G'day Andrew. I have enjoyed every shot in this video. I, too feel more 'relaxed' with the muted colours of an overcast day. I really hope your counsellor helps you to feel better. Keep posting your videos and enjoy them. I do enjoy your 'chats' each time I get to see your videos. Best wishes from Western Australia.
Seeing how nice the first photo turned out makes me wonder how many good shots I've missed. I am sure I would not have spotted that angle/shot. I really enjoy your walks. They are both insightful and entertaining. Thx.
A great video Andrew how you processed the images captured the feeling of a winter’s day on the broads. Big sky’s and textures working well together. I like to try to find the landscape within the landscape.
Thank you for your support. Perceptually, finding landscapes within a landscape shot is easier in a more undulating landscape rather than against a flat horizon with the occasional tree, roof or windmill breaking it. To a degree, I think that's why working with textured skies and a flat landscape makes a half-decent landscape shot more achievable.
Thank you. The problem with the "help" is that it's short lived unless you can afford private therapy. You get six weeks and then, well, you wait again and hope you make progress without the ongoing help in the meantime....
Hi Andy, I know you say you sometimes struggle to get motivated and get out, but I do admire your dedication to your photography and this channel, this was another good video with many relevant points made. Happy new year Andy and lets hope it's a good one.
Thank you, Steve. My struggle if very real. I have a video for this week but as yet, nothing for next week and sometimes the stress of finding a location and something to talk about rather than the generality of photography is overwhelming. I need to make the content slightly different from the other talented people out there that my metric tell me that my audience is watching and I need to build that audience but, well, it's getting harder and harder. The time taken to make these videos is huge and the cost of doing them is mounting too. I am buoyed by the positive comments I get and these help me get on but motivation is lacking. What I really need is a shooting buddy..... when you next in these parts?
Anywhere within a shortish drive of Cromer area is fine. I drove past Happisburgh yesterday and saw that the beach ramp is again closed. There has been a lot of loss over Christmas and New Year. I am very happy to shoot there though access should now be at Cart Gap to help against further erosion. Send me an email from my web site or message on FB and we can sort something .
I do enjoy your videos, and would like to be able to look at the landscape and see what yon do. You seem to see something in a fairly ordinary, often rather busy scene, and yet you manage to find the potential. I keep practicing, I would be interested in your post processing thought process - not a software class, but how you look at an mage and generate ideas for how to draw out the interest and compostion. Keep up the good work!
Thank you. The art of seeing is one that I find difficult to explain. I will try in future videos. I think it's just practice really. As for processing, often this is a consideration well before the shot is even composed and with my awful memory which can be less than one of those pet orange fish, I can only imagine the thought attaches to the shot. Those in this video are a prime example as the delay between shooting and review/processing was around a week and I set to doing what I suggest at the end of the video long before I remembered that I had made that point in the video (if that makes sense). I guess a lot of it is down to memories of scenes that somehow surface, but in the main shots out in the wild tend to evoke a feeling at the time that dictates how I see the final image and thus also depend how I shoot it. Take a look at my figs still-life image on my FB or insta account: I shot and edited this in minutes as I just knew how I wanted it to look from the first idea of seeing them on the window ledge
I totally agree with you about phone photography Andrew. Whilst a phone can produce an acceptable image it is a clumsey tool to handle for photography.
For sure. The experience you get with phone photography isn't a patch on that you get with a camera. Of course, many people aren't seeking an experience, just a shot and for those, the phone is just great. It's the box-brownie of the modern day.
i became fed up with the garish colours that seem to be the rage these days especially in landscape photography, so i dialled in different settings in camera to give more toned down colour and contrast and i love the results.
Sounds like you're shooting JPEG rather than RAW images. I guess you're not doing much post processing. If you are, shoot raw and then add these tonal effects in post. As for garish colours, yeah, I am sick of them too. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. I have a video about this very subject. from about a month ago.
i shoot with my fuji xt2 and i am more than happy with the results straight out of the camera with very little processing. fuji jpg's are superb.@@AndyBanner
Yes, a lot of people like the Fuji J-peg processing. I as much as I know the Olympus jpegs are very good too, I just don't want to be limited by the loss of data provided in a Jpeg. There's nothing wrong with either approach.
