I love the experimental side of B&W, but 98% of my photography is colour. You have such a back catalogue of photographic adventures now, but everything you produce is magical in a different way. You can now afford the best equipment and this showed right from the start of this vlog where you appear so perfectly clear on that snowy day. Must be perfect white balance too!
Another Amazing video Mads. Really showcasing the beauty of our little Denmark. And personally I just love the X2D - I am very fortunate to own one, and I love the user experience of this amazing camera. Thanks for sharing.
I shoot raw and set everything to 5500k, knowing I can change it later. It helps me to have a consistent starting point and for multishot compositions that they are the same to start. I can then choose to correct in LR or use WB creatively
I love the one with a sun reflection and the reeds. The golden glow really works with cold wintery colours. My personal approach to WB is to avoid auto at all costs. For those rare occurrences when you just want to export a JPG straight to your phone and share it without editing, or when you run low on memory and have to do a JPG time lapse. My usual starting point is 5500K, which is close to what your eyes can see, and then tweak it to your liking. Your eyes don't always see white as white. White piece of paper in the candle light on the golden hour would look yellowish, and AWB would just compensate for that and ruin the atmosphere. But of course, as you have said, it doesn't matter with raw anyway. Still, I think it's nice to see right in the camera an image closer to the final result. PS: I'm jealous of your snowy landscapes. Greetings from the gray and wet UK.
Yes auto will wash out interesting skies & sunsets, yes you can change in post, but if it looks a flat thumbnail it may not be looked at. Daylight balance will be more exact to any scene.
Superb images as always Mads. I too shoot raw so don’t worry about white balance and correct it in post in Lightroom. I love the house by the lake, so photogenic and you captured it brilliantly and as for those misty shots, they’re beautiful
I really like the B&W photos Mads. I think they work really well with the contrast of the snow and trees, more mystical. I think I should come to Denmark for photography this winter.
Nice video. Nice camera! I prefer the color sunsets with the reeds in the foreground. I did like the washed out colors of the video, though, to go with the snow. Very creative and it worked well.
You know me Mads, I’m very partial to black and white images so those final ones of the trees were my personal favourites from today’s video. Likewise I normally change my WB to suit the scene I’m capturing and the demo the the raw and jpeg was a good example for those wanting to understand the difference between the 2 when working with WB
Awesome photography and great advice about white balance that I can bank in my mind and hopefully remember next time I'm photographing. I like all of the photos for different reasons. I like the foggy lake because it is something that is inspiring to me..it's the type of photography that is in reach for me because the area I live in northern Wisconsin has a lot of quiet, peaceful lakes. The photo of the house...it isn't a scene we have at all because the architecture is a lot different so it makes me want to visit Denmark. As far as the B&W photo, I just like that type of photography; especially in the non-colorful seasons of late fall and winter.
Yes. Shoot in RAW. I shoot using kelvin, 5500 for daylight, 4200 for golden hour. and 3800 for night and apply a custom profile in LR that I built with a Calibrite Passport.
Hi Mads, you made me winter ready, though here in the south of the Netherlands we do not have winter yet. I really like the yellow house photo and the lake photo's. I do like the black and white phote somewhat less, because winter light can be so colourfull in a minimal way. It is exact that what you captured. Bert.
I like the yellow house, b/w and the sunset reflection. Mostly I like your ability to spot your composition and separate it from clutter. Thanks for the well edited video.
I remember that small house photo! Beautiful in winter, too❤ Great video. Thank you, Mads! Stunning work, especially love the bird on the water images, and the trees in b+w.
Already at second 11 I recognised that tree and knew exactly where you were :D Been there several times - to shoot northern lights (the night that went totally bonkers!) and also in fall colours. While you enjoyed the best night of your life, just 30 meters away from where you're standing the bicycle light died and the cell phone was very low on battery. It became so so dark and I biked into a swamp... I was lost for maybe 5 minutes before I heard the military shooting and knew that was south! Also, very well done with the group of trees.
Thanks for including us JPEG shooters in your example, Mads. I know there are disadvantages to it, but with an entry level camera, older computer, etc., it works for me. My camera's photo profile is set to "neutral", and I often use "cloudy" wb to help keep color tones truer. I'm a sucker for snow pictures and you got some beauties! And yes, the b&w are really nice, too!
