✨What are YOUR photography tips for creating vibrant images on overcast days? ☁I’d love to hear how you approach dull weather with your camera! Whether it’s playing with colour, finding unique subjects, or something different. 👇Let’s start a discussion in the comments to inspire each other to make the most of overcast days. I look forward to seeing what you come up with! 📸✨
Great tip around how to make subjects "pop" with Blue etc.. Love the way you see subjects withing busy settings. I see Holly naturally occuring in the woodland in this video. In Nova Scotia, I've planted Holly around my home. It thrives & gives me the sense of the "Holly & the Ivy" from Dicken's Christmas Carol. Best wishes to you & yours.
What a fun video! I live in Washington State in the USA and we have a plant just like the one you depicted in the video - you call them "Mahonia" but we call them "Oregon Grape" and I two bushes of them in our back yard! I checked it out and they are definitely in the same family. Now I need to go out to our back yard and make some photos... thanks to you for the inspiration! And Happiest of holidays to you.
I follow a couple of Swedish photographers, one said that on an outdoor location they had to wait up to an hour for the sun to go behind a cloud! So, if we can recognise the advantages of our oh-so-frequent overcast days, maybe we can create some distinctive looks? 🌤🌦🌧
It is Mahonia Japonica, and it is a garden shrub that originated from Japan hence the Latin specie name Japonica. Is this information of use to you, Kim
It looks very much like Mahonia aquifolium (Oregon Grape Holly), which is native to the Pacific Northwest of the US. I don’t believe this is native to the UK. I see the M. japonica is bigger with bigger leaves and longer flower stalks, which looks like this one. Also not native to UK for sure.
Good morning Kim, yes the beauty is out there no matter the light. Yes, it's all connected in life. Great tips today, Have a safe, happy, and blessed upcoming week.
I love grey days to take pictures. It seems to make colors vibrant. It's a natural diffuser which helps make exposures consistent. I always enjoy your videos. I have just found out that I am cancer free after having treatment for prostate cancer. This experience has made me more determined to get out to enjoy nature, with or without my camera. I love your inspiration videos.❤❤ ❤
Thank for a creative video (again)! If I wants out despite the weather conditions I go "low". I do some macro shooting. Snowdrops et al when it is winter and bugs/raindrops et al when they are around. But also doing nothing at all, just enjoying life as I use my camera as an excuse to get out 🙂
Comforted by the fact that I've been photographing raindrops for many, many years - also the prickly mahonia bush with its stunning blue berries, yellow flowers and mixed coloured leaf.
✨What are YOUR photography tips for creating vibrant images on overcast days? ☁I’d love to hear how you approach dull weather with your camera! Whether it’s playing with colour, finding unique subjects, or something different. 👇Let’s start a discussion in the comments to inspire each other to make the most of overcast days. I look forward to seeing what you come up with! 📸✨
Thanks Kim for another engaging video. I saw another composition early in your video, just before you found the yellow flower, you pointed the camera up and I saw beautiful shapes in the branches with the sky as background. Which may look good in Black and White. Shapes in nature are my passion. Take care. Ross
Hi Kim great vid As you may remember.ber I live in Yorkshire and have a local wood Haw wood . I cheat I carry a water bottle with a fine atomiser head so I can create water droplets without rain . Shhhh don't share my secret lol
Not Barberis, Berberis, pronounced 'Ber - ber -iss' and that usually has thorns. Mahonia has a spiky leaf and is generally yellow inside the stem when cut or peeled.
I agree that the Mahonia (the bush) makes for a great photo subject, but it is an invasive species in Europe and is detrimental to the local flora and wildlife as a whole, sadly. Same as the Japanese maple and I think I have spotted cherry laurel as well.
Thank you for confirming this, Anita. I'm so used to seeing Rhododendron in the woodland, but I don't think I've seen Mahonia before. Great to hear more about it ☺️🙏
✨What are YOUR photography tips for creating vibrant images on overcast days? ☁I’d love to hear how you approach dull weather with your camera! Whether it’s playing with colour, finding unique subjects, or something different.
👇Let’s start a discussion in the comments to inspire each other to make the most of overcast days. I look forward to seeing what you come up with! 📸✨
Definitely a Mahonia!! Wonderful splash of colour on a cold winter's day. Another fabulous video, KIm.
Lovely photography vibe.
Very beautiful video, thank you very much, Nikon 💛💛💛
Hi Kim, it's definitely a Mahonia, i have one in my garden. Very fragrant flowers this time of year which turn into blueish berries.
Thank you! ☺️🙏
Mahonia, Kim.
Flowers Nov-Mar.
Used to have a shrub in my previous garden. Very spiky!
Lovely video. Thank you.
Great tip around how to make subjects "pop" with Blue etc.. Love the way you see subjects withing busy settings. I see Holly naturally occuring in the woodland in this video. In Nova Scotia, I've planted Holly around my home. It thrives & gives me the sense of the "Holly & the Ivy" from Dicken's Christmas Carol. Best wishes to you & yours.
