Photographers Least Favourite Colour?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Join Kim as she heads to the woodland and shares why green is a great colour to photograph.
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Finally, finally someone giving green a shout out! Thank you, Kim. It is my favorite color, because I think it has a lot more shades than people realize. You have the dark, subdued blue-green of conifer trees, then the generic green of grass, then the neon green of new growth, the turquoise and emerald of water, and the list goes on.
Kim, I am happy your feeling better. I really enjoy your videos, because they always have soothing theme. I always look forward to watching your video's, since they provide a sense of peace and kindness.
I always feel lifted with the green leaves, it opens the heart chakra. I hope you feel better soon💚your posts are fantastic.
I was never a fan of the colour green. But, recently, I've discovered that I quite enjoy photographing the colour green. Most of my photos on Instagram have greens in them. There's this “meditativeness” in it.
Sorry to hear you’ve been poorly, Kim.
I love a soft green backdrop for wildlife - the best images of red squirrels, robins, damsel flies, and butterflies I’ve captured this year look incredible with their colours enhanced against the green - making for a combination of natural beauty and calmness.
Take care.
This is great to hear Martin!
Thankyou. You described very beautifully the importance of green color.
Sorry to hear that you have been unwell, I hope you will soon be back to full health - just take good care of you Kim. Totally agree with you, I look out on a small area of woodland with mixed varieties of trees and I am always amazed at the range of greens it contains, beautiful. Best wishes. Terry.
Thank you Terry :)
Thank you for this video and your appreciation of the colour green. May is my favourite month, because here in Devon that is when our trees burst into life with their glorious spring leaves. I am also a fan of blue sky days, and have never been able to understand other photographers dislike of it and belief that a clear blue sky is boring.
Every season has her own charms. I photograph the green in nature a long time, because I love it! Maybe I’m a little bit strange the way I photograph, but I don’t care. Because I enjoy the journey and that is all that matters.
It certainly does! Keep photographing what you love
I have to say it frees my mind from negative turmoil, I love moss on trees and the woodland floor. But it's mountains that truly exhilarate me, even make me feel refreshed for quite some time. Thanks for another lovely video. 😊👍
That's wonderful to hear :)
Hi Kim from Australia 🇦🇺 my favourite colour is green
I am so pleased that you are experiencing the power of greenness! Sunlight on leaves and grass always inspires me, and I often take photos and write rhymes to capture the moment. I wish you much blessing in your enjoyment of it. May you be, as Dylan Thomas put it, "happy as the grass was green"!
Green is one of the most beautiful and bountiful colours. My school uniform was green, which put me off it for a while, but then I realised, no, it was a colour I liked, that calmed me and was everywhere in the natural world. I’m always capturing the different varieties of green around me, especially those that are sunlit! Thank you Kim, for this beautiful video.
This is so lovely to hear! My school uniform was green too!
So wonderful! I tagged you in some of my furn images on Instagram back on May 23rd. I love to just walk around and taking images like that. I have a macro lens coming on the first of the week along with a 7D mark ii to attach it to. I'm so excited!
Thank you for an inspiriting video. Once our drought and mosquitos are over I can go back into the forest and reconnect with nature. Enjoy your day!
I hope the drought passes soon for you :)
Glad to hear your feeling better. I think a lot of us try in some ways to copy "the Pros" and most ignore green, but like you I find beauty in a colors and all times of the year. I look for texture like the ferns you show. Thanks for another great video, and your words are just as good as your thoughts on photography.
This is so lovely to hear! There truly is beauty everywhere
Really interesting. I had no clue green was a color that didnt get much love. Ive only been taking photos for roughly a year - so still learning. And just now taking a deep dive into wildlife. To me it only seems natural to include it as its in such abundance in the environment. The biggest thing ive learned so far is to just go out there and do your own thing and not worry too much about it. Its Like you say all the time, just being out getting away from the busyness of every day life and reconnecting to the earth is a large part of the experience.
