This channel's a classic example of a competent and enthusiastic individual sharing their passion in an engaging way, which is RUclips at it's best, in my opinion.
No fancy video production. No catchy music in the background. Lots of focus on teaching about what matters - photographic techniques, composition and careful thinking to make a great photo!!! Refreshing!!
Thank you Ruggiero - please help me spread the word and make more like it by sharing it and any others you like with more photographers. Best wishes... MIKE
I agree watching Mike's videos has made me realize that all the b-roll, music, production, etc just gets in the way and is distracting. His videos come across so simple and straight to the point and I think that makes them easier to learn from and the concepts easier to grasp.
Mike, as always I find your videos the most helpful of all the RUclipsrs I follow. You walk us through your thought process all while showing it on screen giving us examples of do's and don'ts. I will always look forward to new videos. Thank you for taking the time to make these for us.
You should have your own PBS travel and photography show. You are really good at explaining something difficult and make it simple at the same time giving an amateur like myself confidence to go out and try some of those techniques you talk about. I always found photography difficult to understand until I saw your videos.
This was a very timely discovery. I am travelling to Seville tomorrow and I will be “walking around” a lot superb video as usual. I have spent a lot of time shooting in Lancastrian light (50 shades of grey, ....... no, Grey, the colour!) and now, after watching this, I will be paying more attention to shadows, especially as I will be shooting in decent light. You are, by far, the teacher I recommend the most.
Your videos are the best of anyone out there. i especially like it when you show a "bad" shot of a scene then show how to turn it into a "great" shot just by looking at it differently. Love hearing your thought process. Keep it up!! thanks
Hey Mike just want you to know that I have learned loads from your videos. Your voice is my mind every time I go photographing. I've been meaning to tell you this for quite some time (8 yrs) Your like the Obi-Wan Kenobi of photography.
Mike Browne I have only recently discovered you on You Tube. As many have said I enjoy your teaching style because you explain your thought processes. At the end of the video where you are capturing the image of the flower the video camera was looking back toward those low rock walls. I am curious why you did not think that could be an interesting picture.
Another thought provoking video. Thanks Mike. Can't afford trips abroad. Never even flown in a plane and I am 64 but, because of how you help me see the world around me in a new way, I am taking much more interesting pictures from right here where I live. Okay, none of them are ground breaking or are going to win me any awards but they are a world away from the rubbish I used to take. I had a neat example of the difference between the photographers mind and the snappers mind, recently. Just up the street from my house a cherry tree grows out over the pavement and it has deeply dark red leaves. I was standing on the pavement with my camera around my neck trying to work out how I could take a shot of the low evening sunlight glittering through some glass beads that had been sprayed around on the new black tarmac after a minor car crash. It was proving to be tougher than I first thought to get it right. After about ten minutes thinking and, frankly, getting nowhere with the original idea of the sparkly glass, I looked up and saw that the sun was shining through a gap in the cherry tree branches and lighting up the leaves beautifully. I lifted the camera, framed it and took the shot. Just at that moment a car stopped. A local guy driving it looked at me, looked up the street, looked back at me, then back up the street and said, "Interesting street?" He could not see the shot. I said, "Come and see." He parked the car and walked over and was blown away. "I never would have thought of that," he said. We had a great chat and I pointed him at your videos. Photography, it seems to me, is about light and a state of mind.
Thank you for sharing that InTheNameOfJustice. I love your "Photography, it seems to me, is about light and a state of mind." comment and totally agree with it. I may use it from time to time .... Hope you get to fly in a plane sometime soon - maybe to join me on a workshop somewhere. I've seen you around here for ages, be nice to meet in person... MIKE
Thanks Mike. Feel free to use it. Let's call it, copyright declined. :o)I am disabled and on benefits. I doubt I will ever fly. I can't even afford a passport but I don't feel sorry for myself. I have had a good life and I have travelled Europe as a young man by crossing the channel and hitch hiking. Take care and thanks for your work here on YT.
I used a Tamron 16-300 mm lens Nikon D 5100 . This is a great video. My photo mentor tells me like you to see Vertical or horizontal lines. I like how you talked about the windows and the cross and palm tree casting another part of it leaves against the building. I think also getting down really low gives another perspective on it too. Thanks a lot Mike.
