Great channel Ian. I am launching a new online radio station here in Perth, Western Australia and would love to promote your channel and restream the audio, with your permission. Regards Michael
Great location... beautiful scenery and pictures.. love pictures with some blue sky and scenery.. you provided essential information for beginner photographers.. so thank you for sharing 😁
Thank you Ian, wonderful video again, no sky for me ref the drone shot, now I need to re-consider the EVF settings on my XT1, back into the instruction manual! Thanks for the inspiration buddy!
Hi there Ian. I was not aware of natural live view. I normally have over exposure clipping on and couldn't understand why my photos were turning out underexposed. Now I know! Thanks.
Both drone shots were great, preferred the sky one only because it showed the water the other side of the point, if it had been just land in the background then it would have been the first one. Great use of the swipe gestures to change live view and histograms.
Good instruction. On the drone shots, I was drawn to the distance/perspective of the sky composition. I, too, just received my 30 Day, Vol 1 book and the images are just lovely and with a great variation. Project well done!
Your RGB histogram tip is excellent. Muted colours is something I've struggled with. Despite people saying it's not required I recently bought a grad ND filter. Not gone for the square one as it's too expensive and too much faff. I do ding the grad filter useful in avoiding bracketing. I hate the way brackets produce ghosting when things like trees are moving.
That was an amazingly instructive video - lots of good little tidbits in there. Fantastical explanation of an often overlooked topic (or at least trivialized 🙂) As to the drone shots I muchly prefer the one w/out the sky: it's not the sky that bothers me too much in the other one, but the two beaches kind of have the eye swapping back and forth. The non-sky one has a pleasing swirl to it Thanks very much for the education and sharing such wonderful shots!
Thanks Ian. Loads of very good information in that video and I'm grateful for it. Just need to up my game I think and try harder.I preferred the pic with no sky by the way, although both were great.
Thanks very much for your histogram explanation, one of the better ones that a I've heard. For me, the no-sky image edges out the one with sky, but not by much.
Thanks for this video -- helps me understand how to make the histogram a useful tool -- albeit only one -- in determining good exposures. Watching from the Pacific Northwest while having my morning coffee!
Your comment about how you set the screen is something I've thought about a lot myself. I have the LCD turned up because my old eyes often need it. But, you mentioned something else about the profile and since you're shooting an X-H2 in the video I'm assuming you mean the standard simulation. So, you shoot in Provia but turn down the contrast and saturation? Is that correct? The reason this caught my attention is that you said what I've been trying to figure out. How do I set the screen to look like what my eye sees? I also think about this when it comes to focal length and try to make the image look like what I'm seeing with my eyes when I want that field of view. What a beautiful beach! I hope to visit the UK some day and see first hand the place people like you, Chris Orange and Thomas Heaton show me on my computer!! I think I would choose the image with sky here. Not really because of the sky specifically, but because my eye really likes symmetry. and that central placement of the rocks and cliff pleases my eye more! LOL! I agree with you regarding the importance of shadow detail. I like it. I think it provides more depth to an image whether it's a landscape or a portrait. Thanks for all of the tips Ian. Have a great weekend!
Hi, yes i Have it set to Provia , lift my shadows and reduce my highlights a bit to reduce the contrast, then dial back the colour to make it more natural looking. i guess it depends on what your shooting but that seems to work well for my local area. just dial it in to your taste 👍👍
Ian, I really enjoy your videos. On your final shot of the video was that actually a 2- second shot using an ND filter or did you mean to say a 2 second shot? Thanks
I personally pick the one left without sky. Its more presenting the point of interest in nice framed. However, it might turn out different from Client's perspective. If we give the one with sky they might say our picture is just a mediocore. But if we give just the one without sky the other one of the Client might say "ah its a good photo but it has less information for our purposes,". But if give them more options they or at least some of them might still say "you take too many similar photos, give us lesser with more good quality." 😀
I thought I would prefer 'no sky', but the 'sky' photo is so good... Thank you for the explanation of the histograms and how you use them. Very interesting and informative.
Hi Ian, I'm quite local to you and have explored the Pembrokeshire coastline a fair bit but not come across this location before. Looking at your drone images and a quick google maps search suggests Westdale Bay??
Spot on mate 👍👍 The walk from Watwick bay to Marloes is a cracking walk and well worth a go. Or, you can park in dale and walk directly to west dale bay. 👍👍
Very informative and interesting video Ian. I never completely trust the histogram and like to bracket my exposures if I’m uncertain. Never new about the natural live view thing. Not sure if my xt3 has this function but that’s my next task. Cheers. All the best. Now, where’s that camera.
Great, relaxed videos! I like the NO SKY version more - it does have some tension in it, but that as well makes it more interesting, I think. The SKY version is strongly boosted with the distant bay, and is quite nice as well.
Love your presentation style, Ian, so warm and friendly while also incredibly instructive. Thank you for all the work you put into your channel, it makes your content some of the best out there, in my view. 👍👍👍
I admire your ability to read and adjust the histogram. At this very moment I'm not sure I could effectively make those adjustments on the spot. But afterwards during post processing I use photoscapes to adjust lighting and colors to the original view. Your videos are awesome and enjoyable. Keep up the good work!
I change my default Lightroom settings so when importing the photo it applies the correct picture profile that I was using at the time. This I assumed negated any potential differences in the natural raw file. Would appreciate your thoughts, and I appreciate not everyone uses Lightroom so the natural live view is still very much valid.
Thanks buddy, yes you are right. Natural live will help with challenging scenes though, especially when your highlights and shadows are on the verge of clipping.
