! Definitely slightly different than the usual kind of films that you got us used to seeing here but i really did enjoy watching 😊I am extremely happy that you're getting the recognition from the right brands and right people that you deserve so much! I am also really looking forward to watching the new videos from your local forest in Denmark, from your cozy farm. Videos like the one when you photographed cranes ("wildlife photography when it's best") or badgers are just the classics! Thank you for inspiring us with each new video! ❤
I had to make a decision recently and give up on my growing hobby of photography, where wildlife/animals was by far the most enjoyable area for me. It left me bitter and made me unfollow all the photography related channels and information sources etc. I do not touch a photograph anymore even for an edit or anything. However I keep returning to Morten's videos because the cinematography, the calmness, the sceneries, respect to animals and the way he takes photos on his trips/expeditions are to me the ultimate level of wildlife photography and represent the pure essence of it.
Another fantastic video Morten, thank you for sharing. Bonnie Scotland at her best.
Great great video! Love the way you explain and let show us your experience! Really looking forward to the next one!
Another fantastic video, thanks Morten!!
Loved this video .. such beautiful moments captured in Scotland! Love seeing the stags! Thank you for sharing this amazing adventure!
I love seeing your videos of Scotland. Gives me inspiration to get out a little more and explore my own country. you take it all for granted when you live here
Tremendous video, love that it coupled both landscape and wildlife, which is often what I do on my outings. Thank you both, and all of your crew for taking the time to put this together.
You're my most favourite wildlife photographer ever! The most miserable weather ever, dead computer, all the shit in this world and you just enjoy it, drink your coffee and be there with the nature will all the respect to the wildlife. Wish more people were like you, just positive and easygoing. And of course, creating great images meanwhile :)
Two craft masters collaborating and sharing great stories, photos, tips, and techniques. Thank you both for all you do for us in the Nikon arena. The new cameras and lenses being released for the Z systems are phenomenal, and your expertise sharing is good for all of us! Morton, I hope you can recover your laptop and portable drives. Important (and expensive) tools for field work. Thanks again to the two of you for all you've done and will continue to do for photography lovers out here amongst us. Great work and much gratitude!
Beautiful as always ❤️
I loved this video morten.The Highlands of Scotland are beautiful. Great Stag shots too. 👌 📷
You never fail to deliver us a great video! Thank you
Thank you for sharing this beautiful landscapes and wildlife photographie in the incredibel landscapes of Scotland 🦌 🕊
Scotland is beautiful. Great video, Morten.
So peaceful and beautiful, Thank you as always for sharing your adventures!
Oh Morten, your videos are always inspiring and thoughtful...being with Ricci is an added bonus...many thanks from Connecticut USA.
I always look forward to you video great adventure, keeping it real as usual Thanks
two terrific photographers in one video. great 😀
Long time subscriber of Morten and Ricci. Wonderful seeing these two collaborate on content like this!
Great video as ever. As you say Ricci is a wealth of knowledge for all things Nikon. Your videos are my favourite you’re knowledge not only of photography but of nature and your obvious love of both are an inspiration and the fact that it’s in Scotland which is my favourite destination. What more could you ask for. Thank you very much indeed.
Glad to see Ricci is alive and well. He hasn't posted anything on his KZhead channel in quite awhile. He is definitely a great source of information.
This is great to see
Great vid! Watched the one on Nikon's page yesterday and cool to see more about Ricci.
Morten your videos are so beautiful and it's always nice to see and explore nature's with you from your videos. Love all your videos
Morten, you have quickly become my favorite photography channel. Keep up the great work.
What an awesome video and outing and to meet and share with Ricci. Scotland looks like a beautiful place to go.
"Landscape photography - more action packed than a polar bear" Morten Hilmer April 2022. 😆
Great to see you enjoying all the weather that Scotland can throw at you. My dad used to be a mountain guide based in Torridon and its a great place to photograph red deer stags.
thank you for your love of my country, I love watching you doing what you love.. a true inspiration
Fantastic vídeo Morten!!! Congratulations!!!
I love your work! Another great video!
Your videos are so inspiring ! It's just beautiful that you don't take the adventure side out of them, that just being out there is the priority.
Love this video. Two of my favorite content creators.
Been following along with you for a while now, and have binged a lot of your past videos. I especially love your series in remote places like Svalbard! The beauty of the landscapes and your imagery is always astounding. Always look forward to the new video notifications, so thank you for sharing your adventures! Can’t wait to see you revisit Yellowstone, and track down some wolves hopefully 👍
Watching Morten photograph is just honestly so inspiring.
Honestly? You would lie otherwise?
