8 PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS That Changed My Game
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- Over the last years I have improved my photography massively. I analyzed why and fastened these 8 amazing photography tips for you. Maybe they could also be for you a big game changer.
Christian Irmler
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One of my biggest game changers for my photography was finding your UA-cam channel. I am constantly amazed how you keep producing such great quality videos every Saturday morning. Thanks for all your efforts, I hope your channel gets the growth it deserves.
Yep, Christian really works at his photography, AND the videos...first.class work, indeed. I also find his analytical approach to composition interesting, although he doesn't use long enough telephoto lenses ;-) Nür ein Witz / Vain vitsi ... I'm a bit of a long lens guy, as I like the isolation and depth effects, BUT, I've also been known to use a shorter T/S lens for landscape work, indeed, my best-selling work was done with a T/S lens, so that the sand grains about 500 mm in front are just as sharp as the mountains in the background. Hmmmm, I guess that it's also kind of like Christian's advice to 'point down', since I ended up with the sky only about ⅛ of the image height!
Hi Mike, thank you so much, this means a lot!
It is not always so easy to produce a video every week, to be honest. You know, I don't do this full time, so the nights get often quite long :) But I love the process and especially to help out with useful tips.
Thank you and nice greetings,
Christian
I'm working on getting it longer, Lohi ;)
Good Saturday morning... Sounds like another great video coming! Now, back to the show!
Hi Lohi, sorry for the late answer. I hope you enjoyed watching ;)
Nice greetings,
Christian
Was für ein tolles und informatives Video! Danke für die vielen wertvollen Tipps, Christian. Ich wünsche dir ein super Wochenende 😊👋🏼
Hi Chris, vielen lieben Dank! Dann mal viel Spaß beim Ausprobieren ;)
Schöne Grüße,
Christian
Thank you for yet another very nice video, with some good and very practical tips!
And thank you for giving away your new e-book for free!
Hi Tim, thank you so much for your kind comment, my friend! It's always a pleasure to share my experience and ideas :)
Nice greetings,
Christian
Peeling back the rules to get to the principles and the reasons we apply them. Nice.
Also, you asked which concepts helped us most in our photographic journeys. I was watching a Joshua Cripps video a couple of years ago and he said something that has really stuck with me: "A good landscape photograph is like a caricature: it simplifies and exaggerates." I'll let you know if and when I've fully internalised the concept, but it's one I keep coming back to.
Hi Mike, thanks a lot for your kind comment :) That's a good comparision and a nice approach. Thank you for sharing!
Nice greetings,
Christian
Honestly, a great video! Congrats, Christian!
Hi Guilherme, thank you so much, my friend, I really appreciate :)
Have an enjoyable Sunday and nice greetings from the mountains,
Christian
Christian, your discussion about how your knee problem changed the work is quite good... My knees, long ago, told me that anything more than 100 metres away was 'not photogenic' ;-)
This, of course, really drives you into finding creative ideas, picking out image areas that say something special, or using lenses for unexpected views... Hard work, mentally, and sometimes physically, but making one really examine a scene for potential.
Oh, also, talking about printing, I guess that, in the olden days, shooting Velvia 50, one had to really think about the way that the image would "print" on that quite unforgiving film, especially at $2.00 every "click".
Nice said, haha :) Yes, everything more than 100 meters away was definitely "not photogenic" for a while :)
I never thought that explicitely about the mental side, to be honest. But you are absolutely right - it can get frustrating when you know, you could get better images, but you can't walk further.
Wieder ein tolles Video mit guten Tipps und Beispiele👍
Vielen Dank :)
Nice video, Christian. A comprehensive range of ways to improve your photography skills in half an hour. Other channels take years to get this done. Chapeau!
Hi Erik, thank you so much, my friend - this means a lot :)
I just always think what could be useful when I make a video. And there seems to be a lot to learn from my own images, which is incredible. I should do more analyzes of my own images :)
Thanks a lot and nice greetings,
Christian
Thank you for all the tips!
Hi Marcus, thanks a lot for your kind comment, always nice to meet you here in the comments :)
Have a great weekend,
Christian
Thanks you Christian for a very nice explications. Your tips help me to not "to press on the saw". Liberate about rules, slow down and simply enjoy the image up front of me.
Thanks you very much. I took the liberty of downloading your nice ebook!
I wish you nice light!
