Why the 100-400mm Lens is INCREDIBLE for Landscape Photography (Nikon Z9 in Antarctica...)
Can you use a super long lens for Landscape Photography? In this video I share my thoughts and images.... (and yes there are some Penguins!)
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0:00 Introduction
1:30 Getting to Antarctica
3:34 Why the 100-400mm?
4:00 First penguins
5:24 Handholding and shutter speed
6:29 Icebergs
7:45 Shooting in wind
8:19 Two bodies Z7 + Z9
10:10 Prints
11:32 Heat Haze at 400mm
13:26 Z9 Battery
14:21 Simplicity
15:48 Epic sunrise
16:26 A 2m Pano!!!
18:08 Whale in the Landscape
18:42 The dynamic weather
20:06 Abstracts with the 100-400mm
21:06 Antarctica 2024 Workshop
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Hope your surgery(s) go well. I also had a cyst removed at L4 but anyway, I thought you had said that you probably wouldn't get the Z9...? Would you still be allowed to land at that military base with current aggressive activity in the Ukraine?
Hello! Thanks a lot for your video, I got some inspiration. I have a question. Can my lenses (modern lenses canon ef 70-200 f4 and Sony 70-200 f4 e-mount) get fungus? I am really afraid for them
Beautiful! :) Is that pano print still on sale?
This video is from a year ago. It looks in your more recent posts like you have overcome the health challenges. Especially since you are getting ready for another Antarctica adventure. Hopefully this time everyone makes it. A trip I would one day love to make. The photos you shared are fantastic. Thank you!
HAHA! Stamped with covid! 😅 I am very happy you guys had a great expedition, but damn I am sad I missed out - especially on the whales and that storm! Gorgeous Photos!
I couldn't resist - sorry! We missed you Mads!
@@NigelDanson It's hillarious! We'll give it another try ;)
Bad luck, must be gutted.
I felt so bad for you when Nigel said you were unable to continue on the trip. Can't begin to imagine your disappointment.
That truly sucks! Very sorry to hear. Hope you are doing better.
Nigel, as an amateur photographer with a bit of heart trouble and a defibrillator, I often feel very physically limited compared to other photographers. I can’t tell you enough how inspiring it is to see all of the great work you do with a pacemaker.
Glad to hear there are so many safeguards and restrictions regarding visiting Antarctica. It would be nice if this pristine landscape never becomes a tourist destination.
That will never happen, not only for environmental reasons, but also because there is a secret UFO base. Not kidding. The evidence is more than enough to convict someone of murder. As a famous UFO/UAP researcher said, the amount of evidence on the issue, "is an embarrassment of riches!" Okay enough crazy talk, great video, Z9 and 100-400mm both look amazing, although I'd much rather have the 70-200mm f/2.8 S with 1.4x TC and a second setup with a longer lens, I personally have and love the 500mm f/4E VR FL and since it works so well with the TC-14E III, I'd probably have a 1.4x TC on it as well for Antartica! You obviously can get away with a 400mm and Z9 due to the megapixel count. But I really think if at all possible you'd be better off with a 500pf or something like the new 800mm f/6.3 S! I just got back from Yosemite and I used my 70-200mm and 500mm FL lenses much more often than I thought I would. For the "Firefall" event a couple weeks ago, I almost exclusively used the 500mm FL and mostly with the TC-14E III.
Unfortunately it already has… The number of tourists visiting are already creating huge impacts for the area…even with the safeguards by IAATO.
No it's just a top secret govt place for chicanery and secrets
@@aorr that's unfortunate...and these photography workshop tours to Antarctica seem to be part of the problem...and to Greenland as well.
@@aorr When considering the sheer size and scale of Antarctica, and comparing the numbers of tourists it sees compared to pretty much any other location on Earth, I think it can still safely be regarded as pristine...
What an amazing experience being able to see all that beauty in Antarctica! Thank you for sharing those spectacular pictures you took with the 100-400mm! It is an amazing lens in the hands of an amazing photographer! Keeping you in our thoughts for a speedy recovery! Things will get better than this!
These are amazing. Loving the abstract images, and how the snow makes such clean lines! Looking forward to the wildlife next week.
What a great experience Nigel. A lot of hard work and endeavour for sure. Some wonderful shots. Particularly like the one just after 20:00 and of course the panorama. Really looking forward to seeing the next video that you have teased us with !
Wow!! Amazing footage. Thank you for sharing and I absolutely Love the Penguins. Your pano shot is stunning also. You never disappoint Nigel on your videos. 😊
What a great video with amazing pictures from Antarctica. Thanks so much for taking us with you.
