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When I took a photography class back in the 1980's we had a project to find the shape of the letters of the alphabet in outdoor objects. Only rule was you couldn't take a picture of a letter, like in a sign. For example, in a parking garage the stairs on the outside were in a "Z" shape. The project is desgined for you to see deeper into normal things. Great video.
In watercolour painting you have a 30 minute exercise. Including drawing. It is designed to stop you overworking the scene and keeping the watercolour loose and ethereal rather than clipped in with sharp edges. It's also to allow the paint to create the scene rather than a replica of the scene. I've wondered if this would help in photography
"There is nothing worse than a man in the woods talking to his camera" .... LOL .. Mr Heaton, honestly, this video was so so inspiring. I presume most of your subscribers live in "un-interesting" areas, so this video is simply the perfect catalyst to get out there and be creative, no matter where. Loved it
This was one of the best, most inspiring videos you've done. I think that it's easy to lose the creative element with landscape photography and fall into the trap of just visiting well known locations to reproduce images that have been captured by others. This should act as a reminder to everyone that photography should be a creative pursuit. Hope you do more like this!
This is a very good exercise for anybody who is into visual art! I am not really taking photos nowadays but I am painting...well, not much different at the end. The complaints for not having brilliant ideas to paint or beautiful landscapes to take pictures of...it is something we have in our "lazy" minds.
I absolutely love image 9 with the clouds and telegraph pole. This is probably my favourite image of the lot. I absolutely loved this video. Your excitement is infectious and you make me want to try and repeat this challenge myself in my area. The filming of this is incredible. Keep it up and would love to see some more videos set up with challenges like this.
As someone living in East Anglia, I share the same feelings about the wide flat-ish countryside. When you travel to a destination for photography, you are looking for that outstanding image to justify your travel, but if you are exploring by bike or on foot, you find images on the journey. I've explored quite a lot of the local area recently thanks to lockdown and now is the time to explore the wider area. Great inspiration Thomas.
Oh Thomas, calling a barley field wheat or corn......apart from that, I live in the middle of plane farm lands in eastern Hungary, and having a bike ride like that is what I have been imagining myself, now that the sunflowers starting to bloom and the harvest started on the barley, wheat and rapeseed fields. I usually wish we had some lavender fields around for some interesting scenes, or that I had a drone, because the flat always looks better from above. I loved the woodland image, that looked like an oil painting. Any more bike ride videos planned?
The shot of the bike leaning against the bench in the middle of the video is one of my favorites in the video. I love that you had it in there as Broll and not as a still image
I thought my area was boring af but you showed me not so long ago that every area is great and now I started landscape photography again and can't stop because everything is so great
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I think as a viewer you are one of the most emotionally inconsistent people I've watched. When you're up we're up and when you are dour, you bring me on that journey as well lol. So I liked the no moaning rule 😉. I know that many vloggers response to that is "well I like to show you the hardships I experience so you can see the honesty in the problems a landscape photographer has". Do I want to see that or, do I want to learn and do so joyfully. And Thomas this vlog is my new favourite vlog. Its just brilliant. The music is amazing the b roll is brilliant but the photography is so relatable. My opinion doesn't matter other than to me. But this vlog sees you happy and that just brings happiness so thank you for sharing.
The crop is barley. Hopefully, it'll end up in a cold, refreshing pint of beer one day ;) Very photogenic especially when it is bathing in a warm light of the setting sun.
@@Catap That’s interesting, up here in Sweden it is called “Korn”! Anyway, I was surprised to see it has matured so early into the season over there. It will not be harvested until September over here. That’s what it like to be living on northerly latitudes, I guess!
Thank you. The type of woodland you explored is pretty much all I have available to me. It is refreshing to see a "pro" seek out and explore this type of photography.
Great idea, I have done a 10x 10 meter macro challenge before and stayed in that location for an hour. One thing to be careful if Is be careful of electric fences. I found one when I lent forward to get a picture of a horse 😂
Thanks. I live in an area very similar to the farmland in your video. You showed me that there are good subjects everywhere. I really liked the way you incorporated clouds and shadows. And some subjects are just better in black and white.
It's pretty weird seeing you cycling around the routes I usually go, surprised I haven't bumped into you already! I've been following for a few years now and only just stumpled back onto your videos, great work Thomas!
