I’m currently in Skye looking out on grey nothingness and horizontal rain. You can go to an epic landscape and it can be swathed in cloud and rain. I now feel I can go out and find something to shoot. Thank you for the inspiration and enthusiasm!
Have fun - I hope you get some nice shots. I will never forget my trip to Elgol in Dec 2021 - the cloud was so low and thick, there was zero visibility of the Cuillin Mountains. I recall taking a couple of long exposures of the rocks that stand some ten metres off the beach. But still a wonderful and atmospheric place. I wish I was there.
Best video i have watched in years to give inspiration. Living in Scotland we get a lot of "dull damp nothingness" Today is another of those days, you have however inspired me to get off my backside and get out and do something. Thank you...
Great to see you do something different coz let’s face it, when we have a day off you can guarantee the weather in the UK isn’t always perfect. Having some fall back ideas is great. Thank you 🙏🏻 👍🏻
Can't stop laughing at "I'm basically a creep in a tunnel", then the "Yeah, he's the one" look & little nod as the guy walks past, to get the pull-zoom shot! Priceless!!
i absolutly love shooting in conditions that's challenging it can only make you better photographer and make you realy get intament with your creative prosses .
After 6 months of almost constant greying and rainy weather, it's almost impossible to keep your spirits and motivation up, so it takes more than a short and shouting video to help!
The last seascape took my breath away! Thank you for this different video full of ideas for ‘nothing weather’ which we have endured for so long. I am going to South Uist soon and you have given me lots of ideas to go out even when the weather is nothing.
Thanks for the video. It’s cold and drizzly here in Wisconsin in the middle of march. But I’m off on a Monday and soon I’ll be heading out with my camera to see what the work has to show me.
I'm an aspiring photographer and from watching a fair amount of your videos you've inspired me to be more creative with my photos and the different compositions I use! Love the videos ❤
Some cracking ideas there Tom! Just moved to Tynemouth and recognised Whitley Bay straightaway! Must admit, I'm always very nervous of having my camera anywhere near water, especially the salty kind!!
Interesting and inspiring video as usual! That said, dull days are quite forgiving, the biggest problem is to get of the sofa. If I may, here is a suggestion for another video: "What to shoot on a sunny, cloudless day", subtitle: "How to work around the lack of drama" I really struggle with sunny days, photography-wise
haha, that will be a challenging video. Haven't seen the sun in 3 months :) I appreciate the suggestion though. Fingers crossed the rain will stop so I can make it.
@@ThomasHeatonPhoto Hehe, I am a German living in México, so I have the opposite "problem". I love the fact that it is almost always warm and sunny. But I the hard shadows and lack of drama and mystery and even the infinite view are sometimes counter productive. I wish you some sunny days in the meantime :)
I go out on days like that because if I don't go out at least once a week I get really fidgety and feel like I missed an opportunity that I can never get back. I have to take pictures once a week, even if the images are rubbish.
Hey Heaton, you should consider doing more street photography. Landscape in the winter and street in the summer. High contrast full sun is great for street.
Thomas, you should come visit the Pacific Northwest (in the US) some time! I'd be glad to show you around. Waterfalls and cloudy days are the primary subjects!
Thanks Thomas - very inspirational ! Plus I'm off to Budapest soon so will checkout the underground. Plus tomorrow's means to be wet so I shall go for a wonder in the murky grey day :))
Thomas, my favorite was the b&w of the waterfall but the b&w of the post with the pier in the distant background was a very close second. I admire your enthusiasm and creativity.
Nice one Tom, for the inspiration! I shall be out with my camera this weekend!… Just a thought or perhaps an idea for a future video… is the opposite to today’s video… instead of high key and light, what about low key and no light… ie like a star scape from a landscape location, you know get some stars and night scapes… it’d be interesting to see your take on it, applying your thoughts and style to it… I think it would work well with some snow covered mountains so they stand out or perhaps as well a calm lake for a reflection. Just a thought anyway and keep up the good work, love ya videos! 👍🏻 Matt
The timing is perfect! I have an upcoming trip to a famously weather-challenged island. If I’m lucky enough to get good days, great, but I don’t want to waste any bad days thinking there’s nothing to shoot.
I love that you use square format a lot. It’s always been my favourite crop ratio as it is often more challenging to shoot. Thanks for the tip on the guide book, heading that way to get one, or two or…
You made that such fun to watch. I must admit, I nearly didn't click to watch when I saw the title, but you nailed it. I hope you get the views it deserves (you have "5 Things" in the title so that will help 😉)
Unfortunately Thomas, I'm going to miss your 'Talky Bit' at the photography show! I can't make it on the day you'll be there! 😥😥I was hoping to meet you and introduce myself! Oh well never mind!