The yellow flowered bush is a mahonia 🙂
What a fun video! I live in Washington State in the USA and we have a plant just like the one you depicted in the video - you call them "Mahonia" but we call them "Oregon Grape" and I two bushes of them in our back yard! I checked it out and they are definitely in the same family. Now I need to go out to our back yard and make some photos... thanks to you for the inspiration! And Happiest of holidays to you.
Love these tips, Kim! I'm going to try and get out tomorrow morning and see if I can put them into practice with the trees in my yard.
Great Video Kim! Thank you for lett me share in your adventure.
definitely Mahonia
Always a pleasure to listen to you approach with a twist in Photography. Amazing.
Thank you, Roy. It's great to hear you enjoyed it 😊🙏
Great posting! Your photography is exceptionally beautiful. Thank you for your inspiration.
Thank you very much ☺️ 🙏
I follow a couple of Swedish photographers, one said that on an outdoor location they had to wait up to an hour for the sun to go behind a cloud! So, if we can recognise the advantages of our oh-so-frequent overcast days, maybe we can create some distinctive looks? 🌤🌦🌧
Yes! We certainly can. There's always opportunities regardless of the weather. Thank you for sharing ☺️ 🙏
It is Mahonia Japonica, and it is a garden shrub that originated from Japan hence the Latin specie name Japonica. Is this information of use to you, Kim
It looks very much like Mahonia aquifolium (Oregon Grape Holly), which is native to the Pacific Northwest of the US. I don’t believe this is native to the UK. I see the M. japonica is bigger with bigger leaves and longer flower stalks, which looks like this one. Also not native to UK for sure.
Hi Kim, I great advice and photos, I look forward to watching your work in 2025.
Good morning Kim, yes the beauty is out there no matter the light. Yes, it's all connected in life. Great tips today, Have a safe, happy, and blessed upcoming week.
Thank you. Great to hear you enjoyed the tips 😀
I love grey days to take pictures. It seems to make colors vibrant. It's a natural diffuser which helps make exposures consistent. I always enjoy your videos. I have just found out that I am cancer free after having treatment for prostate cancer. This experience has made me more determined to get out to enjoy nature, with or without my camera. I love your inspiration videos.❤❤ ❤
I'm delighted to hear you are cancer free, Mike! Such great news! May you have many photography adventures to come 😁✨️
Thank for a creative video (again)! If I wants out despite the weather conditions I go "low". I do some macro shooting. Snowdrops et al when it is winter and bugs/raindrops et al when they are around. But also doing nothing at all, just enjoying life as I use my camera as an excuse to get out 🙂
Comforted by the fact that I've been photographing raindrops for many, many years - also the prickly mahonia bush with its stunning blue berries, yellow flowers and mixed coloured leaf.
This is lovely to hear 😊 👏
Rain drops add that little bit of magic!
Great video.
Loved your tips and images, Kim. You made me smile, too. Great as always! 😁🙏
Thank you ☺️ 🙏
Thanks
Thank you, Paul ☺️ 🙏
✨What are YOUR photography tips for creating vibrant images on overcast days? ☁I’d love to hear how you approach dull weather with your camera! Whether it’s playing with colour, finding unique subjects, or something different.
👇Let’s start a discussion in the comments to inspire each other to make the most of overcast days. I look forward to seeing what you come up with! 📸✨
Thanks Kim for another engaging video. I saw another composition early in your video, just before you found the yellow flower, you pointed the camera up and I saw beautiful shapes in the branches with the sky as background. Which may look good in Black and White. Shapes in nature are my passion.
Take care. Ross
Great video Kim wish I had found some wooden areas but I spent my time in Edinburgh for the first time ever keep up the good work 👏
That's great! Edinburgh is such a lovely city. Hope you had a great time 😊🙏
@@kimgrantphotography Absolutely, like all of Scotland .
At 1:57 in your video. You stopped to look up while talking. Just to your right. A dark bright green with vived red " buds". Flowers?.
Hi Kim great vid As you may remember.ber I live in Yorkshire and have a local wood Haw wood .
I cheat I carry a water bottle with a fine atomiser head so I can create water droplets without rain . Shhhh don't share my secret lol
My app says Leatherleaf Mahonia 😊
Not Barberis, Berberis, pronounced 'Ber - ber -iss' and that usually has thorns. Mahonia has a spiky leaf and is generally yellow inside the stem when cut or peeled.
I agree that the Mahonia (the bush) makes for a great photo subject, but it is an invasive species in Europe and is detrimental to the local flora and wildlife as a whole, sadly. Same as the Japanese maple and I think I have spotted cherry laurel as well.
Thank you for confirming this, Anita. I'm so used to seeing Rhododendron in the woodland, but I don't think I've seen Mahonia before. Great to hear more about it ☺️🙏
The shrub is a mahonia, definitely not a native species. Great video, as always.
Mahonia
Thank you Marri ☺️ 🙏
Mahonia japonica