Hi James, another great video! ☺️ I'm an osteopath, and you can rest easy about your posture - the research is moving us away from caring about it now; as long as you're strong enough to support the position, and you don't stay there all day, you're good to go ☺️👊 Also, thanks for all your videos about the 40mm focal length - I've just bought the Fuji 27mm (from MPB, no less) and I'm loving it 🙏
Now come on James! I can accept your preferred editing style in blowing out the highlights in the sky, your composition obsession about multiple things not all being in exactly the right place at the same time, but, that’s not a blinking forest! 😉
In that opening shot, as beautiful as the mountain and lake are, the low stone wall and gate kept grabbing my attention; the textures and contrasts, the disjointed lines. I am nerd for old gates and fences.
MPB doesn't service my area, but thanks for the idea. I've always been afraid of used gear but I saw an absolute bargain in a local pawn shop and decided to take a punt. Aaaand...it works perfectly! Yay! Now I just have to reconcile how much money I've wasted over the years buying full retail.
Love the subtle colors, particularly in the mountains, in these shots. With your very picky self assessment of your compositions, I’m glad you’re not critiquing mine. Seriously, though, it encourages me for more forethought, prior to pushing the shutter button, to step up my game.
All of your videos make me miss Wales. I studied in Bangor and lived on Anglesey, and I spent most weekends in Snowdonia. Your photography takes me right back.
I like preset 2,5, & 8 the best. 1 definitely feels like I'd be knicking your style 1:1 😂. It does make sense to sell the X-Pro. You had quite a bit of overlap it was just the Leica with the GR sensor and focal length if you used the pancake, which was entirely the point of it as a light carry camera. I still think there's some merit in keeping the GR to pair with the Leica, pocket auto focus bang in the goldilocks range of 35-50mm. It let's you whip it out for a closer shot when you're on the Elmarit, and have a slightly wider pocket snapper for when you've on the Voigtlander. I think it perfectly bridges the gap in your Leica set up.
Great job James. I enjoyed your videos so much and always wanted to find a away to support you. The presets collection provides the best opportunity. Immediate purchase! Keep up with your great videos!
The first half I was just amazed at the movie set that you were moving around in. Took me a while to accept that it was “just” a camera set on a tripod filming. 😊
I'm ticking off a photo I've wanted for years in a couple of months, and I'm really excited for it. So getting the shots you've wanted is just an amazing achievement.
Other camera buying site are available so check them out some tend to give far better prices than others. But agreed it's far easier than trying to sell your equipment yourself. Thanks for the latest video James.
Quite the splendid location! Nature in that part of the world is quite something. Despite my years in Sweden I never got around to visiting the UK, perhaps I'll get there one day! Shame to see the X-Pro and GR go already, but considering you fell into the Leica pool the decision makes perfect sense, as money is always a sparse resource.
Your videos rekindled my will to go out and try to achieve good photography, especially helping me override the avoidance of bad weather AND human objects in a landscape picture 👍. And also, I appreciate enormously that you speak about gear from the point of view of PHOTOGRAPHY, and not nowadays mainly from the vlogging/video point of view. So many RUclipsrs discuss pros and cons of new cameras from the video (pro/semi-pro/amateur) point of view. Some of us outhere takes mainly stills with our cameras, and if brands could always produce strip-down only photographic-centric versions of their camera, this would be heaven for me. I very personally never shoot videos, am not good at it, and always prefer taking pictures. A Panasonic S5IIR could be perfect for me, or a Sigma fp with IBIS (missing sorely the stabilisation on mine...). Anyway, always a pleasure to see your process and discuss framing and composition 🙂. And I would be very much interested to know how you manage your photo files on a daily basis. Do you keep everything? How do you organise RAWs vs processed? Do you keep everything or do you prune a lot of files? And so on. Thank you for the very good humour and spirit always!
4:56 this sequence reminds me not to rush. I sometimes feel like I've lingered too long on a single scene, and I'm being too fussy. Then I get to editing and inevitably find that I wish I'd taken more shots. Good reminder, that.
There's a great deal more physical commitment needed to hike into the mountains to take photos like this, if someone is feeling rushed, they don't have the time or mental commitment to do the full day hike to get to the places to take photos and they'd rather do urban, coastal or other photography that's cool too. Isn't all food, "food for thought", because if you didn't eat you couldn't think, at least in the long run.
