When to Add Mood to Your Images

[@Martijnhermans1]

Awesome I won this contest! Here's some clarification on the shot: It is a single image, nothing is composited (only some minor editing in lightroom was done). What I meant in my story with it not being an ongoing eruption was that it was literally 5 shots (of 4 seconds) and the eruption was over. This was the last of the 5 shots, the first 4 were rather heavy on the lava which ended up being mostly over exposed (I had my camera dialed in for previous eruptions that night, which had less lava). The 5 shots combined make for a cool GIF/short clip though (it's on my Instagram @martijnhermans). Location/composition wise this was just above the tree line and some other/connecting mountains which kill the view of the volcano. So at the time it was what I had to work with. If I ever return I want to see if there's other compositions at the same altitude which combines the eruption with nearby cities for example. Thanks again!

[@chase.wilson]

Your shot took down both of mine hard. I could have sworn I had this one in the bag. Sounds like an amazing, and well won experience. I can’t imagine climbing a bouncing with that camera/glass/tripod combo; and staking out these shots. But it really paid off.

[@Martijnhermans1]

​@@chase.wilson Thanks Chase! Great shots yourself. It's an amazing location and opportunity to photograph, one of the toughest but most rewarding for me personally. An eruption like that gives you the chills like nothing else can, with a deep rumbling and ground that is shaking, while you're spamming your (wired) remote trigger to catch that flashing lava in the close distance.

[@Martijnhermans1]

@@elevatorphish haha, how so?

[@marguskask6765]

I've been on top of that mountain beside the volcano. Great shot. My view was non-existent but I heard the eruptions.

[@Martijnhermans1]

@@marguskask6765 Thanks! And I'm sorry it didn't work out for you. We had a lot of bad weather and pushed the climb forward three weeks untill we saw some good predictions. The night before there was nothing to see either.

[@itsperonalized]

Lee in a big mood for this. Fitting!

[@tomassalink9605]

Thanks guys for picking my photo for critique! Was really interesting to hear how you see my picture with your eyes.

[@jordynmontague7619]

Patrick and Lee acting like an old married couple L: "are you sure you like it more?" P: "yes that's why I rated it a 4" L: "alright just checking"

[@RaikouTch]

"If I put my thumb over her face, this has the workings to be a 4 or a 5" destroyed

[@azvisuals]

Love these videos! Keep them coming. Congratulations to all the photographers featured. My only critique of this critique is that a lot of the images don't look "moody". Maybe some are "dramatic" but few of them convey that sense of moodiness.

[@joshzaring]

Thomas Kinkade passed away in 2012. I only know this because I really enjoy his work and it influenced some of my photo work.

[@juniore159]

Why didn`t you like my picture then :D Just kidding :)

[@joshzaring]

Haha dude I would have, but I don’t participate on fstoppers.com. I thought the image was great.

[@RoffeDH]

Is it just me or is living together making Lee and Patrick a little testy?

[@FStoppers]

I'm going to have to watch this because I didn't feel testy at all haha. -P

[@RoffeDH]

@@FStoppers maybe the humour didn't come through the camera for me then, just got a sense that you two needed a week or two away from each other or something.

[@austinlange9243]

@@RoffeDH The testy vibes are real.. but I think added more entertainment value lol.. I vote for less time away form each other!

[@RoffeDH]

@@austinlange9243 Right! I'm not the only one then. Just don't want to see a rift because of it is all

[@brianl.2184]

Huginn fully and completely.

[@chase.wilson]

Pattrick and Lee switched roles for this one. Patrick was supercritical, and Lee was real optimistic.

[@celo2043]

They just roast each other recklessly LOL this series is awesome!

[@kian8382]

"Something about it feels stroby." "Single hard light, the sun?" Are you doing Ross and Chandler guys?

[@steven4217]

Absolutely love this series lol

[@musicdefinesgravity]

the shot on 31:00 is awesome! Don't know why they are rating it so low. I would have cropped it to a 16:9 with some of the lower part removed but still a dope image!

[@cueball93]

I’m going to resubmit my moody image for the long expo critique and hope you pick it. Really want to know what you guys think of my 2 minute rocket launch shot

[@ausmarc1]

I have to agree with Lee for once on the flamingo. The lighting wasn’t soft at all. Super contrasty, and the flamingos just looked like a mess of pink. I feel like if there was a sequence of shots, there would have been better images in that sequence.

[@7MinutowyTrening]

why is Lee acting weird?

[@dm976]

2nd picture is from "Seiser Alm" and due to the special location it is totally possible you get the light on the left while the right is pretty dark when watching a sunrise from this location.

[@RUZUMDEE]

Why is Lee irritated?

