Copy Photographers IT'S A GREAT WAY TO LEARN!

In this video, I demonstrate how and why you should copy photographers that inspire you. Copying is a great way to learn.
Last week I teamed up with my great pal Jack. He is an incredible Fine Art Photographer based in the Norfolk area.
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I took the opportunity of our meet-up to create a video about copying photographers that inspire you. Copying other artists is a tried and tested way of learning to improve your own skill set.
Whilst copying to learn is a must, you must take those newly discovered skills and develop them into your own style.
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In this video, I show you a workflow that will help you understand how to work a composition to your advantage.
I hope you enjoy the video.
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[@MaliDaviesPhotography]

A great showcase of Jack , giving photographers like Jack and me a shout out is you Gary, a proper gent! I’m not one for copying others or shooting what others do, but this was a great way to show just how fabulous Jack is! Thanks for the video.

[@GaryGough]

Cheers xx

[@davidpearce2981]

I’m all for being inspired, and bettering it , it’s all good

[@GaryGough]

Cheers David 👍👍

[@garrydelday5816]

I don’t try to copy others images but more take inspiration from them, I have over the last three years visited a number of iconic locations and always try to find a different way of capturing them, whether it be a different angle or different settings. One thing for certain is you will never get the same light so that usually makes your take on a subject unique. If you are lucky you sometimes get as good or an even better image than the one that inspired you in the first place, that’s when photography can be so rewarding, just a shame such moments are few and far between 😉 I’m a firm believer in light is key to elevating any image 🤔

[@stevencarpenter7138]

Really enjoy this style of Photography

[@Ichigoo82]

You inspired me so I might copy you then. I absolutely love your channel. For the last few weeks I have been watching your videos every day :) They are amazing! Thank you!

[@velvethoot4507]

Always love your content and images Gary.

[@GaryGough]

Many thanks

[@macimages4215]

You and Jack are 2 birds of a feather. Both amazing photographers

[@markpiercephotography]

Great video & something I will undertake myself in the coming weeks. Thanks for inspiring me to give it a go.👍😊

[@user-kt8ke2ek7g]

Gary, great tips and advice...awesome stuff!

[@JohnHPettigrewFujishooter67]

Two very talented photographers and wonderful images as always Gary thanks for sharing.

[@rolf_siggaard]

Another great and inspiring presentation. Love your enthusiasm and sharing your observations. Brilliant images as always. Well done.

[@daviddaw999]

You have created a superb video, Gary. This has proved to be inspirational for me, and I am going to head out and capture the same subjects in a style of my own - hopefully. The images are absolutely beautiful and so serene in nature.

[@johncameron6853]

A wonderful vid Gary, thoroughly enjoyed watching this one and fantastic photos. 👍😎

[@pathogan4854]

Definitely you have proved again less is more in minimalist works ! Thank you for introducing Jack Ive being following his instagram since your video with him a few weeks back !!

[@douglasmccart8963]

Great video love this guys approach

[@patrickstebbings4748]

Hi Gary fantastic video so please you like Corton beach great image aswell keep them coming -- great inspiration for all and a great way to learn many thank much appreciate

[@GaryGough]

Cheers Patrick 👍👍

[@marktaylor9579]

I love listening to your thought processes as you consider what and how to photograph a certain subject, and, for what it's worth, I really liked the image with 'excess' negative space. It coveyed a sense of desolation and isolation to me, but in a good way in that I liked it a lot.

[@GaryGough]

Cheers Mark 👍👍

[@jamesbarnes3063]

Like it all,

[@anthonypatrickmontemayor647]

I have been into your suggestion to "make it your own". You have become my standard of my expression into long exposure.

[@timrosenburgh8597]

Another great video Gary. It's nice to see you and Jack out and about again. His image's are great. I think you are right try to replicate another photographer's image and obviously try another composition, i don't see anything wrong with that. I must admit i liked all of the image's that you took. Look forward to the next one Gary.

[@paulandrewrussell]

Great images, Gary. I learn so much from your videos. Thank you.

[@GaryGough]

Cheers 👍👍

[@anthonygosling8128]

good vid, south coast is a fantastic location, Jack's work is top notch, Love a good square crop👌

[@julieboyle170]

I think I prefer the groynes without the cross beams BUT I love them all. I was surprised when you left some of the signs in on the poles but I think it told a story. Thank you for sharing and including Jack's images as well. Really inspirational.

[@scotty4418]

Cracking images Gary and love seeing Jack's work too. Really enjoyed seeing your own personal take at the location.

