Travel Photography and Post Processing Techniques
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- čas přidán 13. 11. 2014
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Elia Locardi Photography: www.blamethemonkey.com
With an overview of the post-processing techniques he used to create his stunning imagery, Elia gives you the basics of the advanced dynamic blending and temporal blending techniques he implements to translate these emotional elements into his photography. In addition, Elia also discuss how to recognize the different feelings that can be created by shooting scenes at various times throughout day, and how to use the quality of the light to dramatically change the mood of your photography. - Věda a technologie
Elia your work is excellent. I can't believe the number of people that are critical of your work & your travelling, blatant jealousy. Keep up the wonderful work & you have given me lots of ideas to take my photography to the next level.
One of the best articulate presenters I've listened to and a superb photographer. First time I didn't "skip" ahead to shorten the presentation. Just excellent!
So here I am in Mexico on my holidays and what with jet lag (something I don't tend to feel the effects of) I find myself waking up at four o'clock in the morning; I knew I'd saved this video in my 'watch later' box so I gave it a whirl. Think I got to about 40 mins when I thought, maybe I should go and take your advice. The sun was starting to rise so I took a five minute stroll down to the beach and was gifted the most incredible light display I've ever seen - for anyone who has the slightest interest, find me under 'myworldimage' on facebook, twitter, instagram and have a look at the sunrise in Mexico picture. I'm not advertising, I'm just paying homage to Elia Locardi, this video, and the things that inspire us... Thanks Man - you just helped me see one of the most spectacular natural events I've ever witnessed! Amen Brother!! PW
This was a brilliant talk, from one of the best photographers out there. You can pay a lot of money to go to lectures like this, so it's great that stuff like this is free to view on youtube!
Terrific tutorial. Thanks. His story about waiting for fog in Tuscany reminded me of my recent trip there. We were staying in an agriturismo in the Val d'Orcia and there was also a German photographic group staying there too. They were waiting for ground fog. For 4 days they waited. Nothing happened. The day after they left, fog appeared all around. Luck.
This guy is amazing. He is a great and inspiring photographer
I've looked at a lot of Elia's stuff in wonder. I've even compared his shots and mine from the same spot, albeit at different times, and wondered how he got his results. Now the magician has explained the trick, does it spoil it? Not for me, I feel really inspired to try some of it, especially blending. First, I have to learn patience. That was a really worthwhile watch. Thank you Elia.
Well worth the hour and a half. Enjoy your work and envy your lifestyle. Great stuff man!
title of this could of also been, manual HDR :D thank you for the video, it really made me feel good about post work and it open my eyes to new possibilities.
I'm just discovering your work. I LOVE your work.
Some really fantastic images in this talk. Inspiring stuff.
Elia does a great job of explaining his motivation and justification for creating "memories" and I have to admit, changed my mind on the topic since I tend to try not to alter what my eyes saw. His pictures are also stunning and vivid though still a bit overcooked for my taste. The only issue I have with him is that on several occasions he said he was asked by security guards to stop shooting and leave but he stayed and shot. He also mentioned using a tripod in places where they didn't allow it even after being told explicitly. Besides being disrespectful to the places that have welcomed him as a visitor, it will make it harder for future photographers and his actions might bring about a ban or limit photography in these places. As photographers we are always mindful of our rights and demand respect so I feel that respect should also be returned to our subjects.
*****
Not subtle? Perhaps you might wish to post something from your own portfolio so your definition of subtlety would be clearer. For example, you may prefer Joe Cornish, David Noton or Peter Eastway. If you don't know these guys you can look them up easily enough. Do you have favourite landscapers?
wonderful talk,+Elia,thanks so much
Thanks *very* much Elia Locardi for an *excellent* talk. And thanks to B and H for post it.
Glad you found the info useful. :)
+Elia Locardi So amazing! Now I'm watching your work in other videos about your Italy Photo Tour. Thanks a lot for all the information!
amazing photographer and photos. Really really inspired me. And I know what you mean when you say that where you're from is boring to shoot at, I'm from Iowa... But thats helped me get into macro and see things differently. Im currently studying in Salzburg Austria and now Im really getting into what I want to get into.
