How aware are you of color when you’re making photos? Do you ever consciously “build” your image so that you can leverage color to set the mood or to communicate a story? Has there ever been a time when just the colors you saw inspired you to drop everything and take a photo.
Yes absolutely, i lean towards night photography, so LED lighting, and pools of light can really make colours more vibrant and striking in the right situation. Love your vids.
This is literally ONE of a handful of channels that actually teaches something. When I travel, I always think of the content here and try to apply it to my own photos. No smugness, no "gear talk", no useless reviews, no pretentious boasting... just good advice. Fantastic content!
You may be the best teacher on TH-cam. I love how specific each of your tips are and I can tell you make an effort to avoid cliches. I like that your channel is not flashy like a lot of other TH-camrs - your videos always have a humble tone to them. You focus on teaching, rather than showing off how cool your travels and adventures are. I appreciate this and learn a lot from you, thank you for doing what you do.
Haha. Thanks, Tyler. Yeh, I mean, I am still experimenting and these maybe the last bunch of free educational vids of this kind that I'll make. Depending on how things go. It seems that YT is doing something with the views and many creators are getting barely any, after putting in quite a bit of effort. And yeh, I do try my best to avoid cliches. I guess I could be making a different lens video every week. 😂But I think I'd kill myself. Thanks for your comment. Seeing that some people appreciate the nuances is a really nice reward.
@@mitchellkphotos What you do is definitely appreciated. If TH-cam is not the right platform anymore, I hope you can find a more profitable way to keep teaching. If you wrote books using your photos and stories to teach in them, I would buy them in a heartbeat.
@@_Hay_Tyler I did a few. Though I don't own the rights to them any more. That's so 2010 now though. Things change quickly. The whole thing is complex. I think TH-cam is still great, but I'm definitely gonna experiment. Thank you for giving me your time.
Yet another gem of a video. As others have said, your humble style and focus on the photography rather than gear or ego makes your content stand out amongst the noise. Best wishes to you and your family
I really love how you show your photos and put some background music in it. It amplifies the strong emotional feelings that the photos already have. Thank you for these tips! Your channel need more subs.
Great video Mitchell and as always, excellent and extremely useful photographic tips on color composition and fixes beginning with the capture and on to the subsequent edit. There is no one out there that even comes close to the engaging, street-wise, down to earth and superlative common sense wisdom that is regularly found in any of your videos! I'm gonna stop there because I don't want your head to become too big for your pillow tonight and miss out on your sleep. Hope you get to spend this Christmas with your family and I also pray for God to bless you and yours richly and to keep you all safe! Merry Christmas Mate!
Recently discovered your channel; wow! Thank you for all the practical tips and interesting stories you share so generously. I find your videos to be a breath of fresh air compared to much of what's out there. Thank you for taking us along on your journeys; as soon as I've watched one of your videos I'm already looking forward to the next one :)
Your video's are so helpful en inspiring!!! wish you had video's like this every week or so, I learn so much from them. Looking forward to Sunday's video!!!
(This is a continuously edited comment due to mobile limitations) Color has somehow started my whole interest in photography. It was my mother's second digital point and shoot camera that had a 'color swap' option. It let you select an input color with the center of the frame and an output color. Than it just translates a wider HSL selection and drops it into a single solid color. I used that very creatively in my childhood and recently found a lot of those pictures on an old backup drive. When I picked up my first phone more than three years ago, it had a small gadget thermal camera, which let's you see 'light' outside the visible spectrum and paints it in pseudo color. In some ways it gives you control over how it's colored. As it's a monochrome signal to start with. Two years ago I got a used cinema camera as I was very familiar with the options of color grading video footage and a few months later I got a digital stills camera. Photography has become a new hobby ever since and discussion about it takes up a portion of me every day. The thermal imaging part that kickstarted it once again is always presence to me and recently new camera got to my hands, those just barely reached their prototype state but first experiments are promising. I struggle with the use of color. Over all the time I got maybe two or three shots where colors works perfectly symbolical. I love wild color and pronounce it in a lot of my shots. But I am limited in options on the post side of things. Getting into it s little bit more the two WB sliders have given me some options but not full control. I grew up in a school where color had its own philosophy and so did architecture. It had a lasting impact on me and my associations with color slightly differ to those of others. I love the a/b examples you showed in the second half of the video. Also the artificial saturation you manage by keeping the intercut video of your talking head less saturated. It pronounced he photo examples more.
