Thanks so must to all of you who watch and subscribe! I know lots of you have been around for a long time and I really appreciate the support. 100k subscribers, madness! Here's the final image set too: www.jamespopsys.com/storytelling
Congrats James!! I'm really happy for you. I wish you many many more fans and followers. You're definitely the photographer whose videos I would recommend to anyone who's willing to learn about photography in a fun and enjoyable way.
Well done James, for hitting 6 figures and for producing such helpful and informative videos as this one. Also loved the sound snippet around 1:40 that harked back to the glory days of crap UK quiz shows. Had all the hallmarks of a Price is Right product showing session.
For info, My wife has little interest in photography yet she watches your channel alongside me with real enjoyment. It's not just the travel aspect she enjoys but the common sense approach to the art of photography. It's amazing. All these years I have tried to lead her into the light. She has also learned that I am not the only person with many camera bags and a pleading expression when a new lens is mooted. Congratulations on your channel.
James, you, through your YT channel, taught me so much about photography in ways I wouldn't have even thought was possible, all the while having fun! Can't thank you enough! Congrats on 100K, I have no doubt that you'll go way above!
“I’m going to eat Emily’s unbelievable flapjack”. Fnar fnar... Can’t believe you missed the opportunity to look down the lens and pause at that point. 😂 Congratulations on 100k James! Well deserved.
Congratulations on reaching the 100k mark! I have enjoyed your channel for almost 2 years now and I continue to learn from you. Please keep up the good work!
Seriously, wished there was a love button. I thoroughly enjoyed this (as I have so many of yours), but enjoyed the different framework of thinking and curating images during and after a shoot. Thank you Emily for being such a great sport!
I’m so excited to channel the “about, not of” method on my next outing. Thank you for sharing. Been feeling a bit uninspired and uninterested by my own work lately-and I think it’s completely because I’ve defaulted to taking photos “of”
Another great video James and love the story telling set. Congrats on 100k too well deserved. We're relatively new to the channel but you have very quickly become one of our favourites 👍
I loved the final product as well as your thought process on how to tell stories with pictures. Your distinction of "of" vs "about" is pretty eye-opening for me. I will say that on the final set, I felt like the train picture needed Emily in it, either trying to balance on the tracks pretty far down, or standing under the bridge looking out. All the other images had her in it, and without including it in this set, I wouldn't have been able to tell that the train track image was in the same general location. It is a great picture, but that's only one that felt more "of" than "about" to me.
Thanks James, I learned a lot from this video, particularly about curating stories and including stories with stories. And of course congratulations on hitting 100K, what a huge achievement, well done.
Just love the ideas and narratives you add. So descriptive with your thoughts really helps identify the important messages about you photography and hiw to use it to tell stories. Thank you! 😊
I want to watch this whole video right now, but I discovered it at 5:43 AM, so I guess I’ll have to postpone for tomorrow. I always get really excited when I see a new video from you, as someone newish to photography, you’ve been a lifesaver!
What an incredibly useful and interesting video. Thanks so much for this James. I do love storytelling with my photography, and this will definitely help improve my work.
I like your videos but this may be one of my favorites. This is something I have really been thinking on lately and story telling is something I really need to work on. Thanks and keep it up. Have fun in Scotland!
Congratulations on reaching 100k! Well deserved! It's really good seeing your thought process around the types of images you look for when making your story set and then the feedback you gave on why some images were more successful than others and things that would have made them better was perfect. This video will go into my favorites.
My favorite video so far! Been following for a while and really love your videos. This was amazing and really helpful and inspiring. Thank you so much!
James this was a wonderful video. And thank you for including your wife Emily as she completes your story... There’s another fellow on UA-cam that does Jeep videos which I’ve watched for a while. Recently he’s started including his wife, she has her own Jeep channel as well. Not surprisingly the content and quality of his videos has improved. Men need women in our lives to better ourselves.
