ONE Tip That Helped Me Take BETTER Landscape Photography & Be More CREATIVE
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- Capturing landscape photography can be really overwhelming in many situations. In this new video, join me in photographing one of the most incredible places I have ever been to! I share some different creative techniques and even my biggest tip. Which has allowed me to take better and more thoughtful photography.
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Check out my new blog post for all of these images in higher quality and a bunch of useful tips for capturing abstract photography!
www.shainblumphoto.com/2023/06/04/desert/
00:00 - Introduction to the American Southwest landscape
01:23 - Reflection on the previous 2018 visit
02:45 - Using the wide-angle lens and shooting techniques
04:10 - The art of composition and the importance of the foreground
06:15 - Aerial exploration with the drone
08:20 - Focus on abstract photography in the morning
10:30 - Main tip: seeing beyond the subject
12:50 - Creative vs. technical approach in photography
14:40 - Conclusion and encouragement to creativity
Amazing location and amazing images. I particularly enjoy how you're now showing the view through the camera as you search for compositions. It very clearly illustrates (and reminds us) that small changes in position-left, right, up, down-can have substantial impact on the image.
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed that! :)
You’ve done it again! Your abstracts are amazing. I’m flabbergasted. I’ve been to Utah/southwest six times now and every trip, every day, I feel the same way as what you describe here. I hope you return for many more enchanting sessions. Your videos are the most enjoyable of all the bloggers I follow. Thanks for that.
Such beauty…speechless
After 14 years, I think I know every inch of that place. It was great seeing it through your eyes.
Sister where is this beautiful place?
@@dolly_llamas_teawhite pocket
The lone tree at 8:05 is stunning
Jaw dropping indeed
thank you!
The drone shots are stunning and I one would believe it is another planet !
What a beautiful location and your words are truely inspiring
The drones shots are EPIC.
Wow super spectacular shots. A real work of art Michael. 🤩🤩🤩
I spent 2 days here 2 weeks ago and you put it into a different perspective! I wanna go back now haha
wow so cool love this place n ur pics
Thank you for taking me to the Mars😊, stunning pics
The music editing really lifted this video. Great stuff Michael.
Really glad you enjoyed it, I always try to find songs that fit the mood :)
Incredible place, wonderful photos!
Your voice and videos have a 'mellow-ness' to them that makes them special! My widest prime is a 21mm...should I pick up a 14mm before heading there? We'll be visiting in October so I have some time. Thanks again for sharing your time with us.
Great video. Thanks for creating and sharing.
Can I just say, I really appreciate the choice in music for this vlog. Absolutely perfect 👌
Thanks man !! I loved every minute off it !
It’s like another planet!
Gorgeous video and imagery Michael! Makes me want to get a drone!
I'm curious where you flew your drone... spectacular
Hi Michael, this is the first time that I have found you're channel and I am amazed by it. I have a small (growing) channel myself but this is next level. Would love to grt to that location someday. At 8:56 in the video there is a small lake on tip of these white rocks did you get a shot of that with the drone? Looks fantastic. You definitely have a new subscriber. Do you mind sharing where this is? I would thibk valley of fire but since I'm from the netherlands I don't know all the spots of course. Grt guido
stunning, as always Michael! where in Arizona was this? was it White Pocket?
So so awesome. You absolutely used that great sky to the fullest and your abstracts were beautiful. Did you head out there in the Forester?
This is a beautiful location and amazing photos!! I know you said you’re in the southwest but where are you exactly?
Another great video, Michael. What an amazing location!! Your tips about abstract landscape photography are very useful. I also really like your more “off the cuff” comment when you said that you tend to take a wider, more general shot of a location first and then start focusing in on greater detail. You never disappoint! Keep up the great work.
Love your soundtrack. Check AES Dana & Carbon Based Lifeforms
When it s no longer FUN it’s time to take a break. Thank youMichael.
Agreed!
Amazing content Michael.. did you use a CPL filter for those photos?
Fabulous photos, as always, Michael! Where is this amazing place? You just identify it as being in the American Southwest.
10:10 Jaw hits floor
You can see things you can’t photograph, and photograph things you can’t see.
First of all. Amazing mustache.
Second. Very well said.
OH MY GOD thats does NOT look like Earth.... please share that location i will never be able to visit but at least i can look it up... wow
Mac wallpaper was taken at this place , I seem
Looks like you were at White Pocket, AZ. It's kind of like the Wave, but with a lot of white rocks and no lottery.
I don't often comment on videos, but just have to say how mesmorising that drone imagery was! it was like looking at something from NASA! An absolutely amazing landscape, and perfectly captured!