@@mitchellkphotos the limitation is purely on the technical side for me. I simply don't own the software for it. For video I use DaVinci Resolve and that gives me all the control over color I ever needed. For stills I just use the free Capture One version as it gives me access to the tweaks I need. But there aren't RGB tones or curves or any kind of secondary adjustments in it. My struggle is seeing a scene correctly. I sometimes notice the extraordinary color around me and specifically look for the photo to capture the mood said color brings. It was in October when fall hit my city and I went on a walk with my camera. I found the best looking tree that had a single ivy twine on its side. Every leaf had a slightly different shade from bright green to dark red. I took multiple shots, different angles, different distances. And in post I tried to crop out parts of it or take he whole scene. I played with contrast and color, more color less color, elective saturation adjustments; yet I didn't manage to get a result I was happy with. When I started the walk I had a whole storm of images come to mind and that three made it more specific. But not specific as one to one. I ended up not having a result I was happy with and moved on into forms of photography that are more intuitive to me and more familiar. My struggle is completing the approximate visualization or reference in my head as a photo I shot and edited. There is a disconnect in multiple stages where my skills are insufficient. In my main genre (parties/nightclubs) I can get results that satisfy my expectations all the time or even exceed them. I see it currently as just experience. Somethings I shot for more than a year now - I know what I will have at the end. Therefore I took my camera with my on my commute to university and took the opportunity today, I did take a concept shot of a tram stop I always see could be a picture. It didn't work on day one, but I stop there 4 times a week. So there is more to come.
Another great video from Mitchell!!! For anyone wondering if they should buy his course I strongly encourage to do it! Its a great course and a real bargain for its price.
These are awesome tips! I was wondering if you would ever consider making a video about how you get so close to these strangers around the world? Some places are more comfortable with this and some aren't and I would love to hear your insight
I really enjoy your videos and truly appreciate your sharing of your experience and photographic knowledge with us. I know you wrote an e-book a few years ago on Color (as well as one on Travel Photography), but was curious if your course covers the concepts you discuss in this video regarding the use of color in depth or whether the book would provide even more in-depth info.
The book is specifically about color. The course is not focusing on color, but there's enough on color in there throughout to maybe overall have more about color in total. Some nuances from the book are not in it. Some things from the course are not in the book.
Hey Mitchell, I've just discovered you and your channel and I might say I'm blown away! You are an inspiration in both of photography and videography, but also in teaching and giving away your experience to others. I have a question for you: me myself coming from an ex-communist country (Romania) I find it very difficult to do English speaking videos of myself, because of the accent barrier. Your English is just so amazing, no accent into it, that makes me wonder how have you reached this level? Did you move to UK at young age?
