Hi,Henry nice instruction video on composition .it also proves that you can have only the basic equipment and as long as you have the skills you can still produce beautiful pictures.
It seems I have been migrating more and more towards woodland photography. Something about the character of the trees makes them interesting to me. Your tips will help hopefully make them interesting to others as well. Thank you
My main takeaway from this video... that it’s not the camera that makes a great photographic image, but the photographer that stands behind it. Well done!
Thanks for sharing your tips and photos, I have learnt a lot from you and managed to improve my photography and obtained some good photos recently up in Cumbria instead of my usual postcard photography. Look forward to your vlogs every week keep it up please. Finally Cumbria a photographer’s delight gonna struggle back in the Fens and Norfolk
Henry Thank you so very much for sharing the wealth of your artistic skills and professional knowledge and experience with us... For me this tutorial is a tremendous boost of encouragement because I do walk the woodlands of the DelMarVa Peninsula and more often then not come home discouraged and frustrated having not even found a single image.. This tutorial gives me a tremendous boost knowing that the search can be a long, hard, and frustrating experience but the reward is worth effort. THANK YOU ONCE MORE ....Rusty Iron Mike🙏🏻👍
Henry Henry Henry, you never cease to amaze me. That was a truly inspirational vlog, I’ve said this before, you’re a natural teacher. You’ve kept the ‘tips’ so simple and easy to implement. Absolutely loved the final image, would love to know how you edited that, maybe you could show us one day in one of your rare ‘at home’ vlogs. Well done mate.
Awesome video. I love woodland photography. Where i live the woods dont seems as interesting, but im sure there are photos to be taken. I struggle so much that i give up quickly. This video encourages me. One thing that i think im doing wrong is to have my camera around my neck all the time. I just dont take enought time to evaluate and scout for a next time. From now on ill keep the camera in my backpack and just observe. Also, will take my x100v and use it as a composition tool. Great tip.
Thanks for mentioning the (us) beginners - the great images and interesting take on 'vision'. Silver Birches gleaming in the first image. 👍📸👌 Many thanks and take care 😊
Fml i love videos like this... RUclipsrs doing a photography video using a little compact point & shoot and just having fun. We need more videos like this. Got sick of seeing A7s and 5Ds in every damn photography RUclips video.
Great idea to just use a budget camera, l sometimes go to the woods with my main camera, but l also go there with just my iPhone, the sense of freedom and the fact you just shoot and move on to the next place is refreshing and relaxing!
Just a few minutes into the video and I have to agree, I recently wnet to a local park that I have shot hundreds of times but last week I probably got my best images ever, the video will be out next wednesday, now back to watch the rest of your video.
you certainly have a good eye for composition Henry as the images you took showed that even though you were using your small camera. Hope you get the conditions you are after for future revisits
Thx Henry. I'm rapidly learning to understand woodland photography and appreciate the beauty of proper framing and composition. I think revisiting is the best takeaway from your video today. Cheers!
Really good Henry. I like the scouting shots. I feel like they were a slap in the face for me. I keep thinking the photo has to lead somewhere, and it stops me taking certain shots. This was a good wake up.
Hi Henry, Totaly agree with returning back to the woodland.I always have a little camera in the glove box and a spare battery. So if I am passing a new wood on a trip out so I use it tyo have a walk about ton see if its worth returning to with the big setup. Did you get my info on the quick zoom on the rear screen and have you had time to try it out. saves a lot of mucking abou. I saw those silver birch trees and it would of been my shot as well.
Brilliant advice Henry. You can't rush woodland photography. I used to force a shot which turned out ... meh .. when I got home. From time to time I still fall into that trap but not so much. It is good advice to scout about taking a few quick shots (I use my phone) and return another time. Its a funny thing as just today I was out practicing a bit more woodland photography (Managed one shot in 2 hours). I noticed a few squirrels so changed to my 70-300mm and got a belter of a squirrel jumping from one tree to another. Strange how things can turn out. Great Vid, good tips.
Enjoyable vlog Henry. Regarding woodland photography i always seem to find images i know they are not award winners but i like them. The odd few i delete but always end up with some keepers. As i have said many times one mans meat is another mans poison. Take care.
Three great tips Henry. Beautiful scenes for future photos! Thanks for all the great videos. Going out this weekend, hoping to get some beautiful fall woodland photos myself.