Fascinating video with beautiful/stunning stills and video content. Thank you for sharing. Wishing you a full and speedy recovery from your knee injury!
What a gift you have with the camera, Nigel! Your photos are the best I have seen from this trip. I especially liked your 2 meter pano. My favorite lens is the 100-400mm and I am glad to hear it worked so well on your trip. You have such a good eye for composition and light. I learn so much from viewing your photos and watching your videos.Good luck with your MRI.
What a great video! So exciting. And healing and blessing to you, Nigel.
Beautiful images Nigel. I now feel validated on my use of my 100-400 for landscapes. Ever since I purchased my Sony GM 100-400 a few years ago it has been my primary lens for shooting landscapes. I love this focal range. And your point about foreground objects is so true, it is very difficult to include much foreground when using such a lens. But that is its power, isn't it? You have to love the compression. Can't wait to see your wildlife shots.
Great vid already looking forward to next week, get well soon Nigel!
Brilliant images, Nigel! Thanks for sharing this. 👍🦘🇦🇺
That pano was indeed spectacular!! What an incredible experience to have lived. Thanks for sharing with us!!
Great film Nigel, many superb photos, loving the pano too. I really like the telephoto images and as much as I like wide angle shots they can make the points of interest appear very small within the frame, telephoto landscapes images allow us to see so much more detail and they do have real impact! cheers.
Amazing place and photos Nigel! I’ve ordered the 100-400, so it was nice to see the image quality and reach to be had from the lens 👍🏼.
wish you a speedy recovery < like the shots... just wooooow!
Incredible images, especially that pano! Get well soon Nigel, there are lots of compositions yet to be hiked to👊
Such an amazing experience. Very informative video. Thank you!
Cracking images and footage. Best wishes for a full recovery of knee and back. A very special destination.
Thanks Nigel! Great photos and info. Definitely putting this on the bucket list.
Nigel - you are a great story teller. Thank you for taking us on this experience. I’m sure being there in person is something else…
Stunning images Nigel and a great video,loved the abstract iceberg shot ,simply stunning, would love to go on that trip.
Beautiful images, thanks for sharing!
Love the penguins at the end! They really are quite humourous. Thanks for sharing. I've been enjoying each of the videos that various ones of you have done from the Antartica trip.
I had almost the exact same injury about 5 years ago. Follow the rehab, don`t get ahead of yourself and your recovery should bring you back stronger. Great images!
Looking forward to more photos / videos on Antarctica - Wonderful photos Nigel.
What an amazing insight into what looks like a spectacular trip. Looking forward to seeing next weeks video & more shots! Good luck with the ongoing recovery.
Thanks a lot!
Stunning. Set of images. Hope. Everything goes well with you knee.
Amazing.....Thank you Nigel for this very informative video
Such an engaging video; I thoroughly enjoyed it. I LOVE (love!) your panoramic shot with its amazing colour variations, well done! What a fantastic memory. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Romi!
Nigel that was truly amazing! Stunningly breathtaking images. The scale and the drama of the environment: incredible. Excellent job done with your images. Re Windy, I have it on my phone for checking the tides at Seaton Carew - not quite Antarctica, but lovely in its own way. Absolutely fabulous video. Thank you so much. Hope the knee mends soon, it sounds like a really serious injury. Take care.
Nigel, epic photos beautifully composed and presented as always. I hope the Peak District isn't too boring for you when you are able to get out and about again. On that subject best wishes for a speedy but solid recovery. You will be pleased to know that you are in the category of people I know or know of over the age of forty who ski but now realise they don't bounce so well anymore.
Absolutely incredible. That panoramic image looks spectacular in print! 😮
Nigel sorry to hear about your accident. Thank you for sharing your adventure, Enjoy hearing your experience and your tips. “God speed on your recovery!”.🙏🙏 Take care and be safe. “Go Giants!”
that abstract iceberg photo is jaw dropping good. Thanks again for an epic trip and great meal time conversation as well!
What an amazing trip. Beautiful shots!
I love the 100-400 as well…nice vlog and as usual awesome images 😎
Amazing...enjoyed this so much...thanks for sharing your incredible photos but also thanks for sharing something so beautiful and peaceful in these trying times that we live in at the moment....
Glad you enjoyed it
Such a nice video Nigel! Please share in another video more details and photos with this lens, thanks!
