Thanks for this! I find Forest photography a bit overwhelming and fascinating at the same time. Also loved your little dance at the end. Made me smile 😊
Amazing tips. Selecting what we want and use others as faded back ground or totally avoid them is the key. It gave clarity to my thoughts which I am doing unknowingly 😂
Thank you Alister, another great and inspiring video. I'm on Speyside in the Cairngorms as I write and I'm determined to put your tips into practice. Thanks again.
Takes me right back! 😍 The week in the Scottish Highlands with you and John Barcley brought me so much joy and a fresh boost for my relationship with the forest (and my photography's relationship with me, and the forest's relationship with my photography...and just being out there open to be found by the magic 😀🤣). Seeing some familiar places in the video makes me smile and I love the images that found you!
Hi Alister, lovely to see the autumnal hues as I enter my last week in New Zealand enjoying spring for the second time 😀, I passed on your good wishes to Will Patino and he passes his on to you.
Great tips, I certainly run around to fast sometime and looking to much, srarching for that wow scene, but I know it's very rearly I found that wow shot. Thanks Alister.
Hi Alister, these are some great tips, buddy! Oh yes, depth is one of the most important things in woodland photography. Atmosphere is king here 😊 Great video! Nice greetings, Christian
Nicely done video with great tips👍🤩. When you started 5th tip you didn't look so old with those moves like you said in the beginning of the video.😂 Thank you for sharing, great video🤩👍😍👏
Quality as ever! 🙌 One personal preference: foggy woodland images do not do justice to woodland texture and colours. Like the ubiquitous 10 stop filter to remove the essence of waves, misty woodland images remove the essence of trees. Compositions with fog can work, but the fog cliché is now well overdone.
Another great video. Your quiet, calm style of delivery is a joy to listen to and watch. Your simplified images are a joy to behold. I always look forward to your videos.
Some good tips there, Alister. Grey overcast days are great for woodland photography - you are not having to deal with high contrast shadows which in my opinion are typically harder to make something of than flat light. Woodlands and forests tend to be messy and chaotic and I think to succeed you need to embrace the complexity rather than shy away from it. It is not easy and not always obvious what will make a good photograph. When nothing seems to work, look for small details as there is always something you can photograph in a woodland. That is the beauty of a woodland. There is always something to photograph.
I really appreciate your tips for forest photography. I am a bit envious though - the woodlands and forests I see in this video, and some other ones from different photographers, are so polite! There's none of the chaos of vines and ferns and branches and trees and bright green all over the place that we have here. This list of tips will be very helpful in making sense of it. Thank you.
As usual, you have such a clear and simple way of presenting, carefully guiding us to useful techniques that can really help. Thank you for inspiring us.
Thank you! These are things I know instinctively after 50 plus years of photography, but as I am getting back into the hobby after several years away, and trying to learn the ins and outs of digital photography for the first time, I often forget them. I get too much in my head and that keeps me from seeing and enjoying like I should. Thank you again for these excellent tips!
Your five tips reinforce relatively recent discoveries that have made forays into the forest more rewarding, less frustrating. Side note, I’d be tempted by the GFX not so much by the larger sensor and increased dynamic range, but the repertoire of crop masks (that do not crop the saved image).
Great video and images! Really like how you always find subjects and explain why you take the shot! I have recently unsubscribed from two creators because they have posted in very interesting places without taking an image, citing they couldn't make a composition! You have shown that there is always something to take pictures of! I have written down the five prompts to act as an aide memoire for future shoots!😀
Hi Alister. Encouraging to know I've been on the right track (excuse the pun) with my woodland photography. It would be interesting to learn how you process your images. I tend to go for strong contrast, but that's clearly not the only way of presenting the scene to the viewer.
Hi Alister, another great video, thanks! Are there any other ratios you would recommend (other than the one you spoke about in the video) to eliminate the sky?