Yeah I would have captured a shot with the rock in as well - It looked like it had a cut in it, which looked an interesting leading line towards the stile.
You are too hard on yourself! The overall atmosphere and perspective of the shot is very evocative. The details you mention sound like competition scrutiny. If the photo evokes emotions and takes you somewhere, it's not wrong!
Great video James... Found it really insightful seeing the timelapse (?) of you shooting the compositions, and then found it massively helpful when you walked through the Images in post - Think I agree with you RE: the placement of stile and stonewall, I'd have been miffed with the same things, and something for me to think about myself if I manage to get to that spot some day
Hey James - another great video :-D I just bought your first preset-set last week... looking forward to seeing the new ones - altough I missed out the discount now if I bought both of them at the same time 🙄🤷♂
Oh boy seen you do this shot before , feels like many times but at lst once so one wonders how much is tube these days. ultimate power n all that. One is partially pissed, hey ho! Remember when you started with your distinctive composite shots, they were good!
Wonderful to see North Wales in your video. A much neglected part of the UK from youtube landscape photography channels, at least the British ones I watch. As for the New York joke, you're a dad now, bad jokes are to be expected. Also given your renaming of all your camera to Leica in various spelling iterations, I've been half expecting one of your sponsors to suddenly become Leica as well.
Nice shots, James, and great video. If you do camp, how massive is your pack going to be?! Is it possible that you are less enamoured of mountain photography now your gear is heavier?
I know this is mostly a photography and not gear review channel, but since you are trying out the Leica - have you also considered trying out the Pixii camera? It will be interesting to hear your perspective on it and how the two compare.
Another great video, thanks. I'm not Welsh either but even I shudder every time you say Triffan. It's Tru-van (ttat's tru not true btw). Hope that helps :)
James - my husband often looks over my shoulder while I'm watching your videos, but tonight he's driven me mad by making me go back & forth over a few short sections muttering to himself "what make are those shoes?" :) If you see this, can you help me out because I'd like to get him a pair for his birthday?
I always enjoy your videos and always admire your photography James, then I cringe at you mangling the cymraeg place names. Please promise you will try harder.
Curious and no judgement at all but are you not trespassing? I have no idea how things work in Wales, but I'm assuming the sheep aren't wild and you're on someone's property. Are they just really nice? Asking as I've definitely been chased off of private property here in the U.S. before and I didn't even climb over any fences/walls.
An observation. First let me say I am a huge fan. I like your shooting style, no tripod, running and gunning. Love it. I also like that you shoot the environment and include details that some of your landscape colleagues would exclude, man-made objects specifically. In this video you obsessed over what I believe were unimportant details and how they were placed in the frame. I believe only obsessed landscape photographers notice such small details such as whether a style cross member is separated from the rest of the style with a clean background. My observation, if these details are so important to you, why don't you use a tripod? Wouldn't that allow you the opportunity to review these details before making the exposure? My reason for not using a tripod is that I find it restricts my movements and limits my creativity. But if such small details are important to you wouldn't the tripod help? I'm sure Mads and Nigel would agree.
@@JamesPopsysPhoto Well, from the top of my head, Chris Orange announced about two weeks ago that he's selling his cameras to switch exclusively to Leica.
You going through your "sloppy composition"... do you actually consider all this whilst composing? No wonder I'm incompetent with landscape photos, haha. I suppose I'll be a forever hear head with mediocre photo/video skills. Speaking of gear... I would be genuinely interested in an episode where you return to the G9 (unless you've sold it anyway) and compare it to the A7Riv after using this long!
300 shots of what? waste of space! U might luv editing, I don't. I hate it! When pro, I went to Mamiya-C TLR with a few lenses. 1. Way higher quality than my Leica. 2. 12 exposures per roll. Large contact sheets, easily shared! ( I was doing Fashion/ Models/ Portraits). One roll per model. 3 main shots! I am lazy but very smart..
i still dont get what is the story of this photo. what is the focus on? light on the mountain, lake, wall? what is it... too much distractions for clear image focus... sorry but you failed miserably on this one 😥
Here’s some info on the new presets, thanks for the support: jamespopsys.com/mypresets
I love your videos because of your candor.
Thank you for continuing to be yourself.
I appreciate the videos in which you walk through your photography process and show various iterations. Keep 'em coming!
I always smile at the detailed things that your eye picks up in post. Things many others wouldn’t even notice in such a scene.
