Thanks so much for the support with the book everyone! All of them are in stock currently still :) www.jamespopsys.com/store?category=Books

@CarterCommaJ

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for restocking vol. 1 (2018). Having only found your channel relatively recently, I feared I'd missed out, but gladly managed to order all 3 books. Cheers!

@antonroux6737

2 жыл бұрын

Hey I noticed you’re not biking as much - apart from today! - in your videos. I’m wondering whether the drop bar gravel bike is not as good for adventure photography as your mountain bike? How about doing a photography x bicycle type video to discuss bicycle types (eg gravel vs mountain bike) from an outdoor photography perspective? Is the less upright body position with a large camera backpack problematic on a drop bar bike? What about stability? Can you explore as well as on your mountain bike? Have you ever considered something like a Salsa Blackborow, for example? Also re spiders in Australia, I once had a 12cm huntsman spider crawl across my chest in the middle of a hot summer’s night - yes it did wake me up - yes I can relate to being bothered by a spider in your home and you’re definitely entitled to be feeling a bit traumatised the next day

@MrAnnoyingGames

2 жыл бұрын

Would be interested to know if you have had to amend your presets at all since moving to the Sony system

@Legendary_Tales

2 жыл бұрын

Hi James. I'm kind of new to your channel. It's great and your videos are both entertaining and informative. I'm also a new photographer/videographer. QUESTION: Ignoring the point you were making in the video, would a gradient filter have saved that first shot of the house in the hills?

Enjoy your hols, when you're away I'll be running around shaking all the trees.

Being a post-processing fanatic, I really like how you show the shots before and after processing.

@natern

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! This is really appreciated. Also, your personality.

8:42 for future reference, best to tap potentially electric fences with the back of your hand. If it was electric, it would have caused your muscles to seize, and you would have actually ended up grabbing on to it

@oneoldgit

2 жыл бұрын

With DC current

@MrAgisma

2 жыл бұрын

This is a fun fact I tell people whenever electric fences are brought up lol

Love your content AF, it isn’t dry, boring, lecturing, neither pompous but an-assumingly educative. A whole shitload of knowledge and entertainment … Thanks man!

Starting at the max zoom and working out could be such a good skill to learn how to frame a shot for new photographers like myself. Amazing video as always. Thank you very much

Small bit of advice when testing a suspected electric fence (13:50) use the back of your hand. Also, I ordered all three of your books after last weeks video, can't wait for them to arrive.

@HellbellyUK

2 жыл бұрын

\i learnt that trick from of all things, a "Tomorrow People" book.

@ruthwilson9449

2 жыл бұрын

or a blade of grass?

@dalerobinson8456

2 жыл бұрын

@@ruthwilson9449 A blade of grass is non-conductive, won't do anything when touched to electric fence.

@jbcool

Жыл бұрын

​@@dalerobinson8456 a grass straw is a good way to check a fence, it wont shock you, but if it is electric, you will feel a small tingle in your fingers.

@bookedsam

Жыл бұрын

There is no 13:50

Right up until last weekend, it's been unusually warm (20-25C) here in the middle of Canada and I've been loving it because I've been able to get out and stay out for hours to photograph the fall colours. Now, it's a more normal 5C and windy and dreary. Ugh.

@Michael-Bennett

2 жыл бұрын

Just got back from a fall trip to Cape Breton and mainland Nova Scotia. Never seen such vibrant reds in my life. It was truly astounding.

The colours are certainly changing for you. Here in Melbourne Australia, we have just been released from a long lockdown and am so enjoying revisiting my favourite locations. Not too many spiders here either 😉

@xinsnake

2 жыл бұрын

Watching the video from Melbourne Australia as well, right after carefully relocating a few spiders of the day on the wall to the outside.

@Mike_to_the_k

2 жыл бұрын

Good to hear Australia is starting to let its citizens have lives again. You guys have had it bad with the lockdown garbage.

@AlexMcDougallPhotography

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mike_to_the_k It's worked for them though hasn't it? Unlike us on the covid island.

