Wow, what a treasure to find such a stunning place to shoot. I could spend days there. I love the photographs of the details you picked out. Great eye! Thank you for sharing, Andrew.
Andrew you certainly see more than I ,add-in the fact you photograph where I wouldn’t bother you get amazing results and I none. Really enjoy your viewpoints and results keep the videos coming please. S
I am currently having a marathon of your You Tubes. I am so glad I found you. What a shame for these buildings to be let go. But a photographers paradise.
I am sure you can get medication for overwatching my stuff... There are very few abandoned churches. This one no longer has a congregation, but it's still consecrated ground and very-much maintained by a trust. There's 639 mediaeval churches in Norfolk - more than any other English county and the largest concentration in northern Europe. They are fabulous places to explore and there's one in most villages. Some have two.
One thing is certain. Unused churches do lend themselves to black and white. On the other hand, many of Andrew's pictures were not exactly my cup of tea. Although I did like the candlestick still life. But the pen-penultimate shot at 12:07 - the arch thing that looked like ICM - really impressed me. Very, very nice.
Very nice, Banner. You are a lucky sod having all of that history in the neighbourhood to ply your craft on. I'm envious, but only to a point, as i'm reliably instructed that entering a House of God will have me spontaneously immolated. Might give it a go when i'm feeling especially blue. Cheers and all the best.
Thank you for your video, Andy; these pictures are very well framed, exposed, post-processed and presented. You make the point, very well, that a superficially simple interior, indeed one that is no longer fully in-use or in-commission, actually has a good range of interesting pictures just waiting to be discovered and captured. Funny and ironic to think, probably , that in the same spell of time that you were in the church, with few if any other visitors, taking artistic pictures....hundreds or perhaps thousands of much more mundate and unintelligent pictures will have been taken by tourists, especially visitors from overseas, in grander churches elsewhere in the country....but, of all of the pictures taken in that bracket of time, it's quite possible that yours will have been among the, if not actually the, most 'artistic' .. Kind Regards, David
Thank you, David. Possibly (probably) quite true. On this five mile road from Stalham to Walcott in Norfolk, there are three large churches and visible to the right is at least one more (which is HUUUGE) at Happisburgh. They are everywhere in this county (it was an easy place to land when invading from Europe) and most have survived many hundreds of years.
@@AndyBanner Thank you , Andy, for your reply - yes you seem to be blessed in that part of the country with lots of historical buildings, a nice problem to have, I suspect ( and a rather peaceful pastime, to boot ). All the Best..... David
Nice video, Andrew. The location is perfect for beautiful black-and-white work. The leaf is very beautiful and turned out well. This is the power of simplicity. Too bad you didn't take any pictures outside because it is a very beautiful building. Until the next opportunity. Antoine.
Thanks, Antoine. This particular church is on the brow of a hill and the weather lately has been grey with regular rain and wind. Getting a good shot of this building isn't that simple. There's another just 2 mile up the road that's about 1/2 from the sea at Walcott that works well though from most directions. It's actually the church in the thumbnail that's shot from the cliff top. It was taken and might even feature in this video: th-cam.com/video/7j4C1YIgyy4/w-d-xo.html
@@AndyBanner Oh ! How sweet of you ! Good "photographic" memory. It would have been funny if I would have been in the car. Then we could have met. Have a nice day Andy ! 🌻
Two or three images I loved there man. Has inspired me to check out some local churches, if the doors are open. Have done similar before, always trying to capture that classic light stream through cathedral window with dust in the air. Think I need to take my own dust substitute to somehow find that image 👍📸
Well done, Andrew. It's interesting how you find shots in areas i wouldn't even think of looking. For example; the leaf. I'd be a fairly boring photographer when it comes to architecture. The simple pan shot of the inside. I have lots to learn from you on this subject.
Thanks, Eric. I instantly noticed the leaf as it was a shape that was out out place on the regularity of the stonework. I actually want back to this church to get the B-roll and drone footage about a week after I had recorded the main footage and the leaf was still there.
