How I Improve my Photography Every Year
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Paul shows his end of year process to improve his photography every year.
He shows Part 1 of his Favourite black and white photography from 2023.
Images from the Leica Q2 Monochrom, Leica M6, and Fuji XE4.
This includes street photography, portrait photography and fine art photography.
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Hi Paul! Another great and inspiring video. Looking forward to part 2, 3, 4, ..... 🙂
Thanks so much! I was originally thinking I was going to get them all in one video but there’s just too many favourites
So true, your comment on the focus followed by the nearly blown-out sky - some photos have great power without trying to make every last thing as sharp as sharp can be. Thank you again for another wonderful collection. That one with the chair - the wall seems almost pulsing!
Thanks so much I appreciate it so much
Thanks for this years inspiration Paul, till next year and all the best.
Thanks so much for watching! I really appreciate it
I love this idea!
Thanks so much
Great work, Paul! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much for watching the video
Great images from 2023, Paul. I look forward for the rest of your upcoming 'Best of 2023'. "I absolutely love it!"
Happy New Year!
Thanks so much!!!! Happy new year
Love love love these! Thank you for sharing. Your photos were a joy and thank you for the great video.
Hey Paul! I have to say, this channel has by far become my favorite photography channel. I'm over here binging all your videos every chance I get and you truly have inspired me to get out and shoot. I'm a brand new Leica Q3 owner and I'm heading on a trip soon to Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Panama and I can't wait to break the Q3 in. Thanks again for creating some incredible valuable content and inspiring me to shoot. Looking forward to what 2024 brings on your channel!
Thanks so much for your kind words and thanks for watching my videos! I really appreciate it
Happy New Year Paul‼️Thanks for your inspirational videos, keep ‘em coming✌️🇦🇺
Happy new year and thanks so much for your support over this year
Hello Paul,
a great selection of your photos. I´ve also seen many of them in your other in your other videos about the Leica Q2M and so on.
Thank you for sharing these shots with us. And thank you for your inspiring videos.
Wish you a happy new year and all the best for 2024 🙂
Thanks so much for watching. I hope the commentary gives you an idea of where I’m coming from when shooting those images.
@@paulreidphotography commenting your slideshow was a great idea in my opinion. Often you have a slideshow only with music in the videos. So thanks for your insights
Love this. Totally relate to your sensibility and it is great to hear you say that perfect focus is not alwyas required and that there are photos you love despite the fact that you think no one else will like them. BTW some of us do ;-)
Thanks so much for watching!! I will be showing more with commentary this week!!
The photo of the woman in Edinburgh with the headphones was magic. Beautiful work!
I love that one too! Thanks for watching again
I enjoyed listening to why you like the images you chose. It’s the why that intrigues me!
Thanks so much for watching the video. I really appreciate it a lot
Bonjour Paul,
Je vous remercie de nous présenter vos jolies photographies en noir et blanc et votre sensibilité. Votre regard plein d'humanité et de tendresse se retrouve à travers vos clichés.
C'est avec un grand plaisir que je regarde vos vidéos pour découvrir à chaque fois, à travers vos yeux, ce monde qui m'émerveille.
Je vous souhaite une très belle année 2024 espérant prendre le temps de sortir pour saisir de mon côté, la beauté de ce monde qui nous entoure.
Merci.
Laurent
Thanks so much for watching and you very kind words. I really appreciate it so much. Happy new year to you.
Hello Paul, fanfastic photos. I love black and white photography. Your photos are great. Best from Poland.
Thanks so much!!! I really appreciate you watching
Some great photos. I agree with you about the broken chair shot. It's like a still life.
Thanks so much. I’m glad you like that one
Thanks for sharing those terrific photos.
Thank you for watching
really impressive paul, impossible to choose the best, but that final image of the young girl warms my heart !!! zen billings in canada
Thanks so much! I really appreciate you watching all the videos
Love the idea of printing out your best photos of the year and put them on a piece of cardboard.
