Nigel, it’s uncanny how you’re able to so eloquently dissect a photograph and put into words why the image is so appealing to the human eye. I completed your masterclass a few weeks ago and benefited greatly from your wisdom and experience. Keep up the great work!
Really appreciate the shout out Nigel. Also must mention how good the entries into your ND comp were, loved the old oak especially and the lovely isolated tree in the green fields.
Those Neil photos of woods looks like a paintings I would like to see the RAW fotos without editing I just cant imagine how you take those mind blowing shots.
Hi Nigel. I’m living close to a forest and practice a lot in woodland.I’m personally struggling a lot with composition. It’s difficult to have clean image and have difficulties to find where to crop. My take away from my test is use long lens. My longer is 105mm and it’s the one that give to me the most pleasant composition.
Who are the real good woodland photographers again? Your photos are so good. I really want to see those good photographer's work. Can you pls put a link to their sites?
Your willingness to show your audience your mistakes, your photography fails, and your early less finessed work really sets you apart from the other photography bloggers on TH-cam. Thank you so much for being comfortable enough with your skill, expertise and creativity (all of which are considerable) to share those less inspiring images with us as well, it really is the best way to learn.
Sorry to be so offtopic but does any of you know of a tool to get back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid lost the account password. I would love any assistance you can give me.
@Harley Phoenix thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site on google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
Enjoyed this, thanks. How about using the term ‘ families of light’ much as we do in photography lighting we use the term ‘families of angles’! After all we are arranging light with angles with our composition here too. Just a thought. 📸🤔😉
This struck a chord with me, my photos are very much like your early ones at the moment and I'd definitely like them to be even 10% as good as your recent shots. One thing I'm yet to see any photographer do on TH-cam is really demonstrate finding a composition. More often than not tutorials talk about composition and then suddenly the photographer is in the perfect spot, half way up a stunning mountain shooting in golden hour. It would be really interesting to see someone with your talent working to find a composition in either a difficult location or somewhere that isn't pre planned. Really appreciate the content btw.
Yes, you pronounced right, but is not easy, many of my friends just say Armand, like the vampire in The Vampire Chronicles from Anne Rice. Btw, Thanks for mentioning me and my photograph 😍
The main keys to good woodland photography are isolation, mist, grouping balance and light normally dictated by time of day. Great work love the dead oak tree in conifers
My local woodlands have become a great classroom for me. It offers so many challenges. The advantage to it is I can return to the spot again when an image didn't turn out the way I thought it would and try it again. I don't have to call back a model or recreate a still life. The place is still there for me to go back and improve on the image. Great video and I have padded my following list along the way!
Nigel Danson it is hard in the winter to go to woodlands but we can have surprisingly good images. So you're right to motivate us photographers to go out even with unpleasant weather! Thank you!
I've definitely tried to take pictures of woods and failed hardcore! Thanks for this video, I'll keep these in mind and see if I can improve at it. We don't have much in the way of landscapes here in Iowa but woods and trees we do have (somewhat)!
I find woodland photography quite difficult. I'm so used always to search for a subject to photograph, that I don't look at the whole scene. I have to change absolutely my mindset..
For me, until now, all my must successful woodland photos (for me) were during heavy fog, fog with backlight, or light rain. Whenever I try trees and woodland with sunrise or sunset I mostly fail. Thanks a lot for introducing Neil, I followed him on Instagram his photos are incredible. Nice tips dear Nigel ❤️✌🏻
I really enjoyed this video. I started to make woodland images before lockdown having previously concentrated on coastal images, preferring simple graphic subjects. You make a lot of sense and communicate this very well. Also thank you for your good wishes about my wife's health, I mentioned her cancer diagnosis a few weeks ago and you kindly wished her well. Her surgery was two weeks ago and she's now home and recovering well. Best wishes
I went to Wistman's Wood for the first time a few weeks before lock down. Sadly, I didn't have wonderful light, but it is very chaotic and dangerous clambering over mossy rocks. I will definitely be returning to this wood when we are through this strange time. Thanks for some great tips.
