I appreciate your lovely clarity and brutal honesty. This is the first video I've watched from you. I've thought to share some of the comments here, that I just posted on one of your short videos just now. I added a couple more sentences here too. I admire how mindfully and carefully you're managing your use of mental energy to do good and meaningful things. Things which will in turn help people like me -- a so-so amateur photographer of many decades, with a bit of learning early on, now with time and passion to capture and create beauty... and share. Matt, I'm grateful to have discovered you, just as you launch this new phase of your journey: sharing in new ways in a new venue your years of photography understanding, and keenness. I look forward to learning more from you. Hence I've subscribed and joined. -- Gary
Thanks for watching and for your lovely comments. My brain damage is restrictive but not holding me back I have had a few life changing points in my life that have caused a reset and I have then built on that ! This I just see as another opportunity. Thanks
Great video Matt, I have been enjoying listening to your experience and knowledge. I did one of your workshops in Glasgow before the pandemic which was great
Thanks for watching and thanks for coming to Glasgow. Hopefully over time these videos will replace my workshops. However I really miss walking and talking with people all over the UK made some great friends from photowalks and workshops. But hope to have a few TH-cam meet ups in the future.
I ride the same route mosts days along a local river to the cafe ... it's never the same ride ... the people on the boats ... the light ...how I feel ...and it's a different ride on the way back ... great video
Cheers and I forgot about our general mood ! Some days you feel like taking photos some days you don’t. Ironically when I ride my bike I really can’t be bothered! Could be an issue when I do the coast to coast over and back. Yes every day my walk is different I love the season ever if they do come faster and faster every year.
I have a (blank). Just because I feel / think I will not miss the bowl and not hit the lid doesn't mean ... Same goes for my pictures. I will enjoy the pass time. Very rarely do I 'think' I have some thing 'good'. Keep up posting your content :)
I have plenty of blank moments with Art ! Get out my pens and pads Look at the paper then pack it up again. Photography wise it can be the same ! Go out not feel it and go get a coffee then go home. I get it people just use photography for a pass time and don’t want to take it anywhere but my Chanel is for the ones that do that, and might just want to take it somewhere from newbies to pros that might want to explore something new. Cheers for watching and keep missing the bowl but that’s a lot of piss to wipe up lol
I used to teach projects workshops. I have tought hundreds of people over the years ! I can count on two hands the people that actually did a project !
Back to the “golfist” analogy really. In short, you get nothing for free … whether through time and mistakes or through education as stepping stones and bridges. Love the honest discussion of this from someone who has earned the right (for once) to speak on it
Cheers ! It always amuses me how these days everyone one wants it all now now now ! When we all worked our arses off to learn our trades ! There is no quick fix and the longer the journey the more skills for your skill set you have in your tool box or golf bag !
@@MattHart I’m old, they are young and used to it just being “there” and seduced by quick attention not knowing a thing well … I’ll just use my older approach to go back and click a shed load of “likes” on your stuff. If I’m honest, I’ve watched most if not all of your posts and it affirms a lot of the real world to me … First, you don’t get your dream by sitting on your arse in a bedsit and dreaming (unless that itself is the dream) Second, learn the bloody tool you are using … I used to fly jets for the RAF and you’d not just buy one and hope you knew how to use it. Third, maybe go and do it rather than watching kit vids and downloading presets. Fourth, try to capture a feeling you have as best you can Fifth, make something from it so it doesn’t die on and hard disk of file share somewhere. Sixth, do It all again Take care fella. Hop the YT thing works out, it’s a bloody treadmill though
@@markl2815TH-cam is one hell of a journey for sure. I do it as it helps me relearn after my stroke. If it helps a few people along the way all well and good. Today is truly X Factor Mentality!
Great topic. Unfortunately in life, for the majority of people there is no magic wand, we have to work and work. I like your videos because unlike the click-bait types, you tell it as it is, and there are no magic answers, you propose projects, work, repetition which leads to experience. In my town, there is a shot, I know it like the 'big fish in a pond' and each time I go there, I wait, and take some shots, come home and check, but not yet there. However I keep going back and waiting and shooting, knowing that all the elements that I want will come together (I've lived here 3 years) maybe next time? I don't remember the photographer being interviewed, but he was asked how did he know that he had got the shot? he replied that because he had been going to the same place, sometimes waiting hours for the correct light, and after months the correct subjects came into the frame, with the right light.
I have some shots took years ! One of my shots ( landscape) of Glenfinnan was to remember that we paddled a canoe 7 miles down Loch Shiel to get Engaged on a small Island. It took me 5 years of going back time after time to get the shot I wanted. Some days out on a shoot I will walk in a loop to get a shot with all the elements together and if it does not come together I will try next time. I think we need a library of ideas in our heads to get great shots and the only way to get that library is to go out and find the elements then wait for them to slot into place. Thanks for watching. Thanks for your comment.
I enjoy landscape photography to an extent, the views and shots can look beautiful but at times can feel boring, I think that is why I want to try my hand at street and maybe macro, I need to get a feel for what style I find more enjoyment in. I recently posted on my youtube page of a landscape photograph I took last year in Greece. Feel free to have a glance 😉
Macro is a good skill to learn but can cost a fortune to set up and get right. Landscape is all about the mood and atmosphere and not shooing what you but shooting what you feel and want the viewer to see. I will have a look.
Thanks
Hay buddy hope you’re well and thanks for that.
Great to see you so well and enthusiastic again Matt 👍
Cheers buddy ! TH-cam has helped a huge amount to be honest! Making the videos has been rather therapeutic and given me some purpose.
I appreciate your lovely clarity and brutal honesty.