I recently took my camera and tripod up onto the South Lancashire moors on a very wet and misty day and came home with some very satisfying, moody, misty monochromes. Now I look forward to that kind of weather.
Great video Thomas! Some years a go I saw a photo of a black and white image of a landscape with the foreground having some flowers in color. It was then I realized the value of using the contrast of color on a somewhat dreary day.
Great video Tom! I think your street photography enthusiast fan's would love to see some content on the streets. I haven't seen much ICM technique on the street photographers channels I follow. You and Gareth Danks would have a blast. Thanks for the inspiration. Its very grey here in Bavaria.
I haven't watched the channel for a while and lost interest over the last year. But this video has reignited the fire. Thoroughly enjoyed this one and will keep an eye open for more from now on.
Welcome back. I hope your interest lasts. I know with my own photography, I go through highs and lows of excitement and enjoyment. Feb/March is always a tough time.
Im a beginner youtuber for fishing and nature photography etc but you're inspiring me to try Landscapes and minimalist images. That last image of the post and pier was truelly stunning. Thanks Thomas 💙
Loved this video so much I've come back and viewed it again - sorry if that messes with your stats! It's easy to get put off by a flat grey day but this proves what a land of opportunity it remains. Brilliant
Margery, there's a strange man in the garden photographing those old boats' flaking paint, again.
I’m currently in Skye looking out on grey nothingness and horizontal rain. You can go to an epic landscape and it can be swathed in cloud and rain. I now feel I can go out and find something to shoot. Thank you for the inspiration and enthusiasm!
Have fun - I hope you get some nice shots. I will never forget my trip to Elgol in Dec 2021 - the cloud was so low and thick, there was zero visibility of the Cuillin Mountains. I recall taking a couple of long exposures of the rocks that stand some ten metres off the beach. But still a wonderful and atmospheric place. I wish I was there.
Sure you’ve already thought of this, but the fairy pools are best in those conditions!
You can't go wrong in Skye!! The moodier the better I say
Haha, I feel like it's been this way for 2 months.
@@RossMDavidsonthank you for the thought. Tried there earlier in the week, ironically quite dry!
Best video i have watched in years to give inspiration. Living in Scotland we get a lot of "dull damp nothingness" Today is another of those days, you have however inspired me to get off my backside and get out and do something. Thank you...
Great to see you do something different coz let’s face it, when we have a day off you can guarantee the weather in the UK isn’t always perfect. Having some fall back ideas is great. Thank you 🙏🏻 👍🏻
Yep, it's almost guaranteed 😂
Can't stop laughing at "I'm basically a creep in a tunnel", then the "Yeah, he's the one" look & little nod as the guy walks past, to get the pull-zoom shot! Priceless!!
Back to the old Heaton, congratulations, you've found yourself again 👏🏻
i absolutly love shooting in conditions that's challenging it can only make you better photographer and make you realy get intament with your creative prosses .
Truly excellent Thomas. Very motivational too.
Thanks for all the tips. Beautiful shots! My favourite was the minimalist photo around 13:30
You never disappoint Thomas, you always produce images that i love every time.
If I had that awesome landscape I wouldn't mind the weather either. Great pictures
Those underground images in Budapest are awesome - I great change of direction - more please ?
After 6 months of almost constant greying and rainy weather, it's almost impossible to keep your spirits and motivation up, so it takes more than a short and shouting video to help!
Thank you!
Thank you
Great shots, great tips, thanx.
Good stuff. One part reminded me of a saying that my boss hates “because that is how it has been done”
The last seascape took my breath away! Thank you for this different video full of ideas for ‘nothing weather’ which we have endured for so long. I am going to South Uist soon and you have given me lots of ideas to go out even when the weather is nothing.
Glad you enjoyed it. Hope you have a good trip. I'm hoping to get up that way myself soon 👍
Great tips.
Good ideas!
Great feature.
Love how high-level your tips always are! In the sense that it could be applied regardless of what "type" of bad weather there is
Thanks for the video. It’s cold and drizzly here in Wisconsin in the middle of march. But I’m off on a Monday and soon I’ll be heading out with my camera to see what the work has to show me.
wow Howdon my old home town crazy never thought a would see you there.
Great stuff. Thanks a lot.
