I really needed to see this B&H video since I have the NISI filters that are still in the boxes & I haven't used them as yet. Wonderful presentation! Made easy for me to follow. Thanks Kah-Wai and thanks to B&H.
I am half way through the video and the key message is get rid of what is distracting, or think about what to exclude as much as what you want to include.
Image Nr 1: Starts out perfectly beautiful, gets cropped to become worse and then gets highlights lowered and shadows upped for the coup de grace. Now I can see that there might have been room for improvement by moving the camera and using a different focal length, but they really butchered it with the cropping and the DR rubbish. Just goes to show that you need to get it right in the camera, battering it with the PS hammer won't usually do any good. The same applies for many of the images they "improved" Very little creativity and the full load of unimaginative standard PP. There are exceptions though, like the cropped to square image with the fisherman. I also like how he very politely tells the photographer that their image is rubbish and why, and how they should try and go about it next time. The advice they gave at the end was really great, and towards the end I realised how patiently and friendly he treated each of these shots, pointing out the mistakes without destroying the authors. So overall my impression went from thumbs down to thumbs up and having spent a great time watching this. Well worth the time!
@@abhishes While I agree that leaning to crop effectively is a key skill, for an hour-long video from a National Geographic photographer to only cover one element of photo editing is a joke. He failed to impart any other skill in over an hour. Very disappointing.
@@josephjohnherbert learning to crop is not a key skill. Learning to see what is important in your photo and exclude the rest is the skill which he's trying to teach.
Or - I know that place because I have been there. He seems to want to impress everyone with his knowledge of specific locations, which is completely irrelevant.
FIRST OF ALL HUMAN EYES ARE POSITIONED HORIZONTALY. THEREFORE OUR VISION IS WIDER THEN TALLER. HORIZONTAL PICTURES LOOK MORE NATURAL THAN VERTICAL. THAT'S WHY TELEVISIONS, COMPUTER SCREENS ARE HORIZONTAL. IF THE PICTURE IS GOING TO HANG ON THE WALL THEN THE SHAPE DOESN'T MATTER. MOST OF THE TIME PICTURES ARE VIEWED ON SOME KIND OF SCREEN, SO HORIZONTALY. LANDSCAPE IS DESCRIBING FEATURES OF THE LAND. LANDSCAPE ORIENTATION OF PAPER. THIS GUY DESTROYS ALMOST EVERY PICTURE. THOSE VERTICAL BLACK STRIPES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE PICTURE SPOIL EVERYTHING. EVEN HEADSHOTS LOOK BETTER HORIZONTALY. THIS GUY HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT
Imagine saying about Frans Lanting that he has no idea what he is talking about... I mean, people have different tastes, so it's fine to have the opinion he does not improve the images, but to say he has no idea what he's talking about? Maybe look him up and take a look at his photography. He clearly knows what he's doing.
@@lvds5910 people have different styles, lets say you take a picture of a tree. it looks great in the horizontal format, but if you have very narrow wall it will look great in the vertical format too ( birch). but you cannot hang a very narrow vertical picture of a landscape unless its a element of the landscape. well, you can. you can even hang it upside down. if you just want to shove sth on he wall to fill in the empty space then it doesnt matter the shape or orientation. if you are teaching people about composition, you should teach them how it should be done, so most of the viewers have positive feelings about it and the pictures look naturally. when you are taking a landscape picture you are trying to capture the beauty of it, so other people can see what you are seeing, so it should have proper composition. what they do with it afterwards, its totally up to them.
@@piotrtrocki3842 Yes, I don't disagree with you on that. Most of the time landscape photo's work best in landscape / horizontal format. I disagree with saying one of the best nature photographers in the world (the one in this video, Frans Lanting) doesn't know what he's talking about.
@@piotrtrocki3842 he's got a lifetime achievement award in 2018 from wildlife photographer of the year, for starters. Just look at his body of work, he's an amazing photographer.
This is by far the best landscape photography critique on youtube, you will really learn a lot watching it
This is pure gold. Love to hear a master talking about what really matters in photography.
Hello from Rick in Brazil. I never get tired of watching critiques of other photographers even if not professional.
Incredible to hear what goes through the mind of a master. Thank you!
Look at the knowledge of the person. he knows many of the locations, people, plants. wow!!!
Fine education. Clear explanation of why the edits were made.
This was a hour well spent. Enjoyable and educational. Thank- you for presenting this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for doing this. I appreciate all the education I can get.
Wow. Thank you very much. Very insightful with the cropping. Thank you 🙏.
I really needed to see this B&H video since I have the NISI filters that are still in the boxes & I haven't used them as yet. Wonderful presentation! Made easy for me to follow. Thanks Kah-Wai and thanks to B&H.
Really enjoyed this. Thanks!
Franz Lanting and Galen Rowell ...my two mentors which made me fall in love with photography.
Thank you for sharing!
