Hi, greetings from Chile. I have to say that I really like your philosphy: enjoy what you’re doing instead worring about social media. You’re my inspiration.
Loved this video, "camera in hand, a tool to explore whats there not what I wish was there". I will have that sentence in my head next time I'm out with my camera
The man with the very expensive trekking pole lol. Loving that format on the GFX. Great attitude, there is always something to photograph. "If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?” - Ernst Haas.
Thanks so much. I was terrible for that! Every time I went out it would be like looking for a Nat Geo cover image!! Thankfully I don't do that anymore and pretty much always have a rewarding time. Really appreciate your comment and feedback, thank you.
At first I thought that the weapon was the tripod to cross the river. 😀Yes the weapon is the attitude, for me the first feeling is the desire to be outdoor and, maybe, take some pictures. Even in the busy area where I live I can find place of solitude even if it's not wilderness. It was nice to see you in the field and wish one day to come back to Scotland. Thanks Alister.
haha, yes, it comes in very handy!! I am enjoying getting back out there locally and falling in love with my own backyard again. A deep breath before more travel.
Many years ago, I saw Adnamurchan from a sail boat, while we were sailing around the Inner Hebrides. It looks wonderful to explore with a camera and it’s lovely to see somewhere that is mentioned most days on the Shipping Forecast, which I still listen to fairly regularly, despite living in New York for the last 23 years. I am really enjoying your approach to photography, composition and processing and your steering me clear from being straightjacketed into conventions, such as rules of third. I did discover a long time ago to process the way I wanted to and not be sucked into a routine. One photographer I followed used to reduce the highlights all the way and open up the shadows all the way as global adjustments. And he had an unhealthy penchant for magenta and cranked it up way too high for my liking on everything. And that was his starting point on every image. As soon as I stopped doing any of that, I much preferred my results. I can liken it to when, as a teenager I stopped putting sugar in tea and coffee and discovered this amazing new drink called tea. I never liked tea until I stopped putting sugar in it. I couldn’t touch tea or coffee with sugar in it now. And I could never bring myself to do that highlights and shadows treatment as a global adjustment. I have also learned the sliders in Lightroom are so powerful that less is often more.
Thank you so much for the comment and background, I agree 100% - funny you should mention the shadows/highlights thing. You may enjoy this video I made a couple of years ago: ruclips.net/video/WgJJAM08CiU/видео.html
@@Alister_Benn It's definitely am area in which I need to improve. When I go through my catalog, I have about twice as many late day images as I have early day images...
@@Alister_Benn I had this experience recently, the setting is one of my favorites and it was a lot of effort to get in and out of, I enjoyed every moment out - then reviewing the work later the results were not what it gone in intending to photograph. I can’t let that take away from what I so enjoyed in the moment.
Many thanks for this video Alister, your passion and honesty always inspire me, here on Vancouver Island I am blessed with so much beauty and natures wonders, but our attitude is what makes the difference for sure, appreciation and acceptance of the world in which we make our images, In the forest or on a remote coastline I like to close my eyes for a minute and listen to the sounds of my environment then open them, I call it a long exposure moment (:
Thanks so very much for the positive feedback.z I’m really looking forward to getting back to Vancouver Island in May. I know it pretty well and have spent a lot of time there ❤️
Local hero! Thank you ever so much for these wonderful pictures, Alister - I love the very first one with the shells, beautiful colors indeed! Only 2 months of waiting left for me till I will have the opportunity to prove my own attitude at the northwestern shores…
Great location. Loved the shell image. Right up my alley. Also great message here. I try not to go out with expectations these days - always find when I have a specific image in mind, it doesn't materialize. I'm trying to be more open to just "seeing" and making images with what presents itself.
You're liking the 24/65 crop and I liked the ones you had on camera on the little inlet with the water where you showed every other crop! I get your 'thusiasm, I don't have it though I get it :-) That said I was avoiding going out on Sat but when I did it just becomes another place. Mind you a juvenile shag landing 15 feet from me then sharing that space for 20 minutes was cool.
Beautiful images and outlook on photography! At about 8 minutes in all I could think was "if that was me trying to film myself standing so close to my tripod I would have 100 percent knocked it into the water" 🙂. Another great video Alister!
