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Photographing Popular Locations ...
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2024
- There are lots of popular photography locations in every single country in the world ... and if you research any of those locations with photography in mind, you will easily find them. But why bother going to them at all? Well there are a few advantages as well as a couple of disadvantages and funnily enough, that's what I am talking about today.
I suppose you could called this a landscape photography vlog ... but I prefer on location landscape photography!
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Can anyone tell what I forgot to put in this weeks video!? 🤔
two of your self? i havent seen it atleast 😅
A sponsor?
Boxheadmike hashtag? 😅
@@TobSounds Haha!! Nope ... It has to do with the photos themselves ... 🤔
@@davidletz9123 Haha! Not yet, but I'm working on those ... 😁👍
You mentioned hearing your favorite song on the radio or learning to play a favorite song…. This video reminded me of a wonderful movie that I saw years ago. The Englishman Who Went up a Hill and came Down a Mountain. Great movie and this was an excellent video. Your channel is among the best on UA-cam. Keep up the good work!
That is indeed a great movie and I'm flattered that my video reminded you of it Gary!!
I'm having a lot of fun filming and editing these videos so it is great that you are appreciating them!!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Patience is not a virtue I posses unfortunately. There have been a number of times I have regretted moving on. As far as who I take pictures for, it is definitely for myself. My family often gets annoyed that I don't share my shots, and I also do not partake in any social media. I agree with your statement about not caring what others think. Photography is my escape from the day to day pressures of life. Great video as always, cheers.
I can see myself in your comments. 😁😁
Photography is so good for that isn't it!! It's a great excuse to go out into the wild and just have some time for yourself.
Thanks for watching 😁👍
I really like that you include “bad” shots as well as those that work. It would also be good to see the final shots pre and post edit. Coming from a 35mm background it is the editing that always causes me the biggest headache. I either never get round to it or when I do, never know how much to do! Thanks for the content, keep up the good work.
Thanks very much Bryan!
I have an editing video planned soon, once I get a decent light in my house to film under!! 😆
I'll take your idea into consideration when I edit the next video ... although I try to do as little editing as possible on my photos.
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Great thing about popular locations is that they are beautiful to visit.. with or without light or camera.. cannot believe it’s taken me this long to follow you on IG ..
Exactly ... I probably should have had that as one of my points as well. 😁
No worries about the follow on IG. I'm more active here on UA-cam but I do post there when I remember! 😆🤦🏻♂️
Thanks for watching Clifford! 👍
With light sometimes you win sometimes you loose but your passion will never fail you..great video..✌🏼🤓📸
Haha! I love this, what a great saying, a great way to look at things ...
Tha ks for watching 😁👍
Mike, I truly enjoyed this video. Finding compositions other than the obvious is a mark of a good photographer. Your last comment sums it it best: "If you enjoy your photography, who cares what other people think?" Oh BTW, no commercial?
Thanks very much Jim!!
Exactly ... it's all about the enjoyment you get out of it ... if it is fun, and it isn't harming anyone, who cares about other peoples thoughts!!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Great video! I end up passing on landmark shots like you mentioned for the same reason; they seem over played and stale, but you make a great point on the value of those spots!
Thanks very much Eric.
I know what you mean. There have been a few times where I've been to locations and just not bothered photographing them.
A prime example was when visiting NZ. We were at the Wanaka tree ... There were about 5 people huddled around it taking various shots ... I stayed in the flanks and ended up getting a nice shot of the milky way over the town instead ... Always shots to be had!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Thanks Mike. Very motivational, informative and enjoyable.
Great to hear David!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Great video!
I was in same situation last weekend at a nature reserve. Beautiful birds and marshes to capture, but sunlight perfectly hidden behind a few clouds lol
I got blessed with the only 10 minutes of sunlight of that entire day for waiting another 30 minutes XD
Photo at 7:09 is awesome. The waiting was worth it for the capture at 8:20! The composition with the 2 elevations was epic!
Thanks so much! I had a lot of fun with this one ... and when the light finally came through, I just had to run back to the original place I was at!
