How to Focus YOUR PHOTOS!

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I get asked a lot how I focus my camera for my photos. In this video I explain my process, along with some of the mistakes I see beginners make with choosing apertures and making sure your photos are sharp.
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@MrBigbadbowen 5 лет назад

I agree with you, we, as a community have been pushed more and more towards numbers, have you got enough pixels in your camera? (20Mp? Is that ALL??) Is your DOF small enough (even when theres none to speak of! "M43 just cannot DO dof!") Is your dynamic range big enough? Have we got enough stabilisation in your camera ("only 3 stops? I dont get out of bed for less than 5 stops" ) how big is your iso range? ("Does your camera go up to 256,000 iso? No?? Oh you poor thing!") it just goes on and on, it's getting silly, all it is is just a device for selling more and more units! It wasnt long ago that the Canon 5D mkiii was THE benchmark for pro photographers, with a few more than 20Mp it would be laughed at these days! We have, as an industry lost the artistry in our field, it has become black and white, if your background isn't pristine then you must be an amateur! We MUST MUST MUST move back towards theart of the photo, David Bailey, an icon in the field, in my experience was very rarely what the 'influencers' (God I hate that term!describe as technically correct, but oh my God did he turn out some iconic photos! We must relearn that

@paulbarnard5267 5 лет назад

Diffraction - light trips up when it goes through a small hole a bit like a drunk in a doorway.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Love that! haha

@andrewcurtis59 4 года назад

Yep, it was me

@SamiPaju 3 года назад

Makes perfect sense

@ceaabe 5 лет назад

So I don't worry about focus and eat a delicious cake instead. Thank you!

@zkw100 5 лет назад

ceaabe That’s what I took from it, too.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Nailed it! :)

@wojtekw6040 5 лет назад

After watching this video I know three things for sure: 1. Your photos are getting more and more amazing 2. Cake, just because. 3. You are not Spider-Man ;)))

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

haha, thank you! Spider man I am not...

@pixlheart2369 5 лет назад

this makes me even more interested in the video before watching

@therealjamespickering 4 года назад

I'm a teacher, and I wish I was half as entertaining as you when I don't know what I'm talking about.

@stevemccrory9130 5 лет назад

Thank you for confirming the need for cakes in my life, especially imperfect cakes.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

haha, not all hero's wear capes...

@Dexter101x 5 лет назад

In photography, there are no rules of anything, its just all guides....if people like it, then they like it

@GM8D79 4 года назад

Some people are obsessed and have no idea about photography. Composition was created to provide some kind of guideline as presentation and how something might look better; however like any artist you choose and express yourself. Who cares what other think. It's all about yourself and what you're looking for on that image. You either have a choice to take the photo as you like it.

@tamasd8 5 лет назад

you don't need to have everything in focus, just your subject

@seanmangan2769 4 года назад

"...I could see the tree growing!"...ya made me laugh out loud. 🙃

@yourtallness 5 лет назад

Plot twist: James gets assassinated by a spider at home 😜

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

I'm on borrowed time...

@jshariff786 5 лет назад

As for diffraction: the usual ray tracing diagrams you're used to seeing -- of lenses bringing rays of light down to a focus -- assume that they do so perfectly, so that every point in the scene is mapped to exactly one point in the image plane. That would be ideal, but in reality, light is an electromagnetic wave, which means that it doesn't exactly always propagate in perfectly straight lines the way the ray-tracing diagram suggests. Instead what happens is that light bends around barriers, the way water waves do when passing through an opening. Rays that were initially straight and parallel are instead now spreading out slightly. The upshot of this is that, because of the finite size of the circular aperture, instead of the lens focusing rays from a single point in a scene perfectly down to a single point on the sensor, it focuses them into a circular _area_ on the sensor. I.e. every point in your scene gets smeared out into a circular disc of non-zero size in your focal plane (called an Airy disc). The relationship between the amount of smearing (diffraction) and the size of the aperture is inverse: smaller apertures smear light out into a larger Airy disc**, while larger apertures smear light out into a smaller disc. That's why diffraction is more noticeable at high F-numbers: you've stopped the aperture down to a smaller physical size. Diffraction obviously degrades your resolution -- if every illuminated point in your scene is now a larger disc in your image, obviously these discs will all be overlapping each other, making it more difficult to distinguish two points (e.g. distant objects) as being separate from each other. But diffraction only degrades things noticably if the size of the Airy disc is larger than the size of your pixels. If the Airy disc is smaller than the pixel scale, then obviously the smearing due to diffraction does not matter, because the finite pixel scale is what's limiting the resolution in that case.

