An Honest Day of Street Photography
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2024
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I'm quite critical of my photography but also sometimes (often) I go out and just don't get anything good, so this video is an attempt to show my honest feelings and approach to a normal day of street photography by ranking each photo out of 10. Let me know if you think I got it right 🤔
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🔴 Do you find yourself to be quite critical of your own work like I am?
Hopefully this video helps if you’re feeling like street photography is really hard. It is. But that sticking with it will lead to improvement and the photos you want to make in the long run.
As always thank you for watching! 🙏🏻
(Please hit like on the video, it helps with the algorithm!)
13:58 your shadow is perfect 100/10
@@serz1885Thank you! That’s very kind 🙏🏻
Aaall the time. See a nice inspiring scene, photograph it, look at the photograph, feel nothing. Or say 'I should have positioned that element over there, too late now.'
Hardest part of street photography is still taking photos of strangers, though! Let's get out to the St Pat's hooley tomorrow and see how brave I am...
If I wasn’t so hard on myself I’d post more than 10 photos a year! 😅 Not even sure they’re that good! 😂
Can't really say anything about the ratings - thats fully up to taste if you ask me. What i like about this video is you being very honest and showing how it really is. Finding a good scene - missing the perfect moment/look/composition and then moving on to the next opportunity until, once every few weeks or even months, we get a really great one. Doing street photography is not for the impatient.
That word 'closer' came up a lot, I guess we all know the famous quote. Generally agree with your rankings. People from behind really do need a broader context or action to enliven them. Love the guy with the boxing gloves. Thanks for posting.
I always find your work interesting. This video just proves how difficult it is to capture good street images and not that every shot we take is a banger. I like this video because it focusses on the challenge you (and all of us) face every time we go out. My favourites are 2:12, 5:20, 6:50 and 9:53
Thanks, Tony! Appreciate the kind words :)
Thank you so much for this kind of video! People need to know how your average day goes-maybe not a lot of good shots, but all of the in between work is so important to honing your craft. Thanks for helping to demystify a difficult but rewarding art. Makes it more accessible when someone approaches it with more realistic expectations.
I absolutely love a Saturday morning getting out to go take photos. I’ve been told I do good work and have an eye but I always humbly rebuttal any compliments. However, we as humans know we are capable of doing great things. The one thing that I find holding me back is, and I’m sure you’ve heard this one before, the fear of people questioning what you’re doing. I believe that is the only tough hurdle truly holding me back from being able to say yes, I can see myself improving in my street photography.
Agree with that! I think confidence is one of the biggest hurdles holding street photographers back, so I’ll definitely be doing a video on that soon :)
@@timjamiesonphotos I’ll be on the lookout for that one!!
Street photography is brutally hard to do. My advice is go to busy events and markets with huge crowds bustling around.
Keep moving and walking all the time.
That is very true, but that’s what makes it so damn fun too, the challenge of it 🙏🏻
I don't find it hard at all, I just walk around for a couple of hours, point and shoot, then choose the best of the best shots.
One thing I've started doing occasionally is, after transferring jpg images to my phone, I set my phone screen to black and white. I've found that viewing my images this way has opened up a great perspective and widens editing possibilities.
Hey Tim, I don't usually leave comments on videos but I'm just sat in a rainy car waiting to head out into Cambridge for a 2 hour walk with my camera.
Found your video very real and motivating. Have a good day.
Thanks, Toby! I really appreciate that. Hope you have a great time photographing Cambridge 📸
Rain in Cambridge is the best weather for street, no? ;)
A very realistic take of a day on the street. Maybe not the most motivating thing for me to watch before I head out today 😂 well done for pushing through though and sharing this video.
I did a workshop with Matt Stuart last weekend and it included a bit of a critique of the shots of the day. One of my shots reminded me of that shot you have of the guy with boxing gloves. Mine had a bus stop sign coming out of a guys head as you have with a tree. The learning for me was to really think about the background, as Matt says it’s the main thing that F’s up photos.
Thanks mate, it’s not always easy or fun, but I think knowing that it’s hard can take the pressure off a bit, at least for me, I try to go out with low expectations then anything I get is a bonus.
Ah I’m so jealous, would love to do a workshop with him. I didn’t point that out in the vid but you got it spot on about that pic, initially I really liked that shot of the guy with the boxing gloves on weirdly, he was such a character, but it’s ruined by that tree haha. Can’t always compose well in a reactive shot like that, but you’re so right, not paying attention to the background has spoiled so many shots with potential for me but something to work on. Hope you get out and happy shooting! 🙏🏻
Tim, there's nothing wrong with any of those photos. Thanks for sharing.
