5 Techniques that INSTANTLY Improved my PHOTOGRAPHY

[@Andrew_marr]

Massive thanks for the shout out Adam! 😀 Not only have you shared five terrific ideas to expand our creativity with our landscape photography, but you’ve presented them in such a way that explains how to get the most out of them. You get us to think about why we’d implement these approaches, which is equally as important as the technique itself. I know the amount of work that goes into putting together a video like this, outstanding content mate, thanks for sharing!

[@GrymmsPlace]

Have always enjoyed the content on this stream. Not sure why, but the content always comes across directly and honestly -something not seen in other channels. It creates a sense of trust and that brings me back. Keep on posting content.

[@marcelbenicio2596]

A trick: you can watch movies at flixzone. Been using them for watching lots of of movies recently.

[@lianasher3339]

@Marcel Benicio Yup, been using flixzone for since december myself :)

[@johnbivins]

Love using a higher f stop to flare the sun peaking from behind a object, Looking forward to incorporating the thumb method with this!

[@marcopiazza4436]

Thx always for your joy, optimism and technical skills. I never understand why people can give a thumbs down to quality work that comes from the heart. Keep it up. Great stuff. Marco.

[@leilahijazi6313]

Thank you for all the valuable information that you provide us with in your videos. We are waiting for a video explaining how to take advantage of the manual focus features and how to use it.

[@gmantoon]

This channel deserves so many more subs love your content, Adam. keep up the great work

[@Firstmanphotography]

Thanks dude. appreciate it.

[@GrymmsPlace]

If everyone visiting liked and commented then the channel exposure soars. Over time further groth.

[@KGi4]

This channel is like other UK channels, creator is not improving in his photography and just bragging same cliche click bait topics.. there are plenty same type photography channels that mostly focusing on beginners photography tips and tricks and i get it cuz its never ending pot for views..

[@johnminer8374]

@@KGi4 Please tell us where your photography channel is so that we can comment appropriately following your example.

[@brianbeattyphotography]

Agreed 👍

[@grahamegannon9708]

Thanks for the these five excellent tips which I will try out. You explain things very well and come across as being honest and very passionate about photography. Keep up with the videos I really enjoy them.

[@rolleicanon]

Many thanks for excellent advice, as usual illustrated with your magnificent landscape photos.

[@sophielawrence7]

Absolutely loved this video. I am going to rush out there and try these techniques as soon as I can. Many thanks for a great bunch of ideas and for the SquareSpace ad.

[@derekwillson2538]

Hi Adam, Silhouettes are a favourite of mine, and not being able to choose the precise time or indeed date of my photographs means I always try to get an image in whatever conditions I find. This can be a real struggle and part of what keeps me interested and putting in the effort, thanks for todays video, Derek

[@nevvanclarke9225]

Get a graduated filter….it’s filter with half or quarter of top bit blocked …it’s perfect for sunsets

[@nimmira]

I think one of the things that had always pushed me to create new stuff (good and bad) is asking myself "What if...?" With the lack of a "real" landscape where I live, one has to come out with ideas mostly within the periphery of his or her own home. "What if..." can be some sort of a ..... brainstorming, if I can call it so.

[@Firstmanphotography]

Absolutely. Stay curious.

[@prancingkash]

Very well compiled and explained! Thanks

[@andyprime57]

I often use my hand to cast lens shadow in side lit scenes to avoid flare, however, flare can also play a huge part in images so careful selection is always paramount to the end result.

[@brianbeattyphotography]

Exactly, definitely depends on the end goal

[@pilot_obet]

Hi Adam, what about the stuff like the printer you are using here etc what is it?

[@Ruscombephotos]

Hi Adam, Thanks for another inspirational video. I’m so glad you mentioned shooting outside of golden/blue hours. I was on my local beach last Tuesday morning about an hour and a half after sunrise, so well outside of golden hour and the sky was so good that I made a photograph I was very happy with. It was one of those skies where it would have been possible to shoot all day long. I think those photographers that insist on only shooting in golden and blue hours are missing out in so much.