I enjoyed the video, Andy. I wish I could see shots the way you do. I probably could spend all day in that church and still not come up with the fantastic captures that you have here. It seems to me that you see more than light and shadows. You focus on parts of things instead of the scene as a whole, which is part of my problem. Were there exercises that you've done to train your eye to see this way, or is it just trial and error over time? I understand the subject matter is important but there is something deeper in your captures, something I feel I lack in my own. Perhaps I don't think through a shot as far as you, meaning how they will be edited. Sorry for going on here, I'm just thinking (typing) out loud. Anyway, this video was inspiring. Thanks for sharing and be well~
I exercise my "photographic eye" in almost every journey I take. I tend not to see things in my own environment, but once I am out of that door, I notice things. I have a video coming up in a few weeks that addresses this a bit more but in the mean time, just look for shapes and textures and how they contrast.
Hi Andrew, I’m not far from you and I am doing a project on film and digital images inside local (north Suffolk) churches. Thanks for the tips, but no more - I don’t want others stealing my project ideas (especially if they are going to do it better than me! 😮) keep up the good work and take care. Toby
This is a wonderful video punctuated by thoughtfully created images. Should you decide to offer workshops, I would be confident in your ability to convey powerful insights into observation and execution.
6:05 the leaf : the little picture (that very few notice) inside the big picture that many just wave their phone at --- well spotted! 7:27 now that's a photo! One very few would even see ; including me 8:19 candles -- I kinda like too now you have shown me 'your' photo All good photos mate ; lots of ideas. Thought from Mother's funeral who had lost her faith but I still used the church. We need our churches ; and we need our church leaders but without all their old dominance cobber , and the hard core old religious beliefs they cannot believed these days
I have never been religious. I am 4eally against it to be honest as its yet another friction point that modern society does not need. But these buildings represent our past and are part of how we have evolved. They are important part of our heritage and most are used as communal gathering spaces as much as they are for worship and that's to be commended. Thanks for your support. I love that leaf shot. It's all about spotting the little things
Great video Andrew. Really enjoyed it. Very nice photos. Great choice to shoot in black and white. Would be interesting to see how you edit your B&W photos in Nik Silver Efex. Thanks.
I have done a video on editing, but it bombed in terms of views, so I am in no hurry to repeat that, sadly. You can take a look here: th-cam.com/video/Ea40_diy1bU/w-d-xo.html
@@AndyBanner I just watched your video about editing as you suggested. I must say I really enjoyed it and I learned a lot. I like using Nik collection. I saved it for future reference. But I understand your point about this type of videos, too bad :)
It's not necessarily the location but the lighting and to a degree the subject. Buildings such as this probably lend themselves more to a sepia or at least an aged toning. I often resort to monochrome if I find an image hasn't worked quite as I imagined at the time and if I am using Silver Efx, then I will have a tinker with the toning tools at the same time. If you shoot with the intention of toning, I think you'll probably have a higher success rate as previsualisation is a vital tool. But I also think it can be overdone. Often, subtle tones need to remain subtle colour tones as its those that are making the image come alive - remove them "because there wasn't much to start with" and you risk killing an image - at least that's my common experience.
What a beautiful place ! I could spend hours there..absolutely lovely! Thanks for continuingly sharing your adventures!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for your support
Very nice photos, Andrew. Thank you for sharing your photography passion and artistry.
Thanks for your regular support, Morris.
Wow, what a treasure to find such a stunning place to shoot. I could spend days there. I love the photographs of the details you picked out. Great eye! Thank you for sharing, Andrew.
Thank you.
Loved that, thankyou Andrew for bringing my attention to the possibilities within the church environment.👏🏻
Thanks to you also for your regular support.
I think you’ve a real talent Andrew, it’s always interesting seeing different photographers and how they approach there subjects…
Andrew you certainly see more than I ,add-in the fact you photograph where I wouldn’t bother you get amazing results and I none. Really enjoy your viewpoints and results keep the videos coming please. S
If I stop posting, Stephen, call for an Ambulance.... Thanks for your support.
Beautifully done. Thank you Andrew....
Many thanks!
great video Andy - a masterclass in "seeing"
definitely a gothic, vampiric look to many of the shots 🙂
Thanks, Nick.
Great pictures Andrew., black and white was a superb call for this location.