I can tell you from my own experience that I think nearly all my photos are crap when I first look at them. Sometimes a crop improves them a lot. I recently went through a folder of images I made two years ago that I hadn't thought much of when I made them and found a couple of keepers I disregarded at the time. I guess they needed to age, like fine wine. 😛
I was out with the camera yesterday photographing the Saint Patrick's Day parade. I made two candid portraits and four dog photos that I really like.
I am as critical at my work as you. But sometimes a photo that I think is not good and I end up posting it on social media does well and sometimes when I love a photo and post it on social media it doesn't do well. I jut keep going and shooting mainly what I love and for myself and then if a photo does well its a bonus.
Another interesting video, for me the photo of the lady with orange hair stubbing her cigarette out is great. Your comment about the image not working out in colour so change into black and white is so key. Sometimes when the colours aren't working out making it a black and white image can save it and just elevate it. Very similar when photographing a concert, music gig and the low light and all the different colours just blend to make a meh of an image, just shoot in black and white so you are dealing with just 2 colours, the results can be incredible.
Thank you! It’s amazing how we all have different tastes for photographs, keeps it interesting and 100% re black and white!
Thanks for sharing this. I think this is such a great reminder that 1) it's important to critique our work and 2) there's no substitute for time spent with a camera for improving skills and techniques as well as opportunities to witness amazing moments in from of our cameras. I may "borrow" this idea for a future video of my own ;) Cheers!
Thanks mate! Yeah course, RUclips is the best platform for sharing ideas to make videos I think 🙏🏻
I loved the honesty.
Love your POVs, love seeing your journey as a photographer. Thanks for sharing an authentic picture of real life street photography! I personally connected more to your earlier , more abstract artistic work but love seeing the process and experimentation (in the process of developing my own style so I deeply relate).
Ah thank you! That’s very kind. Glad to hear. You never know how tastes change and develop, abstractness might creep back into my work at some point we’ll see
I think you underestimated the picture of the 2 asian gentlemen at the start of the video. Everything from the colours, the lines you pointed out, the slight and maybe unintentional dutch angle looks great. I'd give that a solid 8!
That's very kind! Thank you
My struggle on street photography:
• I need to shoot something
• I don't know what to shoot
Btw, your bw photo where light and shadow were divided by a pole and a lady was shoot in the light side is your best
Ah yes, I hear ya! Sometimes setting up a ‘goal’ at the start of my photography walk, like looking for gestures, or a certain colour, or people with pets on the street etc can help me have an idea of what to shoot, then that also helps me observe on my walks.
Glad you liked that photo, I’ve really come around to it too!
The picture of the kids on the bull works because it fills your frame. You aren't close enough to make the others work. In terms of composition, some are better than others but you still have trees etc coming out of people's heads. All that said, keep up the work. It's all meant in a helpful manner 🙏
I enjoy doing street photography. As you suggest, it is hard to do. Thank goodness I’m doing street photography with a digital camera. As a result, I’m not punished financially for pressing the shutter. I usually have a 2% rate of images I like. That means I have to accept a 98% failure rate. That is par for the course.
Yesterday I went to the St Patrick’s day parade. I love parades. I went to the parade an hour early so I could get up close and personal with the people who would be in the parade. These people don’t mind being photographed. Just the opposite. These are easy shots and get me started.
The real subjects for my parade walk are the people on the street. Their attention is typically focused on the parade so they are easy to photograph. Plus there are a lot of people with cameras and phones taking pictures so I don’t stand out. Parades are easily my favorite venues. I maybe have 5% that are any good. For me, that is as good as it gets.
If I used film I would dramatically take less photographs. Since it costs nothing to take a digital photograph I take 100’s of them. I know that I’m working with a 2% keeper rate so I take a lot of photographs. Unfortunately, I don’t know which of the images will be in the 2%. I don’t shot and pray. I see someone and decide if I want to capture their image. I wish I was more efficient taking street images. Then I’d have a better than 2-5% rate of OK images. This is my process. I hope the 98% of my images I reject are better than the 98% I rejected when I first started. Higher quality failures. That is my ambition. Plus the 2% are getting better too.