I find your music track really distracts from the images, in other words it is intrusive. If I mute it I miss your commentary. The images however are fit my style. Some years ago I had a Pentax LX with an angled viewfinder but I hadn't seen them for digital cameras and I miss them. I like to look down into a viewfinder screen not straight through. You appear to use one.
Turn off the sound if the music is not to your liking and if you don't wont to miss his commentary then enable closed caption by clicking the CC button to the bottom right of the video.
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That little dance…too cute…I’m subscribing! I enjoyed your video.
This guy, this Alister Benn guy is so good!
Thanks for this! I find Forest photography a bit overwhelming and fascinating at the same time. Also loved your little dance at the end. Made me smile 😊
Alister, you have very healing energy to your photos. thank you
That’s kind of you. I very much appreciate it
Amazing tips. Selecting what we want and use others as faded back ground or totally avoid them is the key. It gave clarity to my thoughts which I am doing unknowingly 😂
Fantastic, delighted to hear that and thank you for the kind feedback
Thank you Alister, another great and inspiring video. I'm on Speyside in the Cairngorms as I write and I'm determined to put your tips into practice. Thanks again.
We leave today after three weeks here, back to the windy isle tonight ❤️
Love watching you have fun in the forests! Thanks for the great advice. 😊
Yes, had a wonderful time. Back on the island for a couple of weeks now
Great video 👏 love this channel 😊 continue to inspire Alister. Top man 👏👏
My favourite quote from this video will be 'confusingly organised'. Thats mostly how I feel when trying to capture images in a forest. Thanks Alister.
Your last image is nature's fairy lights. Great tips, Allister
Takes me right back! 😍 The week in the Scottish Highlands with you and John Barcley brought me so much joy and a fresh boost for my relationship with the forest (and my photography's relationship with me, and the forest's relationship with my photography...and just being out there open to be found by the magic 😀🤣). Seeing some familiar places in the video makes me smile and I love the images that found you!
Like the new dance 😃
Another good one Alister. There’s always something new (to me) in your videos. New ways of looking at the familiar :)
Glad you enjoyed it! I really appreciate that
Top tips pal ! Having fun and right attitude come first for me as without them inspiration and clarity can fall by the way side ! Great video 👏
Hi Alister, lovely to see the autumnal hues as I enter my last week in New Zealand enjoying spring for the second time 😀, I passed on your good wishes to Will Patino and he passes his on to you.
That’s fantastic. Winter is well on the way here now, the larch are magnificent though ❤️
Great tips, I certainly run around to fast sometime and looking to much, srarching for that wow scene, but I know it's very rearly I found that wow shot. Thanks Alister.
Hi Alister, these are some great tips, buddy! Oh yes, depth is one of the most important things in woodland photography. Atmosphere is king here 😊
Great video! Nice greetings,
Christian
So very meditative - thank you Alister.
Absolutely, I am discovering so many more ways to “be” in nature
Great video. Good reminders. Loved the sound track.
Beautiful photographs ❤. Great tips!
Thank you ever so much, Mr Alister Monet, for these Beauties, such an abundance of wonderful colours…
Number 4 is very different as generally done the opposite, stopping down to increase to depth of field.
I should rewatch this right before the next time I venture out into the woods!
Nicely done video with great tips👍🤩.
When you started 5th tip you didn't look so old with those moves like you said in the beginning of the video.😂
Thank you for sharing, great video🤩👍😍👏
Haha, I never had moves!! Thank you so much, I appreciate the comment
Useful checklist, Alister --- and by no means limited to woodlands!
Thanks mate, no, valid in most environments , see you in a couple of months
Thank you
I would be confused if I became organized, but on the other hand you've given some inspiration and ideas for my outing tomorrow. Thanks for sharing
You’re welcome, glad it was worth watching
And a little unabashed forest dancing helps the fun for sure!! Great attitude on this one!
