Thanks for answering a question that ws in the back of my mind, the reason abstract sells to a wider audience. Makes perfect sense. A newcomer to the genre, but will definitely concentrate on the process. Thanks
I think you should have a “Love It” button. Living in the U.S. Midwest, we don’t have too much in the way of beautiful vistas and mountains. I’ve been kind of poking around this recently and you’ve managed to put in a 21minute video what I’ve been trying to articulate in my own mind for the past couple of months. Water is a great subject to use for this. One thing I’m experimenting with is macro abstracts. You can really introduce color, shapes, and layers. And you can set it up indoors fairly easily if the weather gets too bad. Seemingly endless possibilities. Thanks for the push forward.
Thank you Gary. You've got to love Macro abstracts. TIP: learn to focus stack and keep your aperture closed-up, F11-F16 is a great place. Most people assume you shoot wider open when using macro but this normally a big no-no. All the best
Helen here...way to draw a girl out of a slump. Thank you, Gary. You have given me the nod to go down the abstract road. Whether I sell them or not doesn't matter as much as capturing what draws me into the scene in the first place.
Gary, I just want to say thanks. This video has unshackled my confidence to wonder away from the beaten track with my photography. So a big thank you from me.
Thanks ... for presenting something I haven’t seen anywhere. This video has expanded my way of thinking and “seeing”. I can’t wait to apply these techniques.
Talk about timing and discovery. I just finished a session in a small woods and from it I created my first intentional abstract. Now, after watching this video, I'm highly inspired to see what else will work.Thanks Gary.
Gary .. thk u a 100 times over for making this vid .. i was going absolutely bonkers as to sorting out - what sells ... uve made a whole lots of us think positively ... cheers, vernon_alvares from Mumbai India
I have just discovered your site and I have to say I am intrigued by your versatility. I so liked the abstract options in this video and have many images I will go back and investigate as to what I can now do with them. I can relate to your processing style and what I truly enjoy is the fact you don't use Lightroom (neither do I) you are a Canon user (and so was I up until recently going to Fujifilm) but I understand the workings of Canon. You don't use any of the fancy post processing programs and stick mainly to Photoshop and ACR. Love it.
Just been watching this one again Gary, love this type of content, Now I just need to go and sell some pictures, been doing a lot of abstract stuff lately.
Very interesting look over your shoulder Gary and I tended to agree with you on nearly every shot. Gave me some inspiration to get out there tomorrow. Thanks!
Hello Gary, another great video from you. There are so many great pictures of landscapes, but they have to be related to the buyer. Otherwise they will not be bought (much). Abstract pictures are free of ties of any kind and please one or not. Your abstract work is so great. They are somehow neutral. That's why they like many people. Thank for sharing!
Gary, superb blog and couldn't be better timed, I am in Australia for a week or so more surrounded by massive waterfalls, but with relatives who think that three minutes is enough time to look at a waterfall and are in charge of the car ... Hi hum ...
Some great shots. I used to visit Aysgarth falls and Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. Ingleton is quite a hike if you do the full walk but worth lugging your camera gear up and down the Dales for just shy of 5 miles. There are also a few hidden off the beaten track waterfalls too OS maps are very useful.
Glad I stayed past the first 5 minutes. Beautiful work and inspiration for trying more abstract shots. Thanks for showing the processing details, very helpful.
Outstanding Gary. I have a folder filled with quite similar water images from a place called the Cascade Trail Falls in Franconia in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA... I have learned that some of those brownish colors in mountain stream water is a form of tanic acid that leaches out of the rocks & ground. I simply love some of those shapes you captured. My personal favorite was the landscape oriented image that resembled a horse's mane to my eye... Nothing not to like here. Bill on the Hill, Vermont, USA... :~)
Gary this is the first video of your's I've seen. I especially love your enthusiasm about the photos. I love the photos you took. I learnt a lot from this video. 2 thumbs up!
I just love your work. As a senior (old) engineer I can really relate to the way you do things. I consider myself to be a pretty good photographer ( I get at least one keeper per 1000), but I'd be pretty proud of myself if I could get anywhere near the results you get. Well done!
Really enjoyed this one. I don't photograph to sell, but you've given me some great ideas to take forward to make my hobby so much more enjoyable. Nice one Mr G.!
Awesome video Gary, I do a lot of abstract stuff usually with trees and plants, and i shoot a lot of waterfalls which should be flowing really strong after today as hurricane Dorian passes by. need to get my creative on.
