What's your most commonly used perspective to shoot at?

@timelyseeker

2 жыл бұрын

I have a curious perspective of portrait style landscape photos, where I am anywhere from 30-80 mm length shooting, on a unique lens for Canon, on the canon EOS rebel T7. As in, capturing the land low to the ground, but not too low that the ground is in direct view of the shot. Like grass in the way, but rather focusing on steep hills and lighting on a subject whilst capturing the photo in portrait

@frozemoments39

2 жыл бұрын

Pyramids and Funnels I bore myself sometimes. I do like willows on my left and pine on my right. 2 different worlds

@jeffnewman8261

2 жыл бұрын

I usually shoot my landscapes from a low angle.

@EastFB72

2 жыл бұрын

@@timelyseeker Your not alone... For some reason I much prefer nature / landscape shots in a Portrait orientation.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffnewman8261 same!

Great video, Mark. Vincent VanGough said, ‘if you truly love nature, you will see beauty in everything’.

these are all great tips, and im happy that I already apply most of these!❤

Great Mark, thanks!

Loved this video Mark! Very inspiring, and some great advice. I've been doing a lot of this just in my own back yard this past few weeks. I've been doing a lot of macro photography of plants and flowers, and putting the camera right on the ground and pointing it up, so fun and can create some pretty different photographs of things we normally never see. Having a Canon 90D with the articulating screen is a huge help! Thanks for another information packed video!!!

Thanks Mark! I enjoy watching your videos, they encourage the "free flow of creative juices" within the photographic mind.

Thanks for the great information! :)

Thanks Mark great insight it's made me go back and review some shots I've had in the fog ,and wow what a difference it's made from a good shot which is now looking a great shot thank you.

Thanks for the reminder to change things up

Nice summary. Thank you.

Great video thanks for sharing

I guess I have used natural framing the most over the years, but in the last year I have been enjoying macro photography more and more, so I am getting down low to the ground more and more...which is getting more and more difficult as I get "more advanced in age". 😂😂

@timd4524

Жыл бұрын

Right there with you lol. I'm actually wondering how some knee pads may help.

Great video Mark.

Headed to Glacier National Park in Sept. You can bet I'll watch as many of your videos before as I can before I leave. Your natural style and honest perspective makes your videos extremely easy to absorb. Thanks for being there.

I use framing whenever possible, and I do love low-angle shots.

Thanks for this inforamtion about composition and well done for the video

Thanks Mark! Such wonderful reminders!

You're making very valuable points here. It's amazing how photography makes you focus on things around you that you would normally just walk past. Photography really makes you appreciate nature from vast landscapes to the smallest detail.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

100% agree!

Good beginner tips. I think when people move away from tactics and onto theory- shape welding, looking for the light, storytelling, etc- that's when the boring photos really give way to more artistic expression. This is a really good set of tips for moving on from just kinda "tourist" level photography.

Look up, look down and look all around before you shoot. Be patient with your shots. Thanks Mark for some great tips.

Another great video! I’m going to work more on natural framing!

Great video, again! All you said seems so "ordinary", like "yes, I know", but, on the field, on location, you forget about that, maybe excited by big mountains, trees, rocks etc. Good advices, I will try to remember all that whenever I travel!

Like this video Mark, good ideas

Really worth it! As simple as powerful.

Great video. I love my telephoto lens on my Fuji XT2. I use it more than any other to get a different perspective and for impact.

I'm sorry for a little off topic, but the "how high - how tall"-thing 40 seconds in really made my day. 😅 Best regards from Stockholm!

Great video Mark! These tips were all things I have been practicing over the past year, so it is good to see them all in one place.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Josh!

Beautiful photos and such great advice. Thank you! One of my favorites of my photos was a close-up of a magnolia flower. When I looked closer after taking the photo I saw a small insect walking on the edge of a petal. A nice touch to the flower! I love your mushroom photo for the same reason, plus the lighting is beautiful.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Kim - very much appreciated!

I have been getting low it seems for ever, when I go out I have just started using the centre column on my tripod and even on a few occasions extending the legs to get higher. But I love getting down low I have just got a 50mm 2.8 Macro Z lens which I should be able to hand hold and lay on the beach & get some shots of sand patterns & seaweed.

Thanks for the tips Mark! I appreciate so much value in one video!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Excellent reminders and inspiration!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Barbara!

A great "best-hits" compilation. Thanks for doing this.

Fantastic advice as always. Love your work Mark 👌 Thank you for sharing.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Colin!

Thanks for the tips. I am more of a down low type. Starting to do more close up photography, and really enjoying it.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so Michael!

One of the best images I have ever captured was looking down at the ground on the Bue Ridge Parkway looking at leaves and sticks returning to nature.

At last I've got my hands on a telephoto for my xt20 and I'll be going to svínafellsjökull and a few waterfalls along the south coast, I've been limited to 12mm and a 18-55 for the last year and like you I always find my shots a bit boring when it comes to glaciers in particular. I will definitely be trying to remember your tips! Thanks for the great content as always.

great video, really enjoy watching your content, thanks for all of your hard work.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Martin!