Haha, thank you so much. It’s funny, while I was recording it I thought to myself, “if Kathy was here she’d have fallen over and hurt herself by now!” I actually packed wine and ibuprofen as a matter of habit ❤️❤️😂
Simple but vital message for contentment and enjoyment of photography. One aspect of your videos which is beginning to impress on me is having the ability to alter, view and crop in different aspect ratios. It seems that my eyes are permanently fixed in 3:2 mode! Am I trying to convince myself that I need a new camera🤣
Wildlife photography is a good match for landscapes. If you haven't got the best location or conditions for one it might be good for the other. It looks like this would have been a good spot for it.
Are the images shown in the video original JPGs, which would be assumed. Or are they processed RAWs in the respective format? Why do I ask? Especially with Fuji, colours and contrasts are very different due to the different film simulations. A shot without Fuji film simulation would only be possible with RAW shots. So I would like to know which film simulations we see when you show us your images? Or are these processed RAW images, output in a special format?
A quick question, the photo around 7:39 which I loved ! I was just wondered why you used f29 with iso 320 (iso 320 taken from back of camera at 6:31) I would have thought that iso 100, allowing you to open by 2 stops or so might have been appropriate ?
LOL, absolutely. This is one of the things that always suffers when I am making videos. It takes so much concentration to set up the second camera, record audio, shoot b-roll and at the same time make technically proficient images!! The outcome was ok, but as you say, I could have had a better set up!
@@Alister_Benn Fully understand!! I was just curious, I have enough issues with just using one camera at a time! I can only image the complexity you guys go through. Really appreciate your channel and the hard-work.
@@Alister_Benn It's a mystery to me mate. People like Lloyd Chambers will tell you that diffraction sets in on the 102mpx GFX100S sooner than it does on FF. He does extensive testing in the field and I respect his work but I guess if your shots are acceptably sharp at those apertures then that's all that matters. Andy Mumford just released a YT vlog on the 20-35 and he was shooting at much wider apertures but stacked a lot of his images.
@@stevemckenzie4731 I'll be honest with you, I have never really been that bothered by such matters. For me the shutter speed is far more important and I'd bet that no-one could tell on a large print viewed from a regular distance. Yes, maybe pixel-peeping would reveal something, but I have better things to do with my life then. that :-) Many thanks for all your insights.
"Well, it's 6 o'clock in the morning. I've been up for 2 hours." After which I expected to hear: "and I have the face of a bag of dried heather," a la FotoTripper. But, of course, not! This is a video from Mr. Benn.
Thanks for that. The History Brush videos got incorporated into my Dodge & Burn masterclass. It's no longer listed on my education store, but if you want a copy contact me and I can sell you one for £40. The member's forum has loads of videos by me on all sorts of topics regarding creativity, expression, processing, composition and everything in between. There is a 30 day free trial available here: expressive.photography/member-area/
@@Alister_Benn yeah, Alister i would like the video how would i pay? just joined your site and getting my feet wet wander through it and learning how to navigate. get back to me. thanks for sharing all your expertise.
What a beautiful landscape! Isn't attitude so important. Great reminder. thank you
Thank you. So much beauty out there and it sad that only glorious and majestic are celebrated ❤️
New gear, a new place and a backpack full of good attitude..........sounds like he photo trifecta to me. Bill
Yeah, 100%. It has been nice to fall in love with photography all over again.
Hi, greetings from Chile. I have to say that I really like your philosphy: enjoy what you’re doing instead worring about social media. You’re my inspiration.
Thank you so much!
Loved this video, "camera in hand, a tool to explore whats there not what I wish was there". I will have that sentence in my head next time I'm out with my camera
To me, that is the passport to success...
The man with the very expensive trekking pole lol. Loving that format on the GFX. Great attitude, there is always something to photograph. "If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?” - Ernst Haas.
haha, yeah, it is also a very uncomfortable one!! :-) I have about 6 poles sat in our boot room and never take one with me!!
Don't forget to bring your great attitude! Lovely advice!
First thing I pack :-)
Quite beautiful.Soothing.This would be my kind of mood ,place🙏🏻🌊
Yes, very much, lots of ditches to fall into as well :-)
You speak a lot of sense so important to enjoy the landscape great video!
Many thanks, I appreciate that
So true with having the right attitude. I can't imagine a less enjoyable experience than simply looking for award winning photos.
Thanks so much. I was terrible for that! Every time I went out it would be like looking for a Nat Geo cover image!! Thankfully I don't do that anymore and pretty much always have a rewarding time. Really appreciate your comment and feedback, thank you.