Hi. Thanks for all those great videos. 👍🏼 May I ask though, how you keep track of those testshots, so you can find these places again, when you return with your main camera, to take the final shot? Do you use some sort of gps tracking? Thanks in adveance for your hints.
Hi my name's Kenny....I've explored this area a lot of late...I live in Ulverston...I found a mint place close to where u was 5 mins in 2 birch tree area. Carry on down 200yds where the big gap in wall is where through gate is...there is a gate to the left of the wall also,which opens up into a brackened area.. Head to hardly visible bracken laiden path to the left running parallel with normal footpath on other side of wall...head slightly toward 1 o'clock / 2 o'clok from the wall line and it raises up towards high parts of forest fell tops.... U go up and the 3rd raise /highest point there is a very eiry group of gnarly low twisted trees u dont see them much at all in other areas of this great woodland, with some great stone mounds there also dotted around...it feels very druidy and ancient/ almost a spiritual area and a very haunting atmosphere there....its of the beaten track although the faint pathway seems to lead to there in a way...I will be returning soon to this spot myself as I have a new good camera phone now....and with my real camera too,hope u get the chance to find the place and see with your own eyes...if I had a good wide angled close range lense I would believe this to be my choice to capture the scene ..any way keep up the top work )
Lovely. I love woodland photography. You are the one who inspires me a lot., ❤️📸🍻💪 I use my Ricoh GR 3 a lot for this. I was the one who was first to like this video and comment.
Oh Henry.... great video, but it makes me so sad,.... should have been in the lakes at the moment (from Aus), but alas... then you bloody mention Simon, ...ah shit was going to Torridon with Simon too.. :(
Hi Henry, I like the last shot, one to frame and put on display in the living room! Did you notice in the first shot that you got an echo of the silver birch trees higher up in the forest, also framed by green. Nice! Of course the bronze bracken in the foreground keeps it all in balance with the colour and texture. The second shot was a bit confusing for me. Couldn't find a way through there. We're going up a notch with this covid thing. Hope you are ok, keep well and stay safe.
For me a tele photo lens is easier to work with in the forest. I have tried wide angle lenses but the pictures gets just chaotic with too much information.
Henry, just a quickie as it's half past two in the morning and I must have an early night! Enjoyed and learned from this video, but you said you'd link to a video on Simon Baxter's channel - the "link" was just a mention of his name without a link or address: "Simon Baxter's RUclips Channel: @Simon Baxter" I found one, which may be the one you mentioned, called "Composition in Woodland Photography"
As I see by your pictures, you try to avoid the overexposed spots of light in the sky among the leaves. For me, it is very tricky to include the sky as the difference in light is very very difficult to handle. Regards
@@HenryTurnerphoto I was more suggesting there must be something wrong with the m50 and why you would rather use other things over that. not that there was anything wrong with a point and shoot or a phone.
Thanks for the comment! I absolutely love my M50 - it’s brilliant, but I use it for my video work - so I hope you can understand how I can’t really use it as a stills in my videos unfortunately. Great camera 👍🏼
Hi,Henry nice instruction video on composition .it also proves that you can have only the basic equipment and as long as you have the skills you can still produce beautiful pictures.
It seems I have been migrating more and more towards woodland photography. Something about the character of the trees makes them interesting to me. Your tips will help hopefully make them interesting to others as well. Thank you
Love that third shot.
Awesome vlog. Thanks for opening my eyes to new ideas.
Good advice Henry I'm off this week to do some woodland photography so this has given me food for thought.👍
Mate, great video. I went out yesterday to try to use some of the lessons given. Have to say I am really rather pleased with the result. Thanks 🙏
Thank you Henry, very informative. I too struggle with woodland photography.
My main takeaway from this video... that it’s not the camera that makes a great photographic image, but the photographer that stands behind it. Well done!
