Landscape Photography | How to Photograph Flowing Water
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Most of us have somewhere no too far away where we have access to flowing water, even a bucket in the back yard like my mate Bill Neill. On the west of Scotland, we have lots, and we went out this week to explore some new areas. We found a really anonymous little stream high on a hill and spent a brilliant time getting to know it.
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as always. a delightful video and another insight into your thought processes!
Thank you kindly!
Finally! I was starting to wonder if you ever went outside ;-) enjoyed your thoughts on photographing water. My personal favourite shot? the ripples looking down on the pool, just lovely.
Thanks bud... - we certainly share our passion for that.
Thanks for this fantastic inspirational video today. It really encourages me to get out there and shoot all the little nooks and crannies in my local area.
Jack
Thanks, the feedback is much appreciated
Enjoyed this video very much. I liked seeing you outside and would like to see more of the ‘taking the shot’ side of photography.
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Really a nice surprise this video, it is a good combination to see you on field and in studio, I loved it. Nice histories behind the scenes, cheers from Chile.
Thank you very much!
coming away with one image is a bonus and you came away with three lovely photos. I'm sure after clicking the first one you loosen up, after all that's why we go out to get lost in nature. I have recently started to pick small details from landscape and they can be rewarding.
Thanks a Terry. I love being out
I haven’t seen you do much work with water since subscribing, Alister. I found those beautiful and they will further encourage me to get up close in the streams and falls I shoot. Thanks as always!
Thanks - plenty to come this autumn around home.
A nice gift seeing you do your thing Alister both outside and inside. Your passion is an awesome thing to see and your ability to create is enviable! Thank you always for your candor! ✊
I appreciate that! Thanks so much
Another really nice video. Agree re 3:2. I was posting alternate landscape/portrait 3:2 on instagram and decided that the portraits looked skinner than 3:2. When I swapped to posting 3:2 landscape and 3:4 portraits it looked much better overall to me :)
Nice work!
Another wonderful video Alister and on a topic close to my heart. I use a couple of tilt-shift lenses but I would be interested to watch your proposed video on the use of focus blending with flowing water. Best regards.
I'm working on it :-)
I am fortunate to live in an area with lots of waterfalls large and small and at this time of year no bugs. Much appreciated is your attention to the impact of emotion on your beautiful images intentional or otherwise. Nice work !!
Wonderful! Thanks
Loved the way you explained your composition and enhanced it in post.
Thank you so much.
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Loved it. Enjoy small scenes, abundant and still unique.
Thanks, this may be the future of creativity
Thank you for a Great and relaxing video again.
Glad you enjoyed it
This is my sort of photography. Will look up William Neill. Thanks for a great video that I will watch again and again!
Awesome, thank you!
22:48 YES! It's so easy to feel like some small little non grand/impressive scene is beneath notice when in reality they are the best!
Many thanks for that inspiring video again Alister!
You are so welcome
Interesting stuff 👍
Nice video, shooting waterfalls is the most relaxing thing for me to photograph.
Pretty much, it is so chilling
So the rumours are true. Alister goes outside, sometimes! Great video as always!
LOL, yes, more now summer is ending.
Alister, great to see you out in the landscape again and exploring it photographically. I enjoyed seeing your progression through the images you made to your final one, and how you made it come alive by adding dimensionality with 2 “simple” graduated filters in post-processing. Great image!
That was a great shoot!
What's up my friend? I'm really amazed at how you and Adam can take a small area and make it look so large. This video is really nice. Great job.
Thanks for that, there really is beauty everywhere, once one walks away from majestic.
I love this,how you are exploring the field so intimately .Reminds me of my magical time in Skye w you a couple of years ago.Always beautiful images but so clear ,useful and unique teaching 🙏🏻
Thanks dear, I look forward to our next walk in nature. You’ll love the video I’ve made for Wednesday
I saw the last image posted on Insta and immediately noticed the depth (or three dimensionality): it's good to hear my impression was your intention! These little finds are so enjoyable: the peat-stained schists are something I'd have to travel for, but here's to more discoveries! Just one thing - it's a burn, laddie, a burn!
Thanks man, yeah, so much goodness out there to be discovered
A lister, it’s so good to see you back in the field. This video is so timely. I went out yesterday to a little mountain street and haven’t really done much post processing on those photos but this has got me excited to go work on them. Thanks so much!
Thanks - it's good to be getting back out. Weekly videos in the field from now on I think.
Thanks again Alister! I’m looking forward to getting over to my creek to shoot this week!