Great video! Perfect reminders and beautiful photos! Very inspiring and makes me want to get out with my camera 📷😊
awesome, delighted to hear that. Thank you
Some great advice and wonderful images Alister. Thank you.
Quality as ever! 🙌 One personal preference: foggy woodland images do not do justice to woodland texture and colours. Like the ubiquitous 10 stop filter to remove the essence of waves, misty woodland images remove the essence of trees. Compositions with fog can work, but the fog cliché is now well overdone.
Brilliant advice, wonderful images, and I enjoyed the music.
Another great video. Your quiet, calm style of delivery is a joy to listen to and watch. Your simplified images are a joy to behold. I always look forward to your videos.
Excellent set of images in this film Alister! Was that ‘big foot’ that I saw doing the soft shoe shuffle?
Some good tips there, Alister. Grey overcast days are great for woodland photography - you are not having to deal with high contrast shadows which in my opinion are typically harder to make something of than flat light. Woodlands and forests tend to be messy and chaotic and I think to succeed you need to embrace the complexity rather than shy away from it. It is not easy and not always obvious what will make a good photograph. When nothing seems to work, look for small details as there is always something you can photograph in a woodland. That is the beauty of a woodland. There is always something to photograph.
Great tips and beautiful photos
Looking forward to implementing some of your advice, very soon . Thanks, Alistair.
I really appreciate your tips for forest photography. I am a bit envious though - the woodlands and forests I see in this video, and some other ones from different photographers, are so polite! There's none of the chaos of vines and ferns and branches and trees and bright green all over the place that we have here. This list of tips will be very helpful in making sense of it. Thank you.
As usual, you have such a clear and simple way of presenting, carefully guiding us to useful techniques that can really help. Thank you for inspiring us.
Excellent video, thank you.
Sharing your vision of woodland photography is both helpful and reassuring for my woodland efforts.
Brilliant video Alister , getting out this afternoon myself after watching that , thanks for the inspiration
Thank you! These are things I know instinctively after 50 plus years of photography, but as I am getting back into the hobby after several years away, and trying to learn the ins and outs of digital photography for the first time, I often forget them. I get too much in my head and that keeps me from seeing and enjoying like I should. Thank you again for these excellent tips!
Fabulous video and advice. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
thank you for keeping me on track! really helpful
Thanks for posting. Great tips.
Some great images, Alister! Appreciate it. Looks like an amazing place to explore!
Your five tips reinforce relatively recent discoveries that have made forays into the forest more rewarding, less frustrating. Side note, I’d be tempted by the GFX not so much by the larger sensor and increased dynamic range, but the repertoire of crop masks (that do not crop the saved image).
Great video and images! Really like how you always find subjects and explain why you take the shot! I have recently unsubscribed from two creators because they have posted in very interesting places without taking an image, citing they couldn't make a composition! You have shown that there is always something to take pictures of! I have written down the five prompts to act as an aide memoire for future shoots!😀
Appreciate that, thanks. I agree, there is always something to photograph if you’re prepared to listen
Great tips! Thanks for this video!!
Another great one Alister!
Hi Alister. Encouraging to know I've been on the right track (excuse the pun) with my woodland photography. It would be interesting to learn how you process your images. I tend to go for strong contrast, but that's clearly not the only way of presenting the scene to the viewer.
Hi Alister, another great video, thanks! Are there any other ratios you would recommend (other than the one you spoke about in the video) to eliminate the sky?
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Simply slow down and simplify in order to embrace the details and create atmosphere. The point is to have fun
I find your music track really distracts from the images, in other words it is intrusive. If I mute it I miss your commentary. The images however are fit my style. Some years ago I had a Pentax LX with an angled viewfinder but I hadn't seen them for digital cameras and I miss them. I like to look down into a viewfinder screen not straight through. You appear to use one.
I really enjoyed the music!
Turn off the sound if the music is not to your liking and if you don't wont to miss his commentary then enable closed caption by clicking the CC button to the bottom right of the video.