Thanks for sharing your tips and photos, I have learnt a lot from you and managed to improve my photography and obtained some good photos recently up in Cumbria instead of my usual postcard photography. Look forward to your vlogs every week keep it up please. Finally Cumbria a photographer’s delight gonna struggle back in the Fens and Norfolk
Henry Thank you so very much for sharing the wealth of your artistic skills and professional knowledge and experience with us... For me this tutorial is a tremendous boost of encouragement because I do walk the woodlands of the DelMarVa Peninsula and more often then not come home discouraged and frustrated having not even found a single image.. This tutorial gives me a tremendous boost knowing that the search can be a long, hard, and frustrating experience but the reward is worth effort. THANK YOU ONCE MORE ....Rusty Iron Mike🙏🏻👍
Henry Henry Henry, you never cease to amaze me. That was a truly inspirational vlog, I’ve said this before, you’re a natural teacher. You’ve kept the ‘tips’ so simple and easy to implement. Absolutely loved the final image, would love to know how you edited that, maybe you could show us one day in one of your rare ‘at home’ vlogs. Well done mate.
Thanks so much Tony, means a lot 🍻
fantastic photos I like so much
Awesome video. I love woodland photography. Where i live the woods dont seems as interesting, but im sure there are photos to be taken. I struggle so much that i give up quickly. This video encourages me. One thing that i think im doing wrong is to have my camera around my neck all the time. I just dont take enought time to evaluate and scout for a next time. From now on ill keep the camera in my backpack and just observe. Also, will take my x100v and use it as a composition tool. Great tip.
Thanks for mentioning the (us) beginners - the great images and interesting take on 'vision'. Silver Birches gleaming in the first image. 👍📸👌 Many thanks and take care 😊
Fml i love videos like this... RUclipsrs doing a photography video using a little compact point & shoot and just having fun. We need more videos like this. Got sick of seeing A7s and 5Ds in every damn photography RUclips video.
Class video. Just goes to show you don’t need fancy gear of you have the eye for a great shot! 👍
Great idea to just use a budget camera, l sometimes go to the woods with my main camera, but l also go there with just my iPhone, the sense of freedom and the fact you just shoot and move on to the next place is refreshing and relaxing!
Welcome to the world of Canon:-)
The last picture is so beautiful
As i already said you MUST do more video about post processing
Just a few minutes into the video and I have to agree, I recently wnet to a local park that I have shot hundreds of times but last week I probably got my best images ever, the video will be out next wednesday, now back to watch the rest of your video.
Nice tips there Henry and put across to us so well. Fantastic channel mate 💪.
you certainly have a good eye for composition Henry as the images you took showed that even though you were using your small camera. Hope you get the conditions you are after for future revisits
Beautiful last image Henry
Thank you for the knowledge Sir Henry 🙏🙏😊
Thx Henry. I'm rapidly learning to understand woodland photography and appreciate the beauty of proper framing and composition. I think revisiting is the best takeaway from your video today. Cheers!
Great final image Henry with the autumnal colours captured perfectly once again....
Love that last image! It's really not easy to capture a good woodland scene. Needs plenty of patience and thought on every element.
Really good Henry.
I like the scouting shots.
I feel like they were a slap in the face for me. I keep thinking the photo has to lead somewhere, and it stops me taking certain shots.
This was a good wake up.
Thanks for helping me to "see" some of the aspects of woodland. Appreciate it.
The silverberch look fantastic, enjoyed watching as always Henry, some good things to look out for.
Hi Henry, Totaly agree with returning back to the woodland.I always have a little camera in the glove box and a spare battery. So if I am passing a new wood on a trip out so I use it tyo have a walk about ton see if its worth returning to with the big setup. Did you get my info on the quick zoom on the rear screen and have you had time to try it out. saves a lot of mucking abou. I saw those silver birch trees and it would of been my shot as well.
Cheers Bob!! Yes I have since replied mate, thanks so much for that info, I’ll be looking into that 👍🏼
@@HenryTurnerphoto glad to help out
Brilliant advice Henry. You can't rush woodland photography. I used to force a shot which turned out ... meh .. when I got home. From time to time I still fall into that trap but not so much. It is good advice to scout about taking a few quick shots (I use my phone) and return another time. Its a funny thing as just today I was out practicing a bit more woodland photography (Managed one shot in 2 hours). I noticed a few squirrels so changed to my 70-300mm and got a belter of a squirrel jumping from one tree to another. Strange how things can turn out. Great Vid, good tips.
Love your Woodland Videos and your Enthusiasm! Great work
Also the quality of your content is Always Improving! Really Love it !