@Mike_to_the_k

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlexMcDougallPhotography idk what you’re referring to as the Covid island but here in Idaho we had pretty much no lock down and we did just fine. Especially small businesses, they didn’t get fucked into oblivion by policy here.

@AlexMcDougallPhotography

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mike_to_the_k That would be the UK.

Like you I live in the centre of Ireland and am surrounded by amazing landscapes. Hadn't really appreciated it until foreign travel got so tough!

Photographing windy roads with the GM 135 works out real well

Love this channel, and love the Saturday inspiration every week. Some solid advice, brilliant humour and great photographs. Keep it up and enjoy the holiday.

@joycady8325

2 жыл бұрын

Well said and so true!

Our spiders in Australia have been known to drag away small adults in the night. Don’t forget the drop bears. Stay safe James. 🇦🇺🤣

Thanks for the advice! I only shoot primes so I can’t zoom but you really made me think about starting from what I want to capture rather than what I don’t want to lose.

I love the reminder that there is always something interesting in our own backyard. The western face of the Rocky mountains that dominate my landscape, that while beautiful, I feel like I over-photograph, are always the most popular photos to my friends in the UK.

Zooming out and not in is one of the best simple tips I have heard I think, thanks James 🙏

Good advice, James. I like that idea of starting out most zoomed in and pulling back until the most impactful frame is found.

As a crappy beginner photographer I find myself cropping the majority of my photos when I get them home because it increases the impact. That was a great tip which I will use next time i go out. Maybe I can get it right in camera, next time.

@peterjoseph3839

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly Jeff! That’s the same (wrong) begginers mistake I keep repeating. 👌👍🔝📸

Dude, your consistency is underrated as hell.

I love when you show what your camera actually see. Very helpfull

i liked the car pic @8:37 . shows more of a mood and vibe

Colours have peaked in Nova Scotia. Have visited the province many times but never managed an autumn trip util this year. Also, the first trip in over 22 months! A truly amazing year for fall colour. Never seen such vibrant reads. Nova Scotia/Cape Breton....a must trip for fall colour.

I love your photography AND your humor! 😉

re "not really my cup of tea......" ........Thats THEEEE image in your video that does it for me ! beautiful

Blue 🔵 orange 🧡 perfect combination. Probably the best example of color theory.

Thanks for the remark about Location in the world! 👍🏻

The colors are lovely (the coat and the bottle) and I've never thought to try zooming out intentionally as you've demonstrated. So, unless I feel the need to emulate your color choices I can try this technique at no cost! Thanks for the tip!!!

Great shots

Always enjoy. After watching you for a while now I have found myself doing more hand held and actually enjoying it.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, experience, and humor with us, James. Love your content.

Woah! Looking forward to Sats afternoons, love watching your vids. Keep them coming.

Have fun on the holiday!

Totally agree. Just shot some sports photography (discgolf) this weekend. Did not have the courage to get closer to the players at first but by the end of the weekend was just sitting next to them while they were throwing. 😀 completly different perspective and cool photos that way.

This is an excellent video and everything so well explained and demonstrated making it easy to. understand. I am an amateur photographer and an electronic engineer by profession. I am prompted to comment about how to safely check if wires are electrified. Touching them with hands up or down is not a sure and safe method. If you are wearing shoes that are well insulated,you will not get a shock even if the wires are electrified. But whenever any part of your body comes in contact with the wire and the ground both, you can get a serious shock. The only safe and easy solution is to keep a small electric tester/screwdriver in your bag if you are going to be in such a situation.

Love your videos and your humor :P

That's a really interesting tip James, and one that I must admit I'd not thought of. I'm going to give that a go! ta very much. It's interesting that you're using pathways to illustrate your point too, because pathways are one of my favourite things to take photos of in the first place.

Fantastic tip, so simple. Thank you!

Enjoy ur holiday! Thanks for putting the raw and then the edited! I love seeing the before and after

"why are you laughing?"...darn near spilled my tea! Another good video, James...great tip!

Hello James. Have a lovely weekend.

