Photography Tips: How to find photos when the location's 'boring'.
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- When us photographers can't find something interesting to photograph it's not the location that's boring - it's our imagination letting us down. I find it hard to get excited about where I live because I've seen it all thousands of times before. But in truth it's a beautiful place and I'm lucky to live here. So I forced myself to go out shooting and film it so you can see how I got on.
The trick is to get out there and start taking photos instead of complaining how dull the place is. Really look around you, look at the light and imagine what someone else would think of the place. As you begin shooting you'll start to see more images and the whole creative process snowballs.
Just because somewhere is 'boring' to us, doesn't mean it's a boring place to photograph.
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as always your concise delivery makes me feel like im standing next to you during the shoot rather than watching from the other end of an internet cable. thanks :)
"focus on my berries..."
lol @5:28
Yup, I usually do photographic trips on my own so I don't have to worry about anyone waiting for me while I spend ages getting the right picture.
The second Mike Browne video I've watched. Could be quite fun. Some nice ideas and tips so that's worthwhile use of time. I don't stay serious for long though. There was one time in your soliloquy when I had to say to the screen "Take the Shot, Mike, Take the Shot Now". Then oddly, I could hear Mike sounding like Ricky Gervais and waited for the glint in the eye.... I'll look for some more videos
Thank you Ananda Sim Please enjoy.... By the way it may be easier to find your way around them by category on my site www.photographycourses.biz/video
The most important thing I took away from this video is going out by yourself even though I enjoy going with others I find I don't feel comfortable taking the time I want to with someone else with me. Thanks again Mike for the tips!
Happy to help +Mike Blunt Blunt - MIKE :-)
Only take a friend who is a interested Photographer and has their Camera and they will Create their own images, while you capture your own Photo creations.
I can't reply directly to your comment Miri Duarte - you need to change your G+ settings.. I'm still using the Nikon DSLR but added a Fuji XT-1 to my kit. Great little camera... www.photographycourses.biz/fuji_XT1_mirriorless_camera.html
Thanks once again, Mike, for another entertaining and inspiring masterclass.
Living in central London, and having photographed it 'to death' over the past 20 years, I sometimes feel limited when I want to have a little fun with my camera.
So what I say to myself is: "Imagine you've never seen this place before and how you might feel at seeing these (beautiful) things".
Okay. So I'll go to one of the (many) local parks or walk along the canal or to a museum or walk beside the River Thames, and relax.
Then I'll start snapping. . . Photographing in the park is very relaxing. There are so many things to capture! We love to see the sunlight in the tree-tops and creating delicate pools of light on the ground!
Since switching from a bridge camera to a DSLR, I am fuelled up for a trip to the stars!! I have watched many of you videos which taught me very quickly how to use my new camera. I particularly liked the one about macro photography (which I'm now addicted to!)
I've been sharing your videos with my g/f (who is also a keen photographer) and when we go out together we have a fantastic time taking photo's of odd, abstract things!
You are right; the key to good photography begins in the imagination of the photographer!
We'll keep watching! Love and peace, always!
Ilonka and Daz
you just love taking photos, all excited about details, lightning. you are really inspiring person. love your videos
I absolutely love your humor and charm. You make these videos so entertaining, and you manage to give some really helpful advice at the same time. Another excellent video. =)
Thank you M. Strain Jr.
Hello Mike I have done a lot of that. In the fields flowers.bracken,animals climbing trees.sunset I just love them.
Great Terry 🙂
Thank you so much Mike, you have utterly renewed my sense of excitement - very much looking forward to the weather improving a little so I can get back out.
Very inspiring! Just what I needed in the cold and gray winter.
OMG I searched for a tutorial like this almost one week !!! FINALLY !!! XD Love you tutorials Mike !
Thanks Ionuț - good to know it helped you. Please help me make more videos by sharing them on forums etc with other photographers.
Mike Browne Okay !!!
Thank you Mike. Once again a lovely video. I went directly out in my garden, which I must have photographed a thousand times ... but with the first frost this year, I managed to have some very satisfying photos.
Have lovely X-mas and a Happy New Year ♥♥♥
Rock n Roll Pia C. Delighted to have helped you find inspiration in your own garden :-)
Always look forward to your videos Mike!
Thanks Mike, I'm handicapped with arthritis and use a walker therefore find it difficult to move about yet you showed that you don't need to travel about to get great shots. I truly take your lessons to heart.