The biggest problem for auto wire balance is when sitting panoramas have a wide dynamic range of light across all the images. If you choose a white balance first, all your panorama comportment kegs would be easier to stitch them together using automated techniques without a lot of work "attempting" to compensate for that in post processing. An example of this is a mountain range with sunny and cloudy shared portions of the mountains, bright sky and dark clouds, if you don't set a single white balance value panoramas are often unsalvigable
I find the main reason to avoid auto white balance (even in RAW) is the same reason to avoid using auto exposure: the ability to get consistent results from frame to frame, even if my composition changes. And if lighting changes, I can see the differences in the results and not have the camera try to compensate them away. If you take only one shot and move on, might as well leave it in AWB.
I don't know the last time I intentionally shot JPG! For landscapes I generally keep my white balance to 5000K, as it's close to the actual light qualities (at least in Tasmania where the light is quite blue). Northern hemisphere is more in line with 5500K. It's not about making sure those whites are white. After all, a white object reflects the colours of the surrounding environments. This seems to work 95% of the time for me and only requires minor tweaking.
Shooting autumn colours recently, i switched from auto to shady and got a much better feel for what I was getting. It was raw, so WB coukd be chanfed in post, but very helpful nonetheless
BW is good, it's a different mood. Trees good subject for it and try some of your icebergs images. Yellow house also great. Thx for tips on white balance.
Great images Mads! I keep my white balance fixed at 5500 K, which aligns with how the human eye (brain) perceives light in any condition. As such, to be honnest, I've never really understood the need to change , especially if the goal is to capture a scene as it's perceived, rather than automatically adjusting it to something entirely different ..
Don’t shy away from B&W, they have their place like ICM selectively. What I noticed in the final image you so beautifully captured was that a few moments earlier you had road traffic in the background. That said, it just shows that you don’t always have to be deep into the woodlands to discover a magical scene to photograph. Especially as we get older and still desire to shoot these woodland scenes. Thanks Mads. Happy Holidays to you, sir.
The landscape you have been in is so gorgeous with all its grandeur before you! But to translate the entire scene with the feeling you have while thinking about how you can bring them together in tiny bit of space in a medium format camera is all your caliber to present them to be profusely appreciated by the viewers! If a splash of color was included in the scene it'd destroy the aesthetics of the scene immensely! For example, if the color of a bird somewhere in the scene in your frame would have produced a focal point which would definitely fail to convey the beauty of the present snow-fog-leafless -treescape scene! Black and white is the only medium to express strongly favours such scenes and how can you be doing otherwise than taking such themes in black and white? It's, for me, very very difficult to translate color effectively in a picture but many pictures dramatically change when changed to black and white which has been a boring one before! But in this particular landscape your shots have been immaculately artistic and I cannot appreciate less for each of these frames!
I’ve got a photo that looks b&w even though it’s not. A sailing boat and fog over a loch in Scotland. Like the lake ones here but the light wasn’t as…. golden, for some reason…🤔
I mean with modern advance in picture taking asstince tech also know as auto modes one could same the same about any maneul camre operation and with Drone AI ever advancing we on on the cusp on making the photograpther "extent" the same with the realism artest... Like seriously we are extremely close to the smartest drones that cost less then a smart phone having full aurtomode. Making it perfect for the non artest who just wants to capture memories and not be forced to make art... Like nothing is stoping us other then no one has made softwwear so the DJI neo can do it.. IOt';s heardwear if perfectly capble of it it's just softwear limited... So yeah people say they don't care about something like this till they need to use it... Which as a photographer who has a dedicated camra I assume you buaght it for more reasons then modular lens, SD card supp0ort, swapable batteiries and a shutter button... Which a major reason to get a dedicated camre is all the options they have which are a pain to get and use on a smart phone... Also even in just landscape photography white balance is something you should care about as an artest especly but even if you want to ca[pture what you saw A you should use a iphone, pixel of galaxy as they do that much better then any dedicated camra system... But if you only have a dedicated cmare system the photo my be off because the white balance is... I mean you can fix it post but like why not use a smart phone that can output raw files? Also it kinda defeats the purpose of the photogarther hobby... But still like stting all your stuff on auto will ruin your shiots one day and alot of scene are just inpossble with them like a rocket launch where auto zoom and auto focus are very much traps that will ruinb the shots/video... Which you would need a custom softwear to get workable shots/video out of auto zoom/focus... So yeah never ever discount any option or button on a device you own it will get you into trouble one day.
