Hey Mark - it's a type of green macroalgae, often referred to as "seaweed". I'm a landscape/wildlife photographer and marine ecologist with the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara. I've been following your channel for a while now. Lots of very useful tips and advice. Thanks for all of the help over the years. Great to see the local Santa Barbara landscapes used as an example.
The cool thing about cinematography, as opposed to still photography, is that you're not locked into one angle for the end product (i.e., a photograph, although you can take many photographs), since it's a series of still frames and not just one. So you can use a dolly, jib/crane, or drone to change angles continuously in one shot to get it all.
Less than halfway through the video.. two major rules of composition come to mind… “Rule of Thirds” and “Leading Lines”. Find your subject “hero” and minimize the distractions “villains”.
Rule one - stop worrying about what you missed. The viewer of your photography (besides yourslef) will never know what you "could have" taken. That first picture is epic
Absolutely fascinating - especially when someone is willing to share their mistakes! To some extent, composition can be learnt but to an equal degree, you either have it or you don't. It's partly down to how you observe a scene before even look through the lens.
Don'ts in Composition can easily be taught, like tangents & corner distractions to look out for. But Dos can't be taught so much, as it is our creative decisions. I am not a proffesinal, so probably my opinion doesn't matter 😊
You pretty much nailed it. Right in my weakness. Just being able to use words to describe these tips like you just did will definitively help me raise my awareness and consciousness when on site. Thank you so much.
I wish you lived next door…I have so many questions and no one to ask! I really enjoy your reassuring mild manner and interesting, informative commentaries, thanks!
This is a large part of my compositional eye. It's really cool when all of the elements of the image fall into place. Very much a Zen moment when that happens.
Some really great tips with fantastic examples. I really appreciate you showing your own photos rather than finding fault with someone else - that's a big deal with me. You've earned another subscriber with your abilities and talent - thank you for sharing.
Excellent video Mark. I have watched through a number of your tutorials today and I must say that I love your style of presentation. So calm and quiet (unlike many others!!) and you get across the points very well. On this one, I finally hit the subscribe button. Keep up the great work.
Hi Mark, again a remarkable instructional video. As a novice I would never have looked at my subjects like you do, now I will be looking in a new light so as to speak. Here in the UK we don’t have the abundance of compositions close at hand, so your knowledge in todays subject will give massive help to produce better photos with the material available. Thanks again. John.
Great point, Mark, and well worth dedicating an entire video to. This has certainly become a key element of my compositions since you and I discussed it in Iceland. You’re right! You can’t unsee it once you know to look for it. on the other hand, I’ve found some good uses for convergence where a cluster of rocks or trees, for example, can act together as a framing element for your subject, but that’s the only exception I can find to this golden rule for creating a clean composition. Thanks again!
Thanks Mark, That was an excellent discussion on compositional elements and camera position. I feel like this idea is something I’ve already known, but would often forget it in the excitement of a beautiful photo opportunity. I hope this tip stays with me going forward. Cheers.
What I like to do for those low angled photos is get very low looking up at an angle to give the impression of seeing the world from a tiny subjects perspective. Ive taken a few where Im looking up at flowers making the flowers look like they are towering. I love those shots.
I sometimes get lost with all of the stuff in certain scenes especially shooting in the woods. It is hard to create separation sometimes because my eyes just sort of dance all over the place and I don't take the time to view it in the camera.. My big mistake is that I take for granted that what I'm seeing with my eyes is what I would see in camera. I still struggle with the corners...cleaning up the edges or making sure that there is nothing that is sneaking in the edges like the occasional tree limb or certain rocks...But Mark you are 100 percent spot on by saying that moving around just a few inches up or down or to the side (if possible) can really make a huge difference.
Hi Mark Greatly admire your eye. I really don't have it but one of the best tips I ever received was that the best aids to good photography is your two feet. I'll couple that with your thoughts and look harder before pressing the button.
