Urban Landscapes help you improve your photographic eye
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2024
- Want to improve your landscape photographic eye? Don't head for the mountains - the landscapes that will help you grow as a photographer are probably only a few miles away from where you read this now, especially if you're in a city.
Yes what we see most commonly in RUclips Landscape Photography videos are rolling hills and epic vistas from different parts of our own country or other countries. You want to go there but the money you have available is needed to just survive. What do you do? Simple, choose a different landscape that's easier to shoot, just around the corner and VERY different from the stuff you're getting bored of.
Let's face it, we all get bored of our immediate areas and Winter is a common time to be bereft of inspiration in our landscape photography - recovering from the expense of the festive season, we don't have the money to pack up and visit amazing places with our camera.
But we don't need to because the amazing places are still all around us, hiding in plane sight. Hell, many of us will actually WORK in some of the amazing places yet we IGNORE THEM because they are our EVERYDAY thing. They are dirty, untidy, structural, unnatural, smelly places. OR to put it another way, PHOTOGENIC.
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Great video mate! . Really proved there is always something to photograph ; and usually very close by . I have 6-7,000 files with an "urban" keyword . I have always liked finding shadows to photograph. Only twice a year can they be exactly the same . If you go back to that same area at a different time of day you will likely find a set of completely different images to take home.
Mostly for your watchers : My favourite camera/lens for Urban photography is an Oly Em1 mark 1 + 20mm Panasonic lens (=40mm) . And that's all I carry --- so small and so fast to use . And it's amazing the number of Urban subjects that fit nicely through that lens . Need wider ? Stitch a couple files together and cropping can make it little longer.
"no matter how much gear I carry , I can never record every subject I might see" . In fact I would likely miss more photos and still I take home too many files.
My eyes and mind soon adjust to see in that one format and it's amazing how quickly I can size up a subject ; move to a near perfect angle to take just one photo and move on . I'm a tall bloke , but very few notice I'm a photographer. That would not be the case with a bigger lens that I voomed in and out .
I feel so many, especially newbies bog themselves down with too much gear. I know I did, and I also wasted so much money trying to buy "better photography" via new gear .
Andrew ; you are very interesting person
Before a Photographer, not a Genre. I think you can live up to that. Good time out.
Very kind. Thank you.
Totally relatable bud lol
I prefer B&W in that shot of the sign No Parking...
Another fantastic video! You keep destroying my excuses to go out though! Seriously, I love the concepts here, there are always interesting images to be had if you just look for them. Thank you for another inspiring video Andy.
As you know how hard it is for me to leave the house, Richard, I have zero remorse.... :-)
Dude 😂😂😂😂😂 you a brotha from another motha. Awesome to see another photographer out of breath and excited to go get it! Rock on Mate! FnA
I love it all. B&W I need to do more of. I like the format you are using where you’re back in your home talking about the post processing stage. Greetings from Cape Cod Massachusetts.
Thanks, I may do more of this format in future, but, being honest, it adds a lot more work and pressure which I often struggle with producing these videos every week.
B&W! Thank you for the inspiration. Awesome images! I’d appreciate a video on what and how to shoot on a overcast day. We have lot of those here in Sweden.
Overcast - a perpetual state of being in the UK :-)
You're dead right Andrew, it surrounds us all and that Photo of the suspended car is sublime, both in composition and tone, along with a few others.👍
Thanks, Mark. It's quite hard for me to choose a favourite from this crop - it's rare I shoot so many images that I am prepared to share. I really like the security camera shot for its complete simplicity and Keep Clear too. Your fave of the car in the air is up there also (geddit)? :-)
Thought you'd become one of those Industrial Estate @PINAC Auditors when I first started to watch this lol.
Congratulations! You've found one of the very few ways that I'm not weird or annoying....
Not every shot came off - by a long chalk. It was interesting to hear what Andrew was aiming at. In many cases reverting to B&W was quite a good idea.
(BTW, turning the saturation down to 0% is not the same as replacing the colors with their correct B&W luminance levels according to Y = 0.11B + 0.30R + 0.59G) An astonishing number of editing tools do not do this properly.)
