Finding a different perspective
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2024
- I've been to the waterfall at Haifoss many times, but on my last trip there late in the summer I used some hiking apps to explore the area a lot more and find a different perspective on this incredible waterfall.
In this video I look at my thoughts and considerations in the field, and in the second part of the video go over my Lightroom editing process for one of the images I captured there
Chapters
Intro 0:00
Part 1 - In The Field 0:18
Part 2 - Processing 5:51
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Hi Andy! I just wanted to once again say : you're probably one of the best photography youtubers out there. I like how you're straight to the point, there's no unnecessary nonsense on your videos, for example epic music while you show your photos or some click - baity idiotic titles, etc.
Thanks very much for being real and down to earth!
Thanks so much for the comment. It's really nice to know you find the videos useful. I'll have some more like this from Italy up next month
You look happy and alive on the location. That's what it's all about 🙂
Exactly, being out in the landscape is when I'm happiest
I’ve only recently discovered you - it’s like finding a diamond in a field of stones! Thank you for the incredible content. I have so much content to binge watch, can’t wait.
Thanks so much for the comment and the sub. Hope you enjoy the videos…I should have plenty more like this from the field over the next year or so because I’ve got a lot of trips lined up.
@@AndyMumford That’s great news. Love your style (photographic and explanatory). I live in the US but would love to join you on one of your workshops some day.
Thank you Andy..great video always well structured and meaningful post production technique!🎶
Thanks again, really glad you found it useful
Being a long term subscriber, I really appreciate these videos. Incredibly helpful and inspiring.
Thanks so much for the comment, and supporting the channel. Glad you find the videos useful 🙏
Another brilliant video Andy … many thanks!
Thanks so much for the comment Grant, glad you enjoyed it
Love your videos Andy, I learn a lot from you!
Thanks so much, glad you enjoy the videos
You are the definition of a pro :)
Thanks so much
Thanx for a great video Andy. I think you are a great teacher when it comes to composition and editing. And as many had told you before me i think you are one ofthe best out there.
When it comes to composition at least my expiriace is that the best thing you can do is to take the time at a place to really make sure you got all the angeles as you said. But that can be a hard one when you are at a place such as Iceland or lofoten. So much to see :-)
Have a great day.
Thanks for the lovely comment Bente, hope you're well
a big thank you to see how you edit your photos - very helpful
Thanks so much for the comment, really glad it was useful
Great video Andy, thank you! Very helpful....
Thanks for the comment Andrew, glad it was useful
Great advice on using the terrain and maps to find alternative views. Cannot believe the difference in viewpoints from above to below. Amazing photos.
Thanks so much for the comment Richard, glad you found the video useful
Excellent information! Thanks
Thanks so much for the comment, really glad you enjoyed the video
Good stuff Andy!
Cheers Jeroen 🙏 Looking forward to returning next year 😊
Excellent video. I found the explanation of the editing choices and approaches to different types of images very helpful (around 6min mark). Would love to see more examples of this in future videos if possible. The editing process was also very interesting. As always great content.
Thanks so much for the comment, really glad you found the video useful. From now on I'm planning to put out one or two videos like this from each trip. I have a couple recorded from the Dolomites last month, and from next year I'll be travelling each month, so I'm hoping to have plenty of content from the field
Always a classy and informative video from you, Andy. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks so much for the comment, glad the video was useful
Amazing video with the edit walkthrough and your personal comments on your concept of the image as you were taking it! Very enriching
Thanks so much for the comment Eduardo, really glad you enjoyed the video
What a great video Andy, thanks for taking us all the way from start to finish on your process. There was something about your contagoius excitement at the beginning of the video that really came through and it was easy to see why you do this for a living. I also really appreciate your advice about conceptualizing the edit before you begin.
Thanks so much for the lovely comment Eric, I was pretty excited...it was a really incredible place. Really glad you enjoyed the video
Really enjoyable to watch Andy, the power of the waterfall from the bottom was incredible, learnt from your processing also, so thank you for sharing your knowledge and images with us.
Thanks so much for the comment Ross, glad you find the videos useful
This brings back memories already. Tremensdously good video Andy.
Indeed Chandan, it was an incredible day and a wonderful trip. Hope you're well, glad you enjoyed the video
Great video Andy, beautiful location and images. Post processing was very helpful, cheers
Thanks so much Michael, really glad you found it useful
Love it!!!! THere is just something about isolating landscapes with a long lens - I love wide too, I just love the big compression images!!! Thanks for sharing - looks like an amazing place!
Thanks so much, really glad you found it useful. And yeah, it is an absolutely amazing place
Hi Andy, I love your videos. They've been really helpful on my photography journey. I had the privilege of viewing the Dolomites from the cockpit today and was thinking about your magnificent pictures on the video you posted a while back. You really captured their magnificence! This video is equally fabulous! Thanks a lot for all wonderful videos you post, they are truly educational.
Thanks so much for the comment, it's really nice to know you find the videos useful. The Dolomites are indeed incredible...i've got a couple more videos coming up from there next month
What an amazing location - beautifully captured - both the stills and the video. I appreciated the processing element, too, which normally bores me shitless. Our lockdown (Melbourne, Australia - the longest in the world) finally ends next week, so I CAN'T WAIT to go exploring!! Thanks for the inspiration and the instruction, Andy.
Hope you have fun exploring after the lockdown!
@@arunmuthu1760 I’ll never take it for granted again. 👍
Thanks so much for the comment Peter, glad you enjoyed it and found it useful. And respect for using "bores me shitless" in a comment too...made me smile 😊 Good luck with the end of lockdown, enjoy getting out and exploring again
@@AndyMumford Thanks, Andy. I’ll never take such freedoms for granted again! 🇦🇺🦘😄
Another great video, Andy! Masterful editing. I can't wait to see how you'll be making use of the new masking features just made available in LR. Another thumbs up!
