A great photography shoot that just proves that those who say `There's nothing to shoot where I live' completely wrong. Lines , texture, and symmetry are all around us in the buildings we occupy. Well done Andrew keep up the good work!!
Hi Andy, I really enjoy this kind of photography, but don't do enough of it, I'm always doing land or seascapes, so something I need to address I think. Lines fascinate me as do Stairs and stairwells. Great video mate and a great eye as usual :)
I like most of your videos but this one was special. You showed when mono was appropriate and when subtle colour was best. Particularly the simple staircase shot.
I find your videos inspiring. You make me want to go out and find things like this in my own area which I have done several times a week for a while. Just got a Canon Pro-1100 and started printing them which makes it all the more fun
Printing is great, but so expensive. You need to keep printers in regular use generally to prevent the inks drying out and clogging. That's why I no longer have one.
Thanks for explaining about B&W that brings out the light, contrast and lines more than colour, and both have their uses. I enjoy listening to your calm voice and watching while you take us along on the journey of looking around and seeing beautiful images everywhere.
Nobody needs to convince you, Edward. You do your photography how you want to. But on the subject Manual Mode - I have no idea why anyone needs to use manual in general photography. There's some BS myth that "only pros" use manual and it is BS. A professional camera user (whatever that is) will use the camera in the way that is best for them in the situation they are in. A sports photographer is highly unlikely to go near manual, for instance. Different modes suit different situations. I only ever use it for long exposures and some studio work.
15:29 It makes for an interesting shot! The rest of the video is excellent! I love how you captured a college campus in such a a way! Thank you for sharing and all the best!
Woot, you're stacking images. Love stacking photos, lol. I set the screen up and "touch the back screen here. Touch it there. Let's grab that corner and the other. Great now to go home and make 1 photo from 4.". Great video, Andrew. We see an 18+ minute (a great 18 minute video) video, yet im sure creating it is hours, not to mention getting out to find subjects and also the time to think of an idea to create. Thanks for your work.
@@AndyBanner serious work for 1 video. TH-cam doesn't pay you enough. 15 hours of work. that's 585.00 US dollars or 408.24 pounds worth of work you did .
I’m not great at abstract photography, as anyone can probably tell from my IG, but I’m hoping to learn something from your video and incorporate it into my storytelling.
I didn't really think of some of these images as abstract, but I suppose they are in a way. Have you seen my Abstract video from a few weeks back? th-cam.com/video/dEXQb7Z3pV8/w-d-xo.html
Another fascinating video Andrew, i remember back in the 80's i set myself a project for a few months called "street furniture" could be anything from a bench to a bollard to a street signs and street bins all over London, was a great few months. I have never replicated that on digital, maybe one day.
Just found this channel. Subscribed immediately. My preference is more complex monochrome images (old farms or scrap yards) but also loving architectural simplicity. Great work. Cheers.
Technically, it's private land so perhaps you should, but I passed a few security guards on this visit whilst filming and taking stills and they didn't say a word. There's camera's everywhere, so I would have been spotted many times. Maybe I don't look like I pose any threat? :-)
It's funny; I spent about 25 minutes with a street artist that wanted to work with me today...at a garlic harvest festival in Cornwall, Ontario. The backdrop for him was almost identical to the building in your grasses shots. I did it for the juxtaposition, the event reflected in the glass, the performer the isolated foreground subject...purple guitar! Wait, there's more! I found another composition, or two, of a chef, with a full class from the Ottawa Culinary school set up[ with an impressive outdoor kitchen- wait for it- against a background consisting only of a very tall concrete wall poured with geometric patterns. All there, after some waiting, in a dappled full sun treed terrace...it was like they built a set for me. These and more finish up a week long street photo session.
Excellent work yet again fella! Oh and yes, that last photo does work for me as is. I’ve taken your previous video advice on board and started abstract photos, even abstracts of sand patterns down the local beach and am enjoying photography outdoors again even if I still have a kind of fear of people watching me and what they are thinking. What I AM struggling with though is colour of mono decisions, it’s almost driving me crazy lol.
Regarding the colour / mono choice. Try this: Go out with your camera set to mono and ONLY shoot things that look good to you in mono. Search ONLY for mono images. You'll find yourself, after a while, looking for contrast and simplicity more than anything else. As for people watching, well, let me assure you as someone who's often out in a skirt rather than trousers, the majority of people are way too wrapped up in their own worlds to worry about you taking photos.
You won't convert me to colour-blindness :-) but I'm finding your explanations of seeing this useful, given my fondness for architecture and landscapes.
