Why I shot just B&W to IMPROVE my PHOTOGRAPHY
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2020
- I am in Snowdonia, Wales shooting some black and white landscapes and talking about the importance of concentrating on one thing when you want to improve your photography.
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Really ignorant question from a beginner here... Is there any advantage to shooting in mono, when you could shoot normally and make it mono in PS or LR later?
Good question!. The advantage is that you will get to visualise the scene and shooting in mono when in RAW keeps the colour data that you then use in LR to process.
@@NigelDanson Ah, Ok. That makes sense now. Thanks for replying, Nigel. I appreciate it.
Love how you make it look yellow filtered, not orange,not red,my first would be red n pola...have you thought?,I left my I.r. filters at home!,Dang!..
I'm my (limited!) experience, what makes a great B&W photo isn't necessarily what makes a great colour photo, so by restricting yourself it'll make you look for what makes the image work with the settings you're using.
It takes colors out of the equation. I've often looked at scenes with great color but then looked in B&W and they just weren't all that good.
Thank you Nigel, your 'one thought' reminder was exactly what I needed at the moment. Also appreciated that you stopped shooting and simply enjoyed the beauty around you.
Your work is greatly appreciated.
It’s all circles, photography started out with B/W only. Now with a simple change of settings we have the choice to use it again.
As for the walls, history of dry stone walls dates back some 3500 years. Mostly in the uplands of the UK, to mark out boarders, fields and control sheep. There are numerous websites that are dedicated to the subject.
Thanks for sharing an amazing part of the country Nigel.
Truly stunning scenery.
Excellent Nigel. Thank you. That pano B+W towards the end was amazing.
Nigel - This may be my favorite of your excellent content on UA-cam. Indeed B&W as a way to view directly in-camera and great for you to commit to B&W for these images as a way to improve your already excellent photography. Also, your filming is next level lately. Thanks for the inspiration.
Great video this week. Really enjoying them 😀. Thank you Nigel.
NICE! Great tips, nice dialogue at a gentle pace, no screaming and puffed up commentary like many other vids. Your drone aerials add to the videos too. Kudos!
Cheers from Montréal.
Nice relaxing video for a Sunday with a coffee. Love that vista in B&W with the dark foreground and sunlit mountain.
Oh so good Nigel. Thanks for bringing us along. Lots of learning!
Great to see you embracing B&W photography Nigel. I find that the simplistic images like your last shot with the moon and those lovely clouds have a timeless quality that will endure long after the appeal of the over-saturated, mega-vista landscapes has faded.
Bloody brilliant!
Looks like endless opportunities for the landscape photographer. Good insight. Rock on!
Brilliant! I love the idea of setting the monochrome target. It does force you to think in a completely different way. Thank you Nigel.
Beautiful landscape ....the walls are amazing. Thanks for the perspective in black and white.
Absolutely breathtaking. Watched it back-to-back, standing in front of the large screen the whole time. Brilliant!!
Excellent, Nigel! I also try to think in b&w when I see beautiful textures! I think it’s more simple to compose.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Love your videos Nigel. Everything you do is so simple to follow. You're fast becoming my favorite landscape photographer :-))
Enjoyed the B&W images. The split image showing exactly what you were seeing in the viewfinder was very helpful. (ie. height of camera and angle of view). Thanks
Really liked this week's vlog, you got some great black and white images 👍
Great video and great challenges. I like the transition of colour video to the B&W part. It was easy to see visually what you were explaining. Amazing place!
Super video. I love shooting landscapes in B&W. Thank you for more inspiration.
Another fantastic video, full of great advice - thanks Nigel!
Any only you to enjoy the view! Thank you again for great information and scenery.
An interesting video, Nigel, thanks.
In the latter 90s I worked in Telford for some months. I should have photographed Snowdonia more, very beautiful landscape.
Great video this week and what a stunning location. I have always struggled with Black and White in the Landscapes. This really helped. 👍
Great nature,love the photos!
Tomorow is myday in mountains😀!
Beautiful images! Love the quote by Peter Adams. Thank you 🙏
I love how in this one you showed video from the photo’s perspective of you setting up the shot and looking at horizontal and vertical, and stepping left or right to get the path at the best angle for the shot. That was very helpful. Please talk through some more shots that way with the video. Very helpful!
That was wonderful to watch. Beautiful shots as always
I can incorporate these insights in my streetphotography video’s as well! Thank you 🙏
You showed us how B&W has it’s place in the photography world. Great job on the photos.
Stunning photos Nigel, keep up the good work.
Nigel, superinspiring approach, and wonderful images. I especially liked the ending - very human point, kudos! :)
What one thing will I practice when out next? Monochrome of course!
This video is so inspiring, the landscape so spectacular and, not least, the video editing between the hand-held, the tripod and the drone is superb.
