Landscape Photography - 3 Things I Wished I'd Learned Sooner
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- In this video I look at three things I've learned in landscape photography that I wish I'd learned earlier.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:44 It’s Not About The Light
4:55 It’s Not About The Gear
9:00 Don’t Try To Force the Image
13:51 Conclusion & Workshops
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The most rewarding 15 minutes I've spent watching videos about photography. Truly eye-opening and educational. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much, that's a really lovely comment. Glad you found it so interesting
Great motivational speech that so eloquently conveys the spirit of landscape photography. Thank you for your inspiring work, Andy. I really appreciated it.
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Such a well grounded and honest photographer, you come across very genuine and I wish you all the very best in your career, you deserve it.
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Just what I needed, an inspirational chat from a man that knows.
Thanks for the comment Chris, glad you found it useful
Thank you for always very generously sharing your insights and experiences with photography on this channel. It’s immensely inspiring and hugely appreciated. Thanks again and best wishes.
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What a really great video. Wonderful to hear that "it's not about the light". We hear so much about only shooting in the golden hour or the blue hour and we all know that's just not always possible and there is so much more light in the day when great shots can be made, as you have so clearly demonstrated. Thanks for your wisdom, gained from experience.
Thanks so much for the comment Chris, really glad you found the video useful
Finally..the truth. What goes on behind the lens is everything. Great video. 🤩
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Great video my friend! "You have to work with the light you're given, not the light that you wanted to have." Perhaps the best advice not just for photography, but for an approach to our lives in total. Stay well!
Hey Jeff, how's it going? Hope you're well...all's good here in Portugal. Glad you enjoyed the video...I never forget you're the guy who put me on to Fuji 5 years ago
You are a great teacher! I feel like I will watch your whole channel today..lol! 👍
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A big part of what drew me to the Fuji X-series (aside from your beautiful images) is that I could learn how to capture stunning images now rather than saving gobs of money for some high-end camera system later. Not disappointed in the least! Andy, you said it perfectly: "Get out and practice your craft."
Thanks so much John, really glad you enjoyed it. I've been shooting Fuji now for 5 years and I'm still really happy with the images they produce
Absolutely superb advice Andy . Thanks for sharing .
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1:37 - I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Knowing this, I can feel a little less crushed each time it happens. Terrific advice.
haha, yeah. I've been doing this for about 15 years and that still happens.
Thank you for your passion in photography
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Excellent points Andy …… so true! A bad day of landscape photography is better that a good day at home!
Exactly. Glad you enjoyed the video
This is pure wisdom, shared with humility. So grateful, Andy, thank-you!
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New on the Channel. Master Class !!!. Thank you Andy.
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Wow! I tried to watch 2 videos yesterday regarding the new iPad pro with the M1 chip. I never finished either as the presenters talk so fast with a constant mono-toned voice, no commas or full-stops and without taking a breath for ten minutes ....... so how great to watch this relaxed presentation of yours Andy. It's like easy listening music mixed with great advice and so relaxing and informative - such a world of difference. Thank you.
Thanks so much for the comment Martin, it's lovely to read. I tend to speak relatively quietly...I was a teacher for many years before I was a photographer and always found that it's easier to pay attention when people speak softly and without hurry. Really glad you enjoyed the video
Oh, and definitely the 3rd point. The act of photography - treating it as a practice - is more important. It’s a privilege to be out amongst nature; bagging a good photo is icing on the cake. 👍😄
Exactly Peter, that's what it's all about
Brilliant video, love all you videos but this one was the best
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Hi Andy. As allways a great video. I enjoyed it very much. greetings from switzerland
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Thank you for sharing!
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Andy great video!!!
Thanks so much
Music to my ears! I'm not a morning person and I like to eat around sunset, so midday is when I'm most motivated to get out even if it isn't great, just enjoy being out there. Got even more motivated a month ago when my son told me to stop watching videos and just get out there....so true and what a flip on the old script too!
Thanks for the comment Gerry, glad you found the video interesting. It's always good just to get out
Awesome, inspirational advice. Thank you so much.
Thanks so much, really glad you found it useful and interesting
Love it
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Excellent video Andy, thank you
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Very inspiring Andy. Thnx.