I really appreciate this, James! I've been working on my storytelling in a photo and I think it's something that you do really well. I appreciate you showing your thought process on this
Congratulations James on your latest UA-cam milestone! I can remember watching your New Zealand videos. Enjoying watching how you've developed your photography channel and of course your sense of humour 🤣. Nice seeing Emily too as she must be a great supporter of your work! Thanks for your continued videos during lockdown. Have a nice weekend everyone.
Well done on the 100k subscribers James, and thanks for your book which arrived this week. I think the new format you have gone for with volume 2 works well.
Love your videos, I think watched almost everyone and congratulations to 100,000 subscribers! Luminar is a really cool program, has luminar 3 and will be upgrading eventually. Thanks again for your videos and tips. 🙂
Congrats on 100k James! Congrats to the winners too. Seeing the Luminar creations was interesting. Trying it out was a fun experience outside my normal routine.
Good thought provoking video. Received your book yesterday, so spent a relaxing hour this afternoon thumbing through and travelling in your footsteps. Great little album of shots and memories. I hope you'll have enough material this year to produce another one next year.
Another way to think about your central thesis (take a photo that's about something, not of something) is to shoot photos that a viewer will use to imagine their own story. Seeing or hearing someone else's story can be interesting. Imagining your own story is riveting. If your photo gets a viewer to invent their own story with your image, they're coming as close to stepping into it as is possible. Ever since I first heard you articulate the idea of composing pictures that are ABOUT something, I've found that asking myself whether a viewer will find their own stories in my images gives me new ways to think not only about how I'm composing a shot, but also what I do with it in post.
@@JamesPopsysPhoto Do you mean, why they wear them? It's because flies on the eyes, where they can't swish them away with their tail, and flies crave that salty moistness around there.
Putting some thought in your photography is so much more fun than doing Postcards...telling stories is what it's all about! Congrats on 100K well deserved! 👍💪
Hi James. Enjoyed this one. My photography is primarily about documenting my activity, so I can relate to this a lot and I picked up a couple of useful tips. Enjoying your new book. 🙂
Hi - thanks for sharing, great tips. Specifically the varying distance from the subject. If I'm not mistaken - my impression is that you tend to shoot on continuous mode. If so - doesn't it make your editing process very difficult? - having to go through and filter perhaps around x4 photos compared to whether you were shooting on single mode.
Good video mate , as only a hobby/novice camera boy , looking at pics from the story telling side , this has never really been a thing in my happy snap process , as others posted , my pics have always been " pictures of " , You have given me something to work on and do better (hopefully :) ). Thank you .
New to photography and really enjoy your videos, thank you. I am thinking of buying a Lumix G80 to start with and as I am on a limited budget I would like your advice please. If I were to buy one lens for now for general everyday use, which one should I buy? Would really appreciate your help. Many thanks
Really enjoyed this James, it reminded me of how much I love the Peak District, and the English countryside in general, even if it was a harsh light day! Your videos always make me laugh too, which is much appreciated after a rubbish day! Congratulations on 100K subscribers, you deserve every one of them! Take care, and keep up the great content!
Hey James! Your bracketing tip really does make huge difference. I shoot mostly in aperture priority and set my iso limit around 400. It guarantees me a good image every time
Is there some sort of parachute at 12:19, between the tree tops to the right corner? That little detail makes that image very cool, even inn poor light.
Very interesting to hear how you put a set together, especially the story in story part. And congratulations on finally cracking the 100000! Well deserved! And last but not least your book arrived this week. Very well done and quite inspirational. Take care and stay safe!
I enjoyed that photo series, it really beats down on the fact that you don't need to be traveling the world or somewhere far from home to be telling a story.
I guess they do the same thing in the UK but here in the US, making little books called "zines" are very popular. When I saw your shots, that is what hit me. A series like that in a 20 page or so zine, would cost you $10-$15 dollars here and is a great way to showcase photos as a story. You can add text or not. They also make great remembrances for your kids or your 50th anniversary.
