My wife and I always enjoy your video's Courtney. It's not easy to come up with new content on a regular basis but you manage to keep it interesting - including with your sense of humor! Look forward to the next editions! Cheers!
One of your best! I love the way you are prepared: wellies to protect your feet. Hair braided to prevent the wind from blowing hair into your face. Camera bag carefully packed so everything is easily accessed. Hat and gloves to keep you warm. Very professional. Respect to you, a true artist.
"Take a photo and move on" just fills a drawer or disk with ho-hum photographs. I think the most important thing about a photograph is that I like it. And I think taking time to think is very important. So I agree with your approach. When you are walking around, I see thing that I would photograph but you didn't. But that's because we all like different things.
Hi Courtney, really a fantastic video! Quite funny: as I got a question in one of my videos about this topic, I'm also currently preparing a video about this 🙂 But I think, I will wait a bit before I'll record and publish it. I'm absolutely in love with your image at ~06:55, by the way. Such a fantastic mood and at least from what I have seen from your video, it seems to tell the story about that place quite well. Keep up the good work, Christian
Thank you for another informative and inspiring video. The thing that I like most about your videos has nothing to do with photography but rather the way that you speak. Your diction is excellent and a joy to listen to. A rarity in today’s world where so many seem unable to put their tongues between their teeth. Again, thank you.
Usually I do not add comments to a video, if I like one I give it a 👍, and after a few of those, I subscribe to the channel. I recently subscribed to your channel and after watching this video, I felt compelled to comment on “Joined Up“. It is an outstanding image that is composed and exposed perfectly. It should be printed and displayed prominently at a location where many people can enjoy it and be inspired by it. Thank you for including it in this video.
Peaceful, Inspiring, Elegant, and Lovely Art. Thank You! Salomè (Peace be with You)! Mögest Du in das Licht, der Wahrheit, und dem SEIN der Schöpfung leben.
Every now and then (and not that often), I watch a completely new content maker on YT and just click with how they think. There is no guaranteed formula to this but being a genuine, lovely person who isn't pretentious and who is modest, who presents clearly with good sound and editing.... well - you have it all! I think I am going to enjoy watching your photography videos a lot Courtney.
As always Courtney, a pleasure to watch. The pic of Dunraven Beach, 5-stars! I've been trying to capture intimate shots lately, but it's work in progress. I try to grab a pointer from you every time I watch. Thanks for what you do, and the way you present it. Till next time, take care, and keep a sharp eye! I'll be watching over your shoulder from Port Angeles, WA., USA! Carry on....
A great video Courtney as always. Wonderful exteriors, good vibes and ways of explaining every photographic aspect. It's a pleasure to follow you and see each of your adventures. Thanks for share it.
I really enjoyed this video with its clear discussion of your process combined with some enjoyably quirky humour. Loved that little auto scene detection skit! All the photos were first rate. Look forward to watching more of your videos with that lovely enthusiasm you show.
Thank you for this video, and I have enjoyed your other videos also. You take your viewer into your adventure and I like your self-effacing tone. I also enjoy a felloe D850 user. In this video I thought the formations reminded me of Nash Point - when I checked on my map I saw that it is also quite near Ogmore, so that's why! Pre-visualisation is such a strong tool, but also the awareness to see stuff you didn't expect to see, the ability to be surprised and delighted (something I have also noticed in your videos). I like your macro work too and share that enthusiasm also. Thanks for taking everyone on your adventure - vlogging must be a lot of hard work to achieve the effect that it doesn't seem to be hard work - it's got to seem like you're just on a normal trip chatting and sharing with someone you've taken along!!! I look forward to future videos.
Miss Courtney .... this has helped me find what I am looking for when I cant seem to find what I am looking for. In the "dried up idea" chapter of this video, I would have approached the rocks and shot them from every possible angle, good, bad, indifferent. It might have worked out, it might not have worked out. I am not saying just take images to *take images*, I am saying take images from every possible view, angle, comp, exposure... you might take 100 images and like none of them, you also might capture magic . Like I stated, this helps *me*, it might not help you. But what do you have to lose? You are out enjoying a wonderful time/day/moment, it costs you no film, just a little time :D Keep up the great work!
