Tips and Techniques for Creating Memorable Landscape Photographs with Michael Melford 

An extremely gifted photographer with a great sense of humour. So much fun viewing and listening to him.

This is a man who loves his work and loves nature. It shows in his glorious photos. Love all his presentations.

One of the best lectures on shooting landscapes-- Bravo Michael.

after a bit of a drought,b+h is pumping it out lately,love it!!!thanks a lot!!!

Thank you B&H! I always enjoy Michael Melford's talks. One of my favorite photographers.

Thanks B&H for making these kind of talks available online. Many of us can't travel to NY so our only chance to improve our photography is through your RU-vid site. Mr. Melford was just wonderful to hear and learn from. I picked up a lot of useful information, so thanks a lot.

I enjoy every presentation by Michael Melford........this one was no exception.

Great; nice to hear some foundational comments on the history of photography. Thanks

A true master class about photography... thank you very much.

WOW....This gentleman's work is fantastic!

Thank you B&H for sharing such Wonderfull and inspirational talks by the Masters of our time.

Thanks Michel for your seminar, every time i have the opportunity to watch one of your talks, I learn something about photography or as a human being. Regards from Barcelona! (Catalonia)

Such a pleasure to watch this...great natural approach to photography.

I loved the simplicity and honesty of this video. I learned a lot. Thank you!

Loved every minute of this video, thank you Michael!

Just a Great Talk about Photography

thanks for the video! Mr. Melford is such a nice guy! Great stuff!

Awesome lecture, relay nice and honest talk on landscape / nature photography! Thank you for this!

very inspirational...and informative...thank you sir!

Beautiful, inspiring photos and an excellent speaker. Fantastic video!

Laughed out loud couple of times. Great video. I enjoyed it when Michael presented photos from the same set but different timings. “Landscape photos are about lights”.

He is my favorite photographer too!!!(am a bit prejudiced, he is my brother)

Your images are so inspirational. I am excited to get out with my camera after watching this. Thank you. Leslie

Very possitive man! And great story.

Nice photographic knowledge. Makes me what to get out there and take photo's. Nice one!

thanks B & H for having Michael great talk :)

Really good video. Full of inspiration and advice!

Thanks for sharing you awesome indeed!

I am pretty hyped to go on a vacation while watching this. I have to ask my boss for a vacation and shoot landscape. I am a landscape shooter but not as good as these.damn

excellent lecture, thank you so much!

Beautiful seminar!

Lovely :) thank you very much por posting this.

Beautiful images presented by a humble photographer with great sense of humor. Can you tell me where and when you teach at Lindblad Tours ? I might be interested to shoot with you !

Excellent and interesting, thanks.

It's really interesting some of the photos he used as examples of bad images where some of my favorites

Great talk. … I have been to Death Valley once. Everyone told me to go to Zabriskie Point at sunset. I got there about 45 mins before sunset, drug the 4x5 up the hill and set up. The parking lot was totally empty until about 10 minuets before sunset. At that point about six cars showed up. Soon after, at least a dozen photographers charged the hill, set up and started firing off in machinegun mode. At that point I realized that I was photographing 90 degs. north from the little army. I got the two exposures I wanted and began to put away the camera. Twenty minutes after sunset the army had retreated down the hill and sped away in their cars leaving me thinking that I was either doing something wrong or I was a genius.

Amazing talk!

Thank you so much!

Great talk. Thanks

Superb!!! Thanks

Inspired!

I loved this lecture...and have watched the others on You tube...I was wondering what setup he used attached to the weather balloon, and what trigger system.

Thanks!!

Dye transfer is still available from a few people. I went to a lecture in Lebanon, NH from a guy still doing dye transfer prints.

David Muench lists Henri Cartier-Bresson as one of his greatest influences, and not Ansel Adams. He does obviously say Adams had some influence but not as much as Cartier-Bresson. I love Mr Melford's humility when he is so incredibly talented and personally, not forgetting art is very subjective, I prefer his morning river shot over Adams's. I'm not sure if I've just blasphemed and I'm now going to be sent to the photographer's hell where all photos are edited on an iPhone. As for staying next to the car, like many many other photographers I have very limited mobility and I never venture more than 10metres from either my car or mobility scooter and there are many shots you can get if you look at the world slightly differently. I really like listening to Michael Milford talk, he is almost as good an orator as he is photographer.

i would love a learning video with settings as well

Thank you.

Thank you

I've problem in 50mm 1.8 lens. The apreture index in the lens is on 22, and when I want to change it to 1.8 the camera and lens never work.

"My first thought is always of light" - Galen Rowell

Ansel was a good technical fotog. He is a recommended read on all fundamentals. The old writer, of 35 mm and before are better to read about the basics.. you have to know your technicals..

Ansel Adams was a pioneer but I love Cecil Beaton's work best (though I know landscape vs portraits is apples to oranges).

Wow

I think half dome was most famous AA image to the general public.

"Death Valley is a great place to go." - Michael Melford lol

Acadia as in Acadia national park maine?

The luminance of the moon. On 35 mm's this is 1/60th of a second at F5.6 BION. Why? It is pure reflected light of the sun. Every jr, fotog should know this.

Please adding subtitle

Composition rules where made to understand an image & not to remember them & follow every time when you Photograph It Should come naturally Rather than memorising it every time

This first Ansel Adams moon photo is a really bad snapshot...

Using Photoshop is like lying. Some photographers lie a lot and other photographers lie a little. Great Photographers don’t lie at all. Thanks for posting.

"I don't think about composition when I shoot.." ok.. what does he think about? They may not be conscious analytical thoughts, like typing is not about hunting characters on a keyboard.. if it is you aren't typing, but in retrospect he has to know what drives his method..

Wow, I love your work, what an awesome video. It will be awesome if you mulled over my channel to see if you are fond of any of my videos. Keep up the excellent work! I look forward to your next video.

Very excessive editing !!! Artificial ! ! !

I felt like this talk could've been edited to under 5-10 mins. There's just a lot of irrelevant banter instead of actual "Tips and Techniques".

a seminar about "Tips and Techniques" and then he starts with " I dont think of composition, it is my second nature" geez can you people invite someone who actually are willing to give advice...