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Awesome video, great job Morten! 👏
One word WOW 💥👍
Loved the video Morten, normal weather in god’s own country, 4 seasons in one day 🏴 wish you had met up with Murray of Scotland’s Mountains.
Really interesting video to watch, Morten, and I really enjoyed it. So glad you are getting the recognition you so much deserve. The images we just so awesome too!
Another great video Morten Scotland is is amazing thank you for sharing
You give me a new sunshine on wildlife photography. I am so grateful to You.
I always enjoy watching your videos. Thank you 🙏🏼
Morten was remarkably calm when he discovered his laptop wouldn’t turn on. I hope his external drives managed to survive. The weather in Scotland is challenging but also very rewarding. It seems like Morton’s gear gets soaked with rain in almost every video Morton uploads . I loved seeing Ricci’s beautiful images.
Two of my favourite photographers in the same video! Nice. Excellent video, as always. Thanks for sharing your adventures.
It's always incredible when two of my favourite photographers work together. Ricci is amazing and very professional, you Morten, are professional as well and make the people feel like are there with you in your adventures. All the best for you guys, you both are incredible.
I feel I'm right there with you. You are such a joy and inspiration. I wish I was with you. And Ricci too. I know I'm not maximizing my D500 to its full potential. I'm going to check out his channel. Thanks for that great tip. So sorry about your laptop. Hopefully you'll be able to retrieve you data. Keep us posted. And lastly, it's funny. I was wondering where your thermos of coffee was when you pulled out the burner and started talking about making a cuppa.... Thank you, Morten. 🤗
fabulous loved every minute of this video
Out of all the photographers in the world it’s Morten I would like to meet most. Maybe next time in Yellowstone? Every time I watch you’re videos it inspires me. One of the greats and a true legend.
These video's are a treat Morten...
For those commenting that this is just an advert for Land Rover, it’s also an advert for Scotland, for Nikon, for Nikon School, for any and all other brands you see. Just enjoy it for what it is, 28 mins with two fantastic photographers in Morten and Ricci and the wow moment for me at 16:10
For me the shot at 20:10 was my favorite. Morten never disappoints me in his videos.
looks lovely, love this.
Wow, that was nice! Loved how your spirit and love for nature came across even if it wasn't your edit. Ricci seems like a cool guy and it sure felt like you two had a nice energy going ^^ Also... wow, now I really want to go to Scotland XD And congrats on some of the shots you got, beautiful! Thanks for the video, Morten :)
Your videos are fantastic and I’ve learned lots of things from you, thanks for all of these, keep going my friend 🙏🏻☮️
It's a pleasure to see you two working together, and trading experience. Great stuff, and highly appreciated! :)
Really good video, it’s great to have something new ! The color grading is quite amazing and the more cinematic scenes make a real difference with the others videos. I really like the fact that in this one you detailed the way you chose your track and the methods to cover your own sound when photographing the stags in the forest. However I felt there was a lack of more zoom out sequences to set up the scenery for the viewers. For exemple by the lac after viewing the scene I didn’t have I mental picture of the lac looked like. Definitely a type of video I would like to see again on this channel but of course the ones homemade are the best !! Thank you Morten ❤️
I got my thumbs up. Number one video of Scotland.
Gorgeous video! Great people! 👍🏾
Just seen the notice of this upload. But I need to watch it later in the afternoon. I am very sure that it will be another great video!
One of the best photograph ❤❤❤
Wait, your telling us it's raining in Scotland, unbelievable, what are the odds 😜 looked like a great trip. Location and timing is a photographers best friend, the images came out great 👍😎
Excellent video Morten Hilmer. You are a reference for wildlife photography and very important your knowledge shared with us Nikon users. It's satisfying to have Hilmer as a Nikon ambassador. Big hug from Brazil.
Great video Morten just love your enthusiasm so infectious I feel I am there with you sharing those moments. I do hope you can sort your lap top out and you did not lose any footage. Looking forward to your next adventure
This is a scam please do not text them on telegram lots of youtube channels have had this problem
@@katharinemovertonphotographer Thanks for the heads-up. I’ve reported this channel. Ha! It’s actually called “Text me on telegram…”etc.
I love that with time you're improving the quality of your videos. Slowmo shots and b-roll really well done and make the video even more enjoyable. Awesome job with your channel, huge fan 🤠❤️
와 주말 볼거 없었는데 딱 마침 설거지하면서 볼게 생겼네요 감사합니다! 😊 🙏
The colors in this video are soo beautiful
Loved it 💚
What a wonderful video, yet again. I am not going to lie, I kinda prefer your editing style, but I totally recognise that this video is not for just this channel and that is just a personal choice! There is just a bit much slo-mo for me :-) That said, I can only imagine how nice it is to hand the editing duties over! None of this got in the way of my love for this video though so, again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for your work!