What is your location ? I love this landscape I need to put this on my bucket list 😊
Ken Rockwell had one of the best pages on photography that I’ve ever seen. He had an acronym F. A. R. T. The F stands for feel. So when you’re walking past some thing, you feel something the A stands for analyze what is it about this scene that caught your attention The R stands for refined the composition kind of like what you said. the T is when you take the image. So whenever I’m out taking pictures, I’m always thinking about farts.
Been down South West snd sleays skipped that location simply because its tricky to get to, guess third time I just have to.
You missed what could have been some amazing images of the vegetation growing out of the beautiful rocks area at 5:00 minutes? Great video, beautiful shots.... thanks!
Yo, 24p is awful on youtube because most screens refresh at multiples of 30. There are jitters every couple of frames unless I manually tweak the speed to 1.25x :(
Hi Michael, I am going to Las Vegas / Death Valley in upcoming week and was looking into many of your videos. What location is this where you are able to drone? As a national park, Death Valley doesnt allow to drone without permission
Super great patterns! It reminds me a bit of the landscapes in the north of Argentina, bordering Bolivia. Have you been in that area?
I wanted to ask you, why do you use ISO500 in these photos? Is not a bit high?
Thanks, nah I have not photographed there before. On the Sony A1 500 is the second base ISO, which is very negligible between 100 or 500. I use it to keep the flexibility of shooting handheld.
Your photos were fine the only thing missing was...... SUN!!!! I saw it was an overcast day. Go back and takes those same photos early in the morning and late in the afternoon and see the difference. I did like the one with the dark clouds. Was that done with two separate photos or was it done in Photoshop.
Wow! I’m sure glad I don’t have to cull your images!
Best abstracts you've captured so far. Absolutely stunning!
I might have missed it, but where is this place? Looks like Valley of Fire State Park. It would be nice to identify the location for your viewers.
I want to start photographing landscapes and specialize in lunar photos and maybe over time astrophotography which camera would be good to start with? thanks
At 3:44, the shape of the rock on your right shoulder looks like a face of a monkey. Very interesting!
I really like that point that you made at the end of the video. Great stuff!
Great video and a stunning location Michael. Where exactly is it?
What camera and lens you have used to record this vlog? pl tell me!
I started using a wide angle, 11-18 on a crop sensor, and I'm really enjoying it. I can get whole buildings in my pictures, and it works pretty well for people and other things. Your drone images were amazing, I hope I can learn to do that someday.
I like this video, clear and useful
How do you make money with those photographs?
What music are you using in this point: 9:00?
I believe the location of this photoshoot is kept top secret by the National Park Service. Access is only by lottery to reduce erosion and damage to the delicate rock formations. It is within the Grand Staircase Escalante. It is almost impossible to take a bad landscape photograph here.
Idk. I could probably mess up a picture pretty bad lol
Hi Michael. Not sure that I've commented before but I've definitely watched and enjoyed many of your videos (and paid courses). I just wanted to say thank you for what you share and the way you share it. It always comes from a positive place. I always enjoy your happy (and mostly relaxing) views of wherever you are. Always a joy to watch - thank you
Thank you so much for watching and for this comment Sam! :)
Where are you? Is that Joshua Tree?
Thanks!
Thank you so much Mark!
Love your images and videp
@@markromoff7097 Thank you Mark, that means a lot. I love making these videos and am honored that folks like yourself enjoy them! :)
Why do you shoot Iso 500? It is not necessary to have a fast shutter speed in wide angle... 1/30 would be enought. At F16 You start too lose detail because of diffraction. I really don't understand your settings.
ISO500 is the second base ISO of the A1 and is negligible compared to 100. 1/30 has the potential to be blurry, especially when moving around handheld. F16 diffraction is again negligible in terms of sharpness loss and almost indistinguishable from using a lower F-stop. F16 allowed me to get a lot more of the scene in focus than using something like F8.
If you chat with more professional photographers, you will realize that all these little rules and statistics you read in photobooks do not translate to real, practical shooting. Yes, occasionally, you can use the Idealistic "F8 ISO100." Sure, but not in most cases. We use the settings we feel will best capture the scene, and it's all dependent on the situation. All of the images in the video are sharp, in focus, and clean, regardless.
@@MichaelShainblum thanks for taking the time to answering me.
Where is this and great pics
Dang you Michael I just bought the 16-35 and 28-200 based on your glowing reviews of them =) I used your links of course!