Best photography tutorial ever that I have seen. Beautifully presented too. Look forward to more.
Such valuable information! Thank you so much.
I have to admit I prefer the original Antarctica photo with the people in the zodiac
Awesome. My image as the thumbnail. :-)
56:17 I love the way he called out the Bullshit of the photographer. Nothing more painful than watching an over processed image.
Great video !
Thank you! I learned a lot
I am half way through the video and the key message is get rid of what is distracting, or think about what to exclude as much as what you want to include.
❤️❤️
Very bad croping sugestions in many pictures, made various shots look less interesting.
Moral of the story - Take landscape photos in Portrait Model
Too much crop, especially on the left. Clone out the branch rather than crop too tight.
Shawn z... Oklahoma
Image Nr 1: Starts out perfectly beautiful, gets cropped to become worse and then gets highlights lowered and shadows upped for the coup de grace. Now I can see that there might have been room for improvement by moving the camera and using a different focal length, but they really butchered it with the cropping and the DR rubbish. Just goes to show that you need to get it right in the camera, battering it with the PS hammer won't usually do any good. The same applies for many of the images they "improved" Very little creativity and the full load of unimaginative standard PP. There are exceptions though, like the cropped to square image with the fisherman. I also like how he very politely tells the photographer that their image is rubbish and why, and how they should try and go about it next time. The advice they gave at the end was really great, and towards the end I realised how patiently and friendly he treated each of these shots, pointing out the mistakes without destroying the authors. So overall my impression went from thumbs down to thumbs up and having spent a great time watching this. Well worth the time!
True
Why is it so "easy" to fix someone else's photos and not your own, lol
Title should be 'cropping photos' not 'editing photos'
And that's not a bad thing .... he is showing us a critical skill of exclusion. Cropping is bringing simplicity while keeping the essence.
@@abhishes While I agree that leaning to crop effectively is a key skill, for an hour-long video from a National Geographic photographer to only cover one element of photo editing is a joke. He failed to impart any other skill in over an hour. Very disappointing.
@@josephjohnherbert learning to crop is not a key skill. Learning to see what is important in your photo and exclude the rest is the skill which he's trying to teach.
@@abhishes Exactly! He’s sharing about how to choose the elements to convey your intent in a photograph.
Or - I know that place because I have been there. He seems to want to impress everyone with his knowledge of specific locations, which is completely irrelevant.
He has actually ruined that first image. It did require cropping but he's cut far to much of the left.
FIRST OF ALL HUMAN EYES ARE POSITIONED HORIZONTALY. THEREFORE OUR VISION IS WIDER THEN TALLER. HORIZONTAL PICTURES LOOK MORE NATURAL THAN VERTICAL. THAT'S WHY TELEVISIONS, COMPUTER SCREENS ARE HORIZONTAL. IF THE PICTURE IS GOING TO HANG ON THE WALL THEN THE SHAPE DOESN'T MATTER. MOST OF THE TIME PICTURES ARE VIEWED ON SOME KIND OF SCREEN, SO HORIZONTALY. LANDSCAPE IS DESCRIBING FEATURES OF THE LAND. LANDSCAPE ORIENTATION OF PAPER. THIS GUY DESTROYS ALMOST EVERY PICTURE. THOSE VERTICAL BLACK STRIPES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE PICTURE SPOIL EVERYTHING. EVEN HEADSHOTS LOOK BETTER HORIZONTALY. THIS GUY HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT
Imagine saying about Frans Lanting that he has no idea what he is talking about...
I mean, people have different tastes, so it's fine to have the opinion he does not improve the images, but to say he has no idea what he's talking about? Maybe look him up and take a look at his photography. He clearly knows what he's doing.
@@lvds5910 people have different styles, lets say you take a picture of a tree. it looks great in the horizontal format, but if you have very narrow wall it will look great in the vertical format too ( birch). but you cannot hang a very narrow vertical picture of a landscape unless its a element of the landscape. well, you can. you can even hang it upside down. if you just want to shove sth on he wall to fill in the empty space then it doesnt matter the shape or orientation. if you are teaching people about composition, you should teach them how it should be done, so most of the viewers have positive feelings about it and the pictures look naturally. when you are taking a landscape picture you are trying to capture the beauty of it, so other people can see what you are seeing, so it should have proper composition. what they do with it afterwards, its totally up to them.
@@piotrtrocki3842 Yes, I don't disagree with you on that. Most of the time landscape photo's work best in landscape / horizontal format.
I disagree with saying one of the best nature photographers in the world (the one in this video, Frans Lanting) doesn't know what he's talking about.
@@lvds5910 who says he is one of the best? what makes him one of the best? maybe we just found out that he is not one of the best.
@@piotrtrocki3842 he's got a lifetime achievement award in 2018 from wildlife photographer of the year, for starters. Just look at his body of work, he's an amazing photographer.