Good to have you back. And am so relieved that you didn't shoot a sunset. Leave the chocolate box shots to the cliché-mongers! You are too good a photographer to sink to those levels!
Love your sense of humor. And I appreciate that you don't condescend to new shooters in your videos. I've just been having a polite back and forth with some '"advanced" photographers in a landscape photography forum about the idea that A and S priority modes are also only for beginners and your ultimate goal should always be to progress to full M mode if you want to be taken seriously. I say rubbish, so long as you understand how exposure works and can control your camera in manual if needed, priority modes can in fact free you up to focus on composition more.
Welcome back Craig, I'm glad it's not only me who gets winded climbing mole hills :-). Some friends of mine are so wound up trying to use manual mode I'm going to tell them to watch this looks like it may be the stepping stone they need. Cheers
I have only recently found your videos and they are very good. I particularly enjoy your relaxed style and of course your humour. I am so impressed that I have subscribed to your page and I look forward too many more videos from you. Thank you for sharing.
Welcome back Craig, of all the youtubers I’ve always thought you have the best “eye” for a good shot and I like that you do things a little differently. Ironically though, I think your video proved that auto mode needs a hell of a lot of altering to get the ideal settings and to my mind I think you pushed more buttons than using Ap priority and altering ISO!
This was a very funny one and very glad you're still with us ! I really enjoy your vids and like the lighthearted humor from an obviously talented photographer who also happens to be a great teacher. Keep it up and a very HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and yours. Regards, LarryMac
I appreciate what you were doing in the video, encouraging less experienced photographers by pointing out how auto mode can be used, but by tweaking all the settings via the options, you basically overrode auto mode. And that is certainly OK, but I propose that it would be just as easy to learn the basics of the exposure triangle and white balance which is transferrable knowledge to other cameras. Learning the various tweaks adjustments for one brand of camera is still somewhat limiting whereas learning how "not to use auto" is broadly transferrable. Interesting video and certainly worth doing and glad to see you back.
SO happy to see you back! I hope all is well with you and, once again, you have gifted us with another outstanding and useful video! Don't be a "stranger" and I do hope you are well.
Glad to see you back. I thought you might have given up making your videos. I enjoy your videos because I don’t have to watch some idiot take another group of idiots to some far away land to tell them to use f8 to take a landscape shot. Please keep posting your videos, I really enjoy them.😄👍
Great to see you back Craig, and with a helpful guide for beginners. I accidentally hit the iA button on my LX100 last week and I have to say, the camera did a decent job of selecting 'landscape' mode and the settings were not far from what I would have chosen. Damned clever these new fangled machines!
It’s great to see you back, and I missed you and your wonderfully simple but well thought out photography. You offer something different to everyone else, but very few people have a CV to match yours. I’ll be honest I have no idea how much I can tailor my auto modes on any of my Canon digital, but I do use it on my EOS 5 with FP4+ as it gives me more to play around with in the darkroom. It’s my only analogue camera that has an auto. A brilliant video as always, and looking forward to your next...whenever it appears.
Yes - have missed you - welcome back. My wife heard your voice and said, 'that's the bloke you like' - spot on. I'm 80 and am allowed to puff and pant - what's your excuse mate? Cotton cold and clammy when sweaty - as already mentioned, try lightweight merino wool underwear. I'm in Australia and wear it all year round.
Hi Craig, Great to see u again. I was suprised that you can change the preferences of the full auto settings on the Olympus. I think it’s a great asset. Regards, Martin
Nice to have a new video from you Craig.. I wondered why I didn't get notified, seems UA-cam is up to it's tricks of unsubscribing... Thanks for the new video, entertaining and informative! I'm with you on the hills malarkey, but when you live in Yorkshire seems there isn't much choice =)
Great stuff Craig. I too have missed you. I've never seen anyone do a vlog on using the camera in AUTO mode, so well done for finding something unique. In the end, you did not have to shoot a sunset so your record is still intact. I was going to suggest merino, but I see from other comments that is not an option. Silk? Cheers. Jeff
Hi Craig, nice to see back on UA-cam, I’ve missed your vlogs over the past few weeks, I really look forward to watching your videos. I have been following you on Instagram wondering when we would see back on UA-cam.