If you shoot RAW it'll keep the colours too. You can use the picture profiles to get a somewhat idea about how it'll look in B&W but there are so many different ways of making a B&W.
I don't understand why the 10-stop filter was used in the first photo. It's a still scene and the f13 aperture does not indicate a desire for a short depth of field. How would an image taken with no filter and short shutter speed compare with the image actually taken?
With a GFX camera 📷 white balance is kinda almost irrelevant...because the files have such range it's not an issue That said ..I have my camera set to 5.5k in white balance ...it works
@ in both contexts grading for skin tone is relatively easy. Cell phone debayering is optimised for skin tones, so getting it wildly wrong requires effort. And raw well that just takes a good eye. FYI my grading skills are still in development, (I describe myself as a toddler colourist (video) who has achieved better than finger painting skill). However, knowing when skin tones are visually wrong is accessible to most humans on the planet. And just because your white balance meets some artificial concept of “white”, does not mean your skin tones make sense to the eye. Sure the focus here is landscape, but landscapes with a person in it ought to ensure the human looks correct. This then provides a context in which the landscape can achieve a sense of realism within the envelope of dramatic. The weird cellphone video look you have going on looks odd because it looks like somehow a significantly underexposed shot was achieved on a cellphone that likely had both auto-exposure and auto white balance. To achieve a better look try using a grey card to set and lock off your exposure and white balance for the phone. At least then you will have a “correct” start point in your image pipeline for your cell phone footage. As for raw, the further you deviate from correct white balance and exposure in camera the less likely it is that you can recover in post. And sure folks monkeying around in photoshop and Lightroom can push raw images very far, there are genuine limits, and hue twists and saturation weight and density shifts too as you make those changes, not always in a flattering fashion. White balance and exposure both matter. And to do the task to a superlative degree in post relies on how your image was captured. Otherwise we may s well provide cinematographers and professional photographers with nothing more than basic sensors, and pinhole cameras to capture Raw. You have been suckered by the idea that Raw allows everything to be corrected and successfully manipulated in post. Raw just imposes different limits. There is no reason why in a well shot image, even on a cell phone, or better yet in the BMD camera app, on an iPhone that skin should not be graded to look natural even under the most dramatised sky and snowscape. At one point the presenter in this UA-cam video refers to shooting a first fall of snow in a Forrest under blue skies. But the white balance was clearly not even near correct as blue tones were not present in the clip, in the sky, or in the snow, and if that was by creative intent in post then ensuring natural sj]kin tones -in context- ought to have been considered a critical task.
To be fair, it might simply reflect your creative intent. If so the UA-cam cover picture displays more natural ( though obviously stylised) skin tones in context than the main video. But it’s the main video I was referring to.
How much did that Hasselblad X2d and lenses cost you Mads?? Or was it a freebie, like Phototripper and Thomas Heaton? That all of you trialled it and decided you "couldn't justify the price" and now you promoting the hell out if it to your viewers, as it is a freebie is a stain on your creditability, just another corporate sell out. Unsubscribed 👋👋👋
Mads does have the most helpful and useful videos out of any photographers on UA-cam. Yes several youtubers got this camera for free, that shouldn't matter. He worked very hard to get to where he is now. Don't be bitter...
This comment is grossly rude. Mads, Thomas, Nigel, Gavin are great artists and I can't see anything wrong with using a great camera. What they all have in common is that a camera is a tool and not a fetish. There is already enough resentment on the net about the Hasselbblads. Maybe it's all right now.