Thanks for the video Mark!! I am going to make sure I watch for converging lines. I will probably find myself going through my old photos to check for that now!! Lol
Hey Mark, Thank you for all your hard work. I'm headed to the tide pools of La Jolla. Isolating the image that you want from the overall scene(looking as opposed to seeing) (wow, this is beautiful as opposed to seeing lines and intersecting patterns) can be challenging. Your advice will be very helpful in creating keepers. Working on close-ups, panoramas, and long-exposure images of the pools. Thanks again!
I always enjoy watching your videos with great pleasure. There are always interesting ideas. Despite the difficulty of the language, I am Italian and do not understand everything. But photography is in universal language, and looking at your photos helps me to compensate for what I do not understand of the spoken word.😉😉😉👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hello Mr. Denney. We recently started following you on UA-cam and your other social media sites. Please forgive what may seem a ridiculous request, but I ask nonetheless. Would you possibly consider a series of channel videos on a "poor man's guide to landscape photography"? I don't have a budget that will afford me the excellent body and lenses that you use but I'm insterested just the same in landscape photograhy. Thanks for a great resource on UA-cam. Merry Christmas.
This is why I take many more pictures than I really need from different angles when on location. Because when I start looking at them in more detail and editing them I notice things that I may not have noticed when I was shooting them. Now that I have started using Lightroom it makes a big difference how they look after some editing compared to the raw picture too. Moving just a few degrees or inches in one direction or the other can make a huge difference in the composition!
Thank,s Mark, good advice. Having taken up digi photography last March, have been learning at a rate of knot,s, ideal in lockdown,s. Later did 2 Uni courses but found was ahead of lesson,s with home study. With the likes of your good self and many other,s on UA-cam, a mine of free info, keep up the good work.
A great trick for finding your composition came from Ansel Adams. Using a piece of cardboard or cardstock cut a rectangle or square inside that matches the format of your camera system, ex 2:3 for 35mm. Look through the opening to find the composition; up close to the eye is wide, and farther away from the eye is telephoto. Ansel had the problem of using a 8x10 view camera with no preview capabilities. He would walk a scene with his composition card until found exactly what he wanted to capture, then set his camera up with the right lens, and shoot the scene. A great tool for studying compositions away from the camera. These days I imagine the card being there and search for compositions without the card.
Mark - your videos are always informative, helpful, and well done. I am so glad I came across one of your videos and subscribed to get them all. If you don't mind telling, what is the waterfall in NC featured in this? My wife and I live outside of Hendersonville and so have hiked to and shot about 55 of the wonderful waterfalls around us but this one doesn't look familiar.
Thanks for the great content! Fairly new subscriber and have been randomly watching the various ones YT keeps popping up. Everyone of them has offered something helpful. Ok, back to watching…
Definitely something so important to take that time to find just the right angle and composition. I normally just take a while with my camera handheld looking through the viewfinder and moving around, up down etc. and taking a few snaps until I find something that looks like it will work and then setup the tripod and fine tune, whatever works for each individual but definitely worthwhile. Thanks Mark
I think the main thing is to move around, and take photos from different heights and angles, but also to use different focal lengths, focus on different parts of the scene, and to shoot each scene at different exposures. One of the main differences between digital photography, and the old days of film photography is that in film photography taking each photo was expensive, because you had to pay for film and processing. With digital photography taking a picture is relatively inexpensive, so if you are not sure about a composition, or exposure setting just take the photo, and you can always delete it later if you do not like it.
Great video, Mark! for the photo at 10:10, when youre shooting that low to the surface, are you focus stacking your final image? Or are you shooting at a much lower f stop to ensure everything is nice and crisp?