Hi James, another great video! ☺️ I'm an osteopath, and you can rest easy about your posture - the research is moving us away from caring about it now; as long as you're strong enough to support the position, and you don't stay there all day, you're good to go ☺️👊
Also, thanks for all your videos about the 40mm focal length - I've just bought the Fuji 27mm (from MPB, no less) and I'm loving it 🙏
Now come on James! I can accept your preferred editing style in blowing out the highlights in the sky, your composition obsession about multiple things not all being in exactly the right place at the same time, but, that’s not a blinking forest! 😉
In that opening shot, as beautiful as the mountain and lake are, the low stone wall and gate kept grabbing my attention; the textures and contrasts, the disjointed lines. I am nerd for old gates and fences.
You are very lucky to have such picturesque fences/walls in the UK. A barbed wire fence just isn't the same.
MPB doesn't service my area, but thanks for the idea. I've always been afraid of used gear but I saw an absolute bargain in a local pawn shop and decided to take a punt. Aaaand...it works perfectly! Yay! Now I just have to reconcile how much money I've wasted over the years buying full retail.
I like that shot... And isn't that grey bit in your beard growing at an alarming rate....
He has a kid now doesn't he..it's gonna grow exponentially 😅
Your photos are what inspired me to start photography nearly a year ago. Your photos blow my mind.
My favourite video of yous in a while. I much prefer it when you're out talking about how you work.
I'm still saying that I've learnt more about photography watching your videos than anywhere else.
Love the subtle colors, particularly in the mountains, in these shots. With your very picky self assessment of your compositions, I’m glad you’re not critiquing mine. Seriously, though, it encourages me for more forethought, prior to pushing the shutter button, to step up my game.
All of your videos make me miss Wales. I studied in Bangor and lived on Anglesey, and I spent most weekends in Snowdonia. Your photography takes me right back.
Excellent video! Thanks for taking me along!
I like preset 2,5, & 8 the best. 1 definitely feels like I'd be knicking your style 1:1 😂.
It does make sense to sell the X-Pro. You had quite a bit of overlap it was just the Leica with the GR sensor and focal length if you used the pancake, which was entirely the point of it as a light carry camera. I still think there's some merit in keeping the GR to pair with the Leica, pocket auto focus bang in the goldilocks range of 35-50mm. It let's you whip it out for a closer shot when you're on the Elmarit, and have a slightly wider pocket snapper for when you've on the Voigtlander. I think it perfectly bridges the gap in your Leica set up.
Great job James. I enjoyed your videos so much and always wanted to find a away to support you. The presets collection provides the best opportunity. Immediate purchase! Keep up with your great videos!
The first half I was just amazed at the movie set that you were moving around in. Took me a while to accept that it was “just” a camera set on a tripod filming. 😊
Mountains or not, really enjoy this type of content from you.
I'm ticking off a photo I've wanted for years in a couple of months, and I'm really excited for it. So getting the shots you've wanted is just an amazing achievement.
No matter your composition, it's a beautiful shot. Well done!
James’ new channel: Popsys’ Packs!
A show all about camera bags.
As always James superb video. You encourage me so much, thankyou!
Other camera buying site are available so check them out some tend to give far better prices than others. But agreed it's far easier than trying to sell your equipment yourself. Thanks for the latest video James.
Quite the splendid location! Nature in that part of the world is quite something. Despite my years in Sweden I never got around to visiting the UK, perhaps I'll get there one day!
Shame to see the X-Pro and GR go already, but considering you fell into the Leica pool the decision makes perfect sense, as money is always a sparse resource.
Perfect timing as I'm planning a shoot here tomorrow morning while on hols😊
That landscape is amazing. It so nice it looks fake! Really enjoying your videos, thank you!
love your videos. I keep learning more about photography because of you so thank you for sharing your knowledge man!
The new animated logo is super cool : )
A cracking image.......loving your thought process.
Excellent as always - inspires me to go out with the camera paying more attention to composition.
Was surprised that you didn’t create the story of someone (you) climbing over the stile hinting at them heading to the mountain 😀
Your videos rekindled my will to go out and try to achieve good photography, especially helping me override the avoidance of bad weather AND human objects in a landscape picture 👍. And also, I appreciate enormously that you speak about gear from the point of view of PHOTOGRAPHY, and not nowadays mainly from the vlogging/video point of view. So many RUclipsrs discuss pros and cons of new cameras from the video (pro/semi-pro/amateur) point of view. Some of us outhere takes mainly stills with our cameras, and if brands could always produce strip-down only photographic-centric versions of their camera, this would be heaven for me. I very personally never shoot videos, am not good at it, and always prefer taking pictures. A Panasonic S5IIR could be perfect for me, or a Sigma fp with IBIS (missing sorely the stabilisation on mine...).