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Portugal. Great country. In fact I've been considering moving to Portugal. Currently I'm in South Africa. I spent 3 years in Spain and I was often in Portugal.
Indeed, lived here almost 30 years and can’t imagine living anywhere else now
Great information thank you
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Hey Andy what a great video - you are one of the few people that I trust to deliver a worthwhile message instead of clickbait and this certainly didn't disappoint. I'm guilty of these on a regular basis and it's comforting to know it happens to the best of us.
I really enjoy your photos in overcast weather and would be ecstatic if you made a video on your editing process for getting the most out of those overcast, moody days. Cheers and stay sane during these crazy times :)
Hi Eric, thanks for the comment, really glad you enjoyed it.
I actually had plans to do lots of workflow videos this year, with shooting on location and then the post processing, but COVID wiped out my travel plans (I should just be returning from Patagonia now and heading to Tuscany in a week or so). Hopefully though I'll be able to get back shooting soon and should be able to put some Capture to Processing videos together, and I'll be in Iceland in August, which is always perfect for cloudy weather.
Stay safe yourself
Always enjoy your videos Andy and your pearls of wisdom!
Thanks so much Jim, glad you found it useful
Such wise words. Thank you.
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Great tips and video!
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Good advice,thanks
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Great expert and Teacher.
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Great content with so much wisdom and great advices. Thanks for sharing your experience
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Excellent content, thanks for sharing those invaluable lessons. The images are stunning, by the way.
Thanks so much for watching, really glad you found it useful
Thanks, really appreciate your tips. 👍
Thanks so much for watching
Great video Andy.
Mike
Thanks so much Mike
Couldn’t agree more, your advice is so valid. Thanks for another good video.
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Great advice, so much better than many other youtube photographers who constantly talk high end gear but produce average work. Thankyou Andy.
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Wise words from an excellent photographer. Cheers, Andy.
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This is probably the best video I have seen with regards to advice about “perfect” conditions that rarely exist and encouraging photographers to just get out there a do what we love to do. I watched the video last night and this morning I got up early and took my cameras to various local spots. I had the most amazing experience just being out there doing what I love. I happened to take a few photos that are some of my best work even though had no expectations except to get out in nature with my gear. Thank you so much for not only this video but the many others on your channel that have really provided some great information and insight. Many thanks.
Thanks for watching, and the brilliant comment. Really glad you enjoyed the video and found it useful, and that you had such a productive morning's photography. All the best
Great advice, your experience really shines through here, invaluable. 👏. Thanks.
Thanks so much for the comment, really glad you found the video useful
Many thanks Andy! Another great video.
Thanks so much Torsten, glad you enjoyed it. Looking forward to the Dolomites in September
@@AndyMumford Me, too! Fingers crossed. And toes.
One of your best videos! Both inspirational and informative!
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Lovely inputs.. thanks for sharing 🙏🏽
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thank you very much for this video. you really helped me.
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Wonderful words of wisdom. Thank you. :)
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Una maravilla sus videos, felicidades
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Thank you very much, very useful information
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This is pure gold! Man I love your videos. I hope someday I’ll be able to join one of your workshops.
Thanks so much for the comment, really glad you enjoyed it. Hope to see you on a workshop someday
Great video, Andy!
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Lots of people talk about photography on UA-cam, but rare are the one giving real and sound advices on how to envision the photographic process.
I've just discovered your channel with this video and will dig into it, but those 3 advices are by far the most valuable content for every photographer out there.
Thanks a lot 😉
Thanks so much for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video and I hope you enjoy the channel
Thank you for this interesting video and those words of wisdom. I'll try to do so the next time I'm in the nature.
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Brilliant stuff Andy ! just stumbled across your channel by accident love it mate and keep up the great work, Thanks ! Bob.,
Thanks so much Robert, really glad you're enjoying the channel
Every beginner needs to hear this. Well done 👍
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11:16 - an amazing bit of advice that I always seem to forget.
Haha, yes...me too. :-)
Thank you so much for such an inspirational video Andy! Always a pleasure watching your videos.
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Once again, an excellent video with a fair transparency of experience and best practices, thank you Andy. You deserve success!
