a lot of software exists that can remove the echo. even davinci can do it to some degree. but just hang a few towels and blankets on the wall and the echo will go away
@@DanielSymphonies I appreciate the advice but I don’t necessarily want a bunch blankets on the wall behind me in my videos. I can see your username checks out, but I’m not an audio engineer and all of that sounds a lot more complicated and time consuming than just holding the mic up to my face until I can get a better mic. Which I will do as soon as I head back to the US.
First video of yours - great job. My only suggestion would be rather than holding up prints would be to edit the images into the video. To easy for prints to be out of focus, effected by ambient light, etc.
That's all true - but I still like to work with prints in my videos. It allows for demonstrations that would be really difficult otherwise. Usually I will edit the image into the video as well, to give people a better look. Thanks for the feedback!
I'm from Valparaíso, and it's funny seeing gringos walk through the city With their camaras so easy to spot. Sorry about You getting robed. Valparaíso has gotten pretty hectic and dangerous. The city is fool of wonderfull places that only locals know.
@@victorbaradit8715 Hi Victor! Thanks for your comment. At the time, the camera was stored in a bag, so it wasn’t visible. The bag was however, and I think just having a bag made me enough of a target. Maybe in addition to being an obvious gringo.
Thanks for the secret carry tip, which I will use for my Leica Q3. However I knew I was watching a thoughtful video when you mentioned Werner Herzog's 'accountant's truth.' I noticed that concept when editing my photos documenting my martial arts gym and I'm glad to have a label for it. The documenting shots never held together in the book like the more visually striking ones did. Great examples, very helpful! Thank you.
Great video! I’m moving back into documentary/street after a side quest into landscape photography. My pre-Landscape LR editing and mindset was exactly like yours, but fortunately landscape photography finally forced me to learn masking and local adjustments. I truly hadn’t considered combining the two until now.
Thanks Gina! I’m glad it was eye opening for you. I should point out that we had a great comment from a freelance PJ on this vid where he mentioned that this degree of manipulation could get you fired from certain places. So I suppose the standards vary widely around the world and in different organizations. Something to keep in mind for your street and doc work, depending on whether you plan to pitch your story somewhere.
@@RichardSilviusI definitely will be careful. I have done an editing/sequencing workshop with a Magnum photographer where we discussed it, but that was ages ago and I want to 100% stay on the correct side of the ethical line :)
@@gary4739 As of yet I have not replaced the equipment because I still had a backup camera. I decided to leave that at home for the remainder of my time in Valparaiso and I bought a pocketable camera to do the workshop - so that I would not expose my remaining nice camera to theft. There is a really high tax on electronics in S. American countries - adds like 20% - so the move was always going to be to wait until I return to the US. As far as insurance - regrettably no - I did not have any. Something I will for sure be getting before I leave the US again to travel. For most people - you can put a rider on your home or renters policy that will cover valuable personal property including your cameras and electronics, and that will cover you for theft. It’s typically very reasonable. But because of my unique nomadic situation, I don’t have such a policy, so I’m still researching what the alternatives are. Thanks for watching!
Can try putting the camera on a black plastic bag. With a bit more effort, you can also turn it into a diy rainproof cover for the camera (need a lens filter).
@@MickeyCTejas Tomás was able to conceal a full frame Nikon DSLR with a 35mm 1.4 under his flannel shirt, which he wore unbuttoned. So you don’t necessarily need a jacket like mine - but I agree neither one is going to get you very far in Texas summer weather!
The content of this video is really good! Herzog's concept, the hidden carry, and the extent of the lightroom edit. You're letting it down with a few things though. The hand held microphone. The presentation of the prints would probably have been better with a cutaway to a downwards shot, where the photos are in focus for the whole shot. And a more direct before/after of the two lightroom edits before deep diving into the edit.
@@rrreese3 Thanks for watching! I’m working on the mic thing and while you’re totally right about the top down view, I don’t currently have a tripod that allows for that. The one time I did it in a video I had convenient shelf that I could use to put the camera on. But I appreciate the feedback and I will try to improve those things going forward!