Beautiful words! Simply going out there and enjoying the world around us without worrying about the process is such a great thing to do. Thank you for sharing :)
Thanks Kim for sharing your experience.....I have always loved photographing 'green' as to me it means 'alive & clean'.. nature is telling us this... cheers from Australia 🦘🦘😊
Funny thing, I see you more as a visual artist than a photographer... Thank you!
Oh! I like that title. Thank you Ted :)
You give me so much with your inspiring Videos! Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Just bought my first macro lens and looking forward to creating something close to what you have, thanks
Enjoy!
Thank you!
You speak very very welllllll 🙂 love from India
On my kitchen wall is a woodland panorama of nothing but green trees. I took it about 5 years ago and it's been on the wall since. I love trees, and the colour green, I think it is natural and relaxing. I totally disagree too that people don't want it on their walls!
This is beautiful to hear! Sounds like a lovely image
Get some big canvas prints for your lounge Kim
Glad to hear your feeling better and thank you for sharing another very inspiring woodland video. I love how peaceful your videos are.💚✅ 🌿🍀🌳🍃🌵🐸🐢🦎🐊🛶⛰🛣🦠🦠💚
Thank you very much :)
I don't understand a disdain for green. I have always loved seeing the many hues of green in different lights, sunlight on fields and hills etc,. which I never adequately capture in my photographs.
Its a good job I like the colour green, seeing as I'm dressed in green from head to toe at work. And so is everybody else.🤣🤣
And I've got a meter wide image of my Patterdale, as a puppy on a bed of lush green grass, taking pride of place on the wall.
On a completely random topic, I've stupidly formatted a CF Express card and then even more stupidly deleted the images on my computer before backing them up.
Do you know of any good photo recovery software that may save the day?
I'm afraid I don't Frank. Hope you find a solution
@@kimgrantphotography I found a solution which could save you a world of pain should you do such a stupid thing as myself.
I tried Disk Drill which cost me £83 and was unable to restore my images. Even though the site says 100% money-back guarantee, they have a Non Refund policy!
However I tried some completely free software called PhotoRec. It works in Windows but only from the Command Line. Its very simple to use and more importantly, it found every single one of my images which are one of those more recent RAW file formats of RW2.
PhotoRec recovered not only the RAW images but more importantly, the metadata for photo editing. The only thing it could not recover was the file names which is normal for data retrieval software.
Stay clear of Disk Drill, however I can't recommend PhotoRec highly enough.
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How could one love nature without loving green? That's illogical.
I don’t think it’s the colour green that is the issue in summer. I think it is more like that there is too much of it in the summer and your image / composition can easily be lost in the noise of all the other greens around.
Haven’t watched the video yet, but definitely disagree with the title. I love greens and love shooting them. Yes they can be tricky, but I have seen some amazing like life forest photography. Done right, in photography, green is a delightful gem. Cool, refreshing, and natural.
100%. This is what the video is all about :) You summed it up nicely.
@@kimgrantphotographythank you Kim and thanks for the video. I got a picture earlier this year of some fiddlehead ferns just before they were starting to unfold. The image looks like a bunch of people attending a gathering. It’s really cool and has a lot of depth. Taking a macro lens along can add to the fun as well. 🙂
Wow the fern photos are stunning!!
Thank you Rebecca :)
Very comforting Kim.
After long drab winters spring brings forth the green, The “SAD”, Seasonal Aggective Disorder disappears as a lively color appears usually ahead of all the bright colors to follow. Green symbolizes the renewal of life. BRING IT ON!
YES! Enjoy Mike :)
Love the saturation in the fern frond Kim and you captured it to perfection.......😉
Thank you Joe!
Hi Kim. No apologies necessary. We are just glad youre ok. Green is my fav colour. 90% of my clothes and belongings are green
Brilliant!
Enjoyed the video as usual Kim.
