Split-Toning & Mono Detail Landscape Photography 

Thank you so much, Paul, very kind of you to say 😊👍

Gosh, thanks so much for your very kind feedback, Arthur. Really appreciate it. and I'm so glad you enjoy my work. It makes a lot of hard work very worthwhile when people offer such generous encouragement 😊👍

Cheers mate - wasn't overly sure about it myself, but it seems to have gone down quite well - not going to be making a habit of it though 😊👍

Hi Philip, that's a really good point about unique shots - hadn't occurred to me before, but it's a point well worth making next time I'm filming in that sort of location. 😊👍

Cheers mate, it's not a bad spot to be honest, and somewhere that I visit quite regularly. It's just that it's not my usual fair for videoing and sharing. I'll be honest, I don't really buy the difficulty which people claim to have with woodland photography. The bottom line is you can never completely isolate a subject. But having to work at it to create a compelling composition does you no harm at all in terms of practising your skills. So I wish people would stop moaning about Woodlands. Look at the sort of stuff that Paul G Johnson is sharing recently on Instagram: Some superb artwork, but nothing isolated, just composed well. I would share work from woodland much more often if my channel hadn't got a mountain and coast sort of vibe, because I'm just as happy in that sort of environment. Plus, it's the sort of thing that more viewers have on their own doorstep so perhaps more relatable. Maybe I should have a rethink ... 😊👍

D Griff Gallery first place I went to test my gimbal. A little ancient local woodland. Love it also, like you say it’s the same as shooting anything just different, tighter rules. Top bombing cocker

Hi, thanks ever so much for your feedback. Always appreciate your support. Don't worry, the outdoor parts will always be the major aspect of my channel, I'll only be dropping in a bit of postprocessing if there is a particularly interesting or helpful technique to share in reaching the final artwork. 😊👍

Hi Tony, thanks for your support as always. I did enjoy it, and do visit there quite often, but don't video it. But I really hope I can be back in the mountains soon!! 😊👍

Hello Huw, many thanks for watching and taking the time to let me know you enjoyed it. Much appreciated 😊👍

Cheers mate - next one's going to be from somewhere you'll recognise! 😊👍

@@DGriffGallery looking forward to that one then, 👍📸

Many thanks for watching John. Really glad you enjoyed it 😊👍

No mate, it's not too much of a problem working with bright skies in woodland images - just need to blend exposures or under-expose and pull shadows back up - which is what I'd do if I had a full frame system like your 5Dmkiv 😊👍

Many thanks Dale - you make a good point about the clear forest floor in coniferous woodland. Even parts of Newborough where deciduous trees have muscled in are impenetrable! 😊👍

Hi Fabrizio, Yes it is quite an unusual area of woodland because most pine forests have the trees planted quite close together to maximise their commercial value, so even though the forest floor is often clear of any underlying vegetation you don't have access to it anyway! 😊👍

@@DGriffGallery You're right, it's quite unique.

Many thanks, Garrick, appreciate your tuning in and taking the time to leave some feedback 😊👍

Hi Brian - yes, I was keen to avoid a slider-fest! Hope you and yours are keeping well 😊👍

D Griff Gallery No coughs or sweats - working out where to take our personal 2m exclusion zones next week ;-))

@@BrianHorsey Yes I've just revised arrangements for this weekend - back to flying solo!! 😊👍

Hello David, thank you ever so much for watching I really appreciate it. So glad that my video is interesting and helpful. And I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know you enjoyed it because that sort of feedback makes all the hard work worthwhile. 😊👍

Hi Bernard, they do work well together and despite people claiming that the PS Camera RAW filter does the same as LR, that's not true - there a few missing, but in my book essential components. 😊👍

@@DGriffGallery What I find very annoying is that Adobe do not list any Olympus Camera's/lens in either PS or Lr Camera Raw, I sue an E5, not that old. Adobe used to list them in earlier versions. Must email them!

Yes, it is a really nice location and somewhere which I visit quite regularly, although obviously quite rarely for video purposes! Whenever possible, I tend to prefer to share videos of the mountains and open coast as that's what people kind of look for in my channel. Although I do have a series coming up which will feature more routine local spots in bite-size chunks. You'll see what I mean ... 😊👍

Definitely up for a weekend out with you and the local crew. Fix up a date when the others are free and let me know ...😊👍

Hello Warren, thank you ever so much for watching and being good enough to leave your kind feedback. I really appreciate it. It is a really interesting bit of woodland, somewhere I visit quite regularly although I don't feature it very often on my channel. As I said, well worth a visit if you ever spend much time around here 😊👍

Anything I can do to promote mates - goes without saying 😊👍

Hi Christian, many thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment with your thoughts.So glad you found it helpful and hope you get some interesting results! 😊👍

How about I expand a little on split-toning for and EDS price?

Hi Tony, thanks ever so much for watching. Yes, you're quite right; even though I would've preferred to have been in the mountains, I did enjoy this brief excursion locally. To be honest, I actually visit there quite regularly I just don't often video it because people expect my channel to be more about the wide open spaces of the mountains and the coast! 😊👍

Hello Damian, thank you ever so much for watching. I really appreciate it. So glad you found it interesting and, hopefully, entertaining 😊👍

Hello Manuel, thank you ever so much for watching. And yes, you are quite right, communication is far more important than language skills. I really appreciate you supporting my channel and being good enough to comment. To answer your question, I don't have any specific limit on the number of images that I will come home with from any given location trip. Although, it's fair to say I take far fewer images in recent years, than I did when I was a youngster learning my photography skills. I tend to find that I have a much better idea when I am behind the camera of what will work and what won't work. So rather than bring home hundreds of exposures and work my way through deleting the unnecessary ones, I will often delete exposures in camera whilst refining a composition, or waiting for light. This means that when I get home I have many fewer frames to consider for post processing and selecting the ones which I will spend time working on is a much more straightforward exercise. But there is no substitute for experience, and if you find taking lots of images helps you to improve then I would strongly recommend you carry on doing that. The only suggestion I would make is that you decide which is your best work and concentrate on those and share those. Many social media groups that I'm involved in have people that post several versions of essentially the same image. So my recommendation is pick one stick with it and process that. And then ask yourself why you felt this was the best one so you can take that knowledge out with you the next time you are taking pictures. Anyway hope this is helpful ... 😊👍

Thanks ever so much for watching, always appreciate your support. And many thanks for taking the time to leave a comment, generous feedback like this makes all the hard work totally worthwhile! 😊👍

@@DGriffGallery no problem David

Hello Robert, thank you ever so much for watching and your very kind feedback. As it happens I have visited Dorothea quarry with a camera, but not featured on my video channel. I do have it in mind to cover a good deal more industrial heritage later this year, so I may well visit that location again. Although, it is much more likely that I will cover Dinorwig quarry in more detail. 😊👍

Hello Colin thank you ever so much for watching and taking the time to leave an interesting viewpoint. As you may know, if you follow my channel for any time, I am always keen to blend exposures to create a finished artwork. However in this case the extent of the foreground subject material, such as the marram grass, Makes it extremely difficult to blend effectively when there are so many small elements with small gaps between them with a view to the background. As it happens, I did a completely separate take to camera with this exact method, in case I would have used this in post. But the finished image simply didn't work effectively which is why I used a masked blur technique. 😊👍

Don't you worry, Gary, I will be back up there as soon as I possibly can!! 😊👍

@@DGriffGallery can't wait Maestro.