Hello Scott. Yet again another fantastic video. You've hit it out of the park on this one. Highly informational and educational and extremely engaging as well. I've walked away very inspired - what a fantastic learning experience. I hope to see more videos like this, either themed or just like this! Superb, my friend! Take care! -Jody
I've really enjoyed watching this one. It's a brilliant idea, (possibly unique!), and very watchable!! I shall look forward to any others you may do in the future. I certainly appreciate the time and effort you put into your channel, so, thank you!!
Hi Scott, it's Jacques. Interesting video. We learn something new every day by watching other people's work. As far as banding is concerned, it was a very instructive analysis. I had never thought about it before because when I print my pictures on paper I never had to worry about it. It doesn't show up on my paper prints. But on digital mediums it does because of the compression that sites like RUclips undergo during transcoding. As you suggested I have watched some good videos on how to deal with this and even when they claim that the banding is completely eliminated it still shows up on their videos due again to compression. Anyway, all this to say that I have started to apply the 16 bit format change and some surface blur to eliminate the banding as much as possible. Thanks again for taking the time to analyze our images. It's an exercise that I'm sure will be useful to all of us in future projects. Take care my friend and keep up the good work!
Hi Jacques. Nice to hear from you. I'm glad it was interesting for you. As I said, your work is excellent and I'm really grateful for you submitting your photos. As for the banding, I'm sure your prints look perfect. And that's because you are in complete control of how they look. When you publish a photo digitally you have no control over how bright the viewer's device is. What may look perfect on your screen might not on another, particularly with devices like mobile phones and tablets that are typically brighter than computers and TVs. It's the brightness of the viewer's screen which makes the banding more visible. Social media sites do compress photos but it doesn't tend to affect the banding very much. And don't worry, I've experienced these banding issues with my own work at times. Best wishes, and keep up your excellent work.
Hi Scott... thank you for your time explaining the review.... it's really helpful ... Please make more contents like this... definitely subscribed and thumbs up
These observations and tips are really very useful and interesting. You gave a lot of thought to every image and I particularly found the information relating to printing very helpful. This was definitely a great video Scott, so I look forward to any you do in future.
Thanks Stephen, I appreciate your support and glad the info was useful. I enjoyed making this one and enjoyed sharing some other photographers' work, so I'll definitely be looking to make more every now and again.
@@WalksOnTheWildSide it’s been a couple+ years since I last picked up my camera. Before then I shot every day. Finally getting my urge to shoot back, your channel is helping a lot. Thanks 🙏
Thank you so so much Scott for featuring my photo - really helpful editing tips. I've only been using Lightroom for a few months so am still getting used to it. Liking the green screen too! Thanks very much again for your kind words and tips, William 🙂
Good stuff William, and thank you so much for taking part. You're a talented young chap and I'm looking forward to seeing some more of your work in the future.
Hi Scott, wanted to say thank you for taking the time to review and critique my little Sanderling. I wasn't 100% about the exposure so it's nice to hear it was correct!, I was aware of the negative space but honestly didn't think of cropping it in the way you did. I also want to say thanks for the kind words about the Starling image, laying on the streets of Camden taking that shot got me a lot of odd looks 😂. Once again thank you and really love the amazing content you produce. Andy
Hi Andy. Thanks again for taking part. You were in Camden for that picture? That's brave! I can imagine some of the reactions you got from people. I get strange comments from people when they see me lying on the ground in the countryside, but Camden must be a whole other level. Great shot.
Hello Scott, I subscribed today. Great videos I am new to wildlife just over a year,and I am glad that I found your Chanel, learning a lot. Hope I can send you some of my pics to get your opinion on what I am doing wright and wrong. Thanks and keep the videos coming blessings from Florida.
Thank you Scott. I really enjoyed this. Vlog. A lot of great points. Highlighted areas I can in prove my photography. Given me something to think about the next time I step out with the camera.👍
Hi Scott, thank you so much for the comments of my deer, I have indeed sent you a cropped version of the original by mistake. I completely see the issue with the background now, something I hadn’t thought of before you mentioned it and thank you for the fieldcraft tip, I will try that next time. I look forward to any future opportunities to submit further images.
