Landscape Photography POV - Snow Covered Forest In New Zealand

[@OceansVideo]

The first 4:45 min were literally mesmerizing. Thank you so much for this little pearl of peace in a stressful world.

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@joanneabramson2645]

I loved the tree fuchsia hint of color in the last image, and the way that the two trees framed the inner tree.

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thank you so much!

[@Trevs.Photography2446]

Will, couldn’t agree more about forest photography being somewhat difficult. I’ve always struggled to find good simply compositions in dense forest. But learning so much from your channel, keep up the good work.

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thanks mate. I appreciate the support 🙏🏻

[@yolandawiersma8180]

Another fantastic video. Forests here are “noisy” and I’ve struggled to capture the beauty I see and feel in the moment in an image. This inspired me to keep trying!

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thank you. Don't give up! :)

[@MegaDwilkinson]

Fantastic Will - great to see Fiordland with snow like that, and just gorgeous images there. Love it!

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thank you mate! Time for you to get a home here eh 😅

[@johnthomasdoyle1964]

Thanks William, for your calm explanation of the scene and for telling us to be patient as I get frustrated sometimes, not been able to capture what I see. Keep up the great work.

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thank you John :)

[@alanhumbard8298]

I really enjoyed this video. Your deep voice yet very calming delivery and of course your technical skills makes it a 10 star performance!

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

That means a lot, thank you!

[@bettcox3418]

Another inspirational video. I always learn so much with your in the field and post processing. It's a little weird to see you in snow right now when where I live it is summer and my province is burning from wildfires. Look forward to your next video and enjoy your day.

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thank you! It means a lot. I'm really feeling for you guys up there, it looks terrible. Planning to visit in Jan.

[@jmhatyoutube6283]

Forests are hard! Ferns are magic though. Aside from the occasional, oh wow photos, I’m actually not sure whether I enjoy taking the picture or editing it more. Can you tell I just discovered your excellent channel today? I think I’ve left too many comments, and need to get back outside! Beautiful work, and very helpful advice, many thanks.

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Haha, thank you!!

[@teeeenyfifi]

Honey I’m hoooommmme 🤣🤣🤣 sorry on a bit of a high from Skye! Love these out in the field and a bit of edit to see the whole process! Stunning shots! Ferns still look quite green! Ours are dying already , ready for autumn 😁

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Haha, Look forward to seeing what you create!

[@teeeenyfifi]

@@WilliamPatinoPhotography a lot of trial and even more error haha.. loads of fun though

[@BrettWoodPhoto]

You’re very good at this thing mate. Nice work, I reckon we were there that same morning, it was a stunner. All the best mate 🤓

[@louisburley1597]

This channel inspired me to go out and shoot today. Cheers!

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Can’t ask for more than that. Thanks mate!

[@joev1624]

I really like how you calmly and carefully walk us through your scene selection and composition. It seems that so many of the woodland scenes where I live are complex - I often have difficulty getting a composition. Your video really helps me with this! Thanks!

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thanks so much for the kind comment and support 🙏🏻

[@geo4844]

Thank you again for the great content! My new place to go for meaningful training in light and composition. Well done!

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

My pleasure, thank you!

[@CarolineOrdHume]

Hi Will. Another great example and additional material for the retouching masterclass. I bet you are enjoying the snow and capturing it's impact on your landscape before it disappears. It can't last long in that forest. Cheers!

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Half a day I’d you’re lucky! Thanks Caroline :)

[@1_Tim]

I like you showing out in the wild and simplifying the composition and then seeing your post processing. Cheers

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thanks a lot mate :)

[@davidmaltby2065]

Another outstanding video. The images were beautiful. Your process was very informative

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thanks a lot Dave! 🙏🏻

[@colinstalker]

Great examples of controlling complex scenes with dark to light editing and leading the viewers through the scene 👏 Thanks for sharing 😊

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thanks legend :)

[@udayakhadka961]

Absolutely Magical!!

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thank you!

[@ricknicholson5894]

I shoot in coastal British Columbia old growth forest, again with moss much like your area. The location is beautiful but as you explain, you can be surrounded by all this beauty but to photographically capture it can be very difficult. There always seems to be a problem, branch in the way, crap on the ground, other trees in the way, too much which is overwhelming and difficult to image, the lights too bright, the lights too dark, etc. I find in a 2 to 2 1/2 hour session, I usually come away with maybe 6 to 8 images. I have changed things up a bit and am using in camera HDR with my Canon 5D mk 4. I really like the results. The one thing in your video that stood out for me as a possible good photo opportunity (but I'm often wrong) was the arbutus tree (the red tree) that contrasted even more because of the snow.

