How to photograph chaotic forest scenes with the FujiFilm GFX100s
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- 5 years ago chaotic forests were probably my least favourite habitat. Now they are my favourite. In this video I take my FujiFilm GFX100s to the cloud forests of Tenerife and explore a wonderful landscape filled with opportunity.
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Beautiful woodlands, such a well though out production
Have been watching your videos for several years now and always enjoy them. I think this is the most enjoyable so far. It feels more truthful and listening to your 'in the moment' thoughts gives me more confidence to follow my own feelings when processing my own images. Thanks. Yes I would like to watch more in this vein.
20:45 looks fantastic. I love the flowing shapes and how the leafy tree on the right side is breaking that up.
Damn, but I love this channel. There are a number I watch for ideas or inspiration or technical information, but this is easily my favorite.
Thank you so much ❤️
Very interesting and incisive....
Thank you very much for this one, Alister! Inspiring (as always!). I think the most important attitude I took from you ist to allow yourself to select parts of a scene in the landscape and to free yourself from the obsession of „documenting“ reality (whatever that might be).
Ulanzi tripod ...it's so light...but agree hand held is the go for this type of shot
Alister great point here…. Nature really is to diverse to “plan or anticipate” a composition. Also, we do not know what our mood or attitudes may be when we pick up our camera to interact with the environment around us. I wonder how much creativity I have lost or maybe “left behind” because I thought I knew what I was looking for but just not able to find it! As always, great content! Thank you for sharing and as always… keep snapping…
The importance of aspect ratio is one of the things I learned from your channel which is making a big difference for me! I never really considered it to be as important as it turns out to be. I have revisited photos in my library and re-cropped them with much better result than I initially had.
Thank you, I am really delighted to hear that.
love your videos. I would really like to see them in 4k because of those high res pictures : )
what a great video... love trees and i love even more to take photographs of them
Thanks Alister, I found the video very useful. Where I live in Australia we have very thick dense bushland and undergrowth which is hard to
capture or find a compos. We have a lot of sandstone o that sometimes breaks it up.
Really happy to hear it was helpful. Hopefully next week's processing video from the same location will also help. Many thanks for the kind feedback.
Thank you very much. I find forests quite hard to take good pictures in, so thank you for your inspirational videos on that subject!
Re: use of tripods. On the other hand, I find that using a tripod in a forest forces me to slow down and consider the image more carefully. When I hand-hold my camera - aside from the fact that the shutter speed is generally slower and I may need to bump up the ISO - I also have a tendency to start shooting everything I see (or think I see) and I fail to take the time to really analyze the composition.
always enlightening, Alister
I enjoyed this a lot! I love forests - I struggle making images there. I don't get disappointed anymore, but often I just leave the camera in my bag and enjoy the woods without making images. I found myself vigorously nodding when you talked about the effect of a tripod affecting the spontaneity. This is exactly what happens to me. It chains me down in a way. I can't see and react fast enough. Some day I want to go photographing in the forest with you 😀!
19:04 This frame makes me think of a tree representation of "The Creation of Adam"
So helpful Alister! Can't wait to watch the processing one next week. Forests area huge struggle for me and this really opened my eyes!
awesome, thanks for that. Yeah, the processing video is a bit of a monster!! Hope you're doing good.
Very well done, Alister! You are very good at atriculating the concepts. I love being in the forest but have not liked trying to compose in the forest (perhaps like you 5 years ago!). I eagerly await next week's presentaion on processing.
Wonderful content as usual and very timely for me. I completely understand the difficulty in finding any kind of composition in the forest. I live in Auckland New Zealand and our local forest, the Waitakere Ranges, is mostly secondary growth forest with a few remnants of the original primary forest scattered throughout. It is very difficult to get separation between trees without other smaller and denser shrubs obscuring the view. Foggy days are rare. In the past 3 years the number of photos I have taken I could count on one hand.
Thanks for that, I know New Zealand has many challenges from my last visit in 2010, I hope to come back
Great tip regarding using film simulation. I started using film simulation on my 50R recently and it really does help to inspire greater consideration of a scene, especially in conditions that I otherwise wouldn't consider favourable. In particular I have found that using monochrome film sims in the middle of sunny days helps me see compositions I otherwise wouldn't have.
Absolutely, I believe using BW previews is a superpower ❤️
I wish canon would add aspect simulations to the R5 and put the crop metadata in the RAW. It is so helpful in the field with visualization
Wonderful video! Truly enjoyed it and learned a lot! Thank you!
That’s great, thank you
Can I ask if you don’t mind about the setting of picture profile and do you take photos with live view settings on in menu settings? I mean natural live view on or off ?
I have mine on so I can see the effect, it helps a lot
@@Alister_Benn Hi If you have on then you can't see the effect of film simulation and if you have Natural live view off then you get the maximum dynamic range. so please let me know which one you have on or off?
Shooting woodland is like playing a golf ball as a low cut out of the woods. Theoretically, if you can get decent at either, than shooting epic scenes become like hitting 7 iron from the middle of the fairway.
So why does my fairway iron game suck?
Haha, great analogy, I played of 6 ❤️
Can I ask what aspect-ratio you use for your pano images?
It’s 65:24 - which I love ❤️
@@Alister_Benn thx, it looks amazing! 👍
It's dismaying to see how often landscape photographers perceive the incredible biological diversity and complexity of a forest as "chaos". The only chaos I've ever seen in a forest was man-made.
I comment better later,ok?