Love it Mike. Love this kind of videos where you are sharing your whole thought process about a particular shot. I prefer this style of teaching as it is far more engaging and feels more real. This sort of videos let me have a peek inside your head, to experience your vision and your thought around a 'good shot'. That is so invaluable. Helps me grow my ability to "see a shot" if you will. I know it takes a lot of time and effort to produce these kind of contents and I want to say a big "Thank You". You are gold mate. Cheers.
Mike, thanks. I love your style of teaching! These "watch Mike compose a picture" videos are excellent very helpful. As I've said before, I love how you show a video of what you're seeing and then the resulting image! Brilliant!
Your videos are absolutely fantastic. they have, to me, elements of adventure and a documentary type feel which I absolutely love. I just can't get enough of your videos where you're outside explaining things. No other RUclipsr like you ANYWHERE. Keep up your great work and I enjoy your videos so much.
I watch your videos from time to time. You have an amazing ability to explain your shots, photography, tips and tricks. I'd like to remind your viewers to be conscious and respect the property and the surroundings when composing and shooting. I almost shudder when you step up on that beautiful white block that might stain, but I know you're always conscious of such things. Thank you for posting.
You obviously put a lot of time and thought into these videos and it makes them superior! Because of you I will see my next shot differently. Thank you very much.
Hey Mike, it's always a learning and a great pleasure watching your videos as they are explained with so much of simplicity. I am in Vietnam for few years now and would look forward for your next workshop plan here. Thanks and would look forward for your next video.
Thank you jayesh limaye Shame you didn't book on this years Vietnam wokshop. We recently cancelled it because only 3 people booked... They were happy enough to transfer onto the Cambodia one which begins in about 2 weeks. I might be able to get you onto that even though it's last minute. Please message me via the contact page of the website if you'd like to come. Links below... MIKE Contact: www.photographycourses.biz/contact Cambodia WS: www.photographycourses.biz/workshops/cambodia
Mike...I always appreciate your style of teaching... if it wasn't for you, then I would not be the landscape photographer I am today.... mind you, I learn all the time...a student of the art but fundamentally I have you to thank.
Thank you Sweden in a Nutshell - Ian Smith Fotografi - we are all still learning. I learned loads a couple weeks ago watching my friend Bella West doing a shoot. - MIKE
This is probably one of the best tutorials on composition I've ever come across on RUclips. I love that you show your thought process behind the shot and how you get from the average boring shot to the interesting and appealing ones. I might have to ask my husband to watch this too, so he will understand why it takes me so long to take a photograph. He thinks it's just about pushing the button on top of the camera. "Please, can you get on with it?" LOL. Nah, I'm not being quite fair to him, but you get my meaning. 😜 Absolutely love your tutorials. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you An Vo. I completely understand the 'just press the button' attitude. If someone's not a photographer they wouldn't know the work that goes into it... MIKE
your vdos inspired me to look at urbanscapes differently. you wont know what it means to me but i can only say its a huge help. thanks for explaining the way you see, along with settings which gives idea of approx settings to start off with while shooting
Dang, I saw the shadow disappear behind the cross as he spoke. The live view through the , ahh, live view really puts one right in the action. One of the best, to the point, tutorials I've seen, I like real working scenarios and this was one of them.
These are my favourite kinds of video by you Mike, there's something very engaging about them. Kind of like going for a little photo wander with a friend!
Recently I had my first photoshoot with a model who wasn't a relative or friend and I dont think I could have done as well as I did without your videos.
Excellent! One of my self set objectives in photography is to discover interest in my everyday surroundings. If I can then communicate it to others, so much the better. You have gone to a not particularly interesting location (Subjective, but isn't everything?) picked out some details and shown them them to be worth a second glance simply by paying attention to composition. Easy lesson to watch. Hard act to follow! Thanks!