These 5 in 5 video are tremendous; thank you for sharing these insights. It is so helpful to see you share your early "not so good" efforts and show the progression and very specific tips on how you have improved. Great stuff!
This is by far my favorite type of photography. Living on east coast, near NY border, I love getting long exposures of streams flowing through mossy rocks. Especially when the stream winds from foreground all the way up to background
I live in a part of Pennsylvania where there isn't a lot of landscape to photograph other than woodlands. I always look for a path or stream leading from the foreground to the background to provide three-dimensionality. Otherwise, my photos end up looking too one-dimensional. For moving water, I like shutter speeds in the range of around 1/15 to 1/2 sec.
I really struggle with woodlands photos. Especially getting the exposure right. And no matter what i do in post, the final image feels either too dark or washed out. Any tips?
Nigel, thanks for the You Tubes! You have a lot of class and character pointing out other landscape photographers work. As my English friend would say “ brilliant!”.
Hi Nigel! I'm Samuel (leumas)! Great video, as always and great pedagogy in explaining all your points. Thanks so much for using my pic here! So many nice one to choose from :)
Hi Nigel. I find all of your videos extremely interesting and instructive. Many thanks! I would like to post some photos to your weekly challenges (#2020ND). But I don't know where to post them to. I don't have access to Instagram. Can they be posted t your FB page? Cheers. Andrew. TAS, Australia.
This is the perfect video for me right now. In Ireland, we cannot go more than 2km from home (apart from supermarket) and I live out in the country, so I've been going to the same birch woods day after day trying to see the place in a different way each time I go. I needed some guidance, so thanks for this!
Hi Nigel! I've recently taken more woodland shots, mainly because there are fewer people in nature than in the city in Sweden. Great tips in this video, I struggle with my woodland photos, due to the chaos in the forest. But if I manage to get a decent shot, then I struggle with the editing of it :) So if you have any editing forest photos video coming up, I'd be very happy!
Great video Nigel, it's crazy how much your compositions improve when you take into account just a few details and hone and refine your framing. Keep up the good work and stay safe, greetings from Scotland!
Hi Nigel, Thank you for all your excellent videos! And I think your woodland photography is awesome and wonderful and you are not behind the Neil Burnel as you stated in the video :-) I wanted to order your woodland book but the shipping cost is too high :-( Even I think your book is extraordinary I'm not willing to pay 20 euro shipping cost, sorry. I hope you will sell all the printed books!
Such a difficult genre!! I really enjoyed this one and I have to say - it's great to see you using other photographers photos as well as your own to demonstrate the points you are making.
I admire you a lot and have learnt lots from your videos. I am from India and we have dry, bit dusty atmosphere most of the time. There is a lot of light year around. But there are amazing jungles here. A key technique explained in almost all woodland photography of "using the fog" doesn't apply here most of the times. What can be other techniques that can bring depth and cut distractions in background.
can i just say that image he showed a few times to demonstrate how some photographs just don't work is stunning? if you unfocus your eyes a bit while looking it it's absolutely psychedelic
I don't understand it when you say that a picture does not tell a "story", isn't that quite subjective? I mean what if the person that clicked the picture did see a story behind it and some other person is just not able to see it, could you explain more about what you mean when you say a picture should tell a "story"?
I don’t see any competition photos . Also you have a huge nice area in your room … but you have added tiny tiny tiny flames about … get some big framed pics in there
Excellent video! I'm living in the backwoods of Minnesota which is going to give me an opportunity to practice these tips. I'm more of a flower photographer, so this will be new to me. Thank you!
This comes at just the right time for me as I have been photographing a lot in a local park during San Francisco's "shelter in place." I will definitely be applying these tips on my next outing. Also, a much belated big thank you for this channel. I came across it a few months ago, and recently managed to catch up by watching from oldest to newest. I have learned a ton and been able to apply the knowledge to my own photography. Your knowledge, enthusiasm, and kindness keep me coming back.
Love how you’re promoting other photographers. Good stuff.
