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RU-vid has got a bit worse for that sort of thing lately. It's a shame people have to spoil things, isn't it? The latest annoyance are the trolls having fake "conversations" about a certain movie download site. I always report them as spam, and I recommend others do the same.
Every time i see those bike by shots i just imagine him setting it up then going behind the camera 20 ft so he can ride past it, then he stops again and goes back to get his camera
Ditto - 100% what I kept thinking, and credit to him that must be bloody hard work shooting all those B Roll sequences without someone following you as you’re out there (but even then those shots have to be set up at some point). The one where it was a shot of him cycling past on the opposite side of a busy road towards the end there had me thinking - must be a fairly safe neighbourhood to leave a video camera on a tripod and then cycle away and past at that kind of distance without someone stealing your gear! If you’re reading this Tom, would be interested to see you do a video one time where you give a quick explanation of how you plan and execute the video side of your shoots, including these types of shot
Haha, my thoughts are similar. My conditions won't allow me to ride up and down the hill for all those shots. You gotta go back for the gears... that's why my vlog is so boring 🤣
When I took a photography class back in the 1980's we had a project to find the shape of the letters of the alphabet in outdoor objects. Only rule was you couldn't take a picture of a letter, like in a sign. For example, in a parking garage the stairs on the outside were in a "Z" shape. The project is desgined for you to see deeper into normal things. Great video.
In watercolour painting you have a 30 minute exercise. Including drawing. It is designed to stop you overworking the scene and keeping the watercolour loose and ethereal rather than clipped in with sharp edges. It's also to allow the paint to create the scene rather than a replica of the scene. I've wondered if this would help in photography
For me that was probably the most interesting, inspiring and enjoyable video you have created in a long time. I feel like having the exact same problem with living in a boring area and not knowing how to create something with it. Thank you for this and I hope you will do more videos like this.
Yes I agree as well, this was inspiring and made me feel like I can do thisl. Usually when I watch Youtue channels I feel like this is all out reach. This was good though, more like this please.!
I 100% agree to this. After a long long time, this is a video which inspires me to go out and shoot again, too. I am not particularly fond of the results (except the woodland shot), but that's because of my slight aversion black/white shots (sorry). The video however is so genuinely positive , all in all very pleasing and your enthusiasm so contagious that I really am motivated to try out something like that!
Agreed! Even if you live in a not-boring place, seeing the same scenes every day can make photographing it a challenge! I liked the reminder to take time and look at things from new perspectives.
I am with Juergen, I would go as far as to say this is the most interesting and inspiring video I have seen for a long while amongst all the photographers that share on You Tube. Seeing how you create in our real world is so much more interesting and valuable. more please. Brilliant image in the small woods.
"There is nothing worse than a man in the woods talking to his camera" .... LOL .. Mr Heaton, honestly, this video was so so inspiring. I presume most of your subscribers live in "un-interesting" areas, so this video is simply the perfect catalyst to get out there and be creative, no matter where. Loved it
I really enjoyed that, I thought all the images were interesting but I have to say the last was my favorite, I love an old building. I also found it interesting that you didn’t use a tripod. I definitely think Tripods have there place but I find it a bit freeing to hand hold. Thanks for the inspiration. Jason
Fantastic video! Also, totally agree that the faux-oil painting picture is incredible. That, and the amount of b-roll in this was insane. Lord knows I would've gotten bored of the whole rigmarole long before you did.
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I think the most amazing is how you take time to place cameras while you were moving between each shot. Making it like documentary. Just to imagine how to you had to walk the same place 2-3 times just to place a camera and then come on the bike. 😮
I always thought making your images black and white was corny, but after seeing how he used the black and white effect I’m dying to go outside and try it out for myself. What an eye opener!
This was one of the best, most inspiring videos you've done. I think that it's easy to lose the creative element with landscape photography and fall into the trap of just visiting well known locations to reproduce images that have been captured by others. This should act as a reminder to everyone that photography should be a creative pursuit. Hope you do more like this!