Anyway, always a pleasure to see your process and discuss framing and composition 🙂.
And I would be very much interested to know how you manage your photo files on a daily basis. Do you keep everything? How do you organise RAWs vs processed? Do you keep everything or do you prune a lot of files? And so on. Thank you for the very good humour and spirit always!
Class video, love watching your process - agree with what you said on mpb, so easy!
4:56 this sequence reminds me not to rush. I sometimes feel like I've lingered too long on a single scene, and I'm being too fussy. Then I get to editing and inevitably find that I wish I'd taken more shots. Good reminder, that.
Beautiful location and composition.
There's a great deal more physical commitment needed to hike into the mountains to take photos like this, if someone is feeling rushed, they don't have the time or mental commitment to do the full day hike to get to the places to take photos and they'd rather do urban, coastal or other photography that's cool too. Isn't all food, "food for thought", because if you didn't eat you couldn't think, at least in the long run.
Some strong photography stances there
I like the rock, I think it helps the compo. What an amazing view. Love the images, very painterly.
Yeah I would have captured a shot with the rock in as well - It looked like it had a cut in it, which looked an interesting leading line towards the stile.
You are too hard on yourself! The overall atmosphere and perspective of the shot is very evocative. The details you mention sound like competition scrutiny. If the photo evokes emotions and takes you somewhere, it's not wrong!
Great video James... Found it really insightful seeing the timelapse (?) of you shooting the compositions, and then found it massively helpful when you walked through the Images in post - Think I agree with you RE: the placement of stile and stonewall, I'd have been miffed with the same things, and something for me to think about myself if I manage to get to that spot some day
I like your stile.
Great as always....so wondering what you do with the all the pictures after a trip like that? Do you keep them all or just a few? Thanks!
Too hard on yourself James. Nice shots from a great location.
Hey James - another great video :-D I just bought your first preset-set last week... looking forward to seeing the new ones - altough I missed out the discount now if I bought both of them at the same time 🙄🤷♂
Great video about being mindful of the tiny details 😁 learned a lot
good video, great photos! 😁😁
In two weeks
- so... Thanks to MPB I bought back the XPRO 3 and the Ricoh I sold...
😂
Oh boy seen you do this shot before , feels like many times but at lst once so one wonders how much is tube these days. ultimate power n all that. One is partially pissed, hey ho! Remember when you started with your distinctive composite shots, they were good!
And I thought that I was picky about composition and distractions!
awesome video, as usual, got your preset pack last saturday, amazingly good
Hi, everybody!!
Hi, Dr. Nick!!
I thought that your little logo birds should flap their wings. Great scene, but where are the sheep?
Oh, there they are.
Hey man, Love your videos, big fan!!!!!
Wonderful to see North Wales in your video. A much neglected part of the UK from youtube landscape photography channels, at least the British ones I watch.
As for the New York joke, you're a dad now, bad jokes are to be expected. Also given your renaming of all your camera to Leica in various spelling iterations, I've been half expecting one of your sponsors to suddenly become Leica as well.
It certainly must be a while since you've been there - it's now called Eryri 😁
Nice video!
8:25 maybe (on this one occasion only) the use of a tripod would have secured the sought after composition and separation? 😜
This happens more when I shoot digital. I can take the photos and I do, where when I shoot film I make the picture then take it.
Still loving MFT!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊
Photo > Pizza > Posture
Nice shots, James, and great video. If you do camp, how massive is your pack going to be?! Is it possible that you are less enamoured of mountain photography now your gear is heavier?
The dynamic range in those open shots are fab... You shooting on Sony?
James baby
I know this is mostly a photography and not gear review channel, but since you are trying out the Leica - have you also considered trying out the Pixii camera? It will be interesting to hear your perspective on it and how the two compare.
Another great video, thanks. I'm not Welsh either but even I shudder every time you say Triffan. It's Tru-van (ttat's tru not true btw). Hope that helps :)
Perhaps try medium format?
Amazing video James . Can I have a queston ? How did you created the animated logo in beginning of the video ? Tahnks a lot Adam .
