Hearing your comments about your photographs is not only helpful from a technical point of view, but it’s always good to hear about setting up, happy accidents and chance images.
@@alan_schaller Some photographers (and often with good reason) are tight lipped about where they take a photo at. You don't seem to mind telling where you took yours.
@@alan_schaller I like that you don't mystify the process. One doesn't hear pseudo-intellectual nonsense from you like happens with some photographers.
@@alan_schaller As someone who's been in farming myself, although as an employee not an owner, the hardest challenge for farmers is government. Particularly my state government. One family here moved their entire herd from my state (formerly theirs as well, obs) and the same people with the same herd went from struggling to get by to thriving.
Thank you for sharing all these back stories which are more than photography. We can understand why the lady in front of the crack wall looks so sad, why the lovely band of dogs are so focus, etc. Great images!!!
Deep dives would also be great! Keep up the amazing content! P.S. listening to Candella podcast from start to finish at the moment too. All great stuff!
I'm enchanted by your black and white photographs and as I'm very inquisitive about creative photographs of esteemed photographers as to how this or that was or wasn't made, like the portrait of the woman from a very close range of about ten feet and the image has a telling surprise of a wonderful street shot and I want to know the people out of the region of focus have watermark depiction around their figures, I know you have noticed them but I'm inquisitive that how did you manage them to be possibly there, kind of interesting though slightly distracting adding a sense of not ignoring them against the the great relief of the flattering woman face which the viewers must come back over and over again and that's where the picture succeeded! The pigeon in a rippled pool of puddle is the best to me and I want to see more of your work to be seen!
Thanks Alan for your authentic and straightforward nature. Could you share your thought process for image editing? Specifically, how do you choose between a high-contrast image and one with a softer grainy scale?
Even as a simple hobbyist street photographer, it can be wonderfully emotional looing back over the good and bad shots I took during a year. That's because I can remember all those moments. Something about trying to achieve something with each phot grafts those times into the memory. For a while anyway. The fact that it's often when I'm cleansing my computer's memory of all but the good shots makes it more poignant, so sometimes I'll save even scrappy bad ones to preserve the memories.
Great format. It is fascinating to know what photographers were thinking of when they take pics. And the pics are both good and varied. And excellently brief and succinct.
As someone who loves videos on photography, some of my favs are "The Photographic Eye", Sean Tucker, Tatiana Hooper and Jamie Windsor. And now your channel. Wonderfully interesting and entertaining videos and great photos too. I hope you continue with your channel. Thanks!
Love your work, Alan, and I love how you approach it. You're my newest inspiration for B&W street photography. I've actually been shooting monochrome since I started out in the 1970s not only because I like the look, but also because I'm severely colorblind.
Like always I am enjoying your photography and videos, they are very refreshing and humorous compared to the other channels. You are one of my most favourite “urban” photographers for a very long time already. Keep on doing your great work Alan. Greetings from The Netherlands.
2:05, 3:41, 8:05 are outstanding & 7:00 is excellent woof-woof! pic too. Luck favors the prepared, saying comes to mind, when once given opportunity, one has seconds to use the skills which can make or break a shot. I take it you also have some patience to wait at a location for a proper moment. It seems I never could do that. A few minutes of waiting seems an eternity, after which I'm gone. At my age, maybe I am thinking in dog years. 🤓 Thank you very much for your sharing of great talent with us. Sincerely, Loren Schwiderski.
Hi Alan ....I love the new blogs so over a lot of other blogs especially landscape and product reviews. Yours are fresh with a sense of humour and technical techniques. The biggest hate is people pushing like & and subscribing every 5 seconds, very annoying & and off-putting. Well, done Sean from Australia 🇦🇺
Brilliant set of photos Alan. I particularly liked your photo of the woman studying the tube map and your pigeon shot . I too like photographing pigeons in black and white .I was chuffed to learn today that I had come 2nd in the Amateur Photographer of the Year Competition, Wildlife category with a shot of pigeons perched on a glass shelter of a train station in Glasgow. I have your book and was fascinated to learn that the cover shot was taken with a 90mm lens, I presumed you were using a wide angle. I am a great admirer of your photos and I also enjoy taking people shots on the London Underground. I understand how you expose for highlights and the shadows become totally black without any detail but I don't understand how many of your tube subjects look as though they are caught in a spotlight. Can you explain this or is this a trade secret !!? Many thanks
I noticed in one of your other videos that you hold your camera in various positions, sometimes looking thru viewfinder, sometimes holding it away and at angles, rather freely. Simple but something I haven't been doing so thanks for the demonstration on fluid shooting angles. Brilliant
Thank for this video. I would like to see an full editing of some photographs. I am curious to see how you get these crushed blacks.
Hearing your comments about your photographs is not only helpful from a technical point of view, but it’s always good to hear about setting up, happy accidents and chance images.
Glad to hear it 😊
@@alan_schaller How do you know that woman is a lady? Are you personally acquainted with her?