This is the first video I've watched from you. I've thought to share some of the comments here, that I just posted on one of your short videos just now. I added a couple more sentences here too.
I admire how mindfully and carefully you're managing your use of mental energy to do good and meaningful things. Things which will in turn help people like me -- a so-so amateur photographer of many decades, with a bit of learning early on, now with time and passion to capture and create beauty...
and share.
Matt, I'm grateful to have discovered you, just as you launch this new phase of your journey: sharing in new ways in a new venue your years of photography understanding, and keenness.
I look forward to learning more from you. Hence I've subscribed and joined.
-- Gary
Thanks for watching and for your lovely comments. My brain damage is restrictive but not holding me back I have had a few life changing points in my life that have caused a reset and I have then built on that ! This I just see as another opportunity. Thanks
Great video Matt, I have been enjoying listening to your experience and knowledge. I did one of your workshops in Glasgow before the pandemic which was great
Thanks for watching and thanks for coming to Glasgow. Hopefully over time these videos will replace my workshops. However I really miss walking and talking with people all over the UK made some great friends from photowalks and workshops. But hope to have a few TH-cam meet ups in the future.
Nice talk. Subscribed.
Cheers and cheers. Having a few problems with TH-cam and Adsense at the moment but have lots more planned.
I ride the same route mosts days along a local river to the cafe ... it's never the same ride ... the people on the boats ... the light ...how I feel ...and it's a different ride on the way back ... great video
Cheers and I forgot about our general mood ! Some days you feel like taking photos some days you don’t. Ironically when I ride my bike I really can’t be bothered! Could be an issue when I do the coast to coast over and back. Yes every day my walk is different I love the season ever if they do come faster and faster every year.
I have a (blank). Just because I feel / think I will not miss the bowl and not hit the lid doesn't mean ... Same goes for my pictures. I will enjoy the pass time. Very rarely do I 'think' I have some thing 'good'. Keep up posting your content :)
I have plenty of blank moments with Art ! Get out my pens and pads Look at the paper then pack it up again. Photography wise it can be the same ! Go out not feel it and go get a coffee then go home. I get it people just use photography for a pass time and don’t want to take it anywhere but my Chanel is for the ones that do that, and might just want to take it somewhere from newbies to pros that might want to explore something new. Cheers for watching and keep missing the bowl but that’s a lot of piss to wipe up lol
This reminds me of the most famous tripod holes in Staithes, the actually physical holes!
I know it’s crazy ! I prefer the Fish and Chips in Whitby lol
Time and effort put in. No body became a great footballer over night or any other sports person, no matter what what you do in life, work at it.
I used to teach projects workshops. I have tought hundreds of people over the years ! I can count on two hands the people that actually did a project !
Back to the “golfist” analogy really.
In short, you get nothing for free … whether through time and mistakes or through education as stepping stones and bridges.
Love the honest discussion of this from someone who has earned the right (for once) to speak on it
Cheers ! It always amuses me how these days everyone one wants it all now now now ! When we all worked our arses off to learn our trades ! There is no quick fix and the longer the journey the more skills for your skill set you have in your tool box or golf bag !
@@MattHart I’m old, they are young and used to it just being “there” and seduced by quick attention not knowing a thing well … I’ll just use my older approach to go back and click a shed load of “likes” on your stuff.
If I’m honest, I’ve watched most if not all of your posts and it affirms a lot of the real world to me …
First, you don’t get your dream by sitting on your arse in a bedsit and dreaming (unless that itself is the dream)
Second, learn the bloody tool you are using … I used to fly jets for the RAF and you’d not just buy one and hope you knew how to use it.
Third, maybe go and do it rather than watching kit vids and downloading presets.
Fourth, try to capture a feeling you have as best you can
Fifth, make something from it so it doesn’t die on and hard disk of file share somewhere.
Sixth, do It all again
Take care fella. Hop the YT thing works out, it’s a bloody treadmill though
@@markl2815TH-cam is one hell of a journey for sure. I do it as it helps me relearn after my stroke. If it helps a few people along the way all well and good. Today is truly X Factor Mentality!
Great topic. Unfortunately in life, for the majority of people there is no magic wand, we have to work and work. I like your videos because unlike the click-bait types, you tell it as it is, and there are no magic answers, you propose projects, work, repetition which leads to experience.
In my town, there is a shot, I know it like the 'big fish in a pond' and each time I go there, I wait, and take some shots, come home and check, but not yet there. However I keep going back and waiting and shooting, knowing that all the elements that I want will come together (I've lived here 3 years) maybe next time?
I don't remember the photographer being interviewed, but he was asked how did he know that he had got the shot? he replied that because he had been going to the same place, sometimes waiting hours for the correct light, and after months the correct subjects came into the frame, with the right light.
I have some shots took years ! One of my shots ( landscape) of Glenfinnan was to remember that we paddled a canoe 7 miles down Loch Shiel to get Engaged on a small Island. It took me 5 years of going back time after time to get the shot I wanted. Some days out on a shoot I will walk in a loop to get a shot with all the elements together and if it does not come together I will try next time. I think we need a library of ideas in our heads to get great shots and the only way to get that library is to go out and find the elements then wait for them to slot into place. Thanks for watching. Thanks for your comment.
I enjoy landscape photography to an extent, the views and shots can look beautiful but at times can feel boring, I think that is why I want to try my hand at street and maybe macro, I need to get a feel for what style I find more enjoyment in. I recently posted on my youtube page of a landscape photograph I took last year in Greece. Feel free to have a glance 😉
Macro is a good skill to learn but can cost a fortune to set up and get right. Landscape is all about the mood and atmosphere and not shooing what you but shooting what you feel and want the viewer to see. I will have a look.