[@patricksmith2553]

I can never tell if Lee is giving a two, three or four with his finger's lol. He just kinda lazily throws out some fingers and I'm always laughing, like what the heck did he just throw out? A three a four, two?

[@breshdigitaltv]

Lee needs to take some Midol.

[@brianl.2184]

Patrick is 100% correct on what good light looks like - regardless of the photo. 🤣

[@TonyGizer]

I think you need to do a video on "model expression".

[@DaltonHamm]

They are Cypress trees @ 31:20

[@jamesbaxter904]

Have you two had a lovers tiff before shooting this? Like an old married couple 😂

[@jacquesduplessis6175]

James Baxter totally looks like it, doesn’t it😂

[@victorfox2027]

What’s crazy about the criticism of these photos was that most of the photos they rated 3 was better than their work to me 😂

[@Hathnotseen]

Your wife does pottery right? Let's not bring her into this Lol

[@batdad514]

Hey, great video. I'll crack the top 20 one of these days. 😀

[@lindasmal5051]

I also liked the flamingos! :)

[@seanwhitman4365]

The public photo is just showing u what the photographer can do and it’s a great photo regardless of what it’s of

[@B-Moye]

Louis V...way of dying. Haha, lol. I’m dead. ☠️

[@INSTAFLIXMEDIA]

46:38 It's the marble rye! Season 7, Episode 11. 😂😂😂

[@ShashankD137]

Patrick 'I need a lil more story' Hall

[@RyanLImagery]

I think the 4th image could possibly be a day for night photo rendering, and thats why only the front buildings are lit, and not the back buildings.

[@patricksmith2553]

It looks like it's a composite image for sure, the sky was added in at the very least. It's a nice shot and I like it very much, I'd give it a 3.8!

[@juniore159]

@@patricksmith2553 Thank`s! It`s one shot and no composite or adding. Just adjustments in Lr, and a little clean up in Ps.

[@juniore159]

Ryan L. Imagery: That`s right :) I wanted to enhance the old and picturesque yellow building without the ugly and boring lights from the modern city distracting in the background.

[@seanwhitman4365]

I hate when people say photos need to tell a story. How do u get a story out of one photo??

[@poolboyinla]

Please do a video tutorial on how to photoshop the wrinkles off of Keanu Reeves' girlfriend. I know that's a big job though and could be a long tutorial.

[@pps22001]

HEY Travis Kraft, GO FUCK YOURSELF. She has had a very hard life and have seen more shit that all of us. So what he is dating a very older woman, she still looks great to be.....OH MY GOD!!!😲😲😲 TRAVIS KRAFT(my apologies)

[@FStoppers]

She is actually 10 years younger than him! -P

[@brianl.2184]

If the flamingos had cleavage Lee would love the image 😎

[@teamdata]

My wife stopped watching with me because she feels Lee is quite the pervert!

[@brianl.2184]

Daryl Alm To each their own I suppose, but obviously we don’t actually know the guy. To be fair, I’m just trolling and busting balls ‘cause Lee makes it easy to do so when he’s absurdly adamant (and wrong) about the most obvious stuff, in this instance, the lighting of the flamingos, which was extremely on point... 😏

[@buzzLightyear007]

LuvLuvLuv the look at 6:53 :)

[@BokushingusKendoTV]

Hmmmm i wasn't feeling the energy from this critique episode. Idk... perhaps I'm wrong, but i got a "i don't want to critique these images" feeling.

[@thegeb75]

Ah ha!! Lee just admitted to the weakness of the rating system!!!! 5:58

[@tykeboy16]

Except they were talking about high rated images. Most people that complain in these contests submit 2's and cry about it.

[@kian8382]

I'd love to have the last shot in my home, it's a six for me.

[@MJAdams-js7np]

Lmao with the “stories”

[@MrBeringela001]

"I would clooone that tattoooo out" (in sexy voice) Patrick 2019

[@mikekartoffel5866]

There is bioluminescent mushrooms

[@JohnDunkelberg]

Always amusing when they run into a genre or style they don't know anything about. "I think kids these days call this cyberpunk." (Cyberpunk comes from the 1990s)

[@teamdata]

Majority of photos selected do not display 'mood'.

[@sanginphoto1456]

You guys look a little tired or stressed! Keep on beeing positiv.....

[@Martijnhermans1]

Well the theme was moody after all...

[@GertSterner]

Does mood equals models looking like robots?

[@janmueller4092]

you guys are hilarious 😂

[@tombeckman]

The only thing I think would be a good change is to have more comments when a photo is voted low. It's just rating theres no critique other than the photos picked for the video.