Just ordered the book with the discount. Thanks Tom. I'm near Alnmouth, so very handy!😊
I'm an aspiring photographer and from watching a fair amount of your videos you've inspired me to be more creative with my photos and the different compositions I use! Love the videos ❤
Great to hear. Glad you enjoyed this one 👍
i did thank you @@ThomasHeatonPhoto
Thanks!
Whoa! I've never seen this before. Thank you. 👍
Thanks Tom, I'm from your area and can't drive or walk too far, this book will help me with some nice locations, and great discount 😊
Have fun, there are some nice little gems in that book.
Maybe motion blur of the twig in front of the black fiberglass could produce an interesting photograph.
Thanks for all your inspirational videos!
Great video and thanks for the code, I've just ordered the same book😁
Good job, just what I needed!
I believe the life-ring is the best capture you've done so far this year, to-date. That was really something.
Great video man. Reaffirming a lot of things I like to shoot. 👍📸
Some cracking ideas there Tom! Just moved to Tynemouth and recognised Whitley Bay straightaway! Must admit, I'm always very nervous of having my camera anywhere near water, especially the salty kind!!
Your last photo is to me, by far the best. Thanks from Canada.
Wow, thanks. I had no idea how that 3min exposure would turn out.
@@ThomasHeatonPhoto Well it did and it's a wonderful and powerful image. Thanks Thomas.
Wow, great photos from a man having fun and enjoying himself, excellent 👍
Awesome stuff Thomas! Just need to get myself out into the Welsh drizzle!
Useful video, thanks.
Buckets of inspiration.
Thanks 👍🇬🇧🙂
Looks just like the conditions I had on my last astro road trip lol great long exposures!
Love the life ring shot
Interesting and inspiring video as usual! That said, dull days are quite forgiving, the biggest problem is to get of the sofa.
If I may, here is a suggestion for another video:
"What to shoot on a sunny, cloudless day", subtitle: "How to work around the lack of drama"
I really struggle with sunny days, photography-wise
haha, that will be a challenging video. Haven't seen the sun in 3 months :) I appreciate the suggestion though. Fingers crossed the rain will stop so I can make it.
@@ThomasHeatonPhoto Hehe, I am a German living in México, so I have the opposite "problem". I love the fact that it is almost always warm and sunny. But I the hard shadows and lack of drama and mystery and even the infinite view are sometimes counter productive. I wish you some sunny days in the meantime :)
I go out on days like that because if I don't go out at least once a week I get really fidgety and feel like I missed an opportunity that I can never get back. I have to take pictures once a week, even if the images are rubbish.
Hey Heaton, you should consider doing more street photography. Landscape in the winter and street in the summer. High contrast full sun is great for street.
Thanks for the tips. Lately it seems that I get either blah conditions or clear blue sky when I have time to go out with the camera,
Loved the tunnel image amd the mono waterfall and final inage Thomas. Any day to be out with the camera is still a good day in my book.
like the way you changed it up a bit👍
Brilliant ideas. Proof that there is always something you just have to think laterally. Thank you.
These are my favorite conditions, for all the reasons you mention. Love this kind of photos.
Your enthusiasm is so infectious it makes we want to charge outside with my camera and have a great time. Thanks as always for your great videos!
Thomas, you should come visit the Pacific Northwest (in the US) some time! I'd be glad to show you around. Waterfalls and cloudy days are the primary subjects!
Ah yes, I remember the PNW. It rained every day 😂 But, those old growth forests were incredible.
Good ideas all. Carry on. 👍🥂
Thanks Thomas - very inspirational ! Plus I'm off to Budapest soon so will checkout the underground.
Plus tomorrow's means to be wet so I shall go for a wonder in the murky grey day :))
Thomas, my favorite was the b&w of the waterfall but the b&w of the post with the pier in the distant background was a very close second. I admire your enthusiasm and creativity.
Thanks a lot. The post & pier shot came out better than I had hoped. It was a bit of a shot in the dark.
I live in Washington so this is very helpful lol, love your attitude man keep it up
Great video, one of your best . Thabks
4:39 the Bicyclist riding out of the pedestrian tunnel is brilliant
I understand you will be at the Photography Show in Birmingham. Hopefully I will get to hear you.
Nice one Tom, for the inspiration! I shall be out with my camera this weekend!…
Just a thought or perhaps an idea for a future video… is the opposite to today’s video… instead of high key and light, what about low key and no light… ie like a star scape from a landscape location, you know get some stars and night scapes… it’d be interesting to see your take on it, applying your thoughts and style to it… I think it would work well with some snow covered mountains so they stand out or perhaps as well a calm lake for a reflection.
