Alister Benn & Adam Gibbs Process your photographs
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
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Adam Gibbs and Alister Benn have been great friends for many years and we often share and discuss our photography with each other. Every now and then we ask the members of our UA-cam Channels to submit some images that we each then process.
In this episode, Adam and Alister each work 4 photographs and the results are surprising and illuminating.
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Really enjoyed this video guys, thank you. Very interesting to see how the image can be worked to different ends and it validates my processing methods which were already given freedom by Alister’s previous video tutorials/rambles 😊. My photography as a result has never been so rewarding. Thanks again.
That's great to hear, thanks very much
Derrick - Totally agree with you about how rewarding making images has become. My whole approach to photography has shifted since discovering Alister. I put down my camera and revisited/reprocessed my images after studying his Luminosity and Contrast and Lightroom ebooks. He has given me the confidence to submit my images to places that I never would have before. I highly recommend Alister's ebooks. They are the only ones (and there have been plenty) that I read cover to cover and utilized his concepts.
Thanks for inviting me over Alister, really interesting discussion and of course comparing the results.
Cheers mate, we gotta chat again soon...
"Put me into my photography". This is the very essence of what photography should be about!
I think so, and thanks very much for your lovely feedback.
Fun video - really enjoy comparing Alister's and Adam's processing approach. I preferred Alister's for the first three images here, and Adam's for the last, but just shows how much an image can change based on personal editing choices.
Your passion for photography shines through every episode.thank you for sharing your work process.
Thank so much
Great to see yours and Adam's versions of editing.
Cheers mate
This is my favorite way to learn. A mix of the technical process, individual style and most importantly the soul of creativity. Loved this and would love to see more.
Thanks for sharing!
Very enjoyable guys. The Leaf in Ice is a fantastic image. Both takes were of course quite valid. I think Alister’s version looks like the cover of a photography magazine and Adam’s looks like the cover of an art magazine.
Yikes!!
Expressive Photography sorry, i did not intend for that to be a dig. I’m working in lab these days as you are and I’m sure I would have had a similar take to yours. All that luscious yellow and ice tones. And contrast to make it pop. Because we can. But Adam’s restrained low contrast pastel feel delivers a very painterly result. Very calm. It’s almost like “quiet light.” Haha. Nothing wrong with either approach. Please yourself.
Just shows you how people prefer different looks I think alisters leaf is by far the most dynamic
Thanks for your input
This was a very instructive and enjoyable video. And of course you're correct that "different" is neither worse nor better. Accept, of course, if one is a conservative
Thank for your great comment.
My comment was for the first image.
re reversals - 'and i was doing it without knowing all you others were doing it ' !
Obviously I discovered many other people were doing it after I’d been experimenting with it. 😀
Thanks guys very interesting, but I would preferred that you would have included Gavin and we would have had less of a mutual admiration society and more of "Adam you Sh*#t head, that is bloody awful". Just kidding, I thoroughly enjoyed the video and, (as usual), learned some valuable tips which I will be using in the future. Thanks again.
LOL - I'll leave that to Gavin :-)
Thank you both for this VLOG and processing comparison, proving that photography is an ART created by an individual. A few years ago I submitted some images to an Australian photography group competition for a couple of years. I found myself trying to process the images to impress the judges. All 3 years I managed to get BRONZ awards for all of my submissions. I found that the images that received SILVER or GOLD in the competition all had a very similar look. It was clear that the judging was quite bias and subjective. There were also comments that I disagreed with. I decided that my photographic art was mine and if I was satisfied that was enough & I have not entered a competition since 2017. I continue to learn from great photographers such as Adam and yourself Alister. I try different things and continue to learn and enjoy the experience of taking landscape images, if people like my work it's great but I'm not bothered if people don't like it. Looking forward to a future episode. Cheers for Australia🇦🇺
Great to see the side by side, and especially to take away the two point: "do what you want" and "be yourself..."
Cool - happy to hear that
For the second image I like Alister's again. With the leaf in Alister's, what about taking the dark yellow in the background and adding it to the leaf?