Really have to compliment you on this video, James. Think it's one of your best so far, I was able to pick up some things that I hope to implement in the future. Also congrats on the well deserved 100k! One side note: I found with some of my own sets of images that it really throws me off, when an image has considerably more background blur, than all the others. In your set this would be the close up shot of the flower, which has a "softer" feel to it. All the other images are high in details but the flower shot has only a small percentage of detail and a lot of soft blur. Might be just me, but this really stands out to me.
Morning James - do you use luminar as your main editing workhorse? Can luminar replace lightroom as im getting fed up with Adobe’s subscription platform. Cheers
I mean, disappointed that I didn't win, but the photos that did win are very nice! Congratulations to all the winners! 🙌 And storytelling is something I need to work on myself. Good video, James!
Thanks James a great info video, very useful. I like your comment on harsh light. If that was as harsh as we got in Australia I would be very happy. The difference in lighting is amazing. Hope the toe is ok.
I'm first! How sad am I James ... Love the story telling images. I can't go out and shoot ONE iconic shot, no matter how good it is. I want my money's worth for the effort to get out there. Your photographs have a certain "feel" to them, difficult to describe to anyone else. When I can manage to put my thoughts into words, I'll let you know. Thanks James and Emily.
Loved the video. My in-laws lived in Hathersage for years and I first visited the area as a schoolboy back in the late 1950's. I spent much of my later misspent youth on Stanage and Millstone edges. I know the area very well and the number of potential photo opportunities is incredible. Sadly my attempts to get Luminar (and even pay for it) which I have tried on several occasions have failed. The website just gets stuck and will not do anything. Sad! Looks very impressive, though.
Excellent vid James, you always give extremely useful information that alters my thought process when taking photos. Nice to see Emily again. BTW, there are quite a few fire ant nests in the Peak District, so just watch out!
Congratulations on 100K. This brilliant video shows exactly why you deserve it. Sorry about the toe. You are very brave risking a long walk with that injury. Actually you could photograph it and sell the image via a stock photography agency, if you had the time and patience to do so, for the poor returns on stock photography these days. There is always a demand for medical/injury type stuff and a lot less competition than for landscape photos. And hello to Emily.
For years, I've heard folks say "tell a story with your photos", and didn't really know what they meant. Now I have a much better idea. Include elements of action, or at least elements that suggest action. The more elements like this, the better.
Congrats on the 100,000! It's very rare that I say it's well deserved but it genuinely is and to be honest I am shocked there are not more! I think if you shot Canon, Nikon or Sony there might be a few more 😁
When "telling stories" through images, I've never considered a series of photos. Up until this video, I always treated the term "tells the story" as a buzz word that was overused in youtube videos... alongside "moody", but I've definitely looked at photos as "this is a photo of XYZ" rather than "this is a photo about XYZ". I think Instagram has conditioned me in a way to review photos on their individual merit as I prefer to see my photos laid out in the grid view, and so I haven't been able to view a single photo on an emotional level... so the term "telling stories" up until now has fallen on deaf ears for me. Great video and thanks for opening up new avenues for me in my photography journey.
There must be a LUMIX mental connection because all I’ve been thinking these past few days is that I need to have my photos tell a story. Great video James, thanks for the tips.
serious question when you hit the shutter we hear quite a fast shutter speed and to me that generally says that using a very high ISO is that not the case with what you're doing and if that is the case wouldn't you want the iso to be lower in order to get a better quality picture with out the grain. Or am I all wrong about this
I love the story. In the video you showed three photos of Emily blowing the dandelion. I liked the story they told as a set - first one with an almost complete dandelion, the second more or less half a dandelion and third almost empty dandelion. They show a sequence of events, perhaps display them side by side in order? Anyway, thanks for your videos - love them!
I don't think many of my pictures would tell much of a story to anyone other than me but maybe I can use some of your tips here to change that. Thank you. I was so excited by the fact that you included Emily and 🐑 in the video and pictures that I purchased a few absolutely nothings. My supply of them was running low anyway.