Thanks, Kevin
love this stuff. I could listen to you for hours
I am currently having a marathon of your You Tubes. I am so glad I found you. What a shame for these buildings to be let go. But a photographers paradise.
I am sure you can get medication for overwatching my stuff...
There are very few abandoned churches. This one no longer has a congregation, but it's still consecrated ground and very-much maintained by a trust. There's 639 mediaeval churches in Norfolk - more than any other English county and the largest concentration in northern Europe. They are fabulous places to explore and there's one in most villages. Some have two.
One thing is certain. Unused churches do lend themselves to black and white. On the other hand, many of Andrew's pictures were not exactly my cup of tea. Although I did like the candlestick still life. But the pen-penultimate shot at 12:07 - the arch thing that looked like ICM - really impressed me.
Very, very nice.
Yes, that shot is ICM. I think it was in North Elnham Church. I have a few videos of ICM in churches.
Fantastic video Andrew, what a beautiful building, like you say plenty of compositions to be had. Really liked your images 👍
Thanks, Chris. Much appreciated. There are so many medieval churches around, especially in East Anglia. Each will yield so many images
Very nice, Banner. You are a lucky sod having all of that history in the neighbourhood to ply your craft on. I'm envious, but only to a point, as i'm reliably instructed that entering a House of God will have me spontaneously immolated. Might give it a go when i'm feeling especially blue. Cheers and all the best.
Have said it before, but there is something really evocative about black and white images. Great video as always 💖
Cheers
Hi Andy, loved the video and the shots, especially the font, I love old Churches and need to visit them more often.
Plenty of churches around you in Suffolk too, Steve.
Thank you for your video, Andy; these pictures are very well framed, exposed, post-processed and presented. You make the point, very well, that a superficially simple interior, indeed one that is no longer fully in-use or in-commission, actually has a good range of interesting pictures just waiting to be discovered and captured. Funny and ironic to think, probably , that in the same spell of time that you were in the church, with few if any other visitors, taking artistic pictures....hundreds or perhaps thousands of much more mundate and unintelligent pictures will have been taken by tourists, especially visitors from overseas, in grander churches elsewhere in the country....but, of all of the pictures taken in that bracket of time, it's quite possible that yours will have been among the, if not actually the, most 'artistic' .. Kind Regards, David
Thank you, David. Possibly (probably) quite true. On this five mile road from Stalham to Walcott in Norfolk, there are three large churches and visible to the right is at least one more (which is HUUUGE) at Happisburgh. They are everywhere in this county (it was an easy place to land when invading from Europe) and most have survived many hundreds of years.
@@AndyBanner Thank you , Andy, for your reply - yes you seem to be blessed in that part of the country with lots of historical buildings, a nice problem to have, I suspect ( and a rather peaceful pastime, to boot ). All the Best..... David
Really enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks, Gary. Much appreciated
Nice video, Andrew.
The location is perfect for beautiful black-and-white work.
The leaf is very beautiful and turned out well.
This is the power of simplicity.
Too bad you didn't take any pictures outside because it is a very beautiful building.
Until the next opportunity.
Antoine.
Thanks, Antoine. This particular church is on the brow of a hill and the weather lately has been grey with regular rain and wind. Getting a good shot of this building isn't that simple. There's another just 2 mile up the road that's about 1/2 from the sea at Walcott that works well though from most directions. It's actually the church in the thumbnail that's shot from the cliff top. It was taken and might even feature in this video: th-cam.com/video/7j4C1YIgyy4/w-d-xo.html
@@AndyBanner I know that the outside of a church very difficult is to photograph. But they are so pretty. Stay safe, my friend.
Thank you Andrew ! I enjoyed the church tour very much !
Thank you. I was following a car with a private number plate yesterday close to home that reminded me of your user name - 9 RPA. :-)
@@AndyBanner Oh ! How sweet of you ! Good "photographic" memory. It would have been funny if I would have been in the car. Then we could have met.
Have a nice day Andy ! 🌻
I really liked this one.