@benharris3949 5 лет назад

I was waiting for “where should you focus? On the story”

@jayryia 5 лет назад

My day gets better every damn time you upload a video. Good stuff as usual

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Great to hear, thanks for watching :)

@MatherfuckingKing 5 лет назад

When I'm not sure and even sometimes when I'm sure what aperture works for the landscape shot, I take a few photos with different aperture values. For example of that tree, you can just shoot f4, f5, f8, f11, f13, f22, etc. The tree won't run away and you can just delete the photos you don't like later. Or leave them and maybe you'll change your mind after some time. Digital storage these days is so cheap...

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Sounds bulletproof sir :)

@charlesdolan8194 5 лет назад

Monet's paintings weren't in focus. I think the digital age of cameras has us to worried about focus. I feel that digital is too sharp at times. Too much "focus" on megapixels and on dynamic range. We've forgotten that there's a subject in front of our lens, let's just "focus" on that, and not worry about the technical aspects.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Well said Charles :)

@crispin8888 5 лет назад

Very true. In the good old days, the main issue was film type. Nothing else.

@charlesdolan8194 5 лет назад

@@crispin8888 Very true. I started shooting in the 70's. I was so happy shooting film. Actually getting back into it. Yes, still staying with digital, but leaving the tripod behind, auto ISO, leaving behind the stress of shooting at base ISO. We didn't have IBS in our cameras back then. Today's camera technology has allowed us to forget why we take photographs. It's about the subject in front of us. Not the megapixels, not the autofocus speed, nor the burst speed. It's subject, the story we're trying to convey, an emotion. We drive with fog on our windshield, yet we know where we're going. Leave the megapixels at home, embrace the emotion of the subject. Have fun, shoot at a high iso. I miss pushing Tri-X to 1600. Sorry for the ramble.

@crispin8888 5 лет назад

@@charlesdolan8194 Well the same for me. It was fun. And a 50mm 1.8 lens was good enough. 1/focal length was the 'understood' IBIS.

@crispin8888 5 лет назад

Yes, that's right. 1/focal length, split image focussing and it all worked.

@youngkingpdk381 5 лет назад

I must say james, i LOVE your content! The fact that you put your true self and proccess out there instead of portraying to be another perfect landscape photographer is awesome and very relatable. Much love and blessings from New York City!!!

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Thank you mate :)

@robertnelson3179 5 лет назад

Thanks for focus on focusing. Very practical video for me still working on a style for me you’re thoughts help immensely

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Thanks Robert :)

@markandannette 5 лет назад

So a big ugly cake that is delicious is better than a pretty cake that is not delicious, spiders are going to kill you...... great now I want a big ugly delicious spider cake. Meanwhile I am still debating which aperture to use for a photo of my tree. I love your videos James keep it up.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Haha! Cheers Mark :)

@GeneWaddle 5 лет назад

Of course, all🐑 must be in focus. It's a law, I'm sure. (calls police about out of focus 🐑 on the shelf) (am told they have no jurisdiction in the U.K.)😢

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Please don't tell anyone...

@GeneWaddle 5 лет назад

@@JamesPopsysPhoto Well, okay.

@twotone3070 5 лет назад

That law has always been viewed as a bit woolly to be honest.

@wayneashton 5 лет назад

So if we want delicious shots, we need to jump around with our camera and eat cakes. Got it! Thanks. :D

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Nailed it :)

@Eti1968 5 лет назад

Well James, probably many will wonder about what you are saying, our world is made out of rules. However, although I like my cake in good shape, I fully agree to what you are saying and therefore I did enjoy this video. Would of enjoyed it more if you’d remained among the spiders but nobody is perfect.