[@FStoppers]

Yeah but we could never require people to leave comments. When images are simply 1s or even 2s, it takes so much commentary to describe what would make it better. At some point the comments could be "yeah I wouldn't shoot this subject at all" and what good does that do? The ratings isn't meant to be a critique, that's what the video itself is for. -P

[@tombeckman]

@@FStoppers I definitely agree. You can't require. My reason for that is it kills some true honesty. If someone really thinks something truly sucks but wants there opinion to be anonymous that can't happen. I would maybe just suggest encouraging people more to give there opinion rather than just rating a 1 or 2 star. If my image is bad I don't want to be lied to but I'd be very interested in a slight reason why. Ya know

[@tombeckman]

@@FStoppers and obviously it's a very hard thing to make super fair. Personally I don't think the current system is that bad. Also can we get one of these contest for action sports soon. Pretty please??

[@romiemiller2485]

At 40 minutes: Well, I don't quite date to the 1400's, but I know a lot of workshops like that one.

[@NataliaSkorokhod]

I always love it when you strongly disagree in some ratings, shows how subjective art is.

[@bigbarnwell]

Why do you hate shoes?

[@wazzedon]

I miss most of the critique the community videos because they aren’t titled as such

[@thegeb75]

I've never understood why the "top rated" photo gets a tutorial. Shouldn't the lowest rated photo get the tutorial? They would benefit WAY more.

[@tykeboy16]

Because they've earned it. Rewarding the lowest rated image would result in thousands of snapshots submitted in every contest.

[@thegeb75]

@@tykeboy16 Then make both tutorials random, not based on rating. That would actually help the rating system from deliberate down voting.

[@tykeboy16]

@@thegeb75 The top rated image should get a tutorial. They earned one. The tutorials aren't designed for just beginners. In fact most beginners probably wouldn't grasp half the material in the tutorials. I don't really think it would change much, the best images would still be the best images and that's what they would mainly put in the video.

[@RodrigoPolo]

Good back focusing hahahahaha

[@lylestavast7652]

the only way you'd rate the flamingo picture as a 1 is if that was what one of them was standing on. Be a MENSCH ! lol Always a good watch guys :)

[@dentproductionpalas]

Mantaps.

[@AdamAllen]

Publix!

[@MrJRon115]

Fun Fact: Thomas Kinkade is dead. That's why he does not paint his own paintings anymore. :) He died in 2012 in California.

[@nagarjunakolli]

this is not a "moody" theme video it's a "patrick picked" theme video

[@hramakrishnaiah413]

Don't get confused with Mood and Action photography. Most of the images here are not moody......

[@tribalfan7710]

Please choose at least 30 or more photos. Just 20 out of over a thousand photos is too less.

[@muehlemannfilms]

back in the days they had 50ish submissions xD :D

[@Hathnotseen]

Look up davepolloart on Instagram. He does old renaissance paintings with modern twists that are hilarious and very well done

[@manonjulie2029]

It's a body bag

[@nagarjunakolli]

you asked for moody pictures but you rate the mushroom shot a 2*. come on guys!!!!!

[@juliarobinson4825]

But there are many bioluminescent mushrooms!

[@FStoppers]

They don't glow like that though! -P

[@MichaelFrazierTube]

...are you guys spending too much time together? All besties need breaks once in a while ya know...

[@sattuu108]

You 2 have added to much mood , its two outsmart people trying to be correct😂😂

[@RayLenses]

Here goes my last attempt and didn't pic my photo again

[@JessGibson]

Thomas Kinkade is also dead lol

[@naughtyskweet6]

Lee seems to be hiding some resentment towards Patrick in this video. What's up with that?

[@adrianyup4197]

I could almost say the third image is a 3d rendering.

[@tomassalink9605]

Hi! No it's not 3d rendered. I just simply shoot with my Nikon D750 with Tokina 100mm macro at f3.2 iso50 and use ligh... In Photoshop i just did simple skin editing, adjusted colors and thats it.

[@adrianyup4197]

@@tomassalink9605 its so perfect well done :) you can see where im coming from that its so clean and skin is perfect. Extremely well done !!!

[@tomassalink9605]

@@adrianyup4197 Thank you!

[@juliarobinson4825]

So harsh on the mushroom trend when some mushrooms actually do glow 🙄

[@funkymonkeylovin]

Put some damn shoes on.

[@michaelk946]

You guys are hacks. The cottage at 9:40 was a great image. At first I used to like these video reviews. But you guys are too high and mighty. Sorry. I’m sure you are both great people. But the reviews are too snooty.

[@w33blord66]

I'm beginning to hate the concept of story.

[@markhill6296]

I cringe listening to the criticism these 2 guys are the worst. Let’s see there work and let the audience judge their work