Great vlog, Gary - just wish I’d seen it before last week’s trip to the Lake District although I did come back with a few water shots I can play with. Thanks for sharing and the thoughts.
You like Abstract's then lol. Very inciteful Gary, there is a beauty in not seeing the whole scene, we fill in the blanks and create the surrounding, Great keep em coming....in between work of course!
Awesome video! I had some photos of water and almost deleted them. Now I'm going to go through them like you did to see if I have something worth framing. Thank you!
Great video Gary. I love photographing water, almost impossible to get the same image twice so it's a real adventure and a chance to let your imagination run free. Always amazes me when some people say they hate editing images, I love it like you do, it's a chance to get even more creative!
Abstract is the sh#! Gary! I think the sizes you state below are probably great for office. This is inspirational to me - here on the Gulf Coast USA, and I'm going to grab instances in "in camera" crop and hope to target the recent new home construction with larger prints. I've followed you for almost a year now, and I feel this is the best "advice" you've offered. Great video!
Great vlog Gary - I like abstract shots both when you're trying to take an abstract image but also when you see an abstract image within a normal landscape shot you might take. Also you don't have to travel miles to do abstract photography which can be a bonus when it starts to get a bit nippy out there!!
that was very interesting Gary i enjoyed that .i now have something differant to work with .i thought abstract was a lot harder to process than what you just showed thank you
You've just created a set that sells down The Range for £20. But that's not a criticism - that's exactly the point - creating an image or set of images that people want to buy. Good job.
Enjoyed that Gary, a refreshing change and certainly the way I love to photograph waterfalls. Abstract or expressionism through Isolation? I also feel the thirds rule is the last thought in this type of photography there are many other "tools" of composition that can be used for better effect. As you said people should give it a go because the photography playground gets a whole lot bigger.
Hi Gary can you tell pls which area was that it’s in Wels but exactly I couldn’t find it pls let me know I love to go there and learn from you I did learned a-lots from u thanks
Great video Gary. What about taking a panoramic photo and then cutting it into 3rds and putting it into to 3 frames (same kind of frame). Then hang it as one photo but individual. Just an idea. Thanks again Gary. Mark
Hi Gary. Always love your videos and one of my favourites of yours was the street photography video you shot in London i think early 2018. There was one particular black and white picture of a man on a bike looking through the window of a coffee shop. Do you remember it? One of my absolute favourite pictures, really really nice. Perhaps you could do another street shoot. That would be awesome! Thanks again mate. All the best.
I think you mean an overweight woman sat on her mobility bike looking through a fast food window :) that was the relationship of the two :) I've made a follow-up street photography video. I'll edit it and upload it next week. cheers
I am just starting to look at Abstract and love the way you have have cropped in so many ways and get so many different points of interest, terrific vlog - thanks Gary. You doing any meet ups on coming months?
Thanks Gary, I really like your approach to art and fine art in photograpy. Impressionism art has always sold well over the centuries. Any chance you could you experiment with a Claude Monet type of landscape?
Great video Gary, I love the triptych idea. I used one in a photobook I am putting together for a retirement present for somebody, but the three images are not abstract, but complimentary nonetheless. As a follow-up, could you give a couple of tips on how to go about selling such work, especially where to start. I could see. I could see corporate board rooms going for such abstracts but I’ve no idea where or how to break into that market.
Great video really interesting to see how you created these, shame there were so many ad breaks it was like watching something on ITV and a bit of a turn off.
I'm not generally an abstract photographer Gary, but this video has given me a few ideas to play with which is quite exciting. I've done a few images, waterfalls particularly, that have no location context, they're just nice waterfall images. From the Ogwen Falls actually. I must admit from your early B roll in this video, I recognise Betws-y-Coed, just about. I don't think I've ever seen it with so much water running through it! Some wild conditions! Did I see the Fairy Glen in there too? Cheers Gary, keep up the great work mate.
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Thanks for answering a question that ws in the back of my mind, the reason abstract sells to a wider audience. Makes perfect sense. A newcomer to the genre, but will definitely concentrate on the process. Thanks
I think you should have a “Love It” button. Living in the U.S. Midwest, we don’t have too much in the way of beautiful vistas and mountains. I’ve been kind of poking around this recently and you’ve managed to put in a 21minute video what I’ve been trying to articulate in my own mind for the past couple of months. Water is a great subject to use for this. One thing I’m experimenting with is macro abstracts. You can really introduce color, shapes, and layers. And you can set it up indoors fairly easily if the weather gets too bad. Seemingly endless possibilities. Thanks for the push forward.
