Whitby Landscape Photography AVOIDING THE ICONIC!
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2018
- Whitby Landscape Photography - AVOIDING THE ICONIC
In this video, I scout out areas of a well-photographed area and take amazing pictures avoiding the Iconic areas.
Last week I ventured to the East coast of England once again but this time I'm in search of something different. I headed to the wonderful town of Whitby.
My aim was to find alternative shots, well away from the normal Iconic shots that most visiting photographers will take. Having said that there is nothing wrong with photographing the Iconic shot. I have made quite a few videos on this subject, but today I wanted something different.
It can often be quite a challenge to find an alternative shot of a well-photographed area. After all, there's a very good reason why certain locations end up as Iconic locations!
I'll let you be the judge...
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I loved that low-paced flow of the video. It conveys such a unique atmosphere of stillness which is part of the character of Whitby, I think.
Indeed it is, thank you 👍
Fantastic video for a lazy Sunday when it’s too hot to load up the photo gear and shoot. Just great 👍
Glad I was useful :) Cheers
The best Whitby has ever looked. Awesome pictures.
Simply Stunning !!
Cheers Rich 👍
Loved this video. Lovely images... relaxing music. The bird sounds made me feel like I was there!
Oh, thank you. I added them to the video to make it moodier. So glad it's worked 👍 👍
Enjoyed watching this video and as always some stunning images.
Thank you 👍
Simple stunning pictures gary
Cheers Dave 👍
I'm glad you got some shots you were happy with Gary. Looks like a nice place to photograph. Love the colors in the sky after sunset! Nice work.
Happy with all the shots technically but subjectively I'm harsh :)
Lovely lovely vids and great information THANK YOU. And yes as you say Whitby is on the East coast... yet it's possible to take great sunset photos, what a fantastic country we live in thank you again.
Thank you Daniel
Great view of Whitby. Good job Gary.
Thank you, Stephen 👍
Love it. The last shots were the best thanks to the colours the sky had to offer. Drone work was great too. I thought your first shot that you didn't like was excellent. Perhaps it's been done to death? I wouldn't know. Claim them as yours as the world is large. Thanks Gary, always.
Cheers Kelly. It hasn't been shot to death from that angle, I just thought the content was too much like it's been created for a tourist board :)
Brilliant drone footage, superb images, very enjoyable. Thank you
Cheers Gary 👍
Amazing Gary, inspiring as well
Thank you
really enjoyable episode episode and a great set of images especially the final 2 after sunset. lovely colours and features
Cheers Scotty 👍🏼
Nice drone work and the final images are beautiful.
Cheers Jack 👍🏼
Some cracking shots Gary, the last one was amazing. As always cheers for sharing 👍😀
Cheers Shane 👍
Great video as always, love those after sunset shots, fantastic colour in the sky.
Many thanks
John
Cheers John 👍
Lovely shots at the end Gary, loved the colour of the sky and the lights on the pier.
Probably my favourite too 👍🏼
superb like always, congrats.
Thank you, José 👍🏼
Wow Gary! Some great photos in this video! Loving the last few especially!
I'm a big fan of this channel on CZcams!
Thank you. It's very kind of you to say 👍👍
As always a great vlog and loved the after sunset image
Cheers Phil 👍
Spot on Gary. Love Whitby, you got some beauties there. :)
Thank you Mark 👍🏼
Some lovely images there, plus your as usual excellent vlog style.
and thank you for your kind words as always 👍
Great Gary best shots 1hr after sunset 🕙 !
Cheers Gary 👍🏼
Whitby I love the place built with photography in mind great watch mate cheers
You're welcome, thank you 👍🏼
Amazing! Whitby will now be on my destination shot list. Cheers!
Thank you Carrie
Nice vid and brilliant shots!
Thank you for watching and commenting, very kind 👍👍
Hello Gary, always like looking at your photographs for you are a very accomplished photographer. You always manage to construct wonderful long exposures and I always love your monochrome shots...
very kind of you to say Allan, thank you 👍
Brilliant, great vid, thanks
Cheers Dave
Proper class shot at the end Gary, great to see you experimenting with less obvious viewpoints, very inspiring, see you again soon Del.
Cheers again Del 👍🏻 👍🏻
They were all amazing images Gary
Thank you Gavin 👍
Gary
Awesome video - loaded with ideas and thoughts. Last image: one hour after sunset was in a league by itself. So very well done
Peter
Thank you Peter, very kind of you to say 👍
Briliant 👍🏼
Thank you Hashem 👍🏼
A place I totally fell in love with! Brilliant video Gary, 5:23 with the bird sound! Lovely! Prefer the colour, 7:05 😁👍 so so good! Gary, you nailed it on this video.