@@RichardSilvius I actually just watched the video where your review your photos on the table, and several others, perhaps if you flicked to a full screen shot of the photo after a second or two it would work quite well - which you have done in other videos too. Anyway keep up the great work!
I'm a part-time photojournalist, freelancing for one of the US's larger city papers and went to journalism school and all of that good stuff. I was always taught that global adjustments to photos are fine but dodging and burning individual subjects within a photo can get into some less ethical territory, so easier to enforce is ruled out all together. I'm fairly certain my editors wouldn't accept this extent of editing, for what it's worth (I haven't asked in a long time). But there are different schools of thought, for sure -- magazine photojournalism, for instance, is more lenient. Useful tools regardless though and I do this kind of editing all of the time in commercial and personal work.
@@TheShelbinator3000 Thank you so much for this comment! I’ve always been curious about the boundaries of photo editing/“revealing” in photojournalism/doc photo, so it was really surprising for me the extent to which they encouraged us to push things. My instinct was always to do less. I really appreciate this extra perspective from someone working in the industry. Thanks again!
@@RichardSilvius Yeah, anymore, you'll probably get 10 different answers from 10 different editors/photojournalists. I know several freelancers without journalism educations that never get "the talk" around what you can and can't do. But certainly at a newspaper of record, it's not just frowned upon -- it can get you tossed. Great video, at any rate.
@@TheShelbinator3000Have a look at Daniel Milnor. He's got the same training as you and has the same opinion. He's now working for Blurb and doing documentary stuff privately. And a friend of mine is a cousin of Laurence Kesterson.
Great video about photography and Lightroom, But buy a Microphone or use a head set with a microphone.Please. Also the microphone you have might pickup better without the wind sock in it. You could clip into your pocket or on your shirt. Other wise great explanations of the light room process.
Thanks for watching and appreciate the feedback! I have other mics at home in storage, they just didn’t happen to be with me on the trip where I arbitrarily decided to start Youtubing. But I should be able to change it out by the end of the year. Thanks for your feedback!
@ “printing” is the outline presented by hidden objects on a person. Waistline and pockets mostly. Call it a safety precaution among civilians and a necessity for LEOs. Also, printing is a concern for law abiding concealed carriers that do not want to present themselves as carrying. Printing as a topic is commonly discussed on Self defense and firearm channels but this is the first time I’ve seen a photo channel broach the subject. I often try to be stealthy when filming my son on stage b/c of “no filming” warnings at venues. Thx for the video. I found it relatable and applicable to me.
@@chrishomer I don’t usually carry a tripod, but that’s one way to do it lol. In this case the two men got the jump on me as I was going down some long and steep stairs, so they really had the upper hand. If I’d taken a swing at them with a tripod, I’d very likely have ended up stabbed. Stabbings during robberies are very common in Valpo.
honestly i think your image before all the editing looks not all that bad, in a sense that there's so much in the image that it feels like i don't know where to focus my eyes once everything is "brighter" mayhap i prefer the authentic feel for that image
@ Actually, I mistakenly thought this reply was on a different video, so I misunderstood what you were referring to. But I agree with you in terms of the aesthetics of the light and tone - but Tomás’s quick edit was much more effective in terms of storytelling. With a bit more work I’m sure I could arrive at a better hybrid of the two - but I don’t think it would be worthwhile for that particular photo.
As an editor or a number of newspapers, I would have a very different view of what photos would be tossed and others to keep and publish. Bananas - gone. Little girl - gone. Very unimpressive on their own, says nothing. But the ones with the people in the picture will be used. The one you liked with the lady on the left in the dark can be cropped beautifully for print. I see vegetables in supermarkets all the time. A picture with people going through vegetables is far more interesting. Ask yourself, who are you appealing to? You or the reader. I can tell you are appealing to yourself with artsy dull pictures. People looking at your publications are looking at it with a different eye. You have to produce a photo that will catch and retain their eye. Workshops are ok, but you need to really get into the guts of publications and how they work. I did a lot of looking at magazines back in the days of Life and Look magazines. They offer great examples of photos that make the grade. Look and put yourself in the reader's shoes, not yours. My suggestion is to be an editor of a publication and look hard at what will and what will not make it. It's fun and you learn to take better pictures.