At first I thought that the weapon was the tripod to cross the river. 😀Yes the weapon is the attitude, for me the first feeling is the desire to be outdoor and, maybe, take some pictures. Even in the busy area where I live I can find place of solitude even if it's not wilderness. It was nice to see you in the field and wish one day to come back to Scotland. Thanks Alister.
haha, yes, it comes in very handy!! I am enjoying getting back out there locally and falling in love with my own backyard again. A deep breath before more travel.
Another great video from you. I look forward to hearing from you at the Bekkalokket photo club here in Norway next week.🙏
Thank you so much, and I am really looking forward to Thursday evening :-)
Beautiful work stunning place god bless
Many thanks for that, really appreciated
Many years ago, I saw Adnamurchan from a sail boat, while we were sailing around the Inner Hebrides. It looks wonderful to explore with a camera and it’s lovely to see somewhere that is mentioned most days on the Shipping Forecast, which I still listen to fairly regularly, despite living in New York for the last 23 years. I am really enjoying your approach to photography, composition and processing and your steering me clear from being straightjacketed into conventions, such as rules of third. I did discover a long time ago to process the way I wanted to and not be sucked into a routine. One photographer I followed used to reduce the highlights all the way and open up the shadows all the way as global adjustments. And he had an unhealthy penchant for magenta and cranked it up way too high for my liking on everything. And that was his starting point on every image. As soon as I stopped doing any of that, I much preferred my results. I can liken it to when, as a teenager I stopped putting sugar in tea and coffee and discovered this amazing new drink called tea. I never liked tea until I stopped putting sugar in it. I couldn’t touch tea or coffee with sugar in it now. And I could never bring myself to do that highlights and shadows treatment as a global adjustment. I have also learned the sliders in Lightroom are so powerful that less is often more.
Thank you so much for the comment and background, I agree 100% - funny you should mention the shadows/highlights thing. You may enjoy this video I made a couple of years ago: ruclips.net/video/WgJJAM08CiU/видео.html
Lol..tripod hiking stick. Nice. Def need to get one of those
Down to Earth and very thought provoking. Thank you for the video.
Wolfgang
Yip, keeping it real ❤️❤️❤️ many thanks for the kind words
What a wonderful way to spend a morning... You never emphasize, having a good attitude, too often.... Also, getting up real early....🤠
Haha, I don’t get up early to go shoot very often 😂😂😂
@@Alister_Benn It's definitely am area in which I need to improve. When I go through my catalog, I have about twice as many late day images as I have early day images...
Definitely needed this reminder - really appreciate your thoughtfulness.
Glad it was helpful! Delighted to hear that
@@Alister_Benn I had this experience recently, the setting is one of my favorites and it was a lot of effort to get in and out of, I enjoyed every moment out - then reviewing the work later the results were not what it gone in intending to photograph. I can’t let that take away from what I so enjoyed in the moment.
@@alma175w perhaps in hindsight you may prefer the new images , but that may take time to recognise ❤️
Well said, photography is way to engage with nature!
Many thanks, really appreciate the comment.
Many thanks for this video Alister, your passion and honesty always inspire me, here on Vancouver Island I am blessed with so much beauty and natures wonders, but our attitude is what makes the difference for sure, appreciation and acceptance of the world in which we make our images, In the forest or on a remote coastline I like to close my eyes for a minute and listen to the sounds of my environment then open them, I call it a long exposure moment (:
Thanks so very much for the positive feedback.z I’m really looking forward to getting back to Vancouver Island in May. I know it pretty well and have spent a lot of time there ❤️
A fell butty dreich oot, eh no? 🙂You did manage to get some nice shots, regardless of the weather.
It was a bit!! Still beautiful though.
Local hero! Thank you ever so much for these wonderful pictures, Alister - I love the very first one with the shells, beautiful colors indeed! Only 2 months of waiting left for me till I will have the opportunity to prove my own attitude at the northwestern shores…
Thanks so much, yes, the shells really appealed to me, looking back I wish I’d done more.
Great location. Loved the shell image. Right up my alley. Also great message here. I try not to go out with expectations these days - always find when I have a specific image in mind, it doesn't materialize. I'm trying to be more open to just "seeing" and making images with what presents itself.
Well said! Thanks so very much. Yes, I wish I had spent more time with those shells...
You're liking the 24/65 crop and I liked the ones you had on camera on the little inlet with the water where you showed every other crop!
