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Learning to See Differently - Landscape Photography
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
- Sometimes when visiting locations I’ve been to many times before familiarity or expectation of a scene can make it challanging to see the scene with fresh eyes and come back with new images, so in recent trips to Iceland and Lofoten I’ve been trying a few techniques to try to help me see differently and overcome familiarity.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:55 Panoramas
7:43 Using a phone to identify compositions
12:11 Conclusion
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I stumbled upon the 65 by 24 aspect ratio when I got my GFX 3 months ago and instantly fell in love with it. You're right. The sky is often uninteresting and so is the foreground, It doesn't matter if others get to appreciate them on social media, I relive the scene on my own monitor.
Thanks for watching
Thanks Andy! Your ideas help improve the enthusiasm as well.
Thanks so much Tom 🙏
Excellent video Andy. Your comments on trying to see familiar locations from a different perspective reminds me a lot of Freeman Patterson's book Photography and the Art of Seeing. Taking the time (which is something I'm terrible at) to see a familiar location differently can be incredibly rewarding. Using your phone to quickly compose an image then deciding whether or not to unpack your serious camera is also fantastic advice. My phone has helped guide me to some shots that I was initially inclined to walk by because I wasn't inspired to unload my pack and get out my camera.
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Smashing video. A wonderful insight to your thought process behind seeing frames in new ways. I do love a good Instagram story and totally feel the same way about using my phone as a way to not only document the adventure but to also help find something that would otherwise be overlooked perhaps. Cheers :)
Thanks so much Neil, glad you enjoyed the video
Very inspiring; The 65x24 crop on the GFX is my favorite aspect about that camera
yeah, it really does look great.
Amazing advice for aspiring landscape photographers like me. Thank you!
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Very inspiring advices. I like the spaciousness of the panoramic pictures, the quietness that it transmits. Thanks a lot for this. I'm really learning a lot from your videos, these have been a very important point of reference for my lanscape photography. 🙏✨
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🔥🏆🔥 Inspirational ! Great ideas which I'll be using in the Himalayas again, this November
Thanks so much for the comment, enjoy your trip to the Himalayas
Very inspiring! Fuji should implement the 65x24 format for XT5. I miss it so much & cannot afford the GFX lineup.
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great advice and ideas Andy. and some beautiful images thank you 🙏
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Very helpful insights as always. Thank you
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Really helpful advice here Andy, thanks for sharing your thoughts on it. 🤗
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What an interesting and refreshing idea Andy, thank you for sharing, you've inspired me to mix up my composition, regardless of social media formats 😊
Thanks for watching, really glad you found the video useful. Good luck with it
Superb! Going back to Lofoten again in January. Love the idea of looking at a scene in 16x7. I've tried that when shooting in 4x4 and it really works to help with composition. Also love the idea of empty space in pano shooting. Thanks!
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Thanks Andy, very inspiring.
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Ahh thanks Andy I love the 65x24 your video is so helpful ❤
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Big hug, buddy!
Hola Joan, hope all is good with you
Fantastic shots 👍👍👍. Thanks a lot Andy 🙏
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So true - I live in The Cotswolds - you know dreamy chocolate boxy imagery at every turn - even more so when it's frosty or snowy - don't even bother to stop - take me out of the county - click magic!!!
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You are an excellent teacher and you create very artistic photographs. Would like to see you showcase some pictures at less exotic locations where us mere mortals could afford to travel. Best regards.
Thanks for the comment, I’ll bear it in mind, but I think the principals apply pretty much wherever you’re shooting
Wonderful! Who knew the smartphone was good for something… Pano compositions were simply enjoying to gaze at.
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I have the GFX system and the different crop formats helps so much to visualise the end result. The 65x24 format is by far my favourite.
Yeah, that 65x24 crop is really, really nice
Inspiring! Thank you.
Thanks so much 🙏
Amazing stuff as always Andy!
Cheers Nate, hope you're well
Amazing stuff Andy ❤
Thanks Ashit, how are you doing?
Great video as always Andy...thank you!
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Great video!
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I often hike trails I've done before and photographed the same scene. To bring something new to the mix, I intentionally take "the wrong" focal length and just shoot anyway, trying to make the best of a weird lens choice.