Another interesting woodland discussion about the light shining through the leaves and tree's.
You captured some nice image's as usual.
I'm glad that you are feeling better now.
So chin up and look after yourself.
Thank you Tim :)
A thoroughly enjoyable watch Kim. The only disappointment was when it came to an end. Did you try some ICM too? I find different shades of green can look great in ICM. I hope you're better now too btw 😊
Thanks Barry! I did try ICM actually...I didn't like the results in this occasion though but will try again next time :)
Green is a difficult colour to work with in photographic terms, yet when mastered correctly it is beautiful. On the otherhand, without this green thing, we'd all be dead very quickly. I have heard some ridiculous comments about the green foliage in the last two days on Y.T. Two well known Y.T characters have been rather unkind to it. One called it ' all this green shit ' and the other said that he hated green so much that he'd desaturate it greatly and then shift its hue towards yellow. Makes no sense to me.
I guess we all see the world differently. Thank you for sharing the opinions you have heard on other channels. It is interesting to hear.
I'm glad you're back and well.
Thank you Phil :)
The Bright Field, by R. S. Thomas
I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it, But that was the pearl
of great price, the one field that had
treasure in it. I realize now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying
on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you
Greg Carrick has just shared a video with lots of green
ABC Science has just released (30 minutes of) Sounds of Australia. The video work is outstanding. A part of it is from near Perth Canyon (which dwarfs that American one)
I highly recommend both.
I follow your point: green is the color of nature and we should embrace it. It's my primary photography subject. But the thing why (portrait) photographers avoid it, is because it puts a green shine on the human skin, which does not look very healthy.
As long as there is enough sky, light, brown or yellow in the picture, it should be in balance.
Thanks Kim, thought provoking video. I’m a golfer so spend a lot of time surrounded by green and you’re quite right it is calming and wonderful. However, as a photographer green gives me a problem. I’m struggling between what the camera produces and what my eye sees. The camera greens are always greener more luxurious, more poppy , saturated than what I see. They look great but they don’t represent reality. However, if I desaturate them so they more resemble what I see then they look duller and somewhat less interesting. Honestly, I haven’t resolved this yet. Only yesterday I was playing about with different Fuji simulations totally based on how the greens look. I wonder if others have this struggle and how they have resolved it.
Thank you for this video Green is one of the most beautiful colors.
Thanks for lovely video.
I don't have the time or the money to travel around all summer looking for places with colors and I can't get better at photography if my camera is collecting dust so, in the summer, it will be green scenes. Yes, it is difficult to find anything inspiring in summer when it's a wall of green out there. Especially if you use a wide angle lens. I think you just have to get a little closer, like you do, and reveal all the color contrasts and textures.
Lovely video again totally agree with what you’re saying I think green is a wonderful vibrant colour in nature 😊
Great video once again Kim. Must agree, I do like green too, I live in an arid part of Australia and its not that green normally but we are having a reasonable winter for a change and there is a bit around. I loved the image with the 3 fern fronds. Was also going to paint my house in green shades but am moving soon, so it will have to be the next house. Look forward to next time. 🙂
Nice Kim thanks for sharing glad you are feeling better.
Really love when you give one of your chats. So inspiring and uplifting. Green is a natural and beauty to have around you. Also blue with white clouds. Stay well.
After a long winter it's incredible to see green in nature. I'm glad there's four seasons.
When it was said that nobody wants green on their walls I immediately realized that it was true in my house. Still, one of my favorite images that I have shot this year is a backlit green leaf with all the veins showing through with outline of a a fly. Green has always been my favorite.
Fortunately for us in the southern hemisphere, we have the greens all year :)
So agree Kim.
Green is my favourite colour. In my lounge a whole wall was painted green.
Back in the film days I used to use Fuji Velvia because it captured the greens beautifully (as opposed to the browns of Kodachrome).