As you said last week, there's nothing better than being in the mountains on your own. Cheers from DownUnder. 😊
You make me feel in love with photography 🌹thank you very much
Good theme and presentation. My first 35mm camera was bought in 1967 and B&W was much more affordable than color. After getting back into semi-serious photography a couple of years ago I think I subconsciously see in B&W. I feel a composition basis is simply line and light. That can make a good photo, then you can drive yourself mad with the other things to make a great photo.
Stunning.... As a local guy also to these areas, I always see things totally different when I watch your vids, hopefully one day I will see this beautiful countryside half as good as you do, well done 👍
Very nice and inspiring video, Nigel! Snowdonia looks amazing. Thank you!
Over the last year been drawn to Black and White more and moving in a different direction with my photography. That's why I love it, as there no boundaries, just opportunities to try something different
Amazing, I loved all of them.
Thank you for taking such beautiful place !
I love the shots in monochrome!
Fabulous stuff Nigel! Great shots and a great video. The Doom style first person shooter explanation showing composition is really effective. Wonderful stuff!!!! Also good to hear the catch phrase and hear you talking to your drone again😀 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Doom! That was a great network game
Incredibly great views! Thanks for the video Nigel👌🏼
Outstanding presentation and photography. Really needed this on Sunday morning.
Great b+w photography, Nigel, I enjoy it.
A very nicely produced film - and it is always good advice to concentrate on a single aspect of style or imagery when out on a trip, but sometimes harder to maintain and avoid the temptation of reverting back to standard practice - especially with such stunning vistas - but you are correct in saying that there is more learning in this approach and it can be beneficial to progressing skills in the long run.
Great reminder that practicing photography skills is like any other skill....focus deeply on one thing at a time. I've been coming to this realization as a photographer in the last couple of weeks, even though I've done it elsewhere (music, skiing...)!
I'll also definitely be using that great Mozart quote. Hard to argue with that level of genius.
Another excellent video, Nigel! Thank you! I’m hoping to pick up my first macro lens next week after having borrowed one from a friend, so I plan on focusing on macro photography!
I had one of my cameras converted to infrared bnw. I've gotten so used to shooting bnw that I instinctively look for textures, leading lines, contrast, patterns - as you mentioned - that are ideal for bnw.
amazing... shocking storytelling Nigel😳 it is always a pleasure spending times with you and your experiences. Photography as a chance to “live”, properly :)
Amazing work like usual. :)
Thanks for the conversation and the pointers.
Brilliant Nigel
Another great episode. Thank you for sharing.
Very nice Nigel beautiful as always with you. There are so many times, I get excited about what I'm about to shoot, I forget to take a step back and really take in the vistas...like you said put camera away and look at these areas and vistas and enjoy them. Thanks Again Nigel
Literally came to your channel, torn between the b/w and color renderings of some photos. Timely upload! Thanks from Delaware
Thanks Nigel! Your content has helped my photography improve.
Really enjoyed this Nigel. I found it because this year I'm determined to focus on b&w landscape photography and I'm going to be in that area in November.
Thanks for inspiring me!
The entire video is a piece of art 🖼 😍
I enjoy shooting in the B/W mode and save as RAW files. I get the b/w on the screen but wait until later to see what the image looks like in color on my monitor. A little bit of both worlds. Excellent video with some interesting and thoughtful points, thanks.
I find it really hard to see in b&w when I photograph landscapes, but that last pano was really beautiful with all those layers!
Thoroughly enjoyed that thanks some great tips👌✌️
Some gorgeous images. Thank you 👍🏻
fantastic images & vid... very good info, thanks so much! 🙏🏼
Never having visited the UK, I really enjoyed this fantastic video. Thanks for sharing!!!!
Your track as background music are amazing
1:07 standing in the most beautiful landscape "... hoping to get some shots" 😉
ha ha - it is quite spectacular.
Really magnificent scenery and great video as per usual
It can be ever so beautiful standing there but can be a hell to get a good photo of it :)
As you mentioned dry-stone-walling to keep sheep from straying reminded me of a bit of trivia most people probably don't know about.
Until the beginning of the twentieth century farmers used a rhyming counting system to keep track of the numbers of sheep they had, which was particualrly important in the days when flocks were moved between fells for grazing, or before and after shearing, and is thought to go back to the middle ages, although based on an ancient Celtic counting system. There were different dialect variations, mostly in Cumbria and Yorkshire, but also Cornish, and there was also a Welsh variant. The Swaledale version was the subject of a famous, and poignant, song by Jake Thakray in his usual witty and dead-pan manner. The words are in groups of five
Yan (1), tan (2), tether (3), mether (4), pip (5); azer (6), sezar (7), akker (8), conter (9), dick (10); yanadick (11), tanadick (12), tetheradick (13), metheradick (14), bumfit (15); yanabum (16), tanabum (17), tetherabum (18), metherabum (19), jigget (20)
The farmer would place a stone on the ground or put a mark on his crook for each count of twenty (jigget) then start again.