Hi James! I remember asking you about this a couple weeks ago. Thanks for making it, I think this really helps in better understanding in how to "tell a story" =)
Great video, off to try this out today. 😊 ps maybe it was super man who caught your eye when you were eating you flapjacks. And also thank you for keeping me going through this pandemic always look forward to you video and awesome picture. 😊
Out of the five picked for the contest, I saw four of them. And out of those, I pick three of them that James did as well. Maybe I’m watching too much of James’ videos. I’ve been using Luminar for quite awhile. I hope to see James use it some more. Not into paying a monthly fee for editing software or something way over my head to use.
Nice vid, I love the way you make this laid back videos really enjoyable. Now about Luminar I get the tech and what can do and I’m surve in some scenarios it’s helping but generally if there is no mountain in the background why adding one? You will look at a lie not at something honest. Cheers
Thanks so must to all of you who watch and subscribe! I know lots of you have been around for a long time and I really appreciate the support. 100k subscribers, madness!
Here's the final image set too: www.jamespopsys.com/storytelling
great video as always and great photos, i didnt win but i have purchased the luminar as its a handy tool every now and then
Congrats James!! I'm really happy for you. I wish you many many more fans and followers. You're definitely the photographer whose videos I would recommend to anyone who's willing to learn about photography in a fun and enjoyable way.
Well done James, for hitting 6 figures and for producing such helpful and informative videos as this one. Also loved the sound snippet around 1:40 that harked back to the glory days of crap UK quiz shows. Had all the hallmarks of a Price is Right product showing session.
For info, My wife has little interest in photography yet she watches your channel alongside me with real enjoyment. It's not just the travel aspect she enjoys but the common sense approach to the art of photography. It's amazing. All these years I have tried to lead her into the light. She has also learned that I am not the only person with many camera bags and a pleading expression when a new lens is mooted. Congratulations on your channel.
James, you, through your YT channel, taught me so much about photography in ways I wouldn't have even thought was possible, all the while having fun! Can't thank you enough!
Congrats on 100K, I have no doubt that you'll go way above!
Thank you :)
Enjoyed this James... and massively deserve the 100K!!!
Much appreciated Nigel! :)
I’m not a complicated man. I see Emily and I click.
It’s been a while I was not disappointed you two were in fine form here! Congrats on the 100k 🎉
Cheers Ben :)
“I’m going to eat Emily’s unbelievable flapjack”. Fnar fnar... Can’t believe you missed the opportunity to look down the lens and pause at that point. 😂
Congratulations on 100k James! Well deserved.
haha, cheers mate! :)
Congratulations on reaching the 100k mark! I have enjoyed your channel for almost 2 years now and I continue to learn from you. Please keep up the good work!
Thanks so much, it's really appreciated :)
Congrats on 100.000 James and congrats to all the winners. Great work!
Cheers Stefan!
16:19 the composition of the river crossing shot is phenomenal!
Thanks so much :)
Seriously, wished there was a love button. I thoroughly enjoyed this (as I have so many of yours), but enjoyed the different framework of thinking and curating images during and after a shoot. Thank you Emily for being such a great sport!
Thanks Angela, and she is a great sport :)
I’m so excited to channel the “about, not of” method on my next outing. Thank you for sharing. Been feeling a bit uninspired and uninterested by my own work lately-and I think it’s completely because I’ve defaulted to taking photos “of”
Another great video James and love the story telling set. Congrats on 100k too well deserved. We're relatively new to the channel but you have very quickly become one of our favourites 👍
Thanks guys :)
I loved the final product as well as your thought process on how to tell stories with pictures. Your distinction of "of" vs "about" is pretty eye-opening for me. I will say that on the final set, I felt like the train picture needed Emily in it, either trying to balance on the tracks pretty far down, or standing under the bridge looking out. All the other images had her in it, and without including it in this set, I wouldn't have been able to tell that the train track image was in the same general location. It is a great picture, but that's only one that felt more "of" than "about" to me.