Hope you do more of these! so interesting to see where you took these! I prefer Alister's frozen leaf, and Adam's snowy trees. cheers!
Certainly. That’s fair I think 😀
That much coffee isn't good for you, Adam.
haha true.. only tea
I love your work and have bought your Luminosity ebook. I would like to join your special UA-cam channel that you mention, but I don’t have a “join” button. How do I get to it and what is the monthly contribution?
Hi Linda, not Alister, obviously, but the join button is next to the subscribe button and monthly fee is EUR 9.99
@@jurajbenadik4049 Thank you - the button wasn't available on my ipad, but I found it with your help on my desktop!
Thank you very much for that. If you do not see the Join button, it may be that you are using an iPad, or Phone App. The Join button only appears on a Web Browser on a desktop or Laptop (oddly!!)
I see you found it, Thank you so much for your support. LOTS of videos coming this week.
For whatever reason the join button is also not visible on the mobile app. "Mobile first Google", ey?!?
Lots to learn from this vid ... thanks, guys!!! Me, too ... re being in nature for the right reasons; and taking photos that grab my attention; and processing to express what I feel/see.
So interesting - yes as time goes on I seem to like flatter images - or maybe it is the influence of a couple of years of watching and enjoying Adams work. There is a strong support of heavily edited images with strong contrast etc... by people on our local community pages... and I think it shows their unawareness of photo editing apps tbh and just how simple extreme use of the dehaze and clarity tools are.
Fascinating , really like the different approaches and the discussion around them
This was great, Alister. So many good ideas coming out of it, love to see you guys working/thinking together, thanks!
You’re very welcome. Thanks for watching
I love the interaction between both of you. And yes, take photos for yourself. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
"You can take your raw file and you can really put your own twist to it and it's valid" That quote will be hanging on my wall for the next few weeks. I am in a crunch to process about three years of photography for an exhibition in November. So yeah, back to do whatever the hell I want to do with them photos. Thanks once again for yet another great pointer Alister.
Thanks Alex, appreciate that very much..
Every time I watch you guys discuss composition, color, and light in photography, I learn something regardless of whose processing version I prefer. How did I miss this a month ago?
Great to hear, very happy to hear that
I am curious as to how using the Lab color space you are working in luminosity only? Is this in Photoshop or Lightroom? I always display my color and luminosity information in Lab values in Lightroom, but have to adjust saturation after applying exposure and contrast adjustments. I know that in PS you can use the luminosity mode when employing a curve so saturation isn't affected regardless if you work in Lab or RGB.
Hi Steve. You can only work in LAB in Photoshop, Lightroom is RGB only. In LAB, instead of three colour channels (Red, Green & Blue) we have one channel just for Luminosity (L) and two color channels, A + B. A is Green/Magenta, B is Blue/Yellow - I'll do a video on it soon to explain, as it is awesome. Only in LAB can you change contrast in the L channel, without affecting hue.
Love the Loch Clair classical view... :) Missing this place but there are so many great spots in the area .... The image of the leaf in the ice is a beauty :) So one video I watch it on your channel and the other on Adam's :) I amin the process of catching up :)
Thanks so much - I need to get the other three posted!!
Many years ago, I dabbled for a while in the LAB color space. It looks like I need to go back and dabble in it a bit more seriously...
yeah, it is incredibly powerful.
Hi Alister & Adam: This has been a very interesting video and demonstrates that everyone can visualize an image in a very different way. Cropping images can add so much impact to the image as well. Alister I liked your crop of Joanna's image making it more of a pano. Keep safe. . . Cheers, Keith (Ontario, Canada)
Thanks as always Keith for your great feedback and support
Love the concept of this video. Only disappointment was I thought I was the only one occasionally doing an inversion ( negative) via luminosity channels!😀 I didn’t realise it is getting popular. At least I am in esteemed company🤣
Lol, yeah, it’s so Insta!!
At first Adam says he doesn’t like too much shadow preferring lighter aspects then goes on to ruin an otherwise great image
Lol
Loved all the comments by you and Adam about making choices in the processing...And at the end saying just be original with your vision and do not fall victim to likes on social media.