I like the photo of the mill looking upwards. And I would call it an minimalistic photo. And I like it very much. Take care and hope you will get a good new year. Göran in Latvia
It's interesting you would think of it as minimalistic. In one sense it is, in others it isn't. I think of minimalism as lots of empty space rather around one subject (or very few) rather than one subject filling the frame. I get your point though.
The very last shot was really wonderful. The shot with the tree and the reeds was also very nice. Looking at this scenery it all reminds me of the "Swallows and Amazons" series by Arthur Ransome which I insatiably devoured as a kid. I could hardly wait to get my hands onto the next volume. Long time gone! I have heard that there is not much left of the Norfolk Broads today. Too many roads criss-crossing and in part drained.
I know quite a lot about the Broads. I live here and ran a boat holiday company here for 14 years. The Ransom stories you reference have a lot to do with The Hunter Fleet - traditional wooden sailing boats available for hire which were part of Ransom's inspiration. Google The Hunter Fleet for more. Virtually none of the Broads have been lost. There's 125 miles of navigable waterways and it's the largest inland navigation in the country (outside of the canals). There's 7 rivers and 63 Broads (not all navigable). And you might not know that the Broads themselves are man-made - flooded medieval peat diggings. There was once up to 3000 cruisers for hire on the rivers with many available from small family-owned boatyards offering great services. There's only a couple of smaller family yards around now - the rest have been swallowed by larger family groups and there's just 11 operating yards left. In the 70s, there would have been at least 40 - I have lost count. That's where the decline is - in the number of boats for hire and the yards operating them. One of the boating businesses I helped start up is still around - if you ever visit, check out Bishy Barney Boats in Norwich. I have a couple of videos featuring them. Bishy Barneybee is a Norfolk word for Ladybird - the boats are red with black spots.
@@AndyBanner Thanks a lot for all the info. I myself grew up in Bristol and never actually ever saw the Broads. At 19 I decided to go and see what Europe looked like. I ended up in Germany where I have lived ever since. Funnily enough, many of my IT wide area network performance analysis customers were in France. As a result, I spoke German at home, struggled with French on site, and wrote reports in English. Needless to say, as Brexit came up I immediately took up an additional German nationality in order to remain an EU citizen.
@@AndyBanner Thanks for all this info! Fascinating history, at least to me way over here in Washington State at the Canadian border north of Seattle. Have visited Hunter's Fleet website - what beautiful boats. And your spotted Bishy Barney boats, too. I'm very good at finding your shooting locations on Google Maps and 'walking along' with you. :) Love your photographs; as many have noted, you have a gifted eye. I am learning more from you than all the wonderful UA-cam videos I've watched for years and years; thank you so much! (BTW: I have a bumper sticker that says "Art Saves Lives" -- you know it does!)
I really like the shot with the trees and the grass as well as the one of the boat shed. Also, as someone who had to take the step of getting help this year, I hope the counseling helps. ❤
I didn't know it at the time but even from childhood I was destined to be a photographer because I always preferred the soft, diffused light of cloudy days to full sun.
haha. I think those of us with a creative mind can find beauty in most things. Sadly, as a natural born pessimist, I also see the opposite/ Need to stay positive.
Good eye, Andy. I'm intrigued by your capacity for teasing something lovely out of a little corner of a scene that, to me, doesn't appear so promising. All the best for '24 - from the swamp.
Thanks. I can't explain it, I wish I could. For some people, skills like this come naturally. My daughter (one of the sources of great sadness) is very good at such things and she never studied photography or graphic arts. Come to that, I have never been taught graphic arts of any kind or received any formal photography tuition. It's a combination of natural ability and 45 years of using a camera.