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Thanks for your lovely long comment mate! You’re right, street photography is mostly about failure, and events make for a great way to get photos with confidence. Happy shooting! 🙏🏻
I love your street photography POVs especially the Birmingham ones keep up the great work
Thank you, Ethan! Much appreciated 🙏🏻
Been to Birmingham a few times and liked photographing the architecture (I am attracted to churches lol). I liked your first shot with lady with walking stick walking through the light cast between buildings. I think the gate of her stride worked better than the third you liked (but we all have different views). As you said its quite rare to see videos on RUclips of the reality of street photography, so I applaud you sharing this.
Thanks heaps! 🙏🏻
The idea of you writing your own rating for each photo is incredible, very cool. I hope it will be in the next videos
Thank you! I might mix it in here and there, not sure yet
Everyone is their own harshest critic.
You have exactly the right idea. Keep on shooting and don't give up. Look for good compositions but don't overthink.
Some of the best pictures come from spontaneous moments.
The from the hip shot of the two guys coming down the steps is great.
And yeah, if you can't get colour to work go black and white.
Good work 🙌🏻 Keep it up!
I struggle so much with street photography. Big ups to you for doing it. Also, I think you are harsh on your ratings. Keep up the amazing work
Thank you! That’s very kind. It’s hard but fun, keep at it 👊🏼
Love the video and honesty of your work. Many big st photogs on ig seem to set up many of their images. And that's fine, but I think it's important to capture normal, everyday moments on the st. It will be nostalgic and part of your local history one day.
Thank you! That’s what I hope to have in my photo albums down the line, just a record of life’s moments over the years 🙏🏻
I liked this video. It is always nice to see how other street photographers think. I was wondering that do you ever crop your street photographs in post. What I many times do is click shutter even if the subject is a bit further away. I can always crop in and upscale the image.
Thank you mate! Really appreciate that. I do crop sometimes, prefer to challenge myself to get it right in camera at the moment but I’m definitely not precious about cropping. When my x100vi finally arrives I’ll have more cropping power!
Cool, Fuji X100VI. I am ”glad” I do not need it! Just picked up a Ricoh GR3x last fall. Very happy with it.
First off Tim, enjoyed the video, the effort you have put in to creating this video and the thought behind this. Personally I would try to avoid being overly negative (critical of yourself) when you provide a narrative of the photo shoot. I’m new to “Street Photography” and have tried to do what you have done and felt the same way! I think the primary cause for this has more to do with 3 things. Location, weather and frequency of practice! I think it would be fair to say that the majority of photographers who go on to achieve a measure of success, have achieved this because they likely live in a very popular / busy location, or are able to travel to those locations on a regular basis. If you have got great light, that’s a bonus. If you are able to take 1000’s of photographs in places like London, New York, India, etc., etc, you are at a distinct advantage over someone who lives in a dull town in England where the light isn’t great and those locations aren’t milling with tourists! If I was a young man and had a passion for photography, I would consider moving to a place where I could indulge in my hobby!
Thanks for the lovely comment! I absolutely agree with you there re location - sometimes we have to make the most of what we have though 🙏🏻
@@timjamiesonphotos And that’s all you can do as far as location is concerned, although if this limits your opportunities if your preferred style is “Street”, maybe the trick is to consider other genres, e.g. Macro, Abstract, Creative etc….anything just to develop your skills:)
Birmingham is my go to location, was there yesterday,, really good area is Digbeth / The Custard factory, lots of street art, also the fish market,
It’s a cool city!
Street photography is hard and fun i say... awesome tips and for showing your work i like the honestly of this video..35mm is a beast but u getting there i gives the viewer eyes like being there..thanks for the time and gving me that inspiration to go out and practice..cheers tim
Thanks so much mate! Happy shooting 📸
Your video is just relatable with my style of photography on so many levels. I snap at every moving thing, some ok some not 😂. I panicked at the lights fading, too, and my senses goes into overdrive if I am in a busy environment. Recently, I came across Sam Abell's work, and he mentioned not to chase the subject and set the background first. He sorts of work back to front with his photography. It slows me right down and forces me to think. Don't be too hard on yourself , we are all on a different photography journey. Thank you for the video and your honesty. Subbed.
I am definitely just as harsh with my own photos. As far as your images go, I feel you may simply be a bit too far, rendering the main subject a little too small within the frame., and ending up with a lot of distracting non-essential background. Either go for a crop, or use a longer lens. The other point is more stylistic, meaning its like salting a dish, some prefer a little others a bit more. That is, personally I would have given the images plenty more contrast, especially by crunching down the shadows. Glad you posted the video as it shows we all go through a lot of self doubt when taking pictures.