Thanks so much Tom. Just playing around with Lightroom now. The masking features are a huge improvement and something LR has needed for a long time. I'll get more familiar with them over the coming weeks
Beautiful videos from Iceland, and thanks for explaining your edit.
Thanks so much for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video
Thanks a Lot! Really good practice. Good wind.
Cheers, thanks for the comment
Amazing as always Andy. So much to learn from. Great capture and edit👌
Thanks so much, really glad you found it useful
Great photo, good vlog. Thnx Andy, i am inspired.
Thanks so much for watching, really nice to know you found it useful
Thanks for another inspiring video. Such a powerful composition. I really enjoyed watching your editing process too.
Thanks for the comment Janet, glad you enjoyed the video
Very interesting video, thanks. I hope to see more like this in the future.
Thanks for the comment. I'll be putting a couple of videos from in the field together on each trip from now on. There are a couple from the Dolomites already recorded
Great choice to go for the telephoto lens: fantastically layered compo with the waterfall in the background, the boulder in the midground, and the person in the foreground! I also like the edit: straightforward and very effective. Especially the color edit of the person's jacket and backpack works great as a final touch.
Thanks so much for the comment Pascal, really glad you enjoyed the video
Outstanding as always. Looking forward to applying some of these ideas tas I edit the images I captured on our recent trip to the Dolomites in Northern Italy!
Hi James. Hope you're well back in Texas. Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video. Got a couple of videos from the Dolomites coming up next month or so.
WHAT!! You are a pro, you know you can't use a beginners camera like the X-S10. LOL
Great video as always.
Thanks so much for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video. The XS10 is a great camera! I've often used a smaller camera like the XT20 or XT30 as a second body to my XT4, and in a location like this where there's so much water in the air, it's nice to not to change lenses, so having a lightweight second body is great.
Funny..I just watched your photos on your homepage and you just uploaded a new video. Thanks!! :)
Thanks so much. I've just started updating the Recent Work on my homepage and there'll be lots of images coming over the next few weeks
Very good video. I enjoyed very much all the edition part, very well explained. One idea: maybe you can call people to send lanscape pics and do a video commenting it with ideas for editon or shoothing.
Thanks for the comment. Doing a video editing and critiquing other people's images is something i've considered. It'll probably happen one day
Hi Andy, thanks for the new video! Really helpful as always. I have a question regarding landscape photography. how do you get crispy sharp image across the whole scene? i've used f11, f16,f18, a decently fast shutter speed 1/200 and using the XF10-24. Do you recommend focus stacking images for landscape images?
Also taking a picture during daytime, introduced lots of haze in my images, i know the dehaze tool will help quite a lot. But do you have any advice how to deal with haze, whether to use a filter or have a tutorial for hazy images that are taken during daytime? Thanks, greatly appreciated
if you don't use focus stacking, could you please share the best settings for sharp landscape images or for focussing landscape in general? such as using manual or autofocus continuous/single. In manual would you focus to infinity?
Thanks for the comment, really glad the video was useful. First of all, I almost never focus stack images. At f7,1 and 10mm the 10-24mm has an effective focus that starts about 50cm infant of the camera and goes to infinity. I would highly recommend avoiding anything above f13, in fact, if you can stay below f11 it's best. Smaller apertures like f16 and f18 will create diffraction which causes softness in your images.
Do you use a tripod? It's always best for sharp images.
Haze is't something I worry about, I actually tend to add haze with the Dehaze slider more often then I remove it. In most of the images on this video I've actually increased the haze.
The best tool to remove it though is a polarising filter.
In terms of focus, I mostly use manual focus and focus peaking ensure it's focused properly. The problem with focusing to infinity is that often where it's marked on the lens it's actually not infinity and your images won't be in focus. Using focus peaking you can see the highlights around the high contrast areas that show you the image is in focus
@@AndyMumford thank you so so much!! will try all your advice for sure, and especially the manual focus. I've been using single/continuous most of the time..
about the haze, i shot from elevation during the day time and the whole image was a ghost picture, very light gray i would say. I recovered the details using the dehaze tool, but then other parts of the image (like some trees being hit with the sun) became too contrasty like this image:
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I been to a lot of the waterfalls on the west coast of US, and I think most of these you end up starting from the bottom looking up, very few have top down perspective. Most of the ones where you walk to the top, you usually end up next to it, so not exactly top down, but a side view. Those are pretty hard to shoot and I haven't really been able to frame side profile of waterfalls. Also off topic, what rock is that 17:16 looks amazing.
Shooting waterfalls from the top or side is really tricky. This one is easier because you're facing it from across the canyon, but generally I find it's better to shoot waterfalls from the bottom. It's just that I hadn't realised this one has relatively easy access to the bottom of the canyon.
The rock at 17:16 is on the south coast of Iceland. It just stands there alone in the really wide stretch of beach.
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Don't you think the saturated colors of the person is a little too much?
who tf disliked the video ?!
Haha, there's always one. Well, usually more than one 😊
Hi Andy. I've only just found the time to catch up on this episode so a bit late to the party, so to speak.
Both parts of the video are really useful to me and I think the most informative and valuable section was where you talked about analysing the image and then ran through your initial editing process. The structure and the advice to deal with colour later in the process has got me thinking about how random my own processes are.
A big lesson and thanks so much. Now the world is opening up a bit and you are planning to travel more I'm really looking forward to the upcoming content.
Thanks so much for the comment, really glad you found the video so useful. Yep, I'll be travelling a lot next year and want to do videos like this from as many different locations as I can. I hope you enjoy them