Bluebells | Why is something so pretty, so hard to photograph?! 🫨
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- The bluebells are here in full force and aren't they a treat?! For such pretty little things it can be incredibly easy to get a bad shot. This week we go for a woodland walkabout and talk about some top tips to get great bluebell photographs.
I'm so sorry about the audio in this video. I'm having issues with my new set up linking to the mic, and despite checking each time, it seems to have defaulted to the onboard mics 😩
0.00 Intro and forest wander
2.54 Telephoto or wide and why?
4.17 Context composition
6.00 Thinking about light
8.10 Using a polarizing filter
9.07 Bluebell burnout
10.46 Busting out the vintage glass Helios 44
11.12 Keeping the passion alive
13.59 Concluding thoughts
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Just a little tip if I may r.e. audio. There's a free tool called 'levelator'. Just run your edit's audio through it, wav or mp3, very quick to do, then add to time line and sync with original, then render video with new audio only. It brings up the quiet parts and brings down any higher peaking parts. Just makes for a much more watchable experience imho. 🥰
Thanks for that Ian I’ll give that a go. My lav mic disconnected from the phone so the on board mics took over. I normally record audio separately as a backup but typically this wasn’t the case this time 😭 Davinci worked a fair bit of magic but still embarrassing 😳 Many thanks for your advice much appreciated 👌
@@wildernessphotographic No probs, I don't ever like to sound like I may be talking down to anyone, but just thought I'd pass on something that helped me out more than a few times, especially when two mics are involved and people's voices are at different 'levels' naturally, for example. Worth a try is Levelator, but try not to include too many areas of silence as it kind of over compensates for them. Aophonic is another new sound product that I recently came across, check out the review on Curtis Judd's channel.
@@ianchappytube I really appreciate it, always good to learn about different solutions and techniques, part of the fun! Cheers
No flip screen on camera? Only way I can shot low … old knees😊
Good method 👍 And yes I’ve got one just don’t like using it that much although I did in this video briefly funnily enough. Mine won’t rotate which is a shame as that would be helpful for portrait 😃
Not sure they are any different to shoot than any other flowers!
They may not be for you, every photographer experiencing their craft differently etc. My clients often say they struggle with composition overwhelm with the sheer abundance of colour and the short window to capture them at their best can put the pressure on. Other than that most of what I talk about applies to most wild flowers, it’s just bluebell season, so that’s what I’m photographing 📷 👍
A useful and timely video. Nice tip about the Helios. I’m going to get mine out! Being in Northern Scotland the bluebells are a bit later here, so there’s still a week or so before they’re at their best.
Regarding processing, saturation, etc, I’ve found the best approach that works for me is to visualise the image in its final form, and that guides my processing. So, for example, I might visualise a bluebell shot cropped square, printed on a textured cotton rag and float-mounted in a white frame. That would naturally lead me to keeping the saturation lower and going for a dreamier, softer composition. Alternatively I might visualise a wide-angle shot, full of detail and contrast, presented on a large acrylic, in which case punch and saturation would be more appealing.
That’s a really interesting insight Mark, thanks for sharing. It’s fantastic how many dimensions photography has and very cool to conceptualise the final print to inform your process. Love it 👌
What you didn't mention was the fact that bluebells absorb ultraviolet radiation. This has a strong tendancy to mess up the colour balance.
Great video, I am a beginer and have recently picked up a 70-200 f2.8. This has inspired me to try your technique out. Also enjoy the philosophy and method, enjoy the enviroment and not to stress out is good advice. Thanks
Thanks so much eggers! The 70-200 f2.8 is such a good lens you’re going to have a lot of fun 🤩 As it has a minimum focus range of 1.4m you do need to pick subjects a little further back but that normally allows for a nice foreground anyway. If you did want to get closer you could always consider an extension tube. I do that sometimes to make a quasi macro lens out of it 🤪 Have fun!
That forest is similar to rivington horwich full of bluebells
They are really good this year. I don't know whether that's related to the amount of rain we've had 🤔
Thank you for your tips.
Thanks very much Sonia you are most welcome 😃