Hi Alin, an unusual question, but a very reasonable one. I've actually lived most of my life in Australia. My parents moved when I was ten. So Australia is much more my home than any other country. Though I still feel I have no home. I think that there is very little chance of talking like a native English speaker after a certain age. BUT, I think you can definitely work on more neutral pronunciation at any age. I'm trying that with Spanish these days. :) PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. :)
@@mitchellkphotos Thanks for this quick answer. This is my me, always asking unusual questions :) Also thanks for this advice, I'll try practicing more my Swedish now, we've just move to Sweden. I don't have too much hopes for myself, but my kids (10 and 3.5 yo) will hopefully have no accent. Cheers from another fellow ambassador (Sony in this case ;)
When editing, always edit then dial it back 10%. For pictures worth more time print them out and live with them for a week or a month, put it as a background on you computer; you opinion of it will always change with time
@@mitchellkphotos sadly I've yet to take a photo that wasn't abandoned after 'x' time that I thought it was worth. If I think a photo is worth 15seconds of my time, whatever it looks like after that is perfect lol. I've never come back to edit a photo after it's expiry date, even the good ones. Just some have a lot more time allocated to them. Maybe in a decade I might look back at them and have a play
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How aware are you of color when you’re making photos? Do you ever consciously “build” your image so that you can leverage color to set the mood or to communicate a story? Has there ever been a time when just the colors you saw inspired you to drop everything and take a photo.
Yes absolutely, i lean towards night photography, so LED lighting, and pools of light can really make colours more vibrant and striking in the right situation. Love your vids.
@@travelwithalens Thanks a lot and... sounds interesting!
Your channel is one of the most underrated channel for photographers on youtube. Thank you for making these knowledge available!!
This is literally ONE of a handful of channels that actually teaches something. When I travel, I always think of the content here and try to apply it to my own photos. No smugness, no "gear talk", no useless reviews, no pretentious boasting... just good advice. Fantastic content!
Thanks. I appreciate that. Yeh, not my style to talk all that nonsense. I don't like to "steal" people's time.
You may be the best teacher on TH-cam. I love how specific each of your tips are and I can tell you make an effort to avoid cliches. I like that your channel is not flashy like a lot of other TH-camrs - your videos always have a humble tone to them. You focus on teaching, rather than showing off how cool your travels and adventures are. I appreciate this and learn a lot from you, thank you for doing what you do.
Haha. Thanks, Tyler. Yeh, I mean, I am still experimenting and these maybe the last bunch of free educational vids of this kind that I'll make. Depending on how things go. It seems that YT is doing something with the views and many creators are getting barely any, after putting in quite a bit of effort.
And yeh, I do try my best to avoid cliches. I guess I could be making a different lens video every week. 😂But I think I'd kill myself.
Thanks for your comment. Seeing that some people appreciate the nuances is a really nice reward.
@@mitchellkphotos What you do is definitely appreciated. If TH-cam is not the right platform anymore, I hope you can find a more profitable way to keep teaching. If you wrote books using your photos and stories to teach in them, I would buy them in a heartbeat.
@@_Hay_Tyler I did a few. Though I don't own the rights to them any more. That's so 2010 now though. Things change quickly. The whole thing is complex. I think TH-cam is still great, but I'm definitely gonna experiment. Thank you for giving me your time.
Yet another gem of a video. As others have said, your humble style and focus on the photography rather than gear or ego makes your content stand out amongst the noise. Best wishes to you and your family
Best educational photography channel on TH-cam, period.
It is nice to see someone not only talking about how to make an image looks good but also to create and transmit a feeling from it.
I really love how you show your photos and put some background music in it. It amplifies the strong emotional feelings that the photos already have. Thank you for these tips! Your channel need more subs.
Thanks a lot, yeh, hopefully. One day...
Thank you for uploading this !!!
Welcome. One more to come! :)
the best channel about travel photography hands down !!!!
Your photos really are fantastic.
Thanks.
Good lesson! Thank you🙏🏻
Great video Mitchell and as always, excellent and extremely useful photographic tips on color composition and fixes beginning with the capture and on to the subsequent edit.
There is no one out there that even comes close to the engaging, street-wise, down to earth and superlative common sense wisdom that is regularly found in any of your videos!
I'm gonna stop there because I don't want your head to become too big for your pillow tonight and miss out on your sleep.
Hope you get to spend this Christmas with your family and I also pray for God to bless you and yours richly and to keep you all safe!
Merry Christmas Mate!