Yeah, I’ve missed you too 😊 glad to see you on my feed again 👍🏼. In the winter it will probably set where you thought. 😊 Thanks for the Olympus tips too for iauto mode ... but manual mode looks easier lol.
Welcome back, Craig, I was beginning to miss your videos. Good results with the auto setting, just shows you shouldn't necessarily dismiss auto as a camera setting but perhaps an idea for a future video would be one entirely devoted to getting a sunset, just an idea!. ;-) Anyway good to see you back and I hope the wait for your next video isn't too long!
Love your english humor. Great idea also to once use the iAuto, that could be a theme for a photo series. How good are todays cameras to handle different subjects (without changing anything). Got to try. Could be fun.
Merino wool indeed is the answer. Warm in the cool, cool in the heat and never smells. Used a single shirt trekking for 2 weeks in Nepal earlier in the year and it did not smell at the end.
Welcome back Craig! Thanks for the awesome video yet again. I had a suggestion for a future video - Glidecams, how effective they are and if they are worth the money. Since "Flycams" which are cheaper than the original Glidecam comes in at 200 USD, is it a good investment to make for stable, almost gimbal like videos or is it more of a toy used in a very niche market?
Great that your back, love the humour. I use iauto for hand held internal shots when travelling but noise can be a problem. Understand what your at for beginners but feel that I might be simpler to learn manual or ap. It's so long ago but I learnt from cameras with no auto settings so maybe I'm out of touch? 😂
Welcome back I thought you had done a Reggie Perrin on us ;D Lol So i'm pleased to see you back :D By the way I find I auto mode works well if you have to grab a shot quick and do not have time to mess with settings. Do not get me wrong I mostly use use manual mode but if somthing happens that I do not want to miss I am not adverse to using I Auto Shame you got the direction of the sun wrong though oooops after almost needing an ambulance too !!!! Lol thanks for posting :D Teddy
Good to see you back. Interesting vlog, I live in Ambleside so Todd Crag which you were on is my after tea walk and you are the first person I know that didn't give it a Wow. Re using auto, on the whole they do a good job, but as you had to change apperture (and then ISO) was it really auto?
Interesting video and I picked up a few tips, thanks! But I wonder if its slightly hard to follow, if you're going to be so in depth shooting in IAuto, then it's probably easier for the novice to shoot manual? Saying that, good tips and nice location!
Enjoyable video. Most of the adjustments you made were intuitive (like “blur” vs “sharp” instead of opening/closing the aperture). I do wonder, though, whether a beginner would think of using “blurred motion” to keep the ISO low (as “blurred motion” is not something you are trying to achieve, but just happens to give you the desired result because there is little motion in the picture and the camera is on a tripod). And if you’re not a beginner, you’d just use P, A or M and set the ISO to the base ISO...
Welcome back Craig. 😀 Not sure why you don't like the grand vista views that being up a hill doesn't float your boat but each to his own I suppose. I got into landscape photography through walking so I suppose that is why I love those views, I wish I was fit enough these days to get up those hills as I used to. I used to love the colourful sunrise/sunset shots but these days I find I am far too lazy to get out for the colourful images..lol. Although you used auto mode your camera had adjustable parameters so really it wasn't auto as such ? Mind, I think your talk through of how you adjusted those settings was very useful to those that are looking to shoot landscapes helped. I had a look on my little mirrorless to see if the green auto had adjustable bits but alas it didn't.
@@e6Vlogs merino wool is not the same as regular wool. I'd highly recommend base layers from icebreaker. Been wearing one 7 days in a row on a hiking tour in Norway, no itch, no smells...
Maybe an idea for a next video: shoot some landscapes with the Canon G7X and compare the results to the output of the E-M1. I wonder if the difference will be noticeable. (The deeper depth of field caused by the smaller sensor size would not be a problem when shooting a landscape. So we’re left with the size of the pixels and things like dynamic range. And the fact that you cannot easily use filters on the G7X...)
Good to have you back. And am so relieved that you didn't shoot a sunset. Leave the chocolate box shots to the cliché-mongers! You are too good a photographer to sink to those levels!
