Was a fantastic day and learnt so much, thanks Mike. It was something we discussed quite a bit, about the fact that you only see peoples best work and not the thousands of photos that don’t work. So really good to see you go through the ones of yours that didn’t necessarily work out. Really looking forward to doing some more of your workshops soon 👍

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Hope to see you again one day!

Love this Mike. It's a great insight into how your workshops 'work'. Looks like mix of instruction, guidance, education and free-form experimentation... As for the glass juggler - I like how you can see his inverted image in the ball in the close up image - like being able to get a glimpse of the 'magic'. Sometimes, it's the things that catch you in the corner of your eye in a picture that want to make you look at it again....

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Hopefully you'll join me on a workshop one day!

Really enjoyed this ... your honest approach to it .Nice one Mike !!

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it :-)

Mike, both myself and my lady have been with you from the very start of your youtube videos and in that time you've been a consistent inspiration and great technical guide that has led us both to not only enjoy a hobby together as a couple but also to earn enough small packets of dosh to afford a few trips away. Its also been a great compliment to our day jobs and the local businesses we work for so has helped them too. For the shots that don't make it (particularly for parties&weddings where we end up with hundreds): a few times now we've smashed them into a short video at about 3 frames per second along with some funny music and delivered to the customer/social media ahead of processing the final images. Every time that has gone down superbly well as a surprise bonus and takes the pressure off us developing&delivering the main photos in a short time frame :-) We'd love to join you on a photography workshop and will be looking into organising when&where. Once again, huge thanks.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

That is great to hear, when you can make something out of the off-cuts (so to speak) there really is nothing lost - it would be great to have you both on a workshop one day.

Thanks for this Mike, sometimes we shoot for hours and think about all the rejects which we have. You have shown us that it's the normal process. Thank you.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

It is indeed all part of the process!

It was a great workshop and I learnt a lot. Seeing how you select through the images you’ve taken is very helpful. I’m not generally a fan of black and white photography but I can see how that choice is adding to the moment by taking away some of the busyness. Many thanks Mike.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

I hope we see you there again next year Hazel 🙂

thank you Mike for all your videos excellent work I've learnt a lot and so the newer members in my camera club by watching your videos📸👋🍻

@MikeBrowne

6 ай бұрын

Thank you - Very welcome. I hope to maybe meet you and some of your members on a workshop some day

One of your best this on Mike, thanks a bunch mate

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Hi Mike, loved this video. It shows that although you are a professional photographer you still go through a process and we all need to take shots to find the right shot. But my biggest takeaway from this is the fact that although the 18-55 lens you use is sort of classed as a kit lens (although an amazing lens) you show that you don’t need the all singing all dancing top of the range lenses to get the shot. Many people myself included feel the pressure of I need the latest and best to be a better photographer. However, we all need to learn the basics. Let’s face it without the photographer a camera whatever price is just a box with a bit of glass on the front. Keep up the great work Mike you are an inspiration to us all.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

That's really kind of you to say... thank you so much.

I love these videos. Simple things that just 'work' in life, like clothes lines and shoe horns, always inspire me and similarly I loved the uncompromising learning experience of arriving home and having to delete 99% of photos I took :) The next step has been sharing my pictures publicly. Now that I have a 'gallery' on Instagram etc, it sets a nice natural standard for my future pictures. Making it even easier to separate wheat from chaff in future photo opportunities. I still delete maybe 98% of pictures I take. But that's an improvement on 99%! I'm only a hobbyist with the camera. It's simply adding fun to things I enjoy anyway (walking in town or country, meeting different strangers, creating 'vignettes' etc). Lovely.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Great to hear. Continue doing what you love.

First video of you I've seen and I love your style of narration. There were some shots I would've put in my selection. Like the last of the dance group. Very dynamic and makes your eyes go from corner to corner trying to find what's going on exactly.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard... quite a lot for you to catch up on ☺️

This was a very informative video, I have done your begining videos where I did learn a lot. Thank you for sharing this.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment.

Eye opening. This is my fav thing I learnt from you. "You only see the end result"!