Hey Mike you're so courageous to shoot your movie like that. If you would make a movie in that way here in Amsterdam where i live than you would need a spare camera for every photo you shoot hahaha. I enjoy watching your vids very much, so thanks for uploading them. Greetz from the Netherlands
I just LOVE your videos, they're very informative and helpful, you sir are my mentor in photography, i learned A LOT from your videos, thanks for all the time and effort spent in these videos.
no lie i watch like 9 or ten photogs ...tony northrup,,,jared polin ..just to name a couple but that being said your a much better teacher because its like we are there when your teaching your not just blabbing tech terms but actually teaching thanx mike....ps ...no offence to the photogs i mentioned i have learned from them also but your more down to earth
Absolutely love, love, love your approach to photography! You really make it seem less daunting and that with a bit of thinking, that perfect shot isn't just a matter of a happy accident. Thanks! And I have to add, the minimalistic approach to composition is so right up my alley, hopefully we'll be seeing more videos like this in the future.
Thank you Plasma D'Lite. There's quite a lot like it on my channel and website already. Please help me keep the free vids coming by sharing them wherever appropriate... MIKE
A brilliantly talented educator ......as others have said , i learn more from Mike than anybody else . So if my lovely other half is reading this , Mikes course would make a great Xmas pressie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another great video young Mike. I was only just thinking today that I have photographers block when all I have to do is open my eyes and take another look. Cheers buddy. Tony
Thanks for the wisdom, I'st always refreshing when in new surroundings. It would be great to be in Lanzarote on your workshop. I'm a £10 pom, had a 6 hour stop Canary in Islands on our way to Tasmania way back in 1968. Always enjoy your uploads, all the best..........Peter.
Great video Mike as always. Tried again with the XT1 but again same problems as before. Wee buttons,Big Hands,Wee brain, and these bloody menus. Keep thinking that eventually I'll get to like them and get used to it but will need to stick with my D610 and one lens for hols. Jim
Hey Jim. I know what you mean. I love the XT-1 and though there are many downsides like endless menus full of stuff we don't need and fiddly buttons. Overall i still wouldn't change it... Still enjoy shooting commissions with my nice big chunky D600 though... MIKE
The 600 has stuff as well not used by pro photographers but I recently got a second hand 800e and wow much like the layout in ur old 300's dead simple layout fast to read no fiddling just right for old fart like me small brain slow on uptake 😏
Great video Mike. I was thinking like this when I visited Gran Canaria last week. Even though it was my honeymoon, walking around Puerto de Mogan was wonderful and certainly did get the creative vision flowing! I also agree with the see it all everyday comment, even though I live in Dorset! 👍🏻
I often take my bikes out around Dorset Nicholas. Shaftesbury for breakfast is a favorite then towards Marlborough and loop back down to Lyme / West bay area... Say hi if you see me... MIKE
Great video Mike this is exactly what this channel is about for me. That first shot was great adding the door in the foreground many people wouldn't even think about doing that including myself without practice. Perspective and light make all the difference. I also love how you are doing this in midday and not golden hour or blue hour. Most people don't always have a choice what time they can shoot when they are in a tourist location. This video shows what people can do with some thought!
I really love this, I love the way you teach where to stand and take a better shot, I am a new subscriber now😊 I'm starting to love photography and since I don't have camera and what I have is my phone that has a camera ofcourse it's what I've been using to be able for me to learn and practice most of the time if I am out and done from my work, I was scrolling here and I found your Chanel and I'm glad I watched it coz honestly it gives me an idea and the way you teach is kinda like your here and all that, love ❤ 😍 this.🙌👏 have a blessed day sir
Hello, Mike!! Great video as always! But I really like this photo walk idea behind it :) So great :) I would like to see more video like this from you. Thanks for all that I've learned with you :)
hey Mike , another helpful video. I want to know whether there was post processing in the final picture of the square. Because in this kind of light I generall would get the trees bit darker . thanks
Thanks Somia S. There's always post processing on any image taken by anyone. If you don't do it yourself, the camera does it for you and that's why your trees would be dark. The camera doesn't know how they actually appear to our eyes and can only make it's best guess according to it's programming. You can set guidelines for it in your picture control settings but they're very limited. I always make my own jpegs. I wrote a newsletter article about it yesterday which I'm guessing you missed. You can sign up to it at link below... MIKE www.photographycourses.biz/new_video_notification.html
Mike Browne oh no! that must have been torture - best bakers ever! :) recognised most of that video - brought back great memories of the Lanzarote workshop - if you're reading this and haven't been on Mike's Lanzarote workshop yet....then go!!