Nigel, it’s uncanny how you’re able to so eloquently dissect a photograph and put into words why the image is so appealing to the human eye. I completed your masterclass a few weeks ago and benefited greatly from your wisdom and experience. Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much! 👍🏼
Really appreciate the shout out Nigel. Also must mention how good the entries into your ND comp were, loved the old oak especially and the lovely isolated tree in the green fields.
Thanks for sharing them Neil. Incredible images!
I really appreciate the examples and most of all your old photos. Another great video :)
Great lecture, great examples - thank you. I have learned a lot and enjoyed you pictures.
That dead tree! Amazing!
Very helpful video Nigel. Many thanks & keep up the good work.
Thank you for sharing this video Nigel Danson. I have always considered you to be one of the leading woodland photographers.
Great tips 👍Definitely will practice while out shooting. Appreciate your advice and insight, thank you
What amazing photos! And I mean from everybody involved here. There truly are some great photographers out there. Well done to everyone :)
So glad we never really locked down.
Those Neil photos of woods looks like a paintings I would like to see the RAW fotos without editing I just cant imagine how you take those mind blowing shots.
Hi Nigel. I’m living close to a forest and practice a lot in woodland.I’m personally struggling a lot with composition. It’s difficult to have clean image and have difficulties to find where to crop. My take away from my test is use long lens. My longer is 105mm and it’s the one that give to me the most pleasant composition.
Who are the real good woodland photographers again? Your photos are so good. I really want to see those good photographer's work. Can you pls put a link to their sites?
Neil Burnell
Your willingness to show your audience your mistakes, your photography fails, and your early less finessed work really sets you apart from the other photography bloggers on TH-cam. Thank you so much for being comfortable enough with your skill, expertise and creativity (all of which are considerable) to share those less inspiring images with us as well, it really is the best way to learn.
Sorry to be so offtopic but does any of you know of a tool to get back into an Instagram account..?
I was stupid lost the account password. I would love any assistance you can give me.
@Christopher Marcelo Instablaster :)
@Harley Phoenix thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site on google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff atm.
Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Harley Phoenix it did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. I'm so happy!
Thank you so much you saved my ass!
@Christopher Marcelo No problem :D
Not mistakes......just providing yourself some learning opportunities!
Can you please add the hashtag to the description of the video? I think I didn't get it right. Thank you!
11:30 - Beautiful!
Love many of the photos here, but 11:46. . . Wow.
Enjoyed this, thanks. How about using the term ‘ families of light’ much as we do in photography lighting we use the term ‘families of angles’! After all we are arranging light with angles with our composition here too. Just a thought. 📸🤔😉
just thought I'd give away a secret. I use a flash at an angle when photographing Bluebells, it brings out their colour more
Woodland is not far from SACRAMENTO, I'LL MIGHT GO.
Real video starts at 2:10.
I feel like most of your tutorials boil down to "go when it's foggy".
This struck a chord with me, my photos are very much like your early ones at the moment and I'd definitely like them to be even 10% as good as your recent shots.
One thing I'm yet to see any photographer do on TH-cam is really demonstrate finding a composition. More often than not tutorials talk about composition and then suddenly the photographer is in the perfect spot, half way up a stunning mountain shooting in golden hour.
It would be really interesting to see someone with your talent working to find a composition in either a difficult location or somewhere that isn't pre planned.
Really appreciate the content btw.
Yes, you pronounced right, but is not easy, many of my friends just say Armand, like the vampire in The Vampire Chronicles from Anne Rice. Btw, Thanks for mentioning me and my photograph 😍
Thanks a lot for sharing - great photo!
The main keys to good woodland photography are isolation, mist, grouping balance and light normally dictated by time of day. Great work love the dead oak tree in conifers
My local woodlands have become a great classroom for me. It offers so many challenges. The advantage to it is I can return to the spot again when an image didn't turn out the way I thought it would and try it again. I don't have to call back a model or recreate a still life. The place is still there for me to go back and improve on the image. Great video and I have padded my following list along the way!
Would you please add links to the 2 photographers you mentioned.