Packed full of super advice buddy !! Filling the frame could also sit in this great list

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thank ya Darren! Yes, great advice as well!

Masterfully done.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Generally, when I post a close-up or a framed image I usually add a wider version for context. Great advice.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brad!

A great video as always!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tommy!

Love your videos 📷

Great tips!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks !

I look forward to Wed evenings, and I watch you just before retiring for the night cause you inspire me. Thank you. Oh, and I like getting low, even with the 360s.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thank ya Greg!

Loved this one!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it Joe!

Nice summary. 👍

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

👍

Thank you Mark for very good advice. Because of their simplicity, we pretend to all know these five methods, but seldomly use. In addition to these five, how about taking panos? I found that in some cases capturing the scene in a pano make also an interesting image.

Great advice and tips. Question and maybe worth a video tutorial, how do you get Lightroom to have that white border and how do you export from lightroom with a border?

Waterfalls shot is beautiful 😍

Wow. I haven't been up to Arcadia National Park in decades. It popped in my head when you mentioned Boulder Beach. I'm not much for large scale landscape shots, so I'm usually around different objects to help frame a shot. I like to do quite a bit of the smaller objects like you showed around 2/3's in. Actually thinking I should pick up knee pads lol.

To summarize this great video, compose in a way to show the world what they don't normally see.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

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Love the Ocracoke Island T...

Great content, Mark. I took notes!! Ed

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated Ed!

hm, very interesting point. Getting close for texture ... especially in woodlands

Excellent!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Erwin!

It would be cool to see you work through these on location, like you did with the four ICM techniques.

Thanks again for the tips

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking out the video James!

@jamesbarnes3063

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkDenneyPhoto One of my weekly highlights, 107 degrees in Gilbert AZ today and will get out at sunset tonight, will try out your suggestions

Getting high is a great tip. Really helps to see things from a different perspective 😉

Good video & advice :)

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Mark, very valuable techniques! Quick question: about that mushroom photo, did you use a macro lens? Thx.

Good vid! Mark, following your tip to “vary focal lengths” would you say that in general you avoid shooting landscapes between, say, 16-55mm (apsc), and that you shoot either ultrawide or telephoto?

I finally splurged right after Christmas last year on a carbon fiber tripod that gives me the ability to get both lower and higher than my old one. While I certainly have taken advantage of both extremes I need to remember to utilize them more.

Dear Mark, once again You’ve nailed it. Much more creative with a light Fuji telezoom and APS-C XT4 than any wide lens, smartphone-like… love my 50-140mm (70-200eq) for landscape photography with tripod or street photography with monopod & my feet; and consider next step for more creativity, ie new 150-600mm (225-900eq), not for Birds (let them fly ;)

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear you enjoyed the episode!

Hey 👋 Mark, I’ve been following you for the past two years. This is by far the of your best . This to be honest in my kind of photography. By putting it together says it all 👏🏼 to you and your success in photography. The best compliment to you is: your a photographer’s photographer. . Great 👍 job .

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this Richard - means a lot my friend!

@richard5005

2 жыл бұрын

Natural framing and macro photography. But have use telephoto . Photography also .

Cool Video, with some cool ideas Mark. What kind of telephotolens do you use? I think you use a GFX 100-200 right?

Another great video ! I have a question for you Mark. Did you need a macro lens for that mushroom or blade of grass shot ?

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nick! Nope no macro was used.

Hey Mark, your videos are amazing and so helpful to keep landscape fotography interesting. I would really love, if you could add timepoints in the description, so that we can jump from point to point. Your videos are usually relatively long and not every point is for everyone. Jumping to the next would be so nice. Greetings from Germany

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Gunter! There’s video chapters you can skip to in the description below👍

@benjaminjoost-meyerzubakum4897

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkDenneyPhoto thank you for your quick answer. I did not see them. However there is a way to put them, so that the video is automatically structured in little parts in the same line as the playhead runs. I don't know what to do, to get that but I didn't search for them because I expected that it will be automatically that way after the last update.... Thank you again

Getting low for me is on my back, it's not the getting low, it's getting my arse off the ground afterwards. It's a age thing I hate to say. 😊 How about those vertical shots, do a lot of them in architecture, trees and cliffs can be fun to.

Great video, Mark. I’ve become super enamoured with aerial photography using my Air 2S. Even if I only shoot 15 feet off the ground - the difference is huge.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated Peter!

@peterfritzphoto

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkDenneyPhoto BTW, you must do a few more videos of your van, Mark. Take it off-road, like I’ve started doing with mine. It’s a lot of fun! 👍😉

Good stuff. Refreshing .. pun intended. I have heard of all these before, but lapsed in using them. I'm nowhere near pro but I'd say advanced amateur, and I lose contact with techniques every so often as well. I won't be riding in a helicopter any time soon (never.. forbidden) but the get low part? Absolutely. Getting close has become a recent passion of mine as well. Thanks for a good video

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear you enjoyed it!

I love getting low down and close up with my wide-angle lens. but only if there is someone nearby to help me get back up.