Thank you Gary. You've got to love Macro abstracts. TIP: learn to focus stack and keep your aperture closed-up, F11-F16 is a great place. Most people assume you shoot wider open when using macro but this normally a big no-no. All the best
seeing you how happy you are that's priceless Thank you Sir for sharing.
Abstract so good but not easy to understand for a lot of people. I like very much to shoot abstract when ever possible. 👍😉
Helen here...way to draw a girl out of a slump. Thank you, Gary. You have given me the nod to go down the abstract road. Whether I sell them or not doesn't matter as much as capturing what draws me into the scene in the first place.
Hi Helen, that's great news. I hope you enjoy it
Gary, I just want to say thanks. This video has unshackled my confidence to wonder away from the beaten track with my photography. So a big thank you from me.
Thanks ... for presenting something I haven’t seen anywhere. This video has expanded my way of thinking and “seeing”. I can’t wait to apply these techniques.
Glad it was helpful!
Talk about timing and discovery. I just finished a session in a small woods and from it I created my first intentional abstract. Now, after watching this video, I'm highly inspired to see what else will work.Thanks Gary.
I love abstract. This was awesome how you turned a shitty day into gold. Thank you
Thank you
Great video. Really like the examples on the wall at the end. Gosh, I would so love to go back to Scotland once more before my time is up!
Very useful video. Thanks for the advise. I plan to use my existing images to create such abstracts.
Beautiful images i have loved abstract photography for a while now it has given me back the passion in my photography.
Cheers John
Just brilliant class and master photographer! Thousand thanks for sharing your knowledge...
Very kind of you to say again. Thank you 👍👍
Gary a great tutorial on your river Triptych made an old guy very happy. Tried it and happy with the result something else to play with thanks again
Absolutely Beautiful, Brilliant and Inspiring. Thanks
Gary .. thk u a 100 times over for making this vid .. i was going absolutely bonkers as to sorting out - what sells ... uve made a whole lots of us think positively ... cheers, vernon_alvares from Mumbai India
Cheers 👍👍
Love abstract. Loved your tutorial, thanks!
I liked your enthousiasm Gary. It’s addictive.
cheers
Very good video I like abstract nature shots.
Cheers Bill
Excellent VLOG Gary, I have begun to lose my photographic mojo, however you have just inspired me to go out and create some abstracts done. Well done!
Cheers Peter
I recently started my photography website for my abstract work I love it so far and video inspired me to experiment more
Cheers Jim and good luck with your venture 👍👍
Gary Gough I appreciate it
I really liked this. Makes total sense.
Great video Gary thanks for your very unselfish approach in helping us to get on. BRILLIANT.
Very kind, thank you
Excellent video Gary! Thanks for sharing.
Cheers Brian
I have just discovered your site and I have to say I am intrigued by your versatility. I so liked the abstract options in this video and have many images I will go back and investigate as to what I can now do with them. I can relate to your processing style and what I truly enjoy is the fact you don't use Lightroom (neither do I) you are a Canon user (and so was I up until recently going to Fujifilm) but I understand the workings of Canon. You don't use any of the fancy post processing programs and stick mainly to Photoshop and ACR. Love it.
Nice to find your videos. Thanks for the info
Kind of you to say, thank you
Your approach to teaching is practical and to the point. Very helpful in photography, business and post-processing.
Thank you Robert
So inspiring! Thank you for a video. Need a waterfall asap.
Thank you 👍👍
Just been watching this one again Gary, love this type of content, Now I just need to go and sell some pictures, been doing a lot of abstract stuff lately.
Great images. I like how (using water) you printed ..to wet your appetite and not whet! :)
Wow; what wonderful abstract images.
Gary, fantastic video, please do more of these, very inspiring, cheers Howard
Fascinating ... never considered it until your video. Very nice and thanks for the idea. 👍👍👍👍
Great vlog Gary, water is such a fascinating subject especially fast moving stuff and you really brought it to life.
Thank you Colin
Very interesting look over your shoulder Gary and I tended to agree with you on nearly every shot. Gave me some inspiration to get out there tomorrow. Thanks!
Superb video Gary! Best I can do is like and save it for re-watch 👍 Thanks for the work you put into it!
Cheers Stephen
Absolutely brilliant. I like your idea of twisting landscape photos into abstract ones. Thank you.
Love the video never thought of going abstract but will be giving it a go. Yet again explained in simple terms for beginners like me.
Beautiful ! Congratulations.
Great video, excellent ideas
Cheers Steve 👍👍
Great work again, thanks for sharing.