Thanks James, I learned a lot from this video, particularly about curating stories and including stories with stories. And of course congratulations on hitting 100K, what a huge achievement, well done.
Much appreciated Chris :)
Just love the ideas and narratives you add. So descriptive with your thoughts really helps identify the important messages about you photography and hiw to use it to tell stories. Thank you! 😊
I want to watch this whole video right now, but I discovered it at 5:43 AM, so I guess I’ll have to postpone for tomorrow. I always get really excited when I see a new video from you, as someone newish to photography, you’ve been a lifesaver!
Cheers Ryan, sleep well :)
What an incredibly useful and interesting video. Thanks so much for this James. I do love storytelling with my photography, and this will definitely help improve my work.
Thanks Paula, great to hear! :)
I like your videos but this may be one of my favorites. This is something I have really been thinking on lately and story telling is something I really need to work on. Thanks and keep it up. Have fun in Scotland!
The final image set is really nice. And your editing style (especially color) conveys the mood perfectly. Congrats on 100K, James! Next stop: 1M.
Thanks Carl :)
Congratulations on reaching 100k! Well deserved!
It's really good seeing your thought process around the types of images you look for when making your story set and then the feedback you gave on why some images were more successful than others and things that would have made them better was perfect. This video will go into my favorites.
Awesome to hear, thanks Carolyne :)
Congrats mate on the 100K! You deserve it so much and you’re my fav youtuber and such an inspiration to me
My favorite video so far! Been following for a while and really love your videos. This was amazing and really helpful and inspiring. Thank you so much!
James this was a wonderful video. And thank you for including your wife Emily as she completes your story... There’s another fellow on UA-cam that does Jeep videos which I’ve watched for a while. Recently he’s started including his wife, she has her own Jeep channel as well. Not surprisingly the content and quality of his videos has improved. Men need women in our lives to better ourselves.
Definitely! :)
I really appreciate this, James! I've been working on my storytelling in a photo and I think it's something that you do really well. I appreciate you showing your thought process on this
Thanks for watching Trenton :)
"I'll shut up before I'm in trouble". I'm willing to bet that was too late.
Correct! :)
Congratulations on reaching 100K, James. It is well deserved, as you put out great content that has helped me considerably. Cheers!
Thanks Stephen :)
Congratulations James on your latest UA-cam milestone! I can remember watching your New Zealand videos. Enjoying watching how you've developed your photography channel and of course your sense of humour 🤣. Nice seeing Emily too as she must be a great supporter of your work! Thanks for your continued videos during lockdown. Have a nice weekend everyone.
Thanks so much Lisa, it's much appreciated :)
Congratulations on 100k James - amazing achievement and very well deserved!!
Thanks Neil :)
As a photographer and dental student - I always love his references to Dentistry and cavities.
Well done on the 100k subscribers James, and thanks for your book which arrived this week. I think the new format you have gone for with volume 2 works well.
Thanks so much :)
Love your videos, I think watched almost everyone and congratulations to 100,000 subscribers! Luminar is a really cool program, has luminar 3 and will be upgrading eventually. Thanks again for your videos and tips. 🙂
Congrats on reaching 100k! I enjoyed the video and learned a few things too. Thank you James!
Thanks Gisele :)
"This video is sponsored by Lumi-" : Here we go again...
"Luminar 4!" : Oh...
haha! Gotcha! :)
Congrats on 100k James! Congrats to the winners too.
Seeing the Luminar creations was interesting. Trying it out was a fun experience outside my normal routine.
Cheers Mark :)
Congrats on hitting over 100K James! Enjoyed the video - thank you!
Good thought provoking video. Received your book yesterday, so spent a relaxing hour this afternoon thumbing through and travelling in your footsteps. Great little album of shots and memories. I hope you'll have enough material this year to produce another one next year.
Thanks mate, me too! Might be a little more home centric next year :)
I love the way you edit your images !! Also very good channel, currently binging every video !
You have serious talent to make direct sunlight look good!
Congrats on 100k - well deserved tbh. Great to see you're not divorced!