Thank you for another great Video Tutorial Mike. I like the way you explain the various shots. A question if I may. I notice that whilst you were waiting for the light to improve, you also waited for people to move out of the picture. It that a personal trait. I ask because I try to not have people in my pictures, unless it is for a specific purpose.
Thanks Nino. TBH I'd rather have had someone in the shot - but they weren't the right ones. Maybe a trader pushing a barrow, someone on a bicycle coming towards me, elderly person stopped to look at me... That would have been perfect, but the people coming down the street just didn't work for the shot to my eye. Problem with videoing is it could take an hour or more waiting for the right shot and when time's limited, gotta work with what there is... MIKE
Hi Mike, informative and positive as always. Could I ask what what metering mode you used as you seemed to be spot metering at times or was that you trying to turn the video off? Cheers, Paul
Thanks Paul. I use Evaluative 99% of the time, certainly throughout this video. Moving the camera before a shot was me using single point SF, focus and re-compose... MIKE
This channel's a classic example of a competent and enthusiastic individual sharing their passion in an engaging way, which is RUclips at it's best, in my opinion.
Thank you Green Morning Dragon Productions... MIKE
No fancy video production. No catchy music in the background. Lots of focus on teaching about what matters - photographic techniques, composition and careful thinking to make a great photo!!! Refreshing!!
Thank you Ruggiero - please help me spread the word and make more like it by sharing it and any others you like with more photographers. Best wishes... MIKE
I agree watching Mike's videos has made me realize that all the b-roll, music, production, etc just gets in the way and is distracting. His videos come across so simple and straight to the point and I think that makes them easier to learn from and the concepts easier to grasp.
Mike, as always I find your videos the most helpful of all the RUclipsrs I follow. You walk us through your thought process all while showing it on screen giving us examples of do's and don'ts. I will always look forward to new videos. Thank you for taking the time to make these for us.
Thank you miggymig83
Everything we do begins with our thoughts. Please help me keep them coming by sharing any of my vids you like around... MIKE :-)
You should have your own PBS travel and photography show. You are really good at explaining something difficult and make it simple at the same time giving an amateur like myself confidence to go out and try some of those techniques you talk about. I always found photography difficult to understand until I saw your videos.
Thank you Tony Stark - MIKE
This was a very timely discovery. I am travelling to Seville tomorrow and I will be “walking around” a lot superb video as usual. I have spent a lot of time shooting in Lancastrian light (50 shades of grey, ....... no, Grey, the colour!) and now, after watching this, I will be paying more attention to shadows, especially as I will be shooting in decent light. You are, by far, the teacher I recommend the most.
Thank you peter kay. Have fun.... MIKE :-)
Every time the scene changes, I feel like I'm getting a long reassuring Mike Browne hug.
Ha ha - you are Macku Attacku you are. I'm going to say that next time (if I remember..) MIKE :-)
Your videos are the best of anyone out there. i especially like it when you show a "bad" shot of a scene then show how to turn it into a "great" shot just by looking at it differently. Love hearing your thought process. Keep it up!! thanks
Thank you Suzanne Reynaud King. Hope you can join us live at 5PM (UK time) today.. MIKE :-)
Hey Mike just want you to know that I have learned loads from your videos. Your voice is my mind every time I go photographing. I've been meaning to tell you this for quite some time (8 yrs) Your like the Obi-Wan Kenobi of photography.
Thank you @ Pablo Gonzalez... MIKE
You are the best teacher on youtube Period.
Watched it several times over the last year or so and learn something new every time. Great video Mike
thank you MrKarlRichards ! melissa pp Mike
Mike Browne I have only recently discovered you on You Tube. As many have said I enjoy your teaching style because you explain your thought processes. At the end of the video where you are capturing the image of the flower the video camera was looking back toward those low rock walls. I am curious why you did not think that could be an interesting picture.
Great stuff Mike!
5:35 , I learnt how to get the foreground now . You really a good teacher ! Thanks Mike .
Another thought provoking video. Thanks Mike. Can't afford trips abroad. Never even flown in a plane and I am 64 but, because of how you help me see the world around me in a new way, I am taking much more interesting pictures from right here where I live. Okay, none of them are ground breaking or are going to win me any awards but they are a world away from the rubbish I used to take.