A wonderful video. I actually love all the soft and muted colors, which you capture beautifully. I picked up a practice from Ansel Adams, creating and using a framing card. As I went from 35mm, to medium format, to large format, I would create a new card to help me visualize a scene. I would hold it a specific distance from my face to help me select which lens to use, and then I would then drop it to the ground to fix my tripod location. Now I shoot DSLR, and even though I did create a framing card, I find that my mind has, after all the years of using a framing card, the ability to frame an image. It's then that I get my camera and set myself up for an image.
I really enjoy your videos, they are very relaxing and inspirational, I take pictures occasionally by hobby but one day I want to create a video of my pictures 👀👍🏼
Watching the video, my attencion went to the part when you talk about footprints. I know its nice to have a "clean" image, but I was thinking this way - in this so social media and internet centered dristracted world, wouldnt be nice to show how people still go for simple places to enjoy life, pets, see the sun, the ocean, taking selfies (of course), but still, its the outdor world. My little own thoughts. LOVE YOUR WORK
Courtney’s takes her journey straight to the sea, far away from the comfort, of the Forest of Dean. Glamorgan's heritage, with its coastline so vast, quite a leap from the wood and a contrast to the past. I remember the sea whispered, fears into your heart, but, here you now stand, so ready with your art. The waves and the wind are no longer your foes, and within their embrace, your courage seems to grow. Finding a sea snail house, stuck there on the beach posed and waiting for you, to go have a peak. The light is not right! As you moan and complain, but the image is stunning, just your way to entertain. A refreshed happy Courtney, I see with no doubt, with your silly puns, as you see yourself out. Your relaxed, happy demeanor, as we came to the end, brought a warmth to the heart, of your Kindly Poetic Friend.❤
Beautiful! Thank you Jerry. I was expecting to have to hunt for your poem among the comments but TH-cam kindly put it right at the top for me to read :)
Courtney, if you had access to the bat light in the sky, maybe the sunset would have been better 😅. Seriously thank you for all you do on your channel. I learn heaps each video.
Your strength is definitely isolating elements in the environment where you are shooting. Don't feel bad about not taking photos. That just means you recognize that there aren't any photos to be had. When we shot film, many times I would drive all the way to the mountains near where I live and not take a photo. But, if Ansel Adams had a digital camera, I bet he would have gone ahead and taken a photo wherever he was.
Thanks, Courtney, for another calm, thoughtful and informative video. You ably demonstrated the idea of practising compositional skills. We know your macro work in woodland locations, and you put that into practice on that lovely shell on the beach. So many would have walked past it rather than giving the attention that it deserved.
Courtney love the content the creative and the sincerity and best of all your souls escene of being an authentic one! Keep up the wonderful blessed work! 🙌 Blessings and continue to spread the love!
One of my favourite coastline, so much you can do there. Grand vistas, intimate details, minimalistic long exposures, macros and so on. Maybe next time you can try the beach which is between the two locations you visited. It's called Monknash Beach and there is even a little woodland area on the way to the beach so you might like it even more. :) Your video makes me want to visit it again.
Oooh yes, I popped by Monknash Beach early last year but the weather was awful so I didn't hang around. I vaguely remember the woodland area so I will have to remember to stop by there next time! It's funny because I did have a moment while at Nashpoint where I thought to myself: 'I'm sure there is another spot somewhere here that I've forgotten about...' So thank you for the recommendation and reminder haha! :) I hope you find the time to visit again yourself.
Another great video. I am one of those who can't find anything to shoot when I go looking, yet see 3 dozen amazing images when I am running late to work. This gives me a lot of good food for thought. Thanks.
Haha, always at those inconvenient times! I don't have enough fingers to count how many times I've been stuck in traffic while a spectacular sunset is kicking off. Thanks!