It is the patient that get rewarded ... most of the time!! 😆
As always thanks for watching 😁👍
Great shots. Atm I take shots for myself. I have only been taking photos for 48 years and I still have lots to learn. I do do Instagram and have won a village photo competition, but a few more years should sort me out, especially as I am taking note of your excellent tuition. Thanks.
Thanks so much for your kind words. It is amazing how photography just keeps you working and learning ... I've been at it for 26 years (so not as long as you) and I am still learning too ... one thing I have found is that teaching others gives me a much deeper understanding of what I am doing ... although in saying that, I still do mess up from time to time! 😆
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Nice work. Thanks Mike.
Thanks so much Reno! This was a fun one to make, even though the weather didn't quite come through for me!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Useful information as always. Keep it up
Thanks so much Paul! 😁👍
This feels like a natural part two to your Jan 27 2022 video 'replicator or creator' on Pen Y Fan. Yes, some of us pay attention! 😉😂 Only this time the weather is a lot more favourable so you can demonstrate, without actually trying to, the subject of your earlier video. Some beautiful scenery up those parts and another great informative video Mike 👌🏼
That's a good point ... never actually intended it to be like that but great to hear it flows nicely from the Pen Y Fan video.
As always thanks for watching dude, always appreciated 😁👍
I live in Southern Ca, which means I am close to some stunning landscapes. A photographer friend invited me to a camera club trip last March. The club leader had carefully mapped out key locations in Utah (Arches Nat’l Park and Canyonlands Nat’l Park) and calculated the ideal position of the sun for each. He made a pdf of where we would be and when.
Great. All we had to do was get up at 4 a.m and hike in the dark to a spot so we could shoot in the golden hour.. Where my friend and others in the club and I differ is retaking the same photograph hundreds of people have taken of these landmarks. I don’t want to copy something that’s been on dozens of calendars. So I look for compositions that differ, screw public opinion. In one place, I concentrated on photographing the crowds of photographers as they shot.
Living as I do 30 minutes from various SoCal beaches, I have the most fun shooting seascapes in winter when the lowest tides coincide with sunset, exposing vast “wet sand mirrors” that reflect colorful and interesting skies. Same beach, same spot-and the images are never the same.
If you ever come this way (Ventura County), let me know and I'll share some intel.
Thanks very much Jim ... and when I do make it over there, I'll be sure to get in touch!
I have been to quite a few locations where I have not even got my camera out because it has been so busy ... other times, I have taken a similar shot to what you were going for where it is more about the people than the scene ...
It is all about making the shot your own ... and those personal shots are about reminding you of how you felt when you were there ... I sometimes look back through my photos and it really does take me back to that feeling I had when I was there.
As always thanks for watching 😁👍
I never were to a popular photography location, except maybe Frognerparken Park in Oslo, but not really landscape photography. Will drive around Helgøya Island in Lake Mjøsa at Sunday, as I've to go to Hamar anyway, but the forecast is gloomy. But maybe I find some good compositions for another time?
Love the upcoming EOS R6II by the way, but wait for the a7V.
Out standing location Big Brother. ❤️🙏
Thanks so much Gopal! It is such a fantastic place to shoot ... and the woodland was an added bonus!!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Depends if it’s my first time or not at a location. If it’s my first, I’ll bite the bullet and keep on walking after I find nice compositions. Like you said, there may be more opportunities than all the popular shots others have taken. Then I’d return either on my way back through and pray for good lighting, or try and come back again for the specific shots I was found. No matter what I do, though.. I always feel that I’m missing out on something! Haha. 😅 You do very well with your patience. At least it seems. 👏 Great stuff, dude! Love your gentle reminders throughout.
Thanks so much Harrison! Lol, I did wait a while but ended up getting bored and knew time was getting on ... and I just love getting to a high point and picking things out of a huge scene in front of me!
Thanks for watching dude 😁👍
Nice tips, thanks !
Thanks very much Calie!
A matter of degree, IMO. At one extreme is the tourist bus load syndrome - lots of folks jump out and grab an “I was here” shot, or “Look what I replicated” image. Might as well buy a postcard. Tougher “popular” venues can better develop shooting skills and composition “chops”. My sense is that most people would not appreciate my own personal interpretive rendering - saying, instead “Oh, that’s such and such mountain”.