[@JasonBonnicksen]

Thanks for sharing these techniques. I have started to play with long exposure and using a longer lens, but not the others. great info!

[@joncothranphotography9375]

Thanks Adam! Great stuff!

[@wimscheenen3535]

Inspiring suggestions! I must try that thumb technique myself. Hopefully already this weekend with promising weather forecasts.

[@BarryHull]

So many of these photography “list“ videos seem to be gimmicky for the sake of putting out another video, but I really really liked your suggestions in this one. Thank you. Thumbs up.

[@Firstmanphotography]

Ha thanks. I’m trying to play the KZbin game......but just attempting to hide quality content behind a questionable/cliche title.

[@robertplandon]

Many thanks. I feel inspired to go out and try some new techniques now.

[@greatday2224]

First time watcher here. I agree with you from what u said in begining bout us photographers capturing a moment. Be that moment 1:4000/s or 22 minutes. We cant see all the stars just looking up. Just as i cant see a guy frozen in mid air jumping a hurdle. You catch my droft? People are different and all of them (us) may drop comments. I wanna say thanks for an awesome video. Have Great Day.

[@vdphotosnfun]

Awesome video... And thanks for sharing your experience and techniques 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@tomheim9516]

Wonderful video. Thanks for all the great content Adam. One of my all-time favorite channels!

[@Firstmanphotography]

Amazing. Thanks Tom

[@alanatwood7995]

Definitely a long exposure bug here. I have many areas I want to try. To add to the last point, I see a lot of photographers shy away from night photography. I personally love night photos. Not just of the sky but a bridge or a road maybe a lighthouse. My 2 cents. Great video!!

[@Firstmanphotography]

Definitely. lots of opportunities with night photography

[@davidgilmore2565]

So well prepared and delivered. Many thanks. Got a lot out of this one. Cheers

[@Firstmanphotography]

Thanks. The photographs shown in this video, and included in the book, have taken me years to produce so in one sense you are bang on.....then just sat down and rambled about what I know.

[@garethmcfarland7244]

Photo ninja, love it! For me one thing I have started to do lately is shoot in JPEG - more often than not I'll shoot JPEG+RAW. This was mostly because I really wanted to get into the Fujifilm film simulations but a side effect of it has been that I now take more care with my setting up my shots with regards aperture and exposure in particular. I am definitely guilty of just going out, firing off RAWs and then dealing with it in post. But taking a bit more time and care when out in the field has been a real joy this last couple of months.

[@richardmilbourne1679]

Just found your channel Adam i like how you put your angle on photograph .And you can go out taking shoots any time of day in any weather .Am new to Landscape as my passion is Motorsport photograph. If its raining gives photos a new demension with spray and lights and reflections . Great videos

[@saulsigalov]

+1 for the thumb trick! Looking forward to a video on that. So simple yet so smart.

[@seanchem1]

I like the sun-thumb trick and wish I would have used that on an image a few years ago. Thanks for sharing!

[@pix4japan]

Good reminders that I find help me to stay motivated. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and providing concrete examples to support your tips.

[@hiew2001]

Excellent explanations

[@brucewdelorme]

Adam, you were the 1st photographer I followed on youtube on mybquest to learn. Alway great stuff and always enjoy yiur work. Never stop!

[@Firstmanphotography]

Wow, thanks!

[@dougdavis5808]

Hi you do great work please keep it up, I just watched one of your videos of your 70-200 Canon lens, I do have a question I am just starting out and got a Canon SL2 and I picked up a sigma 18-300 macro len in your opinion do you think there is a better Canon len for shooting landscape and wildlife?

[@SusKil1]

Thank you so much for this brillant, eye-opening video, it has inspired me very much!

[@tess6954]

What photoshop app would you recommend for a newbie like me please?

[@chrishare3237]

Another great informative straight talking video Adam. Loving the Rawroom content, keep up the great work 🙌

[@Firstmanphotography]

Thanks Chris.