Just a thought anyway and keep up the good work, love ya videos! 👍🏻
Matt
The timing is perfect! I have an upcoming trip to a famously weather-challenged island. If I’m lucky enough to get good days, great, but I don’t want to waste any bad days thinking there’s nothing to shoot.
I love holy island!
I really like the picture of the waterfall! Beautiful!
Well done on doing grim grim grim. The black and white images are superb, and I really liked the paint patterns on the old boats. Many thanks.
The person at 2:45, their smile after getting the video was so so sweet! I love this vid Thomas, inspiration for when i have nothing to shoot :)
I love foggy, snowy, frosty, and super sunny days.
Thomas, that was a GREAT video! Love’n the content! Cheers!
Much appreciated!
Agree on the Budapest stations. All different colours. Very cool to photograph. Must go back one day 👍
Well done - your enthusiasm is catching
Budapest has some incredible character for interesting images. You're making me want to go back with your photos of the underground!
Even without the audio, that's a great opening scene - and kudos to the Wardrobe Dept. too.
Mega Video!
Some very good and useful tips for bad weather days very inspirational love your images from the day.
I love that you use square format a lot. It’s always been my favourite crop ratio as it is often more challenging to shoot. Thanks for the tip on the guide book, heading that way to get one, or two or…
Awesome suggestions, I like shooting on rainy days, it can be peaceful and some of the light is amazing!
living in cali... I mostly struggle with light being just full sun with no clouds.... such a pain in the summer
Great tips for dull winter conditions - I can relate. Thanks for sharing!
You made that such fun to watch. I must admit, I nearly didn't click to watch when I saw the title, but you nailed it. I hope you get the views it deserves (you have "5 Things" in the title so that will help 😉)
Unfortunately Thomas, I'm going to miss your 'Talky Bit' at the photography show! I can't make it on the day you'll be there! 😥😥I was hoping to meet you and introduce myself! Oh well never mind!
I recently took my camera and tripod up onto the South Lancashire moors on a very wet and misty day and came home with some very satisfying, moody, misty monochromes. Now I look forward to that kind of weather.
GG Thomas, nice tips
Great video Thomas! Some years a go I saw a photo of a black and white image of a landscape with the foreground having some flowers in color. It was then I realized the value of using the contrast of color on a somewhat dreary day.
The black and white water fall is my favorite, then the last seascape.
It's always a pleasure to watch your CZcams videos Thomas. Lots of enthusiasm for photography and nature. Very inspiring. Thanks!
I love your photos, minimalist photography is perfect for hazy weather
Great video Tom! I think your street photography enthusiast fan's would love to see some content on the streets. I haven't seen much ICM technique on the street photographers channels I follow. You and Gareth Danks would have a blast. Thanks for the inspiration. Its very grey here in Bavaria.
This was a great combination of on location travel shooting and useful tips.
Holy Island, Pedestrian Tunnel, Whitley Bay on a grey day.. I love it when you do local. Great stuff !
Starting to lighten up near me now but it's been drab and rainy for weeks so these are very appropriately timed tips.
Haha, that's why I made this video. Week after week of greyness 😕
Very nice images, Tom. And an interesting change from your usual - NICE!
This is what we want!! Reality for those of us who can't jet off to exotic places with interesting weather.
Totally. I love the exciting travel videos, but it's just as valuable to be grounded when the weather is as dreary as this.
The 3min exposure of the pillar and the sea bridge in the background is awesome! Really need to play around more with my ND filters.
Really liked the life saver ring and wave over image. Thanks for the video.
What a great set of reminders! Wish we had some tunnels like that in our town.
I haven't watched the channel for a while and lost interest over the last year. But this video has reignited the fire. Thoroughly enjoyed this one and will keep an eye open for more from now on.
Welcome back. I hope your interest lasts. I know with my own photography, I go through highs and lows of excitement and enjoyment. Feb/March is always a tough time.
Im a beginner youtuber for fishing and nature photography etc but you're inspiring me to try Landscapes and minimalist images. That last image of the post and pier was truelly stunning. Thanks Thomas 💙
The first line in this video is literally what I say when I look out the window everyday inbetween October 1st to April 1st 😂😂
Great video Thomas!
Loved this video so much I've come back and viewed it again - sorry if that messes with your stats! It's easy to get put off by a flat grey day but this proves what a land of opportunity it remains. Brilliant
Loved that - just the inspiration I needed when the weather has been so rubbish for so long…
So long!!! What's going on? I haven't seen the sun for weeks and weeks.
Great video Tom, I love your enthusiasm as always.