Fantastic pictures of a spectacular landscape ... Great job! Best of luck for your knee!
omg the pano is beautiful! Wow 🤩
That shot with the boat and the mountains is stunning
Exceptional scenery. I never knew about the rules and restrictions when visiting Antarctica but I support it 100%. Anything to protect such a beautiful environment. Striking and beautiful images too.
Whoa... Epic on top of Epic. Great video, I can see the excitement pouring out of you. Very inspiring. Great to see you in the Southern Hemisphere - the best Hemisphere 😉
well done Nigel, some really memorable moments and shots.
What an amazing adventure and great photos. I didn’t know about the safe guards to protect the area. I am very glad about that. I saw an experiment once that showed if you used a lens hood on a warm lens in cold weather you can create a heat haze right in front of the lens that will soften all images. Once the lens temperature matches the ambient temperature the problem goes away.
Wonderful Photos... Thank you for transmitting your emotions to us! Salud!
Great photos. Some crazy weather you faced in Antarctica, Nigel.
Absolutely brilliant mate. Take care. 👍
You and James were so lucky to get to a place hardly anyone on Earth gets to. Great shots!
That abstract photo of the iceberg is one of my favourites ever! Really nice photos Nigel!
Fantastic to hear about the safeguards regarding Antartica. Unworldly images. Looking forward to penguins next week. Love them, so much character.
Such a beautiful, pristine place, and I love your pano - it’s just how I remember it from about 15 years ago - breathtaking! I hope I can join you and revisit in 2024. 🤞
Excellent video and wonderful images Nigel! Looking forward to the next instalment! Hope the knee gets well soon. All the best
Many thanks
Beautiful work, Nigel! Well done. :)
Wow, I am blown away seeing that large pano you shared. That’s a great recap and recount of your trip to Antartica, I really like the images you brought back to shared. Thank. If you would share a bit more on the number of images captured and technical details to create this pano. Thanks so much for sharing this review of the Z100-400.
Simply breathtaking images!
You got so many incredible pictures out of this trip, unbelievable 🙆♂ Great Video, hope your knee will be fine soon!
Very inspiring photos, and helped me decide to go with purchasing this lens. Thanks for your review and sharing the stellar photos you took
Thank you for the impressiv video. Very nice. I like the style of your photography. Best regards Kai.
Awesome images Nigel, absolutely fantastic!!!
Nigel best wishes for a speedy recovery sir! I loved my trip in 2016 and we were able to go on land a fairly good bit... disinfectant yes, bag seed check no, but we were not allowed to physically disturb any wild life... so if a penguin came and sat on your shoe, you couldn't move until the penguin decided to move on... :) Yes! the wind at Deception Island was intense. The Blues in the Ice were just wow. Beautiful content Nigel, simply fantastic. WOW that Pano !!
Wonderful photography, really beautiful Nigel. 📷 Your ideas and suggestions about using the 100-400mm lens is really very interesting and "eye opening". It does not sound, nor did I hear anything about you using any filters on any of your photography. The changes in the weather surely had a tremendous effect on the colors in many of your photos. That "pano" is magnificent, well done, BRAVO!! 😎 I really appreciate all the terrific details and information. You did a great job.👍 I sincerely hope your knee issues are not a serious issue. In any event, I wish you all the best, whatever your doctors recommend. 😄
OMG, simply amazing, thanks for sharing this Nigel. Good luck getting the knee sorted! 👏😀👍
WOW. What an Amazing Place. Those Photos are Show it. Thanks for sharing.
Great video. When I started in photography I did it for landscape photography, since everyone recommended the use of wide angle, I bought the camera with one. After a few months, in love with moon photography, I bought a 150-600. In the end, I ended up using more for landscape 150-600 than the wide angle...haha. The recommendations are fine, but there is nothing like testing yourself to realize what you like to do and what equipment is best suited.
Wonderful video.. I also enjoyed very much your prints! It's really nice to show some pictures printed... Thank you
Amazing photos, the drama! Someday I hope to go, for now I watch and dream. May it forever stay wild! Thanks for sharing, best for the knee situation
Awesome ! That short video bit about a storm - can be a fine image too, I think. Nigel, take care on your knee ! Best, CL
thanks for letting us in your Antartica adventure! I really wondered how you dealt with the constant movement on the boat and zodiacs and not having the time to look for the best composition (or eat an apple ;-))... thanks for giving us all the details and tips! Your pictures are amazing as always! Antarctica is for sure on my bucket list!
it was difficult
Some truly fantastic images taken in a fantastic location.
Absolutely awesome images!