Even the first seconds of this video, I already see so much promise. Bit of sunset/sunrise, bad weather and it turns magical. And even if that's not there, bit of magic/imagination/creativity is enough.
This boring video of the boring landscape you live in is yet another very good example of what one needs to do to stay inspired and to keep observing in stead of just shooting about... I really enjoy your video's since they always take the viewer back to the essence of photography.. It's not about expensive gear, not about living in the most photogenic environment, not about post processing.... But all about good observation and getting inspired by the right (or wrong) circumstances. That's what makes me (I hope) an above average photographer.... Thanks, I would like to see more of this, it really helps!
Fair play Thomas, I've been waiting for a photographer to challenge themselves to shoot a boring location, you are the only person I've seen actually do it. I will have to challenge my creativity more when shooting locally, I do shoot a lot locally but often find myself very uninspired compared to when I go off to the national parks. Thanks for the inspiration 👍
16:26 as someone working in environmental ecology and being on fields regularly, farmers only care and worry if you dont greet them. And if the farmer stops just nicely explain what youre doing and what a nice area his fields are at. Nice weather, ah ye the drought is terrible this year, quite early harvest eh? Never ever had a single farmer being aggressive even if we had to walk THROUGH the fields. Great content by the way, glad I found your channel. Greetings from Germany.
@@richardbirger2245 That's more polite than saying they suspect you are a thief, which is what they're actually thinking. Unfortunately they have reason to think that in our society today.
@@FutureChaosTV - poaching is one concern, stealing eggs [from wild birds] is another. I had a farmer come check out what I as doing one day and that was why. Ended up having a long and interesting chat about wildlife and the unusual countryside nearby.
As someone living in East Anglia, I share the same feelings about the wide flat-ish countryside. When you travel to a destination for photography, you are looking for that outstanding image to justify your travel, but if you are exploring by bike or on foot, you find images on the journey. I've explored quite a lot of the local area recently thanks to lockdown and now is the time to explore the wider area. Great inspiration Thomas.
i am so glad you did this video. I am glad that you got to see what us (Normal) photographers have to face because we can't travel for those exquisite landscapes. I wish that I could see you do more videos of this nature.
Yes! This is a great exercise for your skills to see the beauty here and now under your feet and not in a national park halfway across the planet, and the right challenge to show yourself that you are a photographer. There are no masterpieces without boring exercises. Never. Thank you. Great.
Living on the Canadian prairies this video hits home for me. I've been doing photography for a little over a year now and it can be quite challenging to take good photos
The romantic idea of landscape photography is one thing, often as not this is more like the reality for me on most days. Extracting something from nothing is what it's all about. Great video
I'm fortunate enough to have been born, raised, and I've lived my life in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. I'm a wildlife and landscape photographer and I love taking pictures of anything from sunrises, flowers, bears, or bugs....literally anything. I have so many beautiful things just out my back door that it is quite overwhelming at times. That being said, since all these things are so obviously beautiful I think it takes away from my need to be overly created and you just made me super jealous of how creative you are. Well done...I don't get jealous often
I love these kind of videos. You’ve captured everything that I’m about as a photographer. As much as I’d like to concentrate on landscapes but at the end of the day, I call myself a photographer of things! Thoroughly enjoyed your video 👍
Everything you say is bang on mate, wish I'd found your channel sooner. I didn't have the money for a train out of the area most times so I always shot my run-down area where I grew up. 13 years, a million good times and all kinds of friends out of nowhere - they can keep their canyons and lighthouses, my doorstep was magical. So encouraging!
This is what it's like round my way, and I don't drive. Really been getting to me lately. Thank you so much for posting this. I feel inspired for the first time in a long while.