Great exercise. I recently moved to a new part of the country and I’ve been thinking and about just getting out like this and making images to make myself see the new surroundings.
gracious I loved this. I just moved to South Dakota and felt my inspiration in photography eroding. Not to sound cliche, but I’m finding that loading up my pack and making an adventure about it is the fun part now.
Great video Thomas! Really great to be reminded to open my mind and at least try to photograph images I normally wouldn’t shoot. BUT as a keen cyclist I need to give you a tip to not drop your bike on the drive side as you might mess up the gears and need to get them sent in to be readjusted. A smoother running bike is just nicer! 🙂
One of your best in a while, in so many ways! The fantastic video editing, the simple yet stellar images and the story that says, make use of what you have at your disposal!
Well I don't know about boring, I think the landscape had some appeal and you captured lovely images. Loved the water and the wheat field. Great video!
I found that quite enjoyable. I reckon if someone isn't living in Iceland or the Swiss Alps or some other amazing landscape to take stunning landscape photos then they could consider picking up a cheap manual focus macro lens and have a go at photographing the tiny critters that live in the grass or maybe just strap on a standard 50mm lens and focus on details in the landscape. Limitation creates creativity, it's not about the camera or lens or perfect location as you have demonstrated in this video. Nice work.
I think what we need is more coverage of quote on quote boring locations. Videos like this are valuable for helping us look for beauty in our own boring vicinities. In our world we are all searching after the best of the best, but we could really begin to enjoy our boring landscapes more if more people were covering, filming, photographing, and loving these places.
The worst part must have been filming yourself riding away and having to go back for the camera to then actually ride away. Love this video its the exact issue I had growing up in a very ugly area.
great stuff. very inspiring to get out there and shoot whatever you have available. I agree we all get into a rut and most of us will never get to travel to those expensive and exotic locations for those EPIC shots we all love but cant achieve, but we have to make the best of what we have. Thanks. keep it up. great imafes by the way (especially the B&W ones, which are my faves). Yes the less the better (minimalsitic).
This was one of my favorite videos, I like the small stuff, objects, buildings even small plants that people pass by and take for granted each day. Thanx for a wonderful exercise in exploring your own little part of the planet, I will be more observant on the future.
Great video Thomas. I must admit that watching more and more videos on youtube about taking outstanding pictures in those remote locations got me loosing interest in photography, and your video gave me that spark that trully you can find good composition anywhere around you, just need to spend some time on that. Thanks for sharing!
Landscape photography tests a Man's patience and T.Heaton is seemingly the most patient photographer/ yt creator maybe even add his professional like van building capabilities to that😂 . Loved that series with the van build, Sir and love the vids that you're putting out
Good inspiration actually! Sometimes hard to take photos thinking its boring, but i like what u said at the end where there will always be room to take photos! :)
I shit you not, I once got my portfolio sent to a very famous cuban photographer. I love color so my photographs were 99% in color. She said my work was good and she only gave me one advice: Convert them to black and white. Needless to say her entire work was done in black and white. To this day I laugh at that non sense and hipocresy. F'ing low intelligence level people that can't handle color in their pictures and need black and white to focus their attention on a subject. Sadly, minds that see beauty and poetry in color are very few so I'm destined to be poor and uncknown because I refuse on doing black and white just because it looks more "fine artsy"...
@@TheGoodContent37 feels bad man! I love colours as well, I like to isolate certain colours and desaturate the others but not completely cancel them. I don't really mind people using black and white as long as they do it intentionally and not afterwards because they prefer the clean look over the colour mess. For me black and white is more about isolating clean subjects and light them in a specific way but only to draw attention to the one important, storytelling thing in the picture. They intend to give a fraction of reality in order to high lite one specific topic or subject but without creating emotions. In my opinion its a very "subjective" way of photography.
Tom, a few more possibilities could have been created by utilising an IR Filter for middle of the day photography, especially B&W conversions from it. Love your work mate.
Very n ice and somewhat entertaining! One of my oldest and for me most influential photo books is from a similar approach, about agricultural landscapes. Next challenges: go there in gray weather, no sun, no rain… I‘m still struggling with that one.
my dear man ... this video actually helped me a lot ... I was tending to think that I am living in the relatively boring part of the land but the reality is that I am living in the great photogenic part of the world instead ... not supra-photogenic like Greenland or Iceland or Patagonia or Lake District, but in really photogenic area ... thank you
Great video and sparks the imagination to go and look at the world around us again for something different. It’s given me a renewed energy to go out. You could of used you bike in some of the shots to story tell the journey you took.
