This is the most useful type of content. A gazillion times more helpful and insightful than videos on gear and equipment. This compositional stuff is what wildlife photographers should be thinking about 24/7.
Yes ... but I don't know how it got here. Maybe I added it to something Google-related and they migrate it over here to RUclips or something.@@WildlifeInspired
Loved seeing all the fantastic photos and thank you for including my images. Now I want to go out and get get some fall/winter foreground photos! Awesome video!
I was just putting some of these concepts into practice before I watched this video. On the beach in Tanzania with green seaweed covered rocks in the foreground, surf in the background. One Grey Plover seemed to be playing hide and seek, just popping it's head into view above the rocks. Always enjoy your content and I always learn something new! Keep it coming.
Great job Scott! Some points that have been tested ~ things that pull our eyes, sharpness, luminosity and saturation. If we still want the subject to grab our eyes in the first few seconds, those variables need to be keeped in check. I've been doing this for so many decades, it amazes me how the door revolves. Again, great job!
Very useful for elevating a ‘bird on a stick’ to something much more interesting. I like the idea of the complementary or contrasting colour . Another worthwhile video. Thank you
Hi Scott Am really enjoying the videos. Enjoy being challenged on my thinking. I like to use foreground blurring to focus attention on head of the bird. Find it works particularly well with seabirds, gannets, guillemots, razorbills etc. foreground elements that work well are rocks and thrift plants(pink colour) Keep up the good work
Though a macro photographer myself Scott but I believe the principles are the same, the images shown of your own and especially your patrons work - every one a great piece of creative photography just wish I could be so gifted in my chosen field. 👌👍
I have been photographing, wildlife and nature for 22 years now and these are the type of shots I strive for to me, just the bird on a stick with a clean background is sort of boring. I like having elements of its surroundings is much more pleasing at least to my eye
Fantastic video and beautiful samples! This is definitely more like fine art photography. I absolutely loved them all! Is there a way you could show an actual set up if you were shooting birds with foreground/background and about the distance you would be, and what lens you would be using?
Love your approach probably since I am not interested in “club competition” but creating a pleasant view especially in print/notecards. Have you used LR lens blur?
Love the new intro! 👌 I like also the follow up to the composition with the use of background. So I now make a point of having those ideas in the back of my mind since conditions, elements present at the shooting area might me put in to the framing as opposed to be seen as a obstacle! Great video again!
Great vid as usual. Top images by real artists, you included of course. I have found myself using this viewpoint more often these days as age and various parts not working as they once did preclude me being able to get to "clear" spaces for the " optimum" shot. I seem to find out something new from each of your vids that I am able to fit in my workflow for which I thank you.
I especially like an out of focus foreground element that will span across the very bottom of the frame and anchor the composition. Ray Hennessy is especially good at employing that in his imagery. So many times, I am in the field shooting a critter, and I desperately want to put something in the foreground, but there just isn't anything there, even if I were to walk around and change my location. Have actually thought of carrying stuff around with me - vegetation or whatnot, just to have something to set in front of me when I am shooting a critter ..... but I haven't actually done it yet. A piece of white foam core board, cut to an irregular shape, could be set a few feet in front of the camera and used as a span-across-the-bottom-of-the-frame thing when shooting wildlife in snow, when there is nothing natural to use.
actually they are acoustic foam prints to help with echo in this room. I have hard floor (in a basement office) and I have added some acoustic treatment to help.
This is the most useful type of content. A gazillion times more helpful and insightful than videos on gear and equipment. This compositional stuff is what wildlife photographers should be thinking about 24/7.
Is that a new profile pic??
Yes ... but I don't know how it got here. Maybe I added it to something Google-related and they migrate it over here to RUclips or something.@@WildlifeInspired
Loved seeing all the fantastic photos and thank you for including my images. Now I want to go out and get get some fall/winter foreground photos! Awesome video!
You !!! Get out there !!
You're a great teacher, Scott. 👍
Many thks. I learned tons of things. I used this technique unintentionally and now I will do it mindfully!