I just finished photo school a couple of weeks back and there is this gut tearing fear that I'll lose my momentum. Luckily, I found another human in my class who feels the same and now we're going out on photo walks at the same time we met for class. We choose a suburb. Pootle about. Pointing. Shooting. Talking. It's not something either of us would have time to do alone. It also really helps us LOOK when we're out - it might be a 'boring' area but walking together we see more and take better photos because we are constantly talking about what we see. It's bloody wonderful. It's a great approach to familiar places that have lost their inspiration.
I absolutely love image 9 with the clouds and telegraph pole. This is probably my favourite image of the lot. I absolutely loved this video. Your excitement is infectious and you make me want to try and repeat this challenge myself in my area. The filming of this is incredible. Keep it up and would love to see some more videos set up with challenges like this.
I am very introverted and discreet, which means I usually bring around only my smartphone to take photos with and I stick to my city and the immediate countryside. The photos you took in this video pretty much resemble the stuff I go for during my bike photo trips, especially the 1:1s. Whatching this stuff almost looked like an actor mimicking my landscape routine, which felt incredibly relatable
This is a very good exercise for anybody who is into visual art! I am not really taking photos nowadays but I am painting...well, not much different at the end. The complaints for not having brilliant ideas to paint or beautiful landscapes to take pictures of...it is something we have in our "lazy" minds.
Just stumbled upon this vid, and I just want to say it's content like this that does the most for the normal everyday person trying to find inspiration.
"Avoid like the plague." Too soon? LOL "Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual." - Edward Weston A favorite quote of mine from a true master.
11:12 sets up camera, rides up to gate, gets off bike, pushes handlebars through, cuts camera and moves it to the other side of the gate, continue pushing bike through. It's the little things, that were a pain to shoot, that make your visual stories so good.
Oh Thomas, calling a barley field wheat or corn......apart from that, I live in the middle of plane farm lands in eastern Hungary, and having a bike ride like that is what I have been imagining myself, now that the sunflowers starting to bloom and the harvest started on the barley, wheat and rapeseed fields. I usually wish we had some lavender fields around for some interesting scenes, or that I had a drone, because the flat always looks better from above. I loved the woodland image, that looked like an oil painting. Any more bike ride videos planned?
The crop is barley. Hopefully, it'll end up in a cold, refreshing pint of beer one day ;) Very photogenic especially when it is bathing in a warm light of the setting sun.
@@Catap That’s interesting, up here in Sweden it is called “Korn”! Anyway, I was surprised to see it has matured so early into the season over there. It will not be harvested until September over here. That’s what it like to be living on northerly latitudes, I guess!
Thank you for this video. I’ve been in such a funk with my photography since summer got here in Georgia, USA. Watching this really got the spokes spinning again.
Great idea, I have done a 10x 10 meter macro challenge before and stayed in that location for an hour. One thing to be careful if Is be careful of electric fences. I found one when I lent forward to get a picture of a horse 😂
I come from a part in Germany that was almost completely destroyed by the war. There are big cities around me, but they all are more than a hour by train. The land is flat, even the forests are little patches and mostly very man-made or kept. A lot of fields. The architecture is less than charming or characteristic, most houses are made of the same material and build after the 1960s or modern, but pretty cheap. I can see the charm in almost everything in this video. For my studies I moved more to the south next to Luxembourg and it is stunning over there. But I gotta say, there are some parts of where I come from that I can’t see sparking joy like ever
I think as a viewer you are one of the most emotionally inconsistent people I've watched. When you're up we're up and when you are dour, you bring me on that journey as well lol. So I liked the no moaning rule 😉. I know that many vloggers response to that is "well I like to show you the hardships I experience so you can see the honesty in the problems a landscape photographer has". Do I want to see that or, do I want to learn and do so joyfully. And Thomas this vlog is my new favourite vlog. Its just brilliant. The music is amazing the b roll is brilliant but the photography is so relatable. My opinion doesn't matter other than to me. But this vlog sees you happy and that just brings happiness so thank you for sharing.
Loved this 'down to earth' vlog. But when ever I see the b roll and you've set your camera up somewhere that it could be nicked I do keep wondering how it never was.