[@GaryGough]

Thanks 👍

[@deborahcorreale352]

I love your style of photography. I am hoping to be able to attend one of your workshops in the near future.

[@ironian24]

Loved watching your video Gary, a man after my own heart, I met you in Glencoe last week and we had a great conversation about a particular composition in Glencoe that we both did the same exact thing to find it, that in itself was amazing to me and shows how far us landscape photographers will go to get an original image, sadly not knowing, you told me you had found this composition 4 years previous 😢. So it shows just how hard it is to find an original photo in our landscape.

[@mikeclunie4432]

Great video and loved the images. I love your editing style for these photos. It was great to meet you in Glencoe last week and thanks for the coffee, even at £4 a cup, the cheques in the post. 😂

[@NeilArthurs]

Absolutely wonderful work and such an important message you shared in relation to shooting the images you like. It's such an important part of the journey in photography 👍 Cheers

[@GaryGough]

Cheers Neil 👍👍

[@davidcassford6361]

Great video and content, I learn so much from your videos.

[@GaryGough]

Awesome, thank you! 👍👍

[@kendickson7321]

I very much like your 2nd groin image Gary - I am also following the works of Michael Kenna and rapidly learning that less is more.

[@Biscuit761YT]

Was one of those on the Happisburgh workshop Gary mentioned, had a brilliant day with Gary and a few other like minded photograp hers, video has reminded me to go back and do a re-edit on a couple of the pictures, cheers Gary

[@GaryGough]

Cracking couple of days. Thanks for being there xx

[@alangray3063]

Definitely prefer the second of your 2 images, I know there is more negative space but to me it feels more balanced.

[@GaryGough]

It’s all subjective Alan and I know what you mean 😁. Cheers 👍👍

[@gountberlin1669]

negative space is indeed beautiful. both to look at and to play with while composing the shot. my personal take on the second subject would have been to line up either the first or the second "caution-plate" (not sure what thats called in english) and line that up vertically to that thing sticking up on the far left. of course that might just be me. i did enjoy that video very much, first to see your way and it sparked creativity within me (as stated) so i was able to juggle the given presentation with my ways. thats what i love about well made and narrated videos on yt. much love!

[@happymystic9800]

Fantastic images, Gary … hadn’t you told that someone took similar images before, no one would have known (most likely). I always look at other people’s photos as them being a source for inspiration. Sometimes I end up taking a similar image, sometimes it ends up being a new door I can open to get better at something.

[@GaryGough]

Everyone has copied at some point, everyone 👍👍

[@RainbowObsidian777]

Hi Gary. 😊 Just came across your channel and subscribed. I love photography and creating my own. (not a professional but been at it for a while). I love the photos you took and Jack's as a well. I often find "less is more" in a photo at times. i really enjoyed seeing your thought process in the photos you took and I think they are excellent. I have taken similar shots to yours and it's really neat to see people take very similar photos, yet they are still unique. Looking forward to learning new things from you. cheers from Canada🍁

[@GaryGough]

Great minds and all that :) Thanks for the Sub xx

[@Mike.O.Johnson]

Congrats on subscribing. I have learned so much from Gary as a long time follower. I don't comment much anymore but I am always at Gary's channel when a new video pops up on youtube. Great guy and teacher.

[@robertleeimages]

Watching your channel inspired me to purchase a cheap seat of vnd and nd filters(and i mean cheap 😉) and start doing daytime long exposures at the closest lake to me, some are just single dead tree's and others have multiple tree's like yesterday's which also included a piece of wooden fencing and opening where once would have been a gate oh and I'm not at the level of making the background disappear as I'm only a Canon DPP4 user 😂

[@martintromp4158]

Hi Gary, another nice vlog again from you, nice pictures and interesting thoughts fam you. Do you mind sharing the location with me. I'll like to explore the UK coastline om my next trip.

[@GaryGough]

Hi Martin, I say exactly where it is at the start of the video 👍👍

[@martintromp4158]

@@GaryGough As I understood it well it's Corton beach in Suffolk

[@Fotoe]

Great advice and the images were fantastic. The one where you shot straight down between the groynes, I was wondering what you thought of during the edit removing the left & right groynes that were closest to the camera to give it a bit of space at the front?

[@GaryGough]

I thought the exact same thing. Great minds huh :)

[@satcat]

Umbrella over the Camera? but good worl any way..keep it up.

[@vzshadow1]

Gary, Why not an umbrella instead of the constant wiping?