Hmmm. Excellent video Mark. What interests me most is how different photographers will emphasize and attempt to shoot different themes that catch their eye. I disagree with your conclusion about the algae-on-the-rocks shot. I saw something different in your composition and the “story” you were after. And the story, in my view is the most important element of any photograph. I thought you were after the contrast between fragile and life-giving green algae and the raw geology of the coastal landscape. Apparently not. Though a tad underexposed the shot is pretty good. I may play around with the composition in terms of what the main feature is: algae or rocks? And go from there. For example, I may get closer to the algae and feature that against a rocky and harsh background. But that is a different shot. And you apparently didn’t see it that way. And that is fine! We see different things. You lamented about missing the general coastal rock shape story as re-composed in the triangle. That again, is fine. But, you’re after something different. You can spend many hours working that site for different themes. I don’t agree that you made a mistake; you just wanted a different shot.
At 3:57 ..... If you crop the left side of the image just enough to get rid of the two leaves closest to the edge, you will improve the image. The tiniest of distractions can alter the appeal of an image, in most cases.
Great information Mark , I'm going to get out of my comfort zone of photographing wildlife and going to be doing some landscape photography around Grandfather Mountain this weekend so great timing on this video.
hahaha funny! I watched your 'go low' video last week before going on a trip to shoot seascapes and I did "go low"... coming back home I did notice the same as you are stating... on some images I went too low... and now I am watching you explaining not to go "too low". It's the universe coming together I guess :-). Thanks a lot for all your content, helps me a lot in my landscape photography!
@2:50 hmmmm I think the photo taken lower height looks significantly better and more interesting. The rest look better on the "after" though. Good tips.
When it comes to finding awesome locations/angles/spots in the area i am i easily pull out the mini drone, take my also battery driven FPV monitor/receiver and looking around where to go. Finetuning/Positioning than ofc as normal :) More than often i would love to take my Canon EOS camera up in the sky and make photos via Smartphone remote but guess what, a 200$ Mini Drone cant take more than about 200g (tested with a 200g flashlight). Let alone the fact that you dont want a expensive DSLR/mirrorless camera on a drone if the drone falls down. But GoPro and 800mW FPV transmitter worked AWESOME
Mark, great information as always. You've hit on the #1 area I've been trying to improve upon. Easy to see the issues on the computer screen but I'll often miss it in the field.
Love the video mark!! In totally gonna give this a try. One of my biggest mistakes still is where the heck to focus. On wide landscape shots I always seem to just focus in the middle lower third 90% of the time. This normally gets me in the ball park but I’m still getting missed focus
My mistake would be wrong depth of field so the subject ends up blending right into the background such as a bird ending up looking like one of the leaves behind it! Always like when you show comparisons or before and after shots.
Cool. Been photographing for well over 30 years and never heard anyone ever talk about 'converging lines' - and honestly, never gave it any thought. I'll be curious to look back at my images and see how often it occurs!! :-)
As always, another very educational and instructional video Mark!! Thank you for everything you are going for the photography community and giving people the tools to improve themselves past snapshots to making true fine art we can be proud of!
Nice video. Thanks again. I enjoy watching your videos and I have learned a lot. I just also enjoy when you misspell a word, and you automatically look up. As if the correct answer were on top of you 🤗🙌🏻 , Please dont be mad at me, that is your unique signature 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
I had always wondered if you had gotten thats falls at 5:06. I went twice, once with ropes, once without. I prefer ropes :). I had to put my tripod in that small pool to get my comp, did you?
Great information. Let me ask...how many images are you getting using your Fuji GFX100S per memory card? Have you done a video about how you store & back up your images? I would be interested in that. Thank you.
What's the photo mistake that still haunts you to this day🎃?
My wedding photos with my now ex wife, 😂
@Eduardo Bonani That still plagues me as well!
Have shot an entire beautiful sunrise timelapse in JPG´s :(
Not waking up early enough. Not recording compositions with notes to revisit under proper conditions.
@@luismrivas644 Not a timelapse, but I have forgot to change it back to RAW before
Mark, your channel is a gold mine ! Quality videos 💯💯. Please don’t stop !
Hey Mark - it's a type of green macroalgae, often referred to as "seaweed". I'm a landscape/wildlife photographer and marine ecologist with the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara. I've been following your channel for a while now. Lots of very useful tips and advice. Thanks for all of the help over the years. Great to see the local Santa Barbara landscapes used as an example.