Thanks +Bill Britt Happy to help - keep it up buddy - MIKE
Great to have another instruction video. Have been missing these.
I am 41 yo and i still cant understand the right seat car driving... Instead i can perfectlly understand and enjoy your lessons. Thank you so much...
Made me smile +Spyros Theodoratos Thank you - MIKE :-)
Exceptional color and contrast. Lots of fun...........
Great video Mike thanks for all your input much appreciated.
really helpful and inspiring videos you do, thanks mate!! One of the best channel I found to teach me as a newcomer into the world of photos
Your awesome I live in a forest its hard to get inspired. But you sir have inspired me. Thank YOU
thanks this was really helpful, i get into shooting slumps all the time.
Great video and that little Fuji XT-1 takes great picture,love the colors it produce !
Thanks alot Mike! I learned so much stuff from you especialy the part with the lighting of the berries was so cool.
Thank you Labis Papaioannou
- you're welcome. Please share any of my vids you like with more photographers as it'll help me make more of them... MIKE :-)
Many thanks Mike - I enjoyed hearing you think aloud about your technical and creative process. Thanks for sharing.
No worries The Camera Challenge happy you liked it. Please help me make more free vids by ‘Liking’ them and sharing them with other photographers on forums, Facebook etc
Thx for the tips, very well explained while doing the actual photos
Thanks - Glad it was helpful ... MIKE🙏😊
Thank you for the video! I was inspired to visit my local park with a new perspective - and took only my macro lens. I saw it in new ways, and have a few wonderful images to show for it!
I really enjoy your videos Mike; I am getting rather bored with my usual location as well. It'd be great if you could do a video like this but with a more urban environment. I also recently came back from Southeast Asia and I really miss the bustling urban environment there. The chaos was great for street photography. Now I'm back in an orderly world where everything is neat and boring with a forever overcast above me.
TC Thanks for the comment. I know only too well. Personally I hate dingey English winters
Very helpfull as always.
Thanx!
This is just the perfect video i was looking for. Thank you
You're welcome Nick... MIKE :-)
Funny, entertining and houghtful!
As always, Mike !
Best wishes for the New Year to you, to Jane and everbody else involved in your videos!
Thank you MrVoayer and you....
About the mushroom pics. Picking and eating mushrooms happens to be a hobby of mine (since 1975), and I really miss a shot where we can clearly see the gills. Based on your pictures I'm not even sure what species it is, but the main thing from an artistic point of view is that the gills just make a mushroom picture much more fascinating. In my opinion.
Thank you for the video!! Really helped me to. Take photos 😃
Many thanks, Mike, for this and all the other videos. Happy Christmas!
You're welcome Edward SnipSnapFlix Have a great Christmas.. :-)
I started in photography in the 60's and after 16 years managing a camera store and being a studio owner for 32 years, I decided to take a break. Now that I'm getting back into photography, I've found that I've been having far too many "no pictures here" moments. However, while watching this video, I realized that a major part of my problem has been going out with a photographer friend who shoots nothing like I do so that between the two of us, we do little besides critique what's wrong with the location.
I think that my next outing will be with a Hasselblad or a TLR, a couple of rolls of Tri-X, a tripod, AND by myself. I just might be surprised with the results. Excellent video, Mr. Browne, Thanks!
Thanks ghw7192 - I certainly find it harder to find shots when i'm with someone else. It's Ok if we can go off in different directions for a while though...
nice to see you back mike ,,, iv mist your videos keep it up mate,,,
Another awesome video from one of youtube's greatest stars. Thanks, Mike.
Wow thank you +Todd Hudson - MIKE
Enjoy all you videos mike keep them coming 😀👍
Í 'll try this weekend . Thanks for the tip
Mike, this is such a brilliant subject to tackle! I will now hopefully see my own area in a different way and try and shoot some different subjects.
Great advice as always :)
inspirational as usual mike :) many thanks
Amazing. I need to be able to see things to photograph like this. This just motivated me to go out on a photography adventure tomorrow.
Way to go battousai909 :-) And thanks for telling me too..
What a great tip, I'm glad i found this channel. Thanks Mike!
Thanks Joshua ... MIKE🙏😊
well explained - and it is not getting boring! Thank you!