Enjoyable vlog Henry. Regarding woodland photography i always seem to find images i know they are not award winners but i like them. The odd few i delete but always end up with some keepers. As i have said many times one mans meat is another mans poison. Take care.
Three great tips Henry. Beautiful scenes for future photos! Thanks for all the great videos. Going out this weekend, hoping to get some beautiful fall woodland photos myself.
Henry, thanks so much !
I am so jealous of those beautiful fall colors.. There's still not much going on here in Holland..
awesome video
Beautiful picture's.
My compact is the Canon Powershot SX540 HS. It is a cheep but amazing Camera.
Hi. Thanks for all those great videos. 👍🏼
May I ask though, how you keep track of those testshots, so you can find these places again, when you return with your main camera, to take the final shot?
Do you use some sort of gps tracking?
Thanks in adveance for your hints.
Thanks so much! No, the woodland is quite small and because I know it so well I can remember the spots!!
Quality as always! Cheers Henry, T🙂
Hi my name's Kenny....I've explored this area a lot of late...I live in Ulverston...I found a mint place close to where u was 5 mins in 2 birch tree area.
Carry on down 200yds where the big gap in wall is where through gate is...there is a gate to the left of the wall also,which opens up into a brackened area..
Head to hardly visible bracken laiden path to the left running parallel with normal footpath on other side of wall...head slightly toward 1 o'clock / 2 o'clok from the wall line and it raises up towards high parts of forest fell tops....
U go up and the 3rd raise /highest point there is a very eiry group of gnarly low twisted trees u dont see them much at all in other areas of this great woodland, with some great stone mounds there also dotted around...it feels very druidy and ancient/ almost a spiritual area and a very haunting atmosphere there....its of the beaten track although the faint pathway seems to lead to there in a way...I will be returning soon to this spot myself as I have a new good camera phone now....and with my real camera too,hope u get the chance to find the place and see with your own eyes...if I had a good wide angled close range lense I would believe this to be my choice to capture the scene ..any way keep up the top work )
Thank you Kenny I'll be sure to check it out
Lovely. I love woodland photography. You are the one who inspires me a lot., ❤️📸🍻💪
I use my Ricoh GR 3 a lot for this.
I was the one who was first to like this video and comment.
Have a little Canon compact camera... never thought of using it for a scouting camera! Great idea and Great shots (:>)
Oh Henry.... great video, but it makes me so sad,.... should have been in the lakes at the moment (from Aus), but alas... then you bloody mention Simon, ...ah shit was going to Torridon with Simon too.. :(
The last image would be good to take as a panorama image, don't you think? Well done.
Hi Henry, I like the last shot, one to frame and put on display in the living room! Did you notice in the first shot that you got an echo of the silver birch trees higher up in the forest, also framed by green. Nice! Of course the bronze bracken in the foreground keeps it all in balance with the colour and texture.
The second shot was a bit confusing for me. Couldn't find a way through there.
We're going up a notch with this covid thing. Hope you are ok, keep well and stay safe.
For me a tele photo lens is easier to work with in the forest. I have tried wide angle lenses but the pictures gets just chaotic with too much information.
Henry, just a quickie as it's half past two in the morning and I must have an early night!
Enjoyed and learned from this video, but you said you'd link to a video on Simon Baxter's channel - the "link" was just a mention of his name without a link or address:
"Simon Baxter's RUclips Channel: @Simon Baxter"
I found one, which may be the one you mentioned, called "Composition in Woodland Photography"
Hi Alan, thanks ever so much for that, I’ve changed that to the proper link! Much appreciated 👍🏼
As I see by your pictures, you try to avoid the overexposed spots of light in the sky among the leaves. For me, it is very tricky to include the sky as the difference in light is very very difficult to handle.
Regards
as someone who uses a canon m50 as my only camera it's depressing to see you choose a point and shoot, or worse, your phone over using your m50
Nothing wrong with a phone/point and shoot!
@@HenryTurnerphoto I was more suggesting there must be something wrong with the m50 and why you would rather use other things over that. not that there was anything wrong with a point and shoot or a phone.
Thanks for the comment! I absolutely love my M50 - it’s brilliant, but I use it for my video work - so I hope you can understand how I can’t really use it as a stills in my videos unfortunately. Great camera 👍🏼