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

The instagramers... I could swear I saw the same girls when I was at London on holidays this summer. White dresses, taking pictures with a camera, having the city as a backdrop... right outside the exit from the Tower of London. :D Great video Mike. Its always great to see the selection process and why you chose one image over the other. There is a fanfastic book from Magnum, "Contact Sheets", that I strongly recommend to anyone. Its a bit on the same line, showing contact sheets from famous photographers with comments and the selected photograph that is usually a very well know frame. Thank you for sharing. Cheers

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thanks alot.

Thanks Mike for the vid. and the course( last week) I like B/W images ( the ones of the dancers I like both B/W and colour) learned a lot still learning

Cracking shots, Mike. Thanks for sharing. I would absolutely love to join you on this photo walk, hopefully next year.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

A date has been set - keep your diary free! www.photographycourses.biz/workshops/cameras_dont_take_pictures

@ahmedbebars6844

9 ай бұрын

@@MikeBrowne Thanks. Noted!

Hi Mike, I love your videos as always, but this one goes back to your early videos of how, where, what and how you have taken the photos 🤘📸 keep it up mate 🍻

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thank a lot - I don't get as many out as I'd like nowadays...

I can't believe that I have only just found your channel: great stuff, thank you!

@MikeBrowne

2 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

I really wanted to come along on this one as I know that area very well but due to a family commitment was not able to make it . Great video which highlights just how much time it takes to get those golden shots. For me shooting street scenes with people is nearly always a black and white must for the reasons you said about the ladies dress clashing with the bridge colour. You absolutely nailed it on the head at the beginning when you said that we only ever show what we consider to be our best work and this will give confidence to all those who think their work is not as good and wonder if all the effort is worth it. It definitely is!! 😀

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Hopefully you'll be able to join us another time, we've already set a date for CDTP 2024... www.photographycourses.biz/workshops/cameras_dont_take_pictures

It's Interesting to see the shots you got on the day. I saw you taking some of them and was wondering how they would look. Especially like the artist lady one, and the way you took it so stealthily! The black & white ones work so well due to the contrasty light we had on the day. Interesting to see the ones that didn't work too. Just saw next years CDTP on your newsletter. Will definitely be booking again 👍🏻

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for coming - hope to see you again next year 🤩

Great video Mike, I like black and white but it's personal preference and the image, I recently bought two Canon 35mm SLR's and I use black and white in them. I like the grainy look that it gives. I'll be coming to your next photo walk.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Look forward to seeing you @andrewcroft2570. Grab yourself a ticket at link below, folks are booking seats already... www.photographycourses.biz/workshops/cameras_dont_take_pictures

Different kind of video. Enjoyed it sir. Keep it up 👍

@MikeBrowne

8 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

This was so interesting, thanks Mike!

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Second one is the best, love the artist one and the three girls. Great video, thanks and stay well.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it @stigg333

Started following because of the macro reverse ring from 11 years back and now can't stop watching the channel 😅

@MikeBrowne

8 ай бұрын

There's worse habits to have!

Good learning points as trying to get into street photography myself. I like B&W as a preference - I shoot a lot of film and find sometimes lack of colours removed distractions of clashing colours. Conversely colour in the right circumstances.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Exactly that.

Looks like you had a great day - I would have loved to attend but I was in Spain. Great to see your rejects and nearly but not quite shots. I prefer the mono versions, but the dancers in colour is neat. Thanks for sharing. Hope I can make the next one.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

I really hope you can too.... a date's been set 😝 www.photographycourses.biz/workshops/cameras_dont_take_pictures

@G0FUW

9 ай бұрын

Hey ho, will be in Canadian Rockies in Sept 24. Doh!

B/W I think is better when people’s faces are predominantly in the frame and when deep shadows are part of the composition. Hence your decisions using B/W was spot on.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment 🙂

That's one with the ladies walking that was my favourite the form of 3s and they were all in step !😊😊

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

A moment in time!

Loved the images as black and white. The two ball images at the start - I prefer the second. I think it feels simpler with what’s in the frame. The family selfie - definitely works better as black and white. The clash of greens is what I saw first and missed absolutely everything else in there. With black and white I went straight to the face who was looking straight back at us. I really enjoyed this Mike. Even this kind of video gives us loads to think through - love that you have that capacity! Also really appreciate the reminder about the top of the iceberg and that no matter how long we’ve been doing this and how proficient we might be - we still have a load of underneath work with any given image. The rest aren’t failures but steps to the treasure as such. Enjoy those workshops when they come around. I always love hearing about them. (And one day when the kids stop needing my bank account! Hahahahah)

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

That's never going to happen Denise - you're going to have to sew some deeper pockets!!

