Split-Toning & Mono Detail Landscape Photography
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2020
- Join me for some landscape photography from Newborough Forest on Anglesey. In this video where I have changeable conditions I show you how I approach shooting woodland detail, and the postprocessing techniques I used to create split tone images. I also take you through my compositions and thought processes for creating black-and-white detail shots. This is something of a departure from my normal style of landscape photography, but there are times when having some alternatives can be useful if conditions deter you from photographing mountains and coastline.
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Edited, mixed and produced with DaVinci Resolve 16.
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I always find valuable the way you describe your thinking process, both in composition and post. Beautiful finished shots!
Enjoyed that. Its a great spot with many excellent memories from my childhood.
Hello Huw, many thanks for watching and taking the time to let me know you enjoyed it. Much appreciated 😊👍
A bit of magic David well done.
Thank you so much, Paul, very kind of you to say 😊👍
Really enjoyed that one. The forest is wonderful there and as you say is so easy to bypass. Nice to see you doing something different too. That grass shot is beautiful.
Cheers mate - wasn't overly sure about it myself, but it seems to have gone down quite well - not going to be making a habit of it though 😊👍
A very professional video filled with knowledge! As you say so much to shoot within this forest. Wonderful work David.
Cheers mate, it's not a bad spot to be honest, and somewhere that I visit quite regularly. It's just that it's not my usual fair for videoing and sharing. I'll be honest, I don't really buy the difficulty which people claim to have with woodland photography. The bottom line is you can never completely isolate a subject. But having to work at it to create a compelling composition does you no harm at all in terms of practising your skills. So I wish people would stop moaning about Woodlands. Look at the sort of stuff that Paul G Johnson is sharing recently on Instagram: Some superb artwork, but nothing isolated, just composed well. I would share work from woodland much more often if my channel hadn't got a mountain and coast sort of vibe, because I'm just as happy in that sort of environment. Plus, it's the sort of thing that more viewers have on their own doorstep so perhaps more relatable. Maybe I should have a rethink ... 😊👍
D Griff Gallery first place I went to test my gimbal. A little ancient local woodland. Love it also, like you say it’s the same as shooting anything just different, tighter rules. Top bombing cocker
Nice change of scenery. Thanks for sharing
Hi Tony, thanks for your support as always. I did enjoy it, and do visit there quite often, but don't video it. But I really hope I can be back in the mountains soon!! 😊👍
Great to get out into the woods and challenge yourself. Excellent set of images and the added post processing info is very helpful. Cheers for sharing, 👍📸
Cheers mate - next one's going to be from somewhere you'll recognise! 😊👍
@@DGriffGallery looking forward to that one then, 👍📸
Great to see you back, interesting to see your post processing but still prefer the outdoor parts. Well thought out shots. Thanks again
Hi, thanks ever so much for your feedback. Always appreciate your support. Don't worry, the outdoor parts will always be the major aspect of my channel, I'll only be dropping in a bit of postprocessing if there is a particularly interesting or helpful technique to share in reaching the final artwork. 😊👍
Very nice David! Love the images
Many thanks, Garrick, appreciate your tuning in and taking the time to leave some feedback 😊👍
Nice video David, interesting watch. Nice to know that Forrest was planted the year I was born. Nice images.
Many thanks for watching John. Really glad you enjoyed it 😊👍
I quite liked this one David. I shoot a lot of woodlands here in the US and it was interesting to see your approach. Woodlands give unlimited potential shots, most of them completely unique, never photographed before. That really allows for expansive artistic expression in my opinion. Very inspiring this one.
Hi Philip, that's a really good point about unique shots - hadn't occurred to me before, but it's a point well worth making next time I'm filming in that sort of location. 😊👍
Another superb video and those photos are absolutely gorgeous. I'm a huge fan of your landscape work and this channel, thank you for sharing.
Gosh, thanks so much for your very kind feedback, Arthur. Really appreciate it. and I'm so glad you enjoy my work. It makes a lot of hard work very worthwhile when people offer such generous encouragement 😊👍
I am a transplant from the hardwood forests of Illinois to the pine forests of northern Wisconsin. I can hike in the pine forests without taking a chainsaw to cut through the brush. Interesting compositions, by the way.
Many thanks Dale - you make a good point about the clear forest floor in coniferous woodland. Even parts of Newborough where deciduous trees have muscled in are impenetrable! 😊👍
Beautiful video Dave, I like the first photo and the last one in black and white with the "explosion" of the branches a lot.
