as always your concise delivery makes me feel like im standing next to you during the shoot rather than watching from the other end of an internet cable. thanks :)

"focus on my berries..." lol @5:28

Yup, I usually do photographic trips on my own so I don't have to worry about anyone waiting for me while I spend ages getting the right picture.

Thanks Mike, I'm handicapped with arthritis and use a walker therefore find it difficult to move about yet you showed that you don't need to travel about to get great shots. I truly take your lessons to heart.

The second Mike Browne video I've watched. Could be quite fun. Some nice ideas and tips so that's worthwhile use of time. I don't stay serious for long though. There was one time in your soliloquy when I had to say to the screen "Take the Shot, Mike, Take the Shot Now". Then oddly, I could hear Mike sounding like Ricky Gervais and waited for the glint in the eye.... I'll look for some more videos

The most important thing I took away from this video is going out by yourself even though I enjoy going with others I find I don't feel comfortable taking the time I want to with someone else with me. Thanks again Mike for the tips!

Thanks once again, Mike, for another entertaining and inspiring masterclass. Living in central London, and having photographed it 'to death' over the past 20 years, I sometimes feel limited when I want to have a little fun with my camera. So what I say to myself is: "Imagine you've never seen this place before and how you might feel at seeing these (beautiful) things". Okay. So I'll go to one of the (many) local parks or walk along the canal or to a museum or walk beside the River Thames, and relax. Then I'll start snapping. . . Photographing in the park is very relaxing. There are so many things to capture! We love to see the sunlight in the tree-tops and creating delicate pools of light on the ground! Since switching from a bridge camera to a DSLR, I am fuelled up for a trip to the stars!! I have watched many of you videos which taught me very quickly how to use my new camera. I particularly liked the one about macro photography (which I'm now addicted to!) I've been sharing your videos with my g/f (who is also a keen photographer) and when we go out together we have a fantastic time taking photo's of odd, abstract things! You are right; the key to good photography begins in the imagination of the photographer! We'll keep watching! Love and peace, always! Ilonka and Daz

I am 41 yo and i still cant understand the right seat car driving... Instead i can perfectlly understand and enjoy your lessons. Thank you so much...

OMG I searched for a tutorial like this almost one week !!! FINALLY !!! XD Love you tutorials Mike !

Hello Mike I have done a lot of that. In the fields flowers.bracken,animals climbing trees.sunset I just love them.

I really enjoy your videos Mike; I am getting rather bored with my usual location as well. It'd be great if you could do a video like this but with a more urban environment. I also recently came back from Southeast Asia and I really miss the bustling urban environment there. The chaos was great for street photography. Now I'm back in an orderly world where everything is neat and boring with a forever overcast above me.

Many thanks Mike - I enjoyed hearing you think aloud about your technical and creative process. Thanks for sharing.

I absolutely love your humor and charm. You make these videos so entertaining, and you manage to give some really helpful advice at the same time. Another excellent video. =)

you just love taking photos, all excited about details, lightning. you are really inspiring person. love your videos

Your awesome I live in a forest its hard to get inspired. But you sir have inspired me. Thank YOU

I started in photography in the 60's and after 16 years managing a camera store and being a studio owner for 32 years, I decided to take a break. Now that I'm getting back into photography, I've found that I've been having far too many "no pictures here" moments. However, while watching this video, I realized that a major part of my problem has been going out with a photographer friend who shoots nothing like I do so that between the two of us, we do little besides critique what's wrong with the location. I think that my next outing will be with a Hasselblad or a TLR, a couple of rolls of Tri-X, a tripod, AND by myself. I just might be surprised with the results. Excellent video, Mr. Browne, Thanks!