@@bondgabebond4907 I’m floored that an editor of different newspapers would have somehow found, and then actually watched my video! That’s the amazing thing about putting stuff out into the world, you just never know who will see it. Thank you so much for your advice, and the specific comments you made about what images you’d cut/keep. I would LOVE it if you’d watch the other video where I break down the full sequence from the workshop and give me your opinion over there as well - this video was more about using certain examples to highlight some of the things I learned. Thanks again, and I hope you’ll subscribe. I love hearing from people who actually work in the photo industry in my comments. Cheers! Here’s a link to that other video: th-cam.com/video/7jC6cenhG8A/w-d-xo.html
“You’re not quite there as a photographer yet. Capturing a moment goes beyond just pressing a button-it’s about conveying depth, emotion, and intention. Your images seem to lack the layers and artistry that define true photography, even though you may feel like you’ve got it.
This trend of TH-camrs holding the microphone with a wind sock up to their face really needs to stop. PLEASE!
If I don’t, the audio is extremely extremely echoey - and for the moment it’s the only microphone I have, so 🤷🏻♂️
I’ll add that I HATE doing it that way because it makes handling the prints incredibly clumsy and difficult.
Would you rather enjoy worse audio?
a lot of software exists that can remove the echo. even davinci can do it to some degree.
but just hang a few towels and blankets on the wall and the echo will go away
@@DanielSymphonies I appreciate the advice but I don’t necessarily want a bunch blankets on the wall behind me in my videos. I can see your username checks out, but I’m not an audio engineer and all of that sounds a lot more complicated and time consuming than just holding the mic up to my face until I can get a better mic. Which I will do as soon as I head back to the US.
Honestly, this is one of the best videos on photography I have seen so far. You are really good at explaining and teaching.
Wow, that's a huge compliment. Thank you so much for watching!
First video of yours - great job. My only suggestion would be rather than holding up prints would be to edit the images into the video. To easy for prints to be out of focus, effected by ambient light, etc.
That's all true - but I still like to work with prints in my videos. It allows for demonstrations that would be really difficult otherwise. Usually I will edit the image into the video as well, to give people a better look. Thanks for the feedback!
I'm from Valparaíso, and it's funny seeing gringos walk through the city With their camaras so easy to spot.
Sorry about You getting robed. Valparaíso has gotten pretty hectic and dangerous. The city is fool of wonderfull places that only locals know.
@@victorbaradit8715 Hi Victor! Thanks for your comment. At the time, the camera was stored in a bag, so it wasn’t visible. The bag was however, and I think just having a bag made me enough of a target. Maybe in addition to being an obvious gringo.
Great tips photographers need to know. I particularly enjoyed your market photos too.
@@ZenoWatson Thank you!
Thanks for the secret carry tip, which I will use for my Leica Q3. However I knew I was watching a thoughtful video when you mentioned Werner Herzog's 'accountant's truth.' I noticed that concept when editing my photos documenting my martial arts gym and I'm glad to have a label for it. The documenting shots never held together in the book like the more visually striking ones did. Great examples, very helpful! Thank you.
Thank you! I love that phrase. In two words he both shatters and inspires you.
Great video, instant follow
That's awesome! Thanks for following, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Great video! I’m moving back into documentary/street after a side quest into landscape photography. My pre-Landscape LR editing and mindset was exactly like yours, but fortunately landscape photography finally forced me to learn masking and local adjustments. I truly hadn’t considered combining the two until now.
Thanks Gina! I’m glad it was eye opening for you. I should point out that we had a great comment from a freelance PJ on this vid where he mentioned that this degree of manipulation could get you fired from certain places. So I suppose the standards vary widely around the world and in different organizations. Something to keep in mind for your street and doc work, depending on whether you plan to pitch your story somewhere.
@@RichardSilviusI definitely will be careful. I have done an editing/sequencing workshop with a Magnum photographer where we discussed it, but that was ages ago and I want to 100% stay on the correct side of the ethical line :)
Great stuff, really enjoyed this.
@@tunajames Thanks! Appreciate the positive feedback!