Thanks so much for the comment Vincent, much appreciated
Great vid, the point about not overlooking overcast days is something I learnt. I spend a week camping in the rain in Scotland and only bothered taking a few shots. When the film got developed I realised the colours were great - just a different type of lighting,
Thanks so much, really glad you enjoyed it. I had a similar experience in Scotland...2 days when it wasn't raining out of a whole week, but the colours there in the flat cloudy light are fantastic and really fit the mood of the place
This is a great video and your insight is really appreciated. I am enjoying a lot my landscape photography experimenting each sortie, in good and bad weather, normally in the middle of the day and I have got some pictures I am very fond of. You've been most inspirational! Thank you.
Thanks so much for the comment Augusto, really glad you're finding the vides useful
Great message and information for us beginners, really appreciate the advise.
Thanks so much Ross, really glad you found it useful
Thank you so much for your tips Andy! They make so much sense to me. Time goes by and I always agree with what you say. Passion, wisdom, humility, honesty, perspicacity : you got it all! Thanks for sharing with us.
Thanks so much, that's a really lovely comment. Nice to hear that you enjoy the videos
A very interesting and insightful advice. It will help me a lot in the future. Thank you very much Andy.
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Best video I've watched in a long time... Just pure sense and confirming my own thoughts, Thanks.
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Very helpful insights I can relate to and its so great to be reminded of (especially the „gear“ one.. 🙂) Thanks a lot, Andy
Thanks so much for the comment Tom, glad you found it useful
I like the way you teach photography. Keep doing it like that please. Thank you
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THANKYOU...
Welcome
WOW. You just changed my whole thinking regarding the light and using what you are given. Many Thanks and excellent video.
Thanks so much for the comment Martin, glad you found something in the video that made you change your thinking.
thanks for sharing, i think the advice u gave is something money can't buy.
Glad you found it useful :-)
Such great advice. This is the second video I watched from you and both are absolutely packed full of great, valuable advice and such important points. Thank you for that.
Thanks so much Ester, glad you're enjoying the videos
Great video, Andy! Thanks. Arthur Ashe, the ground-breaking black professional tennis player from the 1960's and 70's once said, "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." This quote is my all-time favorite quote by anyone because it seems applicable to so many aspects of life... and I think it works as well for photography.
That's a great quote. Thanks for the comment...glad you enjoyed the video
Dear Andy,
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experiences so that other photographers can develop faster and avoid some mistakes that normally occur. I got to your page from DPreview, and ended up watching several videos. Excellent content and very good advice. Looking forward to watching more videos going forward! All the best from Tokyo!
Thanks so much, that's a really lovely comment and I'm glad you enjoy the videos
thanks a lot!
Thanks for watching
Great tips! Thanks for the reminder to just walk away sometime, or turn around...
Exactly! Sometimes it's happening somewhere else :-) Thanks for the comment
Ver y well said! Greetings from Sweden.
Thanks so much Curt, glad you enjoyed it
You are simply the best Andy, everything you say really resonates with me 😎😎😎
Great content as always
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@@AndyMumford I live in London but I am originally from Tuscany. Are there any places left in the Tuscany workshop you're doing some time in 2022? Thank you
@@alpao74 There are some places left Alex. Drop me an email at andy@andymumford.com and we can take it from there. With YT comments, I receive a lot so in a few days it will be hard to find this again.
Great shots and a very good point often overlooked: you should find a way to work with the conditions however they happen to be. Thanks
Glad you found it useful.
Just found your channel Andy and this is the first video of yours that i have watched... and what a breath of fresh air it was too. virtually every other photographer will only preach the virtues of sunrise and sunset, and that's all very well and good when you do photography for a living, but for most of us its a hobby and our time to participate is limited.
Liked and subscribed, I will start going through your back catalogue.
Thanks so much for the comment Steve, and for the sub too...glad you enjoyed it. Sunrise and sunset are of course great, but not always practical for the reasons that you said. Besides, when you're doing a trip you waste so much time just shooting at the beginning and end of the day, particularly when it's cloudy which means midday is no different to sunset
The first part is just such good advice I feel. I have two toddlers and have been shielding for almost a year due to covid and a health condition. Opportunities to get out and make pictures of anything at all have been few and far between. If I get the opportunity to get out for a few hours on my own I haven't had the luxury of having the light I might want. It has been a real lesson in making the best of what I have, and developing different approaches depending on light and weather. Adaptability must surely be a big tool for creativity. Good stuff.