Love the video, BTW thanks for the heads up in Singapore!
omg.. i´ve got a new hero!!! amazing work !! thanks for the inspiration!
awesome photo's of awesome life around us
I've been a location Independent Electrician for 3 years now..... aspiring to be location independent photographer
An excellent and illuminating video. I have always done a lot of landscape photography while travelling because I usually go to extremely beautiful places. I have found wide angle lenses indispensable.
One thing to note, though. If you intend on doing a lot of wildlife photography on your trips, you'll also need a good telephoto for a lot of shots. This is probably obvious to most of you, but I thought I'd mention it.
Excellent !
Its interesting to me a lot of his latest posts on instagram are photos from this video... and this video is 7 years old. With 158k followers at the time of this comment, it makes me wonder how often you can recycle content on social media and people will still like it (I'd always assumed you had to always post new pictures; hadn't considered that over time new people still hadn't seen the old stuff), or if perhaps the reason he does this is because his best work is behind him...
Either way, information to be gleaned, for all the growing content creators out there. And also, his Instagram is worth checking out; the photos are stunning.
Super interesting video, thank you Elia, inspiring :)
Thanks a lot for all nice information
Awesome video. Thank you very much
/andreas
Oh I watched this all the way to the end ))))
Amazing presentation. I wish i could BE a travel photographer...
In 2014, he mentioned couple of times of Fuji X-T2, that's interesting!
Brilliant work, TY very much for this video. Heard you mention Fuji and noticed you had quite a bit of gear. Haven't explored your website yet but was wondering if any of your work is shot with Fuji X gear. I became weary of lugging around heavy Nikon bags and enjoy the Leica like attributes of of their glass and the tech in their sensors in the Fuji XPro 2. I'm older, wish you could have been on the road with me in 1971 trekking around the world for almost 3 yrs. It'd be fun to have a time machine.
Wow what a great video, Really enjoyed that Elia and B.H. First you showed your excellent photos, then how you took them, how you processed them, and what equipment you used. Really great work, Thank you very much
Looking at your gear/stuff at the 3min mark looks like time to switch camera systems to make your location independence more satisfying and efficient for sustainability. My point is (encourage you)switch to Sony, take an A7R or S and add an A6000 solves all the honkin weight penalty that you have to burden. Listen to Jason Lanier and countless other professionalism people and photo journalists around the world who made the right good choice to switch, you'll be more happy. Also another photographer is Trey Ratcliff who has similar work as you had made the switch and encourages it to all. I made the switch and very pleased with it. I hope it helps but it's your choice and what you're comfortable with in the system you have.
Fantastic
The magic of photoshop in landscape photography.
I'm fan.
Why no one noticed that @ 1:11:23 :(
it's only one image and i believed that the lights was manipulated.
He said he waited the lights to come on but the waves of the sea doesn't change :( is that composite? correct me if im wrong.
amateur here tnx
I don't mind the blending but in the Singapore picture, has he missed the reflections of the lasers off the water?
very nice! i really like the idea of "painting with time". i don't think it's overdone or 'fake' at all.
This trick he calls 'painting of time' has been around for decades, its called exposure blending, I use it all the time, I was hoping on this video he would actually show the post processing techniques he uses in PS to achieve final results, but of course he doesn't ;) Most of the best landscape photographers use this technique but never tell anyone about it ;) its certainly not cheating either, what your eye sees your camera cannot, just recreating the scene as you saw it.
its Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park! Indonesia
The key point he makes is that in post processing he is mainly bringing out the full potential of his photos. He takes an image straight out of camera in raw and then improves upon it. But, what's confusing is in the very next breath or very next slide he shows pics that have a lot more done to it in PP than simply 'lifting' the image. He contradicts himself. Many (most?) of the images shown in this tute are made up of more than one image. He calls this exposure 'blending' and says it is not post-processing. Huh? He adds the sky from one to the foreground of another. He blends multiple exposures to compensate for blown out sections. None of them are a straight single captures. At the hour mark, straight after he makes the point that he simply 'extends' an image he then shows an image of an Italian town which he states as being made up of multiple exposures. I'm new to photography but it seems odd that when you blend multiple images into one it is not considered post processing. Anyway, whatever...this is a good tute. It shows what can be done in PP. I just wish people would call a spade a spade.