Thanks
Two or three images I loved there man. Has inspired me to check out some local churches, if the doors are open. Have done similar before, always trying to capture that classic light stream through cathedral window with dust in the air. Think I need to take my own dust substitute to somehow find that image 👍📸
Mind you don't head down the old cliche of god rays in a church..... :-)
Thanks for your support
Well done, Andrew. It's interesting how you find shots in areas i wouldn't even think of looking. For example; the leaf. I'd be a fairly boring photographer when it comes to architecture. The simple pan shot of the inside. I have lots to learn from you on this subject.
Thanks, Eric.
I instantly noticed the leaf as it was a shape that was out out place on the regularity of the stonework. I actually want back to this church to get the B-roll and drone footage about a week after I had recorded the main footage and the leaf was still there.
I enjoyed the video, Andy. I wish I could see shots the way you do. I probably could spend all day in that church and still not come up with the fantastic captures that you have here. It seems to me that you see more than light and shadows. You focus on parts of things instead of the scene as a whole, which is part of my problem. Were there exercises that you've done to train your eye to see this way, or is it just trial and error over time? I understand the subject matter is important but there is something deeper in your captures, something I feel I lack in my own. Perhaps I don't think through a shot as far as you, meaning how they will be edited. Sorry for going on here, I'm just thinking (typing) out loud. Anyway, this video was inspiring. Thanks for sharing and be well~
I exercise my "photographic eye" in almost every journey I take. I tend not to see things in my own environment, but once I am out of that door, I notice things. I have a video coming up in a few weeks that addresses this a bit more but in the mean time, just look for shapes and textures and how they contrast.
Hi Andrew, I’m not far from you and I am doing a project on film and digital images inside local (north Suffolk) churches. Thanks for the tips, but no more - I don’t want others stealing my project ideas (especially if they are going to do it better than me! 😮) keep up the good work and take care. Toby
hehe. hope your project goes well.
This is a wonderful video punctuated by thoughtfully created images. Should you decide to offer workshops, I would be confident in your ability to convey powerful insights into observation and execution.
Thank you. It is my intention to offer workshops, but Imposter Syndrome and anxiety overpower the desire.
Very inspiring, thnak you
You are so welcome!
6:05 the leaf : the little picture (that very few notice) inside the big picture that many just wave their phone at --- well spotted!
7:27 now that's a photo! One very few would even see ; including me
8:19 candles -- I kinda like too now you have shown me 'your' photo
All good photos mate ; lots of ideas.
Thought from Mother's funeral who had lost her faith but I still used the church. We need our churches ; and we need our church leaders but without all their old dominance cobber , and the hard core old religious beliefs they cannot believed these days
I have never been religious. I am 4eally against it to be honest as its yet another friction point that modern society does not need. But these buildings represent our past and are part of how we have evolved. They are important part of our heritage and most are used as communal gathering spaces as much as they are for worship and that's to be commended.
Thanks for your support. I love that leaf shot. It's all about spotting the little things
Great video Andrew. Really enjoyed it. Very nice photos. Great choice to shoot in black and white. Would be interesting to see how you edit your B&W photos in Nik Silver Efex. Thanks.
I have done a video on editing, but it bombed in terms of views, so I am in no hurry to repeat that, sadly. You can take a look here: th-cam.com/video/Ea40_diy1bU/w-d-xo.html
@@AndyBanner I just watched your video about editing as you suggested. I must say I really enjoyed it and I learned a lot. I like using Nik collection. I saved it for future reference. But I understand your point about this type of videos, too bad :)
Wonder if sepia images would work well in a church or building like that?
It's not necessarily the location but the lighting and to a degree the subject. Buildings such as this probably lend themselves more to a sepia or at least an aged toning. I often resort to monochrome if I find an image hasn't worked quite as I imagined at the time and if I am using Silver Efx, then I will have a tinker with the toning tools at the same time. If you shoot with the intention of toning, I think you'll probably have a higher success rate as previsualisation is a vital tool. But I also think it can be overdone. Often, subtle tones need to remain subtle colour tones as its those that are making the image come alive - remove them "because there wasn't much to start with" and you risk killing an image - at least that's my common experience.
I still finger frame.
I think a lot of us do. It's a valuable technique. Phones are useful for it too.