@@MakingTracks Mads has brilliant content and brilliant images, indeed he was my favourite creator by long way and I have purchased his workshop but I not watching any influencers that are telling you can make photographs like mine while shooting on their free $15,000-20,000 set up that they didn't think was worth investing themselves. It is disingenuous
@@danielchaskel2838 What they all have in common is they didn't think that impressive tool was worth their own money but are willing to present its brilliant results to their audience every episode without saying they are effectively sponsored by Hasselblad which is disingenuous
@phillipjolly6287 I see what you are saying, but Mads did make 1 or 2 videos comparing that expensive setup to a Sony full frame and explaining in detail that you don't need that setup to make incredible images or prints. Personally I'm not a fan of this hasselblad (my lack of interest) I just watch the videos to soak up as much info and knowledge as I can ✌️
I love the experimental side of B&W, but 98% of my photography is colour. You have such a back catalogue of photographic adventures now, but everything you produce is magical in a different way. You can now afford the best equipment and this showed right from the start of this vlog where you appear so perfectly clear on that snowy day. Must be perfect white balance too!
I like B&W photos they have so much more contrast, once again some brilliant photos
Another Amazing video Mads. Really showcasing the beauty of our little Denmark.
And personally I just love the X2D - I am very fortunate to own one, and I love the user experience of this amazing camera. Thanks for sharing.
I shoot raw and set everything to 5500k, knowing I can change it later. It helps me to have a consistent starting point and for multishot compositions that they are the same to start. I can then choose to correct in LR or use WB creatively
Hi Mads! The little yellow house framed by the reeds, water, and snow really worked for me. Hope you are well. Have a great holiday season.
Beautiful, Mads. And very helpful on WB. Thank you 😊
I like the B/W for the contrast. It draws me in.
I like them all! Thanks for the great info on white balance. It was helpful to see the difference in the raw and jpeg images.
These are all lovely, but my favorites are the sunset with reflection on the foggy lake. So subtle and gorgeous.
The final B&W of the grove and the sunlight reflections are my favorites. Nice feature about white balance, too.
I love the one with a sun reflection and the reeds. The golden glow really works with cold wintery colours.
My personal approach to WB is to avoid auto at all costs. For those rare occurrences when you just want to export a JPG straight to your phone and share it without editing, or when you run low on memory and have to do a JPG time lapse.
My usual starting point is 5500K, which is close to what your eyes can see, and then tweak it to your liking. Your eyes don't always see white as white. White piece of paper in the candle light on the golden hour would look yellowish, and AWB would just compensate for that and ruin the atmosphere.
But of course, as you have said, it doesn't matter with raw anyway. Still, I think it's nice to see right in the camera an image closer to the final result.
PS: I'm jealous of your snowy landscapes. Greetings from the gray and wet UK.
Yes auto will wash out interesting skies & sunsets, yes you can change in post, but if it looks a flat thumbnail it may not be looked at. Daylight balance will be more exact to any scene.
I prefer the sunsets over the lake. Good subject and great light.
Superb images as always Mads. I too shoot raw so don’t worry about white balance and correct it in post in Lightroom. I love the house by the lake, so photogenic and you captured it brilliantly and as for those misty shots, they’re beautiful
I really like the B&W photos Mads. I think they work really well with the contrast of the snow and trees, more mystical. I think I should come to Denmark for photography this winter.
Nice video. Nice camera! I prefer the color sunsets with the reeds in the foreground. I did like the washed out colors of the video, though, to go with the snow. Very creative and it worked well.
You know me Mads, I’m very partial to black and white images so those final ones of the trees were my personal favourites from today’s video. Likewise I normally change my WB to suit the scene I’m capturing and the demo the the raw and jpeg was a good example for those wanting to understand the difference between the 2 when working with WB
Awesome photography and great advice about white balance that I can bank in my mind and hopefully remember next time I'm photographing. I like all of the photos for different reasons. I like the foggy lake because it is something that is inspiring to me..it's the type of photography that is in reach for me because the area I live in northern Wisconsin has a lot of quiet, peaceful lakes. The photo of the house...it isn't a scene we have at all because the architecture is a lot different so it makes me want to visit Denmark. As far as the B&W photo, I just like that type of photography; especially in the non-colorful seasons of late fall and winter.
Yes. Shoot in RAW. I shoot using kelvin, 5500 for daylight, 4200 for golden hour. and 3800 for night and apply a custom profile in LR that I built with a Calibrite Passport.