Yeah absolutely, I hear ya! I used to like more contrast and the more film photography I’ve looked at recently I much prefer a less contrasty edit, closer to what the human eye sees. But like you said everyone’s taste is different!
Thanks for making this video, Tim.
This is my typical day out shooting. Lots of walking around, and the majority of images are average. I feel you may have been a bit harsh on yourself, as some of the images were a lot better than you scored them, but if you have set a bar for yourself, you need to make sure you are always reaching and exceeding it.
I find leaving some time between taking photos and editing them, allows the emotions to settle and I look at the images with a fresh pair of eyes. Some images I thought were great turn out to be average at best and others which with I thought were rubbish, turn out to be my favourites.
My favourite image was at 6:50 - Lamp post and light
Keep doing what you are doing, Tim.
Thank you Ash 🙏🏻
I wish I had the courage to take the shot. Sooo familiar!
Keep on trying :)
Servus Tim! Thanks for these insights on your work.
If you don't mind cropping hard, I would focus on the shadow of the two girls at 2:10 min. and then flip the picture.
Thanks again for the video & have a great Sunday
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video 🙏🏻
Fantastic video 👏🏻📸
Thank you bro!
You're very hard on yourself, which makes this a little downbeat. That said, kudos to you for your honesty! I would be happy if I could my street images half as good as yours!
Excellent point about other people seeing your shots for the first time when you're probably sick to death of them. I wonder how you would have reacted if your shots were taken by someone els and presented to you?
Great video - thanks very much!
Ah thank you mate! I am hyper critical of everything I do tbh, that’s my personality. I’ve other videos on the channel that aren’t downbeat like this one though! On reflection there are photos in this video I really like, I just doubt myself sometimes :)
We’ve all been there struggling to see the shot. All the skill in the world can’t substitute for a bit of luck now and then.
Yo, Tim. Well done, and nice photos! It's fun to rate photos to improve the photography skills. Do you delete old photos that you now feel are not good enough? I've done it before and I regret it now because I think it takes away the joy of photography. Yeah, don't do it! Hahaha.
Thanks mate! No I’m a hoarder I keep everything :)
Kudos for candor and insights, Tim. Thumbnail says it all, quite well. Difficult to sync w/your ratings w/o knowing your criteria. Veiled woman in red and color version (shows bag better) of punching bag kid my fav. I have to admire your hit rate - wish I could do as well.
My sense is that 35mm FF equiv might be too wide for your preferred field of photographic vision - many images from the POV, IMO, would be more impactful if cropped in to feature subject.
Agree that honest analysis of “almost” images can help us improve. Just going out for a shoot can keep us in practice - technical proficiency and observational awareness. Does that make sense?
Ever wake up from a sound sleep w/a photo idea or problem solution? Exercise such as revealed in this vid can “plant” creative seeds, IMO, that emerge and grow when we least expect.
Glad you posted this one, Tim. Cheers!
Thanks Paul, I’m not interested in 50mm+ focal lengths at the moment. This video was an average day of shooting, when I wasn’t feeling very confident. Almost didn’t make it but put it out there anyway. And yeah that makes sense! Thanks for the comment 🙏🏻
Hey man great video. I'm absolutely over critical of myself, doubting myself all the time. I think its part and parcel of it though. Also, I reckon better to be that way to avoid complacency.
Ah agreed there mate! Thanks for the comment 🙏🏻
@timjamiesonphotos of course man. Just found your chanel so I'm currently binging 🤣🤣. Keep up the great work 👊👍
Such a real video, so relatable to be self critical and so honest, that not all pictures work. I find that reviewing them after a while also works for me, I can then look at them more objectively. Good luck!
Roman Fox and others started this trend. But yeah cool to see smaller youtubers pick up the trend.
excellent was considering shooting today and needed that little boost, although it looks like its gonna rain and the xt30ii sadly isn't weather sealed
Ah glad to hear that! Great, I like shooting in the rain even though my camera isn’t weather sealed, a decent umbrella is a must ☔️
The ratings for each photo are your own evaluations of your work - which is fine as far as it goes. It would be interesting what ratings would be given by a panel of other viewers. Some of the images which you find as just middle of the road might well receive a substantially different assessment by others (obviously in either a plus or minus direction.)