@@AndyBanner I don't think there's too much of a mystery about this sort of thing being inexplicable. We know little about the workings of the brain, and even less at the mind-numbingly fine resolution that would provide some understanding of our peculiar (and fiercely individual) apprehension of the world. It's all we can manage to look at our own images and feel a sense of ease - 'that's what *I* saw. Whether others see the same, or recognize the meaning that exists for the 'creator'... another question entirely. Such is the inherent ambiguity of communication. On a different tack (nautical term) - i was driving to purgatory yesterday and i thought: "What if Andy made a photobook?" I'm not one for hanging other people's work on my walls - i get out there and make my own. But books are another thing.... I would be delighted to subscribe in advance to a photobook by you. I think that other's who find a resonance with your images would too. Please to be considering it, Mister. Kind regards.
Hmm, a photobook. It's a huge undertaking and I really don't think I have the following to justify anything other than some kind of Print on Demand book which might be prohibitively expensive. I have had the occasional look, but never spent much time investigating. Perhaps a Zine? I should speak to a few people who have done this and get a feel. Thanks for your support.
Hi, my friend. The first black and white is really beautiful, friend. I still have a soft spot for that one way or another. I am currently doing some macro and close-up work and then I start in color, confidently, but end in black and white. And I completely agree with you about the phone. It is a telephone and it is for calling someone. But I also can't take pictures through the screen of a camera. I don't know what that is, but I just can't do it. The desaturation in the second shot is very well done. It fits the photo and the environment very well. Nice piece of editing, my dear friend. The tree behind the reeds reflects the mood of the day very well. Very well done. And the sky is beautiful, buddy. The mutated colors you use are perfect for the conditions under which you photograph. Very beautiful, man. That's absolutely right, we usually only look straight ahead and we rarely even look back. A very nice video to watch and I mean it, friend, Job well done, man. Take care of yourself and Nicky. Antoine.
Thank you for your kind words, Antoine. I have had a couple of very low days and your words bring a feint smile to my face. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I hope you are feeling better. Your friend, Andy
Your wisdom of looking at the shot differently also applies to how the mind processes daily life experiences. Learn to look at those differently also. Put your trust in the Lord to guide and help you. I love your shots. In your mind there is always a shot. It is also true with the mind - there is a path to peace.
For sure. I realise that my depression can be aided by a shift in mindset. The problem is I have no tools with which to make that shift possible and relapses are simply awful. Thank you for your help.
Hi, Geoff. I think it's more that many people won't go out on a dull day thinking it's not worth it when it definitely can be. I hope my images offer some inspiration.
I wish I had more enjoyment of dull days, to be honest. I have to force myself out of the house often without the outside looking uninviting. Of course, its rarely as bad as we perceive it. Enjoy the coast, looking at the forecast, it's that or the sofa.
Nice captures, Andy. Enjoyed the video! Just curious...do you set goals for the new year? Is there anything in particular you will try to focus on or maybe have a list of places you wish to explore? Do you find that by setting goals it becomes to restrictive or dampers your creativity? Would love to know your thoughts on this. Be well and Happy New Year!
I don't treat years as separate entities and I rarely set goals as I would never remember them anyway. I would love to be able to plan a list of places to explore but life and money just prevent it so I live day-by-day and it's pretty dull really. Unlike learning to deal with dull light, I have no tools to handle a dull life. However, I am most definitely getting bored of my local scenes and I need a break from them.
Exactly what I needed for inspiration. We all struggle at times. Feel better Andrew!
Thanks. Life lurches from one catastrophe to another. This was six months ago now and things are just as awful but in subtly different ways :-)
Lovely winter images Andrew. Love the subtlety of the colours - a good lesson there thanks. All the best for 2024.
Thank you, David. Hope 2024 treats us all better
G'day Andrew. I have enjoyed every shot in this video. I, too feel more 'relaxed' with the muted colours of an overcast day.
I really hope your counsellor helps you to feel better. Keep posting your videos and enjoy them.
I do enjoy your 'chats' each time I get to see your videos.
Best wishes from Western Australia.
Thank you. Take care and happy new year to you.
Seeing how nice the first photo turned out makes me wonder how many good shots I've missed. I am sure I would not have spotted that angle/shot. I really enjoy your walks. They are both insightful and entertaining. Thx.
Another great video Andrew. Best wishes to you for 2024.