@@alan_schaller Some photographers (and often with good reason) are tight lipped about where they take a photo at. You don't seem to mind telling where you took yours.
@@alan_schaller I like that you don't mystify the process. One doesn't hear pseudo-intellectual nonsense from you like happens with some photographers.
@@alan_schaller As someone who's been in farming myself, although as an employee not an owner, the hardest challenge for farmers is government. Particularly my state government. One family here moved their entire herd from my state (formerly theirs as well, obs) and the same people with the same herd went from struggling to get by to thriving.
I love the photo taken through the back window of a bus. It's like two different rainy scenes melded together into one image.
yes, its a great photo. I have some similar on my channel
I really enjoined this type of series. Can't wait for next series.
Alan is def kinda photography idol for me. Love every single picture you take! Best photographer of the new era
Yes, I totally agree wtih you. I have also been doing a lot of black and white photography in London. You can take a look at some of my videos
Love this, Alan - looking forward to more 10 for 10s!
🙏🏼🙏🏼
Greetings from Finland. Your channel is an absolute GEM! Thank you Alan!
Great shots, thanks for sharing
We need more and more of these videos. Thanks Alan!
Great images, fascinating detail and inspirational too. What's not to like?!
Getting a rundown of how you captured these photos is SO helpful to the community. I wish you all the youtube success you can handle :)
Much appreciated 🙏🏼
Thank you for sharing all these back stories which are more than photography. We can understand why the lady in front of the crack wall looks so sad, why the lovely band of dogs are so focus, etc. Great images!!!
Thank you Alan.. Enjoyed the chat about photo's...
Loved this. More please Alan!
some good photos
Your pictures are excellent but the three dogs picture is outstanding.
You are indeed the HCB of the 21st century. Stunning photos.
thanks for talking us through the photos and give us helpful tips
Alex did a perfect job !!! Thx
I bought your book. A great piece of work! Greetings from Switzerland.
This is great, Alan! Really looking forward to the next ones in this series. Cheers.
Thank you 🙏🏼
Please do more of these❤
Great video-so informative. And of course, your work is gorgeous!
Alex at the end sounds South African. The way he said ‘how’s it going?’ Loved the video as always. Such an incredible inspiration
Very interesting and even more useful
Deep dives would also be great! Keep up the amazing content!
P.S. listening to Candella podcast from start to finish at the moment too. All great stuff!
Thanks Alan. Nice works.
I'm enchanted by your black and white photographs and as I'm very inquisitive about creative photographs of esteemed photographers as to how this or that was or wasn't made, like the portrait of the woman from a very close range of about ten feet and the image has a telling surprise of a wonderful street shot and I want to know the people out of the region of focus have watermark depiction around their figures, I know you have noticed them but I'm inquisitive that how did you manage them to be possibly there, kind of interesting though slightly distracting adding a sense of not ignoring them against the the great relief of the flattering woman face which the viewers must come back over and over again and that's where the picture succeeded!
The pigeon in a rippled pool of puddle is the best to me and I want to see more of your work to be seen!
Great info on how you shot these images. Would love similar videos explaining how you edited the source images to get to final versions.
Thanks Alan for your authentic and straightforward nature. Could you share your thought process for image editing? Specifically, how do you choose between a high-contrast image and one with a softer grainy scale?
Thank you Alan.
Yes loved this video. Thanks
Deep dive in your photos would be great! Thank you.
Thanks Alan! Great video
Great job Alan! Awesome photos and video!
Fantastic compositions and imagination. Love your stuff ❤📷👍
This is great, Alan! Really looking forward to the next ones in this series. 📸
Thank you, we have filmed a couple more already so they’ll be out soon
You are really an inspiring to me, thanks for all the experience that you share. Greetings from Mexico
Loved it. Thanks for the insight...
Terrific idea.
Thank you for this video.
I enjoyed hearing the stories behind the images. It is very helpful.
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This is wonderful stuff, thanks.
Great that there is not the usual waffle some feel the need for. Concise and very interesting, thank you!
Even as a simple hobbyist street photographer, it can be wonderfully emotional looing back over the good and bad shots I took during a year. That's because I can remember all those moments. Something about trying to achieve something with each phot grafts those times into the memory. For a while anyway.
The fact that it's often when I'm cleansing my computer's memory of all but the good shots makes it more poignant, so sometimes I'll save even scrappy bad ones to preserve the memories.
Please do more of these Alan.
What a perfect "work shop"!! Thanks a lot!
Excellent! Love these. Longer ones would be great too. Thank you for sharing
You should be proud of these. Thanks for sharing the inside information.
Thanks for sharing, great!
Just love this!
Watched it again, perfect again too.
Thank you. Learning a lot.
That was really enjoyable Alan 👍😀thank you 🙏
Thanks for being generous with your art.