Another thing I suggest to people is to stop focusing on big wide landscapes. Get macro, get small. Look for details. I shot a single bit of wheat with the sky as a background once in a field in Durham. One of my best images.
Same here Tom, area is flat and boring got the sea at the end of my road too. I have to travel around 20-30 miles before the landscape starts getting interesting.
I loved this - you don’t have to travel for your art. I had a lot of pleasure doing this around Loughborough in the lockdowns. What I’m planning on doing next is sticking my local OS map to the wall and randomly throwing a dart at it. Where it hits is where I photograph. Game?
Really great essay in finding creative interest in the familiar and unremarkable places around us. It takes great skill and this is so positive in encouraging me to be more open to opportunity right in front of me.
Wow, if I only this video was uploaded a couple months ago when I had to quickly go out to some fields for photos because I couldn’t get to any mountainous landscape Nice video!!!
As impressive as it was to see you find inspiration from nothing the effort you put in to get the b-roll shots for this was something else! Fair play ha!
I really enjoyed this video, I love in North Kent and we always say landscape photographers have to work extra-hard here. Minimalist is the way to go, and thanks for the video, when my Nettar is back from repair I'll go out into the local fields and give them a go.
I've needed a video like this. I'm in Kansas and it's just like this. Nice photos, though a few color photos would have been nice. Annnd, subscribed :D
Some good looking images for such a "boring" place. Much more challenging this way. A grand vista is many times, too easy. Like shooting a portrait of an old man with deep, sun-dried, wrinkly skin. Some of the shots, for my taste, and referring back to good-ol' Nick Carver, would have been to shoot them as 16:9 panos.
Dear Thomas , you made my day ! For sure the best real walk out and have fun video. Thys for the impressions and ideas ..... Perhaps I give my area an second chance ...... thank you very much regards from germany
I know how much work it is to shoot yourself solo and here is a tip I have learnt: Shoot your story (the pictures you take) on 1 day, and then on the next get all your travel Broll. You do have to count on the weather being the same. I do this so I can focus on the story, and if I like it, I can then tie the pieces together better later. All too often I've 'ran out of light' and had to scrap projects. Oh, and this also means you can tighten your time in your day meaning if you wanted to do just morning, you can do it over a couple of mornings instead of it rolling into the afternoon.
liked this video for a few reasons i think. 1- you took lots of pictures this time. 2-you were out on your bike instead of driving and getting nice pictures of your local area. 3- i think you were in a more +ve mood doing this video, maybe because of points 1 and 2!!! Keep up the good work.
"I'd be an idiot on a bike taking photos." Hey! That's me! Lol. I overheard a little kid ask her mom the other day, "why is that man taking pictures of those trees, mommy?" I take photos of boring scenes all the time, but I still find a few gems which please me.
The spot where you stopped for the first image, I found the large fence wooden posts and the barbed wire interesting for black and white... I was hoping that would be your subject! :) That being said, it's an interesting exercise! :)
I love your content. The way you look at nature makes me go out and take picture. This might sound weird but every time I want to take a photo, I think to myself how would Thomas Heaton frame this image? Will he wait for a better lighting? 😅
I really enjoyed this video! Like you I don’t live in the most exiting area but when I start to look around me there’s a lot to be photographed. I challenge myself sometimes with doing the opposite of what’s expected- if I’m “expected” to take a photo of beautiful coloured flowers I shoot in B/W. Now I’m challenging myself to include people in my images (if I’m not disturbing them) 😅.
I'm lucky enough to live in New Zealand where if you travel for an hour in any direction you will change landscapes to a completely different biome, 1 hour from my home and I can get to the rocky jagged shore, the smooth flawless beaches of the harbour, I can get to 200m tall cliffs, rocky beaches with views out into the ocean, or I can go deep into the small rolling mountains of the orongarongas into a small stream or massive stony river. Increase my scope to 2-3 hours and the right transport and I can get to 2 kilometre tall mountains, expansive plains, sub tropical islands. It's only boring if you want it to be.
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I have to say, your most boring 10 miles still seems significantly more scenic than the majority of what exists for many miles around me 😆 Still, this was encouraging to watch, thanks for sharing your experience!
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When I took a photography class back in the 1980's we had a project to find the shape of the letters of the alphabet in outdoor objects. Only rule was you couldn't take a picture of a letter, like in a sign. For example, in a parking garage the stairs on the outside were in a "Z" shape. The project is desgined for you to see deeper into normal things. Great video.