Hi Quentin. Thanks so much for taking part. Glad you found it useful. And that short eared owl photo I mentioned is lovely - the bit of colour just coming in at the bottom really makes it.
@@WalksOnTheWildSide thank you, I was made up by that shot, my first sighting of a SEO and luckily was quite obliging. I try to upload as much content as I can to my Instagram so anytime you feel like advising I’d highly appreciate the feedback. Editing is my nemesis at the minute, I need to learn to edit better for sure
Really liked this format, learned a lot in an easy way. Themed or mixed either way, I’m sure this is very hard work to produce one like this, but the more the better, loved it. Cheers Scott keep up the good work. 👍
Having just recently found your site I was very interested to hear you say to do denoise at end of editing as I was told to do it before going into my editing programmes... I use CS6 ( paid for years ago) and Liminar Neo. I have found it works well that way but I must do some testing to see what difference it makes .... l am enjoying your insight and look forward to watching more... many thanks
Hi Brenda. Yes lots of people teach that you should do the noise reduction first, but the problem with that is that if you do anything which introduces more noise - such as raise the exposure - you end up undoing your noise reduction. I always find it better to do it near the end. Thanks for watching.
Hi Michał, Thanks for your comment and for watching. I'll be requesting photos for the next review video soon. So please look out for this in an upcoming video.
Hi. Thanks for watching. I’ll put out another request for photos in the next few weeks. I’ll mention it in a video and post something on the community tab.
Totally disagree on your cropping suggestions on the B/W macro shot of Agnes. The images works so much better and conveys balance and zen with that padding on the two sides.
Hi Chris. I make one of these photo review videos about once every three months, so keep a look out for the announcement for the next one. I've just published the latest review video today. If you'd prefer your photo review to be one to one, I'm going to start offering video consultations - hopefully from March when I have a bit more time available to do it. walksonthewildside.co.uk/tuition. Thanks for watching.
I wish though that bird photography was less than 99% about making your birds look like, ultra crisp high detailed, smoothed and edited Scarlett Johansson or some model on the cover of a trashy magazine pictures. Too many photographers cross the line by a mile of photo manipulation, to the point that it looks fake, and plastic. Color shifting, adding radial blur patches, massive AI enhancing, removing reflected light casts, over sharpening, and full on background manipulation. I feel like that's photography as a whole now. Copying industry standards with templated which are set up to make money infesting the art space. end of my rant lol.
Your art, your rules. Nobody compels anyone to create their photos in a certain way. As long as you're happy with it and have fun with it, it's all cool.
Hello Scott. Yet again another fantastic video. You've hit it out of the park on this one. Highly informational and educational and extremely engaging as well. I've walked away very inspired - what a fantastic learning experience. I hope to see more videos like this, either themed or just like this! Superb, my friend! Take care! -Jody
Thank you Jody. Much appreciated. That means a lot to me. Best wishes, Scott
Rapidly becoming my favourite watch on RUclips. A great idea and well executed.
Wow, thanks Bob, I really appreciate it.
This is a great video! It is very, very helpful. I haven't seen any photography video like this one on RUclips. Love it!
Great advise which we can all use in our future photography
Glad you think so, thanks for watching.
This channel is one of my go to and the advise and techniques are very, very good.
That's very kind of you to say and I'm glad its useful. Thanks for watching.
I've really enjoyed watching this one. It's a brilliant idea, (possibly unique!), and very watchable!! I shall look forward to any others you may do in the future. I certainly appreciate the time and effort you put into your channel, so, thank you!!
Great, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. And definitely more of these to come (as long as people keep sending photos in). Thanks for watching.
Another Great Video, well done!
Cheers Jacques, I really appreciate it. Thank you for watching.