@christopherdounis6729 4 года назад

Story and composition is everything... or taste in the cake example. 😁

@evawettergren7492 5 лет назад

First time I visited England I went to a small village, by train... there are cobwebs everywhere in the countryside. Especially around trainstations... I have only visited London since.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

horrible things! :)

@bfbaril 5 лет назад

One of my personal favourite series' of photos is 1/2 out of focus. It's of my puppy and consists of 4 images: In the first, she's looking down at her leash; in the second, she looks at the camera; the third, she's already closed half the distance, ears flopping in the air, out of focus; in the fourth and final image, the frame is 2/3 her face (mostly nose and one eye), completely out of focus. She ran too fast for my autofocus to track. Yeah, they're technically flawed, but the story is adorable. I have yet to have someone comment "Oh, but they're out of focus", but get a lot of "oh my gosh, that's so adorable". I am thus far the only person to have criticized the focus. Oftentimes, flaws are a key part of the story.

@RandomWalker1995 5 лет назад

If you do need to worry about focus in your images , if you do need to make sure that your images be 100% in focus to make sure that they are good , then you are a portrait photographer :')

@lastrebelmedia8683 4 года назад

serious question though: is that surfer dabbing?

@marcom. 5 лет назад

Lovely views from the Peak District at the beginning. Did you film this on your own with a camera drone?

@lylestavast7652 5 лет назад

yeah that was some really nice stuff...

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Yep, the drone :)

@sicilia71 5 лет назад

I love your vids, they're mint!! The fact that you go into "ramble mode" all the time is one of the reasons. You come across as someone trying to explain to friend what's what. The info becomes more memorable...to me anyway. Some of the others (as good & helpful as they are) just feels like a teacher/student scenario. So thanks for all the advice in your videos so far, you've been a big help. Looking forward to more in the future

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

That's so great to hear, thank you :)

@paulosullivan7197 5 лет назад

Love looking back at some of your older pics and learning new things about them!

@lylestavast7652 5 лет назад

F8 and be there. There's a good reason. If you're really picky, and up close, F11. And SHOOT !!! Generally speaking just skip the 2 highest fstops on your lens (like 32 and 22...) and you don't need much concern yourself with the results of diffraction. easy peasy.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Big fan of f8 and be there :) Or f4 for me...

@lylestavast7652 5 лет назад

@@JamesPopsysPhoto If you'll bundle up your kit and send it to me for a few days, I'll confirm and prove that side-by-side with full frame. :P

@kentaaruga4765 5 лет назад

Diffraction or chromatic aberration is when the lens can't focus on light that is on the edges of objects, leaving a blue, green or pink outline.

@ablueslenz 5 лет назад

James Popsys, god I love your humor and smarts about photography. Keep making great images, great content, and great laughs. #inspired

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Thanks so much :)

@chryseass.5143 4 года назад

I try to focus on the thing that caught my interest in the first place!

@roadrunner76b 4 года назад

One of the first images that I took when I got my first dslr, nothing is properly focused and the camera shake is horrible, but it still today gets people saying "I love that one". Now, every time I see it I love that one too..because it tells a story. It took me more than a year before I understood it

@bradzaruba9686 5 лет назад

I just arrived at my hotel in Prague and am pausing video long enough to check for spiders! Ok, I’m back and in focus. This was loaded with information. Back to America on Wednesday to check out the tips.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

haha! Have fun :)

@strictlybeats 5 лет назад

Thanks, James - taking photos of things in landscapes is an important distinction than being a landscape photographer - never really thought about that before, but that's exactly what I do and despite doing it for years, I'd never made that intellectual leap. I thank you.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Cheers mate :)

@lidge1994 Год назад

If you find something to photograph and instead of taking even a single photo, you're just calculating technical aspects of the idea of photographing it, I'm afraid you're not a photographer..you're a mathematician with a camera. Especially if the calculations stop you from even taking the photo like "Not worth it". Dude, my 13yo camera with a 32 gig card can take 3,700 photos, if yours is even 5 years younger, it can probably take 10s of thousands, possibly even 5000 RAWs. How can anything be so horribly bad it's not worth 1/10,000th of your card's capacity, yet you're spending time thinking about it? Take a photo, then decide if you wanna do something different, you have the space! And even if you don't, cards are not that expensive, buy 5 more and just take more photos! Especially as a beginner! I recently went up a hill for some photos, on 6 of the 45 I took are acutally good! And my camera has 3FPS continuous, if it had 120 like the Z8, I'd take 10 times more just in case.