Your videos always inspire me and look forward to the final results after you explain your thoughts and reason for taking the shot. What I'm curious about is your use of borders on your images. Do you find that the borders enhance your images? I to use borders on many of my images and tend to get mixed reviews about them. Your thoughts, maybe in another video. Thanks... Mike from Canada
An interesting question. I will *try* to answer it. Because a photograph is a snapshot of something that was once in three dimensions and is now in two, it has very definite boundaries - you can no longer just look a bit to the left and see what's there because there's nothing. Reinforcing that with a border is part of the reasoning. But also, if you think about art in general, this is also partly why we frame things. Most of my image borders in the videos act as frames. Frames help us concentrate on the image; they draw the eye in to something that that we want people to look at.
@@AndyBanner I'm okay, thanks. Just finished a 5 year cancer treatment plan. Now, with this new perspective on life, I've got to re-evaluate a few things. It's been a long, hard road, but I'm getting through it. Be well~
Curious why I've never seen anyone ask to enter a building or a flat or a house to take a photo from their window. So many great angles hidden away. I've done it many times, and it's about showing you're trustworthy, allowing them to experience it also (most of the time) I have to dissagree with "too much contrast in colour images, just looks wrong". So many like, Steve Mccurry would dissagree. In fact sometimes the best way to get the best out of colour images is to edit in black and white, make a good B&W image then add the colour in later. Either that or merge the two together for a kind of bleach bypass look. What can look wrong though i the balance between the saturation & contrast. Otherwise then I will agree, if people look like pumpkins it can look 'wrong'. Anyway, first time here, nice watch along while changing my bed! haha
Yes, I think that's really what I meant about colour and contrast. I have an aversion to unnatural colours in images which are rife today though people badly editing images - the contrast slider almost always adds saturation and people often don't know or appreciate this. I agree, Steve McCurry's work would not look "right" if it weren't for good contrast. Like anything, it needs to be done right. Hope it doesn't take 18 minutes to change your bed!
The picture you ask if you like it and why. First of all, it looks simple, a wall and something that breaks through the structure of the wall. I really like symmetries and often find them in my photos. And as in this picture, I only ever use one axis of symmetry. Putting the lamp in the centre would not be a good choice, but the horizontal symmetry adds tension. But then there are also things that further break up the structure. The shadows that make the view appear lively. These are all attempts at an intellectual explanation. The truth is, in the fraction of a second in which something may - or may not - appeal to me, this photo immediately took me. As ALL your pictures do.
Thank you. I will let you into a secret, I don't like it. I mean, I did like it, but then I turned it into a thumbnail and placed the light off-centre and that's MUCH better. I am not sure why I put it central in the first place. I don't actually recall where this lamp is but I will endeavour to find it when I am nect there.
Why is it when people take images like this I look and think "they look great". If I take images like this I just delete them. It's the same with abstract or mundane, other people's images look so much more interesting. It drives me nuts 🤣
I am glad I am not the only one that suffers like this.... I imagine that the issue is very much related to your emotional attachment to an image - the expectation against the reality. Try not reviewing the images for a few weeks. You might find your perception changes.
@@AndyBanner I have been putting images aside a lot lately, I'm my own worst critic. It does work to view them at a later date. I have struggled to do that this week though. I have been attempting to shoot bee's in flight as the approach flowers. I must have increased my shutter count by 10.000 and have only managed half a dozen keepers, not because of missed focus or anything but purely because I wasn't happy with them. I could wait it out and come back to them but being a new to me project, something I have never tried before, the excitement of seeing the bee captured in flight means I have to view them NOW. But then my inner critic shoots me down. Sometimes I ask myself why I bother but I watched another of your videos which made me realise. Chasing the final image isn't what it's about, it's about enjoying the whole process, the final image is only one small element.
I find that editing makes a BIG difference with simple everyday scenes. Try out a bunch of presets to figure out which direction you want to take your edit. I've "revived" some old rejects that way.
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A great photography shoot that just proves that those who say `There's nothing to shoot where I live' completely wrong. Lines , texture, and symmetry are all around us in the buildings we occupy. Well done Andrew keep up the good work!!
Thanks
So pleased I came across your videos.
Hey, me too, Rod. Welcome.
Please keep showing us photography like this, thanks
Will do!
Hi Andy, I really enjoy this kind of photography, but don't do enough of it, I'm always doing land or seascapes, so something I need to address I think. Lines fascinate me as do Stairs and stairwells. Great video mate and a great eye as usual :)
i did come by your channel unintentionally.. love your photos and guidance..
Hope you stay intentionally! :-)
I love them all. These buildings are so easy to walk past without a second glance but you have shown that there is so much to see x
I like most of your videos but this one was special. You showed when mono was appropriate and when subtle colour was best. Particularly the simple staircase shot.
Thank you kindly.
I find your videos inspiring. You make me want to go out and find things like this in my own area which I have done several times a week for a while. Just got a Canon Pro-1100 and started printing them which makes it all the more fun
Printing is great, but so expensive. You need to keep printers in regular use generally to prevent the inks drying out and clogging. That's why I no longer have one.