That sounds like a great exercise, I've never heard that one before. I smell another challenge video 🤔
@@ThomasHeatonPhoto please do it 😍😉
In watercolour painting you have a 30 minute exercise. Including drawing. It is designed to stop you overworking the scene and keeping the watercolour loose and ethereal rather than clipped in with sharp edges. It's also to allow the paint to create the scene rather than a replica of the scene. I've wondered if this would help in photography
I like this. I may try it. Thanks!
Beautiful assignment. I'll give it a try sometime
"World's most boring location"
He surely hasn't seen my neighborhood
You Didn't Seen My Town 😂✌🏻😂
you haven’t seen my earth 😭😭😭😔
@@EXANT9000 You haven't seen my galaxy :p
Sorry, the universe doesn't look boring... ;-)
pfff...boring?
"There is nothing worse than a man in the woods talking to his camera" .... LOL .. Mr Heaton, honestly, this video was so so inspiring. I presume most of your subscribers live in "un-interesting" areas, so this video is simply the perfect catalyst to get out there and be creative, no matter where. Loved it
I feel like someone on UA-cam finally gave an answer to a very important question for many hobby shooters. Thanks Thomas!!!
I could see the TH POV in every image and that "painting in the woods" was just jaw-dropping. 🙌🏻
This was refreshing to watch.
This was one of the best, most inspiring videos you've done. I think that it's easy to lose the creative element with landscape photography and fall into the trap of just visiting well known locations to reproduce images that have been captured by others. This should act as a reminder to everyone that photography should be a creative pursuit. Hope you do more like this!
This is a very good exercise for anybody who is into visual art! I am not really taking photos nowadays but I am painting...well, not much different at the end. The complaints for not having brilliant ideas to paint or beautiful landscapes to take pictures of...it is something we have in our "lazy" minds.
I absolutely love image 9 with the clouds and telegraph pole. This is probably my favourite image of the lot. I absolutely loved this video. Your excitement is infectious and you make me want to try and repeat this challenge myself in my area. The filming of this is incredible. Keep it up and would love to see some more videos set up with challenges like this.
As someone living in East Anglia, I share the same feelings about the wide flat-ish countryside. When you travel to a destination for photography, you are looking for that outstanding image to justify your travel, but if you are exploring by bike or on foot, you find images on the journey.
I've explored quite a lot of the local area recently thanks to lockdown and now is the time to explore the wider area.
Great inspiration Thomas.
Oh Thomas, calling a barley field wheat or corn......apart from that, I live in the middle of plane farm lands in eastern Hungary, and having a bike ride like that is what I have been imagining myself, now that the sunflowers starting to bloom and the harvest started on the barley, wheat and rapeseed fields. I usually wish we had some lavender fields around for some interesting scenes, or that I had a drone, because the flat always looks better from above. I loved the woodland image, that looked like an oil painting. Any more bike ride videos planned?
I can seea 'pimp my bike' video perhaps... LOL
The shot of the bike leaning against the bench in the middle of the video is one of my favorites in the video. I love that you had it in there as Broll and not as a still image
A wonderful encouraging video for beginner photographers and nature lovers like me, thank you mr. Thomas!
Awesome video!
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I thought my area was boring af but you showed me not so long ago that every area is great and now I started landscape photography again and can't stop because everything is so great
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I think as a viewer you are one of the most emotionally inconsistent people I've watched. When you're up we're up and when you are dour, you bring me on that journey as well lol. So I liked the no moaning rule 😉. I know that many vloggers response to that is "well I like to show you the hardships I experience so you can see the honesty in the problems a landscape photographer has". Do I want to see that or, do I want to learn and do so joyfully. And Thomas this vlog is my new favourite vlog. Its just brilliant. The music is amazing the b roll is brilliant but the photography is so relatable. My opinion doesn't matter other than to me. But this vlog sees you happy and that just brings happiness so thank you for sharing.
The crop is barley. Hopefully, it'll end up in a cold, refreshing pint of beer one day ;) Very photogenic especially when it is bathing in a warm light of the setting sun.
Agreed, although in british english it’s ”corn”.
@@Catap ah, thanks. Not being a native speaker, I find huge gaps in my vocabulary.
@@Catap That’s interesting, up here in Sweden it is called “Korn”! Anyway, I was surprised to see it has matured so early into the season over there. It will not be harvested until September over here. That’s what it like to be living on northerly latitudes, I guess!