Cheers Mali, very kind of you to say. Thank you 👍
Love the final few images.
Cheers Charles 👍🏼
The last picture was awesome. Gave me something to think about.
Thank's excellent, cheers
Nice vlog Gary :-)
Cheers Mark 👍
Great video as always Gary. Awesome images as always. Tennis, I HATE it LOL!! But Go England!!
Hi Tim. sorry for the delay, I'm on catch up. Thank you as always. Shame about the footy
Inspirational and educational as always Gary. Brilliant video.
Thank you Brian 👍
Great vlog gary. Well presented and awesome images. Love your long exposure work it's brilliant
Thank you Jim, very kind 👍
I like tennis, but I can only do that for a few minutes. Now, "football". I'd just as soon watch the German shorthair chase non-existant rabbits.
I absolutely love long exposure photography, needless to say... great video 👍
Thank you Neil 👍
Great shots, great video, great location, saved it on my Google Maps Places to see list
Cheers Simon 👍
Another great video Gary. :)
Thank you Mick 👍🏼
Great shots Gary, on my last trip back to the UK in 2006 we stayed at Whitby for a week with my sister and husband, it was a place I had not been to before. I was only taking video footage back then. Thanks for sharing.
All the best....Peter
Thank you Peter. Hope it brought back some cherished memories 👍
Hey Gary, great work. Been dipping in and out of your channel for a few months now. Love your style of presenting. Great videos and love the landscape stuff. Great to have a friendly northern voice talking about photography in such a loving way! Keep up the good work!
Why thank you, Darcey, very kind of you to say
Great video as usual Gary. Really liked the one hour after sunset shot with vibrant colours!
Thank you Barry
Lovely images Gary. The last time I was staying in the moors I had a really good sunrise at Boggle Hole.
Cheers Andy 👍
Looks like a great place to spend some time. Blue hour shot was spot on Gary and I quite agree with you on the tennis. Thanks for not grunting whilst photographing!
lol imagine if football players or volleyball player did it too :) Mind you, I'm starting to make that noise just getting up from the settee :) Cheers John
Loving the skies and the simplicity... and those shots after sunset are amazing. I keep forgetting to take 2 shots and blending them. Must remember, lol. Look forward to your next vlog mate! Jase
Cheers Jason 👍
The harbour entrance IMO was the best of the shoot.
Another good video Gary.
Cheers Tyson. I liked them too. They may have been a little too iconic but they worked well 👍
nice.
Hi Gary, love this video...just made it my video of the week on my channel. Beautiful shots as usual! Cheers, Ian
Oh thank you, Ian, very kind
A lovely set of images, I even really liked the first one. Lovely place Whitby, liking your vlogs keep up the good work, another sub👍
Thank you Anthony 👍
Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Appreciate you showing the ones you didn't like. The keepers are wonderful images as always.
Thank you Tony 👍
Like a lot of other comments here, I like the beach hut shots. But I get that photography is subjective and also that we are our own worst critics of our own work.
Stunning shots again, especially the sunset image. It works. Great video as always, Gary.
(also, Windshield in the video is a win) :)
Cheers again Dave 👍🏻
Soon as you mentioned England. Cheers
A really good one!
Thank you 👍
You are welcome. Good night from Germany.
Hu Ko good night from the UK too 👍🏻
I would love to see the "Japanese tourist" photos :-) Amazing photos as always!!!!
Thank you 👍
Great vlog! I really enjoy your content and the way you present it. You teach, inspire and you have a easy and relaxing way of doing this.