Great to see Richi too😀👍
Outstanding!!!!! I truly enjoyed this video. Very inspirational and makes my desire for photography grow even in my new home state which has snow right now. Thank you!
I love how you respect your subjects. I could almost cry for you and am happy you get to do this. I hope someday I could get that same experience. God bless you.
Salut l'ami Morten Hilmer, c'est toujours un plaisir de te retrouver en action photographique, dans une atmosphère climatique difficile et humide voir froide, mais avec une belle lumière douce idéale pour faire de belles images, tu nous fais rêver comme d'habitude, on ne s'ennuie pas devant un tel spectacle, merci encore l'ami pour le partage sur la chaîne.....👌🎞 📸😜 !!
J'ai oublié de remercier l'équipe qui t'a accompagné pour réaliser cette vidéo, alors merci tout le monde, à plus...
A little bit different, more tempo( its not necessary) and I like the slowmotion. think you have a bit different color grading to. this is a balance act to keep your heart in the video, but you have to listen to the sponsor to. Its a good video, just amazing film on the animals, majestic. and its nice to have a sliding camera capturing you sometimes when you have a camera crew. good job.
Like always, inspiring! Thanks Morten, greetings from Chile.
I had so much fun ! Was great to just spend time with you talk so much about photography and wildlife !
I enjoyed the expedition wit you Morten ,it's wonderful place to photograph landscape..Liked. 👍
Ricci is testing the Nikon Z8! 😊
So greatttttttttttt !! Amazing vidéo and very niceeee chanell 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏
Great to see two people with the same interest reach their objectives via different paths. Landscapes via Telephoto Lens is an interesting challenge. Keep well & stay safe 👍🇬🇧
Absolutely stunning Morten! Its really cool to see you grow so much! Your personality only gets better in every video! Its really interesting to see you get filmed by someone else but I have to mention that I enjoy it more when you film yourself. I feel you express yourself better and it flows better. (I loved this video anyway) I have loved your work, I do love your work and I will always love your work. Its becomes more professional, more cinematic and I would rather watch your videos than binge a TV show on Netflix. Keep up the incredible work! Regards, Anirudh Arun
such and incredibly inspirational person you are man.. I must say.. its easy to follow and subscribe to KZheadrs .. but rarely do I come across photographers who I can look upon as mentors too. really incredible channel, informative, and teaches me so much. how respectful you are of the animals, your approach, the mindset. big big fan!
Ricci is a wealth of knowledge.
Very pleased to see you were impressed by the fine scenery, weather and wildlife - and a real treat to hear an experienced man like yourself realise that landscape photography is NOT relaxing, and often requires rapid decision making that can be as intimidating as quarry taking fright! Liking this latest collaboration with your Nikon partner and Land Rover, and we hope that it works for you. Best from here.
Thanks for this great video, it's good ... almost like the ones you do when you are alone !!! ... even the photos, really beautiful ... almost like the ones you take when you are alone ... Great Morten !!!
Lots and lots of wishes for upcoming videos ans expedition. You’re are my true source of inspiration and motivation. You’re videos makes me feel good and happy 😊 I love your videos and amazing stuff on your channel. Best wishes and Love ❤️❤️❤️
Love this, amazing stag shots. I've been there with the water damaged laptop. Hope it can be revived. I see you've upgraded your waterproof trousers too. Do you mind if I ask what brand they are. J
As others have already said, I have to admit I prefer your videos over this produced one. Your excitement about wild lands and wildlife came through in this video but I could also feel the influence of the Nikon organization. I liked Ricci and the fact that he's a photographer but he's also a Nikon guy who's there to do advertising. If I were in your position I would no doubt be working for Nikon, or Canon, and enjoying all that juicy equipment too so please don't take my comment as a criticism of you or your work. Changing the subject: Those images of that stag were just outrageous. I was so blown away by some of them that my jaw literally dropped. Wow! Would that I could trade places with you just long enough to see those stags for myself. Best always Morten, keep up the excellent work!
Thank you so much for you feedback and compliments David. I really appreciate.
Thank you so much. Hope you recovered your work from laptop and hard drives. All the very best. Cheers. 👍📷😎
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This video made me wonder how long I have been postponing my visit to Scotland! I think its about time to pack my camera gear, warm and waterproof clothes and just go. Awesome video with some outstanding images, Morten. I love it!