Great video. Definitely filed under "how stoked can Nigel get". Must have been amazing to have different weather systems rolling through. Just one comment about the end of the video; there's some lovely footage of Penguins doing their thing but then we have two links that pop up plus your logo (right in the middle of the screen). Not complaining, just a shame to not be able to fully appreciate what you wanted to share. Can't wait for next week! Cheers.
Glorious images. Or perhaps more appropriately, a glorious place. Thank you for sharing these. Stumbled upon this as i’m considering buying the 100-400. Cheers
Hello from Amnon in NYC. This video is one of the best you made. Thank you again for your sharing with us. All best to your body. 🙏🏋️♀️
Stunning photographs 😍😍😍
If you only had a bigger printer Nigel. Still it’s a wicked print, so well done. And for obvious safety reasons you can’t just go wandering around in Antarctica. I am guessing that it’s nothing like you’ve experienced from your Iceland trips in terms of scale. Definitely looking forward to seeing more of your photos from this trip. Thanks for sharing again Nigel. Stay safe 🇦🇺
Wow! Simply amazing.
Great stuff Nigel, get well soon!
Looks like a fantastic trip! I remember experiencing glaciers calving in Glacier Bay NP in Alaska, such an incredible sight and sound to witness. Sorry about knee, that sounds incredibly painful.
Stunningly BEAUTIFUL photos! Good health to you. You'll be fine!
So many great photos (no surprise there) but the one that really took my breath away was the abstract glacier photo! WOW!
Thanks for sharing ! I bought the Sigma 100-400 f/6.3 for my Canon full-frame when our holiday in 2020 got cancelled due to Covid. Besides landscape photography I also like bird photography and a kingfisher in the local park gave me much joy of that lens. About a year ago, the Fagradalsfjall volcano was about to erupt and that meant that I wanted to go to Iceland ASAP. Due to the pandemic and vaccines not becoming available in my country soon, I had to wait until mid July to get there. By that time I could no longer get close to the eruption itself so I even bought an 1.4x extender. I enjoyed shooting with the lend with and without the extender.
Having watched Adam, James and your vlog, what amazes me is how stable you all got your footage, like the cameras were on granite...outstanding work. The excitement in your voice throughout is brilliant, and hardly surprising considering what you brought back. The book is going to be incredible. And that pano, my house isn't big enough to display it 😂
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for another great video. I never miss them. Good luck with the knee. In rehab for my knee now. It looks like a year of PT before I am 100%.
What an experience. Super images. So sad that Mads missed this but he has something to look forward to when you go again in two years. Love the penguins. Take care of yourself.
What amazing trip. Antartica is one of the place where I've always dreamed to go. Take care great photographer .
Amazing photos👍❤️
A really informative video and some great images. I hope your operations go well, I had a discectomy a couple of years ago and it really helped. I concur with your recommendation for a long lens, although you didn't mention it, it needs to be a zoom as from a zodiac you don't have control over distance to subject. I wonder about the current restrictions to Antarctica and if they have changed in recent years. I have been twice, 2009 and 2012 and we spent quite a lot of time on land, much more than zodiac. A lot of my shots were with Nikon 200-400 F4 but my wife loved Canon's 100-400. We saw a lot of difference between our 2 trips as far as the condition of the landscape goes. I also note that Gentoo penguin numbers have increased as the general temperature is rising. We ticked a lot of our boxes with our trips, most southern post office, south of the Antarctic Circle and being on the continent, firstly at Brown Bluff. I feel it was a privilege to visit and it seems as though you share this sentiment.
Amazing Mr. Nigel 😊🥂
Great video and photos. Really enjoyed sharing your trip to Antarctica! I'm loving my Z9 and looking forward to getting a 100-400 when it becomes available to us amateurs! I have a question about your pano shot - what camera and lens did you use to take it and what were the settings? Were you able to do a hand held shot for it? It is an incredible picture! Thanks for sharing your adventures!
Hope you feel better nigel!
Love the light in that print of the jagged peaks. The weather changes were so amazing your video really brought me back, and another trip. Try, try again.😛
It was great wasn’t it. I just want to go again (as I am sure you do!)
Would be real interested in how you used the three lens controls, especially the L-Fn2 button. It was a leap of faith for me to replace my 80-400 with the 100-400 and I’m very glad I did. Eager to get the most out of it. Thanks for this.
This was a great video, Nigel. I was amazed at how blue icebergs and glaciers are when I first saw them.
Awesome place and a great way to see it was through your photography, thank you so much for sharing the images, that Pano certainly comes up with the Wow factor. Nigel the 100-400 lens you used was it a F2.8 or F4. Looking forward to next week, look after the knee.