You always find the capture no matter where the location is and that's a skill that can't be taught. For someone who has access to the best landscapes/locations in the world it's so nice to see that little old Snowdonia still get's you exited. I loved all the images in this vlog but the iPhone composition of the wall and style was inspirational.
💯% on🔝 photographer 📸✔
Thanks Daniel - appreciate that
This landscape is so Braveheart. hahahaha Amazing content. Thank you for sharing knowledge.
Many thanks, Nigel .... I really enjoyed this video. As a result of early settlement of Australia by peoples from the British Isles, there are stone walls everywhere .... great for photography :)
Love that whole range - GlyderAu, Glyder Fawr and Glyder Fach are all awesome. I was there three weeks ago. Your shot over to Tryfan looked spectacular. I am assuming you got up to Y Foel Goch or Gallt yr Ogof from Garth. Love the field videos, Nigel. This is why we watch you and this film is of real quality. What is difficult to articulate, and would be especially welcome, is why you are there and what emotion and feelings you take with you and develop whilst in the field. Pushing towards this end of photography would certainly help me to develop these elements into my work. Keep going!! :)
Lovely stuff
Very inspiring!
I'm new to photography but I'm having a blast and your channel without a doubt has been the most helpful. You've really helped me understand how to use some of the editing tools tools, inspire me and provide great things to consider. Plus, I just enjoy how you explain things.
In one of your previous videos you stated that you don't understand why more people aren't "clicking the Bell." It looks like your setting up your content as designated "For Children". This is preventing people from getting enabling the Bell notifications. I don't know why but when content is setup for children some features are disabled. Your content is safe for kids but not really made for kids like Disney or something. When I click on the Bell it informs me that the feature is not allowed because your content is created for children.
Thanks and I hope this helps!
Really dug the direction/editing in this video.
Fantastic views. I must admit black and white does look great sometimes. Thanks for the video. That climb made me out of breath.
"Sometimes it is better to be in nature and savour the moment."
Brilliant
If we're talking B&W landscapes in the modern era there's one name that springs to mind: Thomas Joshua Cooper
Lovely video, nice commentary. Than you.
Wonderful scenery as always. Just don't forget to take a picture of the Milky Way which would be absolutely wonderful.
As ALWAYS, an inspiring (and motivating) video, plus all the amazing images. I'm curious: what technology(ies) do you use to record your live view on your camera? And thanks for all the help!
Awesome
I will be practicing how to use the X-T1 that I just bought! The moon shot is amazing, calendar 2022? Can’t believe we’re on the 8th page of 2020 already.
No - it seems 2020 is surreal
Could never see the interest in shooting in black and white when I have a perfectly good camera that shoots colour, going to give it a go, thanks Nigel
Thanks I really enjoyed that and a great viewpoint of Tryfan up there
For me, B&W is where I go when I feel I’ve “missed” a shot but really want to rescuer it. For some reason B&w is more forgiving. 🌸
wow you just eead my mind
I have to practice focus, my eye sight isn’t what it used to be and I have cheap lenses so I have to be very careful to get it right or I have a soft image. I love Snowdonia and thanks for sharing your visit with us.
Unfortunately a D90 doesn’t have that unless I have missed it! if it does I then I need to read the manual!
Nice shoots end Nice video
Really great. Mostly I shoot in color, then switch to mono in post. More after the fact. But I can see the benefit of going to mono in camera. Did you experiment with any coloured filters, polarizer, etc.
James Popsys and Nigel Danson in Snowdonia in the same weekend? Awesome!
Was he? He was hiding from me
Love the video and shots 👌 Next time I will set my camera in monochrome instead using PS/LR
Going to have to find the camera manual / google how to get a B&W viewfinder picture..
Nigel, Great video as always. You continue to inspire me to go out and shoot. Question: Are you using your Z7 to film the video portions of your posts, or do you carry a separate video camera? I have a D750 and the autofocus tracking in video mode is pretty terrible.
It’s nice to be allowed to walk about and experience the world. Where I live all the land is private with no trespassing signs.
What a wonderfull area to be - I definitely have to go there sometime myself!
As for B&W: I never go out with the intention to shoot in B&W - it Just happens in postprocess. Maybe I should....
Try it 👍🏼
Great video and an amazing location. Just to double check - all your pictures are focus stacks (I think I heard you saying that you took two pictures with different focus...)?
I've been thinking my next camera ought to be the new M Monchrom. This only confirmed the idea. Thanks for the inspiration.
Do check out the DPReview TV review of the M -- they point out because the image is being captured raw in B&W, there's no way do things like darken (what was originally) the blue tones -- a kind of adjustment that is really powerful IMO.
Amazing video Nigel!
Do you also "dodge & burn" the contrast of the areas that you want the eye to be guided? Most times when I see interesting textures and thing this might look great in BW, I find that it can feel quite too busy and sort of don't know how to remedy that and where to start in lightroom.
Stay healthy!
Yes I do. Contrast control is really important in b&w