Courtney. A lovely vlog, thanks very much. I’m in the camp of shooting too many images. I suppose the difference between now and ansell’s era is that digital images are free, his plates/film was expensive and needed much work to even peek at. That said composition and light are my two improvement needs!
Another excellent video presentation Courtney. I really like how you highlighted how important it is to take time to visualize a scene and come up with some great compositions because of that. As you probably already know, composition and lighting are two of the important elements that make for great images! Keep shining! 🙂
Brilliant video, as always. Thanks for giving us an insight into your creative process. Coming from a background of blink-and-you-miss-it news and reportage photography, there's so much I can learn from you.
your videos are super helpful for me to be able to slow my mind down enough to write out my own photography thoughts your content is amazing i love seeing all these amazing places i will never get to see
Thanks Courtney for a great video...I love the coastal locations for photography as the landscape is always changing which gives some interesting images.... love your work... cheers from Australia 🦘🦘😊
It has so much character! I should really visit more often myself as I have yet to explore and photograph a couple of spots along there like Ogmore beach.
I loved the images in this, but especially liked Dunraven Beach at 7:02 . It looked like you had a bit of pastel colour in the sky at the end. I might have been tempted to try and capture something with that colour, but easy for me to say in the comfort of an arm chair; I was not there and the colours may have looked better in the video than they were at the scene. A great video! And it would be great to see a few seascapes from you now and again.
Thank you Courtney for another wonderful & entertaining video. 'Previsualization' does make you pause & think, what am I trying to achieve instead of just popping off loads of shots & hoping for the best. I would use this idea back in the 70's & 80's when shooting with film, light meter at the ready & have I got the correct ISO film in the camera or be ready to swap it out! I loved the photos that you took. At 1:43 in the video there's quite an interesting shot behind you, the cliff looks amazing like a green carpeted wave about to break :)
Wonderful rich content. Ansel Adam’s had the “film” limitation from which we are released with SD cards. This video was fun. Thanks for sharing your day at the beach, pre-visualizing the light.
Thanks for the inspiration and a bit of humor and good vibes. I've been putting off my own coastal trip for a bit so might have to see about that soon.
I love your photography, especially the macro stuff. "A Sandy Sculpture" actually happened in my mind yesterday. During my 42 mile bicycle ride from Anaheim, California to the coast down the Pacific Coast Highway (riding that highway had been a bucket list item for this ole' boy from New Mexico since I was a kid) and back) I spotted a lone clam shell in the sand that had blown from the beach out into the shoulder of the highway. I grabbed it, and thought..hmm, what can I put some sand in to take home with me? Didn't find sand but I'm sure I will be able to get some sooner or later. Thanks for the great video (as always)😁
This was a lovely video to watch, and a great way of looking at a common problem I think we all share. Also, I loved the composition you have you video camera at around 0:38, just needed better weather :) Thank you for the video!
Courtney this is a great video… your focus 😀 on visualisation resinates with me.. for me this is where the magic really starts… I agree practice helps and of course patience.. I have been stuggling to find any books that cover the art and or process of visualisation .. would you recommend any.. do you run any course in this area.. once again thank you for another great videa.. sea you next time 😊
While Ansel Adams did not take the image he was also using large format or sometimes medium format gear. I’d like to think that if he had digital gear he’d have taken a few more images when doing his composition practices. Still one of the harder things to do is not take the image after having composed and framed it up in the camera. More images equals more editing and not all of us like sitting at the computer all that much. Maybe that’s the allure of AI imaging. Not making something out of nothing like a painter but inputing your preferences and style points into the camera and having the taken image be ready to show without long sessions of editing. Now that’s AI I think I can get behind
Hi Courtney. Thanks once again for another inspiring video. About previsualization, I find when I go out to shoot with only prime lenes, it slows you down and forces you to think more about the composition. You may not capture so many shots, but it's all about the journey, and the end point. As I get older, and using my Nikon Z zooms, which are optically so good, but I find it is making me lazy. Zoom with your legs, health and photography will benefit. Take care. Ross
Back in the 60s and early 70s every Whitsun we’d visit my nana in Cardiff, and every afternoon we’d have to take her to the seaside along that coast ( apart from Barry which Nana thought was common) - I’ve not been back since..