Best time for this. We in France are just coming out of lockdown soon so will soon be able to go to the forest for some photography. Thank you.
@Nigel Danson this is my main subject right now after decided to return shooting on film and launch my TH-cam channel dedicated to film photography!
Nigel Danson it is hard in the winter to go to woodlands but we can have surprisingly good images. So you're right to motivate us photographers to go out even with unpleasant weather! Thank you!
I like your videos for their helpful tips but I'm even more impressed by your frankness and willingness to share them. Thank you.
Super helpful video, thanks, Craig
I've definitely tried to take pictures of woods and failed hardcore! Thanks for this video, I'll keep these in mind and see if I can improve at it. We don't have much in the way of landscapes here in Iowa but woods and trees we do have (somewhat)!
Great video. What settings do you recommend for woodland photos? High ISO? Any aperture and shutter recommendations?
I find woodland photography quite difficult. I'm so used always to search for a subject to photograph, that I don't look at the whole scene. I have to change absolutely my mindset..
I actually enjoyed this video... thank you
A great video with good tips and wonderful photos.
For me, until now, all my must successful woodland photos (for me) were during heavy fog, fog with backlight, or light rain.
Whenever I try trees and woodland with sunrise or sunset I mostly fail.
Thanks a lot for introducing Neil, I followed him on Instagram his photos are incredible.
Nice tips dear Nigel ❤️✌🏻
I really enjoyed this video. I started to make woodland images before lockdown having previously concentrated on coastal images, preferring simple graphic subjects. You make a lot of sense and communicate this very well. Also thank you for your good wishes about my wife's health, I mentioned her cancer diagnosis a few weeks ago and you kindly wished her well. Her surgery was two weeks ago and she's now home and recovering well. Best wishes
I went to Wistman's Wood for the first time a few weeks before lock down. Sadly, I didn't have wonderful light, but it is very chaotic and dangerous clambering over mossy rocks. I will definitely be returning to this wood when we are through this strange time. Thanks for some great tips.
I would love to go... 👍🏼
These 5 in 5 video are tremendous; thank you for sharing these insights. It is so helpful to see you share your early "not so good" efforts and show the progression and very specific tips on how you have improved. Great stuff!
Couldn’t find a link to the covid competition on your website...entered from here instead!
This is by far my favorite type of photography. Living on east coast, near NY border, I love getting long exposures of streams flowing through mossy rocks. Especially when the stream winds from foreground all the way up to background
I live in a part of Pennsylvania where there isn't a lot of landscape to photograph other than woodlands. I always look for a path or stream leading from the foreground to the background to provide three-dimensionality. Otherwise, my photos end up looking too one-dimensional. For moving water, I like shutter speeds in the range of around 1/15 to 1/2 sec.
sarco64 nice. I finally got an 11 stop Nd filter, so I’ve been able to truly get that misty look on long exposures
Great video Nigel and wonderful images - love all your choices ! Thank you from Toronto !
I really struggle with woodlands photos. Especially getting the exposure right. And no matter what i do in post, the final image feels either too dark or washed out. Any tips?
Great tips again, woodland photography can be tricky indeed! But I do love going to my local woodland!
Nigel, thanks for the You Tubes! You have a lot of class and character pointing out other landscape photographers work. As my English friend would say “ brilliant!”.
Hi Nigel! I'm Samuel (leumas)! Great video, as always and great pedagogy in explaining all your points. Thanks so much for using my pic here! So many nice one to choose from :)
I struggle with Woodland. It's definitely one of my shortfalls BUT I'm learning. Thanks friend for all you are doing. It's helping me.
Excellent Nigel. Thanks.
Hi Nigel. I find all of your videos extremely interesting and instructive. Many thanks! I would like to post some photos to your weekly challenges (#2020ND). But I don't know where to post them to. I don't have access to Instagram. Can they be posted t your FB page? Cheers. Andrew. TAS, Australia.
Just Instagram unfortunately
This is the perfect video for me right now. In Ireland, we cannot go more than 2km from home (apart from supermarket) and I live out in the country, so I've been going to the same birch woods day after day trying to see the place in a different way each time I go. I needed some guidance, so thanks for this!