Awesome - thanks for the info Andrew and thanks for watching the videos - really appreciate that!
I may have misheard but I think you might have said “green-leica” instead of “green lichen”. Common photographer mistake 😂
The cool thing about cinematography, as opposed to still photography, is that you're not locked into one angle for the end product (i.e., a photograph, although you can take many photographs), since it's a series of still frames and not just one. So you can use a dolly, jib/crane, or drone to change angles continuously in one shot to get it all.
Solid discussion on composition! This video will certainly be on my mind next time I pick up my camera. Thanks for posting!
Less than halfway through the video.. two major rules of composition come to mind… “Rule of Thirds” and “Leading Lines”. Find your subject “hero” and minimize the distractions “villains”.
Rule one - stop worrying about what you missed. The viewer of your photography (besides yourslef) will never know what you "could have" taken. That first picture is epic
One of the most useful photography tutorials on all of UA-cam! Loved the examples.
Absolutely fascinating - especially when someone is willing to share their mistakes! To some extent, composition can be learnt but to an equal degree, you either have it or you don't. It's partly down to how you observe a scene before even look through the lens.
Don'ts in Composition can easily be taught, like tangents & corner distractions to look out for. But Dos can't be taught so much, as it is our creative decisions.
I am not a proffesinal, so probably my opinion doesn't matter 😊
That was so helpful. I will never forget it. Thank you.
You pretty much nailed it. Right in my weakness. Just being able to use words to describe these tips like you just did will definitively help me raise my awareness and consciousness when on site. Thank you so much.
I wish you lived next door…I have so many questions and no one to ask! I really enjoy your reassuring mild manner and interesting, informative commentaries, thanks!
This is a large part of my compositional eye. It's really cool when all of the elements of the image fall into place. Very much a Zen moment when that happens.
Indeed! It's an amazing feeling!
I'm a beginner and this is very helpful to me. Thank you!
Some really great tips with fantastic examples. I really appreciate you showing your own photos rather than finding fault with someone else - that's a big deal with me. You've earned another subscriber with your abilities and talent - thank you for sharing.
These are awesome tips! I always suck at landscapes, but this has enlightened me, thanks!
Excellent video Mark. I have watched through a number of your tutorials today and I must say that I love your style of presentation. So calm and quiet (unlike many others!!) and you get across the points very well. On this one, I finally hit the subscribe button. Keep up the great work.
Great info as always Mark and it was a pleasure meeting you at Linville Falls yesterday.
Excellent tips... Thank you. Also nice to see the Heceta Head Lighthouse in your video. Love that area.
Great video upload and full watching! Thanks for sharing and have a great day.
Composition has always been the most difficult part of photography for me. Thanks for the all the great info!
Same. When I think I know what I am focusing on, people say Idk what I am to focus on.
Great tips. Thanks. Every time you shift static into dynamic photos.
Hi Mark, again a remarkable instructional video. As a novice I would never have looked at my subjects like you do, now I will be looking in a new light so as to speak. Here in the UK we don’t have the abundance of compositions close at hand, so your knowledge in todays subject will give massive help to produce better photos with the material available.
Thanks again.
John.
Great point, Mark, and well worth dedicating an entire video to. This has certainly become a key element of my compositions since you and I discussed it in Iceland. You’re right! You can’t unsee it once you know to look for it. on the other hand, I’ve found some good uses for convergence where a cluster of rocks or trees, for example, can act together as a framing element for your subject, but that’s the only exception I can find to this golden rule for creating a clean composition. Thanks again!
Thanks Dee! That a good point you bring up as well - I do love some natural framing!
Thanks Mark,
That was an excellent discussion on compositional elements and camera position. I feel like this idea is something I’ve already known, but would often forget it in the excitement of a beautiful photo opportunity. I hope this tip stays with me going forward. Cheers.
