I think you nailed it in this video! Story telling in photography is becoming a lost art. I think it is mainly due to social media and the vanity metrics. Everyone wants to post the perfect sharp subject with perfectly blurred backgrounds. I always enjoy the photographers and content creators that share their learning experiences when they are out in the field. I know I look at the medium of photography as an art and science. Finding creators that treat it as such is becoming rare due to algorithms in social media. Thanks for this great thought provoking production!
@happynjoyousnfree5 ай бұрын
This is what I have tended to do since the beginning. I love creating a scene that makes the viewer feel what it was like for me taking that photo in that place on that day. I do "bird portraits" as well where the birds are taking up the vast majority of the shot, but I usually take at least one photo of the same bird that includes the environment around him or her. I love knowing that someone who really knows his stuff does the same thing!
@craigwallace1665 ай бұрын
I haven’t really, in this point of my photography journey though a lot about this or even planned for it in a image, but what I like about your videos is that you make me think about possibilities such as composition and story telling. So now I have to program myself to think about these things and really look at the subject and surrounding environment to find a story to tell instead of just snapping a picture.
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
Thanks !
@CamillaI5 ай бұрын
Great video Scott it is probably the most difficult part of wildlife photography especially in one frame 👍
@TomReichner4 ай бұрын
What a great video and discussion! This is exactly the type of content that most of us need to expand our vision and improve our photography. Thank you!
@733-y1c5 ай бұрын
Great video Scott! Context is everything!
@joanneabramson26455 ай бұрын
Beautifully done. I would love to see more of your videos incorporating other photographer's work. The hawk in the tree, Pygmy Nuthatch, and that final Egret in the swamp were outstanding and inspiring. The subjects were first rate. And the supportive cast of the environment made these photos a work of art.
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
Thanks !!!
@tonyp14795 ай бұрын
Hi Scott. Love what you do online and truly love your photography. Thanks for this video! I have an idea for a video, which goes to the typical styles used by wildlife photographers. You seem to bridge both worlds, but a good chunk of the online community like the very low light, wide open, tight depth of field. This gives one set of effects. Another "school" prefers bright, diffuse light, f/8'ish - enough depth of field to capture the entire subject, in sharp detail. Most people from both schools prefer a fore/background that isolates the subject. There are pro's and con's of both schools. Both are interesting toolkits. Both might expand the "normal" hours a photographer uses to do their photos. An idea.
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
Great idea. And yes there is a difference. No right and wrong. I have my biases but I know people that shoot that brighter style.
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
By the way. Feel free to email me. Skeysimages@gmail.com
@juliangreaves47275 ай бұрын
Another great video Scott. Always enjoyable and thought-provoking.
@rschellie5 ай бұрын
Great video as always! As a photographer, how does it impact you when the photos that you like most are not received well by your audience? I mainly post on social media, and I find that the photos I like the most are often shunned by the viewers and only get a lukewarm reception. And what seems to add to this perception is that the more experience I get as a photographer, the more refine my personal preference and the less people seem to respond. It seems if you get a tight shot of your subject and then over process the image with color saturation and increased contrast, the more people love it?
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
That's a tough one and one of the reasons. Social media can be tough. Often it "rewards" mediocre content.
@rschellie5 ай бұрын
@@WildlifeInspired Add to that, we are now competing with A.I. generated images. It never fails to amaze me the number of people that are fooled by these images. I find myself leaving more photography groups theses days then I join because so many photography group admins are allowing these fake images.
@peterm.25015 ай бұрын
I thought your presentation was great. Putting a bird (or any wildlife) in context is important. It is also a good approach for those of us who are not blessed with really big glass (e.g., 600-800 mm). For example, those of us with 400-500 mm lenses, we necessarily get context along with the portrait of the critter. Why not use that to our advantage?
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
Well said!