I enjoyed the video as usual Courtney. Yeah trying to get compositions on a beach like that i would be a bit of a challenge. Still you managed to get a couple of really interesting image's. Look forward to seeing your next video.
Another fantastic video. You really do have 'that magic' formula for video production. I loved the shell with its perfect DOF. Did you use your focus stacked method? Thank you as always for taking the time to bring us along and I really looking forward to the next one. Terry
I am amazed at your discipline to NOT take a picture. I’m puzzled why you stress over the composition, get it 90% to your satisfaction then turn your camera off. Your work is phenomenal and I look up to your compositional eye, I’m just really curious what is being saved by not clicking the shutter and deciding later in the edits
The water in the foreground really added something for me and when I reviewed the scene without it, I wasn't as enthusiastic about it. I didn't think I would do anything with the image had I taken it to be honest, it would have just sat on an SD card unused. I could be wrong though, perhaps there was a chance I may have looked at it and said 'it's okay' but in the moment I went with my instinct which was to move on. It didn't save anything, in fact you could argue I wasted my time setting the shot up really, but I like to think I was just stretching my compositional muscles ha!
@@CourtneyVictoria no worries, hey yer da boss, I’ve seen you turn your camera several times before. 99.9% of everything you post are really good. I admire your judgement
My wife and I always enjoy your video's Courtney. It's not easy to come up with new content on a regular basis but you manage to keep it interesting - including with your sense of humor! Look forward to the next editions! Cheers!
One of your best! I love the way you are prepared: wellies to protect your feet. Hair braided to prevent the wind from blowing hair into your face. Camera bag carefully packed so everything is easily accessed. Hat and gloves to keep you warm. Very professional. Respect to you, a true artist.
You are a wonderful instructor and I don't you really intended to be. Love you.🙂
"Take a photo and move on" just fills a drawer or disk with ho-hum photographs. I think the most important thing about a photograph is that I like it. And I think taking time to think is very important. So I agree with your approach. When you are walking around, I see thing that I would photograph but you didn't. But that's because we all like different things.
I really like when you have explained your idea of each photo ❤❤❤
I recently discovered your channel, thank you TH-cam. I enjoy your content and love your sense of humour.
Love your videos!!! And puns!!! Haha. And I think that is what I am also learning to do more...slow down...think about the scene...take my time.
Hi Courtney, really a fantastic video! Quite funny: as I got a question in one of my videos about this topic, I'm also currently preparing a video about this 🙂 But I think, I will wait a bit before I'll record and publish it.
I'm absolutely in love with your image at ~06:55, by the way. Such a fantastic mood and at least from what I have seen from your video, it seems to tell the story about that place quite well. Keep up the good work,
Christian
I'll look forward to your video! :) I think it's a useful topic worth exploring and talking about. Thank you for watching Christian!
Thank you for another informative and inspiring video. The thing that I like most about your videos has nothing to do with photography but rather the way that you speak. Your diction is excellent and a joy to listen to. A rarity in today’s world where so many seem unable to put their tongues between their teeth. Again, thank you.
Usually I do not add comments to a video, if I like one I give it a 👍, and after a few of those, I subscribe to the channel. I recently subscribed to your channel and after watching this video, I felt compelled to comment on “Joined Up“. It is an outstanding image that is composed and exposed perfectly. It should be printed and displayed prominently at a location where many people can enjoy it and be inspired by it. Thank you for including it in this video.
when the camera was beeping like a geiger counter to identify good composition I found myself laughing my ass off ... that was brilliant!
Peaceful, Inspiring, Elegant, and Lovely Art.
Thank You!
