Can't stop laughing at "I'm basically a creep in a tunnel", then the "Yeah, he's the one" look & little nod as the guy walks past, to get the pull-zoom shot! Priceless!!
Best video i have watched in years to give inspiration. Living in Scotland we get a lot of "dull damp nothingness" Today is another of those days, you have however inspired me to get off my backside and get out and do something. Thank you...
I’m currently in Skye looking out on grey nothingness and horizontal rain. You can go to an epic landscape and it can be swathed in cloud and rain. I now feel I can go out and find something to shoot. Thank you for the inspiration and enthusiasm!
Have fun - I hope you get some nice shots. I will never forget my trip to Elgol in Dec 2021 - the cloud was so low and thick, there was zero visibility of the Cuillin Mountains. I recall taking a couple of long exposures of the rocks that stand some ten metres off the beach. But still a wonderful and atmospheric place. I wish I was there.
Great to see you do something different coz let’s face it, when we have a day off you can guarantee the weather in the UK isn’t always perfect. Having some fall back ideas is great. Thank you 🙏🏻 👍🏻
i absolutly love shooting in conditions that's challenging it can only make you better photographer and make you realy get intament with your creative prosses .
After 6 months of almost constant greying and rainy weather, it's almost impossible to keep your spirits and motivation up, so it takes more than a short and shouting video to help!
Thanks for the video. It’s cold and drizzly here in Wisconsin in the middle of march. But I’m off on a Monday and soon I’ll be heading out with my camera to see what the work has to show me.
The last seascape took my breath away! Thank you for this different video full of ideas for ‘nothing weather’ which we have endured for so long. I am going to South Uist soon and you have given me lots of ideas to go out even when the weather is nothing.
I'm an aspiring photographer and from watching a fair amount of your videos you've inspired me to be more creative with my photos and the different compositions I use! Love the videos ❤
Some cracking ideas there Tom! Just moved to Tynemouth and recognised Whitley Bay straightaway! Must admit, I'm always very nervous of having my camera anywhere near water, especially the salty kind!!
I go out on days like that because if I don't go out at least once a week I get really fidgety and feel like I missed an opportunity that I can never get back. I have to take pictures once a week, even if the images are rubbish.
Interesting and inspiring video as usual! That said, dull days are quite forgiving, the biggest problem is to get of the sofa. If I may, here is a suggestion for another video: "What to shoot on a sunny, cloudless day", subtitle: "How to work around the lack of drama" I really struggle with sunny days, photography-wise
haha, that will be a challenging video. Haven't seen the sun in 3 months :) I appreciate the suggestion though. Fingers crossed the rain will stop so I can make it.
@@ThomasHeatonPhoto Hehe, I am a German living in México, so I have the opposite "problem". I love the fact that it is almost always warm and sunny. But I the hard shadows and lack of drama and mystery and even the infinite view are sometimes counter productive. I wish you some sunny days in the meantime :)
I recently took my camera and tripod up onto the South Lancashire moors on a very wet and misty day and came home with some very satisfying, moody, misty monochromes. Now I look forward to that kind of weather.
I love that you use square format a lot. It’s always been my favourite crop ratio as it is often more challenging to shoot. Thanks for the tip on the guide book, heading that way to get one, or two or…
wow. I always learn something new and fun from your videos. I started photography a little over a year ago. I was so excited to get outside and practice, but it was sooooo cold (Colorado in January). So we went to the train museum to practice. It was so much fun. There were models, and old trains and cars - even an airplane. There's always somewhere to play when you have a camera in hand. Thanks for the work you do.
Im a beginner youtuber for fishing and nature photography etc but you're inspiring me to try Landscapes and minimalist images. That last image of the post and pier was truelly stunning. Thanks Thomas 💙
Thomas, you should come visit the Pacific Northwest (in the US) some time! I'd be glad to show you around. Waterfalls and cloudy days are the primary subjects!
Thomas, my favorite was the b&w of the waterfall but the b&w of the post with the pier in the distant background was a very close second. I admire your enthusiasm and creativity.
Great video Thomas! Some years a go I saw a photo of a black and white image of a landscape with the foreground having some flowers in color. It was then I realized the value of using the contrast of color on a somewhat dreary day.
If you like tunnels, one of the best to photograph is the Elbe Tunnel in Hamburg. The St. Pauli area is a great area to photograph and if you travel northwards along the river there are some great landscapes as well. An opportunity to practice architecture in landscape photography.
These are the reasons I generally do not hesitate to go shoot in nasty conditions, for often one can find an entirely different subject range when embracing the conditions that have been dealt. Here in western North Dakota and eastern Montana, subjects often include old abandoned structures (the semi-arid climate lends to preservation of many of these old homesteads or grain elevators) or old farm implements that lend themselves well to black and white treatment or even long exposures in fog, rain or snow. Down in Wyoming, I have shot Devils Tower numerous times in every weather condition and some of my most dramatic images were days when the Tower was cloaked in fog. Living here with months of adverse weather during the long winters (it is still brown and snowy here when the rest of the US is already mowing grass lol) has taught me to think outside the usual box since I can't hibernate for the seven months of brown. Great points here in this video!
The timing is perfect! I have an upcoming trip to a famously weather-challenged island. If I’m lucky enough to get good days, great, but I don’t want to waste any bad days thinking there’s nothing to shoot.
Nice one Tom, for the inspiration! I shall be out with my camera this weekend!… Just a thought or perhaps an idea for a future video… is the opposite to today’s video… instead of high key and light, what about low key and no light… ie like a star scape from a landscape location, you know get some stars and night scapes… it’d be interesting to see your take on it, applying your thoughts and style to it… I think it would work well with some snow covered mountains so they stand out or perhaps as well a calm lake for a reflection. Just a thought anyway and keep up the good work, love ya videos! 👍🏻 Matt
They can’t all be perfect days…. Great advice to get out anyway! Looks like you made good use of it. Carry on and thanks for sharing your time with us.
Unfortunately Thomas, I'm going to miss your 'Talky Bit' at the photography show! I can't make it on the day you'll be there! 😥😥I was hoping to meet you and introduce myself! Oh well never mind!
Well, we could ask for 24 hrs of golden hour light, but failing that I'd definitely prefer soft, even (and okay, maybe dull) light to the bright, cloudless, harsh, high contrast, blue skies that we get in Australia. 😂
Thanks Thomas - very inspirational ! Plus I'm off to Budapest soon so will checkout the underground. Plus tomorrow's means to be wet so I shall go for a wonder in the murky grey day :))
Hey Heaton, you should consider doing more street photography. Landscape in the winter and street in the summer. High contrast full sun is great for street.
I suspect out of all your videos (although some might be down to editing) this is the one you took the most photographs (if I did hear burst mode on the sea front). As it's grey and raining here just for a change - some good ideas to try.
Loved this video so much I've come back and viewed it again - sorry if that messes with your stats! It's easy to get put off by a flat grey day but this proves what a land of opportunity it remains. Brilliant
This really is superb, I don't mind the crummy weather but can struggle to find something to take pics of however you have given me some good ideals, thank you
To be honest Tom I looked at the thumbnail and saw 5 creative blah blah blah........I felt so unmoved to watch it. Of course I should have known better. Boy oh boy what a super video and great images!!! I most certainly would have walked past the life ring without giving it a second thought, loved the tunnel and boatyard shots too; top notch stuff.