Thank you. The type of woodland you explored is pretty much all I have available to me. It is refreshing to see a "pro" seek out and explore this type of photography.
Even the most seemingly boring landscape can be beautiful and worth the time. For example: the prairies of Saskatchewan. The miles and miles of wheat fields may seem boring to the passing observer, but when you stop to really look at them, there is beauty there. When the prairie wind blows the through the wheat stocks and the sunlight catches them just right, with the massive blue sky in the background? That's what it's all about. Photography is all about capturing that moment in time, preserving it forever in a visual form, knowing that it can never be repeated again.
The title of this video is the most interesting part about it. I admire the challenge and the mystery of landscape photography. Thank you for sharing this video. I am one of your fans.
I thought my area was boring af but you showed me not so long ago that every area is great and now I started landscape photography again and can't stop because everything is so great
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Not boring at all, it has been one of the most interesting and teachful videos I´ve seen in months. I´m glad you made it. Thanks a lot Thomas. Thousands of likes and for sure one more subscriber
Well, one thing is for sure, your videos are never boring. I truly didn’t think you would come out of this excursion with anything special, but I must say that a few of those images were quite impressive indeed! Very inspirational, Thomas! It’s a pleasure to watch you work.
I shit you not, I once got my portfolio sent to a very famous cuban photographer. I love color so my photographs were 99% in color. She said my work was good and she only gave me one advice: Convert them to black and white. Needless to say her entire work was done in black and white. To this day I laugh at that non sense and hipocresy. F'ing low intelligence level people that can't handle color in their pictures and need black and white to focus their attention on a subject. Sadly, minds that see beauty and poetry in color are very few so I'm destined to be poor and uncknown because I refuse on doing black and white just because it looks more "fine artsy"...
@@TheGoodContent37 feels bad man! I love colours as well, I like to isolate certain colours and desaturate the others but not completely cancel them. I don't really mind people using black and white as long as they do it intentionally and not afterwards because they prefer the clean look over the colour mess. For me black and white is more about isolating clean subjects and light them in a specific way but only to draw attention to the one important, storytelling thing in the picture. They intend to give a fraction of reality in order to high lite one specific topic or subject but without creating emotions. In my opinion its a very "subjective" way of photography.
Thanks for the video. I had lost my motivation for photography. Got interested in cooking which worked out well with a collection of over 300 recipes. This video took me back to what I remember when I started in photography, being that kid in a candy store that was filled with wonder. The ability to see the little things
Many thanks Tom for an epic.....simple video that shows you don't have to travel far to catch a great picture or 10. Great perspective and change from the usual. Brilliant.
The shot of the bike leaning against the bench in the middle of the video is one of my favorites in the video. I love that you had it in there as Broll and not as a still image
7:37 - This is really interesting. I often find myself driving to a location and likely flying past dozens if not hundreds of potential images along the way. One of the things I love most about this video is that you rode a bike for your journey. Slowing down allows us a different perspective and helps us create images in our minds as we physically transport ourselves through our subjects. Thank you for putting this video together! I'm now inspired to take my bike out next time and just see what I can shoot within a 10-15 mile radius around my house rather than feel the need to drive 2+ hours for an image. Also, an added bonus of getting a little exercise on the bike!
Thomas. I stopped photography years ago. It was a hobby but I was selling also. I live on a beautiful Island in the North Sea, like you, but somehow it can be dull. Mainly because I live a small life. Me and my wife do our walks every day, and gardening, but no big life here. So I got stuck with what you are saying. Nothing big gets in front of my lens. I want to thank you. Dispite all my knowledge and experince I lost track of what is most important. That what is right in front of you. I am back on it again and refound my goal in life. Needed that after falling ill with (treatable) leukemia. Got me living by the day (but cheerful). Cheers mate. I am off to the attic, searching for my camera-backpack! I send you all my love.