@@freetibet1000 skulle tro det har att göra med att vi ffa har vårsådd, och britterna höstsådd…. Men höftar lite hära… ;)
@@freetibet1000 we get warm winter's thanks to the Atlantic, so I bet we get to plant a lot earlier.
Thats one of the best Videos about photography i've ever seen👍 It teaches me to see my location with new eyes
Thank you. The type of woodland you explored is pretty much all I have available to me. It is refreshing to see a "pro" seek out and explore this type of photography.
Great idea, I have done a 10x 10 meter macro challenge before and stayed in that location for an hour. One thing to be careful if Is be careful of electric fences. I found one when I lent forward to get a picture of a horse 😂
Cool idea ☺️ not the electric fence though 😜
Thanks. I live in an area very similar to the farmland in your video. You showed me that there are good subjects everywhere. I really liked the way you incorporated clouds and shadows. And some subjects are just better in black and white.
Great video. This is is the best Thomas' video I've seen lately.
I think this video is even more helpful than you think it is. Great stuff thank you. Got me looking at subjects like I never had before
It's pretty weird seeing you cycling around the routes I usually go, surprised I haven't bumped into you already! I've been following for a few years now and only just stumpled back onto your videos, great work Thomas!
I love your channel. So much inspiration. I’m leaving Germany and moving to Alaska and plan to take plenty of landscape and wildlife shots out there.
Great exercise. I recently moved to a new part of the country and I’ve been thinking and about just getting out like this and making images to make myself see the new surroundings.
This was super helpful. With being unable to travel far this has given me a lot of inspiration to wire my brain to try new compositions.
Thanks Tom. Great reminder that if you can’t find anything available to shoot....shoot what’s available!
gracious I loved this. I just moved to South Dakota and felt my inspiration in photography eroding. Not to sound cliche, but I’m finding that loading up my pack and making an adventure about it is the fun part now.
Great video Thomas.
This should be the start of a series. I think you already found a good name "The boring 10 miles". Please go ahead.
Great video Thomas! Really great to be reminded to open my mind and at least try to photograph images I normally wouldn’t shoot.
BUT as a keen cyclist I need to give you a tip to not drop your bike on the drive side as you might mess up the gears and need to get them sent in to be readjusted. A smoother running bike is just nicer! 🙂
One of your best in a while, in so many ways! The fantastic video editing, the simple yet stellar images and the story that says, make use of what you have at your disposal!
This is the photography video I’ve been waiting for. You should make this a once a month series. I’d love that.
Loved it. Also big props for getting back and forth constantly to set your camera and cycle in fron of it :p
Well I don't know about boring, I think the landscape had some appeal and you captured lovely images. Loved the water and the wheat field. Great video!
I found that quite enjoyable. I reckon if someone isn't living in Iceland or the Swiss Alps or some other amazing landscape to take stunning landscape photos then they could consider picking up a cheap manual focus macro lens and have a go at photographing the tiny critters that live in the grass or maybe just strap on a standard 50mm lens and focus on details in the landscape. Limitation creates creativity, it's not about the camera or lens or perfect location as you have demonstrated in this video. Nice work.
i just started landscape photo for a while, before this i usually do street, and just yesterday doin it with my bike also! Thanks for the video!
I have been following your content for sometime now and I have to say this is really an interesting topic.. Thanks for this content.
I was thinking exactly the same for the area where I live. Thx for the great idea! I shall go out on a "boring scenery" photo hunt myself just here.
That was a awesome view point of capturing something different. I like the ripples in the water too
I think what we need is more coverage of quote on quote boring locations. Videos like this are valuable for helping us look for beauty in our own boring vicinities. In our world we are all searching after the best of the best, but we could really begin to enjoy our boring landscapes more if more people were covering, filming, photographing, and loving these places.
The worst part must have been filming yourself riding away and having to go back for the camera to then actually ride away.
Love this video its the exact issue I had growing up in a very ugly area.
great stuff. very inspiring to get out there and shoot whatever you have available. I agree we all get into a rut and most of us will never get to travel to those expensive and exotic locations for those EPIC shots we all love but cant achieve, but we have to make the best of what we have. Thanks. keep it up. great imafes by the way (especially the B&W ones, which are my faves). Yes the less the better (minimalsitic).