Great video and an excellent tip, James! By the way, I was told by an electrical engineer friend to use the back of my hand when checking for something that might have a charge. It could prevent a situation where you involuntarily grip the charged wire. I saw that someone else mentioned this in a comment as well, but I thought it would be worth reiterating. Hope you have a great holiday and the autumn colors are still waiting for you when you get back!

I actually love the image at 10:16 that you said you didn't like

Thanks mate, love your work. Don't even mind the water-bottle

Can't wait to see the book when it's ready! Love this channel so much. Literally stop everything when I see a notification of a new video. In this case I'm halfway through regrouting my bathroom floor. I should probably get back to that. (Once I've grown a new pair of knees.)

Lovely shots James, the colours are very nice indeed 👌 Hope you get another go at it.

Another great video James! Never thought of zooming out and working my way backwards probably a lot easier for me too as I like having compressed shots to show scale of things more and overall just find the compositions a lot cleaner and easier on the eyes

Worth a try. Thanks for the tip! FYI, if there are insulators on the fence post, you should just assume the wire is electrified, but a wooden post may lack insulators and still have hot wires.

James, You are on to something here. Been using this technique the past few times out and have come home with some great photos. Thanks. Always enjoy your videos.

I love seeing someone showing the beauty of Wales actually looks like

Drone flying power stance! Another great one James. So beautiful there!

I would highly recommend you the Sony 24-105 f4. I use it on my A7rii and it covers 95% of the usual landscape focal lengths. I basicly leave my 12-24 f4 at home 90% of the time.

Great tip! Something I’ve never thought about but do all the time. Zoom into a scene vs zooming out of a scene.

Great images James! Thanks for sharing your prospective.

Great video James! Such a good point about not being close enough to your composition. I have just completed my mountain landscape photography vlog and I was kicking myself half way up the mountain wishing I had brought my 70/200mm with me but I just couldnt justify the weight over a 5 hour hike so I could relate to that a lot. Great images thrughout this video. Great explanation too. Thanks for sharing James. I look forward to the next video. Keep up the great work!

was cool that you showed the before and after edit, versions. the car/caravan... wellll eery, ducky! very american film scene! loved the river scene, like a thomas cole painting even with all the detail and really showed the quality of your camera/lens. may help to think of spider as just a mummy out on a foraging mission, for her family... no?.. !! anyway, happy holiday! 🙌🏼

Thanks, James. Really like this tip. Simple but helpful.

Thank you for this awesome tip!

I recall I had just bought a wide angle lens and gone to Italy, where I promptly started at the wide end over and over and over again, only to come home with a bunch of mediocre shots. About a week after coming home, I stumbled across your video talking about wide angle lenses, and how you keep yours at the wide end, and zoom out until the scene looks right. That one bit of knowledge would've made for so many more useable shots!

Great points you made in this video! It's important to know what is your subject in the image. Giving it just enough context and not overcomlicating it with too much stuff is quite hard. In my opinion one of the key skills in photography is to know what to include in the photo.

Oh my that sketchy ladder! You be careful out there is the forest James ....lol

You do have a particular nice piece of nature closeby James.

Nice educational video. One topic, lots of photo examples, good job. Wow an old Dodge in Wales.

Good simple tip James...will have to give it a try. Love your humor. Makes me nervous when you get so close the edge...have to look away. Have a fabulous holiday with Emily and Noah and safe travels.

All good advices James! except the wire testing one lol.

Thank you so much for the lovely video and lessons!

Autumn colors are here in Oregon, unfortunately we are expecting wind tomorrow so buh bye leaves. Loved the railroad photo. -Elaine

Great video. Love the content. Especially the pictures

Watching your videos makes me feel like i can take the shots with the same result yet i fail everytime. Following you made me find out my style and probably my mentor I THINK. 🤪 which is you.

I love your advices James. Continue creating, as we say here in the Philippines, "Padayon".

Great advice as usual James. Enjoy your holiday mate 👍

I really like these images- some of your best!

