Unique photography locations revealed with honest, philosophical photography advice.
Explore 'God's own county' with Tom Marsh, (aka the Flat Capped Photographer). Along the way he shares unique and inspirational Yorkshire photography locations and a philosophical view on the making of photographs. Watch to improve your photographs skills and become a more thoughtful and confident photographer.
I'm pretty proud of my macro shots but have always struggled with landscape. This mentions a few things I already knew and put them into a bigger context to help make sense of them. Shooting from the ground is my personal favorite. It always gives gorgeous depth.
It's great that you applied the tips in real time to the same location. A lot of tip lists give examples with totally different locations! It's harder to see the effectiveness of the tip if it feels like "go somewhere completely different". Thanks!
This is great advice for hikers. On an unrelated note: Did a hiker advise you to wear this jacket with shorts? They too might know something us simple people don't.
I didn't find the camera shake from moving the tripod distracting at all. In fact, I found it extremely instructive to see the picture transform in the process. I also liked how you broke the process down into different steps. One thing I would have loved to see though are your settings (focus point, aperture, shutter speed, ISO). Though I think you left that out for brevity. Great video!
But isn't it now a photo of a tree, rather than a landscape photo? 🤔😏 More seriously, it's always good to go back to consider basic rules of composition, but newer so much that it takes away the fun from taking pictures.
In landscape pictures, both photos and paintings, I like to have some life in them. Usually a person, but an animal works well too. Doesn't have to be large or the subject of the picture, but some presence of life (that isn't plant life). Preferably someone looking at the landscape, not towards the camera.
Thank you for your video, easy to understand and it's given me lots to think about re composition. You have a lovely presentation style and the photos at the end were beautiful, have subscribed 👍
Summary: 1. What is your subject? 2. Layering (angle low to get foreground, midground, and background) 3. Organising the frame 4. Considering light (best photos during the golden hour) 5. Diversifying
You definitely improved the picture a lot but honestly, if your subject is boring as in this example (no offense to you Yorkies), there's not much you can do to not make it boring. 😅 The opposite is true as well, if your subject is breathtakingly beautiful, there's not much you can do to fuck it up, unless you don't know how to focus or... well... how to push the release... 😅
I like your approach to this subject in this video as well as in the previous one and it brought to my mind a quote from the painter Paul Klee: "Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar." - "Art does not reproduce the visible but makes it visible." It's about our interpretation of the seen, what it means to us and what and how we want to transmit it and share our POV with others. The exception is of course journalism - here things have to be as neutral as even possible.
It is comparable to telling a story. Facts, like pure landscape, don’t make a story. (And, besides, a story still doesn’t make a book.) A story needs an imbalance of some kind to create movement/action for the subject to perform and eventually reach a goal. In a still picture, the captured imbalance (like non-uniform size or dispersion of objects) or ongoing action will create an everlasting perception of suspense as the goal (balance, finished movement, averted stare, adequate viewpoint) is never achieved (contrary to most stories) and thus makes the picture interesting.
Another thing that can help frame your pictures is “The Rule of Thirds” I won’t go into detail here, but it’s basically breaking up the picture into three areas or sections. I’m sure there are multiple sources to find out more about it , but give it a try.
What if I just wanted to put an emphasis on the hills? Or just show the overall impression which was the green empty areas without that tree? What I like in landscapes is the overall look with every hidden fine details. How to achieve that?
For wider landscape shots it usually comes down to light. Using it to create layers of contrast can recreate that sense of depth that a landscape photo ideally needs. I intend to do another video on this topic in the winter, when the light tends to be better for that kind of thing so stay tuned!
Taking photos and have them look good is the same as bring an 3D object into an flat painting. It's most weighting factor is composition. Weighting the 4 clusters (top, bottom, left, right), or having an important object in the middle make the image even, calm and beautiful. Using unconventional colors or effects make contrast. Setting up areas of Golden cut (1 or more) make it beautiful. Think of the faces of houses - they seem beautiful to us, when they have symmetries, like 4 even parts, or 3 parts. Your painting or photo should be build by 2x2, 3x3, 3x4, 4x3, or 4x4 areas.
Great tips! I like your composition. It could perhaps be a bit more interesting with less open space on the left side. If I think of the 9 quadrants, I would perhaps put the tree more on the top left. Subject in / near the center can itself be somewhat boring.
Ok but when you are on a hiking trail usually you have a very limited number of POVs that you can have without being blocked by the trees. Not only that, but finding a object of interest from a trail is just not possible, as usually the landscape is very far over a cliff and you can't get closer to take a better shot.
@@georgeboog7796 It’s not about finding specific objects, more features of the landscape to provide interest and impact. It could be a barn, the vanishing point of a river, a ray of light from between the clouds, the list could go on.
I think you can still apply these tips. They are very broad and although this result does seem to focus more on the tree i would still consider it a landscape. I think if you did exactly the same as he did right here just staying further away, you could get a more "landscapey" picture. Keeping your sort of subject smaller in the frame will make it seem less like the main thing youre trying to depict. I personally would keep it. Layering like he did is a great way to improve any photograph and would most likey work even without a subject. And composing your frame like he did is as well. I believe maybe for your purposes you could move your subject even further to the side, and in combination with it being smaller that might take the focus of it more. To sum it up, his tips can help improve lanscape photography as well, and by applying it a litlle differently you may be able to achieve what you are going for. Hope this helps as i am not a professional
What defines a 'landscape' photo? Does it have to be a wide open vista or can it be a document of an element within the landscape? I think, when it comes to the basics forming a photo around a subject is more accessible and, as you say, more interesting.
I have recently started hiking. Obviously I have also started taking photos during my trips, as a complete begginer and oh boy they look bad. Thank you for those tips, I will surely keep them in mind and put some life into my photos.