Salomè (Peace be with You)! Mögest Du in das Licht, der Wahrheit, und dem SEIN der Schöpfung leben.
Love these videos. You have a great method for mixing entertainment with education.
New fan of your work here.
beautiful photos. I couldn't see what photos could be produced before you showed us. You are an amazing photographer.
Every now and then (and not that often), I watch a completely new content maker on YT and just click with how they think.
There is no guaranteed formula to this but being a genuine, lovely person who isn't pretentious and who is modest, who presents clearly with good sound and editing.... well - you have it all!
I think I am going to enjoy watching your photography videos a lot Courtney.
As always Courtney, a pleasure to watch. The pic of Dunraven Beach, 5-stars! I've been trying to capture intimate shots lately, but it's work in progress. I try to grab a pointer from you every time I watch. Thanks for what you do, and the way you present it. Till next time, take care, and keep a sharp eye! I'll be watching over your shoulder from Port Angeles, WA., USA! Carry on....
What a breath of fresh air. Love the face expressions. Great experience.
Great video. Thank you.
RS. Canada
A great video Courtney as always.
Wonderful exteriors, good vibes and ways of explaining every photographic aspect. It's a pleasure to follow you and see each of your adventures.
Thanks for share it.
I really enjoyed this video with its clear discussion of your process combined with some enjoyably quirky humour. Loved that little auto scene detection skit! All the photos were first rate. Look forward to watching more of your videos with that lovely enthusiasm you show.
Thank you for this video, and I have enjoyed your other videos also. You take your viewer into your adventure and I like your self-effacing tone. I also enjoy a felloe D850 user. In this video I thought the formations reminded me of Nash Point - when I checked on my map I saw that it is also quite near Ogmore, so that's why! Pre-visualisation is such a strong tool, but also the awareness to see stuff you didn't expect to see, the ability to be surprised and delighted (something I have also noticed in your videos). I like your macro work too and share that enthusiasm also. Thanks for taking everyone on your adventure - vlogging must be a lot of hard work to achieve the effect that it doesn't seem to be hard work - it's got to seem like you're just on a normal trip chatting and sharing with someone you've taken along!!! I look forward to future videos.
Miss Courtney .... this has helped me find what I am looking for when I cant seem to find what I am looking for. In the "dried up idea" chapter of this video, I would have approached the rocks and shot them from every possible angle, good, bad, indifferent. It might have worked out, it might not have worked out. I am not saying just take images to *take images*, I am saying take images from every possible view, angle, comp, exposure... you might take 100 images and like none of them, you also might capture magic . Like I stated, this helps *me*, it might not help you. But what do you have to lose? You are out enjoying a wonderful time/day/moment, it costs you no film, just a little time :D Keep up the great work!
A wonderful video. I actually love all the soft and muted colors, which you capture beautifully. I picked up a practice from Ansel Adams, creating and using a framing card. As I went from 35mm, to medium format, to large format, I would create a new card to help me visualize a scene. I would hold it a specific distance from my face to help me select which lens to use, and then I would then drop it to the ground to fix my tripod location. Now I shoot DSLR, and even though I did create a framing card, I find that my mind has, after all the years of using a framing card, the ability to frame an image. It's then that I get my camera and set myself up for an image.
I really enjoy your videos, they are very relaxing and inspirational, I take pictures occasionally by hobby but one day I want to create a video of my pictures 👀👍🏼
Lovely video Courtney, honest and real. Yes, you can go to a beautiful place but still not find the shot...
Love your lonely shell BTW ❤
Watching the video, my attencion went to the part when you talk about footprints. I know its nice to have a "clean" image, but I was thinking this way - in this so social media and internet centered dristracted world, wouldnt be nice to show how people still go for simple places to enjoy life, pets, see the sun, the ocean, taking selfies (of course), but still, its the outdor world. My little own thoughts. LOVE YOUR WORK
Courtney’s takes her journey straight to the sea,
far away from the comfort, of the Forest of Dean.
Glamorgan's heritage, with its coastline so vast,
quite a leap from the wood and a contrast to the past.