I can't reply directly to your comment Miri Duarte - you need to change your G+ settings.. I'm still using the Nikon DSLR but added a Fuji XT-1 to my kit. Great little camera... www.photographycourses.biz/fuji_XT1_mirriorless_camera.html

Thank you Mike. Once again a lovely video. I went directly out in my garden, which I must have photographed a thousand times ... but with the first frost this year, I managed to have some very satisfying photos. Have lovely X-mas and a Happy New Year ♥♥♥

About the mushroom pics. Picking and eating mushrooms happens to be a hobby of mine (since 1975), and I really miss a shot where we can clearly see the gills. Based on your pictures I'm not even sure what species it is, but the main thing from an artistic point of view is that the gills just make a mushroom picture much more fascinating. In my opinion.

Hi Mike, I'm from Sri Lanka and I just had to put a post after watching this video. Been following your clips for sometime and just wanted to thank you for being a great teacher/guide/mentor/comedian ... etc Keep up the great work you're doing for people like us who just love photography !!!!! Thank you Mike ... You inspire us.

It would also be fun to see both color and b&w taken at the same time to see how the approach to each shot would differ......and then the results.

Thank you so much Mike, you have utterly renewed my sense of excitement - very much looking forward to the weather improving a little so I can get back out.

Hi Mike, Very nice tutorials you're making. Actually I'm a professional photographer, but I believe that everyday we should learn many things, no matter whatever our level or expertise in our profession is. In that context, I have been watching your videos for a while, and found it to be very interesting. So, keep up the good work. I look forward for many more videos like this from you.

Amazing. I need to be able to see things to photograph like this. This just motivated me to go out on a photography adventure tomorrow.

You've done it again Mike! Seems like every photographer who thinks they have something to say or have lots of people blowing smoke up their rear ends have a website, youtube page and a book or two. Some who seem to have more cash than others travel the world to exotic locations, taking lots of pictures to woo their faithful followers. Truth be told, you could hand their 4 grand camera to a 5 year old and say shoot the pretty volcano and you would get the same result. I'm not putting them down, we all have to make a living, I'm trying to make a point. I have watched most of your videos and you are different. You see things differently. You can make something out of nothing and you explain it in a way that even I can understand what your saying. The way you see light and shade is amazing. I don't know how you haven't been 'found' by a magazine or even a school to keep passing your talents on. Well, I rambled on enough and I'm not a rambler! Your just so incredibly talented at what you do, it just blows my mind.

Good job mike !!!

thanks this was really helpful, i get into shooting slumps all the time.

Really enjoyed the video....went out and shot at the trails by my house that I've shot countless times...think I did get some good captures.

Really like this kind of hands on approach for a tutorial where you explain the adjustments you make and your thought process!

Very inspiring! Just what I needed in the cold and gray winter.

Strange, my parthers granny lives in the New Forest and I *love* it when we visit, I love walking in the forest or round Stoney Cross and taking photos (with the compact until now and the next visit will be my first time with the DSLR). Yet I live in Bristol, home to the Suspension Bridge and 30 minutes drive from Cheddar Gorge and I wonder what to take photos of....

Exceptional color and contrast. Lots of fun...........

I run into that a lot but I'll have to think twice now!

Great to have another instruction video. Have been missing these.

0:55 what a great photo it is , just amazing

This is just the perfect video i was looking for. Thank you

First time i've seen this one. I love the way you can find something to shoot that most people would'nt look twice at. I'm on week 3 of the UBC and already notice a marked improvement in my photos. Just by thinking before shooting. I also like the teaching method you use. Simple plain language. Being a middle aged military veteran i can relate to the style...... Explanation - Demonstration - Repartition. Keep up the great work and keep it coming.

... (Alan) ...One thing I totally agree on, that for a lot of photography you need to be out on your own.

Thanks again for yet Another Great Tutorial Mike, im sure I speak on behalf all your Subscribers in saying your Advise and Information is most Great fully Received. And I wish you and Yours a Very Merry Christmas and a Prospourus New Year, from here in Sunny Shropshire. Well not Very sunny as its 9pm lol.

I agree with "do this stuff on your own". My wife loves walking through the woods with me. But hates it if I stop and fiddle with my camera endlessly for 5 minutes to get a nice photo of something she can't really see.