Green is my favorite color.
dear kim, beautiful reflections on green nature. I live in an environment surrounded by leaves and I really like those in which they can be seen against the light. in fact, the last image that you show in this video, is very delicate in all its ways, especially the contrasts with the leaves in shadow...bravo...!!. Chears from Chile...
Green never worried me until we went digital I think its the worst colour to get right! its like shooting bluebells with film....I once worked for a company where everything was painted green I did ask why and they said its one of the hardest working colours! it never fades and never chips away, and the joke was when the painters are around keep moving or else they will paint you green too! I hope you like my answers to green and no there is nothing in my house that I would paint green....Thank you for this weeks topic! Take care...
Beautiful thoughts and insights. Thank you for the admonition of the greens.
Green is my favorite color; it is so calming and reminds me of the love of Mother Gaia.
Kim, I don’t know which nature photographers you associate with, but I'm stunned to hear that any of them are dismissing or even "demonizing" green. In the Pacific Northwest (where I live), a hotbed of landscape photography, much of the work of the most well-known photographers uses green as a key color, to the point where even "grand landscapes" can be studies in green.
It's wonderful to hear the photographers near you love green. It is mostly landscape photographers that often seem to complain about green but it is so beautiful!
As a biologist, I see green as the true color of life on earth. Without the power of plants converting carbon dioxide and sunlight to useable stored energy and oxygen, we would not be here. Your images are beautiful, as always, but your emphasis on what is worth seeing, is wonderful, as well. Thank you for that, Kim.
Very true John! It is the essence of all life of earth :)
Hi Kim.
I feel most at ease and relaxed when wandering through nature. We here in NZ are nearly into springtime and the beginnings of new life, a time to enjoy and embrace these new beginnings.
As you quite rightly highlight green is the bedrock of nature, it drives life in most, it not all plant life on this earth. As many before me have commented, it provides the peace and tranquility we look for within nature. Embrace green as this is natures canvas that supports everything else. 😊
Wonderful Stu! Enjoy spring when it arrives :)
Having moved to an area that is/was heavily industrialised green is not really a prevalent colour although much excellent work has been done and is still being done in creating nature reserves. What we do have though is coast line where an abundance of lush greens are exposed when the tide is out that are just so stunning especially if combined with a deep blue sky which I find totally mesmerising.
Wow - that sounds beautiful Barry :)
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Beautiful video. I love the huge spectrum of the colour green. Ferns are stunning. Really loved the image with the three ferns. I would definitely have green prints on my walls ❤.
Yes May :)
Hi Kim! Glad to see you're feeling better! I found myself nodding in agreement with pretty much everything you said in this video. Personally I love the colour green. I think the trouble is, that when we think of that colour, we tend to think of it as just one shade of green, when in actual fact there are, of course many shades of green. And the way the light reacts to the colour green can be absolutely spectacular!
So very true Ash! There certainly are many shades and it so lovely to connect with them.
Thank you for always inspiring people. The timing of your videos are perfect. I need this more than ever today ❤ Thank you. Glad you are feeling better. One last thank you for showing us there is photographic opportunities everywhere and reminding us to stay true to what we like to capture ❤
Awe - thank you Melissa
When pursuing nature or landscape it's hard to escape green so one may as well embrace it. I'm particularly fond of the more subtle greens of lichens.
Very true :) Subtle greens can be so lovely
Fully agree Kim. I recently took a set of dappled sunlight shots in my local wood as well. Very green but made me feel good!
Brilliant to hear David!
Green is th colour that our eyes are the most sensitive too.
A few months in the rainforrest and anything not-green looks very strange .... 🦘
As usual you captured some wonderful images in a beautiful setting. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you :)
Well done Kim you've spurred me on again❤
Enjoy!
Thank you for another thought provoking video. Here in the Mojave Desert, brown is the usual color but I do pine for spring to roll around so I can be surrounded with nature’s wonderful colors to include green. Take care of yourself my friend.