Yeah 100% I think getting feedback from other photographers you respect is the best way to find out where you are and how to improve - workshops is good for this. But yeah this is just a YT video, so can only give my own opinion (other than comments but need to take those with a pinch of salt ha)
Hi Tim, I think you are being a bit hard on yourself really. I'm trying to capture street work too and often feel like I've wasted a few hours in a city centre. My feeling is the mono images of your day work better, there didn't seem to be a huge colour palette to provide some real contrast with the subjects. I think shooting to the environment can change the result! Keep posting as I always see something in your work I like 👍
I really enjoyed this if I were super critical some of these shots would for me worked better (again my preference) in Portrait, but I’m someone who shoots 99% on am 85mm prime
Thanks mate! It’s amazing how different people’s tastes are, keeps us creating :)
I have been very critical of my own photography and still am to a degree.
I think you are very hard on yourself.
The question you pose about converting to black and white is, I feel, really poignant.
I personally think the shot of the two Asian gentlemen walking down the stairs with cigarettes would look awesome in black and white with higher contrast and even a bit of grain. But then that could be just me and how I personally like photos.
Hi Tim, beautiful video and photos. How do you edit your photos? Some of them really look like film; do you have a preset or are you using film simulations from Fuji? Thanks
Ps: if you use a preset, do you sell it? :-)
Thank you! I edit my photos in Lightroom, have been working on my own presets for a while, watch this space! 🙏🏻
This sort of photography takes lots of courage & 'hide'.Full marks for trying.Get in closer & try to get faces & reaction rather than backs & sides of heads.
A very enjoyable video, it shows that street photography is easy, but doing it really well is hard! When I go out for a shoot I'm pleased with one good keeper, the rest are forgettable. A number of times you mention you would have liked to be closer. I'm wrestling with prime vs zoom and with a zoom you may have got closer. Why are so many street photographers against zooms? Zooms today are small, light and easy to use with excellent optical quality..
Ah I don't think I explained myself properly in the video. With a wide angle lens, you capture more of the action when you are closer as you have a wider field of view, when you use a longer lens then it compresses the scene and you get a different look and I don't like that look at all.
With a wider lens it's a lot more difficult than just sniping from distance with a long lens which makes it more fun for me. I'm here for the challenge, there are many pluses and negatives to zoom lenses, but it's not for me, having to decide the focal length to use with a zoom ads another thing to decide so this takes away from being in the moment and makes it harder. The issue in this video here is confidence, not the gear :)
@@timjamiesonphotos I know what you mean, there is a sense of freedom with a prime. I use the 16-80 zoom on my xt5 when the weather is wet as both have WR. Other wise I use my xt20 with the 23 f2 lens, or even the 27 f2. 8 for lightness. Just watched your Amsterdam video, very enjoyable.
Love your channel I really want to get into street photography, can you suggest a camera that doesn’t cost a fortune to start with please? Had to subscribe
Thanks mate! Glad you enjoy the channel. Hmm I'm not the best guy when it comes to gear, the Framelines channel has a bunch of videos about second hand gear to pick up if you want to get into street photography, so recommend checking them out - they're very good :). Welcome to the street photography club, it's a lot of fun 📷
@@timjamiesonphotos thank you will work my way through your videos, keep the videos coming along
Hi Tim, what’s your rating scale like? what’s a 3 and a 6 or 8?
1 being absolutely terrible, 5 average, 10 world class. Sorta, not a scientific method haha, in this case just instinctual really
I find bwing hyowr critical of my images make sme strive to think and act differently.. in equipment, capture, location and post... P.S. that Shot of the guy by Poundland crop in from the left and straighten your near vertical and it improves dramatically..🙏
The black and white punch bag was the best shot, with a crop to focus on the child it should have deserved a better score.
Is there a repeating comment about being closer? However unfashionable they seem to be these days, perhaps a zoom lens would bring flexibility to a photowalk?
Thank you! Glad you liked that one. Zoom lenses take all the fun out of it for me and give a completely different look to the photos, much prefer a wide prime lens with deep depth of field and to get closer physically, takes confidence and can be situational as to the results, sometimes I get the results I want and sometimes not, all part of the process :)
Love this reply tim..primes teaches us to see the world in this focal length and also standardize our work@@timjamiesonphotos
Does your current approach keep you from cropping in post? Seems like several shots might be interesting with a different framing.
I'm not adverse to cropping, but I prefer not to. I like the field of view you get from a 35mm lens. Just on this particular day I wasn't really feeling it so lacked a bit of confidence to get closer physically :)
- great video. Excellent information.
