Landscape Photography: How to become a complete photographer
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Photography is harder than it looks, and in many ways it can be difficult to get better without following. bunch of rules, or copying someone else's vision. In this video I break down some of the fundamental skills to become a complete photographer, that is someone who can go anywhere, at any time, in any weather and make images they are happy with.
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Fantastic set of images. To my subjective eye there’s something “out of darkness”-ish about the black and white image. The coast looks like a treasure trove of possibilities.
Hello Alister, This is a very insightful and informative video as always! I really enjoy your point of view. However, I think the concept of a 'complete photographer' goes deeper than what you have showed us. It doesn't necessarily mean being good at every genre like
ZDimitris mentions below. But being a father, husband, and full time employee has actually made me a better complete photographer by necessity. Let me explain. Not having access to exotic locations and staying local has pushed the creativity and over the years I have come to embrace this. I'm not saying I'm there yet, but the complete photographer is someone that can be dropped into any scene in any condition and come out with a decent image. And this means that the complete photographer pulls from all the available tools, not just different compositions. They can read the scene and choose to: go wide, or crop down, do macro, go high-key or low-key, use long or fast exposure, keep it minimalistic, use multiple exposures or even do blurred intentional camera movement. The complete photographer can pull from this big bag of techniques anytime, anyplace.
A workshop with you and Adam is a definite goal!
I can't photograph depressed but I can wander out into the woods depressed carrying my camera and return relaxed and happy with any number of images on the card.
PS: The macro lens for flowers and butterflies suggestion stuck me as funny. Imagine you're prone with your D850 & 100mm macro pointed at a Cardinal flower. You've just about dialed in the composition when 'someone' walks up to see what you are doing. You look up to say something and it's a bear. 🤣
haha, you have quite the imagination!! I'd be fertilising the flower meadow in that scenario.. :-)
I understand that this goes for landscape photography in general but in my mind at least to become a complete photographer means that you've mastered all types of photography and you are confident that you'll end up with professional results regardless the genre of photography, time of day, weather conditions etc. That means that one has got to get proficient in Wildlife, macro, portraits, product photography, event photography, architecture, food photography, street photography, real estate photography, drone photography, landscape photography heck even cave photography or underwater photography as well. you name it. I doubt that such a photographer exists yet but that's my goal and what i want to become in the following years. It's a tough goal indeed but one that excites me a lot to keep pushing forward with photography into the future.
wow! you set very high standards for yourself (even excessive imho). i really hope you reach your goal without being mediocre or devoured by ambition.
@@seawalcker Thanks for your kind words. I think that is plausible indeed. I am not in a hurry anyways. Doesn't have to happen in the next 5 years for example but in the long long run. Also many different kinds of photography share the same shooting principle like portraits, macro, product photography, food photography, wildlife photography etc. Which is that you have an illuminated subject you take portraits off and you need to control the light that hits it and the quality of it. In nature like for wildlife you go out and set yourself into the specific lighting conditions to shoot, landscapes too, in portraits, product photography, macro etc you have more control over it but the principle is the same... Either is a tree, a hawk, a bear, a flower, a pair of Nikes, a bride, the groom, the singer or whatever we do the same thing, we all are taking portraits of it. So many principals are the same across many different styles of photography. Like the eye level angle of shooting for example that can be applied equally to all these genres of photography etc and many more. Which kinda makes the final goal look far closer to reality than many think it will be
Nice to see that you got a couple of keepers 😉
The ones I copied off you ;-)
Really good watch Alister, you'd have been hard pushed to drag me away from the building, but the detail down on the coast was superb. I maybe would have got a couple of seascapes in to show where I had been, but what else was on offer would have been a too big a draw for me.
I agree, Allister, on the need not to put the sun in the image. We al know the source of light. Sometimss it can be the biggest distraction of all. Something I point oit to camera clubs often.
Thanks, this short video was inspirational
Wise words as always…thank you! 👍
Thanks for listening - I always appreciate your feedback - so positive
Love them all! The light, geometric shapes- gorgeous 🥰
Many thanks, much appreciated
I really like 8, 9 and 11, especially 8. They have something calming, but also alien, like a good SciFi movie. Wonderful.
many thanks for that
I learn so much from your content on CZcams and podcast. Often I listen to one of your episodes when I drive to a location to photograph. Thank You for your time and knowledge
Love that! many, many thanks
Thoughtful and incisive content. Great stuff! Thanks Alister
Excellent, many thanks
Thanks for the video, I enjoyed your Images Very well.
Thank you very much
I love your work! Plus, I love your take on photography. A lot of the images that you capture. You can feel something in that image. That's what it's about. Great work!
To me, that seastack image at 11:20 is the most three-dimensional I've seen from you in quite some time: superb!
Thanks mate, yeah, big landscapes have their place ❤️
Nice idea the clif with the trees reflected upside down. Nice compact shot!
I liked it, then Adam nicked it too 😂😂😂
Absolutely love the moon rise images!
excellent, many thanks.
Most engaging talk, I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you, Alister, that was very informative and inspirational. I like all of them. Both you and Adam have helped me to see more compositions in any given location that I would have previously overlooked thinking I had to capture everything in one grand, busy scene. It was like I was recording a location but not getting the more intimate scenes within. No wonder I was putting my audience to sleep. Your intimate images are dynamic and engaging works of art.
Thanks so much Brian, delighted to hear we’re being helpful
Hi Alister, what a beautiful content. Subscribed. No gobbledygook and what I like most of all is the proof, that you do not need the latest and greatest gear, not at all, seeing the images is far more important. You do everything with the D850 have access to the probably widest range of lenses and that “old” DSLR can cover all types of photography. You have no idea how I’m admiring the skills of landscape photographers like you, I try to get into it since 40 years, I see the possibilities by the naked eye but if it comes to frame it, it turns out I’m kinda anti-talented 😅🙈.
Great video ! For the images with long exposure blur of the waves was that single long exposure or exposure stacking in post?
Great photographs and discussions.... It's hard not to like them all.
Thanks so much, looking forward to going there with you
A belting selection and particularly like the moon rise, that coast wasn't Hernandez by any chance :-)
Thanks mate, no, totally different area
An excellent set of images Alister, I could live with any one of them on the wall, guess that makes you a complete photographer! 😊
Haha, I was worried it may be implied that I think I am ❤️
Hallo Alister, thank you very much once again for educating content and fine pictures, too. My favorites are the two of the rugged sea-stack, where you juxtaposed the coloured and the b/w version and showed how the emotional impact changes completely.
yes indeed, colour is such. powerful trigger
Great images, Alister! This video was also one of your better ones since you shared your thoughts about the photos in a very insightful way. I already have your ebooks and find them instructive and thought provoking.
Happy to hear that Larry, appreciate the feedback
Excellent video! Great contemplative presentation.
Many thanks, much appreciated
Where do you place observation in your photo process? Could that be the precursor to "fascination, engagement, excitement and interest"?
The Guggenheim Bilbão is an architectural masterpiece. But, did you guys take time to actually go inside for the artwork? If I ever get over there, I definitely will. And shoot the exterior, of course! 😉
Not this time. The first group it was closed on the Monday we visited and the second group we didn't really have the time, but I know a few of the folks stayed a night before or after the workshop with the intention of being inside. I have done it many times over the years and it is so very much worth it.