@denisesavage2382

9 ай бұрын

@@MikeBrowne hahaha!!!! I’ll crack open the sewing machine to make them. That’s definitely gotta help!

The first one is my choice, Mike. Keep up the good work.

@MikeBrowne

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

Thanks for the look behind the curtain. What I find to be interesting are "photographers" shooting weddings and other events that post ALL of their images into a gallery for the shoot with very little culling or editing. I personally am very selective for the photos I post, and yeah, I do delete a lot of bad images.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

I agree. I tell couples they'll get about 300 images and am very selective which images I shoot - because time is money and wading through 100s of images will burn a day.

Hi Mike, thanks for this vid and making a great point of the "rejects". I really learned a lot looking at the color vs B&W ( and I used to shoot Tri-X several lifetimes ago). I found that the B&W really "simplified" a busy scene. I found that my eye was really drawn to the main subject in the B&W. In most of those comparisons the color added confusion. This is especially true in the shots regarding the red cranes over the dome. By going B&W the cranes were still an element in the scene, but it did not distract me from the main subject. The only shot I thought looked more interesting in color is the dancers. The color felt like more energy to me, my eye wandered back and forth looking at the various colors, as if I was looking at all the individual dancers in motion. I got a lot out of this vid. Thanks,

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Brilliant - thank you for the comment.

Hi Mike, great video i learned a lot of tips from this video. I liked the Dancers in Colour and the street performer with the glass ball i liked the black and white shot. The lady artist i liked the colour one, and i would've taken that shot at face level. If i see a similar shot like that one i will certainly change my angle so my photo will stand out, thanks for that tip. The photo with Bob was a great picture with the Bird on top of the Lamp post. It was nice to see Lobby again on your desk. Thanks for sharing another great video which was very useful to me and enjoyable to watch. 😃

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Good old Lobby..

@seaeagles6025

9 ай бұрын

@@MikeBrowne Yes good one 🙂

Mike, Happy New Year! I prefer the black and whites over the color. There’s something timeless about B&W. IMHO🤷‍♂️

@MikeBrowne

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment!

B&W for me on most occasions apart maybe from the dancers. I think the colours of their clothes added to their movement. Thanks for including me in your chosen images, I kept telling the wife I was on the telly. 😂

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Well you were!!

That's the new trend on social media, showing the 'bad' photos. The colour vs b&w image really demonstrates one again that b&w can make bad colour photos look decent.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Ooh not sure if I'm ahead of the trend or behind it!

Prefer b&w and the city view. Great photos Mike. Helps to see you have photos you wouldn’t normally show too. I will pop my photos of the street performer with the bubbles into photo creative, this video very apt as I wasn’t happy with them so they didn’t make my top pics. Thoroughly enjoyed the day, learnt a lot & hope to join you again on another workshop soon. Wendy’s sister 🤣

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Brilliant!! Hope to meet you on another workshop again soon Wendy's sister 😝

That picture with the ball on the forehead is unique. Like it.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Good to hear.

I think this video really shows that we learn most from our mistakes.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much.

Great topic Mike and gives a new way of thinking. I'm guessing you used your Fujifilm X series but which lens did you use on that day ?

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thanks. Yes the old Fuji XT2 and 18-55mm lens, which has been my go-to lens for years.

@mc5869

9 ай бұрын

@@MikeBrowne I love seeing people still using these older Fujifilm bodies 👍🏻

Thanks for the video. As an amateur sports photographer I have to be very selective with what I give people. I've had teams complain that I've only given them 50 shots out of 700, but that's a decent hit rate and more than I really want to give them anyway. I've had to explain a number of times that using what I think are bad shots, just to hit a number they want, does me no favours at all as a photographer and I won't "hide" the really good stuff by chucking scores of junk into the pile. It's a cardinal sin for me when I see other amateurs chucking hundreds of badly composed, soft, pics up online.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

👍 💯

Another very informative video, would love to see some of the participants images. Might just be me, but thought you might have straightened and cropped some o the images? I know with street that I often do, but as said it might just be me!😀

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

If you go over to Facebook and the Photo Creative group - many particpants shared their images in an album there 😎

I enjoy seeing the failure pictures. I learn more from those than perfection. I also like street photography that identifies a place. I want to prefer black and white but I rarely do!