Great format. It is fascinating to know what photographers were thinking of when they take pics. And the pics are both good and varied. And excellently brief and succinct.
Keep up the great work!
Thanks for letting us see through your creativity windows!
Great video (and book). Would love to see you process some of these from images from out of camera through to final print.
Very nice Alan. I really like the extensive explanation including technical settings. Keep on going! 🎉
As someone who loves videos on photography, some of my favs are "The Photographic Eye", Sean Tucker, Tatiana Hooper and Jamie Windsor. And now your channel. Wonderfully interesting and entertaining videos and great photos too. I hope you continue with your channel. Thanks!
Wonderful! Love the idea of 5 for 10.
Great work! Thank you for sharing it on TH-cam.
much appreciated
Love your work, Alan, and I love how you approach it. You're my newest inspiration for B&W street photography. I've actually been shooting monochrome since I started out in the 1970s not only because I like the look, but also because I'm severely colorblind.
funny, educational, entertaining - I like it!
Very nice Alan. I enjoyed that.......mmm....must try those techniques
Great shots my favorites were the one in Lisbon, it is so dramatic and the one from the bus window as it is very artistic and draws you in.
Great video and superb photographs! Thank you very much.
Love your work
This was great! I loved the pic of the dogs (it made me giggle).
Like always I am enjoying your photography and videos, they are very refreshing and humorous compared to the other channels.
You are one of my most favourite “urban” photographers for a very long time already.
Keep on doing your great work Alan.
Greetings from The Netherlands.
I enjoyed that. Thank you.
The self-portrait image actually becomes a lot more interesting knowing the context! Love these though great work and explanation :)
Glad you enjoyed
Brilliant work Alan, love the 10 for 10.
Enjoyed that Alan excellent work .......
Thanks for doing this! The extended discussion format would be great too.
I would love some deep dives. This series is very interesting and informative!
Magic stuff Alan. More please.
Great pictures.
Great! Thanks a lot 🙏🏻
I’ll get my M 246 next week. I can’t wait.🤩
Excellent Alan! Thanks for doing these. Very inspiring and informative! Bravo!
lovely shots, lovely vid - so glad i grabbed the book!
Great stuff Alan, thanks for your generosity. Inspiration for taking my M11M around Europe next year.
2:05, 3:41, 8:05 are outstanding & 7:00 is excellent woof-woof! pic too. Luck favors the prepared, saying comes to mind, when once given opportunity, one has seconds to use the skills which can make or break a shot. I take it you also have some patience to wait at a location for a proper moment. It seems I never could do that. A few minutes of waiting seems an eternity, after which I'm gone. At my age, maybe I am thinking in dog years. 🤓 Thank you very much for your sharing of great talent with us. Sincerely, Loren Schwiderski.
Great video! It’d be great to see the shot info on screen (aperture, etc).
I'd love you to talk about the one with Koray on the stairs. think its around London bridge. He's in sillouette, and is a lovely shot.
I particularly appreciate the comments about preparation and anticipation. Good video!
Hi Alan ....I love the new blogs so over a lot of other blogs especially landscape and product reviews. Yours are fresh with a sense of humour and technical techniques. The biggest hate is people pushing like & and subscribing every 5 seconds, very annoying & and off-putting. Well, done Sean from Australia 🇦🇺
Many thanks Alan for your generosity in sharing your experiences. And your expertise!
Big fan here ! Much love from Germany 🇩🇪📸🫶🏼
Thanks very much 😊
Superb video. Excellent explanation of the shots. Can’t wait for another one like this from the Master
Usually I'm swearing at the TH-cam gods but look! they brought you to my feed yay!
Excellent !!!
Brilliant set of photos Alan. I particularly liked your photo of the woman studying the tube map and your pigeon shot . I too like photographing pigeons in black and white .I was chuffed to learn today that I had come 2nd in the Amateur Photographer of the Year Competition, Wildlife category with a shot of pigeons perched on a glass shelter of a train station in Glasgow. I have your book and was fascinated to learn that the cover shot was taken with a 90mm lens, I presumed you were using a wide angle. I am a great admirer of your photos and I also enjoy taking people shots on the London Underground. I understand how you expose for highlights and the shadows become totally black without any detail but I don't understand how many of your tube subjects look as though they are caught in a spotlight. Can you explain this or is this a trade secret !!? Many thanks
Great concept! Would love to hear more about your images!
Thank you! Nice work! Bought Metropolis the other day. Ist so good und inspiring! Keep on going Alan. Greetings from Frankfurt, Germany.
I love this kind of format!
you and Sean Tucker, my favourite upload notifications 😂😂 😉
😄🙌🏼
Always look forward to your videos Alan!
Great stuff. Thank you.
I noticed in one of your other videos that you hold your camera in various positions, sometimes looking thru viewfinder, sometimes holding it away and at angles, rather freely. Simple but something I haven't been doing so thanks for the demonstration on fluid shooting angles. Brilliant
Love it!❤