The shot of the day was definitely the "Eye in the Sky". Whether in color or in B&W. Very, very nice.
I was going to suggest actually screwing on a traditional orange filter if you are taking B&W anyway. But then I had quite forgotten that now-a-days this is ever so easy to do in post.
Especially easy using Silver Efx too.
@@AndyBanner What sometimes also comes off quite well is B&W with one splash of color - usually a bright red something embedded in a darkish B&W surrounding.
the photographic equivalent of that famous "you can't polish, etc,etc" could perhaps be "make it good by putting a turd on a third"?
I particularly like the image at 6:55 - sort of an industrial estate Statue of Liberty 🙂
haha. I think of it more as Big Brother's Little Brother. ;-)
Hello Andy. Nice to see you. I've got a cuppa and i'm going to watch your video now... Let's Go!!!!! Pause play - i wanted a self-portrait with the chain-link shadows on the side of your face, but i guess you didn't see that one.🤣OK - finished the vid and my teas gone cold because i found the vid so interesting that i forgot to drink... dunno who to blame for that. Great 'Fireside chat' at the end - pleasant and useful. Loved the B&W aesthetic throughout, but totally agree on the desaturated red doors at the end - shame some Philistine had parked their car there, but 'hey'. Re you alluding to people approaching and expecting an explanation - when i first took photos cameras were common and everyone seemed to assume that one was a 'photographer'. From there, with time, it developed into everyone assuming you were a 'tourist', and probably a Japanese one. Now, camera in hand, i'm most often taken for a burglar or paedophile. The irony is that everyone has a camera on them now, and wandering about with a DSLR and a three kilo lens is not the sort of thing that a ne'er-do-well is likely to do... and never mind that when i walk down a street and take one photo, my (precious) image has likely been captured hundreds of times. Still, i get accosted, and it makes me wonder as to how these people understand the world they are living in and how they cope with the fear that society engenders in them. Thanks for a 'super' vid, Andy, and all the very best.
Indeed. All those people moaning about the lack of privacy because there's a drone 300ft over them too. Yes, of course we're analysing the nutritional benefits of your lunch, sir and whilst we were at it, we've identified a suitable hair colour for your wife's roots and can tell your son how to complete that video game he's clearly stuck on. Oh, and your laces are undone and your boxers are on inside out.
@@AndyBanner Correct, and we should add that we find them utterly fascinating and that, having identified them as the Centre of the Universe - an actual-factual of which they are well aware - why would it surprise them to be the object of such attention? Is it the burden of being a Celebrity, or is it just another deficiency in those believing in the reality of their imaginary audience? And PS: they're Y-fronts, fyi.
I was just reading the name on the elastic backwards: t'is an easy mistake to make.
@@AndyBanner Especially as I was wearing them on my head.
Hi, friend.
I don't have much to say about this video other than you need to do a lot more.
I think all the photos are beautiful and fun to look at.
Good location too with plenty of opportunities for good photos.
They are not portfolio photos but you are having a good time.
And that's the most important thing.
I really enjoyed watching, buddy.
Antoine.
Portfolio shots are fleeting, I would also argue that I really don't know how I would choose many portfolio shots. Too much emotion wrapped up in too many of them for me to be fully objective.
Yes, I really did enjoy this romp around the industrial estate. It was a bit like doing street photography without the people - I worry about photographing around people. But it will come.
Be well, Antoine. Thanks
I am a fan of black and white in industrial settings
It's often a very good choice. Thank you for your support.
Absolutely loved this video and your thoughts behind it. Great pics, 👍 black & white. I'm surrounded by industrial sites and am always drawn to it, so shall head there more often. Thanks for the never ending inspiration. 🙏
You're too kind, Sandra. Thank you
Thanks Andrew, black n white for me with the exception of the smiley face on the container looking into the blue sky watching the aircraft vapour trails off to somewhere warm?
I tend to agree, though the alternatives of both are perfectly good too. Choices are good though.