Thanks so much for the comment, glad you found the video useful. Indeed this last year has been an exercise in flexibility when it comes to photography (well...all things I guess)
I've really started to take an interest in Landscape/Travel Photography. My preferred genres are Macro and Monochrome Documentary. After reviewing several YT Landscape channels, I found yours and I have to say your style, presence, content and down-to-earth advice and insights are a great fit with my style, needs and ambitions. I shoot a Fujifilm X-H1 and I've just ordered a used Fujinon XF16-80mm f4 telephoto lens to complement my XF16MM f2.8, XF60MM F2.4 Macro and Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC DN Contemporary lenses. I look forward to reviewing more of your videos and expanding my Photography Journey. Thank You Andy🙏🙏‼️
Thanks for the comment, really glad you’re enjoying the content. Good luck with you landscape photography journey 😃
Love this, Andy, and I so agree with point 1. Golden/blue hour isn’t anywhere near as important as many suggest.
Thanks for the comment Peter, glad you enjoyed it
@@AndyMumford I enjoy all your videos, Andy, but this one is especially good.
Congrats on getting featured on DpReview - go Mumford's
Awesome name you've got there! Thanks for that, I saw a jump in the views and wondered what it was. I guess I've got DPreview to thank
Great reminders. Wish I’d watched this yesterday before I went out this morning 😄
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Thanks Andy, I was trying to hard on the edit of a photo i took to make it look like one I see months ago, the light was completely different. Now I edit the way the scene and the light was asking for and I’m please with the results. Which I think is the most important. Greetings from Chile! Love your content
Thanks so much for the comment, glad you enjoy the videos
Brilliant video Andy. It's awesome to have a channel where I can get both great landscape photography advice and Fujifilm advice once I get my X-T4 later this year.
Also, your photos are absolutely epic!! Yourself along with Mads Peter Iversen and Michael Shainblum are currently my favourite and most influential landscape photographers.
Keep up the great work 👍
Thanks so much, really glad you enjoy the videos and photos. Have fun with the X-T4, it's a lovely camera
Top advice Andy...certainly rings some bells. Expectation is the biggest one to overcome as this can dictate mood. If you are not in a positive frame of mind from dissatisfaction about the weather or conditions, you will not get a good photo! Forcing the issue also applies to spending considerable time on post when you know in your heart, the shot was not good enough in the first place. Thanks again, great content👍
Great comment Nick, and you're absolutely right about forcing the image in processing....something else I've wasted a lot of time doing. I've done a video before about expectation and think that it's a key thing in photography because it really affects how we view a scene
Thanks for the very motivating statement that on should not just take photos in so called "perfect conditions". Especially for amateur photographers (like myself) who have a normal job and maybe only time for their hobby on the weekend it's usually not possible to re-visit a location multiple times day after day before sunrise to have the perfect golden hour condition.
Thanks for the comment Sebastian, glad you found it useful
Wholeheartedly agreeing. Those three crucial advices corresponds to three, kind of, separate dimensions of our photographic practices. I’d like to add a fourth, if it’s not too rude: Know thyself. We should ask ourselves: What’s my agenda? Convey pure beauty? Or, additionally perhaps, send a message of some sort about the world to the world? That’s where studying the masters comes in handy. Learning the difference between, say, Robert Adams and Ansel Adams is to evolve and to learn about ourselves as photographers and human beings.
That's a great comment. I've actually talked a little about some of these issues in other videos, the why's of landscape photography
@@AndyMumford thanks for your reply, and just let me say that I enjoy your videos immensely. I’ve been in this game for many decades, as pro and amateur, and I’m still very much in love with the medium. And your videos only add wood to that fire. Nice to see that you’re returning to Lofoten soon. I live in Narvik, not that far away.
Really great advice. I wish I could give it two thumbs up. Lovely photos too. :-)
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it
the post processing on your shots is really stunning. remote workshop idea ;)
Thanks so much 🙏
2:45 "Overcome that disappointment, because disappointment can distract you." That is so true. It's so easy to compare the day outside with the day we see on a tourist postcard, but that's the laziness we need to overcome. I live in San Francisco, a famously beautiful city with famously bleak weather. So often, I'll commute to work in dazzling, dappled sunshine, but when my day off comes round and I head out, it will be foggy and dull. I need to remember your advice more.