No, I tend not to be patient enough. Perhaps I’d be more patient if I had a bigger portfolio of good stuff to lean back on.
BTW, pic in pic effect works very well, Mike. Description gear roster excludes A74 (picky, picky😊). Cheers!
That is true, nothing worse than being at a location and as soon as you get there, a tourist bus turns up and hundreds of selfie grabbers see you and think you must be in the best spot and hoard around you and your camera! 😆🙈
My Aunt actually goes and photographs postcards with her phone and then puts them up on facebook ... everyone thinks she's an awesome photographer!! ... for the record she is on my wife's side of the family, otherwise I'd be having a stern word with her!! 😆😆
Great to hear the pic in pic effect works well ... that's due to the A74 having the stabilisation built in helping me get smoother shots I'm happy to put in my videos!
And thanks for the heads up about the A74 not being in the description links ... completely forgot to change out the A7iii! 😆
As always thanks for watching dude 😁👍
Great video, Mike. I know the light did not cooperate with you, but I still thought the photos you got looked really nice. I love going to places to try and recreate photos that I have seen. The reason we see them is because they are usually taken in fantastic places. Back when I was just using my iPhone for photography, I hiked up a mountain at 3AM in Lake Bled for a fantastic view of the lake, town and castle. It remains one of my favorite photos and I absolutely loved recreating a photo that I had dreamed of seeing with my own eyes for many years. I hope all is well with you and your bride. Have a wonderful weekend.
Exactly!! I should have mentioned that as a point as well! The popular spots are normally popular for a reason ... really photogenic!!
That's great. It shows that it is not what camera you have, but the places you get to that count!
We're all good, I hope you and the family are doing great!
As always thanks for watching dude 😁👍
2:42 composition is nice, but too bad the light isn't that great.... so reason to come back with better light conditions....
Exactly ... I definitely need to work on my forecasting skills!! 😆
Thanks for watching anyway! 😁👍
A good video again!! 🙂 i liked the photo of the fields with the trees in line at 9:48 🙂and i try to find different angles when i take photo's of the same ships 😅i have photo's on my personal instagram (no mean to self promote) have a good evening 😁
Thanks very much!! That line of trees is one of my favourites as well ... love getting on a long lens and finding things like that within a landscape!!
As always thanks for watching 😁👍
@@mikesphotography i see 😄
Mike, I’ve just recently discovered your channel and I’m learning a lot. I’ve noticed that you shoot almost all of your photos in portrait mode. Is this just your personal “style” or is there a different reason. Cheers!
Thanks so much Gary and welcome to the community!
I didn't realise I did this, but after 2022, where I have spent the whole year making landscape videos shooting every week, I definitely take more images in the portrait orientation.
It's either a portrait shot or a pano ... that's pretty much what I default to. 😆
Thanks for watching 😁👍
@@mikesphotography I like your work and knowledge!
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Thanks for watching 😁👍
Not up at the Roaches, Ive got them all 😜
Haha!!
I call it "Round the corner pull"
Haha!!
@@mikesphotography Joking aside, Mike, it is one of the aspects of landscape photography I really struggle with. I will find a great composition, say 30 mins before I know when the best light will be, but it feels so hard to stay put and wait for the next 45mins to get the shot. When "maybe" I could get 3 shots with not the best light.
Looks like a climbing area.
Haha! Yes indeed ... lots of anchor points along the top of the ridge, all sandstone so solid rock to climb on ... and as I was leaving, there were a few climbers on their way up to the base of the clliffs!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Thanks for this one Mike
Living and teaching landscape photography workshops here in the Blue Mountains of NSW Australia
we have plenty of popular locations.
However I personally have revisited the same location for up to 10 days straight just to get the light I wanted.
Cheers
I know what you mean! I had a similar location in the south of England. got the photo I wanted on the tenth visit!! It's all about persistence isn't it!!
I bet you get some fantastic locations in the blue mountains!!!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
@@mikesphotography Sure do Mike.Just returned from.Alaska and the Canadian Rockies. These places are a Photographer's heaven.
Cheers