This was one of my favorite videos, I like the small stuff, objects, buildings even small plants that people pass by and take for granted each day. Thanx for a wonderful exercise in exploring your own little part of the planet, I will be more observant on the future.
Very insightful! I'm on the Canadian prairies and will now head out with a fresh perspective!
Great video Thomas. I must admit that watching more and more videos on youtube about taking outstanding pictures in those remote locations got me loosing interest in photography, and your video gave me that spark that trully you can find good composition anywhere around you, just need to spend some time on that. Thanks for sharing!
Landscape photography tests a Man's patience and T.Heaton is seemingly the most patient photographer/ yt creator maybe even add his professional like van building capabilities to that😂 . Loved that series with the van build, Sir and love the vids that you're putting out
Good inspiration actually! Sometimes hard to take photos thinking its boring, but i like what u said at the end where there will always be room to take photos! :)
He is like: "if your fotos look boring, use black and white!"
I shit you not, I once got my portfolio sent to a very famous cuban photographer. I love color so my photographs were 99% in color. She said my work was good and she only gave me one advice: Convert them to black and white.
Needless to say her entire work was done in black and white. To this day I laugh at that non sense and hipocresy. F'ing low intelligence level people that can't handle color in their pictures and need black and white to focus their attention on a subject. Sadly, minds that see beauty and poetry in color are very few so I'm destined to be poor and uncknown because I refuse on doing black and white just because it looks more "fine artsy"...
@@TheGoodContent37 feels bad man! I love colours as well, I like to isolate certain colours and desaturate the others but not completely cancel them.
I don't really mind people using black and white as long as they do it intentionally and not afterwards because they prefer the clean look over the colour mess. For me black and white is more about isolating clean subjects and light them in a specific way but only to draw attention to the one important, storytelling thing in the picture.
They intend to give a fraction of reality in order to high lite one specific topic or subject but without creating emotions.
In my opinion its a very "subjective" way of photography.
Tom, a few more possibilities could have been created by utilising an IR Filter for middle of the day photography, especially B&W conversions from it. Love your work mate.
The eye of a photographer. Great video for inspiration.
Thomas, ah a cycling photog.!! What a way to get around, but slowly is the answer, too fast and the pics just slip away.😚
Very n ice and somewhat entertaining! One of my oldest and for me most influential photo books is from a similar approach, about agricultural landscapes. Next challenges: go there in gray weather, no sun, no rain… I‘m still struggling with that one.
really says a lot about photography! Thank you!!
my dear man ... this video actually helped me a lot ... I was tending to think that I am living in the relatively boring part of the land but the reality is that I am living in the great photogenic part of the world instead ... not supra-photogenic like Greenland or Iceland or Patagonia or Lake District, but in really photogenic area ... thank you
This was absolutely phenomenal. Thank you very much.
Makes me think of the ending shot of Seven, the actual location is the most boring place you ever saw. It's iconic.
from being in the area where you live, i loved this video and it was very insightful
Alone the sky is beautiful. It's just the way we look at something
Great video and sparks the imagination to go and look at the world around us again for something different. It’s given me a renewed energy to go out. You could of used you bike in some of the shots to story tell the journey you took.
Another thing I suggest to people is to stop focusing on big wide landscapes.
Get macro, get small. Look for details.
I shot a single bit of wheat with the sky as a background once in a field in Durham. One of my best images.
Same here Tom, area is flat and boring got the sea at the end of my road too. I have to travel around 20-30 miles before the landscape starts getting interesting.
Great video. I can tell you pulled the stops out for this one.
the same boring situation with me, but now im inspired by ur video, will be trying to get advantage
Living in Lincolnshire, this is the video I've needed for so long! Thank you.
I loved this - you don’t have to travel for your art. I had a lot of pleasure doing this around Loughborough in the lockdowns. What I’m planning on doing next is sticking my local OS map to the wall and randomly throwing a dart at it. Where it hits is where I photograph. Game?
Awesome! Thanks for the challenge 😀
Good perspective for summer shots!
Really great essay in finding creative interest in the familiar and unremarkable places around us. It takes great skill and this is so positive in encouraging me to be more open to opportunity right in front of me.
For an idiot on a bike after crappy photos, this was inspirational. Thank you.
@4:14 or so those fence posts you standing in front of- I couldn't take my eyes of them, great video
Great, inspiring video. Thank you!
Wow, if I only this video was uploaded a couple months ago when I had to quickly go out to some fields for photos because I couldn’t get to any mountainous landscape
Nice video!!!