It's a nice forest, I like how the floor is clean, it really makes more easy to find order into the chaos when you look for a composition.
Hi Fabrizio, Yes it is quite an unusual area of woodland because most pine forests have the trees planted quite close together to maximise their commercial value, so even though the forest floor is often clear of any underlying vegetation you don't have access to it anyway! 😊👍
@@DGriffGallery You're right, it's quite unique.
As always, I love to see the method of post processing in these vlogs. I was more curious to see how you managed to treat skies in the forest shots. The bane of my existence. And the answer is simple, avoid the skies :P
Thanks once again for your work.
No mate, it's not too much of a problem working with bright skies in woodland images - just need to blend exposures or under-expose and pull shadows back up - which is what I'd do if I had a full frame system like your 5Dmkiv 😊👍
Well this is as rare as rocking horse shit....DG doing woodland photography!! A nice change and very enjoyable mate. Really like the editing section added in the middle, that format works really well. I do need to get to over here and take you to the silver birches at Holme Fen, even though its the lowest point in the UK, where you're used to being at some of the highest!!
Definitely up for a weekend out with you and the local crew. Fix up a date when the others are free and let me know ...😊👍
Lovely relaxing blog, we were in Newborough last week. Parked on the main road opposite Malltraeth And then took some lovely pictures from the small square car park picnic area at Malltraeth along the shore line up towards where our well known Sea King pilot lived with his lovely new wife.
Lovely blue skies last week..
Loved the bark of the Ravons set against the wind brushing through the tall trees...
Yes, it is a really nice location and somewhere which I visit quite regularly, although obviously quite rarely for video purposes! Whenever possible, I tend to prefer to share videos of the mountains and open coast as that's what people kind of look for in my channel. Although I do have a series coming up which will feature more routine local spots in bite-size chunks. You'll see what I mean ... 😊👍
Cheers Dave. Often use the split tone tab in LR. Vever thought to use a complimentary colour in the shadows with it though. Will give it a go the next one 👌 Cheers
Hi Christian, many thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment with your thoughts.So glad you found it helpful and hope you get some interesting results! 😊👍
Another different one, David. I liked the format with just an outline of the processing information without a lot of slider swishing to watch. I’ll have to have a go at using split toning like that too. Cheers.
Hi Brian - yes, I was keen to avoid a slider-fest! Hope you and yours are keeping well 😊👍
D Griff Gallery No coughs or sweats - working out where to take our personal 2m exclusion zones next week ;-))
@@BrianHorsey Yes I've just revised arrangements for this weekend - back to flying solo!! 😊👍
I love woodland and it’s always great to learn more about shooting woodland shots. Enjoyed the processing section as well thanks David
Hello David, thank you ever so much for watching I really appreciate it. So glad that my video is interesting and helpful. And I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know you enjoyed it because that sort of feedback makes all the hard work worthwhile. 😊👍
Great video David, it has made me realize that I should also use LR with PS. Beautiful images.
Hi Bernard, they do work well together and despite people claiming that the PS Camera RAW filter does the same as LR, that's not true - there a few missing, but in my book essential components. 😊👍
@@DGriffGallery What I find very annoying is that Adobe do not list any Olympus Camera's/lens in either PS or Lr Camera Raw, I sue an E5, not that old. Adobe used to list them in earlier versions. Must email them!
Very nice. You’re right, something different. Liked the little post tutorial too.
How about I expand a little on split-toning for and EDS price?
Really enjoyed that format of 'in the field' interspersed with 'in the office'... I think the split toning really worked and that was a great example of where it can be used in conjunction with colour. Cheers for the mention too mate, much appreciated :-)
Anything I can do to promote mates - goes without saying 😊👍
Good to see you back in action. That forest looks amazing.
Hello Warren, thank you ever so much for watching and being good enough to leave your kind feedback. I really appreciate it. It is a really interesting bit of woodland, somewhere I visit quite regularly although I don't feature it very often on my channel. As I said, well worth a visit if you ever spend much time around here 😊👍
Enjoyed that... A change is as good as a rest! Cheers - T 🙂
Hi Tony, thanks ever so much for watching. Yes, you're quite right; even though I would've preferred to have been in the mountains, I did enjoy this brief excursion locally. To be honest, I actually visit there quite regularly I just don't often video it because people expect my channel to be more about the wide open spaces of the mountains and the coast! 😊👍
Hi David. Waiting your video! Beautiful forest, but if you want to be in a hot place come down to Benalmadena 😂 25º today, toooo hot to march 🥵. Aaaarg! Try to open the closed car under the sun... not fun.