Love both black and white and colour
Winter lake sunset photos were my favorite. Great video and great tips on White Balance.
Hi Mads, you made me winter ready, though here in the south of the Netherlands we do not have winter yet. I really like the yellow house photo and the lake photo's. I do like the black and white phote somewhat less, because winter light can be so colourfull in a minimal way. It is exact that what you captured. Bert.
Love the final B&W shot was stunning . Great video as always👍🏻
I like the yellow house, b/w and the sunset reflection. Mostly I like your ability to spot your composition and separate it from clutter. Thanks for the well edited video.
Hi Mads, the sunlight reflections beautiful. I think the trees looked better with a blue glow bringing out a chilly day.
great tips!! thank you. All the foto's are beautiful. My favorites are the ones on the foggy lake.
The first photo was my fave, but I just enjoy your photography generally.
I always struggle to know when B&W is a better option. I love the little yellow house photo, but the bird on the water is outstanding!
I like the last b& w photo but also the yellow house and reeds ones too
I remember that small house photo! Beautiful in winter, too❤ Great video. Thank you, Mads! Stunning work, especially love the bird on the water images, and the trees in b+w.
Already at second 11 I recognised that tree and knew exactly where you were :D Been there several times - to shoot northern lights (the night that went totally bonkers!) and also in fall colours. While you enjoyed the best night of your life, just 30 meters away from where you're standing the bicycle light died and the cell phone was very low on battery. It became so so dark and I biked into a swamp... I was lost for maybe 5 minutes before I heard the military shooting and knew that was south!
Also, very well done with the group of trees.
Thanks for including us JPEG shooters in your example, Mads. I know there are disadvantages to it, but with an entry level camera, older computer, etc., it works for me. My camera's photo profile is set to "neutral", and I often use "cloudy" wb to help keep color tones truer. I'm a sucker for snow pictures and you got some beauties! And yes, the b&w are really nice, too!
Love the winter lake shots!
The biggest problem for auto wire balance is when sitting panoramas have a wide dynamic range of light across all the images. If you choose a white balance first, all your panorama comportment kegs would be easier to stitch them together using automated techniques without a lot of work "attempting" to compensate for that in post processing. An example of this is a mountain range with sunny and cloudy shared portions of the mountains, bright sky and dark clouds, if you don't set a single white balance value panoramas are often unsalvigable
stunning reed photos... wow!!
I find the main reason to avoid auto white balance (even in RAW) is the same reason to avoid using auto exposure: the ability to get consistent results from frame to frame, even if my composition changes. And if lighting changes, I can see the differences in the results and not have the camera try to compensate them away.
If you take only one shot and move on, might as well leave it in AWB.
I don't know the last time I intentionally shot JPG!
For landscapes I generally keep my white balance to 5000K, as it's close to the actual light qualities (at least in Tasmania where the light is quite blue). Northern hemisphere is more in line with 5500K.
It's not about making sure those whites are white. After all, a white object reflects the colours of the surrounding environments.
This seems to work 95% of the time for me and only requires minor tweaking.
BW photo at the end was beautiful. Great tips as well. Thanx
Hi Mads. My preferred image is your last one; wide angle, B&W trees - simple, minimal and very calm!
I love and do a lot of bw ph. The last photo was by far the best.
Shooting autumn colours recently, i switched from auto to shady and got a much better feel for what I was getting. It was raw, so WB coukd be chanfed in post, but very helpful nonetheless
All of them are beautiful in their own right. 😊
the last photo is amazing
Always fantastic
Hi, I would have liked to see the last scene in colour too :)
Thats a great video, advice and winter condition. Way more winterly than where I live in Norway 😠🙂👍
It only lasted a couple of days ;)
Those last BW-photos so nice!!
Winter lake for me, stunning.
Love the yellow house photo, although everything seemed more "white" around it in the video than in the photo.
The b/w photos were cool too.
BW is good, it's a different mood. Trees good subject for it and try some of your icebergs images. Yellow house also great. Thx for tips on white balance.