@@AndyBanner understandable. Fortunately in my case the cost is not too bad, although higher than I thought
Thanks for explaining about B&W that brings out the light, contrast and lines more than colour, and both have their uses. I enjoy listening to your calm voice and watching while you take us along on the journey of looking around and seeing beautiful images everywhere.
Ha ha! You still can't convince me on B&W but then, it took way too long for me move over to manual mode.
Nobody needs to convince you, Edward. You do your photography how you want to. But on the subject Manual Mode - I have no idea why anyone needs to use manual in general photography. There's some BS myth that "only pros" use manual and it is BS. A professional camera user (whatever that is) will use the camera in the way that is best for them in the situation they are in. A sports photographer is highly unlikely to go near manual, for instance. Different modes suit different situations. I only ever use it for long exposures and some studio work.
Very kind, jonakeys
15:29 It makes for an interesting shot!
The rest of the video is excellent! I love how you captured a college campus in such a a way! Thank you for sharing and all the best!
Yes, it could rather well. Hadn't spotted that.
Woot, you're stacking images. Love stacking photos, lol. I set the screen up and "touch the back screen here. Touch it there. Let's grab that corner and the other. Great now to go home and make 1 photo from 4.".
Great video, Andrew. We see an 18+ minute (a great 18 minute video) video, yet im sure creating it is hours, not to mention getting out to find subjects and also the time to think of an idea to create. Thanks for your work.
Thanks, Eric. Yeah, editing this was maybe 12 hours plus about 3 hours on site and more time editing the stills.
@@AndyBanner serious work for 1 video. TH-cam doesn't pay you enough. 15 hours of work. that's 585.00 US dollars or 408.24 pounds worth of work you did .
How funny, I happen to be visiting my family up in Norwich and clicked on your video!
No way!
I’m not great at abstract photography, as anyone can probably tell from my IG, but I’m hoping to learn something from your video and incorporate it into my storytelling.
I didn't really think of some of these images as abstract, but I suppose they are in a way. Have you seen my Abstract video from a few weeks back? th-cam.com/video/dEXQb7Z3pV8/w-d-xo.html
Got to say that I enjoy getting my own reflection so long as it’s not obtrusive
I really don't like it myself. Personal view, but I want my photography to be a recording of a scene that didn't have me in it.
Another fascinating video Andrew, i remember back in the 80's i set myself a project for a few months called "street furniture" could be anything from a bench to a bollard to a street signs and street bins all over London, was a great few months. I have never replicated that on digital, maybe one day.
Just found this channel. Subscribed immediately. My preference is more complex monochrome images (old farms or scrap yards) but also loving architectural simplicity. Great work. Cheers.
I would LOVE to be let loose in a scrap yard....
You are provide such helpful information in finding images and what to look for and avoid. Thanks so much.
You are so welcome! Thank you for your support.
@@AndyBannerhi Andy, I wanted to buy you a coffee or two but I couldn’t find the link. Thanks
What a good start! I mean your first sentence 🤭 and then as always it continued with your personal, and clever, thoughts. Take care Göran in Latvia
lol. Thanks, Göran
Great shots and location.Did you need permission to photograph there?
Technically, it's private land so perhaps you should, but I passed a few security guards on this visit whilst filming and taking stills and they didn't say a word. There's camera's everywhere, so I would have been spotted many times. Maybe I don't look like I pose any threat? :-)
It's funny; I spent about 25 minutes with a street artist that wanted to work with me today...at a garlic harvest festival in Cornwall, Ontario. The backdrop for him was almost identical to the building in your grasses shots. I did it for the juxtaposition, the event reflected in the glass, the performer the isolated foreground subject...purple guitar! Wait, there's more! I found another composition, or two, of a chef, with a full class from the Ottawa Culinary school set up[ with an impressive outdoor kitchen- wait for it- against a background consisting only of a very tall concrete wall poured with geometric patterns. All there, after some waiting, in a dappled full sun treed terrace...it was like they built a set for me. These and more finish up a week long street photo session.
Excellent work yet again fella! Oh and yes, that last photo does work for me as is. I’ve taken your previous video advice on board and started abstract photos, even abstracts of sand patterns down the local beach and am enjoying photography outdoors again even if I still have a kind of fear of people watching me and what they are thinking.
What I AM struggling with though is colour of mono decisions, it’s almost driving me crazy lol.
Regarding the colour / mono choice. Try this: Go out with your camera set to mono and ONLY shoot things that look good to you in mono. Search ONLY for mono images. You'll find yourself, after a while, looking for contrast and simplicity more than anything else.
As for people watching, well, let me assure you as someone who's often out in a skirt rather than trousers, the majority of people are way too wrapped up in their own worlds to worry about you taking photos.
Another inspirational video
Thank you.