@markryanoklahoma 5 лет назад

Love your videos, humor, and knowledge. Keep em comin!

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Thanks mate :)

@ibarrabenjamin1 5 лет назад

It would be interesting if you and Nigel Danson make a video discussing this subject (including the use of tripod). 😆

@AdhishMajumdar 5 лет назад

The cake analogy works perfectly! Thank you! I am guilty of being obsessed with the settings, but I am trying to get out of it...

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Great to hear Adhish :)

@kazzle101 5 лет назад

In the Peak District the spiders won't kill you. They lay their eggs into your wet shoes which burrow into your feet and cause bunions. This is true, I read it on the internet somewhere.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

ahhhhhhhhh!!!!

@UncompressedWAVmusic 4 года назад

Thanks for the tips. Mega thanks for the many laughs especially the last 2 minutes hilarious. Are you also a comedian?

@wayneberry3453 2 года назад

Love that analogy. People usually get even more lost when I use analogies. But to their defence, it usually ends up something like... "If a dog... Said to an egg who just came home from the office..."

@ashstubbings2603 5 лет назад

James Popsys you are a complete wuss! LOL Those Spider's webs are amazing, as are the spiders that created them! LOL

@peterosborne9802 4 года назад

Hi I've now learned three things, ?. 1/ I rarely use a tripod and that it doesn't mean I cant take good photos. Dispit what so called photographer's in my group think. 2/ it's ok to focus on the subject and not worry if the foreground or background is out. 3/ I'm not the only man who hates spiders, hurrah.

@bassembboustany 3 года назад

You're very right on the matter that pics shouldn't be all in focus. There's this subreddit called r/EarthPorn that keeps popping up on my Reddit feed, and literally all I see are overly edited HDR landscape pictures with everything focus stacked along with some overly-brightened flowers in the foreground or some boring shrub taking 90% of the viewer's attention that really does not deliver anything in terms of story. It's gotten to the point where it's getting stale and drifting more towards the field of digital art than that of photography.

@bubblegumtycoon2983 5 лет назад

37 spiders dislike this video.

@lidge1994 Год назад

There's a huge difference between people who take photos to take photos and those who wait until everything in the frame is by some imaginary book before taking a single photo and leaving. I personally just try different things from different angle on different settings because I don't know what they do yet.

@KanbaruS4n 4 года назад

Those people should use Panasonics amazing Post Focus Feature they'd love it! #paymepanasonic

@freddytrejo3613 2 года назад

2 big fans here inTaylor Tx. the trees changing colors and leaves falling - haha ha your right just take the dam picture. wedding cake - lol

@FerasAwadFilms 3 года назад

Thank you! Subscribed.

@grahamlauder2866 4 года назад

I just can't stop thinking of all the disappointed photogenic Spiders. Perhaps a video on getting images of spiders should be a future project. Therapeutic too!

@tristanrujano Год назад

I have used FF and M43 and it’s nicer to have more things in focus at a lower aperture, than it is the tip of the nose in focus only. And you get more light in

@robertoamezcua7624 5 лет назад

Hello David, I can not believe you got distracted, you covered the wet feet, the cobwebs, the ill parking of your car, I think you were right on focus point. We even covered baking. Love it when you show your photographs as a point of reference. Thanks for another great video.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

haha, thanks Roberto :)

@joeal-ca 5 лет назад

Love your content, your dad Gerard Butler's stuff is pretty good too!

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

haha, I'll take that :)

@danielscottychapman9739 5 месяцев назад

Odd comment, what brand of pants are you wearing when you put on your boots in the beginning of the episode?

