Taking my first steps

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@TheLDunn1 2 күн бұрын

Hi James, you discovered my channel in recent days and left a message, now I’m returning the favour 😀 I decided to start at your first video, and when I have time, I’ll start working through them. What I like about this video is the way you took time to introduce yourself, what you aim to cover in your videos & some of your photography background. You also came across as comfortable, calm & clear talking to camera. A great start! Videoing my own photo trips recently has given me new found respect for others that do this. When I’m out shooting stills, I’m struggling to remember to take video to tell the story later, I get too carried away with the still shooting! It doesn’t end there though, you then have the whole editing side too. So I’m finding it’s a multi day affair putting these videos out. You go and shoot for a day, then edit your stills for a day, then rough the video cut for a day, then finish off the video edit. It’s time consuming! I’m really enjoying the video editing side, I’m trying new things out most video edits & I can see improvements, but still not where I want to get to in my minds eye, but enjoying the journey getting there. I’m using DaVinci Resolve as my video editor, how about you? So, while I have plenty of ideas on the video edit side, the bit I feel I’m struggling with more is the story telling. How to present my photo trips in ways that are interesting to others. This I have little clue on how to improve if I’m honest. I’m not sure what folk find more interesting, the locations I’m going to, the photography gear I’m using on the photo walk, or the photo settings/techniques/compositions. It’s odd, I’ve watched others KZbin photo vids for years, but not really thought and identified what I find entertaining about them, I need to analyse this myself, and see what I can do to improve the story telling. This is the aspect I feel most exposed on. How about you?

@oldcameragoodcamera 2 күн бұрын

@@TheLDunn1 I totally agree with you on the struggles to remember to take video of certain photos. I try to remember that when we watch other people's videos we have no idea what their original idea for that video looked like, we only see the finished article so we mustn't judge ourselves too harshly there are probably a lot of videos out there that we enjoy but don't live up to the creators' original plans. Thank you so much for the positive comments about my presentation, it was my biggest worry when I started because I am definitely not your typical high energy, buzzy presenter. I think I'm slowly finding my way though, and lots of people have been so kind about my style of video making. I have mostly been using Final Cut to edit with, but my videos rarely use much more than basic cuts and cross disolves. In the new year I am definitely planning on expanding my video editing knowledge though! I am really enjoying watching other channels now with a bit of knowledge on how much effort videos take, I'm trying to learn from and share with as many video creators as I can. I see it as almost a virtual photography club, so if there is anything you see in my future videos you think I could improve on or expand on I welcome any kind constructive critique.

@TheLDunn1 2 күн бұрын

@ same here, re the feedback & constructive criticism. I’ve not used Final Cut, I have a little (basic) prior experience with Premiere, but have generally ditched Adobe now. Took a while for me to start with DaVinci Resolve (DR). When I first got DR every time I started to do something in it, I’d take an age to not get very far, then give up and do it in Premiere, must have done that at least 3 times. Eventually I broke through that initial learning barrier, & now I would not even contemplate doing anything in Premiere. DR you can download and use a pretty complete version for free. I’m truely surprised that they give this away for free because it’s an excellent piece of software, very polished, professional and fully featured. There is a ‘paid for’ version called DR Studio, which has a few more features, one of which I was keen on trying out, I also feel quite strongly about giving good companies some money if I find their free or trial products useful & good. So during the Black Friday sales, I looked into buying the studio version, which was on 20% off sale, but, before I hit the ‘buy’ button, I stumbled upon them doing a ‘speed edit’ console which comes bundled with DR Resolve for only £130 more, so I went for that. I’ve watched a few KZbin vids by DR processionals, and they taught me how to use the software ‘correctly’. Like most things, when you just jump in and dabble you develop bad habits, which I had done. Getting the Speed Editor forced me to learn how to use it, and DR properly, which I’m certainly starting to benefit from. Now I have the basics largely sorted, I’ve started adding layers of complexity onto the editing process, there’s a fair bit of experimentation still going on, and in some ways, I think I’ve gone backward, but it’s for a greater good hopefully as I am trying things out with the aim of improving. I decided to show all my unprocessed images & the processed images at the end of my video, instead of mid way through while I’m taking them. I’m still undecided if this is the right approach for me or not, there are pros & cons. I found with your first video,I wanted to see your processed shots all together at the end, but this might just be me, because it’s the way I like to do it, I don’t know.

@ballyblackimages 8 күн бұрын

Hi James stumbled across your channel while looking new inspiration for my own channel someday,I like the idea of the channel your calming and pleasing voice just captivated me and it's nice to see something that comes across as sincere good luck in you future projects looking forward to seeing more....

@oldcameragoodcamera 7 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for your comments, all I can say in terms of starting a channel is to just do it. I had wanted to do so for a long time and had a few false starts. Once I started to get into a flow with making videos it got a lot easier, I'm still in the early days of my efforts but the experimentation is really fun for me! 😊 Hope you enjoy my other videos and if you do start soon please feel free to share/link to your videos here I would love to see them!

@ballyblackimages 7 күн бұрын

@oldcameragoodcamera Thanks James I might just do that...

@anthonyverolme 2 ай бұрын

Good luck with your channel James, always good to see a new and interesting photography channel! Would love to hear in your videos where approx you are shooting. Always interesting for foreigners like me. Constructive feedback: dial up the volume a bit for your voice track, KZbin doesn't have to normalise it then. When you edit in Davinci Resolve, at export you can normalise for KZbin on the Delivery page/audio. Anyway, great stuff, looking forward to see more. Cheers from The Netherlands!