Another amazing video! Definitely will be giving the # a go!
I hope you check Twitter for #2020nd. I don’t plan on doing IG since it’s owned by FB. Great video about woodland photos!
Unfortunately not - just Instagram
Oh well. Thanks!
Hi Nigel! I've recently taken more woodland shots, mainly because there are fewer people in nature than in the city in Sweden. Great tips in this video, I struggle with my woodland photos, due to the chaos in the forest. But if I manage to get a decent shot, then I struggle with the editing of it :) So if you have any editing forest photos video coming up, I'd be very happy!
Great video Nigel, it's crazy how much your compositions improve when you take into account just a few details and hone and refine your framing. Keep up the good work and stay safe, greetings from Scotland!
Dang you’re amazing at coloring
Your 5 minute midweek video's are getting just as long as your Sunday video's, we don't mind at all!!!!
There are no end to of suggestion on how to improve and learn from trial and error.
Cheers
Hi Nigel, Thank you for all your excellent videos! And I think your woodland photography is awesome and wonderful and you are not behind the Neil Burnel as you stated in the video :-)
I wanted to order your woodland book but the shipping cost is too high :-( Even I think your book is extraordinary I'm not willing to pay 20 euro shipping cost, sorry. I hope you will sell all the printed books!
So helpful tysm!!
Such a difficult genre!! I really enjoyed this one and I have to say - it's great to see you using other photographers photos as well as your own to demonstrate the points you are making.
I admire you a lot and have learnt lots from your videos. I am from India and we have dry, bit dusty atmosphere most of the time. There is a lot of light year around. But there are amazing jungles here.
A key technique explained in almost all woodland photography of "using the fog" doesn't apply here most of the times.
What can be other techniques that can bring depth and cut distractions in background.
As always great video, thx
can i just say that image he showed a few times to demonstrate how some photographs just don't work is stunning? if you unfocus your eyes a bit while looking it it's absolutely psychedelic
I feel like myst or fog is required. Every photo has it. My woodlands literally never get fog.
I don't understand it when you say that a picture does not tell a "story", isn't that quite subjective? I mean what if the person that clicked the picture did see a story behind it and some other person is just not able to see it, could you explain more about what you mean when you say a picture should tell a "story"?
I don’t see any competition photos . Also you have a huge nice area in your room … but you have added tiny tiny tiny flames about … get some big framed pics in there
If you have watched the whole video, list all the 5 points here. This will help you remember points.
Perfect timing, I’m going tmrw. Will definitely take all the points on board:)
great vid nigel, that neil burnell is really good, art is cool.
Can I send you one of my photos and get your feedback on it? I'm brand new to photography.
Traditionally, they are called "pools of light."
Love these woodland shots would you recomend a wide angle lens for this sort of work
You can’t go out to the trees with covid? Lol. You’re healthier outside !
"Puddles of Light" - perfect!! Love the term.
Love good landscape shots. I find it increasingly difficult but fun to get a good one with the right composition or light.
same, think it is just about knowing what weathers cause what effects and how it works out. Its all trail and error
Thanks a lot for showing my picture and for the positive comments, very much appreciated 👍👍
Thanks for sharing 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Pockets of light is what I call them.
Check out Mads Iversenn .. the best.
Excellent video! I'm living in the backwoods of Minnesota which is going to give me an opportunity to practice these tips. I'm more of a flower photographer, so this will be new to me. Thank you!
Great video Nigel. That photo with the dead tree is just stunning.
Do you sometimes shoot the light rather than the tree?
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This comes at just the right time for me as I have been photographing a lot in a local park during San Francisco's "shelter in place." I will definitely be applying these tips on my next outing.
Also, a much belated big thank you for this channel. I came across it a few months ago, and recently managed to catch up by watching from oldest to newest. I have learned a ton and been able to apply the knowledge to my own photography. Your knowledge, enthusiasm, and kindness keep me coming back.
Sooo many great, breathtaking images!