Cheers Andy
Hello Gary, another great video from you. There are so many great pictures of landscapes, but they have to be related to the buyer. Otherwise they will not be bought (much). Abstract pictures are free of ties of any kind and please one or not. Your abstract work is so great. They are somehow neutral. That's why they like many people. Thank for sharing!
Very kind, thank you
Wow, many thanks Gary, definitely something that floats my boat so something I will be attempting in the near future.
Carl Pennington Photography - it’s a lot of fun but it can be a real head scratcher too. Enjoy 😁
Fantastic Gary. Thanks for sharing.
Gary, superb blog and couldn't be better timed, I am in Australia for a week or so more surrounded by massive waterfalls, but with relatives who think that three minutes is enough time to look at a waterfall and are in charge of the car ... Hi hum ...
lol good luck Bill :)
Thanks a million. These tips were simply great.
That was very interesting Gary, it was good you made the most of the bad weather.
Some great shots. I used to visit Aysgarth falls and Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. Ingleton is quite a hike if you do the full walk but worth lugging your camera gear up and down the Dales for just shy of 5 miles. There are also a few hidden off the beaten track waterfalls too OS maps are very useful.
I've been round there before, it's a great place. Cheers once again
Glad I stayed past the first 5 minutes. Beautiful work and inspiration for trying more abstract shots. Thanks for showing the processing details, very helpful.
Outstanding Gary. I have a folder filled with quite similar water images from a place called the Cascade Trail Falls in Franconia in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA...
I have learned that some of those brownish colors in mountain stream water is a form of tanic acid that leaches out of the rocks & ground. I simply love some of those shapes you captured.
My personal favorite was the landscape oriented image that resembled a horse's mane to my eye... Nothing not to like here.
Bill on the Hill,
Vermont, USA... :~)
Gary this is the first video of your's I've seen. I especially love your enthusiasm about the photos. I love the photos you took. I learnt a lot from this video. 2 thumbs up!
Great video Gary. Have a nice weekend!
Thank you and you too xx
I just love your work. As a senior (old) engineer I can really relate to the way you do things. I consider myself to be a pretty good photographer ( I get at least one keeper per 1000), but I'd be pretty proud of myself if I could get anywhere near the results you get. Well done!
Thank you Alan. We all get lucky sometimes. Remember, I'm not showing you the rubbish shots :)
@@GaryGough That made me chuckle.
Beautiful stuff Gary 👌
Really enjoyed this one. I don't photograph to sell, but you've given me some great ideas to take forward to make my hobby so much more enjoyable. Nice one Mr G.!
Awesome video Gary, I do a lot of abstract stuff usually with trees and plants, and i shoot a lot of waterfalls which should be flowing really strong after today as hurricane Dorian passes by. need to get my creative on.
Oh no, I hope you're safe. If we get winds in the UK that top 50mph the country collapses :) Cheers John
Great vlog, Gary - just wish I’d seen it before last week’s trip to the Lake District although I did come back with a few water shots I can play with. Thanks for sharing and the thoughts.
I am so glad I came across your channel Gary. I absolutely love this work and can't wait to try it for myself. Your enthusiasm is infectious :-)
Thank you
You like Abstract's then lol. Very inciteful Gary, there is a beauty in not seeing the whole scene, we fill in the blanks and create the surrounding, Great keep em coming....in between work of course!
Hello Gary, up there with best vlogs, congratulations a fabulous tutorial...
Brilliant video Gary. Done some similar shots at Aysgarth but never thought of doing triptychs, will be now though!
Awesome video! I had some photos of water and almost deleted them. Now I'm going to go through them like you did to see if I have something worth framing. Thank you!
Very inspirational and lots of very helpful shooting hints if you listen carefully. Thanks Gary. I have missed so many photo opportunities. 😂
Inspirational. Thanks.
Great video Gary. I love photographing water, almost impossible to get the same image twice so it's a real adventure and a chance to let your imagination run free. Always amazes me when some people say they hate editing images, I love it like you do, it's a chance to get even more creative!
Thank you, very kind of you to say
Very good. Definitely worth a go
Brilliant ideas, great images
Abstract is the sh#! Gary! I think the sizes you state below are probably great for office. This is inspirational to me - here on the Gulf Coast USA, and I'm going to grab instances in "in camera" crop and hope to target the recent new home construction with larger prints. I've followed you for almost a year now, and I feel this is the best "advice" you've offered. Great video!
Amazing thanks again for making this video
Great vlog Gary - I like abstract shots both when you're trying to take an abstract image but also when you see an abstract image within a normal landscape shot you might take. Also you don't have to travel miles to do abstract photography which can be a bonus when it starts to get a bit nippy out there!!
