Jack Lodge, NiSi UK Ambassador

Jack Lodge is a professional landscape, nature and wildlife photographer from Wimborne, Dorset in the South West of England, UK.
Through his photography, Jack strives to capture the change of each season, documenting the ever-changing landscapes as the light and weather change – capturing the beauty surrounding us.

His landscape photography varies from enchanting ancient woodlands in the heart of the Dorset countryside, to the blue hour streets of Venice and rolling seas of the Arctic. Follow his wildlife photography adventures as he photographs local wild owls and birds of prey, to polar bears and puffins in the arctic sea.

Jack’s Gear Bag

Every photographer has their favourite equipment, and sometimes it takes a while to find a loadout that works for you and your photography; take a look into Jack’s bag and what tools he likes to use allowing to create the photos he dreams about and make his ideas come true. Let’s see what’s inside Jack’s bag and which tools he uses.

Cameras

Canon R5II
Canon R5

Lenses

Canon RF 15-35mm F2.8
Canon RF 24-105mm F4
Canon RF 100-500 F4.5-7.1
Canon RF 400mm F2.8
Canon RF 100mm F2.8 Macro
Canon EF 180mm F3.5 Macro
Canon TS-E 24mm F3.5 II
Canon RF 24mm F1.4
Canon RF 35mm F1.8
Canon RF 50mm F1.8

Filters

NiSi JetMag Pro Jack Lodge Kit

Bags

Shimoda Action X50
Think Tank Airport Take-Off V2.0

Tripods and Tripods Heads

Gitzo GT3543XLS
Leofoto LG-324C
Arca Swiss D4
Acratech GXP
Leofoto BV-20

Printer

Canon PRO-2100

Discover Jack’s preferred filters

Jack Lodge’s JetMag Pro Filters Kit includes all his preferred filters, allowing him to unleash his creativity.

Discover Jack’s Jet Mag Pro kit

Are you looking to embark on an extraordinary journey into the world of landscape and nature photography?

Join Jack on one of his many immersive and captivating workshops or 1-2-1 tuition

Jack Lodge interview

NiSi: What got you into photography?

Jack: After beginning my architectural studies at university in 2014, I picked up my first camera (Canon 100D with 40mm pancake lens) and set about photographing my travels across Europe – everything from architecture to street, animals to landscapes, the process of learning how a camera works and capturing a single moment in time proved to be super addictive.

Once I started taking landscape photography seriously in 2017, I really fell in love with capturing the change of seasons. Chasing light across the landscape in Summer, walking through enchanting woodlands during Spring, capturing crashing waves as the sun began to rise over the sea in Winter, and surrounding myself by mesmerising Autumn colours – capturing the change of seasons quickly became “my thing” and all of a sudden photography became my happy place, a flow-state where nothing else mattered other than carefully framing up that composition and capturing it on camera.

…all of a sudden photography became my happy place, a flow-state where nothing else mattered…

NiSi: Talk us through your favourite shot with NiSi filters

Jack: It was a beautiful crisp morning at Moor Crichel in Dorset, the Autumn colours were looking fantastic and after a few hours, a sudden snowstorm hit the whole of the South Coast. I’ve been photographing the change of seasons at this location for nearly 10 years now, and have never had this unique mix of colour and conditions – a real treat to the eyes and helped brilliantly by the NiSi JetMag Pro True Color CPL to remove the glare on the leaves and really enhance the rich colours in a natural way.

…helped brilliantly by the NiSi JetMag Pro True Color CPL to remove the glare on the leaves and really enhance the rich colours in a natural way…

NiSi: What is your dream location to photograph?

Jack: This is a tricky one, as I’ve already been very fortunate enough to visit some pretty spectacular places for photography. If there was one place that stood out on my never-ending list of locations, it would probably be Peru – it’s almost like a dream combination of my favourite places in Snowdonia, Glencoe and Norway, but with the added attraction of the phenomenal rainbow mountain of Vinicunca…

If I’m heading that way it would also be rude not to visit the Uyuni Salt Flats for some landscape and astrophotography, then down to Antarctica for my iceberg and penguin fix. Too many places to visit that’s for sure!!!

If there was one place that stood out on my never-ending list of locations, it would probably be Peru…

NiSi: Every photographer has that one day when everything went wrong – tell us about yours

Jack: I wish I could supply an award-winning photo for this story… but all I can give you is a terrible phone snap from a 3-day, unplanned adventure away from home during the famous Beast from The East back in March 2018.

My good friend Andy Farrer had picked me up during the blizzard, inviting me out to photograph snow for the very first time. Little did we know that we’d get the car stuck at the bottom of a hill, snowed in with ice rain covering the doors and having to take shelter in a local pub to keep warm – the best part? My family found it hilarious that I left the house at 10am on a Monday to go photograph a snowy sunset and came back at 2pm on a Wednesday with ZERO decent photos to show for it.

There’s even more to the story than that, but I’ll just leave you with an idea on how bad it got… Andy had to send his beloved Saab to the scrapyard a few months after this trip, and it was all my fault from our time in the snow!