Another good video on self-curation too. Another thumbs up!
YT is definitely very difficult with a spouse and children.
Cheers Ian, so far so good! :)
Another way to think about your central thesis (take a photo that's about something, not of something) is to shoot photos that a viewer will use to imagine their own story. Seeing or hearing someone else's story can be interesting. Imagining your own story is riveting. If your photo gets a viewer to invent their own story with your image, they're coming as close to stepping into it as is possible. Ever since I first heard you articulate the idea of composing pictures that are ABOUT something, I've found that asking myself whether a viewer will find their own stories in my images gives me new ways to think not only about how I'm composing a shot, but also what I do with it in post.
Great thoughts John, super useful! :)
Particularly impressed by the horse's Mexican Wrestling mask
Haha, no idea what that was about... :)
@@JamesPopsysPhoto Nachoooooooooooo!
@@JamesPopsysPhoto Do you mean, why they wear them? It's because flies on the eyes, where they can't swish them away with their tail, and flies crave that salty moistness around there.
@@JROwensPhotos -- that's a good explanation. I thought the owner was protecting the horse's skin from the "harsh" sunlight... 😉🐴 or Corvid 😷
Putting some thought in your photography is so much more fun than doing Postcards...telling stories is what it's all about! Congrats on 100K well deserved! 👍💪
Thanks so much :)
Hi James. Enjoyed this one. My photography is primarily about documenting my activity, so I can relate to this a lot and I picked up a couple of useful tips.
Enjoying your new book. 🙂
Cheers Kenny! Much appreciated :)
Hi - thanks for sharing, great tips. Specifically the varying distance from the subject.
If I'm not mistaken - my impression is that you tend to shoot on continuous mode. If so - doesn't it make your editing process very difficult? - having to go through and filter perhaps around x4 photos compared to whether you were shooting on single mode.
Good video mate , as only a hobby/novice camera boy , looking at pics from the story telling side , this has never really been a thing in my happy snap process , as others posted , my pics have always been " pictures of " ,
You have given me something to work on and do better (hopefully :) ).
Thank you .
New to photography and really enjoy your videos, thank you. I am thinking of buying a Lumix G80 to start with and as I am on a limited budget I would like your advice please. If I were to buy one lens for now for general everyday use, which one should I buy? Would really appreciate your help. Many thanks
Really enjoyed this James, it reminded me of how much I love the Peak District, and the English countryside in general, even if it was a harsh light day! Your videos always make me laugh too, which is much appreciated after a rubbish day! Congratulations on 100K subscribers, you deserve every one of them! Take care, and keep up the great content!
Thanks so much Andy :)
Hey James! Your bracketing tip really does make huge difference. I shoot mostly in aperture priority and set my iso limit around 400. It guarantees me a good image every time
Awesome to hear mate :)
Is there some sort of parachute at 12:19, between the tree tops to the right corner? That little detail makes that image very cool, even inn poor light.
Oooh I'll have to check!
Nice one James, good to see you out and enjoying yourself in that beautiful countryside.
Very interesting to hear how you put a set together, especially the story in story part. And congratulations on finally cracking the 100000! Well deserved! And last but not least your book arrived this week. Very well done and quite inspirational. Take care and stay safe!
Thanks so much Juergen :)
Congrats on the 100k , well deserved James!! Received you book yesterday, thanks for that 👍👍
Thanks so much :)
Congrats James 100k is well deserved!
I enjoyed that photo series, it really beats down on the fact that you don't need to be traveling the world or somewhere far from home to be telling a story.
I guess they do the same thing in the UK but here in the US, making little books called "zines" are very popular. When I saw your shots, that is what hit me. A series like that in a 20 page or so zine, would cost you $10-$15 dollars here and is a great way to showcase photos as a story. You can add text or not. They also make great remembrances for your kids or your 50th anniversary.
Really have to compliment you on this video, James. Think it's one of your best so far, I was able to pick up some things that I hope to implement in the future. Also congrats on the well deserved 100k!
