Looking beyond the obvious in your photography
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2023
- Look beyond the obvious and there may be more to see.
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You may see your views as ordinary but having followed you for quite some time now there is something extra in your vlogs. Which to me make them extra - ordinary.
My apologies to Grace Jones for the poor representation of her image (too much glare) in this video!
An excellent video as usual. I find your photography and videos extraordinary.
As a wheelchair user that enjoys photography your photos inspire me more than most. I don't like taking pictures of people and can't physically get to the "pretty" locations. I see your pictures as physically possible for me to take if I had talent.
This video resonates a lot with me. I feel photography in an 'ordinary' place is much more challenging because like you said, next to the usual challenges like composition, you additionally have to break through your own perception of normality to be able to see the beauty. I feel that in a way photography can become a tool to be able to appreciate what you have around you.
Well said!
Some lovely photos from ordinary locations.
It's only ordinary because we're used to seeing our locations all the time. Visitors will often see things we've overlooked or taken for granted.
Embrace what you have.
I must admit that the one good thing about the lockdowns is that I learned to appreciate my local area that much more. That photo at 9:51 is just lovely.
Indeed!! If we give "extra" effort to seemingly "ordinary" scenery, our captured photograph becomes extraordinary. May God bless you, sir. 🙏🙏
This ordinary channel is exceptional ...
I actually can't watch those UA-cam videos anymore that shows all the places I'll never be able to visit using all the gear I never could afford or interest me.
All I want is to see normality, honesty, creativity, reality, quality.
Thank you for just being you and not trying to be someone else, we have too many of those already.
This is what it's all about for me too. An ordinary, everyday scenery as a challenge. As a puzzle, a Rubik cube to solve. Craig is one of the best solvers of puzzles I have encountered. As a minimum, I am subscribing to the channel. I will probably give the e6 a shot as well when i am done watching all the vids here.
Right up my alley. There is beauty in ugliness or blandness. Love your pics.
Totally agree with you, stop photographing the bleeding obvious, but if you feel you must then do it in a different way.
Extraordinary. The wonderful thing about photography is that one never stops learning
After retirement we moved to a small rural farm community in the midwest of the US, flat land and corn fields, the challenge keeps me thinking and searching! My skills have improved enormously.
Fantastic. This chimes with my philosophy. I love capturing what others see as mundane. I admit that partly this because I’m lazy!
I've just cancelled my trip to the Taj Mahal and Machu Picchu and am heading up the road to the local park. Inspirational as always. Thanks and cheers from DownUnder 🦘
Honestly, you are amongst my top 5 followed photographers on UA-cam. Really like the way you capture mundane things and turn them into beautiful shots. Specially like some of your edits, too.
I hate those other four! 😉
@@e6Vlogs nice response 🙂
There really are no mundane things only mundane ways of seeing.
Your photography is right up my straight Craig, it's the type of subjects that I spend most of my time photographing too. You are one of only a handful of UA-cam photographers that I still follow and I always look forward to your next video. Thanks Craig 👍
You may not have 500k subscribers, but your videos inspire me and I really appreciate your work.
Always find your ordinary videos exceptional, you stand out from the crowd
Well said we shouldn’t rush off to the other side of the world to take photos while ignoring what’s on our doorstep 📸👍
I totally agree with your approach and your considerations.
I mostly stopped following big wig youtubers because thay usually get the big numbers by fanning flame wars about gear, lenses, brands and so on, almost always letting the final product almost fade away. Like it's not even important what you photograph, but what you photograph with.
I'm also proud to say yours is the only content on UA-cam I gladly pay for since it's focused on getting results, challenging oneself and following a path rather than buying stuff (your treat the landscape like a rock album is still my favorite guideline of all time).
So I hope you'll keep up the good work knowing that we may be few, but we really appreciate your work.
Cheers from Italy
Thankyou, I really appreciate that. Glad to have you aboard.
This is an excellent video. The way you explain your view of photographing the ordinary is priceless. You are clear and concise about how a photograph is seen from your point of view. Excellent examples of your photographs. I love this 😀.
It’s not what you do it’s the way that you do it 🎶🎶🎶
Sorry, the song came into my head when you were talking… I have found myself looking out of train windows wishing I had my iPhone ready and waiting, as I passed at speed, a grey sky with the leafless trees in silhouette in recent times but the sky is now wall to wall sunshine.
Must remember to watch out next time if the sky is overcast.
Phantastic channel. It is a mystery to me why it is not way past 100k of subscribers.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as someone once said."
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Get it out with Optrex." - Spike Milligan
Great video which also reflects what I tend to photograph which could be described as ordinary and boring but to me part of the challenge of going out to the same location is finding an image I (and other local photographers) haven't captured before. I don't need to waste time travelling miles to get some good images. Thanks for your views once again.
I found a lot of ordinary during lock down, the restriction was very useful it definitely makes you work harder
What an inspirational video. Many, many thanks Craig.
Thanks for the great video!
Your videos are the best I have ever seen about photography!
Great, inspiring and so true . . .