I remember the sea whispered, fears into your heart,
but, here you now stand, so ready with your art.
The waves and the wind are no longer your foes,
and within their embrace, your courage seems to grow.
Finding a sea snail house, stuck there on the beach
posed and waiting for you, to go have a peak.
The light is not right! As you moan and complain,
but the image is stunning, just your way to entertain.
A refreshed happy Courtney, I see with no doubt,
with your silly puns, as you see yourself out.
Your relaxed, happy demeanor, as we came to the end,
brought a warmth to the heart, of your Kindly Poetic Friend.❤
Beautiful! Thank you Jerry. I was expecting to have to hunt for your poem among the comments but TH-cam kindly put it right at the top for me to read :)
😊
Courtney, if you had access to the bat light in the sky, maybe the sunset would have been better 😅. Seriously thank you for all you do on your channel. I learn heaps each video.
Thanks for the video Courtney. I enjoyed it and learnt a thing or too. Keep going, keep doing what you love
Your strength is definitely isolating elements in the environment where you are shooting. Don't feel bad about not taking photos. That just means you recognize that there aren't any photos to be had. When we shot film, many times I would drive all the way to the mountains near where I live and not take a photo. But, if Ansel Adams had a digital camera, I bet he would have gone ahead and taken a photo wherever he was.
If nothing else, a nice walk on the beach. Carry on.👍🥂
An excellent video clearly explaining what you are doing and that’s why I always enjoy watching your videos
Another awesome video, ma'am!!!
That was great Courtney, for some reason I feel completely relaxed after watching your vid. 👍😎
think it's the music, I do too 😌
Thanks, Courtney, for another calm, thoughtful and informative video. You ably demonstrated the idea of practising compositional skills. We know your macro work in woodland locations, and you put that into practice on that lovely shell on the beach. So many would have walked past it rather than giving the attention that it deserved.
Camera tip = to avoid a corrupt memory card it is best not to delete frames in camera. Another full of good ideas video.
Great explanation and inspiration
Throughly enjoyed this video. It was refreshing compared to the videos I see everyday on YT.
Gracias por esos momentos
Courtney love the content the creative and the sincerity and best of all your souls escene of being an authentic one! Keep up the wonderful blessed work! 🙌 Blessings and continue to spread the love!
Subbed. Great video. Composition detection is hilarious.
What?!? No affiliate link for the COMPOSITION DETECTOR in the description? I’d buy one in a heartbeat. Have a great week.
One of my favourite coastline, so much you can do there. Grand vistas, intimate details, minimalistic long exposures, macros and so on. Maybe next time you can try the beach which is between the two locations you visited. It's called Monknash Beach and there is even a little woodland area on the way to the beach so you might like it even more. :) Your video makes me want to visit it again.
Oooh yes, I popped by Monknash Beach early last year but the weather was awful so I didn't hang around. I vaguely remember the woodland area so I will have to remember to stop by there next time! It's funny because I did have a moment while at Nashpoint where I thought to myself: 'I'm sure there is another spot somewhere here that I've forgotten about...' So thank you for the recommendation and reminder haha! :) I hope you find the time to visit again yourself.
You were out on a trip and had fun - that is a wonderful fact 💚
You are truly talented. Your knowledge, your presentation, your videos and your images...all very well done.
Great work again court thanks for posting beach photography indeed a sea of possibilities , 😁 😁 untill next time x
Another great video. I am one of those who can't find anything to shoot when I go looking, yet see 3 dozen amazing images when I am running late to work. This gives me a lot of good food for thought. Thanks.
Haha, always at those inconvenient times! I don't have enough fingers to count how many times I've been stuck in traffic while a spectacular sunset is kicking off. Thanks!
Courtney. A lovely vlog, thanks very much. I’m in the camp of shooting too many images. I suppose the difference between now and ansell’s era is that digital images are free, his plates/film was expensive and needed much work to even peek at. That said composition and light are my two improvement needs!