@David_Nurse 5 лет назад

Another great video. A sensible approach we all need to take. Well done, and thanks, James.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Thanks David :)

@antonoat 5 лет назад

James what are you on about? Are you saying it doesn't matter if your images are in focus? Seems to be that's what you're saying, I'm baffled. PS cakes is actually good for us !

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

I'm saying the subject needs to be in focus, but not every last pixel all the time :)

@lloydbligh5601 5 лет назад

You should of focussed more on the Spider Webs. A great opportunity missed.

@simon01ize 3 года назад

Just remember though, spiders are really are our friends. They may just not look like it :)

@mad_cat Год назад

6:50 - I see that you're going for the surfer, but I love how the rock and the mountain behind it are basically the same shape.

@ivanosrin2126 3 года назад

Music to my ears - there is hope for me that my shots that are not " tack sharp front to back " may not all be bad .

@lifewithash2081 2 года назад

They weren’t cobwebs. They’re thing caterpillars make

@Comet_ride 2 года назад

I think that was one of your most delicious analogies! Thanks for that

@jaydesimone4297 5 лет назад

You made me laugh. About two weeks ago, I finished work early and decided to go into the woods and find some compositions. Woodland photography is challenging for me, and I wanted to get out and give it a go. After the 5th spider web, with spider, on my legs in 5 minutes, I grabbed a stick and waved it up and down in front of me before I took each step. I easily caught over 100 webs in the 2 hours I was out. The photography lesson I took from the experience was "wait for snowfall."

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

haha!

@Marathon-not-Snickers 5 лет назад

Good sound advice with a sense of humour 😁👍

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Thanks Dave :)

@matafilms 4 года назад

I have a friend who can't be creative if he's not shooting on a full frame camera with an f1.2 lens.

@rosaliebischof1171 5 лет назад

I truly enjoy your videos. I’m at a point where I want my images to be more minimal & moody. I really appreciate your approach on focus, which is the opposite of the in vogue focus stacking.

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Thanks :)

@hukumongdu 5 лет назад

Why am I only finding this guy now! Hilarious and informative

@twotone3070 5 лет назад

You should have focused more on the things that are important? ;)

@MSmith-Photography 5 лет назад

You didn't mention Lumix while you were in the Peak District because...you lost focus. 🤣

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Exactly that, haha!

@sander5086 5 лет назад

Love to get some imperfect cake🎂🎂 As a beginner I did here something that was quiet useful. I do have a crop sensor camera, so if I shoot a landscape at f5.6 the d.o.f will be the same as a full frame f11?

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Depends what crop it is my friend. APS-C is different to M43 for example. Plenty online that explains it in detail though :)

@sander5086 5 лет назад

@@JamesPopsysPhoto I do have a aps-c camera, never heard this before. I will have a look at it!!!!

@DGriffGallery 5 лет назад

Oh yes. All really good points there James. Lost count of the number of times landscape photographers ask me "where to focus"? And when told "on the subject" they look blank and scratch their heads. Kind of forces them to consider if the image actually even HAS a subject, or if it's just a "general scene" - in which case there better be something compelling about it: like light or contrast or mood or why bother!! 😊👍

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Thanks mate, agreed :)

@peterlynn6922 5 лет назад

you could just concentrate on both lol. As he explained he shoots micro two thirds which has double the focal length. the images he showed he shot at f5.6, so that is!! f11 on full frame. So yes!! the same aperture. His f4 is my f8 and so on. I do agree though with what you say

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Nope, full frame equivalent. 👍🏻

@erikyoung2193 5 лет назад

The honestly is perfect! Finally somebody who said it

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Cheers Erik :)

@gerardobambu9021 2 года назад

James : and literally i can see the tree growing lol

@ohad.5890 5 лет назад

I'm not sure thats the good music choice for some sick b roll lol unless you're just sarcastic and dont give a fuck in which case, good job

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Sarcasm is my middle name my friend! :)

@bogfinken 5 лет назад

Why is the fake shutter sound so terribly annoying, please please don't use it !! 🤣🤣🤣

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

Haha, I was thinking of looking for a new one - but I quite like it :)

@tobyjugg6202 5 лет назад

James - stop banging on about 4 thirds of 3 quarters full frame - most of us peasants use crop ( crap ?) DSLR's, so when you talk about f4 on yours it means nowt :) Nah then, wheres that pet tarantula of mine, you'd love him/her posing for you on macro.