Thanks Michael, my wife and I watched your vlog during lunch at Point Lobos near Carmel, and I was so inspired that I found an excellent beach and tried to put your lesson into practice. Without your video, I likely wouldn't have even thought to try doing these types of abstracts. Thanks again.
Would loooove to visit this place! thank you for sharing Michael! :) Beautiful shots!
Very beautiful landscapes with so many thing to learn, thanks for explaining each shot.
Ohhhhh white pocket is gorgeous!!! So alien yet mesmerizing! I was lucky enough to be there right after a storm so I got some shots with pools of water in those amazing little divots and crevices. That tree in the middle of rock was stunning. We were also there while a storm came rumbling in. I captured a shot with the bright beautiful sun on the left of one of those peaks with the storm coming in from the right. I got the shot and then got dumped on. But it was totally worth it!!
Astounding work! I lived less than 2 hours from there and hiked, & photographed AZ for 18 years. But that was back in the '70s. I never knew it existed until now. Thank you for a mental kick to the backside.
Great video and advice on looking for abstract subjects.
Thanks!
Amazing compositions, lucky be in that place limitless possibilities, thanks for sharing your stories and passion for photography!
That's it! Your wonderful video pushed me over the edge. I'm getting a drone! I've photographer this location 6 times in the last four years and am going back again in September. Your drone shots were spectacular! Thanks for sharing your thought process and the resulting photos.
Not my mother’s granite countertop after all. Imagine that. 🤓
Beautifully done, as usual.
I'm not exactly a geology nerd. But, rock formations like these always leave me in wonder of the forces of nature that created them over countless millennia. I love natural abstract images.
"Wow, that is really cool! That part, less cool." That's a great approach for getting original images. I don't think you said exactly where you shot this, which is fine for protecting it. But it looks like that park outside Las Vegas where the F4 Gang all did some shooting a few years ago.
Magnificent!
Wow !!! That's one of the best videos I've ever seen. I just love that type of landscape. Endless possibilities !!!!!
Great video, Michael. It like the reminder to look at the world around us differently. To see something else. I agree with you, I'm not super technical with photography either. I would rather focus on the picture taking rather than the technicalities which just kills my creativity. Thanks for the reminder. To each to their own. Folks should just do what works for them. There is no one right way to photograph.
Wow! What an amazing location. Thoroughly enjoyed this. You got some awesome photos there.
What an incredible location, fail to see how you could come away without a few keepers. Love the last portrait with the sole tree. It’s like what on Earth are you doing there ? quick check that we are on Earth 🤔👌
These abstracts are insane! You don't even know if these are aerial shots or close ups from the ground! :D In July/August I will be the first time in my life in the US and I'm sooo excited about it... 4 weeks in the soutwest! :D
I follow you on Instagram and just found this TH-cam channel. I am so happy to learn how you compose and take images! Thanks for sharing and teaching. You are an amazing photographer!
These photographs are amazing, specially the one with the drone.enjoy..
I've been there once, and it blew me away. Definitely have to go again. Thanks for sharing. Your work is inspiring and beautiful.
dude, it's one of the best youtube lessons on photography I've ever seen. And it's mostly because of the pace you have here, the atmosphere, the music, the attitude. I can feel how you love photography and how you love to tell your story about it and how amazed you are by it.
I subscribed.
Your photography is amazing and your tutorials are so helpful and interesting.
Wow wow wow ! these shots are mind blowing ! Yes to me the " rules " are to be a guide, sometimes, but you still need to think outside the square and take in what you see as in, varying patterns and textures, after following your Videos for some time I am learning to stop and look, and it can very satisfying as what you capture once loaded on to the computer ! Cheers and very well captured, from NZ
I am in awe of your photos in this video. So much vivid abstract scenery. Wonderful, well done.
Composition is the thing I struggle the most. I really loved this vlog. Congratulations
Astonishing shots here Michael. Looks like at or near White Pocket, AZ. I was fortunate to get my own pics there. Extremely difficult place to get out to. I used a tour guide & fortunately this allowed me to just concentrate on my shooting & not worry about getting stuck in the sand in the drive. I agree it was so very hard not to be overwhelmed by this jaw dropping area.
😍😍😍
Thanks..
Geology continues to amaze, definitely an otherworldly feel Michael.
Compare some of the drone footage to the clouds of Jupiter.
Thanks for sharing again.
Stay safe 🇦🇺
Fantastic, Michael!
❤❤❤太漂亮了
So true.
It's a great video Michael! Love all these photos that you took! They are fantastic!!!
You captured some really awesome photos there. The lighter formations have a bio-mechanical look
Amazing images and great thought process regarding composition. Thanks Michael.