I had a neat example of the difference between the photographers mind and the snappers mind, recently. Just up the street from my house a cherry tree grows out over the pavement and it has deeply dark red leaves. I was standing on the pavement with my camera around my neck trying to work out how I could take a shot of the low evening sunlight glittering through some glass beads that had been sprayed around on the new black tarmac after a minor car crash. It was proving to be tougher than I first thought to get it right.
After about ten minutes thinking and, frankly, getting nowhere with the original idea of the sparkly glass, I looked up and saw that the sun was shining through a gap in the cherry tree branches and lighting up the leaves beautifully. I lifted the camera, framed it and took the shot. Just at that moment a car stopped. A local guy driving it looked at me, looked up the street, looked back at me, then back up the street and said, "Interesting street?" He could not see the shot. I said, "Come and see." He parked the car and walked over and was blown away. "I never would have thought of that," he said. We had a great chat and I pointed him at your videos.
Photography, it seems to me, is about light and a state of mind.
Thank you for sharing that InTheNameOfJustice. I love your "Photography, it seems to me, is about light and a state of mind." comment and totally agree with it. I may use it from time to time .... Hope you get to fly in a plane sometime soon - maybe to join me on a workshop somewhere. I've seen you around here for ages, be nice to meet in person... MIKE
Thanks Mike.
Feel free to use it. Let's call it, copyright declined. :o)I am disabled and on benefits. I doubt I will ever fly. I can't even afford a passport but I don't feel sorry for myself. I have had a good life and I have travelled Europe as a young man by crossing the channel and hitch hiking.
Take care and thanks for your work here on YT.
Thanks Mike. Light and simplicity win the shot.
Great video! I learn more from you than any other on RUclips
Thank you Donald... MIKE
He is brilliant at explaining things in a simplistic way yet informative. By far my favourite photography youtube tutorial channel.
Couldn't agree more.
I used a Tamron 16-300 mm lens Nikon D 5100 . This is a great video. My photo mentor tells me like you to see Vertical or horizontal lines. I like how you talked about the windows and the cross and palm tree casting another part of it leaves against the building. I think also getting down really low gives another perspective on it too. Thanks a lot Mike.
Dear Mike,
Your are a great photographer and excellent teacher!
Thank you Oguz... MIKE
I like this type of photography tutorial video, really helpful and joy to watch.
Thank you Mike. Always enjoy learning more about photography from your videos!
Mike ...You are the best . No one makes videos like you. Very good.
Thanks William - MIKE :-)
Thank you Mike This is the kind of videos I like - how to find good compositions and better pictures.
Love it Mike. Love this kind of videos where you are sharing your whole thought process about a particular shot. I prefer this style of teaching as it is far more engaging and feels more real. This sort of videos let me have a peek inside your head, to experience your vision and your thought around a 'good shot'. That is so invaluable. Helps me grow my ability to "see a shot" if you will. I know it takes a lot of time and effort to produce these kind of contents and I want to say a big "Thank You". You are gold mate. Cheers.
thank you Chowdhury :)- Melissa pp Mike
Mike, thanks. I love your style of teaching! These "watch Mike compose a picture" videos are excellent very helpful. As I've said before, I love how you show a video of what you're seeing and then the resulting image! Brilliant!
Thanks Bill - MIKE
Mike Browne, what mic are you sing? Your audio is excellent.
Your videos are absolutely fantastic. they have, to me, elements of adventure and a documentary type feel which I absolutely love. I just can't get enough of your videos where you're outside explaining things. No other RUclipsr like you ANYWHERE. Keep up your great work and I enjoy your videos so much.
Thank you Dreamhawke - MIKE
I watch your videos from time to time. You have an amazing ability to explain your shots, photography, tips and tricks. I'd like to remind your viewers to be conscious and respect the property and the surroundings when composing and shooting. I almost shudder when you step up on that beautiful white block that might stain, but I know you're always conscious of such things. Thank you for posting.
Good point - but you're right I do try to be careful and aware... even if I have two left feet!!
You obviously put a lot of time and thought into these videos and it makes them superior! Because of you I will see my next shot differently. Thank you very much.
Thanks Debra - glad it helped... MIKE 🙂🙏
It is truly the simple things that can make an image beautiful.
