How I Created Perfect Conditions for Landscape Photography
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- In this video I venture into the woods to enjoy some Autumn landscape photography, however the conditions were not in my favour so I re-created perfect weather in Lightroom and Photoshop. I show you how I found my subject, give tips on how I photographed it and then I give a short tutorial in Lightroom and Photoshop. This was a fun exercise and I encourage everybody to give it a go. It means that you are more likely to venture outside on days when you otherwise might not bother.
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Thomas, please don't stress about not getting a "good" photo every time you vlog. The majority of folk who watch your channel were initially attracted by the honesty and clarity of your presentations, and just enjoy watching and listening to the process - of you just being out there. There is always something to learn.
This is so true
Absolutely!!!
Thomas, you better get a good photo every time you vlog, or else i find the vlog useless, push yourself to the limit and beyond .. AND DON'T PISS ME OFF
Couldn’t have said it better myself!
Couldn't agree more.
I love when you have longer videos. You are a wonderful teacher and an incredible inspiration. Never doubt that. Have a lovely week and we’ll see you on Sunday.
Laurel Housden even when he’s not teaching, I’m learning from his videos 🙌🏽
Thomas, your videos are never bad. I know you may think they are because you do these vlogs and you critique them however I think you miss the point here. You are still teaching something. We follow you on your good days and bad days. Even if you say your video is terrible, we still enjoy them because we know life isn't perfect and that your life and adventures you bring us on are not perfect. We are not looking for perfection. We look to you as our inspiration. The lows and highs of vlogging, the dos and don'ts of photography. The mishaps and misadventures you experience. we want it all and we appreciate all the hard work you put into the work you do. Never give up on yourself and believe that we believe, in you.
Another fantastic video, Thomas. Thank you very much. You see something and took your photo and thousands of others pass.
What an excellent vlog, you where able to take a rather mundane subject and make it into something fun. I'm was sitting here in my home office on kind of blah Monday after here in Colorado and though it would be a good idea to bring up CZcams and watch some Thomas vlogs......what perfect idea, your video actually made me laugh out load several times and I came away with a totally different mood than when I started watching. Thanks to your great honest personality, and no pretenses.
That's a really creative piece of work, Thomas. Thank you for sharing! And also, a BIG thank you for not using music this time! It was bliss to have no distraction while I watched you work.
Really a fan of your longer videos bro. Keep these coming. As long as you have a story to tell, I’ll keep that play button running for you 🙌🏽
You are absolutely right Tom about Autumn here in the uk , can be very hard and get the result we are after , especially with the right conditions.
That was intence.30minutes whent like 5. Absolutely incredible tutorial, going to watch that one 50 times
This was so useful, Thomas. Thank you! 👍🦘🇦🇺
Great video!!! Thank you, Thomas, beautiful image.
This was a great 30 minutes Thomas. Didn’t notice how long until you pointed out. This autumn has been challenging so far, in Scotland at least. Breezy and overcast/wet or breezy and bright sunshine. But your video shows what is still possible. I am comfortable in LR editing, but find PS more than a little intimidating and a really steep learning curve. Your video has helped 👍 thanks
Thanks for the photoshop training Thomas it was really informative and the end result was brilliant.
Very pleasing video ! I enjoyed from the beginning to the end! More videos like this!
Definitely not too long! It is great to see the process from A to Z and at a pace that can actually be followed by the viewer.
Especially enjoy your longer videos. The shorter ones always leave me wanting more. Excellent as always!
Thanks for the editing video. Learned a few new things today! Cheers.
Love all your videos! so calm. It was nice to see the edit and how you created your image. I'm not a bit fan of massive edits, so this was great to see those little adjustments. Thanks.
Thank you Thomas, very nice video and something to learn as well. Thanks!
Great video not too long. The whole process needs its time and explanation. Thank you.
Excellent timing for this - when we have so many brilliant colours and so much crap light.
Cheers, Thomas.
I love it when notifications from TH pop up!
Thank you for sharing this, I’m sure I learned more from this than any in a long time! Please keep these coming, really interesting to see the image pre visualised and then the process to make it happen.
"It kinda looks like you're photographing a bit of bush, if we're being honest..." 🤣 Thank you for keeping it real about not every day being an amazing, epic landscape photo shoot sort of day. Great photographers produce great images precisely because they can push through these frustrations and keep shooting, rain or shine etc.
Excellent content. Please continue providing your advice on producing good quality photographs.
Thomas, have you tried using a radial gradient to produce the lense flare? That would give you the ability to control the origin of the light and you would not have to edit out the artifacts.
Thomas, this is a really good video. Liked to follow your entire journey from finding the composition, with you explaining what you are searching for, and in to Lightroom and Photoshop to show how you transformerd the shot. Learned a lot and will be very useful for me. Thanks!!!
Thank you so much! I was able to use your instruction to take a ho hum, flat fall photo into something that I've had many compliments on in my photography group. I'm not good at Photoshop but your advice for Lightroom processing was perfect for me. I feel like an artist today, thanks to you!