I get your 'thusiasm, I don't have it though I get it :-) That said I was avoiding going out on Sat but when I did it just becomes another place. Mind you a juvenile shag landing 15 feet from me then sharing that space for 20 minutes was cool.
Cheers mate, but attitude can be changed in a second. It really is just like flipping a switch.
Beautiful images and outlook on photography! At about 8 minutes in all I could think was "if that was me trying to film myself standing so close to my tripod I would have 100 percent knocked it into the water" 🙂. Another great video Alister!
Haha, thank you so much. It’s funny, while I was recording it I thought to myself, “if Kathy was here she’d have fallen over and hurt herself by now!” I actually packed wine and ibuprofen as a matter of habit ❤️❤️😂
@@Alister_Benn that's cold. Fair....but cold 🙂
@@kathylinford1 nothing but love Kathy ❤️
Simple but vital message for contentment and enjoyment of photography. One aspect of your videos which is beginning to impress on me is having the ability to alter, view and crop in different aspect ratios. It seems that my eyes are permanently fixed in 3:2 mode! Am I trying to convince myself that I need a new camera🤣
Haha, yes, gear acquisition syndrome is alive and well.
Wildlife photography is a good match for landscapes. If you haven't got the best location or conditions for one it might be good for the other. It looks like this would have been a good spot for it.
Yeah, loads of good wildlife… beautiful quiet place and no people, it’s a win for me ❤️
Are the images shown in the video original JPGs, which would be assumed. Or are they processed RAWs in the respective format? Why do I ask? Especially with Fuji, colours and contrasts are very different due to the different film simulations. A shot without Fuji film simulation would only be possible with RAW shots. So I would like to know which film simulations we see when you show us your images? Or are these processed RAW images, output in a special format?
A quick question, the photo around 7:39 which I loved ! I was just wondered why you used f29 with iso 320 (iso 320 taken from back of camera at 6:31) I would have thought that iso 100, allowing you to open by 2 stops or so might have been appropriate ?
LOL, absolutely. This is one of the things that always suffers when I am making videos. It takes so much concentration to set up the second camera, record audio, shoot b-roll and at the same time make technically proficient images!! The outcome was ok, but as you say, I could have had a better set up!
@@Alister_Benn Fully understand!! I was just curious, I have enough issues with just using one camera at a time! I can only image the complexity you guys go through. Really appreciate your channel and the hard-work.
Lovely images Alister. f26 and f29?
Yeah, MF lenses and sensors are different from full frame. Ansel used to shoot at f64 :-)
@@Alister_Benn It's a mystery to me mate. People like Lloyd Chambers will tell you that diffraction sets in on the 102mpx GFX100S sooner than it does on FF. He does extensive testing in the field and I respect his work but I guess if your shots are acceptably sharp at those apertures then that's all that matters. Andy Mumford just released a YT vlog on the 20-35 and he was shooting at much wider apertures but stacked a lot of his images.
@@stevemckenzie4731 I'll be honest with you, I have never really been that bothered by such matters. For me the shutter speed is far more important and I'd bet that no-one could tell on a large print viewed from a regular distance. Yes, maybe pixel-peeping would reveal something, but I have better things to do with my life then. that :-) Many thanks for all your insights.
"Well, it's 6 o'clock in the morning. I've been up for 2 hours." After which I expected to hear: "and I have the face of a bag of dried heather," a la FotoTripper. But, of course, not! This is a video from Mr. Benn.
Haha, I made a video today for a couple of weeks time and was goofing around a lot. Serious is ok, but I’m out there having fun ❤️❤️❤️
Alister, year or so ago watched your history brush video. how do i become a member to view this and other videos?
Thanks for that. The History Brush videos got incorporated into my Dodge & Burn masterclass. It's no longer listed on my education store, but if you want a copy contact me and I can sell you one for £40. The member's forum has loads of videos by me on all sorts of topics regarding creativity, expression, processing, composition and everything in between.
There is a 30 day free trial available here: expressive.photography/member-area/
@@Alister_Benn yeah, Alister i would like the video how would i pay? just joined your site and getting my feet wet wander through it and learning how to navigate. get back to me. thanks for sharing all your expertise.
@@dr.lopuckdds2603 Hi, drop me an email at xpresspix@gmail.com and I will send you an invoice and the download links. `Many thanks
alister, how do we initiate this purchase of your dodge and burn course that incorporates the history brush.3 youtube tutorials for 40 pounds?
Hiya, can you email me: xpresspix@gmail dot com. I need your email address to send an invoice. Many thanks