[@joanhuggett5164]

Love it when you take us out into the field... can't get enough of looking around and looking up, especially straight up through the canopy... that really was beautiful. Been sitting here just contemplating, imagining, meditating... ... Thank you, William

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thank you Joan ☺️☺️💚

[@leannecullen8317]

Your ability to relax and take your time to look for such awesome compositions inspires me so much. Seeing the first pass processing of the scene was really great too. Thanks for sharing Will and look forward to your next wilderness video 🙂

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thanks Leanne. Been great watching your work evolve over the years ☺️

[@davidhuth5659]

Beautiful images and nicely processed! Not over the top at all. Great balance! Thanks for sharing!

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thanks mate!

[@rosssayer6524]

Thanks for sharing this William, so nice to walk through that scene and really enjoyed your thought process and editing flow with the brushes

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thanks Ross!

[@jackpinoh]

This video really helps me understand your process from beginning to end. Thanks! I hope you keep doing this kind of video.

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thanks so much. Definitely will do more like this.

[@warricksmith5178]

Very nice, Will.

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Cheers mate!

[@Offaducksback]

Just had one of the worse/best timings of ads. At the 4:35min mark when it went dark as you said "one of the challenges here" it cut to a manscaping ad for electric shavers and started off a dark scene then pulled back to a guys pubes dropping from his towel. Transition was on point but not what I'm here for. Thanks KZbin 👍

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

LOL

[@RicTodhunter]

thanks William - as always well done video. Do you ever add some texture to the main subjects and/or minus texture to the background distractions? I havbe used this to great effect when i have very "busy" backgrounds like a forest.

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thanks mate! Yes I’ll usually decrease clarity in the background and sometimes slightly increases texture on anything closer, like the main tree :)

[@melissahall7009]

Love it! So helpful! Do you ever paint, too?

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thanks Mel! No, I don't. Some family members do though :)

[@lphilpot01]

Those "pretty to look at but impossible to shoot" scenes are always frustrating! It's kind of like a plate of food that looks great and smells fantastic, but when you take a bite it's totally bland. 🙂 You have to add just the right amount of seasoning. Dunno if that's a good analogy but it makes sense to me. LOL Question: There seems to be two general approaches to WB-related adjustments: 1) Use the WB for direct artistic purposes, or 2) Always set WB technically correct for the shot conditions and use other downstream tools for color adjustments. Since WB is often referenced as a baseline by other tools, setting it to anything other than "reality" can skew those tools results. Any opinion? It may make more of a difference in a scene-referred context vs. display-referred, though. As usual, great video!

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Thanks a lot for the comment and support ☺️🙏🏻 Regarding WB, I prefer to leave it on auto and adjust colours myself in post. I’m really not too concerned about what the baseline is coming into the edit, I’m always going to adjust according to my liking. Personally I prefer to keep things more natural, so I adjust accordingly but I’m not worried about what it actually ‘was’ in the field or when I first opened the file. I’ll just edit to my preference and knowledge nature. Keeping it at auto sets a decent enough baseline for me to work from. Hope that makes sense.

[@lphilpot01]

@@WilliamPatinoPhotography yeah I leave it alone in camera. My question was only re: post. I understand the rationale for not using WB for artistic purposes, but from what I've seen it mostly pays off in skin tone and other well-defined "what's right" contexts. In landscape, we can set the rules. LOL Thanks.

[@steveh1273]

how are you creating a new mask with a shortcut key?

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

Push 'k' on the keyboard.

[@steveh1273]

@@WilliamPatinoPhotography thank you William, I enjoy your channel and work. I "discovered" your channel through Nick Page.

[@airdailyx]

That’s great that you’re doing all these explanations but when you’re not showing the picture you’re taking as you’re taking it, it makes it a bit difficult to then wait till the end of the video didn’t see the actual composition that you were explaining

[@WilliamPatinoPhotography]

I tried to do all the explaining at the end, when I could take my time and use the lines to demonstrate. I’ll keep it in mind though.

[@airdailyx]

@@WilliamPatinoPhotography I hear you I think what would help is when you take the shot so we can see the fully edited shot and then you can continue to explain the process. Otherwise it’s hard to know which image you’re describing because you took a few shots. enjoying the vids!