Thanks for that - yes, we had a lot of fun with this one...
Wow, really interesting to see your different takes. I did not expect Adam to go that way with the third photo!
Very liberating to see your work and hear your thought process!
You're not the only one who was surprised :-) Thanks so much for your kind feedback.
The negative is the score, the processed image (or print) the performance. Two different performers and an inspiring set of images and final results. Much appreciated!
Thanks man, more coming.
Thank you Alister and Adam for this very interesting discussion. It is fascinating how different the images have been edited, but all of them are fantastic versions in their own way.
Thanks for that. We enjoy doing this and it’s always interesting to see each other’s approach
Great job by both of you, I enjoyed your perspective. I encourage you do more of these.
Thank you! Will do!
Inspiring as always 👌
Fascinating to see the two different styles and great to get the message across to people to do what makes them happy with their photos and not to be doing it for Judges etc. Adam believe it or not the weather was great for 90% of the time which I know, being as I live in Scotland, can be a rarity!! 😃😃 Thank you both for your edits. 👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks Jane, so great to see the differences and to share with you all.
Expressive Photography Appreciate that too 💜
I like Alister's interpretation. What about B&W?
Yes, for sure BW would work here too.
A great way to learn different techniques from two of the best!
That's very kind, thank you.
Thanks for this video - it was really interesting to see your takes on other people's files and it has given me greater confidence to post process creatively. I tend to take a picture with an idea of a final version but recently I have been more adventurous in my edits. I like the idea of bringing a new emotion to an image that was taken with a different feeling. It was 2 all in my preference of each of your images - notably I was not a fan of the negative! Let's have more of these please.
The third image, I loved Adam's version. The blue and yellow tones are great.
"Experiential reference" Wow must try and drop that into conversation this week!!!!
Really enjoyed the video and loved the images. I loved Adam’s edits to the frozen leaf and Joanna’s trees shot.
Why do you guys where hats indoors? Is it too cold or are they you thinking caps😂
Wear! 🤓 personally, I’m bald and the light bounces off it and I’m certainly not going to apply powder.
Wow loved both of your styles and approach in post processing. I'm struggling to find I'm own identity in post processing and is has help me to ses what I like and I don't like please explore this theme more
thank you both
09:23 Alister's version is have more depth and color contrast. Adam's version is muted and softly near to wabi-sabi aesthetic.
Preferred Adams lighter snow trees how he retained the highlights without blowing them out is beyond me
Weird how I was just recently discussing this with Enrico Fossati. We were contemplating the same approach with one image of mine. Would be interesting to review considering our styles are so hugely apart. Thanks for the vid. As usual very informative and worthy
Yes, it can be a very useful exercise.
Interpretations of a RAW file really separates us as photographers on many levels for sure
Alister and Adam - Thank you both for different your takes on my ice leaf image. It was interesting to see how differently you interpreted the image. I processed it similar to Alister with more contrast. My final version is in portrait orientation, rotated ninety degrees to the right. It visually "fits", like a piece in a puzzle. I tend to do this when the image does not demand strict reality. When you think about it, the camera is nothing more that a light recorder and captures none of what we see and the experience when taking the image.
A real pleasure Ken, such a great image, and to be honest, I'm sure we could all go different ways with it. I saw your version of that file and it looked really good. Thanks for letting us explore the possibilities with it.
Ken, I really enjoyed your image. In landscape orientation I like the contrast between the crack zig-zagging left to right and the circular ice textures around the leaf, with the higher contrast like Alister's version. I'd be proud to have made that image myself!
@@Alister_Benn I am looking forward to seeing why you chose LAB mode and watch you develop it. Haven't heard or seen you take this approach before.
@@Hirsutechin Thank you. Have you viewed it portrait? The shadow falls beneath the leaf and appears more natural to me. This, coming from the guy that always looks to visually distort reality. Oh, well.
@@kensalome483 I have now, it's still a great image. Congratulations!
So interesting and fascinating. This is a clear example how the creative expression is so broad and equally as stunning and valuable. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!