Excellent, creeks are the best
Hi Alister: It was so nice to seen you outside and enjoying the landscape. I am a sucker for streams and waterfalls so this video certainly spoke to me. You are so fortunate to live where you do and have an abundance of these locations basically in your backyard. We are getting ready for the fall colours in Ontario so we will be looking forward to this as well. Thank you so much for sharing your thought process and workflow for developing your images. I think all of your images, but I particularly like the images where you have shot on an angle to the waterfalls. I am going to try this more when I get out next. Keep safe. . . Cheers, Keith (Canada)
Inspiring. Thank you.,
Good teaching session Alister, nice to see you in the field, Cheers
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent video, very informative from start to finish. And images get a 👍.
Thanks so much, hugely appreciated
Now we hit the mark- this is my happy place for photography- mountain streams and cascades... I am known to be in the water, when possible and safe, and get myself as close as I can to the spray... as you showed this type of photography means weird angles for your tripod... love doing this type of photography on rainy days since our streams our usually under forest canopy, also after rain all the rocks have a even shine for the polarization
Thanks mate, really appreciate the comment (as always!) - we'll be shooting lots of water around here this autumn.
Great video. Nice to see not got to the autumn colours yet.
Hello from Canada. I really enjoyed this video as I don't have much experience shooting waterfalls and was very impressed with your images and your descriptions of how you arrived at them. Cheers!
I was doing just the same last week by a mountain stream in the Ogwen Valley, Snowdonia.
Nice vlog, Alister. You know I love shooting water and this video made me quite jealous as we are deep in a drought and there hasn't been much in the way of compositional possibilities for a while now. I liked your progression through the cascades falls until you got that final shot. Good stuff!
Thanks Steve. Yeah, I remember from the mid 2000's your passion for anonymous brooks. Lovely...
Great video, looking forward to your Sutter speed blending video....
Loved the video. You do live in a beautiful place with so many wonderful places to visit and take great images. Very much liked the reflections in water. Cheers!
Thank you very much!
Excellent content and always enjoy your commentary on the art of photography itself . Shutter speed blending would be a cool tutorial , look forward to it !
Thanks 👍
I learn each time I watch any of your videos Alister. Flowing water has a fascination for me but I frequently fail to capture in the image that feeling. I now need to stop trying to take the fall and look to the flow if you see what I mean - I guess it's a balance between the intrinsic energy imparted in an intimate image of flow and composition. But I'm learning each time.
Sounds good Geoff. Thanks for the really encouraging words. The more we relax and believe in our gut, the better we are.
Nicely done!
Thank you! Cheers!
It's great to see you out and about. These kinds of intimate waterfall scenes are exactly the kind of images that I find I am drawn towards. Love them! Also the intimate water ripple shot is gorgeous. Self-indulgent? I was very surprised to hear you use that phrase. If you can't indulge yourself by taking images you find enjoyable - what is the point? That's one of the main messages I've taken from your vlogs.
Lol! Yes, that was me not being mindful of my own teaching!!
I must admit that I prefer the raw file Alistair. To my eye it just seems to have that bit of extra pop and contrast in the rocks
No argument from me there as I said myself
More with you outdoors p!ease :-)
Every week now on a Sunday
I would guess you were feeling a bit rusty in your first time out photographing in a while. I know I do when I have not been out in some time. Still, you came away with some nice images. Love your content.
Thanks Brad, I was a bit, I haven't been out much since Iceland in July, but it was more a rushed decision to go out, coupled with making the vlog. If I'd just been out shooting I think I'd have been more chilled.
Curious about how you managed depth of field in some of these images - I've been focus blending but that's a pain when dealing with flowing water. Some lovely images here - new to your channel but will sure be back.
Focus blending with flowing water is quite easy: I'll do a video on that soon.
About time blending do you have a good link to how that is made in a good way ?
Next Sunday's video will be on it.
I have been thinking about getting a larger tripod. What model were you using in the video? It looks like a Gitzo...
Yes, a Gitzo. This one is a 3 series from about 3 years ago. I have just bought a second 3 series from the new Gitzo line up. Super tripods, just rather expensive.
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Hi. Im using d850 as well. I found out that high res cameras are not easy to use. I see that you are not using release cable. Can you tell me how are you shoot? Mirror up? Electronic shutter or exposure delay? or maybe everything?
Live view ( which basically means mirror up) and with a 2s delay.
@@Alister_Benn thak you. I will try in a field. :-)
Malcolm
Too many times have I left my camera batteries at home in the charger.
LOL - yeah!!!
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