[@scotty4418]

great recap of your wonderful images Adam and im definitely in the love long exposure camp

[@scrptwic]

Adam Most of my landscapes have been with hiking groups I have had to learn to be a fast hand held photographer. I use F-11 for most of my landscape pictures. I use a Sigma Super zoom 18-250 so I like to use zoom lenses for my landscapes. The lens has a bad flaring problem so I am very careful photographing into the sun my backup Tamron 28-200 doesn't have this problem so I use it when I want to shoot into the sun

[@Heiko_K]

Hi -- thanks for this insightful video. I especially liked the "sun-thumb" technique. I had actually heard about it some years ago but since then I had just - well - forgot about it. This being one of the reasons for me not shooting into the sun. . .

[@gstuart0770]

Wow! This was a great video!

[@stinkyron9172]

Wow!

[@brianbeattyphotography]

Great video Adam. Love your long exposure work, especially the coast images as I always learn a lot that I can apply here along the pacific.

[@petercordingley927]

Looking forward to receiving the book, great video as always, great advice and I have just downloaded the E-book to read over the weekend!

[@brandonfinley7181]

Thanks

[@robwhiteley1]

100% Inspirational as usual Adam - Thank you

[@Firstmanphotography]

Thanks Rob. appreciate you watching.

[@mj5106]

Do you think there is a need for a 200 to 400 lens Adam? great video by the way!!

[@Firstmanphotography]

Definitely to add in a bit of wildlife.

[@Nelliina]

Great tips!

[@MK-bg9bj]

Really good idea to clear up with some photography cliches.

[@meisterschmeckerfatz3400]

Thanks for explaning the thumb technique (again?) I didn't find an explanation since you mentioned it in another video, I've seen a few months ago. Nice Video, thumbs up!

[@terrybillington2482]

Superb mate. You are inspiring

[@NakedInSeattle]

One of your best!

[@Firstmanphotography]

Thanks Larry

[@sarahbatsford4791]

Great video thank you and one that I will follow when I'm out shooting. Experimenting more is what I need to loosen up abit. Lol

[@gerardconsidine]

Awesome stuff as usual!!

[@TheKingPrawn114]

I'm leaving today to photograph the Palouse, and all this will be very helpful.

[@rodsmoltz5996]

Good Job Adam!

[@alchemist_x79]

I'm weird, I guess. I actually quite like some flaring in my photography when the sun is in the shot. For me it adds something that grounds the image to me. I mean I can understand why a lot of people don't like it either, but I've never actively tried to cancel it out of my shots.

[@brianbeattyphotography]

Same here. A little flare can add something cool to an image.

[@williammiller7328]

Really good video Adam! Inspiring as always.

[@DVLTuber]

i really enjoy your videos

[@jeffstephenson5633]

Enjoyed that upload Adam.

[@alanpower2397]

I like a video that validates my own taste and asthenic.

[@Djdelae]

Another great video!

[@kraevac]

Personally, I tend to shot at all hours of the day. I don’t often have enough clouds in the sky to take great golden hour photos, so most of what I do is in or along wooded areas where it benefits me having lots of ambient light.

[@brianbeattyphotography]

Especially in dense wooded areas, it really helps going later in the morning so some light actually gets through.

[@rosalieb7909]

I have been watching your channel for quite some time...kudos to your growth. Here's a thought: take 2 or more photographers put them all at the same location and see what is created. You will usually get entirely different images. Is one image more real than the other? No. I do not call my self a landscape Photographer, rather a photographer who enjoys shooting within the landscape. I am not wanting to record reality, rather what I am experiencing and feeling.....thanks for your video!

[@nevvanclarke9225]

Photography is one thing …it’s about capturing light. In winter when light is average this is when I shoot long exposures. I found lens that works into the sun ☀️ until then I hadn’t been able to. This is critical I feel.

[@thomaswiik3810]

Thanks for the inspiring video :)

[@DavidUstick]

You are wonderful to listen to and learn from.... I am not attempting to be negative in any way.... but the comment where you have been out on site for an extended time and you mentioned "to yourself " that they just -missed it- the best shots of the day... it may be they did not miss the picture THEY wanted just not the one you believed to be the better of it all. Amateurs are always learning, "Sometimes we need to fail just to learn the lesson"

[@Firstmanphotography]

Lol. did you miss a shot? I’ve missed many.......and continue to do so.