One side note: I found with some of my own sets of images that it really throws me off, when an image has considerably more background blur, than all the others. In your set this would be the close up shot of the flower, which has a "softer" feel to it. All the other images are high in details but the flower shot has only a small percentage of detail and a lot of soft blur. Might be just me, but this really stands out to me.
Thanks mate, and interesting perspective - I've never thought of that before. Personally I don't mind it but I'm sure you're not alone :)
100K?! Daamn, sir mister James Popsys! Congrats, well deserved my friend!
Thanks buddy! Hope to catch up soon! Miss ya :)
Morning James - do you use luminar as your main editing workhorse? Can luminar replace lightroom as im getting fed up with Adobe’s subscription platform. Cheers
One of my fave videos of yours and super helpful for a beginner like me
Definitely what I needed to watch! Thanks James... oh and congrats on 100k 😱👍🏻
Thanks mate :)
Awesome videos man! Watched a lot of your stuff recently and been very helpful, keep up the vlogs!! 🤟🏻
Congrats to 100k subs James, You've earned it for sure. Keep on going please.
Thanks so much, and will do :)
Just found your channel and it’s a keeper. Your hilarious and like your work.
"Relaxing music ?? "
Really ?!! I was watching this in my shed and it felt like I was trapped in a lift.
Haha!
Lol
I mean, disappointed that I didn't win, but the photos that did win are very nice! Congratulations to all the winners! 🙌 And storytelling is something I need to work on myself. Good video, James!
12:18 Is there a parachute in this photo?
Thanks James a great info video, very useful. I like your comment on harsh light. If that was as harsh as we got in Australia I would be very happy. The difference in lighting is amazing. Hope the toe is ok.
Thanks Donald, I remember the eye-blazing Aussie light well from my time living in Sydney :)
I'm first! How sad am I James ... Love the story telling images. I can't go out and shoot ONE iconic shot, no matter how good it is. I want my money's worth for the effort to get out there. Your photographs have a certain "feel" to them, difficult to describe to anyone else. When I can manage to put my thoughts into words, I'll let you know. Thanks James and Emily.
Thanks so much Steve, thoroughly appreciated :)
Nice video! Question - In the UK, are you free to walk through private/fenced fields or are restricted to stick to defined trails?
The shot of Emily smelling the flower is wonderful.
Loved the video. My in-laws lived in Hathersage for years and I first visited the area as a schoolboy back in the late 1950's. I spent much of my later misspent youth on Stanage and Millstone edges. I know the area very well and the number of potential photo opportunities is incredible. Sadly my attempts to get Luminar (and even pay for it) which I have tried on several occasions have failed. The website just gets stuck and will not do anything. Sad! Looks very impressive, though.
Excellent vid James, you always give extremely useful information that alters my thought process when taking photos. Nice to see Emily again. BTW, there are quite a few fire ant nests in the Peak District, so just watch out!
Thanks so much Claire :)
Flowers, things of that nature... Nailed it LOL :)
Really enjoyed this one James and great to see Emily again.
Thanks Elyse :)
Congratulations on 100K. This brilliant video shows exactly why you deserve it. Sorry about the toe. You are very brave risking a long walk with that injury. Actually you could photograph it and sell the image via a stock photography agency, if you had the time and patience to do so, for the poor returns on stock photography these days. There is always a demand for medical/injury type stuff and a lot less competition than for landscape photos. And hello to Emily.
Thanks Wendy! And good thinking :) Thankfully the heeling is well under way!!
Hi Wendy :)
For years, I've heard folks say "tell a story with your photos", and didn't really know what they meant. Now I have a much better idea. Include elements of action, or at least elements that suggest action. The more elements like this, the better.
Cool video, good to see you working with Emily. My take away from this is not to take pictures of ants that are social distancing.