[@royhall1849]

Hi Gary nice image why did u leave canon cameras.

[@user-if9gq9et6z]

As always a great watch and stunning images. Would you ind if I signed up for a moth or two to learn your post processing and then cancelled? Cheeky but I thought I would ask 🙂

[@scale2tail]

Can i ask what type of cloth you use to wipe your filters down. And what do you do about salt spray?

[@nickyfoulkes8476]

Evening Gary, "Rudyard Kipling " I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. I send them over land and sea, I send them east and west; But after they have worked for me, I give them all a rest. I let them rest from nine till five, For I am busy then, As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea, For they are hungry men. But different folk have different views; I know a person small- She keeps ten million serving-men, Who get no rest at all! She sends'em abroad on her own affairs, From the second she opens her eyes- One million How's, two million Wheres, And seven million Whys! You obviously had tour reasons for not removing the do not climb on the groins sign. Distracting, maybe. On a side note about your backpack. I have recently taken delivery of a Compagnon pack. Sadly, what I didn't realise that now we are out of the EU I got stung for £71.00 import tax and duties. Err. Wonderful pack and well constructed. It is just the total cost. Well done that man.

[@GaryGough]

Oh noooo sorry :( I left the signs in because I didn't really like the picture too much. I kept it in for demonstration perposes :)

[@johnyoung1606]

I just watched the "Happisburgh Lighthouse" I do not know if You did something different when editing the photos BUT they have a crispness (sharpness) to them !!!! DID YOU DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN EDITING?????? ThankYou :) :) :)

[@andrewcroft2570]

Great vlog Gary, any news on when you will be announcing the winner of that bag, please? Both of you and Jack's images are awesome.

[@GaryGough]

Hi Andrew, I drew the winner during this video.

[@andrewcroft2570]

Hi@@GaryGough I need to watch it again because I can't remember that bit. So I take it it, it wasn't me that won it. 🤣

[@GaryGough]

Soz :(

[@desgardner7169]

Thats Jack's picture! and you are wrong, (me thinks) I say don't copy others, don't follow others but learn by watching them, always do your own thing! Jack's picture is what this video is about, we have all seen his pictures they are super, end of story! Thank you for this week's vlog....

[@GaryGough]

Each to their own but everyone has copied at some point, everyone 👍👍

[@bigdtf1753]

Hi Gary, love your videos! I am considering the Nisi's Professional Package. When did you move from LEE to NISIS? Any particular reason? Preciate cha,

[@GaryGough]

I moved when NiSi approached me. The Lee kit is still fantastic. IMHO the NiSi system is better. This is mainly down to the polariser. The NiSi system comes complete with the polariser and polariser sits closest to the front element of your lens. No vignetting. Also, the 10-stop filter has no silly blue colour cast on it. Just buy the holder and use your existing Lee filters. Then swap as and when 👍

[@KayGill]

Great video Gary, thanks. I am wondering how you keep your tripod in good working order when you use it on the beach so much. Do you take it to bits after each use and thoroughly clean it down?

[@GaryGough]

I run it under the tap once a year 😁

[@MrMadmark9]

bring an umbrella next time, big man! :-D

[@GaryGough]

Not easy when you're vlogging :(

[@MrMadmark9]

fair enough! 😁@@GaryGough

[@Danny_Roman.]

Gary what Nikon did you use in this shot ??

[@wednesdaythroughthelens830]

Always enjoyable, but not sure of message. Message was surely to make/create your own image. The first half therefore seemed a bit redundant? It didn’t relate to making your own image.

[@GaryGough]

I got wet and had to start again :) Everyone has copied at some point, everyone 👍👍

[@sawdoctor2737]

Hi Gary , great info as usual BUT BUT its NOT right ! Think I've heard before that your a through and through Canon fan boy . So watching some of your recent vids with the NIKON brand showing is hard to swallow .................

[@dandann8237]

What? you're setting homework?

[@GaryGough]

Of course 👍👍

[@aventurafotografica5648]

It is Okay to copy other photographer´s compositions? Maybe you say so because never had been strugling to compose a photo that had been in your mind for years, you made it and then the "copyer" just go there at sunrise, put the tripod on the freaking same place you did and click click,...No sir is not okay to copy anythyng from others IMO, You can inspire with other photographers´s work but copy? No thanks but no thank you

[@charly3091]

what about a backpack giveaway?

[@DavesEpicPhoneShots]

Good video. I always get something to think about and try out when I watch your work. Thanks Gary 👍

[@GaryGough]

Thanks 👍