Your videos are always relevant and educative. Thank you.
What a great lesson Mark. One of those things I seem to skip out of habit while paying attention to other things. Really fantastic tip. TY
Good advice Mark and a reminder to always slow down and pay attention. Love ya channel mate👍
Another great video Mark. Always look forward to your new videos every Wednesday.
What I like to do for those low angled photos is get very low looking up at an angle to give the impression of seeing the world from a tiny subjects perspective. Ive taken a few where Im looking up at flowers making the flowers look like they are towering. I love those shots.
Thanks Mark. I never really thought of this for the foreground ... just in the main subject or items cutting the horizon. I learned something today!
I sometimes get lost with all of the stuff in certain scenes especially shooting in the woods. It is hard to create separation sometimes because my eyes just sort of dance all over the place and I don't take the time to view it in the camera.. My big mistake is that I take for granted that what I'm seeing with my eyes is what I would see in camera. I still struggle with the corners...cleaning up the edges or making sure that there is nothing that is sneaking in the edges like the occasional tree limb or certain rocks...But Mark you are 100 percent spot on by saying that moving around just a few inches up or down or to the side (if possible) can really make a huge difference.
Great video! You have opened my eyes on some things I had never thought about! Thank you!
Hi Mark
Greatly admire your eye. I really don't have it but one of the best tips I ever received was that the best aids to good photography is your two feet. I'll couple that with your thoughts and look harder before pressing the button.
That NC waterfall picture you eventually picked is stunning. Can you do a video on how you edited it in LR?
Thank You for a great tip. I,ll watch out for this next time I’m out shooting.
Can't wait to see you at CNPA Annual Meeting in February!
Thanks so much Lois! I’m so looking forward to it!
This was very helpful. I really enjoy how you share your thoughts of how you compose your shots. That is very tough to do. Thanks.
Thanks for the video Mark!! I am going to make sure I watch for converging lines. I will probably find myself going through my old photos to check for that now!! Lol
Very recognizable and very well explained. For me it shows the importance of slowing down on the scene while creating the composition.
Thanks so much Wim! Glad you enjoyed it!
Hey Mark, Thank you for all your hard work. I'm headed to the tide pools of La Jolla. Isolating the image that you want from the overall scene(looking as opposed to seeing) (wow, this is beautiful as opposed to seeing lines and intersecting patterns) can be challenging. Your advice will be very helpful in creating keepers. Working on close-ups, panoramas, and long-exposure images of the pools. Thanks again!
Great video, gonna try to watch out for this next time i'm out in the field! 🙂
I always enjoy watching your videos with great pleasure. There are always interesting ideas. Despite the difficulty of the language, I am Italian and do not understand everything. But photography is in universal language, and looking at your photos helps me to compensate for what I do not understand of the spoken word.😉😉😉👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
This was quite helpful; I know I'm going to be paying attention to this now. Thanks.
Great VLIG Mark. Great, now you have me going back and look at my shots to see if this is something I've done. Lol Great information.
Enjoyed the video, wonderful shots, especially the ones you corrected. Thanks for the tips, I'll look forward to practicing some next time I get out.
Hello Mr. Denney. We recently started following you on UA-cam and your other social media sites. Please forgive what may seem a ridiculous request, but I ask nonetheless. Would you possibly consider a series of channel videos on a "poor man's guide to landscape photography"? I don't have a budget that will afford me the excellent body and lenses that you use but I'm insterested just the same in landscape photograhy. Thanks for a great resource on UA-cam. Merry Christmas.
Nice video again! Very good examples.
This is why I take many more pictures than I really need from different angles when on location. Because when I start looking at them in more detail and editing them I notice things that I may not have noticed when I was shooting them. Now that I have started using Lightroom it makes a big difference how they look after some editing compared to the raw picture too. Moving just a few degrees or inches in one direction or the other can make a huge difference in the composition!