@gordonsimpson1020 2 года назад

Lol I can see the tree growing: brilliant

@MoonshineTora 5 лет назад

Lately I saw a black spot on my wall right after waking up. I was hoping it to be a moth - turns out to be a spider that could fill my palm. I needed a small bowl to dispose of it (in an animal friendly way). Regarding diffraction I think (I'm not sure myself) happens with an open aperture. At least I witnessed very hard chromatic aberration and fringing on my 28mm when shooting with f 1.8, but with f 11 it's basically nonexistent. Maybe it's just how this lens works, because I did not witnessed this behaviour with my 50mm - or it's not obvious to me.

@ivanovichbiggenden8996 5 лет назад

James you spent time in Australia where spiders can and do kill , what the.............

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

I know, no idea how I lived there!

@crispin8888 5 лет назад

Let them eat cake !

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

haha!

@volens31 4 года назад

Totally your best ramble yet James 👍😁 Did you know there was a spider sitting on your hat the whole time during this vid?!🕸️🕷️

@jan-martinulvag1953 4 года назад

I have been printing graphics (litho) for artist for 30 years and I have some clue about making pictures and I have taken tons of photos myself to collect images for painting and I never until this year heard about blurred backgrounds....If I have something in the foreground of a photo that I dont want in the photo I dont blur it away , I move my ass to a different location until I like what I see in the viewfinder. I never think about what I see, I FEEL about it

@attilathehamster6774 5 лет назад

I can't believe that you take photos outside, which may or may not be landscapes, and can't abide spiders. Soooooo much so that you filmed this inside. They'll not kill you; not in this country anyway.

@balazsbende4328 5 лет назад

I wish that in all your shots you would be able to have a little text somewhere with the metadata advising shutter speed, ISO, aperture, and focal lengh. The reason being is, that we amateurs are just way too obsessed with the technical aspect because we do not fully understand it yet. Every single time I see videos explaining aperture I wish they would just simply put the metadata next to shots and then explaining is all done.

@StrangelyIronic 3 года назад

What James is talking about when he mentions focusing in on a predictable point or area of focus beforehand is the technique people generally use with full manual focus. I know when I started actually learning (I started with 35 mm film but didn't really dive into it until I got a few medium format Mamiyas) it took me a bit to realize it's often much easier/smarter to focus on the ground to visually see stretch of the depth of field and position the subject within. If I was doing street photography or in other situations where that trick wouldn't work I just relied on the hyper-focal distance scale bit on the lenses mixed with zone focusing. That said, I still use tricks like that today because I still use those Mamiya cameras. Even on my digital cameras I use mostly vintage glass that's all manual. To be honest using manual lenses on mirrorless with solid peaking is beyond easy. It's important to use peaking as a reference point to start from if possible though. Nothing against autofocus, I use it loads on my Nikon Z5 with the FtoZ adapter and my F lenses that have autofocus.

@ive595 5 лет назад

Cake is far more important than focus

@JamesPopsysPhoto 5 лет назад

I concur! :)

@kriddz 2 года назад

just been going through your videos, they are bloody brilliant. I much appreciate them!

@heidecoetzee7353 4 года назад

I will also leave immediately when there are cobwebs. Home I go.... Spiders are my only fear. Love your videos. Heide

@Millie-um2bi 3 года назад

It's much easier to learn photography when you've got a funny and cute person to learn it from. Great video James!

@vladmaterial Год назад

Good analogy with the cake. Great video

@orsopacato 5 лет назад

start to shoot spiders! it will help your "obsession" for them (talking for experience)...

@mikedionr 5 лет назад

Good video. I learned to simply take a bunch of pictures of the subject at different focal lengths and apertures. Especially if the subject isn't moving or alive and won't get pissed at you for taking so long. Just take a bunch of photos and you will be surprised at which photo you will actually like out of the bunch.