Thank you Albert Dandl
thanks, very inspiring video!!
I'm really liking your vids and the way you teach is wonderful, really grabs my attention.
Thanks Shaun. Please help me make more by sharing them around with other photographers... MIKE :-)
thanks for your efforts...
Thanks for the help!
Good job mike !!!
Hi Mike, I'm from Sri Lanka and I just had to put a post after watching this video. Been following your clips for sometime and just wanted to thank you for being a great teacher/guide/mentor/comedian ... etc Keep up the great work you're doing for people like us who just love photography !!!!! Thank you Mike ... You inspire us.
Thank you so much for your kind words Menaka Sanjeewa Comments like yours and many others inspire me to keep doing it so the circle completes itself. Please help me make more videos by sharing them on forums etc with other photographers.
First time i've seen this one. I love the way you can find something to shoot that most people would'nt look twice at. I'm on week 3 of the UBC and already notice a marked improvement in my photos. Just by thinking before shooting. I also like the teaching method you use. Simple plain language. Being a middle aged military veteran i can relate to the style...... Explanation - Demonstration - Repartition. Keep up the great work and keep it coming.
thank you for the lovely insight Mick - Melissa pp Mike
Really enjoyed the video....went out and shot at the trails by my house that I've shot countless times...think I did get some good captures.
Nice one cepwin
Super helpful video Mike.
Another great video
Really like this kind of hands on approach for a tutorial where you explain the adjustments you make and your thought process!
Thanks Hani. Glad you liked it!... MIKE :-)
I really like the video, the whole thought out loud process of it. It was very relaxing and the photos you captured were brilliant
Thanks @Lukas Pukenis. The most important part of photography isn't the camera or kit - it's the photographer's thinking. If you're good at controlling the camera already and this interests you please take a look at my 7 Building Blocks of Photography online course which goes in depth on the whole photography thought process for any image. You can get info and even try a free sample at the link below. Best wishes... MIKE
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Hi Mike thank you for all your excellent videos. Happy Christmas to yourself, Jane, Natasha & Lorna.
Thanks Andrew Hollis - Happy Christmas to you and yours too..
brilliant video! Has defo given me inspiration. What camera are you using mike?
Thanks Alex Glennon glad to help with your get-up-and-go! It's my Fuji XT-1. Have a look at this video for more... www.photographycourses.biz/fuji_XT1_mirriorless_camera.html
Inspiring & Helpful, Well Done. Thanks!
Thanks Wrestling Is My Blood happy it helped. Please share it around... - MIKE :-)
Great teaching technique, I like how you explain your thinking and decision processes, thanks for the inspirations.
Thank you +Wayne Jeffrey - please keep up the good work helping me make more by sharing the vids with other photographers - MIKE :-)
Just a brilliant tutorial; nuff said.
Mike, I agree! Where I live has a wooded area where my son and I go walking and I'll take camera. I mean, I live in this area, but if an animal comes out to say hi, it can make for a really good shot. It is funny how you take things for granted sometimes. Anyway, how are you liking the XT-1? I've since sold my Canon camera and switched over to Sony mirrorless (the A6000) - I love it!
Thanks The Post Color Blog I like the Fuji mirrorless a lot but don't see it as a replacement for the DSLR. AF is much to slow and inaccurate compared to the Nikon pro lenses so i don't use it for commissions. Great for travel though because it;s so small and light.
Mike Browne
I agree. I enjoy my x100T for its small form factor and use it a lot for my street photography. It is nice and compact and takes pretty good shots too. I actually don't find the autofocus too slow but is not up to par to a DSLR. I actually got this guy because I wanted to pick up a 35 mm lens and decided that this small camera could act as that anyways :)
Very helpful video. I am often into such situations when I cannot find anything interesting. I am going to village next week where I shall follow your tips. Thanks!!
Also, while shooting in daylight is it absolutely necessary to use a lense hood?
Sharmistha Dan I use one all the time because there's nothing more disappointing than getting home to find what I thought was a great shot is washed out and de-saturated because of lens flare, which is so easily avoided by using a lens hood.
Hi Mike,
Very nice tutorials you're making. Actually I'm a professional photographer, but I believe that everyday we should learn many things, no matter whatever our level or expertise in our profession is. In that context, I have been watching your videos for a while, and found it to be very interesting. So, keep up the good work. I look forward for many more videos like this from you.
thank you for the kind words, and you are right, we all learn every step of the way, and that what makes things interesting - Melissa pp Mike
Thanks for another inspiring video mike, how are you liking mirrorless?