Thanks, you too!
Lovely photos. I always enjoy your photo walks.
Thanks
Thank you Andrew. Happy New Year to you.
And to you. Thank you for your patronage
I’m late to the party but good on you for seeking support and sharing some of your journey, and of course your photography, with us.
Attendance time to the party is unimportant - being there is the important bit. Thank you and welcome.
A great video Andrew how you processed the images captured the feeling of a winter’s day on the broads. Big sky’s and textures working well together. I like to try to find the landscape within the landscape.
Thank you for your support.
Perceptually, finding landscapes within a landscape shot is easier in a more undulating landscape rather than against a flat horizon with the occasional tree, roof or windmill breaking it. To a degree, I think that's why working with textured skies and a flat landscape makes a half-decent landscape shot more achievable.
So happy that you have started counselling 💖wish you all the best in your efforts!
Thank you. The problem with the "help" is that it's short lived unless you can afford private therapy. You get six weeks and then, well, you wait again and hope you make progress without the ongoing help in the meantime....
Hi Andy, I know you say you sometimes struggle to get motivated and get out, but I do admire your dedication to your photography and this channel, this was another good video with many relevant points made. Happy new year Andy and lets hope it's a good one.
Thank you, Steve.
My struggle if very real. I have a video for this week but as yet, nothing for next week and sometimes the stress of finding a location and something to talk about rather than the generality of photography is overwhelming. I need to make the content slightly different from the other talented people out there that my metric tell me that my audience is watching and I need to build that audience but, well, it's getting harder and harder. The time taken to make these videos is huge and the cost of doing them is mounting too. I am buoyed by the positive comments I get and these help me get on but motivation is lacking. What I really need is a shooting buddy..... when you next in these parts?
@@AndyBanner Hi Andy, where do you have in mind? Happisburgh is a favourite of mine as is anywhere along that coastline.
Anywhere within a shortish drive of Cromer area is fine. I drove past Happisburgh yesterday and saw that the beach ramp is again closed. There has been a lot of loss over Christmas and New Year. I am very happy to shoot there though access should now be at Cart Gap to help against further erosion. Send me an email from my web site or message on FB and we can sort something .
I do enjoy your videos, and would like to be able to look at the landscape and see what yon do. You seem to see something in a fairly ordinary, often rather busy scene, and yet you manage to find the potential. I keep practicing, I would be interested in your post processing thought process - not a software class, but how you look at an mage and generate ideas for how to draw out the interest and compostion. Keep up the good work!
Thank you. The art of seeing is one that I find difficult to explain. I will try in future videos. I think it's just practice really. As for processing, often this is a consideration well before the shot is even composed and with my awful memory which can be less than one of those pet orange fish, I can only imagine the thought attaches to the shot. Those in this video are a prime example as the delay between shooting and review/processing was around a week and I set to doing what I suggest at the end of the video long before I remembered that I had made that point in the video (if that makes sense). I guess a lot of it is down to memories of scenes that somehow surface, but in the main shots out in the wild tend to evoke a feeling at the time that dictates how I see the final image and thus also depend how I shoot it. Take a look at my figs still-life image on my FB or insta account: I shot and edited this in minutes as I just knew how I wanted it to look from the first idea of seeing them on the window ledge
I totally agree with you about phone photography Andrew. Whilst a phone can produce an acceptable image it is a clumsey tool to handle for photography.
Yes, it is clumsy to handle and it kills all the fun.
For sure. The experience you get with phone photography isn't a patch on that you get with a camera. Of course, many people aren't seeking an experience, just a shot and for those, the phone is just great. It's the box-brownie of the modern day.
i became fed up with the garish colours that seem to be the rage these days especially in landscape photography, so i dialled in different settings in camera to give more toned down colour and contrast and i love the results.
Sounds like you're shooting JPEG rather than RAW images. I guess you're not doing much post processing. If you are, shoot raw and then add these tonal effects in post.