Thanks. And have a great Christmas! 🙂
Recently discovered your channel; wow! Thank you for all the practical tips and interesting stories you share so generously. I find your videos to be a breath of fresh air compared to much of what's out there. Thank you for taking us along on your journeys; as soon as I've watched one of your videos I'm already looking forward to the next one :)
Thanks for your time, Leonie. 🙂
Great video brother. Was just having this discussion with another colleague. Color is key.
One of the keys for sure. 🙂
Your video's are so helpful en inspiring!!!
wish you had video's like this every week or so, I learn so much from them.
Looking forward to Sunday's video!!!
Thank you! No chance of every week. They take more than a couple of weeks to make. :)
@@mitchellkphotos I completely understand, that's why the are so good!!! We are spoiled this week :)
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Color has somehow started my whole interest in photography. It was my mother's second digital point and shoot camera that had a 'color swap' option. It let you select an input color with the center of the frame and an output color. Than it just translates a wider HSL selection and drops it into a single solid color. I used that very creatively in my childhood and recently found a lot of those pictures on an old backup drive.
When I picked up my first phone more than three years ago, it had a small gadget thermal camera, which let's you see 'light' outside the visible spectrum and paints it in pseudo color. In some ways it gives you control over how it's colored. As it's a monochrome signal to start with. Two years ago I got a used cinema camera as I was very familiar with the options of color grading video footage and a few months later I got a digital stills camera. Photography has become a new hobby ever since and discussion about it takes up a portion of me every day. The thermal imaging part that kickstarted it once again is always presence to me and recently new camera got to my hands, those just barely reached their prototype state but first experiments are promising.
I struggle with the use of color. Over all the time I got maybe two or three shots where colors works perfectly symbolical. I love wild color and pronounce it in a lot of my shots. But I am limited in options on the post side of things. Getting into it s little bit more the two WB sliders have given me some options but not full control.
I grew up in a school where color had its own philosophy and so did architecture. It had a lasting impact on me and my associations with color slightly differ to those of others.
I love the a/b examples you showed in the second half of the video. Also the artificial saturation you manage by keeping the intercut video of your talking head less saturated. It pronounced he photo examples more.
That's interesting. But, how exactly do you struggle with the use of color? And why are you limited with post?
@@mitchellkphotos the limitation is purely on the technical side for me. I simply don't own the software for it. For video I use DaVinci Resolve and that gives me all the control over color I ever needed. For stills I just use the free Capture One version as it gives me access to the tweaks I need. But there aren't RGB tones or curves or any kind of secondary adjustments in it.
My struggle is seeing a scene correctly. I sometimes notice the extraordinary color around me and specifically look for the photo to capture the mood said color brings. It was in October when fall hit my city and I went on a walk with my camera. I found the best looking tree that had a single ivy twine on its side. Every leaf had a slightly different shade from bright green to dark red. I took multiple shots, different angles, different distances. And in post I tried to crop out parts of it or take he whole scene. I played with contrast and color, more color less color, elective saturation adjustments; yet I didn't manage to get a result I was happy with.
When I started the walk I had a whole storm of images come to mind and that three made it more specific. But not specific as one to one. I ended up not having a result I was happy with and moved on into forms of photography that are more intuitive to me and more familiar.
My struggle is completing the approximate visualization or reference in my head as a photo I shot and edited. There is a disconnect in multiple stages where my skills are insufficient.
In my main genre (parties/nightclubs) I can get results that satisfy my expectations all the time or even exceed them.
I see it currently as just experience. Somethings I shot for more than a year now - I know what I will have at the end.
Therefore I took my camera with my on my commute to university and took the opportunity today, I did take a concept shot of a tram stop I always see could be a picture. It didn't work on day one, but I stop there 4 times a week. So there is more to come.
Thank you for your channel, Mitchell! It's so inspiring!
Glad to hear that! Thanks for watching.
incredible videos. Simple, clear and concise with a wealth of examples making it very easy to understand. Thank you!!!
thanks for this story. It feels deeply peaceful and colourful there. I can't wait until I get there! thanks mr!!!