Hi Scott, it's Jacques. Interesting video. We learn something new every day by watching other people's work. As far as banding is concerned, it was a very instructive analysis. I had never thought about it before because when I print my pictures on paper I never had to worry about it. It doesn't show up on my paper prints. But on digital mediums it does because of the compression that sites like RUclips undergo during transcoding. As you suggested I have watched some good videos on how to deal with this and even when they claim that the banding is completely eliminated it still shows up on their videos due again to compression. Anyway, all this to say that I have started to apply the 16 bit format change and some surface blur to eliminate the banding as much as possible. Thanks again for taking the time to analyze our images. It's an exercise that I'm sure will be useful to all of us in future projects. Take care my friend and keep up the good work!
Hi Jacques. Nice to hear from you. I'm glad it was interesting for you. As I said, your work is excellent and I'm really grateful for you submitting your photos. As for the banding, I'm sure your prints look perfect. And that's because you are in complete control of how they look. When you publish a photo digitally you have no control over how bright the viewer's device is. What may look perfect on your screen might not on another, particularly with devices like mobile phones and tablets that are typically brighter than computers and TVs. It's the brightness of the viewer's screen which makes the banding more visible. Social media sites do compress photos but it doesn't tend to affect the banding very much. And don't worry, I've experienced these banding issues with my own work at times. Best wishes, and keep up your excellent work.
Hi Scott... thank you for your time explaining the review.... it's really helpful ... Please make more contents like this... definitely subscribed and thumbs up
Glad you enjoyed it. I try to do one of these every three or four months. |I'll be doing the next one soon.
My goodness, you are so good, clear, competent and passionate. You Ve inspired me a lot with your feedbacks.
Hi Angelo. Wow, thank you. I'm so happy to hear that and glad I can be of help. Thanks for watching.
Great job once again Scott, superb video. Also congrats on some of those beautiful shots to everyone included in the video! Well done😊👏👏👏
Hi Peter. Thanks for that. Hope all's well mate. Cheers, and all the best.
Very interesting and constructive comments. Your videos are very helpful. Thanks.
Thank you so much, glad they're helpful. Thanks for watching.
These observations and tips are really very useful and interesting. You gave a lot of thought to every image and I particularly found the information relating to printing very helpful. This was definitely a great video Scott, so I look forward to any you do in future.
Thanks Stephen, I appreciate your support and glad the info was useful. I enjoyed making this one and enjoyed sharing some other photographers' work, so I'll definitely be looking to make more every now and again.
Very helpful video, chock full of great tips that are useful in all genres. Thanks!
Thanks Gord. Wow you're working your way through my videos - and I'm very grateful.
@@WalksOnTheWildSide it’s been a couple+ years since I last picked up my camera. Before then I shot every day. Finally getting my urge to shoot back, your channel is helping a lot. Thanks 🙏
Thank you so so much Scott for featuring my photo - really helpful editing tips. I've only been using Lightroom for a few months so am still getting used to it.
Liking the green screen too! Thanks very much again for your kind words and tips, William 🙂
Good stuff William, and thank you so much for taking part. You're a talented young chap and I'm looking forward to seeing some more of your work in the future.
enjoyed that - thank you !
Thanks for watching.
Hi Scott, wanted to say thank you for taking the time to review and critique my little Sanderling. I wasn't 100% about the exposure so it's nice to hear it was correct!, I was aware of the negative space but honestly didn't think of cropping it in the way you did. I also want to say thanks for the kind words about the Starling image, laying on the streets of Camden taking that shot got me a lot of odd looks 😂.
Once again thank you and really love the amazing content you produce.
Andy
Hi Andy. Thanks again for taking part. You were in Camden for that picture? That's brave! I can imagine some of the reactions you got from people. I get strange comments from people when they see me lying on the ground in the countryside, but Camden must be a whole other level. Great shot.
Hello Scott, I subscribed today. Great videos I am new to wildlife just over a year,and I am glad that I found your Chanel, learning a lot. Hope I can send you some of my pics to get your opinion on what I am doing wright and wrong. Thanks and keep the videos coming blessings from Florida.