As for garish colours, yeah, I am sick of them too. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. I have a video about this very subject. from about a month ago.
i shoot with my fuji xt2 and i am more than happy with the results straight out of the camera with very little processing. fuji jpg's are superb.@@AndyBanner
Yes, a lot of people like the Fuji J-peg processing. I as much as I know the Olympus jpegs are very good too, I just don't want to be limited by the loss of data provided in a Jpeg. There's nothing wrong with either approach.
I like the photo of the mill looking upwards. And I would call it an minimalistic photo. And I like it very much. Take care and hope you will get a good new year. Göran in Latvia
It's interesting you would think of it as minimalistic. In one sense it is, in others it isn't. I think of minimalism as lots of empty space rather around one subject (or very few) rather than one subject filling the frame. I get your point though.
The very last shot was really wonderful. The shot with the tree and the reeds was also very nice. Looking at this scenery it all reminds me of the "Swallows and Amazons" series by Arthur Ransome which I insatiably devoured as a kid. I could hardly wait to get my hands onto the next volume. Long time gone!
I have heard that there is not much left of the Norfolk Broads today. Too many roads criss-crossing and in part drained.
I know quite a lot about the Broads. I live here and ran a boat holiday company here for 14 years. The Ransom stories you reference have a lot to do with The Hunter Fleet - traditional wooden sailing boats available for hire which were part of Ransom's inspiration. Google The Hunter Fleet for more.
Virtually none of the Broads have been lost. There's 125 miles of navigable waterways and it's the largest inland navigation in the country (outside of the canals). There's 7 rivers and 63 Broads (not all navigable). And you might not know that the Broads themselves are man-made - flooded medieval peat diggings.
There was once up to 3000 cruisers for hire on the rivers with many available from small family-owned boatyards offering great services. There's only a couple of smaller family yards around now - the rest have been swallowed by larger family groups and there's just 11 operating yards left. In the 70s, there would have been at least 40 - I have lost count. That's where the decline is - in the number of boats for hire and the yards operating them.
One of the boating businesses I helped start up is still around - if you ever visit, check out Bishy Barney Boats in Norwich. I have a couple of videos featuring them. Bishy Barneybee is a Norfolk word for Ladybird - the boats are red with black spots.
@@AndyBanner Thanks a lot for all the info. I myself grew up in Bristol and never actually ever saw the Broads. At 19 I decided to go and see what Europe looked like. I ended up in Germany where I have lived ever since. Funnily enough, many of my IT wide area network performance analysis customers were in France. As a result, I spoke German at home, struggled with French on site, and wrote reports in English.
Needless to say, as Brexit came up I immediately took up an additional German nationality in order to remain an EU citizen.
@@AndyBanner Thanks for all this info! Fascinating history, at least to me way over here in Washington State at the Canadian border north of Seattle. Have visited Hunter's Fleet website - what beautiful boats. And your spotted Bishy Barney boats, too. I'm very good at finding your shooting locations on Google Maps and 'walking along' with you. :) Love your photographs; as many have noted, you have a gifted eye. I am learning more from you than all the wonderful UA-cam videos I've watched for years and years; thank you so much! (BTW: I have a bumper sticker that says "Art Saves Lives" -- you know it does!)
I really like the shot with the trees and the grass as well as the one of the boat shed. Also, as someone who had to take the step of getting help this year, I hope the counseling helps. ❤
Thank you for your support and comments. It all helps.
I didn't know it at the time but even from childhood I was destined to be a photographer because I always preferred the soft, diffused light of cloudy days to full sun.
haha. I think those of us with a creative mind can find beauty in most things. Sadly, as a natural born pessimist, I also see the opposite/ Need to stay positive.
Good eye, Andy. I'm intrigued by your capacity for teasing something lovely out of a little corner of a scene that, to me, doesn't appear so promising. All the best for '24 - from the swamp.
Thanks. I can't explain it, I wish I could. For some people, skills like this come naturally. My daughter (one of the sources of great sadness) is very good at such things and she never studied photography or graphic arts. Come to that, I have never been taught graphic arts of any kind or received any formal photography tuition. It's a combination of natural ability and 45 years of using a camera.