Hi James, another great video. Just a tip from an electrician worker, never touch electric wire with fingers down, do the same thing but touch with fingers up or you will grab the wire and your muscles are hard to release. Cheers

Mate you’re incredible well glad I watched this video

Great vid, this year is the first year I've properly planned to go somewhere at peak autumn colour. Heading to the Brecon area on Tuesday!

Great video James! This tip will revolutionize my approach to capturing images. Cheers, Keith

The image of a cottage with blue windows and door at 1:32 was very picturesque

Great tip, thanks.

Some nice images there James. Never thought of zooming out but I probably do it all the time, without being aware 😊👌

stumbled across your page on this video, very impressed. got yourself another follower!

another great video !!!!!

I am always amazed at how almost everyone seems to get the meaning of that Robert Capa quote wrong. "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." Capa certainly didn't mean this LITERALLY, but FIGURATIVELY. By "not close enough", he means you as a photographer are not "all in", you lack a connection to the scene you're photographing, you are holding back. Here's what Alex Webb says about this Capa quote and advice: I’ve always chosen to interpret Capa’s saying expansively, to mean not necessarily getting physically close but getting emotionally, spiritually, or psychologically close. In this more expansive sense, it seems like good advice. Regardless, the composition advice given in James' video is good.

Great advice, I totally love your drone shots! Have a nice vacation!!! Moonpie

My photo instructor used to say "Get as close to your subject as possible and take one step forward.)

nicely does it my good man! Great looking scenes.

Great video! Very helpful content and tips. I just got a 14-30 for my Z6ii. I definitely need practice with this lens.

Great video and photographs, you make me laugh more and more with every video you make.

Thank you James, really enjoyed that little jornt! Of course, it may have been a long jornt - we just don't know. I appreciate yourpoints about framing subjects, I do tend to go too wide on the bases I can crop in post - however losing some definision! I do like to use a zoom but someone made the point; using a 25mm (50 equivalent in full) is a good exercise - just move yourself. Quite a few of your shot are close to this focal length by the way, but always a danger one might step of a cliff! Regards, Martyn

As a macro photographer i totally agree with "getting closer to te subject". 😉

Great video mate

I agree 😊

Back to the photography & another good video. For the indecisive, whilst zooming out may be best, perhaps consider continuing to zoom out and take three alternative shots at different focal lengths. Subject, Subject in local environment, Subject in wider environment.

I really enjoyed this one James. You voiced a lot of the thoughts I have about finding things on the doorstep. The quality of your post production images as shown on the video gave me a renewed enthusiasm for not passing by the opportunity to take those ‘get them in the bank’ photos today for the hope of better conditions tomorrow as well. I think I can benefit from the time in Lightroom working an effective composition into a better end result that way. Off topic.. but what footwear were you in.. I like the look of those.. maybe it was just the laces. Have a great break with the family. Looking forward to your next upload.

Love your video James. A really awesome tip - I can't believe I haven't thought of that myself! Your videos always inspire me - and I now have a deep desire to visit Wales - it looks absolutely gorgeous! Would love a video or two about some of your idols - the photographers that have inspired you! If one of them happens to be Todd Hido then that would be an extra bonus! :D

Wow! I did not thinner You have and tree in England…😎

Ayyyy! If square space is reading, _I actually just hopped on for a site_ Brilliant job James 💪🏼❤️ I shoot quite a bit of landscapes on the longer side. Just snippets of a scene.

I think rather then zooming in or out a better approach is to choose your focal length beforehand and adjust afterwards, that way you make a conscious choice of what FOV to use and you better learn what different focal lengts look like and are good for

I like the pre and post edit views

I always get a couple of laughs watching your videos. Good advise about zooming out.

Thank you 👍📷😎

Lovely pictures, what I wouldn't give for a photo hike with you. Also my favourite color is blue so I highly approve of that water bottle :P. With shooting wide my mindset is how much I can fit in and what elements are most important to the story ... Everything else can go (out of the frame). I've been having so much fun (except for the time I have to wait for the stitching to finish on my crappy laptop) going back to doing panoramas (I blame that on Olympus'es Hand Held High Resolution feature).