Completely agree Malachi Viloria - MIKE
Your videos always keep me inspired!
"Luck does play a part, and so does patience." Amen, amen.
Loved this video! Some really great tips! Thanks!!!
The shadow on the cross at 5:44 was so much more dramatic when you got that light!
Brilliant photos Mike.
Hey Mike, it's always a learning and a great pleasure watching your videos as they are explained with so much of simplicity. I am in Vietnam for few years now and would look forward for your next workshop plan here. Thanks and would look forward for your next video.
Thank you jayesh limaye Shame you didn't book on this years Vietnam wokshop. We recently cancelled it because only 3 people booked... They were happy enough to transfer onto the Cambodia one which begins in about 2 weeks. I might be able to get you onto that even though it's last minute. Please message me via the contact page of the website if you'd like to come. Links below... MIKE
Contact: www.photographycourses.biz/contact
Cambodia WS: www.photographycourses.biz/workshops/cambodia
Another excellent video. Thanks Mike!
Thank You Mike! I understand now how light can make or break a picture.
Mike...I always appreciate your style of teaching... if it wasn't for you, then I would not be the landscape photographer I am today.... mind you, I learn all the time...a student of the art but fundamentally I have you to thank.
Thank you Sweden in a Nutshell - Ian Smith Fotografi - we are all still learning. I learned loads a couple weeks ago watching my friend Bella West doing a shoot. - MIKE
Once again a fabulous tutorial Mike and a fabulous location - Walking around Teguise with a camera is just ace !
Mike only our eye's can see wonderful. 🙌
This is probably one of the best tutorials on composition I've ever come across on RUclips. I love that you show your thought process behind the shot and how you get from the average boring shot to the interesting and appealing ones. I might have to ask my husband to watch this too, so he will understand why it takes me so long to take a photograph. He thinks it's just about pushing the button on top of the camera. "Please, can you get on with it?" LOL. Nah, I'm not being quite fair to him, but you get my meaning. 😜 Absolutely love your tutorials. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you An Vo. I completely understand the 'just press the button' attitude. If someone's not a photographer they wouldn't know the work that goes into it... MIKE
Very sound advice, well done.
Enjoyed the video, and explaining about not always needing lots of depth of field with a flat object. I often over kill.
Thanks Anne - MIKE
Good advice Mike.
MJ
Please share if you like it!
It's always a pleaure to watch your videos. Thanks a lot for this great one.
Thank you Stephan - MIKE
Thank you! Very nice tips indeed. Quite useful for the practical photographer!
One of your best videos 👍👌
Another awesome video sir..Thanks a lot...I've learn a lot from ur videos.
You need to get back into make tutorials like these Mike, They are great and so helpful.
Great film great location but most of all Mike great advice yet again. Thank you 😀
your vdos inspired me to look at urbanscapes differently. you wont know what it means to me but i can only say its a huge help. thanks for explaining the way you see, along with settings which gives idea of approx settings to start off with while shooting
Thanks it's a pleasure Bishakha Chakraborty - MIKE
Dang, I saw the shadow disappear behind the cross as he spoke. The live view through the , ahh, live view really puts one right in the action. One of the best, to the point, tutorials I've seen, I like real working scenarios and this was one of them.
Thank you Jeff Nielsen. Please share it around as it helps me make more... MIKE :-)
Much food for thought your channel brings. Love it.
Great to hear Sarah - there much more on my website www.photographycourses.biz/
These are my favourite kinds of video by you Mike, there's something very engaging about them. Kind of like going for a little photo wander with a friend!
Thanks Ali - MIKE
I love when he said "Photography is about looking. It's about being inspired, it's about seeing the world in a different way."
Thanks @Ouroboros ... MIKE🙏😊
Another great video Mike. I am learning so much from you. Keep up the excellent work you guys
Thanks Chris - MIKE
Great video Mike, always creative and passionate. Thx again for sharing your though process.
Practice. Practice. Practice. Thanks Mike!
Recently I had my first photoshoot with a model who wasn't a relative or friend and I dont think I could have done as well as I did without your videos.