To take a great photo in a, seemingly boring place, that is the real art!
And I love your humor.
Many thanks and I look forward to your new video:
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I enjoyed this one. I can't say that I've very good at that - finding interest subjects among the mundane - but I try. Since I rarely go to "hot spots", it's either try to find subjects where I am or put my gear up for sale, lol. One of my favorite photo activities is walking around towns and villages and picking out those little details and interesting tidbits - not "street photography" of strangers in the classic sense - just the oddball little things that exist in every town. One of these days I'd like to book a city photowalk with you to help develop that eye for seeing subjects - I think that would be very helpful.
Excellent thoughts - obviously one must have mastered the „craft of pretty“ first, to be able to move on. You did both - congratulations 👏
Now I have to decide if I still travel to nice places… 🤔
Totally agree Craig
thanks for the push i was already going in this direction now will follow but still enjoy hot spot vids enjoy your vids thanks
how true what you said Iove walking round my local area taking photos great video
There is nothing ordinary about you Craig.
Really enjoyed this very ordinary video Craig. I took up photography 6 years ago in my retirement and have watched all the honey pot youtube videos and taken lots of honeypot images at sunrise and sunset down here in Cornwall. Pretty bored with all that recently and have started taking "ordinary scenes'. Really love just leaving the tripod at home and walking around with an old ordinary camera documenting the ordinary things going on around me. Thank you.
Great to hear!
I have been following you for a while now, and I’m eagerly awaiting new uploads every week. As an almost exclusively portrait photographer, I have started to find it a bit samey….and wanting to do something different. I love your videos, and I love the bit where you show the images off to the lovely music you use.. keep an eye out for me at the end of the month as I’ve decided to subscribe to your e6 courses 😊
Thanks mate. Excellent advice.We need to see better/different.
So true. I did a photo a day project in 2021, not expecting when I started that restrictions would continue in some form for months to come. Yes, it forced me to look around my local area much more and I discovered some interesting places and took some interesting photos. Thank you for your videos.
That is a very "ordinary" Like for this video! Loved it (in an ordinary sort of way.
First time here and glad I found you. The lesson here is very strong. Take photos for yourself, not others, and find the beauty or interesting subjects in things many if not most ignore. Very good subject that speaks beyond photography.
"Monet was just an eye.... but what an eye!"
Your videos and general approach to photography is a breath of fresh air. Thank you and well done!
Nice to see you in the new video
Like it very much wish you the best from baltex Peter
Hi, I have been watching your e6 for sometime now and never fail to be impressed. I love your outlook on photography. Thank you
Great advice!
i like this down to earth channel, thank you Craig 🙏
Hi Craig, What a breath of fresh air It Is to hear you say I'm not shooting for others, I'm shooting for me. What a great saying from Elliot Erwitt, so true. I like all of your videos, and now I like to shoot Square format. Your videos Inspired me to try Square shooting. Many thanks for this video.
Craig, you 'are' my favourite youtuber ..... When we travel my wife snaps the traditional viewpoint photos while I am attracted to some interesting details close by. To be fair, she does also take some good, quirky non-mainstream photos, sometimes better than me. It's all good fun. Thanks for posting, much appreciated and enjoyed.
Good advice. Brilliant Grace Jones record cover 👌
I often grouse about how boring my local area is. Then along comes Craig with a video (just in time, I might add). Time to look upon things with new eyes. Thanks again, Mr. Roberts!
Really, you are a great inspiration for me and for some others
(sorry for my bad english). Greetings from Basque Country.
Good one!
Very well expressed and thought provoking. This very day I took a set of images on a farm walk and, once on the pc, deleted all of them. It's clear now I wasn't looking hard enough.
Brilliant
Awesome video Craig. Lately I struggle a bit to find something around my area that’s worth wasting a shutter actuation on. But to someone who isn’t from the area everything appears worthy. I’ve learned that if I wait for the opportunity to go someplace “extra ordinary” I’ll forget how to use my gear. Taking a more minimalist approach has sorted things out for me somewhat. Enjoying your videos. Sub’d.
You've got a new subscriber.
Thats me 100%......Thank you Craig but I sussed that saying out years ago! my motto is do your own thing and don't copy others......but thanks for the reminder!
I must be like you because I see them 😁
GREAT
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87 countries and seen the most amazing places like Taj Mahal, Petra, the Pyramids yet sometimes a small village in Asia or Turkey has immensely more interesting and emotional images...
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Maybe not by design, but more my circumstance, I've largely come to be that sort of photographer. The one hashtag that tends to appear on my favorite photos the last couple of years is #thingsthatcatchmyeye. 🙂 (And no: I do not have a large following on social media. 😉)
We are ordinary guys, but wait!
Exceptional locations are quite ordinary to themselves, they are there all the time at might get bored with themselves (by all the photographers taking ordinary pictures of them).
Anyone can photograph a mountain range or a waterfall but the world is made up of mundane subjects. Besides as you said who wants to drive an hour or two to take one picture?
I couldn't agree more Craig ps I love pylons😂