Another excellent video presentation Courtney. I really like how you highlighted how important it is to take time to visualize a scene and come up with some great compositions because of that. As you probably already know, composition and lighting are two of the important elements that make for great images! Keep shining! 🙂
Brilliant video, as always. Thanks for giving us an insight into your creative process. Coming from a background of blink-and-you-miss-it news and reportage photography, there's so much I can learn from you.
Always a joy to watch your videos and this was a great way to start my day! Thanks for taking me along!
your videos are super helpful for me to be able to slow my mind down enough to write out my own photography thoughts your content is amazing i love seeing all these amazing places i will never get to see
Love this!!!
Thanks Courtney for a great video...I love the coastal locations for photography as the landscape is always changing which gives some interesting images.... love your work... cheers from Australia 🦘🦘😊
Lovely video and photos . You are one of my favorite Tubers always a refreshing take on capturing lives journey "to the Bat mobile" 😂😂
good one Victoria, seeing is a lot more difficult than just snapping away, and once you see!!!!!!!!!!!! the whole scene comes alive. take care now.
Glamorgan Heritage Coast is my “go to” coastal choice. So many choices and zooming in to the colours and contours of the rock face(s) is wonderful.
It has so much character! I should really visit more often myself as I have yet to explore and photograph a couple of spots along there like Ogmore beach.
@@CourtneyVictoria Ogmore by Sea, beach, rocks, estuary, castle, stepping stones, Merthyr Mawr sand dunes. (even some pubs, I’m told!) All fab.
I loved the images in this, but especially liked Dunraven Beach at 7:02 . It looked like you had a bit of pastel colour in the sky at the end. I might have been tempted to try and capture something with that colour, but easy for me to say in the comfort of an arm chair; I was not there and the colours may have looked better in the video than they were at the scene.
A great video! And it would be great to see a few seascapes from you now and again.
I always enjoy watching your videos! Enjoy
Thank you Courtney, a very enjoyable video
Love your videos & outlook on Photograghy. Our minds work somewhat the same. Cheers.
I normally follow the tide out at southerndown and Nash point works for me
As always, insightful, eloquent and amusing. Great work and a real pleasure to watch you.
Thank you Courtney for another wonderful & entertaining video. 'Previsualization' does make you pause & think, what am I trying to achieve instead of just popping off loads of shots & hoping for the best. I would use this idea back in the 70's & 80's when shooting with film, light meter at the ready & have I got the correct ISO film in the camera or be ready to swap it out! I loved the photos that you took.
At 1:43 in the video there's quite an interesting shot behind you, the cliff looks amazing like a green carpeted wave about to break :)
Very enjoyable video Courtney and really makes you think about composition before camera emerges from bag. Thank you
Wonderful rich content. Ansel Adam’s had the “film” limitation from which we are released with SD cards. This video was fun. Thanks for sharing your day at the beach, pre-visualizing the light.
Wonderful work my friend, amazing vídeo
@7:40 needs to be a GIF. hahah love it.
Thanks for the inspiration and a bit of humor and good vibes. I've been putting off my own coastal trip for a bit so might have to see about that soon.
haha aww you're hilarious and very endearing. Very fun and entertaining video, and of course full of excellent advice/tips.
your video really calms me, thank you!
I love your photography, especially the macro stuff. "A Sandy Sculpture" actually happened in my mind yesterday. During my 42 mile bicycle ride from Anaheim, California to the coast down the Pacific Coast Highway (riding that highway had been a bucket list item for this ole' boy from New Mexico since I was a kid) and back) I spotted a lone clam shell in the sand that had blown from the beach out into the shoulder of the highway. I grabbed it, and thought..hmm, what can I put some sand in to take home with me? Didn't find sand but I'm sure I will be able to get some sooner or later. Thanks for the great video (as always)😁
Great vlog and shots...but I miss your dance moves,ha,ha!
Great video as always 👍
That stream was a candidate. Water flowing around a rock. You could arrange some still lifes from found object.