Auto mode! I love the way you break the myths!
A welcome return, I've missed you :)
I definitely second that. Welcome back Craig.
Good to see you back
Good to see you again. Always like your videos. 😃
Welcome back Craig, hope you're enjoying autumn too.
So glad you are back, Craig. Love your videos and style of presenting/teaching
Oh, so good to have you back! And yes, I certainly missed you.
Love your sense of humor. And I appreciate that you don't condescend to new shooters in your videos. I've just been having a polite back and forth with some '"advanced" photographers in a landscape photography forum about the idea that A and S priority modes are also only for beginners and your ultimate goal should always be to progress to full M mode if you want to be taken seriously. I say rubbish, so long as you understand how exposure works and can control your camera in manual if needed, priority modes can in fact free you up to focus on composition more.
Good to see you back!! Have missed your videos!
Welcome back ..interesting and thought provoking as usual ..
Nice to see such a relaxed approach. Welcome back
Welcome back Craig, I'm glad it's not only me who gets winded climbing mole hills :-). Some friends of mine are so wound up trying to use manual mode I'm going to tell them to watch this looks like it may be the stepping stone they need. Cheers
Great to see you back.
Great seeing you again Craig!
Hope all is well and please, keeps us on the loop.
Just love your stile...I mean style! Great video.
Finally! After two months, made me worried. After that "climb" I understand two months preparation. Love your videos.
I have only recently found your videos and they are very good. I particularly enjoy your relaxed style and of course your humour. I am so impressed that I have subscribed to your page and I look forward too many more videos from you. Thank you for sharing.
Yes we all missed you.
Welcome back Craig, of all the youtubers I’ve always thought you have the best “eye” for a good shot and I like that you do things a little differently. Ironically though, I think your video proved that auto mode needs a hell of a lot of altering to get the ideal settings and to my mind I think you pushed more buttons than using Ap priority and altering ISO!
This was a very funny one and very glad you're still with us ! I really enjoy your vids and like the lighthearted humor from an obviously talented photographer who also happens to be a great teacher. Keep it up and a very HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and yours. Regards, LarryMac
Judging by the other comments you have been missed your videos are always entertaining Thank You
I appreciate what you were doing in the video, encouraging less experienced photographers by pointing out how auto mode can be used, but by tweaking all the settings via the options, you basically overrode auto mode. And that is certainly OK, but I propose that it would be just as easy to learn the basics of the exposure triangle and white balance which is transferrable knowledge to other cameras. Learning the various tweaks adjustments for one brand of camera is still somewhat limiting whereas learning how "not to use auto" is broadly transferrable. Interesting video and certainly worth doing and glad to see you back.
Very glad you're back!
Glad you're back.
Good to see you back!
Nice to see you back👍🏻
SO happy to see you back! I hope all is well with you and, once again, you have gifted us with another outstanding and useful video! Don't be a "stranger" and I do hope you are well.
Glad to see you back. I thought you might have given up making your videos. I enjoy your videos because I don’t have to watch some idiot take another group of idiots to some far away land to tell them to use f8 to take a landscape shot. Please keep posting your videos, I really enjoy them.😄👍
Welcome back! You were missed!
So glad your back! Great video as normal. Hope your well...
Good to see you again.
Welcome back, Craig! Hope all is well!
Good to see you back Craig, I’ve been waiting to see a new vid!
Welcome back. Good to see your smiling face on the channel.
Wow! What a useful set of tips for the Auto setting. That's my project theme for this weekend. Thanks.
Welcome back Craig! We've missed you.
Good to see you back, have missed the funny asides!
Great to see you back Craig, and with a helpful guide for beginners. I accidentally hit the iA button on my LX100 last week and I have to say, the camera did a decent job of selecting 'landscape' mode and the settings were not far from what I would have chosen. Damned clever these new fangled machines!
Good video, nice way to trick the camera Auto mode .....
I like the compositions ...