Like the final result of the first image given blue tones to the shadows.
If is not a bother would like make you a question: every time you go outside, the forest, beach, mountain, how many photographs make? Do you go out with a limit? Two weeks in Cazorla mountains did 250 in three days, think are a lot of them.
Thanks Dave, do not miss any of your vlog 😀. And sorry I know that my English is not very good, but the most important is the communication, isn’t it?
Hello Manuel, thank you ever so much for watching. And yes, you are quite right, communication is far more important than language skills. I really appreciate you supporting my channel and being good enough to comment. To answer your question, I don't have any specific limit on the number of images that I will come home with from any given location trip. Although, it's fair to say I take far fewer images in recent years, than I did when I was a youngster learning my photography skills. I tend to find that I have a much better idea when I am behind the camera of what will work and what won't work. So rather than bring home hundreds of exposures and work my way through deleting the unnecessary ones, I will often delete exposures in camera whilst refining a composition, or waiting for light. This means that when I get home I have many fewer frames to consider for post processing and selecting the ones which I will spend time working on is a much more straightforward exercise. But there is no substitute for experience, and if you find taking lots of images helps you to improve then I would strongly recommend you carry on doing that. The only suggestion I would make is that you decide which is your best work and concentrate on those and share those. Many social media groups that I'm involved in have people that post several versions of essentially the same image. So my recommendation is pick one stick with it and process that. And then ask yourself why you felt this was the best one so you can take that knowledge out with you the next time you are taking pictures. Anyway hope this is helpful ... 😊👍
Different David. Great overview of the post editing on the first image, nicely done.
Hello Damian, thank you ever so much for watching. I really appreciate it. So glad you found it interesting and, hopefully, entertaining 😊👍
Another great video. Thank you again for sharing your thought process before taking the photo. I also really like black and white photography. Do you think that you could do some videos on black & white in the future?
Hi David, great blog. As you did I sought sanctuary in the wooded gorges of the Peak district to escape the wind. Woodland photography is a subject I'm trying to get to grips with, as you're aware it's not easy to find an uncluttered composition. My shorter lenses only stop down to f/4 too though I do have a 70 -200 f/2.8 that's fantastic but was unable to get far enough back from the subject matter without introducing unwanted elements and or obstructions to use it. While watching you shoot the mellon grass and the disadvantage of an f/4 lens a thought popped into my head. Why not take a second image with a slight twist on the focus ring throwing all out of focus then blending the two in photoshop creating what is essentially focus stacking in reverse ? Something to try I think.
Hello Colin thank you ever so much for watching and taking the time to leave an interesting viewpoint. As you may know, if you follow my channel for any time, I am always keen to blend exposures to create a finished artwork. However in this case the extent of the foreground subject material, such as the marram grass, Makes it extremely difficult to blend effectively when there are so many small elements with small gaps between them with a view to the background. As it happens, I did a completely separate take to camera with this exact method, in case I would have used this in post. But the finished image simply didn't work effectively which is why I used a masked blur technique. 😊👍
Many thanks for your vlogs. Always presented with a smile.
Very informative, hope to meet up one day on my journeys to N.Wales, although I have not explored Anglesey very much. Have you been to Dorothea Quarry, Nr Caernarfon?
Hello Robert, thank you ever so much for watching and your very kind feedback. As it happens I have visited Dorothea quarry with a camera, but not featured on my video channel. I do have it in mind to cover a good deal more industrial heritage later this year, so I may well visit that location again. Although, it is much more likely that I will cover Dinorwig quarry in more detail. 😊👍
Well you certainly worked the forest with top images, loved the editing tutorial broke the vlog up nicely keeping interest. Awesome work David 💪
Thanks ever so much for watching, always appreciate your support. And many thanks for taking the time to leave a comment, generous feedback like this makes all the hard work totally worthwhile! 😊👍
@@DGriffGallery no problem David
I immediately thought 'where are the mountains' 0.59 for the answer ...
Don't you worry, Gary, I will be back up there as soon as I possibly can!! 😊👍
@@DGriffGallery can't wait Maestro.