Waterfalls & Mushrooms | Stunning Photography Adventure on Vancouver Island!
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2024
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Join my friend Paul Thomson and me as we spend the day photographing a stunning waterfall on the east side of Vancouver Island. The hike into Rosewall Creek is about 5km, and the reward at the end is a truly beautiful waterfall surrounded by lush forest.
In this video, I share some of the thought processes I go through when deciding how to compose my images-what works, what doesn’t, and how I approach the scene creatively. Along the way, I stumble upon an incredible patch of mushrooms that becomes an unexpected highlight for some intimate nature photography.
Come along on this adventure and enjoy the serene beauty of Vancouver Island’s forests and waterfalls!
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Make them as long as they need for you to say what you would like to say! The splashes of fall color were wonderful to see around the waterfall. The mushrooms were my favorite...
Longer, definitely. Tnx for showing us nature's beauty through your intelligent view.
Thanks!
I always enjoy your videos regardless of the length Adam. I think 15 - 20 minutes for videos is ideal for me since I don't always have time to watch when they are first published, but I do eventually get around to viewing yours. Some photographers post 30+ minute videos once a week, and although I do enjoy their work it is next to impossible to keep up the them.
I will watch at any length. :)
I prefer the longer ones personally. I know YT has been pushing shorter over longer form videos but I prefer the depth of understanding you can get from the longer videos
I do like your longer videos. I enjoy listening to your rationale for each shot.
Really nice shots. Like the longer format videos. Cheers.
Longer videos are also great! Do whatever feels right and organic is the best approach I reckon.
I prefer long form content. To be specific 10-30mins long. Something to enjoy sitting down with a cuppa.
longerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!!!!!!!!!!!! We like to hear more about your approach to composition.
We also enjoy your comments about the local nature.
Cheers from Nova Scotia.
Loved the video and length was fine, I appreciate the effort the goes into the making of these. I enjoy listening and watching your thoughtful approaches.
Why do I get the feeling that you've made some funny tea and coffee over the years from certain mushrooms just like I did before 🤪🤪
I concur with others, 15min videos are best. Heck, I'll watch any length vid you put out. We'll keep watching over your shoulder from Philipsburg, MT, USA. Rocky Mountain High! Happy Holidays, Adam!
You asked at the end whether we prefer longer or shorter videos; I like the mix of both. Always a pleasure watching them. Watching your videos along with some other favorite photographers has become a Sunday morning ritual.😊. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for another great video. Found the video slightly on the short side. I must admit I like to immerse myself in your videos as I find them calming, stimulating and interesting. Anything up to 25/30 minutes is fine with me.
I like the short form.. Thanks for posting 👍
Saying that because I can hear everything in one sitting at work. A long form on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee would also be a perfect match 👍
The 5-30 minute range is the sweet spot for me! I learn so much from watching your photography, thanks for all you do.
Long or short - just keep them coming.
Thank you ever so much, Adam, for this beautiful impressions and fotographs! I like your longer videos (some 20 Minutes) very much, because I like to join you on hikes in your beautiful environment. And I like your videos with guests and friends - good entertainment and real fun from time to time. Keep going! I wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and the best of luck for the next year. I think we all need this these days…
My pleasure!
Always a joy to watch. You are very intricate in your setup and composition. Beautiful work Adam
Many thanks!
A great episode. I love your longer, adventure videos, but short or long, they are all great fun, educational, and insightful.
I love the pano of the waterfall! I didn't know that bark harvesting is why the cedar trees look that way, cool info! I don't have a preference for video length, as long as you judge it to be complete, I will watch it. This creative process must be fulfilling for you in order to be the most interesting for viewing to us.
My copy of Land and Light showed up the other day. It's huge! Like, twice as thick as Quiet Light, and larger pages. And gorgeous! I spent nearly an hour with just a quick page-through.
Awesome! Thanks for purchasing a copy
I like both. Your long videos are really immersive and beautiful. This one was short and sweet with a few good pointers to ponder over.
As long as possible I never get bored m8
Enjoyed every second of the video. Long or short, they are all good, forced to choose, I'd choose the long videos, for the simple reason I get more of your mastery!
I love them all. Thanks for sharing.
Appreciate it!
I feel I like longer videos for some reason. You do a lot of work exploring these places and figuring out the compositions. It is very good to know more about your process.
Wonderful location, Adam. Really enjoyed the scenery and comps in this one. As for vlog format, 12 to 20 min is my sweet spot. Anything much longer than that is a bit of a time commitment. Maybe weave in longer videos every once in a while for longer backpacking type trips.
Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind.
I’m easy, make the videos as you think necessary to convey your message, points etc.
Many thanks for sharing your beautiful works. 😊
Absolutely brilliant episode man, your content keeps getting better and better!
I loved the mushrooms! As far as length, I would say around 20 minutes is usually good.