Love the ones with the bird on the lake
Great images Mads! I keep my white balance fixed at 5500 K, which aligns with how the human eye (brain) perceives light in any condition. As such, to be honnest, I've never really understood the need to change , especially if the goal is to capture a scene as it's perceived, rather than automatically adjusting it to something entirely different ..
Exactly! 👍
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Why isn’t it better to just use 5200 or something similar? Doesn’t this approach solve the magenta problem that could accompany auto white balance?
More B&W please.
The (nearly) only time I mess with white balance is when I want distinct parts of the scene to be warmer or cooler.
you look almost sick in the video ;-) - thanks for the content
If its a good photo, I'll take it in B&W or color.
Don’t shy away from B&W, they have their place like ICM selectively. What I noticed in the final image you so beautifully captured was that a few moments earlier you had road traffic in the background. That said, it just shows that you don’t always have to be deep into the woodlands to discover a magical scene to photograph. Especially as we get older and still desire to shoot these woodland scenes. Thanks Mads. Happy Holidays to you, sir.
The landscape you have been in is so gorgeous with all its grandeur before you! But to translate the entire scene with the feeling you have while thinking about how you can bring them together in tiny bit of space in a medium format camera is all your caliber to present them to be profusely appreciated by the viewers! If a splash of color was included in the scene it'd destroy the aesthetics of the scene immensely! For example, if the color of a bird somewhere in the scene in your frame would have produced a focal point which would definitely fail to convey the beauty of the present snow-fog-leafless -treescape scene! Black and white is the only medium to express strongly favours such scenes and how can you be doing otherwise than taking such themes in black and white? It's, for me, very very difficult to translate color effectively in a picture but many pictures dramatically change when changed to black and white which has been a boring one before! But in this particular landscape your shots have been immaculately artistic and I cannot appreciate less for each of these frames!
I’ve got a photo that looks b&w even though it’s not. A sailing boat and fog over a loch in Scotland. Like the lake ones here but the light wasn’t as…. golden, for some reason…🤔
B&W
I mean with modern advance in picture taking asstince tech also know as auto modes one could same the same about any maneul camre operation and with Drone AI ever advancing we on on the cusp on making the photograpther "extent" the same with the realism artest... Like seriously we are extremely close to the smartest drones that cost less then a smart phone having full aurtomode. Making it perfect for the non artest who just wants to capture memories and not be forced to make art... Like nothing is stoping us other then no one has made softwwear so the DJI neo can do it.. IOt';s heardwear if perfectly capble of it it's just softwear limited... So yeah people say they don't care about something like this till they need to use it... Which as a photographer who has a dedicated camra I assume you buaght it for more reasons then modular lens, SD card supp0ort, swapable batteiries and a shutter button... Which a major reason to get a dedicated camre is all the options they have which are a pain to get and use on a smart phone... Also even in just landscape photography white balance is something you should care about as an artest especly but even if you want to ca[pture what you saw A you should use a iphone, pixel of galaxy as they do that much better then any dedicated camra system... But if you only have a dedicated cmare system the photo my be off because the white balance is... I mean you can fix it post but like why not use a smart phone that can output raw files? Also it kinda defeats the purpose of the photogarther hobby... But still like stting all your stuff on auto will ruin your shiots one day and alot of scene are just inpossble with them like a rocket launch where auto zoom and auto focus are very much traps that will ruinb the shots/video... Which you would need a custom softwear to get workable shots/video out of auto zoom/focus... So yeah never ever discount any option or button on a device you own it will get you into trouble one day.
B and W don’t have longevity ! 😮😮😮
For me ;)
Is it better to convert a color photo to B&W, or just shoot in B&W?
I think I’m going to do both and find out what the difference is
in editing.
If you shoot RAW it'll keep the colours too. You can use the picture profiles to get a somewhat idea about how it'll look in B&W but there are so many different ways of making a B&W.
Color is my nightmare
Whats the location you’re shooting at?
Yep, let’s just have the lat longs please and leave us to it 😂
I don't understand why the 10-stop filter was used in the first photo. It's a still scene and the f13 aperture does not indicate a desire for a short depth of field. How would an image taken with no filter and short shutter speed compare with the image actually taken?
I guess the intent is to blur the water a bit with a longer exposure.