Alright bought. I love the background noises you used. They compliments the photos really well bringing the still image to life.
Thank you. Yes that's the idea. I want it all to feel more alive.
Once again, amazing video! Thank you very much for all the tips!
Thank you.
You convinced me! I bought your package. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Haha. Thanks. I hope you find it useful!
You just keep making amazing videos. Great quality!
Thanks.
Another great video from Mitchell!!! For anyone wondering if they should buy his course I strongly encourage to do it! Its a great course and a real bargain for its price.
Thank you Leandro.
Insane tips! Love your videos. Thank you a lot!
Hooray! Thanks a lot!
😂
Sound tips, complete inspiration.. thanks, best..
Thank you.
Thank you!
Thanks for watching.
These are awesome tips! I was wondering if you would ever consider making a video about how you get so close to these strangers around the world? Some places are more comfortable with this and some aren't and I would love to hear your insight
This channel is vastly underrated.
Awesome tips! Thank you!
Your content is gem ❤️
Thanks very much. 🙂
I really enjoy your videos and truly appreciate your sharing of your experience and photographic knowledge with us. I know you wrote an e-book a few years ago on Color (as well as one on Travel Photography), but was curious if your course covers the concepts you discuss in this video regarding the use of color in depth or whether the book would provide even more in-depth info.
The book is specifically about color. The course is not focusing on color, but there's enough on color in there throughout to maybe overall have more about color in total. Some nuances from the book are not in it. Some things from the course are not in the book.
Awesome. Great tips, as always at the heart, without any unnecessary talk. As always, practical material that really teaches.
Thanks!
Needed this! Going through my color struggle faze 📸
Is the especial on the course still on? I can use it during our coronavirus break. thanks love the presentation thank you.
Thinking of making one soon.
God bless u man
damn you are hella underrated! keep up the good work :”)
Thanks. I'll try.
thank you for always making such content.
Hey Mitchell, I've just discovered you and your channel and I might say I'm blown away! You are an inspiration in both of photography and videography, but also in teaching and giving away your experience to others. I have a question for you: me myself coming from an ex-communist country (Romania) I find it very difficult to do English speaking videos of myself, because of the accent barrier. Your English is just so amazing, no accent into it, that makes me wonder how have you reached this level? Did you move to UK at young age?
Hi Alin, an unusual question, but a very reasonable one. I've actually lived most of my life in Australia. My parents moved when I was ten. So Australia is much more my home than any other country. Though I still feel I have no home.
I think that there is very little chance of talking like a native English speaker after a certain age. BUT, I think you can definitely work on more neutral pronunciation at any age. I'm trying that with Spanish these days. :) PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. :)
@@mitchellkphotos Thanks for this quick answer. This is my me, always asking unusual questions :) Also thanks for this advice, I'll try practicing more my Swedish now, we've just move to Sweden. I don't have too much hopes for myself, but my kids (10 and 3.5 yo) will hopefully have no accent. Cheers from another fellow ambassador (Sony in this case ;)
Thanks for this great video!
This is Gold
Tip 7 is a very good one!!... instead of going overboard with color tweeking just hide it
thanks sir for your important tips
Very good!
When editing, always edit then dial it back 10%. For pictures worth more time print them out and live with them for a week or a month, put it as a background on you computer; you opinion of it will always change with time
And if it doesn't you got it right. 🙂
@@mitchellkphotos sadly I've yet to take a photo that wasn't abandoned after 'x' time that I thought it was worth. If I think a photo is worth 15seconds of my time, whatever it looks like after that is perfect lol. I've never come back to edit a photo after it's expiry date, even the good ones. Just some have a lot more time allocated to them. Maybe in a decade I might look back at them and have a play
awesome
you're aweosme
I found the Master
😂
...♥
As a travel shooter you can't controle the colours you encounter.
Watch the video. 😉