Another thing, about the mushroom photo, just 3 days ago, I took an almost identical photo, gnats included 😁

Eye level, and composing a panarama

The framing of the Golden Gate Bridge, would look best if you used but half of the tree on either side for the frame. In other words needs a left and right crop, IMO, Loren

Use all of the tips you mention Mark and it has improved my photography no end. Since taking up photography a couple of years ago I find myself looking at the world completely differently. Any possibility for natural framing is the first thing I think about when taking a shot, getting low and close can be great for cutting out a lot of boring foreground and macro photography is great for highlighting things you wouldn’t normally see, some of my best images are macro shots, it’s incredible when you can see fine detail in things like insects and flowers 👍

Excellent Mark! Time to get low, the yard awaits.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andre!!

What I think is interesting is the first glacier pic is probably the coolest but I agree the other two make much pictures.

@haydennelson9404

2 жыл бұрын

Much better pictures*

Mark, I have to say that as you get older, you will find yourself lying on your stomach on the ground/beach more and more because it becomes more difficult to get back up. 🤣🤣🤣

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Hahha! I can see that!

@bkc1965

2 жыл бұрын

@@jnielsen1956 Me too, but I have to dig out some in the sand in order to actually lie flat...not sure exactly why that is.

Great Video we should have paid you for it!!! Lol 😆 🤣 😂

Which drone do you use?

Bryce Canyon is awesome!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

For sure!

The sad thing is that with the exception of some genres of photography (like portraits or people photography, and perhaps street photography) this is why I don't personally find the standard focal range (from about 35 to 50mm) to be all that appealing. I'm starting to really like using my 70-200 for landscapes, and for the longest time, I always felt that the 24-70 was the best lens (it is a good choice, but the 70-200 and even wide angles like a 10-15mm or 14-24, can really open up some new views of the world). Of course you likely wouldn't use a wide angle on a person unless you were going for a specific look, but in reading Ansel Adams' books I somewhat agree with him that for things like landscape, the standard focal lengths (35-50mm, or what a person sees) generally is not that appealing (again, his -- and my -- opinion). The beauty of lenses like the 70-200 is you can really isolate subjects and one thing to keep in mind you don't always have to show the entire scene (this is why I'd almost say that my 70-200 is being used a little more than my wide angle lens currently) because I really like the idea of taking out pieces of a scene (I still shoot the overall landscape with my wide angle, but then I put on the 70-200 and start taking apart pieces of the scene, and I've been more drawn to those shots a bit more than just the wide angle shots). Of course there is no real right or wrong here but the wide and telephoto ends of the spectrum introduce us to a different view that we don't see normally with our own eyes.

Hey Mark, I have flown in helicopters for year's as part of my career in Crime scene investigation. I spent many hours flying with some of the best pilots in the world. There is nothing as exhilarating as having the door open on a helicopter taking images from elevation. The highest I have taken images from was 8000 feet. After retirement, I had the opportunity to fly over the Big Island in Hawaii with the doors off in a Hughes 500 helicopter from the front seat. Flying and photography would only be better of we could fly ourselves.

Low about a foot off the ground is my new goto perspective.

Were the bag winners announced for the 200k subscribers?

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, they were mentioned in the video 4 week’s ago.

I have a x100v so not much zooming for me ☹

12:50 Even people in the industry are deadly afraid of helicopters. They have significant risks, like the difficulty of water egress, that need to be mitigated with training. Being harnessed for doors-off photography especially requires training to quickly get out of.

You are right, getting high gets you total different perspective :)

If you started a merch store with shirts that said "Now here's a good example" I would buy them.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

Great stuff, thanks Mark. Next time I get stopped for possession I'll just tell them Mark Denney told me to get high🙂

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

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I've used most of these techniques except for getting low. Age tells me if I get low, I may be stuck there for a long time. 😂

Please excuse the 6-year-old in me but: "get high to take better pictures" lol

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha! I knew that would get some chuckles.

@andreclay8362

2 жыл бұрын

Likewise!

#1 Too often, "Natural framing" looks forced. Ideally, it should appear incidental even if it was meticulously planned. #2 & 3 are spot-on and we all know it, but tend to forget it in the field. 😯 #4 I spend a lot of my time on the ground. Or on my back. Or hanging upside down. My dog thinks I'm crazy! #5 Drones SUCK!

Mark recommends getting high...one more reason to love this guy

I think I'm going to get high next time I'm out getting photos, my perspective that is 😁

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

😆😆✌️

Indeed, far from all of these cameraphones…

We are still waiting for your landscaping without mountains/hills. So why should we stop with what we have, when you refuse to change? 🤔 🤣 😂 Come to Denmark 🇩🇰

I giggled that you went from the getting low segment of shooting a mushroom, to the "getting high" point in your video. But I'm off-kiltered that way. sorry.

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

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"Extremely more unique"?! Please save 'unique' for one of a kind things. Something is either unique (I.e. not replicated anywhere) or it isn't!!

Excellent!

@MarkDenneyPhoto

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!