Bhodisatvas I love the fuji but still use the Nikon for most work photography.
It would also be fun to see both color and b&w taken at the same time to see how the approach to each shot would differ......and then the results.
Nice one !
Strange, my parthers granny lives in the New Forest and I *love* it when we visit, I love walking in the forest or round Stoney Cross and taking photos (with the compact until now and the next visit will be my first time with the DSLR). Yet I live in Bristol, home to the Suspension Bridge and 30 minutes drive from Cheddar Gorge and I wonder what to take photos of....
You've done it again Mike! Seems like every photographer who thinks they have something to say or have lots of people blowing smoke up their rear ends have a website, youtube page and a book or two. Some who seem to have more cash than others travel the world to exotic locations, taking lots of pictures to woo their faithful followers. Truth be told, you could hand their 4 grand camera to a 5 year old and say shoot the pretty volcano and you would get the same result.
I'm not putting them down, we all have to make a living, I'm trying to make a point. I have watched most of your videos and you are different. You see things differently. You can make something out of nothing and you explain it in a way that even I can understand what your saying. The way you see light and shade is amazing. I don't know how you haven't been 'found' by a magazine or even a school to keep passing your talents on. Well, I rambled on enough and I'm not a rambler! Your just so incredibly talented at what you do, it just blows my mind.
Thank you so much for your kind words Bill Franklin So happy to have helped and delighted to receive such a great message from you.
Hey Mike, popped by for some inspiration and ideas (again), and notice some of your vids, this one especially, has subtitles added. Now not being pernickety, but I haven't laughed so much at some of the translations, absolute classics... :)
Thanks for popping by again.. Subtitles are auto generated by CZcams’s voice recognition system on all videos but it makes a few mistakes. Some hilarious. We’re working through correcting them but with over 350 videos - it’s taking a while… MIKE :-)
Another good video Mr Mike🌹👍🤓
the video quality here is amazingly great! i wonder what camera is used here? contrast and color looks perfect and sharp, totally different from your previous videos... keep it up mike!
Thanks Alex Comaya Apart form a couple of close ups which were taken on the Fuji, it's the same Sony EX1R camera I've always used - however I now edit on Final Cut Pro X instead of 7 and the colour management is way way better... :-)
Thanks again for yet Another Great Tutorial Mike,
im sure I speak on behalf all your Subscribers in saying your Advise and Information is most Great fully Received.
And I wish you and Yours a Very Merry Christmas and a Prospourus New Year, from here in Sunny Shropshire.
Well not Very sunny as its 9pm lol.
Thank you TheShropshirestar - not that sunny down here on the south coast either. Have a great Christmas
Awesome video! I recently took some photos of identical looking berries too!
great stuff, subscribed
Thank you very much for your tips. The last year or so I've picked an interest in photography and your videos are so helpful. Very easy to understand. I don't have DSLR camera yet but am looking forward to having one. In the meantime the best camera is the one I have. What do you think about Instagram?
Thanks Lydia Asena Happy my vids help. Please help me make more like it by sharing it with other photographers on Forums, Facebook etc. Clicking the Thumbs Up button helps too.. :-) I'm on Instagram but use it a lot less these days. In the beginning it was mostly images taken on phones and I loved to see what people came up with using such simple devices. There's a link to my instagram on the channel home page.
Great channel! You're really creative!
Thank you Jordan Hauser Digital - MIKE
Mike Browne absolutely man! My favorite thing about shooting nature is that it's just you. You don't have to depend on any models or anything :)
Fantastic place!
I run into that a lot but I'll have to think twice now!
Very interesting video and inspirational, very helpful as much of that I often overlook, will need to try scouting around the small things myself at some point, great video and love the overhead view of the mushroom, so effective and reminds me of good stock images.
Thanks Scott... MIKE
thanks for the inspiration buddy!
No problem 👍
Really interesting video and soooo helpful. I live in the Ashdown Forest which I too thought I'd done to death, but I realise I haven't scratched the surface yet. Thanks so much for reinvigourating me Mike. Nice one.
My Pleasure Tom Lee happy to help - MIKE
Hello Mike,
I love watching and learning from your videos. Can you sometime have a video of something like photography in night, moving objects, getting some sharp images or moving blur.