Really interesting approach, thank you.
Very welcome!
This is very helpful. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful.
Thanks for sharing. A couple questions for you regarding getting robbed. How did you handle replacing your equipment? Your equipment insured?
@@gary4739 As of yet I have not replaced the equipment because I still had a backup camera. I decided to leave that at home for the remainder of my time in Valparaiso and I bought a pocketable camera to do the workshop - so that I would not expose my remaining nice camera to theft. There is a really high tax on electronics in S. American countries - adds like 20% - so the move was always going to be to wait until I return to the US. As far as insurance - regrettably no - I did not have any. Something I will for sure be getting before I leave the US again to travel. For most people - you can put a rider on your home or renters policy that will cover valuable personal property including your cameras and electronics, and that will cover you for theft. It’s typically very reasonable. But because of my unique nomadic situation, I don’t have such a policy, so I’m still researching what the alternatives are. Thanks for watching!
**Tropical Weather enters the chat**
@@OnlyCitrus Yeah, not going to work in all climates…
Can try putting the camera on a black plastic bag.
With a bit more effort, you can also turn it into a diy rainproof cover for the camera (need a lens filter).
Useful. Thanks!
Glda you found it helpful, thanks for watching!
Really interesting video
Glad you liked it!
Try using that jacket in Texas summer weather 😅
@@MickeyCTejas Tomás was able to conceal a full frame Nikon DSLR with a 35mm 1.4 under his flannel shirt, which he wore unbuttoned. So you don’t necessarily need a jacket like mine - but I agree neither one is going to get you very far in Texas summer weather!
Trabajo grandioso e impecable gracias por compartir 🎉
@@alejita3052 Muchisimas Graciasssss!
The content of this video is really good! Herzog's concept, the hidden carry, and the extent of the lightroom edit.
You're letting it down with a few things though. The hand held microphone. The presentation of the prints would probably have been better with a cutaway to a downwards shot, where the photos are in focus for the whole shot. And a more direct before/after of the two lightroom edits before deep diving into the edit.
@@rrreese3 Thanks for watching! I’m working on the mic thing and while you’re totally right about the top down view, I don’t currently have a tripod that allows for that. The one time I did it in a video I had convenient shelf that I could use to put the camera on. But I appreciate the feedback and I will try to improve those things going forward!
@@RichardSilvius I actually just watched the video where your review your photos on the table, and several others, perhaps if you flicked to a full screen shot of the photo after a second or two it would work quite well - which you have done in other videos too. Anyway keep up the great work!
great great tips.
Glad it was helpful!
I'm a part-time photojournalist, freelancing for one of the US's larger city papers and went to journalism school and all of that good stuff. I was always taught that global adjustments to photos are fine but dodging and burning individual subjects within a photo can get into some less ethical territory, so easier to enforce is ruled out all together. I'm fairly certain my editors wouldn't accept this extent of editing, for what it's worth (I haven't asked in a long time). But there are different schools of thought, for sure -- magazine photojournalism, for instance, is more lenient. Useful tools regardless though and I do this kind of editing all of the time in commercial and personal work.
@@TheShelbinator3000 Thank you so much for this comment! I’ve always been curious about the boundaries of photo editing/“revealing” in photojournalism/doc photo, so it was really surprising for me the extent to which they encouraged us to push things. My instinct was always to do less. I really appreciate this extra perspective from someone working in the industry. Thanks again!
@@RichardSilvius Yeah, anymore, you'll probably get 10 different answers from 10 different editors/photojournalists. I know several freelancers without journalism educations that never get "the talk" around what you can and can't do. But certainly at a newspaper of record, it's not just frowned upon -- it can get you tossed. Great video, at any rate.
@@TheShelbinator3000Have a look at Daniel Milnor. He's got the same training as you and has the same opinion. He's now working for Blurb and doing documentary stuff privately.
And a friend of mine is a cousin of Laurence Kesterson.
Great video about photography and Lightroom, But buy a Microphone or use a head set with a microphone.Please. Also the microphone you have might pickup better without the wind sock in it. You could clip into your pocket or on your shirt. Other wise great explanations of the light room process.