Also, there's a quote by American comic Jerry Seinfeld that goes something like "I fell in love with the work, and the work saved me from my celebrity." If we don't learn to love the knobs, the clicks, the fresh air, the waiting, the tourists, the Photoshop layers, we will eventually hate this expensive hobby. Because only a few photos in 100 are worthwhile on their own, and the rest have to be the byproducts of enjoyment.
That's a really good comment, thanks for that. Glad you enjoyed the video
Your superb message: Be. Do. Have.
👍😎👍
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Hi Andy! I had to pause the video and come here to comment that "There is always a way of making any image that's going to work" is a quote that I will take with me forever! Thank you lots for your content! I'm obsessed with your UA-cam channel! Your Salar de Uyuni picture is incredible! I spent some seconds trying to figure out what was going on there with that "lava"
Thanks so much for the comment Claudio, really glad you found the video useful
@@AndyMumford absolutely! I'm taking valuable lessons from your videos! I hope someday I will be able to attend one of your workshops!
Cheers and thank you one more time!
Just found your videos recently. Found your video on Fuji camera system. Went on to watch other videos you have made wish I would have found your Chanel sooner. Great photos and amazing information you provide. Would love to see some tutorials or on location videos. Keep up the amazing work
Thanks so much for the comment, glad you enjoyed the videos. I plan to be doing quite a lot of location videos this year, and there are already quite a few on my channel.
Tre Cime ua-cam.com/video/xtBqY_EzB50/v-deo.html
Haifoss waterfall ua-cam.com/video/KwLNx25PTkI/v-deo.html
Iceland volcano ua-cam.com/video/BSfB-KxqpH8/v-deo.html
@@AndyMumford fantastic I’m going to watch them. Thank you very much!
@@AndyMumford also maybe some vlog style? Like commentary as your shooting. What your looking for. Camera settings. Ect
I appreciate your videos that convey value and not try to sell like the 99.99% of people on UA-cam do. Your channel and that of Dave Morrow are the only ones I personally follow because you're just being honest. Thank you, Andy and keep going :) I wish you would do some infield videos too.
Thanks so much, really glad you enjoy the videos. I planned to do a lot of infield videos this year but COVID ruined my travel plans. Hopefully I'll be able to get away in the summer though and I've got some videos from Norway, Iceland and the Dolomites planned
thanks Andy - your videos always calm me down after all the bombardment I get with new gear on the market. As I always so to myself when tempted to upgrade my gear: "When you're as good as Andy, then consider new gear..." and that will probably never happen :-)
Haha, thanks for the comment Seth, it's a lovely thing to say.
true. still rocking my EOS M and various lenses & adapters & converters & filters. Not considering of updating to the new stuff with HDR and so on because it has Magic Lantern and I can do all of them either in camera or at post processing.
If it's still working then keep using it
@@AndyMumford Have 3, one for IR RAW Video, one for IR Photo, and another for RGB HDR RAW photos :) In my experience, Canon's tend to last a lot longer than manufacturer claims. Their battery life sucks so I had to improvise "years" ago though. www.deviantart.com/weraqs/art/EOS-M-HomeMade-BatteryPack-381655093 continuum also gallery. Nothing fancy.
The segment, "It’s Not About The Light," is most fitting. I am about to venture to the jungle of South America and is researching how to get the "best images in bright day light," since I don't think my tour will wait around for golden hour, you can imagine how appropriate this topic is. Always interesting, inspirational, thank AM.
Thanks so much for the comment Rick, glad you found the video useful. Shooting in the rainforest the canopy should be quite thick which removes a lot of the harsh contrast, and of course if its cloud forest it will be wonderful. The thing is to just lean into it. A few years ago I did the photos for a guide book to beaches in my area and when i started I shot them in the golden hour, but pretty soon realised that the images didn't give an accurate impression of the beaches. Most people who got the guide book would be going there in the middle of bright sunny days, so instead I started shooting all the images in the middle of the, and after a few sessions I stared to realise that there was lots you could do with that kind of light.
I'm out hiking most weeks now (I'll be out again tomorrow) and usually in the middle of the day. I shoot loads of images for Instagram stories and they're all brightly lit. There are a few in this video when I was talking about shooting with a phone at 7:42