Hello 👋 thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you're enjoying the footage and storytelling. Next trip is next Friday, so I'll be busy editing another series over a few months. Fingers crossed for good weather!
I thoroughly enjoy your uploads. The quality of your photography and your honest critique is refreshing. You definitely deserve more views and that may come in time but I'm so glad I've discovered your channel.
Thank you for that. I'm glad you enjoy the breakdowns too. It's helping my process to do these videos along with my trips and my edits back at home, so the fact that it's useful for you too is a good sign. Off back up to Scotland in a couple of weeks, so more to come soon. Hopefully I'll get the series finished this side of Christmas 🎄
Thank you, sir! I'm looking forward to digging into your vids on film systems. I'm planning to get a 45 camera in the next year or so and cracking it out on the stiller days in Scotland - a lot to learn 😬
@@eallistone Aww, thank you, mate. 4x5 is where you get to slow down to proper "mindfulness". Haven't shot 4x5 in almost 20 years, but am keeping my eyes open for a good deal. New video dropping this afternoon.
Tweaking and revisiting? I agree. I'm still processing images from two years or more ago, as my memories meander through time I find my feelings for that time and place go with them. This for me directly influences post-shoot 'light' manipulation.... this was meant to be posted in the Assynt one but I'd skipped to here🤦
I'm glad you can relate. So many shots I get really excited about out in the field don't call me to edit when I first put them in Lightroom; then I go back to them a few years later and wonder why I didn't give them any attention. And then there are the reedits that you thought were done and dusted! It is a nice feeling to have a bank of shots to return to though. I think the light manipulation after the fact should be led by memory. Don't get me wrong, I don't like going too far from the visual experience of a place, but the moment that you capture a photo isn't the whole story: the way you feel about a place and the atmosphere often needs to come into the photo though creative contrast adjustments and (sometimes heavy) dodging and burning.
Assynt to Tongue is hardly an exhausting day's driving no matter how many stops you make, likewise the North of Scotland rarely sees snow below the peaks.
That's true, but Bristol to Tongue while car camping and filming every waking minute is quite exhausting. If you can imagine the process: I drive a road, think 'that will look nice from the air,' find a safe place to launch the drone, set a path for it, and film that path with me driving a few times until I have the timing right. Rinse and repeat all day. Like that, the drive from Loch Assynt to Tongue took about 7 hours with some pit stops. I guess it depends where you mean about snow in the north of Scotland. Even the milder areas like the Hebrides get a little and my friend who lives in Tongue seems to get snowed in a few weeks every year. Likewise, I see the snow gates closed in the Cairngorms quite frequently when I check the webcams.
Superb video. The extra effort and skills really make it interesting. 🙂👍👌
Thanks mate. All that effort on learning motion graphics this spring wasn't wasted then 😅
New subscriber. I really enjoy your production and narration. Thank you!
Hello 👋 thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you're enjoying the footage and storytelling. Next trip is next Friday, so I'll be busy editing another series over a few months. Fingers crossed for good weather!
I thoroughly enjoy your uploads. The quality of your photography and your honest critique is refreshing. You definitely deserve more views and that may come in time but I'm so glad I've discovered your channel.
Thank you for that. I'm glad you enjoy the breakdowns too. It's helping my process to do these videos along with my trips and my edits back at home, so the fact that it's useful for you too is a good sign. Off back up to Scotland in a couple of weeks, so more to come soon. Hopefully I'll get the series finished this side of Christmas 🎄
@@eallistoneThat's great to hear. I'll look forward to those videos.
Nice rhythm in your video. Sub'd. Looking forward to more
Thank you, sir! I'm looking forward to digging into your vids on film systems. I'm planning to get a 45 camera in the next year or so and cracking it out on the stiller days in Scotland - a lot to learn 😬
@@eallistone Aww, thank you, mate. 4x5 is where you get to slow down to proper "mindfulness". Haven't shot 4x5 in almost 20 years, but am keeping my eyes open for a good deal. New video dropping this afternoon.
Tweaking and revisiting? I agree. I'm still processing images from two years or more ago, as my memories meander through time I find my feelings for that time and place go with them. This for me directly influences post-shoot 'light' manipulation.... this was meant to be posted in the Assynt one but I'd skipped to here🤦
I'm glad you can relate. So many shots I get really excited about out in the field don't call me to edit when I first put them in Lightroom; then I go back to them a few years later and wonder why I didn't give them any attention. And then there are the reedits that you thought were done and dusted! It is a nice feeling to have a bank of shots to return to though. I think the light manipulation after the fact should be led by memory. Don't get me wrong, I don't like going too far from the visual experience of a place, but the moment that you capture a photo isn't the whole story: the way you feel about a place and the atmosphere often needs to come into the photo though creative contrast adjustments and (sometimes heavy) dodging and burning.
Assynt to Tongue is hardly an exhausting day's driving no matter how many stops you make, likewise the North of Scotland rarely sees snow below the peaks.
That's true, but Bristol to Tongue while car camping and filming every waking minute is quite exhausting. If you can imagine the process: I drive a road, think 'that will look nice from the air,' find a safe place to launch the drone, set a path for it, and film that path with me driving a few times until I have the timing right. Rinse and repeat all day. Like that, the drive from Loch Assynt to Tongue took about 7 hours with some pit stops. I guess it depends where you mean about snow in the north of Scotland. Even the milder areas like the Hebrides get a little and my friend who lives in Tongue seems to get snowed in a few weeks every year. Likewise, I see the snow gates closed in the Cairngorms quite frequently when I check the webcams.