[@adrianwww9817]

Brilliant ☝️

[@maxencelemoine4190]

it makes me cringe when people tells me that long exposure are not reality, it is not what you really see. So in that case, B&W photos can't be considered as are real to (unless you see in BW !). Andrew's view on exposure is a reaaly good analogy. I love long lens shot, more simplicity in the shots, but how many times did I read that intimate shots of the landscape are not landscape photography ??? :( Thank you for the video

[@Firstmanphotography]

Ha. That’s a great analogy for long exposure comparing it to black and white. Great point. For me a landscape photographer is someone who tells stories about the landscape......this could even include a decent amount of macro, wildlife and cityscapes also. I try not to get too attached to the language and pigeon hole people.

[@maxencelemoine4190]

@@Firstmanphotography I completely agree with you (it makes me want to take B&W long exposures of macro subjects in a big vista, just to see their reaction :) )

[@robhamilton5057]

going to be trying sun thumb

[@gaetanoscalfidi]

Great video and great content. I also love shooting at the sun and struggle every time with lens flare! Another good point is to move away from this obsession for the foreground interest. I really can't hear it anymore :) Thank you!

[@petepreston1103]

Love your enthusiasm...Really need to book a 1-2-1 with you! Damn living 6 hours away! I love long exposure photography.....sod the haters eh !!

[@maherali5735]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@sigurdsvorkmo-lundberg8541]

I donno what it is about the english accent, but listening to british people talk is just so realixing

[@guypool7524]

How about a tutorial on building a website using Squarespace?

[@luispacheco9683]

Good tips, but sometimes, I see lots of "creativity" in some of my failed photos! I'm joking but may be that explains something!

[@lennartjonsson4956]

I agree with you. It is often when I go through the photos that I find the "failed ones" and can fix them in the lightroom! They usually become the most artistic and best!

[@gedheaton1415]

Photography is art, art is subjective, Shoot what the fk you want for however long the fk you want, who makes these rules up that dont do this ,do that bs, (its all opinions and the one that matters most is YOURS) just get out there and shoot,print, get them on your wall, Peace out guys

[@davidlesliewilliams1513]

Interesting comments about long exposure photography. I suspect it may be a bit like HDR in that it will be all the fashion for a while then drop out of favour. This I believe is more due to the overuse of a technique and it's application not always being to the highest standards, resulting in the technique becoming discredited. I really like many long exposure images, but then again I like a lot of HDR images also 😎. I am still trying to get the hang of long exposure so that it doesn't just create a dreamy effect, but creates the effect I want. I recently posted a couple of coast line images on a Facebook group, one normal and one long exposure and asked for people's preferences. Interestingly there was a split but the majority preferred the normal exposure as it was "more realistic". Keep up the great content.

[@MSmith-Photography]

You learned the thumb technique from some guy in Sunderland? Oh geez. 🤣

[@mattwalkerncl]

Brilliant video - I’m a landscaper from Sunderland, I wonder if I know the Father of the Thumb!! I’m @mattjwphoto

[@SB_McCollum]

"Sun thumb technique" - as old as photography, whether while taking the shot or when printing it.

[@RobertTeague]

Hate click bait titles.

[@mightyenid]

5 adverts in a 15 minute video? Come on mate.

[@Firstmanphotography]

That’s the KZbin platform I’m afraid and I just place ads based on what KZbin does automatically for me. Sponsorships and ads are part of it and we all have to work within the confines of the system. My Raw Room platform offers an ad free experience for a small monthly subscription fee. Unfortunately content is not free to create.

[@splendidx01]

The thumbnail for this shows a clenched fist. Why?

[@shenaluke]

I get so irritated when i see photographers do all their shots with long exposure and big foregrounds. In my perspective they turn something real to something fake. Its still pretty but unrealistic. I think it ok to do some shots that way but not all of them. And anyone teaching that this is the way it should be, has no since of true creativity.

[@XXX-vy6xv]

If long exposure isnt "real" because its not what the human eye sees then neither is shooting with a wide angle lens because this is also not how we see things.