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

You like what you like ey?!

nice video as always, wish I could have been there - hate what has happened to London (my home town) - it's a wonder the Tower has not been turned into an amusement park ! Come to Africa for some real excitement LOL in oh so many ways ! Black & White Rocks BTW

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thanks very much, maybe one day!

We miss your videos!Do more pls

@MikeBrowne

20 күн бұрын

If only they paid the rent - I would!!

These are the ones we DO want to see!

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

And here they are laid bare 😝

Several of your black and white photos lacked contrast or had large areas that lacked contrast. The shot taken from above the artist was the only b&w photo that broke the contrast rule, but is still a very cool photo. The others look washed out to me. Some really cool b&w’s when you got the contrast. I liked the video and you do have some incredible work.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment.

Thanks, Mike. B&W in all cases!

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thanks very much for the comment..!

You can’t beat B&W for images in The City of London.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

It's an icon city so black and white does work well....

Mike your so lucky, you can have a camera with you all the time I had to put my camera in pawn and don't think i would be able to get them out. i always wanted the canon m50. looks like my photography is done. been doing photography for about 35 years and will miss it.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that 😔

I just seen my first vid of yours and it was Focal length from 11 years ago. I'm 60, T2 disbetes and I watched a guy huffing and puffing and wiping away sweat, doing nothing. I thought, " Either, he's lost weight, or his DEAD! ". GREAT to see your alive and You've lost weight, YEAAAA!!!!! Congratulations.

@MikeBrowne

2 ай бұрын

Ah thanks for the kind comment - and I'm sorry to hear of your T2

@50shadesofgayy

2 ай бұрын

Once again he explained focal length incorrectly and conflated it with perspective, which has nothing to do with magnification. Thinking you can take a photograph with a short lens and then increase your distance to take the “same shot” with a longer lens is a classic photography misconception. You’re literally changing your perspective by stepping. Increasing focal length when you increase distance just magnifies your new perspective and doesn’t create the “same framing” or composition as a shorter lens at a closer distance. That explanation is nonsensical and terrible advice to give with such confidence.

It’s crazy how many bad photos I’ve taken. Some I even thought were bad and it seemed that people actually really enjoyed them, but needed to be edited a little different. It opened my eyes to go back and re-edit the images I thought weren’t really good to bring life back into a time in history.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thing is, there's a pressure feeling in all of us to only take amazing photos and each image to be better than the last - which isn't reality. We also take good images, mediocre ones, ones we like and no one else does - as well as the inevitable ones that just don't work.

@danielschmaderer

9 ай бұрын

@@MikeBrowne I couldn’t have said it any better. I’ve been in that situation where I take an awesome photo that I’ve very proud of. I get this adrenaline of inspiration to keep shooting and the rest of the photos don’t live up to the 1 amazing shot. As time has gone on, I’ve gotten less hard on myself and the images. This has improved my time with my camera a lot. At the end of the day, enjoying the process of freezing that moment in time more and more has improved my keepers.

Your comment on the ladies on the bridge, taking a photo for Instagram only. It reminded me of a conference - 55 years ago - of a then well-known Dutch solo artist. (Quote;) "Then all those people go on holiday and take their instant camera with them. They take pictures throughout the holiday to see at home what they could have seen THERE." (end quote) As far as the ladies are concerned...nothing new under the sun...right?

@MikeBrowne

8 ай бұрын

You've hit the proverbial nail on the head.

23:14 You know how professional this man is simply listening to his imitation on the shutter sound.

@MikeBrowne

2 ай бұрын

🙏 👍😆

Black & White!

This guy is the king of Camera Club judge kings.

thanks Mike i dont feel so bad taking so many pis at the events i do now

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Good to hear.