Thanks for watching and appreciate the feedback! I have other mics at home in storage, they just didn’t happen to be with me on the trip where I arbitrarily decided to start Youtubing. But I should be able to change it out by the end of the year. Thanks for your feedback!
Always look for “printing” on strangers.
I don’t follow, can you explain what you mean?
@ “printing” is the outline presented by hidden objects on a person. Waistline and pockets mostly. Call it a safety precaution among civilians and a necessity for LEOs.
Also, printing is a concern for law abiding concealed carriers that do not want to present themselves as carrying.
Printing as a topic is commonly discussed on Self defense and firearm channels but this is the first time I’ve seen a photo channel broach the subject.
I often try to be stealthy when filming my son on stage b/c of “no filming” warnings at venues.
Thx for the video. I found it relatable and applicable to me.
@ Thanks for explaining!
I like to walk around with the spike attachments on my tripod feet
@@chrishomer I don’t usually carry a tripod, but that’s one way to do it lol. In this case the two men got the jump on me as I was going down some long and steep stairs, so they really had the upper hand. If I’d taken a swing at them with a tripod, I’d very likely have ended up stabbed. Stabbings during robberies are very common in Valpo.
Thanks for sharing
@@sachabricard Thanks for watching!
honestly i think your image before all the editing looks not all that bad, in a sense that there's so much in the image that it feels like i don't know where to focus my eyes once everything is "brighter"
mayhap i prefer the authentic feel for that image
In a lot of cases I bring it back down after, but that first edit just helps me judge the picture better.
Ah sorry, i meant your edit as opposed to the workshop guy's edit of your image
@ Actually, I mistakenly thought this reply was on a different video, so I misunderstood what you were referring to. But I agree with you in terms of the aesthetics of the light and tone - but Tomás’s quick edit was much more effective in terms of storytelling. With a bit more work I’m sure I could arrive at a better hybrid of the two - but I don’t think it would be worthwhile for that particular photo.
Very interesting. I hardly do any editing with my street photots... Maybe straighten up the image a little, and add a filter.
@@lifetimesofamultiplemediam1003 Thanks! A filter, like a preset?
@@RichardSilvius Yeah! the ones that come free with photoshop
As an editor or a number of newspapers, I would have a very different view of what photos would be tossed and others to keep and publish. Bananas - gone. Little girl - gone. Very unimpressive on their own, says nothing. But the ones with the people in the picture will be used. The one you liked with the lady on the left in the dark can be cropped beautifully for print. I see vegetables in supermarkets all the time. A picture with people going through vegetables is far more interesting. Ask yourself, who are you appealing to? You or the reader. I can tell you are appealing to yourself with artsy dull pictures. People looking at your publications are looking at it with a different eye. You have to produce a photo that will catch and retain their eye. Workshops are ok, but you need to really get into the guts of publications and how they work. I did a lot of looking at magazines back in the days of Life and Look magazines. They offer great examples of photos that make the grade. Look and put yourself in the reader's shoes, not yours.
My suggestion is to be an editor of a publication and look hard at what will and what will not make it. It's fun and you learn to take better pictures.
@@bondgabebond4907 I’m floored that an editor of different newspapers would have somehow found, and then actually watched my video! That’s the amazing thing about putting stuff out into the world, you just never know who will see it. Thank you so much for your advice, and the specific comments you made about what images you’d cut/keep. I would LOVE it if you’d watch the other video where I break down the full sequence from the workshop and give me your opinion over there as well - this video was more about using certain examples to highlight some of the things I learned. Thanks again, and I hope you’ll subscribe. I love hearing from people who actually work in the photo industry in my comments. Cheers! Here’s a link to that other video:
th-cam.com/video/7jC6cenhG8A/w-d-xo.html
“You’re not quite there as a photographer yet. Capturing a moment goes beyond just pressing a button-it’s about conveying depth, emotion, and intention. Your images seem to lack the layers and artistry that define true photography, even though you may feel like you’ve got it.
Would love a tag to your work or website so I can know what you’re saying is credible.
And who are you?
Lightroom, ugh.
Grea tips! thanks!