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Thanks for sharing Andy. Of course you can crop as panorama or take multiple images and stitch as panorama you have more resolution but I found photoshop struggles when stitching 2 rows of 16 phots at 61 megapixels each. For the non-professional photographers it is mainly slowing down and keep looking around to see potential shots. A location like Iceland certainly helps !
Thanks for the comment. For sure you can stitch panoramas, but what I'm trying to get at here is that by simply having the panorama crop on a camera it changes the way to see a scene and really opens up different possibilities. It would be the same if it were a square crop I think
Excellent advice and analysis! The shot at 1:49 is incredibly beautiful and stunning!!
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Excellent and different advice as well as incredible images. I just commented on your IG about half an hour ago and then your video popped up on my TH-cam recommendations before watching this video.
I'll try and use these tips the next time I do landscape photography because since getting a camera, I've barely used the phone to take photos. Also, I might try and do a panorama of the Brecon Beacons while being back in Wales because it'll probably be perfect for it.
Thanks so much for watching, and for sure try a pano crop on your camera if it lets you
Very interesting, i took a lot of panoramas but mainly in mountain peak to capture whole view. Church example at 5:22 I'm pretty sure i would take one landscape oriented photo. Really like this example with negative space.
Thanks for watching. It really is interesting how something as simple as a crop on the LCD and EVF can change the way you see a scene and look at negative space
As always, beautiful shots!
Unfortunately Fujifilm doesn't offer the panoramic crop for their x- series.
Thanks for the comment. The 16x9 crop is available on the X Series, but not the 65x24
Great video, very inspiring. Are you planning on using the GFX more than the XT5?
@@AndyMumford sorry, i didn't specify correctly. I meant the 65x24.
My God, 3:59. If I ever shot anything that exquisite, I’d be tempted to chuck my gear on the assumption I’d never top it.
Thanks so much, we got very lucky with the weather that morning
Most people won't go to the same place over & over again to photograph it 😉
Before I started doing this professionally and I couldn't travel much, I used to go to the same places near where I lived. I think that's pretty common for a lot of people
Congratulations Andy for your work and your videos; you deserve success. As you have said each times, you want to travel « light » and choose your gear with this aim. However, you could increase the global IQ of the photographies you frame with prime lenses (specially with a 40 Mp sensor). Does it mean that primes doesn’t bring enough added value vs zooms for you and your customers? That the exact focale reduces the necessity of cropping in post-processing and preserves sharpness? That computing optimization closes the IQ gap? That lightness is key because of a sufficient zooms quality? Thank you.
Thanks for the comment. I don't use prime lenses because flexibility is more important to me than sharpness.
@@AndyMumford Thank you Andy for your answer. I understand, in landscape photography, you have the time to optimize the frame and zooms offer the needed flexibility mm by mm. In street photography, you haven’t this time and the frame need to be in your head before shooting, and primes are better solutions (for me).
Are these panos available for purchase yet?
Thanks. I really need to get around to updating my print collection
06:11 It's not unbalanced due to the negative space
It doesn't feel completely right due to the background being there, and at the same time not being there - it's too visible not to be there, and too obscured & foggy to really be part of the image
It's about visual weight....even though the background is partially visible its visual weight doesn't add significantly to the visual weight of right side of the frame.
panaroma is cool for medium format, but the lack of wide angle and telephoto makes shoot ff even more
Not sure what you mean. A panorama doesn't really have anything to do with focal length...some of these are telephoto, others in the mid range. It's about the format, not the focal length. And there is no lack of wide angle on medium format. I have a 19mm on the GFX (about 15mm full frame equivalent) and a 20-35mm (16-28mm full frame equivalent), which is plenty wide enough.
How do I get that crop in EVF on my XT5
You have to go to quality and choose RAW + JPEG (you can only get the crop to appear if you're shooting JPEG). Then you can choose the JPEG format; 3:2, 4:3, 1:1, or 16:9, which is the pano format..
As I said in the video, the RAW file will be cropped in Lightroom, but you can uncrop it, and of course you can just delete the JPEG
@@AndyMumford ahhh don’t knew that. I thought if you choose an aspect ratio also the Raw file is cropped loosing the space around it. Thx