Thank you TheeScottishGuy - MIKE :-)
"We've got black and white, but I love the red and green going on inbetween" Nice :)
thank you Learned - Melissa pp Mike
Another great video. I really enjoy the videos that you place on youtube. I find them to be most helpfull, thanks.
Thanks terence stevens - MIKE
Thank you so much for many years of wonderful videos. My first comment although I've been watching them for years
Thank you Mihai Pascu Please keep sharing them around as it helps me make more of them... MIKE
great video mike, like always, tq
Thanks Mike. Great stuff!
Excellent! One of my self set objectives in photography is to discover interest in my everyday surroundings. If I can then communicate it to others, so much the better. You have gone to a not particularly interesting location (Subjective, but isn't everything?) picked out some details and shown them them to be worth a second glance simply by paying attention to composition. Easy lesson to watch. Hard act to follow! Thanks!
Thank you for the kind words :) Melissa pp Mike
Hey Mike you're so courageous to shoot your movie like that. If you would make a movie in that way here in Amsterdam where i live than you would need a spare camera for every photo you shoot hahaha. I enjoy watching your vids very much, so thanks for uploading them.
Greetz from the Netherlands
Superbe vid Mike, Thanks
I just LOVE your videos, they're very informative and helpful, you sir are my mentor in photography, i learned A LOT from your videos, thanks for all the time and effort spent in these videos.
Thank you sherif mahmoud Please help me keep making them by sharing them on forums etc... MIKE :-)
Thanks Mike,,,, excellent as usual, thanks, Bob
another great video, thanks buddy!!
Great Video Mike, thanks
Hi Mike, you make the mundane shots into interesting shots... I love all of your videos, keep up the good work - Thanks
Love your videos
Another great video.
no lie i watch like 9 or ten photogs ...tony northrup,,,jared polin ..just to name a couple but that being said your a much better teacher because its like we are there when your teaching your not just blabbing tech terms but actually teaching thanx mike....ps ...no offence to the photogs i mentioned i have learned from them also but your more down to earth
Thank you Edward Caissie - that's praise indeed... MIKE
Just inspiring. Thanks.
Absolutely love, love, love your approach to photography! You really make it seem less daunting and that with a bit of thinking, that perfect shot isn't just a matter of a happy accident. Thanks!
And I have to add, the minimalistic approach to composition is so right up my alley, hopefully we'll be seeing more videos like this in the future.
Thank you Plasma D'Lite. There's quite a lot like it on my channel and website already. Please help me keep the free vids coming by sharing them wherever appropriate... MIKE
How interesting you explained... Especially how to fix composition and how not to fix. Great video.
thank you Ravi Chandran , please do share our videos too so we can make more! - Melissa pp Mike
@@MikeBrowne Thanks sir. Definitely I share your videos to my friends. Your videos are really enthusiastic to me.
Great video Mike
A brilliantly talented educator ......as others have said , i learn more from Mike than anybody else . So if my lovely other half is reading this , Mikes course would make a great Xmas pressie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks bill bob - hope the missus is watching - MIKE :-)
Another great video young Mike. I was only just thinking today that I have photographers block when all I have to do is open my eyes and take another look. Cheers buddy. Tony
Thanks young Anthony - MIKE :-)
Thanks for the wisdom, I'st always refreshing when in new surroundings. It would be great to be in Lanzarote on your workshop. I'm a £10 pom, had a 6 hour stop Canary in Islands on our way to Tasmania way back in 1968.
Always enjoy your uploads, all the best..........Peter.
Thanks Peter - come join us next March. Lanza is always great fun as well as great place to shoot... MIKE
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Great video Mike as always. Tried again with the XT1 but again same problems as before.
Wee buttons,Big Hands,Wee brain, and these bloody menus. Keep thinking that eventually I'll get to like them and get used to it but will need to stick with my D610 and one lens for hols.
Jim
Hey Jim. I know what you mean. I love the XT-1 and though there are many downsides like endless menus full of stuff we don't need and fiddly buttons. Overall i still wouldn't change it... Still enjoy shooting commissions with my nice big chunky D600 though... MIKE
The 600 has stuff as well not used by pro photographers but I recently got a second hand 800e and wow much like the layout in ur old 300's dead simple layout fast to read no fiddling just right for old fart like me small brain slow on uptake 😏
Another useful video, Mike. Too often we get caught up in taking snapshots instead of photographs. I wish I had your eye for composition.