James, i’ll take the xpro3 if you still have it. Le t me know how we can do this, I am in US. Cheers man
Calm down with the nit picking, friend.
They are fantastic photos.
Welcome to NY joke is funny keep doing them hahahah welcome to Jamaica hahahahh🤣
its so strange to me to see a youtube photographer go to places so close to where i live really regularly
James - my husband often looks over my shoulder while I'm watching your videos, but tonight he's driven me mad by making me go back & forth over a few short sections muttering to himself "what make are those shoes?" :) If you see this, can you help me out because I'd like to get him a pair for his birthday?
Hey James.
Hi, Which Fjallraven jacket is it you usually wear (the black one)? Would you recommend it?
Lol I just bought a Fujifilm X-Pro 3 and the Ricoh GRiiix :p
No idea where this ‘Snowdonia’ is. Perhaps Argentina? Peru? However it looks suspiciously like part of yr Eryri mountain range in Cymru to me.
Ahh yes the name change! I’ve found it all very confusing - I thought it has always been Eryri in Welsh
so are you saying the lower you got the better the composition, in this situation?
Take the clouds from a previous shot that you do like comp of or is that against the rules?
I always enjoy your videos and always admire your photography James, then I cringe at you mangling the cymraeg place names. Please promise you will try harder.
Curious and no judgement at all but are you not trespassing? I have no idea how things work in Wales, but I'm assuming the sheep aren't wild and you're on someone's property. Are they just really nice? Asking as I've definitely been chased off of private property here in the U.S. before and I didn't even climb over any fences/walls.
I noticed you don't shoot with bracketing. Is there a reason why?
I've just made the mistake of watching a Bill Making Stuff video straight after yours. Did you two go to the same school of presenting? 😅
An observation. First let me say I am a huge fan. I like your shooting style, no tripod, running and gunning. Love it. I also like that you shoot the environment and include details that some of your landscape colleagues would exclude, man-made objects specifically. In this video you obsessed over what I believe were unimportant details and how they were placed in the frame. I believe only obsessed landscape photographers notice such small details such as whether a style cross member is separated from the rest of the style with a clean background. My observation, if these details are so important to you, why don't you use a tripod? Wouldn't that allow you the opportunity to review these details before making the exposure? My reason for not using a tripod is that I find it restricts my movements and limits my creativity. But if such small details are important to you wouldn't the tripod help? I'm sure Mads and Nigel would agree.
Did you try standing on the annoying rock?
Perhaps a slight change of direction - ruclips.net/video/CpKofdye1eg/видео.html
Stile style
X-Pro 3 sale? So sad to hear... Oh, compare MPB with Wex, you may be surprised....
How come people all of a sudden sell their cameras to buy/use exclusively Leica camera? James is not the first one this year who did that.
Who else has done it? Curious to see how others are getting on, I can’t work out if I love it or have made a giant mistake… 🙂
@@JamesPopsysPhoto Well, from the top of my head, Chris Orange announced about two weeks ago that he's selling his cameras to switch exclusively to Leica.
James .... It's a copse mate not "a forest" .... A forest tends to be a teensy bit bigger. 🤣
Should have used a tripod 😅
If you sell the Ricoh you will regret it: it's not the same as the Leica
Last time I went there I took pizza with me, just a tip 😉
You going through your "sloppy composition"... do you actually consider all this whilst composing? No wonder I'm incompetent with landscape photos, haha. I suppose I'll be a forever hear head with mediocre photo/video skills. Speaking of gear... I would be genuinely interested in an episode where you return to the G9 (unless you've sold it anyway) and compare it to the A7Riv after using this long!
you should have stood on that pesky rock
300 shots of what? waste of space! U might luv editing, I don't. I hate it! When pro, I went to Mamiya-C TLR with a few lenses. 1. Way higher quality than my Leica. 2. 12 exposures per roll. Large contact sheets, easily shared! ( I was doing Fashion/ Models/ Portraits). One roll per model. 3 main shots! I am lazy but very smart..
Love the video's... to bad it's sponsor is MPB (the EU Part) is just a scam.. it's so bad in service and products.. hope UK and US version is better.
Would be interested in hearing about your barefoot dalliance
i still dont get what is the story of this photo. what is the focus on? light on the mountain, lake, wall? what is it... too much distractions for clear image focus... sorry but you failed miserably on this one 😥