Thank you for sharing your thought process. It is valuable insight.
Glad you enjoyed it!
great, simple, advice. Nice.
I appreciate that!
Nice change of environment. I particularly like the “eye in the sky” and also the padlock 👌. The Silver Effex works really well, one of my favourite filter effects on my iPhone .
Thanks Sue. I like the simplicity of the Big(ish) Brother image...
We are at cross-purposes with the software: the suite I am referring to is this: geni.us/NixCollectionTrial - it's for Windows and Mac, but there's no Ios version. Nix Collection is a powerful suite of programs that deal with image manipulation - Silver EFx is part of that and offers truly amazing black and white editing options in a dedicated application. It's considered to the probably the best monochrome image editor on the market. Take a look at the free trial. It wlll blow your socks off.
@@AndyBanner Hi Andrew, I know which Silver EFx you are using. There is a filter on iPhones called Silvertones which gives a similar effect, but obviously not as adjustable.
A great video Andrew I too think black and white works so well for this type of this type of subject. I enjoyed the talk though at the end as well.Silver Efex pro is what I also use for my black and white conversions I have also started to play around with a zone system plugin for photoshop. Once again a great thought provoking video.
Thanks, Neil. I really enjoyed a couple of hours exploring that Industrial Estate and the vast majority of the images in this video were from just ONE road on it. Unusually for me, I got very few compositions that I would class as "nil point" and, as the video shows, there's a lot of images from a very small area. The very harsh light helped a lot with shadows too.
Great idea and the video! I love it!!
Thanks
Thank you Andrew for this video, you've definitely inspired me to try something new and explore different ways of capturing images in a very different setting. Had a chance to look over your website today as well, keep up with your art, you have a lot to offer.Great work!
Very kind. Thanks. I find curating images for the web site so challenging.
Great video. Thanks. One thing I have to share with you and every other Vlogger out there is this. Sound volume consistency! I often view videos like yours late at night when the family is sleeping and I find myself constantly scrambling for the volume control. Just a tip from a viewer.
Thanks for that. I am usually very careful over this. One of the problems is that whilst I can match audio DB levels across a video, music will always sound louder unless I really pull down the amplification levels which can have the opposite effect. Your point is noted though and I will keep an ear out for it .
Great video Andy! You caught some great scenes here. Ive shot this industrial estate too and got a couple of frames i was happy with.
I did a reccy in the car to start with and thought that this one road at the north end had the greatest potential. Most of the images are from that one road. I might try Sweet Briar or Hellesdon one day. Quite a mix of building there too.
@@AndyBanner yes both good choices those too. The airport industrial estate has some good spots. I've got a few from there on my Instagram feed going back a bit. Would you say you're more naturally drawn to "nature" scenes or urban?
I had forgotten about the airport ind est. Yes, that's very diverse. Quite a lot of empty buildings there too when I was last there. I like dereliction - in a photographic sense, naturally.
I think shooting urban landscapes is easier than natural ones so from the point of view of hit rate, urban takes it, but gritty urban does it more for me. I don't shoot enough such places as habitation isn't where I am most comfortable with a camera - people, yeuch.
:-)
I prefer industrial areas in black and white, gives more atmosphere to a picture. Would have preferred a moody sky. Great video...As usual
Skies in mono tend to be more pleasing regardless of their content I think. We can get away with less than idea settings and if we can really take advantage of the light that we have, that's the best we can hope for. The low Winter sun created some incredible shadows.
I do make some similar shots but I do find it all a bit too bleak and depressing. The modern world has no romance like, say, America had in the 1950s. Or maybe photographers at the time didn’t think it was particularly magical. I guess we look back with rose tinted glasses. 🤔 My favourite images in the video were the car breakers yard shots 👍📸
I like structure, form and shape, so these places play to my likes. I am not bothered if they're soulless - I am capturing what's there in a (hopefully) interesting way. Back in the 50s, life was somewhat slower and things could be curved and sculptured. Today, we throw things together with little concern for aesthetics or longevity.