The sound of waterfalls is heaven sent. I'll just sit and listen between shots. Been shooting waterfalls in video at 60fps and then slowing the footage down in post. 🙂I've discovered some amazing mushrooms, always on the lookout for them when in the woods. Sometimes I navigate by compass. I've seen birch trees that were stripped for canoes back in the 1960's.
I just received my copy of "Land and Light." It looks great, and I'm looking forward to reading about each photo. I like the longer videos.
That's awesome to hear! Thanks for your support.
I'm good with videos of up to 30 minutes as long as the content is engaging. I don't think you have a problem with that. Thanks for sharing
Beautiful images. Thanks Adam
Hi Mr. Gibbs. I really enjoy watching your videos, whether short or long. By the way, a very big compliment for your "Land and Light" book, it's a pleasure to leaf through it.
Merry Christmas and greetings from Germany, Gerd.
Just received "Land & Light", what a great companion to Adam's "Quiet Light", highly recommended.
Great thank you
Hello Sir Adam . I received your book several days ago already. Very Beautiful photos and I have to say that the quality of the book is really nice. Pages are really thick and printings awesome…! Well Done
Wish you Happy Christmas Time from Belgium
Peace ✌
Many thanks!
Beautiful pictures and impressions. Greetings from the Bavarian Rhön in Germany
Thanks for visiting
I prefer something in between in length...maybe 13-15 minutes. Vancouver Island is a beautiful place. You are fortunate to lives there. Thanks for the thoughtful videos!
Adam time is quality time so I really enjoy the longer videos, but having said that, if the subject matter just doesn’t call for a long video, that is fine too.
Early ending had me going "what its finished?" another 7-10 mins please!
Hi Adam. I agree with Mitchell - viz: Make your vids the appropriate length for what you have to say. However, for preference with your vids, I like about 20 mins (15-25 mins) because you are a photographer with so much interesting material and things to say. (The same applied to Tom Heaton, providing he's not just spending time making curry and coffee in his van). Both of you can impart so much both visually and in speech. With poorer You-Tubers or lesser photographers on YT, shorter would be great but (aside of TH's food prep) you two do not waste a second of the viewer's time and make fab fascinating and educational progs.
Thank you for all your hard work and brill vids this year. A very happy Crimble to you and Karen and a Healthy 2025 to you both. Cheerio (from UK).
Thank you, Adam. Longer please.
Superbe... Comme toujours ! Et en plus avec la traduction, c'est top pour le Frenchy que je suis !
Beautiful work Adam.
Most definitely longer videos! In your mid stream pencil waterfall image, what distance would your focus point be at f11? Stunning crop.
About a third in
Love your videos!
Always look forward to watching them.
I was at Rosewall Falls in October.
No water was running from the pencil waterfalls, quite disappointed.
I also photographed the big log with the Funghi!
Quite bit of a hike to get there, I only managed to get two photos.
I understand time is valuable in everyone’s lives.
I think 20-30 minutes is a sufficient time I would think for your videos?
I’m curious to know how much time it must take you for the entire process for a 10 minute video?
Your drive to the waterfalls.
Hiking to the waterfalls.
Video recording and photographing the falls.
Then hiking back
Driving home.
Then editing your photos and videos and finally uploading them to the web. Must be lots of work envolved?
I’d have to guess 5-10 hrs of work for a 10 minute video?
Your time is much appreciated Adam, I’m sure many of us enjoy your videos, I know I do!
Depends, but on average three or four days total
18-25 mins is probably the sweet spot for me.
I think history would show that your 20ish min. vids are very popular. At least they are for me.
Always appreciate your video’s. I like the 15-20 min range myself. But at the end of the day if the subject is interesting, length isn’t an issue
Right on
I love the intimacy of the images from the woods and rivers, and this episode especially the mushrooms. As to length, understanding how much work and time is devoted to your videos, I greedily want more! Also, a question about pianos: I shoot APSC, and I know a set of verticals to make a pano might (would) interfere with the continuity of water flow, but hope to try for a higher-resolution final image by segmenting the exposures around the boundaries of various content. Am I overthinking this? Just can’t yet afford a GFX!
The mushroom pano might have been hard to do as a stitched pano. I guess the question is does it matter if you crop the smaller files/ What is the final output? what are you using the photos for? Ver large prints then yes a larger file would be nice but other than that does it really matter?
Great video. Liked the waterfall photos, especially the pano 👍🙂
Depends on what you’re planning on covering. It was a bit shorter but covered all the bases
This seemed to short. I just received my book today. Yeah! Looks great and it is so nicely made. Thanks for the great packaging. No dented corners. :)
Thanks for grabbing a copy!
Such a beautiful woodland and a fairytale waterfall. You are truly blessed. The mushrooms I think were Galerina (very poisonous). Nice to look at, but deadly to eat. I enjoy your slow paced, longer Videos, but it really depends on the content. If you are finished saying everything there was to say, the video ist over.😂
15-20 minutes is pretty good imo
I'm going to watch them whether 10 minutes or 20 minutes or more. I prefer the longer videos but if all you want to cover is done in 10 minutes... well I'm not going to miss one just because it's shorter. I really enjoy longer form content though.