Hi Marek, thank you so much for your kind feedback. Really fantastic to hear, that my videos are useful for you :)
Thank you for downloading my ebook, as well!
Enjoy your weekend,
Christian
What helped me a lot was starring local adjustments in lightroom. I started to think in the field about how could edit a picture and use that to my advantage. Also due to a disease I was at home for almost 2 years. I used this time to photograph and then I could choose witch day I wanted to go instead of only getting out on Sundays. There was no pressure anymore and that released creativity! Great video as always! Grt guido
Hi Guido, oh yes, it really helps to think the entire image to the end, when you are out on location.
I hope you overcame your mentioned disease, 2 years is a long time. And I agree, it is really useful not being limited to just one day in the week.
Thanks a lot and have a great weekend,
Christian
@@christian.irmler I have just send you a message about your reply trough you're website. I didn't feel to comfortable with writing it down here but I'm sure you wil understand after reading it 😉 grt guido
@@GuidoVanDeWater You wrote over the contact form of my website? Strange, I didn't get an email. But the contact form works, I've tested it right now. Could you please send it with an instagram chat message? Sorry for the circumstances.
@@christian.irmler strange i even got a confirmation from your website. Maybe my message was to long 🤣 ill send it by ibstagram! Grt guido
Keep making such videos!
Hi Leona, I will give me best, for sure ;)
Thanks a lot and nice greetings,
Christian
What a great, useful, informative video. Thanks so much!
Hi Steve, thank you so much for your kind comment, my friend - I really appreciate :)
Nice greetings,
Christian
So glad The UA-cam served you up to me, Christian. Great tips on taking different exposures. So tired of blending my exp bracket shots into meh hdr's. Jumped to see other content you've created and that was it. Subbed there and then. Now, I need to finish you video! Looking forward to the next one. Cheers from WI, USA!
Hi John, thank you so much for your kind comment, my friend :) Really fantastic to hear, that my videos are useful for you. A warm welcome, great to have you here!
Nice greetings,
Christian
Appreciated your efforts in this video!
Thank you so much, Peatricia :)
Definitely one of the best landscape photography channels on UA-cam. Thanks for all the effort you put in to making them!
Hi Ian, thank you so much, my friend - this really means a lot :)
And this definitely motivates for my future videos :)
Thanks a lot and nice greetings,
Christian
I love the camera's ability to take 5-second continuous shots and the method used to set up each photo was awesome!
Hi Mark, yes that's definitely a great feature. Thanks a lot for watching and nice greetings,
Christian
Ad Tilting down: Very good tipp, Thnx. Common sense is to go down as possible .... Break the rules 🙂
Hi Gerhard, oh yes, breaking the rules - this is one of the best things in photography, isn't it? :)
Thanks a lot for watching and nice greetings,
Christian
This was brilliant. Thank you.
Hi Roy, thanks a lot my friend :)
Nice greetings,
Christian
Your discussion about "depth": the use of foreground elements by using lens and back tilt is one thing that large format imaging used to great effect... With focus stacking, you are able to achieve similar results, or, with tilt/shift lenses, without stacking, but stacking allows you to achieve +almost+ the same effect, with your "standard" lenses...the only proviso being the same issue as HDR, differential motion. Here, again, mirrorless cameras can take frames so quickly that at least some of that issue is alleviated.
Hi Lohi, to be honest: I love the idea of tilt/shift lenses, I just would prefer to get them as zoom lenses, to be flexible in focal lengths. I know, I know - it's difficult to build a lens like that and I guess it would be quite big and heavy :)
I see it like you: Stacking is possible in many cases and a good option.
Nice greetings,
Christian
Lots of excellent tips there thank you.
Hi Nancy, thanks a lot for your kind comment :)
Nice greetings,
Christian
All good tips Christian. I liked the images you used as examples. I think you more you practice and keep doing photography, the more things you pick up along the way. We are all still learning and that's the great thing about our craft, no day is ever the same and it never gets boring. Thanks for sharing the video. Cheers.
Hi Adrian, thank you so much, buddy :) Yes, definitely - the more we practice, the more mistakes we make to get better and better. Learning never ends :)
Thanks a lot and nice greetings,
Christian
Really great Tips! I´m looking forward to using the technique where you tilt the camera down to the foreground! And thank you so much for the E-book, i´m so excited to read it!