Thanks for this very inspiring video Thomas! I am struggling myself to get some nice woodland shots while everything seems to remain way too green and uninteresting. You really opened my eyes here to go out with some possibilities of post processing in my mind. Absolutely amazing result you've got!
Sharing the vision , thought process , and the knowledge. Just brilliant
Very cool process. Always good to see how different people work in PS.
Great video, really liked the way you brought out the image. Also lots of useful info in there are well.
Thank you Thomas! Great video as always
Just before I watched your video I was reading Edward Steichen's book. He explains how he made his early woodland photos, so moody and "artistic" (his words)....adding drops of water on his lens, throwing the subject out of focus on purpose, kicking the leg of his tripod to introduce a bit of blur, using different processing and paper to introduce texture/contrast. Your video was just the perfect complement to this idea of pre-visualization. Steichen did it in 1899 with a view camera and a literal lightroom, Heaton does it in 2019 with a digital SLR and LR. Great work sir!
Truly inspiring and this is why I call you Master Heaton! ...and are you kidding when you say you're a clunker in Photoshop? I'll have to watch this several more times for my brain to wrap around the process! Thanks, Tom for your mastery!
That edit is magical. Such intention and thinking behind it! Congratulations! You've created the most autumn image without having those autumn conditions.
Such a cool video. I enjoyed the Photoshop work you put into the photo.
Nice.... You nailed it with this one. Got these conditions all the time, at my once a week shoot. So, thanx... very inspiring😄
I stuck around for the end! - And seriously, I loved the way you talked through your process - it dosnt matter that you are not a pro at PS - I learned so much about the way you think from walking in nature looking for x scene, and then finding something usefull and working it out in post. That really made me change my mind about "boring landscapes i got around me in real life and just inspired me to go do some picture tracking your steps and trying to create a picture where the camera and first shot is only part of it.
Thank you!
Actually, these are the most helpful type of videos for most of us. Thank you.
It is so interesting to watch an artist work his craft. So well done!
Thomas. Great video and just what I needed to help me explore woodland photography this autumn. Thank you :-)
Hey Tom! I am only 3 min into the video and I need to say... please do noy try to come with an awsome video every time! strees can be underproductive. In my case I do not care at all if a week or two passes and there is no new content.
Thanks a lot for the videos! I used to live in a place up in the mountain, and now in the big city of Buenos Aires your videos are the few things that take me back to those calm and peaceful places. Do not let the channel or the media take away the grate feeling of been out in the nature, abstract yourself from the situation and remembre... Damm this is absolutely stunnin´
If you are ever going to Bariloche in Patagonia, remember you have friends there! Feel free to ask for whatever. Would love to guide or advise you in those mountains.
So glad I found this! A year late to the party but this is the exact thing I’ve been banging my head against the last few weeks - sh** weather!! 😂 loved the lens flare technique too - I’ve often just used some different brush touches to create this but I didn’t even know the lens flare existed and looks so much better! 💯
Beautiful image Tom and it’s always great seeing your process.
Incredible!! This video has inspired me to go out there and find a forest and take a photo of something that is photogenic and edit it. wow.. Well done! Thank you
Elizabeth Campbell that’s what it’s all about!
Really useful video - thanks for sharing👍👍
Thank you. Free time is limited and so I cant always choose to go shoot in good conditions. This will help immensely to make the most of the photos I am able to take.
Thank you once again Thomas.
Although I'm not into editing... this is expert lvl! Congrats, gr8 work!
I love how genuine Thomas is in all of his videos its literally the sole reason i watch them!! Keep up the work and i will gladly keep on watching.
Couple of things:
With jet stream you mean gulf stream, but that's not important.
It is a well studied phenomenon in psychology, that the better you get at sth, the more you doubt yourself. Most of us suffer from that.
My point is: I see a lot of respect and appreciation in the comments below your videos. You bring joy to so many!! And concerning the photos and good and bad days: I think it was Tom Waits who said (about songwriting, and I am paraphrasing):
"Songs are like fish in a river. You may decide to go fishing or not, they are there anyway. And if you go, you might catch some or not. And if it didn't work today come back tomorrow."
The gulf stream and the jet stream are two very different phenomena. He meant jet stream, and it is rather important because it was controlling the weather in the north of England and defeating his hopes for the day. Had he been in Devon or Cornwall then the gulf stream might have given him the misty conditions he was looking for.
Just finished my first ever ever serious attempt at landscape editing following your guidance and it turned out better than I expected.
Thank you Thomas, you are the best!
Your last video was great. It’s encouraging to know professionals struggle as well as us enthusiasts. You probably just struggle less than us. Nice to know your human.
Really love the way you look to different elements in a landscape. Lots to learn from you :)
subra sharma always a learning lesson with Thomas’s videos!
Thomas, thank you. Fine video, as usual. You’re doing what I’ve done many times over the years-making “something” out of “nothing.” It makes a wonderful exercise, provides you with some editing practice and gives you some excellent creative tools for the future. That being said, it is never quite as satisfying to me as serendipitously finding nature’s gorgeous beauty when out exploring the countryside. Nothing I can do can match nature herself.