Correct! Cheers Billy :)
Congrats on the 100,000! It's very rare that I say it's well deserved but it genuinely is and to be honest I am shocked there are not more! I think if you shot Canon, Nikon or Sony there might be a few more 😁
Thanks Joe :)
@@JamesPopsysPhoto No worries! Honestly your material for videos is inspiring. You manage to make a topic out of every video which is awesome.
Loved this video Jimmy! Great to see Em back on the bid screen too!
Congratulations on the 100K James. Great work as always 👍
Thanks so much mate :)
I'm not sure if I'm here for the great tutorial or one of the best dry sense of humours on the planet, but I'm here! Great as always James!
Much appreciated Jim, either way :)
Congrats on the 100k, James! Well-deserved. Here's to many more sheep, likes, and subscribers on your channel 😎
When "telling stories" through images, I've never considered a series of photos. Up until this video, I always treated the term "tells the story" as a buzz word that was overused in youtube videos... alongside "moody", but I've definitely looked at photos as "this is a photo of XYZ" rather than "this is a photo about XYZ".
I think Instagram has conditioned me in a way to review photos on their individual merit as I prefer to see my photos laid out in the grid view, and so I haven't been able to view a single photo on an emotional level... so the term "telling stories" up until now has fallen on deaf ears for me.
Great video and thanks for opening up new avenues for me in my photography journey.
Great to hear Clayton, and thanks! :)
Congrats to 100k!
Well deserved 💪🏼
Thanks Thommy :)
Congratulations for the 100k! Well deserved 👍🏼
Thanks Stefan :)
There must be a LUMIX mental connection because all I’ve been thinking these past few days is that I need to have my photos tell a story. Great video James, thanks for the tips.
serious question when you hit the shutter we hear quite a fast shutter speed and to me that generally says that using a very high ISO is that not the case with what you're doing and if that is the case wouldn't you want the iso to be lower in order to get a better quality picture with out the grain. Or am I all wrong about this
It's plenty bright enough for the ISO to be low :)
I love the story. In the video you showed three photos of Emily blowing the dandelion. I liked the story they told as a set - first one with an almost complete dandelion, the second more or less half a dandelion and third almost empty dandelion. They show a sequence of events, perhaps display them side by side in order? Anyway, thanks for your videos - love them!
Thanks for the video, also luminar is great. Maybe not as your only editing tool, but definitely as one in the tool box.
I don't think many of my pictures would tell much of a story to anyone other than me but maybe I can use some of your tips here to change that. Thank you.
I was so excited by the fact that you included Emily and 🐑 in the video and pictures that I purchased a few absolutely nothings. My supply of them was running low anyway.
Thanks so much again my friend :)
Hi James! I remember asking you about this a couple weeks ago. Thanks for making it, I think this really helps in better understanding in how to "tell a story" =)
Awesome, thanks for watching :)
Great video, off to try this out today. 😊 ps maybe it was super man who caught your eye when you were eating you flapjacks. And also thank you for keeping me going through this pandemic always look forward to you video and awesome picture. 😊
Cheers Brett, and good point! Haha!
awesome work! wish if you could manage a project on, "Environmental Portrait" using one focal length like 23mm on fujifilm.
Out of the five picked for the contest, I saw four of them. And out of those, I pick three of them that James did as well. Maybe I’m watching too much of James’ videos. I’ve been using Luminar for quite awhile. I hope to see James use it some more. Not into paying a monthly fee for editing software or something way over my head to use.
Nice vid, I love the way you make this laid back videos really enjoyable. Now about Luminar I get the tech and what can do and I’m surve in some scenarios it’s helping but generally if there is no mountain in the background why adding one? You will look at a lie not at something honest. Cheers
Wonderful video Sir James.
Question. What is the mini tripod that you used in the video?
Thanks Brian, it's called a smallrig, dirt cheap on amazon :)
I love that tune. so TV 60's Break time
Good word. Congrats on the 100k! Appreciate the "proof of life" inclusion of Emily. Stay healthy, stay happy.
Cheers Jay :)
Congratulations on the 100k, James!!
Cheers David :)
Nice work, James. I quite enjoyed this.