Really enjoying these, Andrew, thanks.
Thanks for reaching out
You won't convert me to colour-blindness :-) but I'm finding your explanations of seeing this useful, given my fondness for architecture and landscapes.
Great collection of shots.
Many thanks, John.
Thank you ! I enjoyed the video ! 👍🏽
Glad you enjoyed it
Your videos always inspire me and look forward to the final results after you explain your thoughts and reason for taking the shot. What I'm curious about is your use of borders on your images. Do you find that the borders enhance your images? I to use borders on many of my images and tend to get mixed reviews about them. Your thoughts, maybe in another video. Thanks... Mike from Canada
An interesting question. I will *try* to answer it. Because a photograph is a snapshot of something that was once in three dimensions and is now in two, it has very definite boundaries - you can no longer just look a bit to the left and see what's there because there's nothing. Reinforcing that with a border is part of the reasoning. But also, if you think about art in general, this is also partly why we frame things. Most of my image borders in the videos act as frames. Frames help us concentrate on the image; they draw the eye in to something that that we want people to look at.
Enjoyed the video, Andy. Hope all is well~
All good, within the boundaries, of course. Any you?
@@AndyBanner I'm okay, thanks. Just finished a 5 year cancer treatment plan. Now, with this new perspective on life, I've got to re-evaluate a few things. It's been a long, hard road, but I'm getting through it. Be well~
great video lots of great ideas thanks
You are so welcome!
Curious why I've never seen anyone ask to enter a building or a flat or a house to take a photo from their window. So many great angles hidden away. I've done it many times, and it's about showing you're trustworthy, allowing them to experience it also (most of the time)
I have to dissagree with "too much contrast in colour images, just looks wrong". So many like, Steve Mccurry would dissagree. In fact sometimes the best way to get the best out of colour images is to edit in black and white, make a good B&W image then add the colour in later. Either that or merge the two together for a kind of bleach bypass look. What can look wrong though i the balance between the saturation & contrast. Otherwise then I will agree, if people look like pumpkins it can look 'wrong'.
Anyway, first time here, nice watch along while changing my bed! haha
Yes, I think that's really what I meant about colour and contrast. I have an aversion to unnatural colours in images which are rife today though people badly editing images - the contrast slider almost always adds saturation and people often don't know or appreciate this. I agree, Steve McCurry's work would not look "right" if it weren't for good contrast. Like anything, it needs to be done right.
Hope it doesn't take 18 minutes to change your bed!
@@AndyBanner haha it is a BIG bed 😂 Was a good watch, got distracted. Haha
The picture you ask if you like it and why. First of all, it looks simple, a wall and something that breaks through the structure of the wall. I really like symmetries and often find them in my photos. And as in this picture, I only ever use one axis of symmetry. Putting the lamp in the centre would not be a good choice, but the horizontal symmetry adds tension. But then there are also things that further break up the structure. The shadows that make the view appear lively.
These are all attempts at an intellectual explanation. The truth is, in the fraction of a second in which something may - or may not - appeal to me, this photo immediately took me. As ALL your pictures do.
Thank you. I will let you into a secret, I don't like it. I mean, I did like it, but then I turned it into a thumbnail and placed the light off-centre and that's MUCH better. I am not sure why I put it central in the first place. I don't actually recall where this lamp is but I will endeavour to find it when I am nect there.
For sure it wouldn't be a hard photographing, plenty to go at.
As you know, taking snaps is easy. Crafting images, not so.
@@AndyBanner Well I hope I am past that stage now lol.
Why is it when people take images like this I look and think "they look great". If I take images like this I just delete them. It's the same with abstract or mundane, other people's images look so much more interesting. It drives me nuts 🤣
I am glad I am not the only one that suffers like this....
I imagine that the issue is very much related to your emotional attachment to an image - the expectation against the reality. Try not reviewing the images for a few weeks. You might find your perception changes.
@@AndyBanner I have been putting images aside a lot lately, I'm my own worst critic. It does work to view them at a later date. I have struggled to do that this week though. I have been attempting to shoot bee's in flight as the approach flowers. I must have increased my shutter count by 10.000 and have only managed half a dozen keepers, not because of missed focus or anything but purely because I wasn't happy with them. I could wait it out and come back to them but being a new to me project, something I have never tried before, the excitement of seeing the bee captured in flight means I have to view them NOW. But then my inner critic shoots me down. Sometimes I ask myself why I bother but I watched another of your videos which made me realise. Chasing the final image isn't what it's about, it's about enjoying the whole process, the final image is only one small element.
Aaah, ditto. Especially the 'it drives me nuts' bit.
I find that editing makes a BIG difference with simple everyday scenes. Try out a bunch of presets to figure out which direction you want to take your edit. I've "revived" some old rejects that way.
Hi, Andy.
I have sent you an email.
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