Great video as always 👍🏽
Nice work mate.
Great video Mike. I was thinking like this when I visited Gran Canaria last week. Even though it was my honeymoon, walking around Puerto de Mogan was wonderful and certainly did get the creative vision flowing!
I also agree with the see it all everyday comment, even though I live in Dorset! 👍🏻
I often take my bikes out around Dorset Nicholas. Shaftesbury for breakfast is a favorite then towards Marlborough and loop back down to Lyme / West bay area... Say hi if you see me... MIKE
Great stuff as always thank you.
Thanks Rob - MIKE
Great as always m8 thanks
Great video Mike this is exactly what this channel is about for me. That first shot was great adding the door in the foreground many people wouldn't even think about doing that including myself without practice. Perspective and light make all the difference. I also love how you are doing this in midday and not golden hour or blue hour. Most people don't always have a choice what time they can shoot when they are in a tourist location. This video shows what people can do with some thought!
thank you Christopher Martin - please share our vids too so we can make more - Melissa pp Mike
Will do!
Awesome! Keep up the good work
I really love this, I love the way you teach where to stand and take a better shot, I am a new subscriber now😊 I'm starting to love photography and since I don't have camera and what I have is my phone that has a camera ofcourse it's what I've been using to be able for me to learn and practice most of the time if I am out and done from my work, I was scrolling here and I found your Chanel and I'm glad I watched it coz honestly it gives me an idea and the way you teach is kinda like your here and all that, love ❤ 😍 this.🙌👏 have a blessed day sir
Thank you and I'm glad to get you started on your photography journey 😌
Thanks Mike. City Paris of all places was beginning to become more dull than it is. Have to get off my ass and walk around. Cheers
Hello, Mike!! Great video as always! But I really like this photo walk idea behind it :) So great :) I would like to see more video like this from you. Thanks for all that I've learned with you :)
Excellent video, Mike! I hope someday I could join one of your workshops!
You should. Just make sure you're not late like myself :))
hey Mike , another helpful video. I want to know whether there was post processing in the final picture of the square. Because in this kind of light I generall would get the trees bit darker . thanks
Thanks Somia S. There's always post processing on any image taken by anyone. If you don't do it yourself, the camera does it for you and that's why your trees would be dark. The camera doesn't know how they actually appear to our eyes and can only make it's best guess according to it's programming. You can set guidelines for it in your picture control settings but they're very limited. I always make my own jpegs. I wrote a newsletter article about it yesterday which I'm guessing you missed. You can sign up to it at link below... MIKE
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Great video Mike - really enjoyed Teguise on the March workshop....was waiting for you to cross the road and pay a visit to Johnny Bakes!!! Steve.
Thanks Steve. That's exactly what I wanted to do but Jonny Bakes was bloody closed!!!
Mike Browne oh no! that must have been torture - best bakers ever! :) recognised most of that video - brought back great memories of the Lanzarote workshop - if you're reading this and haven't been on Mike's Lanzarote workshop yet....then go!!
I like your video, very much. They are very inspiring to see
thank you :)- Melissa pp Mike
Mike, marvalous show, hope you have a nice " work-holliday"
Thank you for another great Video Tutorial Mike. I like the way you explain the various shots. A question if I may. I notice that whilst you were waiting for the light to improve, you also waited for people to move out of the picture. It that a personal trait. I ask because I try to not have people in my pictures, unless it is for a specific purpose.
Thanks Nino. TBH I'd rather have had someone in the shot - but they weren't the right ones. Maybe a trader pushing a barrow, someone on a bicycle coming towards me, elderly person stopped to look at me... That would have been perfect, but the people coming down the street just didn't work for the shot to my eye. Problem with videoing is it could take an hour or more waiting for the right shot and when time's limited, gotta work with what there is... MIKE
Thanks for the reply Mike. I will keep what you said in mind.
Hi Mike, informative and positive as always. Could I ask what what metering mode you used as you seemed to be spot metering at times or was that you trying to turn the video off? Cheers, Paul
Thanks Paul. I use Evaluative 99% of the time, certainly throughout this video. Moving the camera before a shot was me using single point SF, focus and re-compose... MIKE