Mike, I love the idea of you showing the keepers as well as the rejects. Interesting to hear your comments on both. Can I ask your views on cropping in PP? An example would be the the selfie group around the pram...If you crop out the bald headed guy in the dark shirt on the right, does it still make the image work, in your opinion? You can still see the bridge in the background so can see the location. My style is 'similar' to yours and I think I would have done that if I'd shot this image.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thanks. I prefer to compose in camera and rarely crop if I don't have too. Maybe a small tweak sometimes. There are times when it's unavoidable, like a bird in the distance because they're small. I like the bald guy on the right so left him in. Would it work, probably but I am a realism junkie.

What was the old saying? "You can tell how good a photographer is by the size of their wastebasket". lol When I was shooting film, I felt good if I had more than one turn out the way I thought it should on a roll. I like the first one with the ball. And the black and white because those red poles are really quite distracting. Yup, A session of shooting freezing bubbles will generally result in 200-400 photos and of those I'll like maybe 4 or 5.

Thanks

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🥰🥰🥰

@chriskerrey7434

9 ай бұрын

@@MikeBrowne you are most welcome Mike, I’ve enjoyed your photography videos, and teaching for sometime now. In fact I was approached by a lady in Mudeford last Tuesday, having spent the day their, my camera busy, so I was delighted to recommend your beginners course. Such is the impact of your training, it goes without saying to ‘name drop’. Hope you don’t mind. Enjoy this amazing weather for October, and thank you again Mike 😃🙏

For some situations, for me at least, monochrome works a lot better. The eye always looks around the scene in the image and usually gravitates to prominent parts of the image. If the image is in colour, the eye could gravitate away from the actual point of interest and chase prominent colours. Whereas, with monochrome, there are no distracting colours and the eye focuses on the main subject of the image. A case in point is Ansel Adams. Although he took nearly as many colour images as black and white, he is best remembered for black and white. The pure majesty of El Capitan in black and white would have been lost if the image was in colour.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

I certainly love B&W for this genre...

Nice video !! Can I ask - when you lead a group and you take images of street performers for a while - do you or your group give them a donation and do they ever mind you hanging around taking their picture?

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Yes I always give street performers a few coins or get their email and send them pics. Performers like being in the public eye and usually don't mind. I figure they'll ask me not to if they'll ask me to go away.

NY NY. In such urban photos, do you feel grey or blank sort of skies tempt you to do sky replacement? I am. Sometimes I do it well and can be natural looking.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

To be honest no. I kinda like the realism. if the sky's bland it's bland - and also I'm not really up for doing more PP than I have to...

@stevenj2380

9 ай бұрын

Thanks. Would have been a pleasure to be in that walk Cheers from NYC

I preferred the first one of the BW images . It drew me in and begged questions . However , I wasn’t sure it was telling a story , but like the second one it was making a statement . The second image provided location , but that was about it . I think that if those two images were matched with another it might have begun to tell me a story . If that had been possible I would have used up to five images to tell the story . If I had shot either then I would have been happy to show them on Instagram .

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thank you.

I love this kind of photography but since I've moved from Glasgow Uk To Baltimore MD USA, it can be a bit of a challenge to not get at best some guarded funny looks to downright take my picture and die kind of moments of the day,

both bw and color look good

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

It can be hard to choose sometimes ey?

Think the colour works for the dancers, it brings them more to life.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

👍 I'm still switching back and fourth. One day colour, the next B&W 😆

B&W is better ( the group with the pram) i'd be tempted to crop some of the grey flat sky

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment!

Are you still doing videos ? like your videos!!!

@MikeBrowne

6 ай бұрын

Very rarely nowadays to be honest.... :-)

@robertbellomy2

5 ай бұрын

I’ve always enjoyed watching your videos!

90% b&w because of all the conflicting colours. Also, you didn't mention cropping. Seemed like a few potential good images lurking in the rejects if you cut away the distractions.

Mike, we miss you. Where are you? Hope you’re well!

@MikeBrowne

3 ай бұрын

Thank you @Eliehbk. The space is so crowded and everyone is fighting to be heard. A video is averages 30 hours to shoot and edit and to get the algorith to notice you means making them back to back. Free videos don't pay the bills so I limited KZread to the monthly live stream for the photo creative group now. 😟

What do you do with your rejects? Delete them? I tend to be a hoarder, I'll store an entire shoot of hundreds of files from which I only had 2 or 3 keeepers. But I'm not sure that's the way to go. The dilemma is I don't like taking up the storage but I don't like deleting them. 😳 (Storage is cheap now, but still). Anyone else had to deal with this?