8:36 You got a subscription from me.
That and the batmobile. :)
This was a lovely video to watch, and a great way of looking at a common problem I think we all share.
Also, I loved the composition you have you video camera at around 0:38, just needed better weather :)
Thank you for the video!
Courtney this is a great video… your focus 😀 on visualisation resinates with me.. for me this is where the magic really starts… I agree practice helps and of course patience.. I have been stuggling to find any books that cover the art and or process of visualisation .. would you recommend any.. do you run any course in this area.. once again thank you for another great videa.. sea you next time 😊
I'm feeling that shell.
While Ansel Adams did not take the image he was also using large format or sometimes medium format gear. I’d like to think that if he had digital gear he’d have taken a few more images when doing his composition practices. Still one of the harder things to do is not take the image after having composed and framed it up in the camera. More images equals more editing and not all of us like sitting at the computer all that much. Maybe that’s the allure of AI imaging. Not making something out of nothing like a painter but inputing your preferences and style points into the camera and having the taken image be ready to show without long sessions of editing. Now that’s AI I think I can get behind
Great photos, and great advice, Courtney. It's always a pleasure to watch your videos.
Hi Courtney. Thanks once again for another inspiring video.
About previsualization, I find when I go out to shoot with only prime lenes, it slows you down and forces you to think more about the composition. You may not capture so many shots, but it's all about the journey, and the end point. As I get older, and using my Nikon Z zooms, which are optically so good, but I find it is making me lazy. Zoom with your legs, health and photography will benefit.
Take care.
Ross
Another great video
🌺🌺🌺 Thank you :)
Gorgeous coastline, Courtney. Where was this? I didn't see any waves to speak of.
Another excellent video it’s got me thinking about my upcoming trip to the Welsh coast great work
I hope you have a great trip! :)
Back in the 60s and early 70s every Whitsun we’d visit my nana in Cardiff, and every afternoon we’d have to take her to the seaside along that coast ( apart from Barry which Nana thought was common) - I’ve not been back since..
good video again and photography had some amazing shots from dunraven bay cant wait for the next adventure
I enjoyed the video as usual Courtney.
Yeah trying to get compositions on a beach like that i would be a bit of a challenge.
Still you managed to get a couple of really interesting image's.
Look forward to seeing your next video.
Mpb is perfect , my nikon comes to this platform 👍
Great video again!
Another fantastic video. You really do have 'that magic' formula for video production. I loved the shell with its perfect DOF. Did you use your focus stacked method? Thank you as always for taking the time to bring us along and I really looking forward to the next one. Terry
Thank you! Yes, I did focus stack the shell :) I keep forgetting to state when I do this in videos haha!
Thanks for sharing.
Great pics and advice
Sunset looked half decent in the end, great vid!
The moment I put everything away haha! It was a brief but spectacular sky of soft colour to end the day. Thanks!
I'm seeing a lighthouse, all those round boulders, waves ....
Great video 🫡
"To the batmobile!"...and then the light came out!😝
Hey! Really like your work. What monitor do you use for photo-editing? Thanks :)
I am amazed at your discipline to NOT take a picture. I’m puzzled why you stress over the composition, get it 90% to your satisfaction then turn your camera off.
Your work is phenomenal and I look up to your compositional eye, I’m just really curious what is being saved by not clicking the shutter and deciding later in the edits
The water in the foreground really added something for me and when I reviewed the scene without it, I wasn't as enthusiastic about it. I didn't think I would do anything with the image had I taken it to be honest, it would have just sat on an SD card unused. I could be wrong though, perhaps there was a chance I may have looked at it and said 'it's okay' but in the moment I went with my instinct which was to move on. It didn't save anything, in fact you could argue I wasted my time setting the shot up really, but I like to think I was just stretching my compositional muscles ha!
@@CourtneyVictoria no worries, hey yer da boss, I’ve seen you turn your camera several times before. 99.9% of everything you post are really good. I admire your judgement