and it's comments like this that make it all worthwhile. Thank you 👍👍👍
Oh gary, it brought back memories, 40 years of visiting Yorkshire and the coast line, nice to see a different side, of which reminds me, l have two rolls to develop! Bridlington harbour, keep up the blogs, its hard to find something different, cheers Phil
Glad you liked it Phil 👍
Hi Gary, I am very happy to have found this series of wonderfully gritty and enjoyable videos. This one is particularly interesting for me, as I spent a lot of my early life around the east coast of England. I was born in a village called Lingdale, not too far from Whitby. My mum, dad and I loved to spend hours walking around the town and have some fish'n'chips and I started my career in the north of England as a professional photographer, so this series you are painstakingly producing is going to be something I will follow from now on, with a keen interest, especially that I feel you have rejuvenated my passion for landscape photography, which I now regret not spending as much time and effort that you put in, to create some amazing images. I now live in Thailand and have done for 30 years, working in all fields of photography and video productions, but next time I get to the UK, I will make an effort to follow in your footsteps. Actually watching this video was quite emotional for me, as it brought back some wonderful memories of when my mum and dad were alive. Cheers mate from David
I don't know what to say. I genuinely felt emotional reading your story and kind words. Thank you. Do you shoot Professionally in Thailand still? I'd love to see your work there, website, FB? I'm actually very interested David
Gary Gough Yes Gary, I do still shoot professionally in Thailand, but most of my work is corporate video productions for hotels restaurants etc, so stills work is suffering at the moment. However, I am working on a series of shots of Thai temples which is just getting going and it's fun. After watching your Lake District features, I must admit to making a big mistake by not really spending as much time shooting landscapes - in what is - one of the most amazing places in the world for unspoilt natural beauty. However, during the late 70's i spent many a fantastic day trekking the hills of the west coast of Scotland up past where my brother lives on the River Clyde and it's an awesome area. I spent many a day, up to my knees in snow and freezing mountain streams shooting with my Rolleiflex Twin Lens Reflex on a tripod I still use today. Unfortunately, I had a similar fate to you losing your drone, by pulling a bit too hard on the cable release one day as the camera wasn't locked properly to the tripod plate, so it fell off into the fairly deep freezing waters. But at least it's wasn't a 1000 quid!! Mate, any chance of you arranging a photo trip to Thailand in the future? If so I would love to join in and give a helping hand.
I watch all the Landscape and street photography artists on You Tube and in my opinion i think you are the best
Thank you Michael. It’s comments like this that just make it all so worthwhile. Thank you again 👍🏻👍🏻
loved the last couple of images the best..that awesome sky... regarding the tennis ..I dont watch TV or read news so had no idea it was on...
No TV? is that by choice or is it because you're in prison? lol just joking. Thanks again Gilbert, very kind 👍
Oh F++k you found me out i'm in strangeways .!! hahaha..saying that of what I do know most prisoners have HD TV & playstations... hahaha... No TV by choice ... well I dont watch News or politics ..Its all lies anyway.. The BBC & Sky news is pure propaganda .. do I miss it ..NO.. is my life better without it ..YES.... Im a huge fan of You tube.. real honest TV..
This is the best channel on You Tube. I love every detail you put into the making of these short stories. I hope one day you come and spend some time in Australia and create some wonderful memories. Seriously we all love your work. One day when you have time can you teach us how to to amazing portrait work with flash in a studio to create stunning shots with mood and emotion. LOL if we are really lucky maybe a second video on "how too" in Lightroom that helped get the end process of the final images. Either way I will be here every week with my coffee enjoying your fantastic content every week. Thank you Gary..
And it's comments like this that make all my efforts seem worthwhile. Thank you so much 👍
FYI I have just filmed something similar which will be processed in the coming weeks. Portraits and flash is something I am very fond of. I'll make some how-to videos. THANKS AGAIN
One of my fav places in the UK. I was there two weeks ago trying to get something different, rather than add to my hundreds of photos of the usual Whitby but I only had two I liked enough to take into lightroom and I wasn't even that keen on them. Loved the drone footage Gary and that final blue hour shot is gorgeous
I know that feeling Peter. Shooting all day and only having a few nailers :)
The shots certainly did get better. I thought when the drone looked back on the pier and you saw the abbey it would have been a great shot too with both piers leading round to it.
Excellent as always!
Cheers John. I took a few shots there, I just didn't process them. 👍🏼
Gary, don't be so hard on yourself; the beach hut picture is great. It is a study in contrast which is what makes the photography. Color of the huts vs the blandness of the water and sky; the lack of space around the huts vs the vastness of the ocean; then last but not least you have the leading line of the huts going to the pier and then the pier taking the eye out into the ocean this contrast the congestion cause by humanity (the huts) and the wonderment of what lies in the quietness of the seas.
Great shot, keep up the good work; your fan club is always with you. Gregg
Cheers Gregg. I know the composition is spot on but I just thought the content is too much like it's been created for a tourist board :)
Awesome video buddy . Great to see an honest guy at work producing brilliant images
Cheers Paul 👍🏼
Hi Gary - just woke up in Whitby to see your great video. Got here yesterday and hoping to find a few original shots but not easy in very busy tourist spots but ok for street photography. Cheers 👍
Spoilt for choice :)
Good vlog Gary, Whitby is one of my favourite places too, the hour after sunset photos are very nice ,I must give it a try soon.👍
Thank you Liz, very kind 👍🏼
I can hardly believe there is such a thing.
