As soon as I posted this video I thought of at least another five points that seemed just as crucial to my development. What were your "Eureka" moments in photography?
Good advice. My eureka moment was buying a camera with terrific weather sealing and ergonomics. I stopped worrying about the gear and took it more places in a greater variety of conditions. I also take lots of images as you suggest at different focal lengths. Last thing is I take my camera most places. It is even in the car when I go to the grocery store. You never know where the next great image will be.
Learning better post processing helps a huge amount. I moved from paint shop pro to affinity photo and that was huge. Then purchased DXO photolab for better raw development then edited tif files in affinity when needing layers. And finally learned Nik collection and started using things like dynamic contrast and colour cast correction in colour effects. Actually your videos convinced me to choose DXO over Adobe. Post processing is soooo important.
Yes I completely agree, post processing and shooting RAW is a significant step forward. I'd erased the pain of PaintShop Pro from my memory entirely! I'm sure its much better now than it was all those years ago!
@@chriswrightphotographs unfortunately I didn't research properly when I got back into photography 5 years ago and Paint Shop pro produced flat lifeless images. Even after shot pro wasn't much better. I remember people at work talking about affinity photo and I bought version 2 the day it came out for about £35. It was transformative, and after adding topaz Denoise AI I found I could mitigate the noise taking hand held in low light. DXO PL 7 has taken the raw processing to a whole new level. My images glow and pop. I love how detail is retained in the shadows. I often export the Tiff to affinity for clean up and launch Nik plugins from affinity so I can combine the power of layers with a filters application. The in-painting tool and clone tool is better in affinity than photolab. I also prefer a manually applied Orton effect in layers so I can paint it on or selectively apply using a luminosity mask over Nik glamour glow. I have avoided the Adobe trap. I figured if I don't start it I won't miss it. I appreciate it's very good, but it's surplus to what I need as a hobbiest. I do however use Adobe Colour website to view the colour wheel to make sure all the colours in my image work well. Your videos really are a pleasure to watch. Great content and useful content to help people like me progress. I like the fact you don't talk much about gear. I have a Canon 7Dii. I've no intention of upgrading it and it's really annoying when presenters keep saying buy something out of my budget.
Very nice video as always. I totally agree that one feels a sense of timelessness looking at landscapes, especially those off the beaten track. I also prefer the early morning hours for their quality of light, and have pretty much gotten used to actually getting up early, packing my gear and heading out. I'm proud to say that I usually don't forget something crucial such as a spare battery any more! I think that the technique that most changed my photography was switching to back button autofocus many years ago. The other was developping patience! Cheers, and thanks again for a thoughtful and informative video.
Thanks, Back Button Focus is a genuine game changer in landscape photography and probably many other genres. I learned it from a teacher on a landscape workshop about fifteen years ago and never looked back. Patience is another good one, immediately I finished this video I thought of at least another five points - patience is key, waiting for light (or a subject).
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As soon as I posted this video I thought of at least another five points that seemed just as crucial to my development. What were your "Eureka" moments in photography?
Good advice. My eureka moment was buying a camera with terrific weather sealing and ergonomics. I stopped worrying about the gear and took it more places in a greater variety of conditions. I also take lots of images as you suggest at different focal lengths. Last thing is I take my camera most places. It is even in the car when I go to the grocery store. You never know where the next great image will be.
Yes! Weather sealing is peace of mind. It’s one of the reasons I traded my Ricoh for another Canon.
Learning better post processing helps a huge amount. I moved from paint shop pro to affinity photo and that was huge. Then purchased DXO photolab for better raw development then edited tif files in affinity when needing layers. And finally learned Nik collection and started using things like dynamic contrast and colour cast correction in colour effects. Actually your videos convinced me to choose DXO over Adobe. Post processing is soooo important.
Yes I completely agree, post processing and shooting RAW is a significant step forward. I'd erased the pain of PaintShop Pro from my memory entirely! I'm sure its much better now than it was all those years ago!
@@chriswrightphotographs unfortunately I didn't research properly when I got back into photography 5 years ago and Paint Shop pro produced flat lifeless images. Even after shot pro wasn't much better. I remember people at work talking about affinity photo and I bought version 2 the day it came out for about £35. It was transformative, and after adding topaz Denoise AI I found I could mitigate the noise taking hand held in low light. DXO PL 7 has taken the raw processing to a whole new level. My images glow and pop. I love how detail is retained in the shadows. I often export the Tiff to affinity for clean up and launch Nik plugins from affinity so I can combine the power of layers with a filters application. The in-painting tool and clone tool is better in affinity than photolab. I also prefer a manually applied Orton effect in layers so I can paint it on or selectively apply using a luminosity mask over Nik glamour glow. I have avoided the Adobe trap. I figured if I don't start it I won't miss it. I appreciate it's very good, but it's surplus to what I need as a hobbiest. I do however use Adobe Colour website to view the colour wheel to make sure all the colours in my image work well.
Your videos really are a pleasure to watch. Great content and useful content to help people like me progress. I like the fact you don't talk much about gear. I have a Canon 7Dii. I've no intention of upgrading it and it's really annoying when presenters keep saying buy something out of my budget.
Very nice video as always. I totally agree that one feels a sense of timelessness looking at landscapes, especially those off the beaten track. I also prefer the early morning hours for their quality of light, and have pretty much gotten used to actually getting up early, packing my gear and heading out. I'm proud to say that I usually don't forget something crucial such as a spare battery any more!
I think that the technique that most changed my photography was switching to back button autofocus many years ago. The other was developping patience!
Cheers, and thanks again for a thoughtful and informative video.
Thanks, Back Button Focus is a genuine game changer in landscape photography and probably many other genres. I learned it from a teacher on a landscape workshop about fifteen years ago and never looked back. Patience is another good one, immediately I finished this video I thought of at least another five points - patience is key, waiting for light (or a subject).