Gary Chow Your point is a good one, but the important thing I think you have grasped for yourself, is you are NOT throwing out the baby with the bathwater ~~
So many places in Paris that don't let you use tripods, bloody annoying!! Grillapods are the way to go! I managed to use mine.
hello man，what kind of software u use for the timelapes color correction……，our company have some proje need someone help us
+He Huang Please email us at pc@bhphoto.com so that we can best assist you in-depth and find the right software to suit your needs. |Heather|
I don't think most of us are experts in graphic design. However HDR in camera would do the same job
I thougt it was very good
I always wonder how people get shots ( like the one of the Louve ) with no people in it. 0 foot traffic?
You take many shots from the same place, and then there's a tool on photoshop to take off the people from the photo.
What the last guy said. There is a really cool video series a while back that showed huge cities without people and cars. Like a post-apocalyptic video of empty cities. It was incredible and used the same technique.
Although I loved the pictures and most of the info, I don't really consider that travel photography. Apart from being in many different locations, he spends way too much time scouting and waiting in places for photograph. You just can't visit the same site 5 times during a vacation. Or at least, not the regular tourist traveler. I'd prefer more practical info on how to get the most out of non ideal lighting.
+cwang22 travel photography and vacation photography have nothing to do with each other!
Speak for yourself.... I am not happy with crappy quality pictures and that's not why you carry a tripod haha
@GifCo is right. You can't make great photos out of "non ideal" lighting. It is either ideal (like Elia's photos) or not (your photos). He waits for days or weeks for the right conditions for his photos. You don't have that luxury so: (1) Deal with it or (2) Spend your vacation trying to get 2 or 3 photos instead of 100 crappy ones. That's reality of good light and photography.
Hah, I've took a shot in Valensole similar to his at 26:50, almost in the same days of the year! 500px.com/photo/76401499/sunset-in-valensole-by-paolo-bugnone
Looking on 500px I've discovered that in the same days there were other international fame photographers like Daniel Kordan in the same zone, if only I knew before :P !
Wasn´t it a problem to shoot the Eifel Tower by Night? I heard it´s illegal. The rights are in hands of the artist from the Eifel Tower Light
+AndreasZollner “ZolliART” ART I believe you can shoot, just not publish...
And this might not be right but I think it also depends on the lights it has on at the moment...
have you ben Mongolia?
In these days all people are over using photoshop to make amazing pictures from plain dull pictures. You dont need to take an amazing picture, you just need amazing photoshop skill. It's sad , because before photoshop or other post processing programs exist, photographers really had to wait to catch a perfect composition with natural light. This pictures dont represent reality and the pure beauty of the landscape, they are just picture special effects.
+Andrei Comsa Exactly I agree 100%. This shouldn't be considered photography in the pure sense. It's more like painting. It's creating an image out of what the photographer would like to see there rather than what actually is there,.
+Andrei Comsa " You dont need to take an amazing picture, you just need amazing photoshop skill."
LOL
Ansel Adams is world-famous because of his darkroom skills, not his photography skills. It's the same thing. Post-processing matters. Show me a good photographer and I will show you someone who is great at Photoshop or has great assistants. That's reality, my friend.
The title is kind of misleading. Elia has powerful skills and experience but this loooong presentation is about something what could have been said in 3 minutes. I feel a bit sorry for the participants and believe everyone was waiting for at least a short workflow of him blending the shots together. Oh, not blending the shots, painting with time instead!
How splendid, isnt it?
yeah exactly my thought. But then if he shares the techniques how will his business grow.
Have you visit Serbia yet? Too much of Post-production for my opinion... What are you doing? Are you a photographer or ilustrator?