Thank,s Mark, good advice. Having taken up digi photography last March, have been learning at a rate of knot,s, ideal in lockdown,s. Later did 2 Uni courses but found was ahead of lesson,s with home study. With the likes of your good self and many other,s on UA-cam, a mine of free info, keep up the good work.
Thanks Steve!
Having to see a mistake and how to correct it is VERY helpful! Please share more :)
Thanks Ella!
Thank you Mark. This is fantastic advice!
This lesson you talked about is very enlightening to me. Make a lot of sense. Thank you.
Loved the Yoda behind... :)
Thanks Mark, always enjoy your insights. Paul from the true north-Canada.
Great explanation of this concept!
Thanks Mark! More excellent advice for a novice. Hope I can put this into practice soon, UK weather dependent!!
A great trick for finding your composition came from Ansel Adams. Using a piece of cardboard or cardstock cut a rectangle or square inside that matches the format of your camera system, ex 2:3 for 35mm. Look through the opening to find the composition; up close to the eye is wide, and farther away from the eye is telephoto. Ansel had the problem of using a 8x10 view camera with no preview capabilities. He would walk a scene with his composition card until found exactly what he wanted to capture, then set his camera up with the right lens, and shoot the scene. A great tool for studying compositions away from the camera. These days I imagine the card being there and search for compositions without the card.
Making a frame with your fingers also works
Brb off to critique every photo I ever took 😆 great advice
Mark - your videos are always informative, helpful, and well done. I am so glad I came across one of your videos and subscribed to get them all. If you don't mind telling, what is the waterfall in NC featured in this? My wife and I live outside of Hendersonville and so have hiked to and shot about 55 of the wonderful waterfalls around us but this one doesn't look familiar.
Great advice, Mark! Thank you!
Amazing tips and video Mark. Thank you. Think that I still make this mistake so Im beginner :).
Great video! Thanks for the tip!
Thank you so much for such a wonderful piece of information.
God bless you.
Thanks Mark this video definitely made an impact on how I can improve my compositions!
Thanks for this great educational video... I learned a lot 🙏🏻🙋🏻♂️
Thanks for the great content! Fairly new subscriber and have been randomly watching the various ones YT keeps popping up. Everyone of them has offered something helpful. Ok, back to watching…
Thanks so much Richard!!
Great Video mark as all ways thanks for sharing this with us
Thanks so much Noel!
Definitely something so important to take that time to find just the right angle and composition. I normally just take a while with my camera handheld looking through the viewfinder and moving around, up down etc. and taking a few snaps until I find something that looks like it will work and then setup the tripod and fine tune, whatever works for each individual but definitely worthwhile. Thanks Mark
I think the main thing is to move around, and take photos from different heights and angles, but also to use different focal lengths, focus on different parts of the scene, and to shoot each scene at different exposures.
One of the main differences between digital photography, and the old days of film photography is that in film photography taking each photo was expensive, because you had to pay for film and processing. With digital photography taking a picture is relatively inexpensive, so if you are not sure about a composition, or exposure setting just take the photo, and you can always delete it later if you do not like it.
Excellent reminder.
Excellent 👍 explaining of converging lines in landscape photography. I love it 😍
Appreciate that Richard - thank you!
Great tips as always.
Great video, Mark!
for the photo at 10:10, when youre shooting that low to the surface, are you focus stacking your final image? Or are you shooting at a much lower f stop to ensure everything is nice and crisp?
Great tip thanks Mark ✌️
Hmmm. Excellent video Mark. What interests me most is how different photographers will emphasize and attempt to shoot different themes that catch their eye. I disagree with your conclusion about the algae-on-the-rocks shot. I saw something different in your composition and the “story” you were after. And the story, in my view is the most important element of any photograph. I thought you were after the contrast between fragile and life-giving green algae and the raw geology of the coastal landscape. Apparently not. Though a tad underexposed the shot is pretty good. I may play around with the composition in terms of what the main feature is: algae or rocks? And go from there. For example, I may get closer to the algae and feature that against a rocky and harsh background. But that is a different shot. And you apparently didn’t see it that way. And that is fine! We see different things. You lamented about missing the general coastal rock shape story as re-composed in the triangle. That again, is fine. But, you’re after something different. You can spend many hours working that site for different themes. I don’t agree that you made a mistake; you just wanted a different shot.