Nice to see you back Craig, hope all is well. 🖖
Glad you’re safe I was about to report a missing person 😂 great to se you
It’s great to see you back, and I missed you and your wonderfully simple but well thought out photography. You offer something different to everyone else, but very few people have a CV to match yours. I’ll be honest I have no idea how much I can tailor my auto modes on any of my Canon digital, but I do use it on my EOS 5 with FP4+ as it gives me more to play around with in the darkroom. It’s my only analogue camera that has an auto. A brilliant video as always, and looking forward to your next...whenever it appears.
Dear Craig, I've missed you too. Glad to see you again and hope you are fine and in good health! Warm greetings from Germany 0/ :)
Damn, I was getting worried not seeing any new video!!
Welcome back!!
Cheers
Good to see you, enjoyed!
Yes - have missed you - welcome back. My wife heard your voice and said, 'that's the bloke you like' - spot on. I'm 80 and am allowed to puff and pant - what's your excuse mate? Cotton cold and clammy when sweaty - as already mentioned, try lightweight merino wool underwear. I'm in Australia and wear it all year round.
Good to see you back and auto my my lol
Nice to see you back love the Lake District but those fells are hell.
Missed you! Keep up your great work!
thanks for a great video. Very interesting and thought provoking. See you on the next one.
I just love your video formats,always look forward to seeing them,and welcome back :)
Hi Craig,
Great to see u again.
I was suprised that you can change the preferences of the full auto settings on the Olympus. I think it’s a great asset.
Regards, Martin
Yes you have been missed no bout adout it! Thanks for another interesting and entertaining video.
Well come back. Hope you had a nice good holiday 😀🌞🍎🌻
Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏
Great video .
Always enjoy your channel mate, come shoot Australia.
Echo the others. Great to see you back.
Pronounced Lufrig 😁 my favourite fell. Great to see you back!
I've been corrected by many! I'm a southerner, we say as we see! ;-)
Nice to have a new video from you Craig.. I wondered why I didn't get notified, seems UA-cam is up to it's tricks of unsubscribing... Thanks for the new video, entertaining and informative! I'm with you on the hills malarkey, but when you live in Yorkshire seems there isn't much choice =)
Great stuff Craig. I too have missed you. I've never seen anyone do a vlog on using the camera in AUTO mode, so well done for finding something unique. In the end, you did not have to shoot a sunset so your record is still intact. I was going to suggest merino, but I see from other comments that is not an option. Silk? Cheers. Jeff
Hi Craig, nice to see back on UA-cam, I’ve missed your vlogs over the past few weeks, I really look forward to watching your videos. I have been following you on Instagram wondering when we would see back on UA-cam.
Missed you Craig, hurry back with another video.
Wondered where you'd got to, great video as always!
Welcome back 😎
you can now get wool t shirts - very smooth, light and non itchy. plus the don't smell and wick away moisture!
Been looking for you everywhere...
I was checking your channel only last weekend to see if I’d somehow become unsubscribed. Glad you’re back 👍🏼
Missed these
Yeah, I’ve missed you too 😊 glad to see you on my feed again 👍🏼. In the winter it will probably set where you thought. 😊 Thanks for the Olympus tips too for iauto mode ... but manual mode looks easier lol.
Welcome back, Craig, I was beginning to miss your videos. Good results with the auto setting, just shows you shouldn't necessarily dismiss auto as a camera setting but perhaps an idea for a future video would be one entirely devoted to getting a sunset, just an idea!. ;-) Anyway good to see you back and I hope the wait for your next video isn't too long!
Nice one
Great video, thank you!
Love your english humor. Great idea also to once use the iAuto, that could be a theme for a photo series. How good are todays cameras to handle different subjects (without changing anything). Got to try. Could be fun.
Merino wool indeed is the answer. Warm in the cool, cool in the heat and never smells. Used a single shirt trekking for 2 weeks in Nepal earlier in the year and it did not smell at the end.
Welcome back..
Welcome back Craig! Thanks for the awesome video yet again. I had a suggestion for a future video - Glidecams, how effective they are and if they are worth the money. Since "Flycams" which are cheaper than the original Glidecam comes in at 200 USD, is it a good investment to make for stable, almost gimbal like videos or is it more of a toy used in a very niche market?
That's an interesting and refreshing thought. Maybe I'll check out the possibilities of my camera's Auto mode as well.