Glad it was helpful!
I was just putting some of these concepts into practice before I watched this video. On the beach in Tanzania with green seaweed covered rocks in the foreground, surf in the background. One Grey Plover seemed to be playing hide and seek, just popping it's head into view above the rocks.
Always enjoy your content and I always learn something new! Keep it coming.
Thanks so much !!
Great job Scott! Some points that have been tested ~ things that pull our eyes, sharpness, luminosity and saturation. If we still want the subject to grab our eyes in the first few seconds, those variables need to be keeped in check. I've been doing this for so many decades, it amazes me how the door revolves. Again, great job!
Thanks. There's a fine line often between adding elements to compliment vs adding that adds confusion or distraction.
Very useful for elevating a ‘bird on a stick’ to something much more interesting. I like the idea of the complementary or contrasting colour . Another worthwhile video. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Scott
Am really enjoying the videos. Enjoy being challenged on my thinking. I like to use foreground blurring to focus attention on head of the bird. Find it works particularly well with seabirds, gannets, guillemots, razorbills etc. foreground elements that work well are rocks and thrift plants(pink colour) Keep up the good work
Though a macro photographer myself Scott but I believe the principles are the same, the images shown of your own and especially your patrons work - every one a great piece of creative photography just wish I could be so gifted in my chosen field. 👌👍
Great video, as always. Thanks for including some of my work, and thanks for challenging us to do something different 😊
Very informative & inspirational my friend ❤❤😊😊
loved this video -- soft framing around wildlife subjects has always been my favorite "look"
Lovely photos!
Many thanks!
I have been photographing, wildlife and nature for 22 years now and these are the type of shots I strive for to me, just the bird on a stick with a clean background is sort of boring. I like having elements of its surroundings is much more pleasing at least to my eye
Fantastic video and beautiful samples! This is definitely more like fine art photography. I absolutely loved them all! Is there a way you could show an actual set up if you were shooting birds with foreground/background and about the distance you would be, and what lens you would be using?
Really lovely pictures in this video! Nice work #teampatreon Thanks for the feature, Scott
Thanks JS!
I frequently use foreground in hummingbird shots, the bulk of my bird photography.
Really well presented subject, giving a lot of thought for introducing framework for 'small in frame' subjects. Thankyou.
Thanks Doug
Love your approach probably since I am not interested in “club competition” but creating a pleasant view especially in print/notecards. Have you used LR lens blur?
I have started to play and will do some videos on it. Probably on my other site for that one
Love the new intro! 👌
I like also the follow up to the composition with the use of background.
So I now make a point of having those ideas in the back of my mind since conditions, elements present at the shooting area might me put in to the framing as opposed to be seen as a obstacle!
Great video again!
Thanks so much !
Great vid as usual. Top images by real artists, you included of course. I have found myself using this viewpoint more often these days as age and various parts not working as they once did preclude me being able to get to "clear" spaces for the " optimum" shot. I seem to find out something new from each of your vids that I am able to fit in my workflow for which I thank you.
Awesome !
I especially like an out of focus foreground element that will span across the very bottom of the frame and anchor the composition. Ray Hennessy is especially good at employing that in his imagery. So many times, I am in the field shooting a critter, and I desperately want to put something in the foreground, but there just isn't anything there, even if I were to walk around and change my location. Have actually thought of carrying stuff around with me - vegetation or whatnot, just to have something to set in front of me when I am shooting a critter ..... but I haven't actually done it yet. A piece of white foam core board, cut to an irregular shape, could be set a few feet in front of the camera and used as a span-across-the-bottom-of-the-frame thing when shooting wildlife in snow, when there is nothing natural to use.
great vid!
Thanks!
Hey mate, great video and info. I'd like to ask you a quick question. Are your prints in the background of your videos printed on canvas?
actually they are acoustic foam prints to help with echo in this room. I have hard floor (in a basement office) and I have added some acoustic treatment to help.
not my style; the concept is understandable but as a viewer it makes me somewhat uncomfortable