@ederkes5635 ай бұрын
It's almost impossible to tell a "story" with a single image, unless you change the definition of story. You need a series of images or a video. An image of a cattle egret with a cow doesn't tell a story. It just gives you more information and another visual element to work into the composition, possibly enabling you to create a composition with more visual and/or emotiotional impact. I once heard a photographer say " I'm not a photographer. I'm a visual storyteller." Don't encourage this egocentric crap!
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
might disagree with you a little. the concept is context.... but in that image the viewer gets to fill in the blanks to me thats the story. Maybe our minds just work differently.
@movestattoo45614 ай бұрын
So you don’t think a painting can tell a story? Because in effectiveness that is still just a single image. Single image can tell stories without a doubt.
@19Photographer765 ай бұрын
I don't know about 'telling a story' but it 'Grounds' the birds in the scene. In the last image, the Egret was a supporting element for the cypress more than the reverse, but, it really depends on the viewer's perspective.
@raleighmeade91045 ай бұрын
Good job! Liked the great thought provoking perspective. Thanks,
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@bjrn-einarnilsen6875 ай бұрын
Great video Scott. I am totally agree with you here about the story telling in this photos. The last photo was not only context, but a really peace of art. What a stunning photo. Wishing you and yours a great weekend. Cheers, Bjoern.
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@ZweimaUmmeEcke5 ай бұрын
Totally agree. The last one would even make me proud (If I shot it) without the egret just as a landscape image.
@thebinpustey64975 ай бұрын
LOVE these kinds of photos! Going to try pulling back and trying something more like this. I think having a ‘landscape photography’ background separates those that can envision these images from those who take ‘portraits’ or ‘document’ shots… although there’s plenty of merit and beauty in all types of compositions!
@robhamilton89935 ай бұрын
Good video thanks. It would have been helpful if you could have included the setting used by the photographers to obtain I.e. Bokeh or sharpness etc
@neilcole34064 ай бұрын
Sometimes you just need to zoom out!
@jdiamond95135 ай бұрын
Nice video with a good message and great photography. Your microphone looks nice, but sounds terrible. It sounds like you’re in a tin can and your “S” sounds are getting clipped or something. They echo annoyingly.
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
I noticed this afterwards too. I'll look at the settings. Ya. It's a nice mic and my voice is usually decent so I screwed something up. Keep in mind. I'm a one man show here lol. Not an audio video guy but I'm trying
@vzshadow15 ай бұрын
Good video and great concept. I have a question though. If you enter a context in the "bird" category, will a good portrait shot always beat a context shot? I feel that if the bird is too small in the frame it will never beat a good large portrait.
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
By experience. Contest images prefer engagement of some kind and often environment or incredible action. Tough Portraits don't always do as well.
@tonyp14795 ай бұрын
Your video shows the relevance of context. This idea flits across my mind from time to time, but this vid helps remind me of its value and I hope to make the environmental context more central to what I do. Thanks!
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
Thanks so much!!
@Jonathantuba5 ай бұрын
Something these images largely have in common is the subject is fairly small in frame. Some of these I liked and others did nothing for me.
@alansach84375 ай бұрын
Way too often photographers are obsessed with filling the frame with the subject. While this can be dramatic, it can also remove much of the story telling ability. We cannot see how and where the animal lives. Eventually the images take on a "captive" feel, almost like they were taken in a zoological park.
@davidburton22945 ай бұрын
Wonderful video and some stunning images. I like to anthropomorphize birds as I'm looking to keep a childlike freshness to my images. You are spot on about context. It's all about context I reckon!
@michellesnider62415 ай бұрын
I love this! I have been a little bored with my photography lately and this inspired me!
@keeleykirkendall79745 ай бұрын
Excellent point. Thanks.
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
Thanks so much.
@KurtisPape5 ай бұрын
Talking about colour and seasons, here in Australia, brown, dry grass and dull green colours represent our summers. Strong greens represent winter and colourful flowers represent spring. For autumn the nice leaf colours come from non-native plants so I don't see any defining feature for Autumn in Australia.
@owenpeller64715 ай бұрын
A bit too full of yourself
@WildlifeInspired5 ай бұрын
How so? My presentation? I'm showcasing others here