Thank you, Merry Christmas :)
Thank you Anamitra Bagchi There are a few low light videos on the chanel - slow speed 2nd curtain flash sync.. czcams.com/video/oR-OOb-ZnKI/video.html
Mike what camera are you using now? you are not using Nikon anymore? love the tutorial.
I'm 98% sure its the Fujifilm X-T1
Well done! Thanks!
Well done!
wow such great stuff.
Thank you Wayne 😌
awesome man! I'm new to photography and these videos are both entertaining and helpful!
Thank you KimKewl good to know you're learning from them. Please help me make more by sharing my vids with other photographers on forums, social media etc.
will do:) keep up the good work!
Thanks a lot Mike for this inspiring video. We've all experienced that time when our creative juices run dry. Was wondering if your switch to mirrorless cameras is a permanent one?. I personally find the viewfinder histogram to be quite neat.
Pleasure perfectforehand - It's not a switch to mirrorless but I have added the Fuji to my DSLR because they compliment each other for different things...
In the fungus shot you also had acorns all over the ground. How about a dare kind of video where you have a million acorns and you have to find a shot among them.
Could be fun Ted Nelson :-)
Great video! I'm one of those people that have been to New Forest and ABSOLUTELY loved it, but I know what you mean :)
Thank you Ade Torrent - and i do appreciate how lucky I am to live here - and how lazy I am because of its familiarity :-/
Wow Just come across this today; thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it 📸📸📸
I agree with "do this stuff on your own". My wife loves walking through the woods with me. But hates it if I stop and fiddle with my camera endlessly for 5 minutes to get a nice photo of something she can't really see.
It's an age old problem John Stilley. Mind you, it's always driven me mad when I'm with someone who wants to stop and look at shoes, bags and soft furnishings that I can't really see too ;-)
I'm actually newly married. That's an interesting point, I'll try to keep in mind.
Congratulations John Stilley :-)
... (Alan) ...One thing I totally agree on, that for a lot of photography you need to be out on your own.
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p.s. One thing I often notice is that the photos you take have a much better colour cast to the ones I do. Mine look pale and lifeless, but your photos of the ferns are warm and vibrant. Is this post processing, if so how do you do that? If not, what are the most common reasons for lack of vibrancy?
thank you for the kind words +pointer2null , Mike do mild post processing of his image, and give it a little contrast and vibrance using Lightroom, lack of vibrancy is common when you use RAW file vs Jpegs, if you use RAW file you are telling the camera that you will do some post processing after, while jpeg has more color on it for the camera thinks you will not do further editing, and it does the editing for you that's why jpeg has smaller file handling, while raw file has alot it preserves more detail for you are telling the camera that you are in charge of the editing later ,you can also adjust the color on the settings on your camera - MELISSA ( for Mike )
Hello! I just wanted to know what kind of Camera you are using? Great Video btw :)
Fuji XT-1 in this video Marifeli Joy - and thanks :-)
0:55 what a great photo it is , just amazing
Thanks... MIKE 🙂🙏
I love all your videos. You have really helped my photography. I have noticed that you have been using a mirrorless camera. Do you think they are the future of photography? I recently purchased one and am loving it. But there are times I still like using my full sized DSLR.
Can't say really- but since you love your own gears both mirror-less and full sized, that's what matters, some people still shoot film and loving it because of they like the workflow, colors and effort they have to pour in, it's our personal preference on which one give's us satisfaction on our work - Melissa pp Mike
you can only take just so many mushroom shots, and leaf litter shots- and berry shots- then it becomes repetitive- same subjects, different angles sort o thing- also, do be aware, I think I got ringworm mucking about in the forest taking mushroom shots this past summer- and still fighting to get rid of it- awful stuff- your comment below is a great one about taking it slow and getting 5 good shots rather than 50 mediocre shots- as the saying goes, quality over quantity- also look for light color and gesture as you and Maisel keep stressing- Another photographers suggest that if the light isn't anything special, then the shot won't be either- I believe that's about right- He stated it took him 8 years at one location just to get THE shot- finally it came- talk about patience! but yeah, light color gesture=- better photos- tough htough finding inspiration in spots you've covered thoroughly- but the key I think is, as you pointed out, finding the light, shapes etc-