At 3:57 .....
If you crop the left side of the image just enough to get rid of the two leaves closest to the edge, you will improve the image.
The tiniest of distractions can alter the appeal of an image, in most cases.
Thank you for this insights Mark.
Excellent vid. Thanks.
A dear friend just sent me a shot of the same lighthouse. He's on his way to visit his sister in Seattle and enjoying his new full frame Nikon.
In the light house image - Image one the horizon line is on the platform at the top of the light house. Corrected in the second image.
Great information Mark , I'm going to get out of my comfort zone of photographing wildlife and going to be doing some landscape photography around Grandfather Mountain this weekend so great timing on this video.
Thank ya Tom!
hahaha funny! I watched your 'go low' video last week before going on a trip to shoot seascapes and I did "go low"... coming back home I did notice the same as you are stating... on some images I went too low... and now I am watching you explaining not to go "too low". It's the universe coming together I guess :-). Thanks a lot for all your content, helps me a lot in my landscape photography!
Great video... Thanks a lot... Are all these pic.s focus stacked?
Great video!! Do you have any plans of going back to Acadia National Park in the future?
@2:50
hmmmm I think the photo taken lower height looks significantly better and more interesting. The rest look better on the "after" though. Good tips.
When it comes to finding awesome locations/angles/spots in the area i am i easily pull out the mini drone, take my also battery driven FPV monitor/receiver and looking around where to go. Finetuning/Positioning than ofc as normal :)
More than often i would love to take my Canon EOS camera up in the sky and make photos via Smartphone remote but guess what, a 200$ Mini Drone cant take more than about 200g (tested with a 200g flashlight). Let alone the fact that you dont want a expensive DSLR/mirrorless camera on a drone if the drone falls down.
But GoPro and 800mW FPV transmitter worked AWESOME
Once again, some great tips!
Great Video! Nice t-shirt!
Mark, great information as always. You've hit on the #1 area I've been trying to improve upon. Easy to see the issues on the computer screen but I'll often miss it in the field.
Thanks Jerry!
Love the video mark!! In totally gonna give this a try. One of my biggest mistakes still is where the heck to focus. On wide landscape shots I always seem to just focus in the middle lower third 90% of the time. This normally gets me in the ball park but I’m still getting missed focus
I liked the more green image more. Perspective is in the eye of the person looking at your work. The more green was better then the triangle water.
My mistake would be wrong depth of field so the subject ends up blending right into the background such as a bird ending up looking like one of the leaves behind it! Always like when you show comparisons or before and after shots.
Cool. Been photographing for well over 30 years and never heard anyone ever talk about 'converging lines' - and honestly, never gave it any thought. I'll be curious to look back at my images and see how often it occurs!! :-)
Great job 🔥🔥🔥
As always, another very educational and instructional video Mark!! Thank you for everything you are going for the photography community and giving people the tools to improve themselves past snapshots to making true fine art we can be proud of!
Nice video. Thanks again. I enjoy watching your videos and I have learned a lot. I just also enjoy when you misspell a word, and you automatically look up. As if the correct answer were on top of you 🤗🙌🏻 , Please dont be mad at me, that is your unique signature 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Hahahahh - thanks Patrick! We're still friends:)
I had always wondered if you had gotten thats falls at 5:06. I went twice, once with ropes, once without. I prefer ropes :). I had to put my tripod in that small pool to get my comp, did you?
Great information. Let me ask...how many images are you getting using your Fuji GFX100S per memory card? Have you done a video about how you store & back up your images? I would be interested in that. Thank you.
Thanks for your sharing, it's helpful 💖💕👏😊
Happy to hear this!