Thanks so much for watching. I’m glad you like the idea of printing your imagers
Excellent photography. The lady at 43 was one of the best images I have seen in quite a few years, it had everything that the masters of photography, ( Cartier Bresson et al), would have considered a worthy image. This was an enjoyable watch. Kind regards. Gary
Thanks so much Gary!! That’s definitely one of my all time favourites too!! An unexpected moment. Thanks for watching the videos!! I really really appreciate it.
Great video. The image of the girl outside number 43 is stunning.
I love every one too! Thanks so much for watching.
Great images - thanks for sharing them.
Thank you for watching! I appreciate it
Great tip with the boards!
Thanks so much!! Glad you like that
Paul, this is a super idea! Mny thx for the guidance, best, j
Thanks so much for watching the video
Many great photos and I loved Paul Reid's take on the "Brick wall" the lens reviewers like so much :) (roughly at 13:30)
Ha haaa! I think I love what people
Leave behind. Sometimes that’s the only human element you need
Carlisle! - just down the road - I'm originally from Hawick
Yeah that’s not far away at all!! Thanks so much for watching the video
You actually present people as people.
Thanks so much for watching the videos! I really appreciate it
I would love also some tips for editing! Love you contrasty style 😊
Thanks very much!!! I will see what I can do
Hi paul, greath vlog. Happy new year to you 🎉
Thanks so much for watching and happy new year to you too
Really lovely photographs, Paul. I can't recall whom it was who said that no sky is better than a bad sky. The problem is that almost everyone wants to be an Ansel Adams. A lot of it is to do with You Tube. If the sky does not add anything relevant to the main theme, either get rid of it or just let it white out. Thank you again.
Thanks for watching! And yeah I just don’t see the point in pulling detail in a sky if it draws the eye from the subject
Killer images, Paul! I've wanted to buy a monochrome camera for the longest time, and I just can't justify the price. The results speak for themselves, though. Eventually I'll get there.
Thanks so much for watching the video. I really appreciate it
do they make pure b&w cameras? why not just turn lcd screen to monochrome and alter in post?
@@djinn_tseng Yes, there are monochrome-only cameras. Technically, all CMOS and CCD sensor cameras are black and white sensors.
Color cameras have a Bayer filter mosaic is a color filter array in front of the sensor that filters red, green, and blue light, and then the camera's processor estimates, with color science proprietary to the individual camera manufacturer, as to what the colors should look like in the shot. Almost all modern cameras have a Bayer filter array before the sensor. One of the drawbacks to having a Bayer filter is that having anything in front of the sensor reduces light transmission and dynamic range that the sensor can capture.
Monochrome cameras have 'naked' sensors, meaning there is nothing in front of the sensor, no Bayer filter. They have more light sensitivity and greater dynamic range. Some claim that monochrome sensors have more detail and other things, but the only thing I can say with certainty is that monochrome sensor cameras have higher native ISO sensitivity, greater dynamic range and better low light image quality.
Leica makes monochrome cameras, many RED cinema cameras are available with monochrome sensors, and some older Huawei phones have monochrome sensors. Other than the phone option, monochrome sensor cameras are many times more expensive than color cameras because they're specialized and have to be manufactured in limited runs.
This was a fairly exhaustive explanation for a UA-cam comment. lol.
@@djinn_tsengthere are two purely b&w cameras. There’s a Leica one and a Pentax. They don’t have colour filters on the sensor pixels.
Nice work Paul. I use the term 'happy accidents' as well so it was fun to hear you say it. I'm going to be on SPM podcast soon so I'll give you a shout out ;^) Have a good one!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it a lot!
Awesome stuff.
Thanks so much
I consider many of those photos as great images, won't bore you with the reasons why.