My favorite video yet! Having grown up amidst wide open farms and small sections of woods which may not be epic locations, but when you pay attention, you can find amazing scenes.
Interesting perspective on landscape photography! You've highlighted a common challenge many photographers face. To expand on this idea, consider exploring how creativity can transform 'boring' locations into captivating images. You might want to discuss techniques like finding unique angles, playing with light and shadows, or focusing on small details. Additionally, sharing examples of stunning photos taken in seemingly mundane places could inspire readers. Keep challenging the notion that great landscape photography requires exotic locations!
Very good topic to cover for some of us. It's a reality check for those living in boring flat places. Just keep trying and have n open mind. I need this to get me going again.
I like this sentiment. While the Ozarks are not really that boring, they still require skill to make look good. I've spent 3ish years exploring here, and I 1) have learned to appreciate and capture unique types of beauty 2) have built technical skills such that whenever I travel I am sooo much better at those locations than I would have been had I waited. If you can't afford to travel, explore your home first. Chances are, there are probably tourists who would love it.
Great video and one that I think will benefit a lot of folks. I know when I started landscape photography years ago I wanted the untouched landscape which meant that I had to travel a couple of hours to get to the mountains. Over time, that became cumbersome and I started to do what you did by looking closer home. I found that the definition of landscape can very well include the human element and various structures. That opened up my possibilities and over time, it changed how I viewed the world. These days, I do much more hand of man landscapes and has brought me to the point where I am more of a decay photographer than a landscape photographer. It all stemmed from the fact that I thought that I was in a boring area and I forced myself to think about the landscape differently. Funny side point, you talked about being out of your comfort zone by shooting these 10 images in a single day while you usually only do a couple at a time. I'm the opposite from you based on how I shoot these days. I'm used to going out for several hours and shooting a dozen scenes or so. However, yesterday I went out for a landscape shoot and only wanted to shoot a single pano composition. When I got done with it, I felt lost like I wasn't done yet. I ended up grabbing a couple more scenes on the way out, but it was that first image that I really loved and I actually remember thinking that this was the way that Tom Heaton shoots regularly. I got it after that session. Thanks for the video.
The worst part must have been filming yourself riding away and having to go back for the camera to then actually ride away. Love this video its the exact issue I had growing up in a very ugly area.
As an immigrant living in the UK, things that are boring for locals are a gold mine for myself. It's all about perspective. UK born and raised photographers are the same people that would go to Italy or Spain for example and photograph a random village but do not see the opportunity in their own backyard. Same principle applies. It was only when I went back to my own country after years that I realised how much of it I had ignored, and ended up regretting not capturing things that are now gone. Photography is about documenting the moment and nothing more. Landscape photography of objectively gorgeous places is boring to me.
No photographer here, but I live in a quite boring place too. No sea also. Sometimes I wish I would've live/born somewhere different. But sometimes I just sit on the grass near the cauliflower (?) field at the back of my house and feel like I'm in a fantasy. Your video surely motivates me to appreciate them more.
Fun video, thanks! It reminds me of Beau Miles, who I'm also a fan of. It reminded me of his video where he runs a marathon, but one mile each hour. One mile per hour, one photo per mile... I like it. You're both finding the adventure or beauty in your own backyard. It's like that getting to know people too. People that might seem boring at first glance become more interesting when you take the time to get to know them better.
I really appreciate this video. I realized the other day that I haven't been taking any photos this year because I'm just bored with what is around me. I did go out on my last day off to my local park and made some portraits of the ducks, swans and squirrels and by the end of my walk I could feel the creative flow again. I also appreciate that you used a kit setup as that is probably what most of your viewers use as we live vicariously through your adventures.
A great video at a time where I needed a little inspirational push. Thanks for reminding us about finding captivating shots just around the corner. My personal favorite: sun dappled wheat field.
My favorites were the last ones...the Monet-esque reflection of trees in water, dappled light on a cornfield, clouds and telegraph pole, building through the trees. Great stuff!