Thank you Thomas. This is a very helpful video. I have been anticipating shooting a tree on a hiking trail when it turns color ( happens very late in my neck of the woods ). I've had a similar concept in mind only where I'm at, in the desert, it hardly ever gets foggy or misty here so this will help a lot.
Well done Thomas - you've figured out non-destructive editing. Only one quibble. When you got rid of the bright dots at the beginning, you could have used another layer to do that, making it reversible if you changed your mind later.
Thank you, Thomas. I absolutely like the progression of your idea for the photo and the final product. I plan to take detailed notes to learn the Orton effect and layer masks. No worries on the length of video time. Much appreciated.
Great video! Seriously one of your bests. You made it real. When the rest of us hobbyists go out we rarely get the great conditions so it was wonderful to see how you brought the image to life. Thanks for taking the time.
For me, the quality of your video content is not in any way connected to the quality of your images. It’s the journey, learning experience ..and of course your great personality that keeps me watching.
Thank you for making this simple. Ive watched others vides and just haven't been able to understand it but this was great. Had my first play with an image whilst rewatching and it has come out great. Thank you.
Thanks for that tutorial on the glow. I've always wanted to try it and this week I grabbed a shot on my hike where it is perfectly suited for a nice glow on all the autumn trees
Thomas I absolutely loved this, I had seen Nick use the orton effect in the same way but I loved how you explained the process of preparing the image with the adjustments you made, I just processed an image Took a couple of days ago in the same way and wow what a transformation, thank you.
once again a very nice video!
To be honest, your last videos weren't as good as I normally think they're .. but you deffinitely made another great video again!
Thanks for the clear explanation in photoshop!
Looking forward to your next video :D
Loved this video. I am always waiting and watching for the right conditions to go out. I will definitely be getting out and trying this! Didn't realize it was a 30 min video. Best 30 min. Of my day. Thanks Tom..😁
30 minutes was great. Loved it.
One of your best videos tbh
Just what I needed on this rainy day to make it brighter!
Nice video, Thomas. Expecting some more videos with your Hassy 501.
This was fantastic! Very nice work Thomas. The process of the edit has given me some ideas for when I'm up the mountains of North Carolina in a few weeks. Good stuff.
Great video Thomas. I really liked the behind the scenes combined with the detailed post processing tips. I would like to see more videos like this! Greetings Thomas
Awesome video young man and yes I understand
With fall colors abound I to find my photography quite hendersons
Because all I have is Saturday and Sunday
and the yellow with the green as abstract it does work quite well
Wow Tom that was a great video! A bit of exploring and a bit of more complex Photoshop work. This is what i have been looking for!
Many thanks for this. I live in an area with not a whole lot to photograph and I've other restrictions. This shows that something can be made out of almost nothing.
Didn’t feel like half an hour and. I really enjoyed the way the image transformed. Great video.
Thank you for such a good tutorial! That's what I've been looking for
Great video and indeed would love some more photoshop details and workshop. Great idea 👍🏻👍🏻
Great video! Bob Ross would be proud!
Hey Thomas! The timing of this video couldn’t be better! Where I currently live it has been sunny with blue skies, no rain or mist, and almost no change in the color of the leaves with the exception of the occasional tree here or there. This video is perfect inspiration while I wait for Fall to actually arrive! Thanks for the ideas and keep up the excellent photos and videos!!
Liked how you said many times in the video that it was "fun". Good to remind us of that as we do take ourselves and our photography way too seriously some of the time!
I love the processing and it helps me a lot. Thank you!
Great video Tom enjoyed watching it I use light room and photoshop but not that advanced into it
Thank you so much!! I love it!!
Thank you, I really appreciate this video as it has inspired me to go back to some of my older photos to try some of your techniques out!
I thought this was a fantastic twist on other photoshop videos out there! You kept it honest, calm and uncomplicated, which probably also attracts most of your subscribers. You are great at slowing down for the process and that makes you a fantastic photographer and youtuber, imo. Keep up the good work and try not to get stressed about every videos quality :)
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I'm ready :)
@@charass1 You're not.
You're really, really not.
Nobody is ready for that!
As always, great video Thomas!!!
Wow a nice place to do photography.
The videos are never bad.
Now, that was imaginative. Both the concept and the execution.
I find your videos really inspiring because every time I'm watching your videos , I'm going out to shoot (literally every each time). I'm watching your from Wales, and yep , UK weather is so against any type of photography. Thanks a lot!
Love the image, also a great tip you gave was visualizing your image before getting on location. I find my shots are best when I have a clear idea in my head on what mood and composition I want
Man as many said, don't stress about getting a "good" picture everytime, you know it, we are all photographer around here I think, we know it can't be spot on and perfect. You make those videos unique, the way you describe things.
You're doing really good mate :) the pic turned out awesome, loved it !!
good stuff. i like the longer videos...
I really love the longer videos. 👍
Thank you, this video is very helpful! Learned something new again for Photoshop! :)
Thomas Heaton: the landscape creator :-))
Great tutorial on what the Orton effect is and how to apply it. Also it was useful to see your process on adding other aspects such as Lens Flare. Many thanks.
I love the long videos.