Thanks so much. I really appreciate it
Nice photos and environment. I like the idea of cheap printing 4x6 best images and boarding them. I was looking at some online print services in the States. Viewed their Terms of Use and noticed a shocking clause (to me). Photos submitted to the service in their app, even though the photographer retains the copyright, irrevocable rights are given to them to use and "exploit" the image as they desire in advertising, showing products, and as deemed by them. Best 2024 to ya.
I've gotten around this issue by printing at home with the Canon slephy. Print quality is beyond good enough to print bests. It about $33 USD to print 100 4x6 so it's competitive with drug store printing.
Thanks so much. This sort of thing is very common with terms and conditions. I guess the only true way to protect your images is to pay a bit more and use another printer or print yourself.
I started to think in the begin , when is he stop talking❗️ 🤣
Ha haaaaaaaa! That’s why I have instagram
Looking at getting a Pentax k3 iii monochrome for BNW. Good idea I need to start printing more
Thanks so much for watching the video and I’d love to know how you like that camera once you get it
Hi Paul, I do enjoy your content but if I had one request for 2024 it is to improve the audio in your videos. This latest one had a background hum through the first 7-8 min talking piece which was just too much, I had to skip through it.
I will have a listen out for that. I didn’t hear it.
I can hear it in this video especially during the quieter sections.
@@sexysilversurfer yeah I hear it now. I had to put the phone to my ear but yeah it’s obviously not a great mic! I’ve got a mic on my buy me a coffee wish list. Go halfers with ottenburg and his wish is my command.
6:31 This is coaching. Look it up, a mentor isn't paid. Ina work environment, it could be your superior or other senior colleague. Sometimes someone junior to you.
Christian and Tony Fletcher are mates, each a mentor to the other.. CF is the first Western Australian International Landscape Photographer of the Year.. Tony has just become the third. I believe Tony is a mentor to some student photographers.
I don’t really mind what it’s called. I will put it out there and see what everyone prefers
I get what you are saying about pulling photos off that you don't think are as good, but what about the possibility that you didn't like it because of some bias/prejudice you have based on how you think the photo should look. I would think that as you get better (speaking for myself) I may in fact remove a photo that is better than I think (just like I may leave many that are not nearly as good as I think). Do you ever go back and look through the photos you have pulled off one of the boards? Or is it a one and done kinda situation?
That could certainly happen. We can always make decisions based on our emotional state at the time. I’m not saying delete them from your Lightroom albums as you may go through these again at a later date. Maybe even years down the line an image could mean something different to you. A second opinion is always good.
I just wonder if you ever regret not to have the color option ? Or do you carry a second body for color?
I do have a Fuji XH2 for colour and also have the option of colour film for my M6
@@paulreidphotography what focal lengths do you find yourself using on the Fuji? I always assume Q users have 5 different 28mm lens options 🙂
Hi Paul , I am new here. Also Q range shooter and love B/W over color. Excellent shots but I have a question. In the shots of the old barber shop and the award winning one of the old woman,.in the back ground you see the horizontal lines really bend at the edge of the frame due to the 28mm distortion. Did you try to straighten them in your edit to see if that is more pleasing to the eye or do you always leave them for what they are? Anyways, thanks for sharing.
Hi there, it’s actually a rounded building not distortion. It’s on a corner of a street and a very unusual building.
Now that I take a closer look you are right .
Thanks for your early reply @@paulreidphotography
Beautiful photographs. Im not satisfied with my photographs. 2023 was awful in my personal life and love. My photographs tried to sound like Joy Division records but it was just dull. So that it can only be better in 2024.
Thanks so much! Been there! Maybe more than once! Let’s hope 2024 is your year!
@@paulreidphotography thanks so much
a bit of exaggeration with the ' amount of snow' ;-)
Ha haaa! There was also a mask on that one! But it was snowing heavy!
I enjoyed the photos but felt that the talking was much more than needed.
I thought it was just the right amount, myself.
I can’t be anyone other than myself in these videos I’m afraid