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

I rate my chosen ones with 5*s and any I really don't want with 1* and maybes I leave unrated. After post I delete anything with 1* from the disk.

At 13min 25, according to the shadows on the bottom right, the light is coming from the right I think

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

You are correct, I got my words muddled and forgot to add a text line to correct it in the edit 🙄

Looking at the end of the video I had to concur that through BW images had more power to arrest the viewer and draw them in . I often find that the images I hadn’t thought much of whilst out often becomes my favourite on s larger screen . I tend to use my phone to process all my images , including those from the camera and processing them in Snapseed and posting to Instagram . The best ones up in a photo book . Life is too busy to spend too much time over thinking the final Image .

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Ha ha - post product is a pain in the proverbial!

@carmenfissenden2530

9 ай бұрын

@@MikeBrowne So true ha ha

The black-and-white version of the street performer also looks better than the colour, which makes the crowd too distracting.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

👍

Answering questions......B&w

The first one

Colour all the way for me. B&W takes life away from an image - unless the colour isn't there in the first place.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Luckily we can have both :-)

Good morning Mike I will talk to my cam club at are meeting tonight we started at 7Pm-10pm thank best wishes paul South Liverpool Photographer Society 📸🍻

@MikeBrowne

6 ай бұрын

Hope it goes well!

What I struggle with is how to choose if to take or prefer a photo in BW or colours. I'd take aways BW photos. For some reason, every BW picture has something of fascinating to me. I can't say the same for colours images. How come?

@MikeBrowne

Ай бұрын

If B&W images are as you say "something of fascinating to me" I guess you just prefer black and white to colour.

They're not bad photographs, just photographs you're not happy with and prefer less than the ones you show. There's a difference.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Just bad to me for what i wanted to get out of them....

The one with St Paul in the background

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Quite a few have agreed.

I prefer the color the B&W needs more contrast for my taste

@mikebrowne you haven't put out a video in awhile. Is everything ok?

@MikeBrowne

4 ай бұрын

All's good in the world but in the current climate my courses aren't selling enough to sustain the work it takes to make the videos - perhaps most people just go straight to their phones to take an image nowadays? It's hard to be sure but the main focus is now on my workshops and face to face teaching - never say never though... I may surprise you! Thanks for the concern :-)

As a rule, I prefer the black and white images as there are less distractions

@MikeBrowne

8 ай бұрын

I see your point :-)

Anymore biker series or street videos dont half miss those videos ,i understand youre probably busy but they are missed

@MikeBrowne

4 ай бұрын

I only wish but they weren't really commercially viable - I still offer biker / photography tours if the enquiry comes in but otherwise just ride for pleasure again now 🏍️🏍️🏍️

@MikeBrowne

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. 🙏

Purchased today Nikon P1000 I hope its worth, at least for hobby..

@MikeBrowne

Ай бұрын

If you enjoy it.... it's worth it!!

Is Mike ok? Not posted anything in a while

@MikeBrowne

Ай бұрын

Yes - sadly making KZread video's doesn't pay the bills anymore though... 😢

@leegarvey1

Ай бұрын

@@MikeBrowne Good luck fella & thank you!!

Miss your videos sir 😢

@MikeBrowne

15 күн бұрын

Sorry to hear that, you could sign up to my mailing list... I do still send the odd newsletter?! www.photographycourses.biz/new-video-notification

B&w one

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

which image?

Even Not „good“ pictures can be an eye-Catcher….thats important for me….

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Glad to hear something has sunk in.

Cameras dont take pictures,but photo editing does

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Ha! Well sort of... but that depends on who's pushing the buttons

Definitely the second picture, of the street performer.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

👍 thanks sue

Prefer the b and w of the street performer but from the side. From the back the focus is more on the cathedral and the perfomer is incidental.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

👍

The fisrt picture Mike.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

👍

No 1 like because let me make up my mind... mind...

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Thanks

Time wil learn what is a good photo. How many good digital images wil survive time. Harddisks don't.

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

fair point...

@13:54 “ a man and his nuts “ 😳😳😳😳😳

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Perfect combo 👍 😁

Both together….

@MikeBrowne

9 ай бұрын

👍