Hi Arthur, thank you so much, my friend! I hope you'll enjoy trying out all the tips from the video and the ebook ;)
Nice greetings,
Christian
Another great video! I try to apply all your tips and advice when photographing my city and it helped soo much to getting much more pleasing photographs.
Hi Sergey, thank you so much, my friend! It is so fantastic to hear, that my tips were useful for you. I hope you'll enjoy trying out all the tips of this video and the ebook ;)
Nice greetings,
Christian
Sehr gut hergestellt! Grüß Gott aus Salzburg! Kamera habe ich mit gebracht aber nur Filmkamera.
Hallo Erich, vielen lieben Dank! Und hab eine schöne Zeit in Salzburg. Das ist ja nur eine Stunde von mir :)
"Nur Filmkamera". Früher gab's nichts anderes und auch heute lassen sich damit ausgezeichnete Fotos herstellen. Find ich echt großartig, dass du noch mit Film arbeitest. Dann mal viel Spaß beim Fotografieren in Salzburg. Vielleicht kommst du ja beim Gollinger Waserfall vorbei, ist ganz in der Nähe und trägt im Moment auch eine gute Menge Wasser ;)
Schöne Grüße,
Christian
Another technique with Canon is to use an iPhone in your pocket or out of view of the camera and use that to trigger the shutter. I'm sure there are apps for other camera manufacturers.
Hi Vanessa, that's a good tip, thank you for sharing!
There exist apps like that for most brands, but I would go even one stop farther: I would like to use my phone as a better screen for my camera, to fine tune my composition. There exists an app for Sony, though, but it is not that handy at the moment, as I would like to have it :) We will see what time will bring us here.
Nice greetings,
Christian
Very good/valuable tips. The multiple exposures from the right to the left of the histogram is golden. The tip about water is also very good, indeed one will be better off in making a conscious decision about how to approach water (on top of the usual attention paid to approaching a scene containing water, its composition, etc.) as to what aspect of it you wish to capture. I will download the ebook - tnx.
Hi Dimitris, thanks a lot for your kind comment, my friend! I hope you'll enjoy the ebook :)
Nice greetings,
Christian
@@christian.irmler Tnx I did email you back a small token of appreciation
great video
Hi Timo, thanks a lot, my friend :)
Nice greetings,
Christian
Good set of tips, Cristian. I find the camera tilt especially useful for vertical compositions with a wide angle. The lateral distortion becomes vertical, making background elements like mountains and waterfalls look larger. You also have fewer problems with tilting trees when pointing down vertically instead of in landscape.
Hi John, yes definitely. Vertical compositions benefit from a kind of "roll-in" effect, which I really like, especially with shorter focal lengths :) Thank you for adding this here with your comment!
Thanks a lot and nice greetings,
Christian
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Hi Dapur, thank you for your kind comment, my friend!
I think, I will stick to English language for my videos, but thank you for the idea :)
Enjoy your Sunday and nice greetings,
Christian
Good advies
Thank you so much for your kind feedback, Thomas :)
Nice greetings,
Christian
Oops! No links "up there"....
I set them all. But I make the same experience from time to time, that I watch any video on UA-cam, but the links are not there. When I visit the video again, some minutes later, they are there. Strange, but looks after an issue from UA-cam.
Hmmm, the dynamic range on a modern digital camera far exceeds that of film.... Film is actually quite bad. Do not confuse "protecting highlights" with dynamic range. Sorry, after that start I did not watch the rest of the video🙈
Hi Rudi, thank you for your thoughts! Could be, that I expressed that indeed a bit unhappy. Sorry therefore! Dynamic range in film photography depends on the film. With a quality film you can get a good dynamic range up to 14, if not 15 stops! But compared to digital photography it is shifted. Whilst digital photography covers deepest areas from -12 to +2 stops, film covers more something like -10 to +4 stops, which makes the dynamic range better for me, because depending on the film I have always 2 to 4 extra stops for my highlights. When I think back to my analogue time in my youth ages in the 1990s, I can't remember that I got ever a photo with burnt out hightlights. Except those in the very beginning when I didn't know how to use a camera :)
Of course, if you use just cheap film, you will get a dynamic range of just something like 8 stops, which would be bad, of course. However, this doesn't change anything to the tip itself, a solution to get the best possible exposure with digital photography.
Thanks a lot for your comment and nice greetings,
Christian