Like you said it's everywhere. Cheers Nick
Fantastic !
Enjoyed that.......
Thank you
Very motivating video, thank you! :)
Great video and awesome abstract work. I'm going to try this when I go on my fall colour outing next month.
that was very interesting Gary i enjoyed that .i now have something differant to work with .i thought abstract was a lot harder to process than what you just showed
thank you
Gary, well done ....
Gary,
As usual, excellent insight and tutorial!
Thank-You,
Mike
Very inspiring. Just brillant. THX,
Absolutely great video as far as being informative.I am assuming you take all your photos in RAW for further editing and refining?????
Great work... Thanks!
Cheers
Hi Gary, I really love your images. Why take away the beautiful colours?
You've just created a set that sells down The Range for £20. But that's not a criticism - that's exactly the point - creating an image or set of images that people want to buy. Good job.
Cheers
Nicely done!
Love your vlogs Gary do you but just wondering do you print your own photographs? if so would be great to see a vlog about it?
Fabulous ! Love your edits and edit skills :-)
Cheers Rich
Enjoyed that Gary, a refreshing change and certainly the way I love to photograph waterfalls. Abstract or expressionism through Isolation? I also feel the thirds rule is the last thought in this type of photography there are many other "tools" of composition that can be used for better effect. As you said people should give it a go because the photography playground gets a whole lot bigger.
Hi Gary can you tell pls which area was that it’s in Wels but exactly I couldn’t find it pls let me know I love to go there and learn from you I did learned a-lots from u thanks
Bravo. Je ne connais pas cette technique pour faire un trop triptyque.
C'est vraiment facile. Merci d'avoir regardé
Thank you!!!!!!!
Nice video, where did you get that picture frame? Are there other varieties?
We get them made up for our work in the studio xx
Very informative and unique photography. Love your images. Great work. Greetings from British Columbia, Canada
Great video Gary. What about taking a panoramic photo and then cutting it into 3rds and putting it into to 3 frames (same kind of
frame). Then hang it as one photo but individual. Just an idea.
Thanks again Gary. Mark
Mark Madderra - that works a treat too
@@GaryGough Thanks for the reply Gary. Mark
Hi Gary. Always love your videos and one of my favourites of yours was the street photography video you shot in London i think early 2018. There was one particular black and white picture of a man on a bike looking through the window of a coffee shop. Do you remember it? One of my absolute favourite pictures, really really nice. Perhaps you could do another street shoot. That would be awesome! Thanks again mate. All the best.
I think you mean an overweight woman sat on her mobility bike looking through a fast food window :) that was the relationship of the two :)
I've made a follow-up street photography video. I'll edit it and upload it next week. cheers
@@GaryGough Cool, look forward to that. Should of taken Adam, he would have loved it ;-)
I am just starting to look at Abstract and love the way you have have cropped in so many ways and get so many different points of interest, terrific vlog - thanks Gary. You doing any meet ups on coming months?
Cheers Ian. I have a few planned yes :)
Thank you Gary to show that photography is not all about snap shots,even though there will always ,I guess, a place for them.
Very interesting .
Cheers Nigel
Very interesting video and technique. Did you create own Frame Actions? If not, can you share where I can find them!
Thanks Gary, I really like your approach to art and fine art in photograpy. Impressionism art has always sold well over the centuries. Any chance you could you experiment with a Claude Monet type of landscape?
Great video Gary, I love the triptych idea. I used one in a photobook I am putting together for a retirement present for somebody, but the three images are not abstract, but complimentary nonetheless. As a follow-up, could you give a couple of tips on how to go about selling such work, especially where to start. I could see. I could see corporate board rooms going for such abstracts but I’ve no idea where or how to break into that market.
Great video really interesting to see how you created these, shame there were so many ad breaks it was like watching something on ITV and a bit of a turn off.
Thank you Gary, What is your favorite web sites for selling photos ?
My own. I'm creating a Squarespace shop right now.
Damper Deen b
I'm not generally an abstract photographer Gary, but this video has given me a few ideas to play with which is quite exciting. I've done a few images, waterfalls particularly, that have no location context, they're just nice waterfall images. From the Ogwen Falls actually.
I must admit from your early B roll in this video, I recognise Betws-y-Coed, just about. I don't think I've ever seen it with so much water running through it! Some wild conditions! Did I see the Fairy Glen in there too?
Cheers Gary, keep up the great work mate.