Great that your back, love the humour. I use iauto for hand held internal shots when travelling but noise can be a problem.
Understand what your at for beginners but feel that I might be simpler to learn manual or ap. It's so long ago but I learnt from cameras with no auto settings so maybe I'm out of touch? 😂
Missed you too 😎
Welcome back mate.
That style was still there in September but I did notice it was falling apart!
Welcome back I thought you had done a Reggie Perrin on us ;D Lol
So i'm pleased to see you back :D
By the way I find I auto mode works well if you have to grab a shot quick and do not have time to mess with settings. Do not get me wrong I mostly use use manual mode but if somthing happens that I do not want to miss I am not adverse to using I Auto
Shame you got the direction of the sun wrong though oooops after almost needing an ambulance too !!!! Lol thanks for posting
:D Teddy
Good to see you back. Interesting vlog, I live in Ambleside so Todd Crag which you were on is my after tea walk and you are the first person I know that didn't give it a Wow. Re using auto, on the whole they do a good job, but as you had to change apperture (and then ISO) was it really auto?
Interesting video and I picked up a few tips, thanks!
But I wonder if its slightly hard to follow, if you're going to be so in depth shooting in IAuto, then it's probably easier for the novice to shoot manual? Saying that, good tips and nice location!
Thank you, as always for a top vlog. Did your tweaking change auto to manual; mmmm?
Mike in Oz
Merrino wool shirts is the answer!
Enjoyable video. Most of the adjustments you made were intuitive (like “blur” vs “sharp” instead of opening/closing the aperture). I do wonder, though, whether a beginner would think of using “blurred motion” to keep the ISO low (as “blurred motion” is not something you are trying to achieve, but just happens to give you the desired result because there is little motion in the picture and the camera is on a tripod). And if you’re not a beginner, you’d just use P, A or M and set the ISO to the base ISO...
Welcome back Craig. 😀 Not sure why you don't like the grand vista views that being up a hill doesn't float your boat but each to his own I suppose. I got into landscape photography through walking so I suppose that is why I love those views, I wish I was fit enough these days to get up those hills as I used to. I used to love the colourful sunrise/sunset shots but these days I find I am far too lazy to get out for the colourful images..lol. Although you used auto mode your camera had adjustable parameters so really it wasn't auto as such ? Mind, I think your talk through of how you adjusted those settings was very useful to those that are looking to shoot landscapes helped. I had a look on my little mirrorless to see if the green auto had adjustable bits but alas it didn't.
Merino wool or bamboo base layers. You're welcome 😉
Andy Kirstie Baxter I’m more allergic to wool than nylon. It’s bringing me out in a rash just thinking about it!!
@@e6Vlogs merino wool is not the same as regular wool. I'd highly recommend base layers from icebreaker. Been wearing one 7 days in a row on a hiking tour in Norway, no itch, no smells...
Maybe an idea for a next video: shoot some landscapes with the Canon G7X and compare the results to the output of the E-M1. I wonder if the difference will be noticeable. (The deeper depth of field caused by the smaller sensor size would not be a problem when shooting a landscape. So we’re left with the size of the pixels and things like dynamic range. And the fact that you cannot easily use filters on the G7X...)
Use TPE (The Photographer's Ephemeris) or Photo Pills to map out and plan Sunsets........ and sunrise, moon rise, milky way, etc etc
I wait to you, today to see. Good morning, well done for your sharing video it is very happy day. 👌😍
Should come to Western Australia. It's flat. Nothing anywhere above 1,400 metres and that's a couple of days' drive away.
OneEyedPhotographer correct! 😁
Good movie.
Try to wear a sheep then. Smells better than a pig :) And usually no allergy for sheep. Good to have you back. Love your videos.
Whahaha climbing that hill😂😂 just like me, if I don’t get there by a car it’s no picture for me😂. I hate climbing up!
Other british UA-camr Shoot from the same Spot :) good chanel Like M43 I own Pana GX80 and G2 :)
Just do what most 'landscape guys' do, f/8 or f/11 and scroll the shutter speed til the exposure looks to your taste. Boom job done haha.
Merino wool mate :)