@@AndyBanner I don't think there's too much of a mystery about this sort of thing being inexplicable. We know little about the workings of the brain, and even less at the mind-numbingly fine resolution that would provide some understanding of our peculiar (and fiercely individual) apprehension of the world. It's all we can manage to look at our own images and feel a sense of ease - 'that's what *I* saw. Whether others see the same, or recognize the meaning that exists for the 'creator'... another question entirely. Such is the inherent ambiguity of communication. On a different tack (nautical term) - i was driving to purgatory yesterday and i thought: "What if Andy made a photobook?" I'm not one for hanging other people's work on my walls - i get out there and make my own. But books are another thing.... I would be delighted to subscribe in advance to a photobook by you. I think that other's who find a resonance with your images would too. Please to be considering it, Mister. Kind regards.
Hmm, a photobook. It's a huge undertaking and I really don't think I have the following to justify anything other than some kind of Print on Demand book which might be prohibitively expensive. I have had the occasional look, but never spent much time investigating. Perhaps a Zine? I should speak to a few people who have done this and get a feel. Thanks for your support.
Hi, my friend.
The first black and white is really beautiful, friend.
I still have a soft spot for that one way or another. I am currently doing some macro and close-up work and then I start in color, confidently, but end in black and white. And I completely agree with you about the phone. It is a telephone and it is for calling someone. But I also can't take pictures through the screen of a camera. I don't know what that is, but I just can't do it. The desaturation in the second shot is very well done. It fits the photo and the environment very well. Nice piece of editing, my dear friend. The tree behind the reeds reflects the mood of the day very well. Very well done. And the sky is beautiful, buddy. The mutated colors you use are perfect for the conditions under which you photograph. Very beautiful, man. That's absolutely right, we usually only look straight ahead and we rarely even look back. A very nice video to watch and I mean it, friend, Job well done, man.
Take care of yourself and Nicky.
Antoine.
Thank you for your kind words, Antoine. I have had a couple of very low days and your words bring a feint smile to my face. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I hope you are feeling better.
Your friend,
Andy
@@AndyBanner I just love you brother
Your wisdom of looking at the shot differently also applies to how the mind processes daily life experiences. Learn to look at those differently also. Put your trust in the Lord to guide and help you. I love your shots. In your mind there is always a shot. It is also true with the mind - there is a path to peace.
For sure. I realise that my depression can be aided by a shift in mindset. The problem is I have no tools with which to make that shift possible and relapses are simply awful. Thank you for your help.
Hello Andrew, I don't use labels as I take images that interest me, what ever they are.
Hi, Geoff. I think it's more that many people won't go out on a dull day thinking it's not worth it when it definitely can be. I hope my images offer some inspiration.
The bleak landscapes always have more depth of character, IMO. Nice video.👍
Thanks 👍
Thank you Andrew. I enjoyed this video ! I wish you all the best for 2024 ! 🍀🎉🎇🥂
Thank you. Hope you have a good 2024 also.
@@AndyBanner 🙏🏽
It's passed down since July here
Should be some great images then! :-)
dull days needn't result in dull images 🙂
I tend to head for the coast when it's dull here. I spend a lot of time at the coast...
I wish I had more enjoyment of dull days, to be honest. I have to force myself out of the house often without the outside looking uninviting. Of course, its rarely as bad as we perceive it. Enjoy the coast, looking at the forecast, it's that or the sofa.
Nice captures, Andy. Enjoyed the video! Just curious...do you set goals for the new year? Is there anything in particular you will try to focus on or maybe have a list of places you wish to explore? Do you find that by setting goals it becomes to restrictive or dampers your creativity? Would love to know your thoughts on this. Be well and Happy New Year!
I don't treat years as separate entities and I rarely set goals as I would never remember them anyway. I would love to be able to plan a list of places to explore but life and money just prevent it so I live day-by-day and it's pretty dull really. Unlike learning to deal with dull light, I have no tools to handle a dull life. However, I am most definitely getting bored of my local scenes and I need a break from them.
16:24 perhaps ''contemporary'' is the word you are looking for
You certain show how the first camera angle to subject is often not best angel
Yes, I think "Contemporary" is a good word.