With a GFX camera 📷 white balance is kinda almost irrelevant...because the files have such range it's not an issue
That said ..I have my camera set to 5.5k in white balance ...it works
You undermine your argument when your skin tone looks unnatural in your finished video.
@@JohnnoWaldmann only if you don’t know the difference between shooting RAW stills and filming a video with an iPhone ;)
@ in both contexts grading for skin tone is relatively easy. Cell phone debayering is optimised for skin tones, so getting it wildly wrong requires effort. And raw well that just takes a good eye. FYI my grading skills are still in development, (I describe myself as a toddler colourist (video) who has achieved better than finger painting skill). However, knowing when skin tones are visually wrong is accessible to most humans on the planet. And just because your white balance meets some artificial concept of “white”, does not mean your skin tones make sense to the eye.
Sure the focus here is landscape, but landscapes with a person in it ought to ensure the human looks correct. This then provides a context in which the landscape can achieve a sense of realism within the envelope of dramatic.
The weird cellphone video look you have going on looks odd because it looks like somehow a significantly underexposed shot was achieved on a cellphone that likely had both auto-exposure and auto white balance. To achieve a better look try using a grey card to set and lock off your exposure and white balance for the phone. At least then you will have a “correct” start point in your image pipeline for your cell phone footage.
As for raw, the further you deviate from correct white balance and exposure in camera the less likely it is that you can recover in post. And sure folks monkeying around in photoshop and Lightroom can push raw images very far, there are genuine limits, and hue twists and saturation weight and density shifts too as you make those changes, not always in a flattering fashion.
White balance and exposure both matter. And to do the task to a superlative degree in post relies on how your image was captured. Otherwise we may s well provide cinematographers and professional photographers with nothing more than basic sensors, and pinhole cameras to capture Raw.
You have been suckered by the idea that Raw allows everything to be corrected and successfully manipulated in post. Raw just imposes different limits.
There is no reason why in a well shot image, even on a cell phone, or better yet in the BMD camera app, on an iPhone that skin should not be graded to look natural even under the most dramatised sky and snowscape. At one point the presenter in this UA-cam video refers to shooting a first fall of snow in a Forrest under blue skies. But the white balance was clearly not even near correct as blue tones were not present in the clip, in the sky, or in the snow, and if that was by creative intent in post then ensuring natural sj]kin tones -in context- ought to have been considered a critical task.
To be fair, it might simply reflect your creative intent.
If so the UA-cam cover picture displays more natural ( though obviously stylised) skin tones in context than the main video. But it’s the main video I was referring to.
How much did that Hasselblad X2d and lenses cost you Mads?? Or was it a freebie, like Phototripper and Thomas Heaton?
That all of you trialled it and decided you "couldn't justify the price" and now you promoting the hell out if it to your viewers, as it is a freebie is a stain on your creditability, just another corporate sell out.
Unsubscribed 👋👋👋
Mads does have the most helpful and useful videos out of any photographers on UA-cam. Yes several youtubers got this camera for free, that shouldn't matter. He worked very hard to get to where he is now. Don't be bitter...
This comment is grossly rude.
Mads, Thomas, Nigel, Gavin are great artists and I can't see anything wrong with using a great camera.
What they all have in common is that a camera is a tool and not a fetish.
There is already enough resentment on the net about the Hasselbblads. Maybe it's all right now.
@@MakingTracks Mads has brilliant content and brilliant images, indeed he was my favourite creator by long way and I have purchased his workshop but I not watching any influencers that are telling you can make photographs like mine while shooting on their free $15,000-20,000 set up that they didn't think was worth investing themselves.
It is disingenuous
@@danielchaskel2838 What they all have in common is they didn't think that impressive tool was worth their own money but are willing to present its brilliant results to their audience every episode without saying they are effectively sponsored by Hasselblad which is disingenuous
@phillipjolly6287 I see what you are saying, but Mads did make 1 or 2 videos comparing that expensive setup to a Sony full frame and explaining in detail that you don't need that setup to make incredible images or prints. Personally I'm not a fan of this hasselblad (my lack of interest) I just watch the videos to soak up as much info and knowledge as I can ✌️