Awesome Tony, thank you and welcome to the channel. I'll be putting out a request for photos to review soon, so look out for this in upcoming videos.
Really interesting this your new video. About the green screen I think it works great, it looks super-professional 🙂
Thanks Giuseppe. Much appreciated.
Thanks again Scott for a another informative and thought provoking video. I'm off to try and apply some of your ideas to my own photography!
Fantastic, hope it goes well. Thanks for watching.
So very informative and such a great video to watch Scott !
Thanks Raymond.
Thank you Scott. I really enjoyed this. Vlog. A lot of great points. Highlighted areas I can in prove my photography. Given me something to think about the next time I step out with the camera.👍
Hi there. Glad to help and thanks for watching.
Good video
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.
Hi Scott, thank you so much for the comments of my deer, I have indeed sent you a cropped version of the original by mistake. I completely see the issue with the background now, something I hadn’t thought of before you mentioned it and thank you for the fieldcraft tip, I will try that next time. I look forward to any future opportunities to submit further images.
Hi Quentin. Thanks so much for taking part. Glad you found it useful. And that short eared owl photo I mentioned is lovely - the bit of colour just coming in at the bottom really makes it.
@@WalksOnTheWildSide thank you, I was made up by that shot, my first sighting of a SEO and luckily was quite obliging. I try to upload as much content as I can to my Instagram so anytime you feel like advising I’d highly appreciate the feedback. Editing is my nemesis at the minute, I need to learn to edit better for sure
Really liked this format, learned a lot in an easy way. Themed or mixed either way, I’m sure this is very hard work to produce one like this, but the more the better, loved it. Cheers Scott keep up the good work. 👍
Thanks for the feedback Andy, glad you liked it. There'll definitely be more like this if people are happy to submit photos. Thanks for watching.
Having just recently found your site I was very interested to hear you say to do denoise at end of editing as I was told to do it before going into my editing programmes... I use CS6 ( paid for years ago) and Liminar Neo. I have found it works well that way but I must do some testing to see what difference it makes .... l am enjoying your insight and look forward to watching more... many thanks
Hi Brenda. Yes lots of people teach that you should do the noise reduction first, but the problem with that is that if you do anything which introduces more noise - such as raise the exposure - you end up undoing your noise reduction. I always find it better to do it near the end. Thanks for watching.
Hi Scott I think themes would be good as we could see peoples different shooting styles. Great content nice one 👍
Hi Ian, thanks for that, I think it's what I'll do next time around. Thanks for watching.
Hello, great video - as always. Where can I send You my photo? Greetings from Poland! ☺️
Hi Michał, Thanks for your comment and for watching. I'll be requesting photos for the next review video soon. So please look out for this in an upcoming video.
Where can I send you some photos for review? Thanks
Hi. Thanks for watching. I’ll put out another request for photos in the next few weeks. I’ll mention it in a video and post something on the community tab.
Totally disagree on your cropping suggestions on the B/W macro shot of Agnes. The images works so much better and conveys balance and zen with that padding on the two sides.
The great thing about photography is that it's subjective.
Scott, how do I get a image or two reviewed by yourself?
Hi Chris. I make one of these photo review videos about once every three months, so keep a look out for the announcement for the next one. I've just published the latest review video today. If you'd prefer your photo review to be one to one, I'm going to start offering video consultations - hopefully from March when I have a bit more time available to do it. walksonthewildside.co.uk/tuition. Thanks for watching.
I wish though that bird photography was less than 99% about making your birds look like, ultra crisp high detailed, smoothed and edited Scarlett Johansson or some model on the cover of a trashy magazine pictures. Too many photographers cross the line by a mile of photo manipulation, to the point that it looks fake, and plastic. Color shifting, adding radial blur patches, massive AI enhancing, removing reflected light casts, over sharpening, and full on background manipulation. I feel like that's photography as a whole now. Copying industry standards with templated which are set up to make money infesting the art space. end of my rant lol.
Your art, your rules. Nobody compels anyone to create their photos in a certain way. As long as you're happy with it and have fun with it, it's all cool.