This video in summary:"Hey, my name is Elia and I travel full time. I am a travel photographer, travelling full time. When you travel full time it's so cool. Did I mention that I travel full time? No? Well... I do. Here are some tips for the next time you find yourself being paid by people to use their products and take photos whilst travelling full time. Thanks for watching. I'm Elia Locardi, and I travel full time, location independently. Good bye, I'm off to go travel full time. Why don't you join me? Oh wait, what? You can't afford to? How so? People pay you to do it. That's normal... isn't it?"I had seen a lot of Elia Locardi's photography prior to this video and loved it, but having now had the displeasure of listening to him for the first time, I find him quite loathsome and egotistical. Travel seems to have changed him for the worse, despite what he claims.
+Chris Howard This my words Sir.
Chris Howard this video makes me think he spends more time in Photoshop than anywhere else. Good for him for making it work, but that's no way to travel
Jealous much? He is making it work. You can, too. It comes down to choice. You choose to be in a mediocre existence when you (clearly) want to be doing what Elias is doing. That's on you, mate. He is a good photographer and an excellent businessman. End of story. Not his problem he's smarter and more savvy than you.
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you guys should really show the slideshow instead of a dark grainy image of some guy talking for an hour and a half
This is a oooo weeee look what I did video. Just talking about himself.
Dear Sir, France does not have an Independence Day.
He doesn't consider it being post processing, even thought he combined 3 photos to make a photo that wouldn't exist without post processing.
The title should be "how to fake good lightening in photographs". If you couldn't see the same thing with your own eyes had you actually been there when the shot was taken, then it isn't photography. It's computer aided design.
So is black and white photography not photography? Since you cannot see that with your eyes...
Or flash photography, long exposures, double exposures, shallow depth of field, telephoto lenses, fish eye lenses, tilt shift, etc etc. All these techniques and tools let us capture something that you can't see with your eyes. Photography is about more that the subject
Personally, I have no use for most of the stuff you mentioned. Black and white photography usually just looks pretentious to me. It was old hat in the 70's. As for flash, I don't like to use it if at all possible. But it has it's place if the subject is back lite.Thats because the camera lacks the dynamic range for picking out detail on a back lite subject.. As for time lapse and long exposure shots of clouds and waterfalls and the like all I can say is YUCK! That stuff belongs in ads for perfume and watches and not in serious photography. lens angle is a different matter. lens angles don't distort reality to the same extent as messing with colour and time do. The human eye has for instance, a better macro facility than most lenses, and a better low light capacity and dynamic range as well. So it's a case of different lenses for different tasks. The telephoto or macro mimics the impression of looking closly at some detail. Wide angle gives a fairer impression of the whole scene. Having said that I don't have any use for fisheye lenses either, as they do give a seriously distorted impression that I find just distracts from the subject at hand.
Ok, that's your opinion. Fact remains that photography is defined as "writing with light", which is what Elia is doing.
Personally, I don't like to restrict photography to just what you can see with the naked eye.
Oh, you told me 'fact' of photography did you? lol! Listen all of photography is opinion. Of course what I write was my opinion, what else would it be? But I do like to restrict my photographs to resembling what I could with my eye when I wax there. Without restrictions, photography devolves into a self-indulgent mess, which this guy is a prime example of (yes, in my opinion!)
this guys ego is overwhelming
useless info
Too much photoshopping.
I don't like his post processing. a little bit too much and looks unrealistic.
man, you must be a trust fund kid.........not many people can take two years off to fly around the world in order to build a decent portfolio.....
+Arrested Images Photography and Design Did you not watch the video? he said that the whole time he was traveling, he was working as an image licencer, a brand ambassador and a freelance photography writer, among other things.
+Jordan .Williams no one watches videos that carefully :)
Babar Asghar Really wasnt that hard, its called listening. if someone cant even pick up that then why are they on youtube lol
freelancing pays a lot more than you think. I've done the same thing, and payed for it doing, guess what? freelancing!
I am a freelance photographer... i worked for getty for years as a stringer and continue to work for their stock agency, i know very well what it pays......however, if you were listening, he said he " traveled the world for two years building a portfolio" thus if he didn't have a portfolio he wasn't doing much freelancing now was he.....????...it is not very easy at all to get well paid freelance work...especially if you don't have a solid body of work behind you..!!!.