I liked all of the pier shots, but early on I was enamored with the flat out horizontal. I'd put that on the wall. Then I saw that the pier is more complicated. Still all good pics. I liked them better than the later "color" pics. But, you know it's all subjective as they say.
This is the first vlog I've seen of yours and since Whitey is one of my favorite places so visit I thought I'd give it a go. I'm hooked mate, really enjoying going through your back catalogue. Love your enthusiasm and your images are fantastic. I am subscribed ☺
Paul Bell - thank you Paul. It’s kind comments like yours that just make all the hard work worth it. Thank you again 👍🏻👍🏻
It’s coming home!!!
lol I'm cheering and I'm Welsh 👍 👍 👍
Really jealous of some of the coastal locations up north..I struggle to find interesting compositions in Norfolk where I am ...there's only so many pictures of sea defences you can take!! Love the last few images you've taken here.
Cheers Nick 👍
Whitby's great at this time of year, due to it been north facing you can capture a sunrise and sunset and if planned properly you don't have to stay out all day to do it. Love the end images, maybe a trip to Saltwick Bay next time!
Yeah definitely. I've shot there a few times, it's ok 👍🏻
Great video Gary, very much like your "non-tourist" shots :) Liked your Top Gun slow-mo walk - maybe something to try next time you are at the Mach -loop:) Cheers Chris
Cheers Chris. Just trying to make the video more appealing to women :) 😁😁😁😁
Wow Gary, they got better & better with the sun setting and the mixing of sky & sea was superbly done... I have been playing with the ISO 50 feature on my new 5DM3 too, liking the results overall. Great idea moving away from the typical sunrise shot on this locale & trying a sunset instead & successfully done at that! I like that you move around alot in search of the best angle.
Cheers,
Bill... :-)
Always trying Bill, that's me :)
Subscribed to your FB group :-)
Hi Sven, cheers 👍
Nice to see a few new images from Whitby I have been there twice a year over the last few years need to vlog up there now. Great drone work took it more than I did last time haha
Cheers as always Paul 👍
Gary,
Nice progression in working the location. The blending of sky and foreground (foresea?) exposures is masterful. The transition from mono to color was very intriguing, and hanging-out for the golden hour was time well-spent. I must mention your drone composition really catches my eye. I don't often see that fore thought for flightpath.
I see hints of those massively muscled macho legs. How lurid! Perhaps, while at the coast with warm weather, you can film a blog wearing Speedo budgie-smugglers. You know, something for the ladies...
Thank-You,
Mike
lol - I film in my shorts just to remind you to buy milk when at the supermarket :) Made me chuckle
Fantastic vlog as usual BUT I think you might have outdone yourself on this one! Great images, love the drone shots.
I've been in Whitby for 2 days a while back and got amazing sunset images, sunrise was a bust so I'm not complaining. Such a stunning location for seascape photography.
It's a brilliant place indeed 👍👍
Hello Gary, no more hiking ????
Anyway, great after sunset shot.
I'll be doing plenty more soon :) Cheers again 👍
Great shots, I was in Wales last week and had the same amazing east looking sunset colours, unfortunately I didnt get any cloud cover at all but managed a couple of OK shots of the moon rising over the sea at sunset.
Sounds very exciting Sid. Sharing them? 👍 👍
I would if i was anywhere near your standard of photography but sadly im not quite there yet Gary but thanks for the encouragement and all the videos that you put out.
Never been to Witby so I wouldn't know what the Iconic shots are. Loved the shots that you got there Gary, such a great effect dragging the shutter.
Hi Adam, thank you once again. I normally drag the shutter when I'm mixing flash and ambient light. Not sure what you mean in this video? I might be having a blonde moment :)
I always thought dragging the shutter was just a long shutter speed? so it is long shutter speed with the mix of ambient light and flash? hmpph who knew cheers Gary!
lol I call dragging the shutter when you expose for the flash and then slow your shutter speed to add more ambient light lol Who knows who cares :) lol, Either way, thanks as always for your kind words.
haha, precisely! carry on, lol.
I often wonder about the "Thumbs Down" in videos and this is one of them. Get real, this is "Top Shelf" Again.
Excellent as ever. You look more like a rugby man anyway.😂😂
In my younger days, I was. Played Basketball at county level for 25 years too. Not that you could tell looking at me now :)
Hi Gary. It's difficult isn't it - a well known location but with a new take. You've cracked it though ! Absolutely love the long exposure images but the last one is a real belter !! Glad your patience was rewarded. Cracking video from a cracking location ! Thanks for sharing Gary. P.S. Did I spot that you were being filmed rather than making your own recording to camera?