A really nice, inspiring video with a solid message. Crazy dedication with the B-roll too! A 10 mile cycle must actually work out as around 25 miles!
As impressive as it was to see you find inspiration from nothing the effort you put in to get the b-roll shots for this was something else! Fair play ha!
I dont know about other. Im not a photographer but i always find interesting things to shoot no matter where you are.
One of better contest from you. Thumb up.
I really enjoyed this video, I love in North Kent and we always say landscape photographers have to work extra-hard here. Minimalist is the way to go, and thanks for the video, when my Nettar is back from repair I'll go out into the local fields and give them a go.
I've needed a video like this. I'm in Kansas and it's just like this. Nice photos, though a few color photos would have been nice. Annnd, subscribed :D
Ah yes, a worthwhile project Thomas.
Brilliant idea, nice video, great inspiration!
I would love for you to do this over again with what ever gear you like and when the conditions are perfect...
Some good looking images for such a "boring" place. Much more challenging this way. A grand vista is many times, too easy. Like shooting a portrait of an old man with deep, sun-dried, wrinkly skin. Some of the shots, for my taste, and referring back to good-ol' Nick Carver, would have been to shoot them as 16:9 panos.
Dear Thomas , you made my day ! For sure the best real walk out and have fun video. Thys for the impressions and ideas ..... Perhaps I give my area an second chance ...... thank you very much
regards from germany
the first one looks strangely eerie
I know how much work it is to shoot yourself solo and here is a tip I have learnt: Shoot your story (the pictures you take) on 1 day, and then on the next get all your travel Broll. You do have to count on the weather being the same. I do this so I can focus on the story, and if I like it, I can then tie the pieces together better later. All too often I've 'ran out of light' and had to scrap projects. Oh, and this also means you can tighten your time in your day meaning if you wanted to do just morning, you can do it over a couple of mornings instead of it rolling into the afternoon.
Thank you for this inspirational video!
Love your video. I try to do this but end up with nada. I will try better by incorporating some of your ideas. Thanks. TFS
liked this video for a few reasons i think. 1- you took lots of pictures this time. 2-you were out on your bike instead of driving and getting nice pictures of your local area. 3- i think you were in a more +ve mood doing this video, maybe because of points 1 and 2!!! Keep up the good work.
"I'd be an idiot on a bike taking photos." Hey! That's me! Lol.
I overheard a little kid ask her mom the other day, "why is that man taking pictures of those trees, mommy?" I take photos of boring scenes all the time, but I still find a few gems which please me.
The spot where you stopped for the first image, I found the large fence wooden posts and the barbed wire interesting for black and white... I was hoping that would be your subject! :) That being said, it's an interesting exercise! :)
I’m from chile! Planning to do a trip to patagonia for vacation. Love your videos
Such a good inspiration! Thank you!
This mentality is what first drew me to your channel, how you can make something from nothing. Absolutely stunning. Lol
I love your content. The way you look at nature makes me go out and take picture. This might sound weird but every time I want to take a photo, I think to myself how would Thomas Heaton frame this image? Will he wait for a better lighting? 😅
I really enjoyed this video! Like you I don’t live in the most exiting area but when I start to look around me there’s a lot to be photographed. I challenge myself sometimes with doing the opposite of what’s expected- if I’m “expected” to take a photo of beautiful coloured flowers I shoot in B/W. Now I’m challenging myself to include people in my images (if I’m not disturbing them) 😅.
I'm lucky enough to live in New Zealand where if you travel for an hour in any direction you will change landscapes to a completely different biome, 1 hour from my home and I can get to the rocky jagged shore, the smooth flawless beaches of the harbour, I can get to 200m tall cliffs, rocky beaches with views out into the ocean, or I can go deep into the small rolling mountains of the orongarongas into a small stream or massive stony river. Increase my scope to 2-3 hours and the right transport and I can get to 2 kilometre tall mountains, expansive plains, sub tropical islands. It's only boring if you want it to be.
Beautiful images Thomas, Congratulations on signing for Manchester United! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm sure your make many saves, never knew you had two jobs one as landscape photographer of the year and the other as a goalkeeper 🤣 keep up the good work 📸⚽
I have to say, your most boring 10 miles still seems significantly more scenic than the majority of what exists for many miles around me 😆 Still, this was encouraging to watch, thanks for sharing your experience!
Great video Thomas!