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we are watching a Video.
With *audio and sound*
*This video is a moving picture*
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(We see *what the photographer is doing* .....)
And
Then once we have seen the moving video - showing the scene
We see a _still image_ of that *same moving scene*
I like both the video and the still photographs.
Because of the smartphone & *anyone and everyone* snaps a picture:
Has _still photography_ *devalued* ?
Thank you
The whole point of this kind of video is to help photographers see a scene and then see what photograph you can make from that scene which is dependent on your eye and how you see the world. 10 photographers could be in the same scene and take 10 different photographs.
Anyone and everyone has access to a pen and paper, does that mean drawing is devalued? No, of course not.
It’s not the availability of the tools it’s what you do with them. And the fact that so many people can have access to a camera now is a wonderful thing
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First time viewer. Your videos And photos are fantastic and helpful info.
& It's 2024-
Artificial intelligence has now advanced.
Look at RUclips. See the millions of artwork created by the average joe And Jane.
Say a few words into the description And in seconds the computer creates a photo.
Type a few texts and in seconds the computer creates an image.
As for pen and paper - traditional drawing - *yes* .. *anyone can make wonderful handdrawn artwork* ... By *practicing* the five basic elements of drawing.
(Repition is the key)
Have fun.... Enjoy and share
I have a question about taking photos of minors in Europe. I heard somebody said that it needs to get permission from their parents or accompanying adults to shoot the minors. What do you think?
Kids and families are part of street life and I want to document street life so not to include them would be missing a vital part of life in public. I can’t speak for the rest of the world but in the UK it’s perfectly legal to photograph anyone in public regardless of age, and there is a long and celebrated history of street photography where people have done just that for many years 🙏🏻
Hi, would you be interested in doing a video about the ethics of photographing strangers without their consent? Many thanks.
It’s on my list!
I enjoyed watching this but I have to say I think you're a little too hard on your own work!
Ah thank you, that’s very kind. I can’t help it, I have very high standards for myself 🙏🏻
You're an 85mm shooter; you just don't know it yet.
I think you’ve missed the point of this video. It’s about my love of learning to shoot wider, but finding that difficult sometimes. I’ve no desire to take photographs with an 85mm lens
I think you’ve missed his point here. You are staying to far for 35, and if you crop the photo to be close enough, will be approx 85 mm. And the point is that if you keep shooting you’ll come to the realization that you see in 85mm. And with theme you’ll discover it. That was his point, I believe.
The rating system is generous in terms of body work. Not needed, it is all practice.
And last, you asked for feedback, please consider accepting one, and not been complete introvert about it.
This is not hate! I’m with you, walking the streets everyday, and I know how hard,frustrating and tedious street photography can be! Keep growing.
@stansabev Haha I'm down for feedback if it's respectful, the original comment is a bit patronising and clearly they haven't listened to the video or seen my work or other videos. I did say I wasn't feeling my usual confidence to get closer which is the issue here, not the focal length.
The kind of photos I'm trying to make wouldn't work having sniped them from far away with the compression of 85mm. I don't mind if people misunderstand that, or have different tastes. Plus everyone is a critic, especially on RUclips but I don't mind the engagement 😉. It's nice that you care enough to comment :)
An interesting video, as always.
But too many, too many ads.
They're annoying, distracting interruptions that make me want to stop watching.
Couldn't you avoid them?
Is the income they provide fundamental for your channel?
Glad you enjoyed the video! All my videos take a lot of effort to make and are free for everyone to watch on RUclips. I am aiming to build the channel and make it into a business so that I can produce more useful content more regularly, so ads are a big part of the business side - even if I turn off ads, RUclips will still put ads on my videos. If you would like to watch content ad-free on RUclips, you could always explore RUclips premium :)
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I totally respect your choice, Tim, and I like your videos.
I subscribed to many photography channels that are ads free, so I don't believe that RUclips puts ads in any case, I could give you many examples.
I support in different ways some of those creators that decide not to monetize in every possible way their videos, because I don't like to be interrupted 4/5 times in 15 minutes or listen to some funny sponsored interlude. But I do believe that every RUclipsr must be free to make his/her own choices.
Wish you all the best!
Thanks for sharing this. I think this is such a great reminder that 1) it's important to critique our work and 2) there's no substitute for time spent with a camera for improving skills and techniques as well as opportunities to witness amazing moments in from of our cameras. I may "borrow" this idea for a future video of my own ;) Cheers!