Cheers Tim. I had help with the filming. Well, when I said I had help, the wife was holding the camera. lol shhh don't tell her I said that 👍
Ditto the "Grunters"
Hi Gary, you should come to Sunderland this Saturday tall ships race is on, you can view them from Wednesday it would be excellent for photography.
Hi Ranjo, Not sure it's my thing, sorry Thanks for the suggestion though 👍
No problem Gary, I’m really enjoying your CZcams videos leaning quite a lot from them. Thanks
I'm not sure I agree with you on the blurry sky issue, but that's a personal preference. What I can tell you is that the location you were shooting from is very close to where my Grandparent's house still stands to this day on Westcliff where I spent many a childhood holiday.
Oh wow, it's a very nice area indeed. Lucky Grandparents. I like the blurry sky sometimes, but only sometimes. It's all subjective 👍🏼
You should call into Saltburn By The Sea, its just up the coast from Whitby. Our Victorian pier will be 150 years old 2019. The sun at this time of year sets behind the wind farm at Redcar. We have some of the highest cliffs and one of the longest stretch of sandy beach in the UK.
I know it quite well, it's on my list of places to visit :)
I have lived here for almost 20 years now, it has improved a lot in that time. Its been very busy today lots of lobster coloured people walking past my flat on Marine Parade;-)
Great work as usual Gary, one of my all time favourite places. Love the drone shot of the pier at 6:55.
What's the chances of you doing a video showing how you took and combined the two shots at 7:15? One LE for the sea and the other, much shorter exposure for the sky.
Hi Mike, Glad you liked the video. I will create a video showing how I combine the pictures in the next 2 weeks 👍
Thanks Gary. I look forward to it.
Hello Gary, sorry to be a pain in the arse for asking and, I can see from your latest videos of Steetley and the Mach Loop that you've been exceptionally busy but do you have any news on the video showing how you combine the two long and normal exposure shots in the Whitby video?
Did you ever get round to doing the video mentioned above Gary? I'm another subscriber that would love to see how you joined the two images of Whitby.
Sorry Barry, that was over two months ago. I know Gary is a busy man but I'm sure he'll get around to it eventually.
At least you don't whinge but get on with it - love the latter shots especially 👌
Cheers Eltin, no point moaning, life's too short
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Thank you Lars 👍
lol i was really wondering about why filter was on side
lol I shot a long exposure, then removed the filter from the front of the lens to grab a shot of the sky with a faster shutter speed. I just clipped it back on the did a piece to the camera. When I picked the camera up to move on I noticed it then. I had to look back at the shots I just took, just to make I wasn't a muppet. lol
Loved the long exposures Gary,but feel they were unbalanced, to much rock on the right side, perhaps panning a bit to that side may have balanced the image better? or it's just me,anywho great vlog,cheers.
William Connell - which picture? I’m interested
After watching it again there's only the one image and that's at the 6 min mark, doesn't feel right to me, feels lonely if you know what i mean, there's the stone wall the two lighthouses and two piers i guess they are but from this angle it looks like a slither of rock and steel (on the one side, making it unbalanced} in a large smooth sea and big sky,but as i said before it's just my perception of the image :) ,thanks.
Intro and subtitles in German are finished for being reviewed...enjoy :-) (but not published by youtube yet)
Hi Sven, is this something you have done for me/the video? I'm confused, not a difficult thing btw :)
Done for you AND your video :-) - I was asked by youtube if I would like to translate the video (provide subtitles and intro in german)...I did it and now it's on them to publish it, but I don't know how the procedure will go on.
Sven Proescher oh that’s amazing, thank you 👍🏻👍🏻 very kind gesture
Gary Gough no worries
didnt exactly avoid the iconic though did you...
Hi Darren. The first set of shots aren't Iconic at all. I've never seen anyone shoot the jetty from this angle. The latter shots, as explained in my video were close but not shot in my style!
The Iconic shots of Whitby are usually on the steps, Abbey, on the Jetty and around the Whale Bones on the hill! agree?
Bloody rubbish, I have seen better images taken with the lens cap on !!!!! Ha got you Gary, bloody marvelous mate, you make it look so easy - magical stuff
lol Had me for a sec. I was just about to take you off my Christmas Card list too :)
tennis has become a gay porn sound track, nothing wrong with gay porn, it's just i'm not in to it
lol fair point