I like the longer videos, but I realize they may take more effort that is not rewarded. Honestly, I'll be watching either way, sort-of hooked at this point ;-) Nice images, BTW. I might have done a vertical panorama of the pencil-thin waterfall with the moss-covered rocks leading up to it. I've been liking my 9x16 images lately. It took some getting use to, but it is growing on me.
Good video. Short videoes, like this one, is OK somtimes, but 15 to 20 minutes is a good length for me.
Bless em all, the long the short and the tall😇
2:30 ish really shows the advantage of loooong legged tripods 🙂 I really really really prefer videos in the 15-23 min range... otherwise I skim through
Always appreciate your videos Adam, but far prefer the longer, more in depth videos where themes can be developed.
8-10 minutes is a video length that I find good.
for me - length all depends on the content (as I'm sure you know) - great images by the way
Awesome mushrooms! 🍄 Love your visits there.
“Long” and “short” are subjective terms. This video was 10 minutes long, I believe your average is 15 - 20 minutes. To me, length depends on the content. The longer it is, the easier to tell a more detailed story. Watching you get to your location with B roll is half the fun, which adds to the length.
Of course, if you’re in a forest of mossy trees you can spread that out for hours! 😅
Longer please. Sometimes I need a good hour to really send me to sleep 😴💤🤣
Definitely prefer longer form videos for your type of content.
I reckon 20-25 mins is best for your regular content. Indeed, would rather have that fortnightly than shorter ones weekly - but then you do have to feed that damn Algorithm !
For the more special events, places collaborations a periodic longer one, say 40 mins can also be good.
Thanks for all the hard work and everything you do 👍😊
Interesting question at the end. I think it depends on how much you have to say. I thought today's video was a perfect length, for what you were saying.
I like a mix. If you have 10 minutes of good on-location photography to show, I'd prefer that over pushing to include another 10-20 minutes of filler. If you have 20-30 minutes of good on-location photography to show, I'd prefer that over you trying to squeeze it down to 10 minutes.
Beautiful photo at 2:09; I really like that composition with the mossy log.
I'll watch your videos whatever the length, but if pressed I have to say I do enjoy a 10min video. I think that's a good length. But like I just read from another commentator, whatever the video calls for is good for me.
15-20 minutes is probably ideal.
Lovely images as always. I generally prefer a longer video, in the 18-25 minute range. Just an FYI, I rarely have any negative thoughts or comments about your work, I am a big fan but I wasn’t a big fan of your pano crops this week. Preferred the full or uncropped versions for the most part.
Hello Adam, it depends on the content and the photos you´ve taken. Videos of 10 Minutes are okay, if there´s less content. Videos of more than 20 or 25 minutes are a little bit long. Please split them into 2 videos. That´s my feedback, but i can accept other solutions too. I´m german 😀Greetings from Bernd
Probably a little longer as I was quite disappointed when it ended suddenly!
Longer form for me 👍
15-19 minutes is my sweet spot, i tend to look at longer as too much of an investment and shorter as not enough substance. That said i did enjoy todays video. Some of my favorites, like yourself, i am going to watch no matter what but ideal 15-19 minutes.
Thanks for the feedback!
I prefer longer videos.
10 mins is fine
I like videos of about twenty minutes.
Great vídeo. Longer
I was left wanting more from this video, but at the same time, I don't like it when videos go 25 min or more. Just my $0.02. Thanks for sharing.
Appreciate the feedback!
I'm sure a Kase polarizer is not a must. A polarizer, yes.
If I want to get paid it’s a must
I prefer longer videos, but I think 12-15 mins is the sweet spot. But I think a mix of the shorter videos could help too. I feel like anyone looking for landscape photography videos would be willing to invest in longer content.
I prefer the 10 to 15 minute range.
Longer please, Adam
Longer please!
Much over 15 minutes, I will usually pass on. That's just me.
It’s entirely your call on the videos length. You seem to be getting it right currently, so if it ain’t broke…
It's not so much the length of the video but rather the storyline. Is it complete? This one seemed to end somewhat abruptly.
Re video duration, 10 to 15 min, perhaps closer to 15 min, once it starts to go 20 minutes plus it starting to gets too long unless it is something outstanding.
Thanks for the feedback!
Longer videos!
longer
length of the videos would depend on the topic. This topic the length was perfect. There is no need to drag out the video for the sake of a longer video unless you have more to say.
Longer please.
Longer
Another great video. For me 15-20 minutes is best - much longer and I am unlikely to watch (there are too many competing demands).
2-3 hrs, 3 days per week. 🤣🤣🤣
It depends on the content and flow of the work. The content being the subject, your Technical skills videos can be longer as long as not dry (boring Professor), practical skills videos outside action how to videos can be shorter with one or two main points/details.