Great video and that little Fuji XT-1 takes great picture,love the colors it produce !

Another awesome video from one of youtube's greatest stars. Thanks, Mike.

Thanks alot Mike! I learned so much stuff from you especialy the part with the lighting of the berries was so cool.

i just noticed that the cc is transmitting different words than what Mike is saying sometimes lol.. Well Mike you make boring places fun!

you can only take just so many mushroom shots, and leaf litter shots- and berry shots- then it becomes repetitive- same subjects, different angles sort o thing- also, do be aware, I think I got ringworm mucking about in the forest taking mushroom shots this past summer- and still fighting to get rid of it- awful stuff- your comment below is a great one about taking it slow and getting 5 good shots rather than 50 mediocre shots- as the saying goes, quality over quantity- also look for light color and gesture as you and Maisel keep stressing- Another photographers suggest that if the light isn't anything special, then the shot won't be either- I believe that's about right- He stated it took him 8 years at one location just to get THE shot- finally it came- talk about patience! but yeah, light color gesture=- better photos- tough htough finding inspiration in spots you've covered thoroughly- but the key I think is, as you pointed out, finding the light, shapes etc-

In the fungus shot you also had acorns all over the ground. How about a dare kind of video where you have a million acorns and you have to find a shot among them.

well explained - and it is not getting boring! Thank you!

Love the British country side! Wish I could go back!

Super helpful video Mike.

Really interesting video and soooo helpful. I live in the Ashdown Forest which I too thought I'd done to death, but I realise I haven't scratched the surface yet. Thanks so much for reinvigourating me Mike. Nice one.

Thank you for the video! I was inspired to visit my local park with a new perspective - and took only my macro lens. I saw it in new ways, and have a few wonderful images to show for it!

Very helpful video. I am often into such situations when I cannot find anything interesting. I am going to village next week where I shall follow your tips. Thanks!!

Many thanks, Mike, for this and all the other videos. Happy Christmas!

Funny, entertining and houghtful! As always, Mike ! Best wishes for the New Year to you, to Jane and everbody else involved in your videos!

Enjoy all you videos mike keep them coming 😀👍

Always look forward to your videos Mike!

nice to see you back mike ,,, iv mist your videos keep it up mate,,,

Mike, this is such a brilliant subject to tackle! I will now hopefully see my own area in a different way and try and shoot some different subjects. Great advice as always :)

I like this. Most of the time I'm in "boring" locations, because it is there I live and spend most of my time :) But, what is boring for me is maybe great for others ;)

What a great tip, I'm glad i found this channel. Thanks Mike!

I really like the video, the whole thought out loud process of it. It was very relaxing and the photos you captured were brilliant

Í 'll try this weekend . Thanks for the tip

Thx for the tips, very well explained while doing the actual photos

Another great video

Great video Mike thanks for all your input much appreciated.

Hi Mike thank you for all your excellent videos. Happy Christmas to yourself, Jane, Natasha & Lorna.

Great teaching technique, I like how you explain your thinking and decision processes, thanks for the inspirations.

Just a brilliant tutorial; nuff said.

Thank you for the video!! Really helped me to. Take photos 😃

I really want to build a portfolio of interesting portraits and documentary shots of people - but I'm finding it hard to find subjects.

Thank you Mike , I would suggest the kind that would it be possible that you seal the end of the video the main proceedings. For example, for me, who can easily become disorganized and left to think too much , it would be a great help :)

Thanks for the help!

Mike, I agree! Where I live has a wooded area where my son and I go walking and I'll take camera. I mean, I live in this area, but if an animal comes out to say hi, it can make for a really good shot. It is funny how you take things for granted sometimes. Anyway, how are you liking the XT-1? I've since sold my Canon camera and switched over to Sony mirrorless (the A6000) - I love it!

Great video! I'm one of those people that have been to New Forest and ABSOLUTELY loved it, but I know what you mean :)

Great videos! I really love your work. And... the subtitles gave me a chuckle too. "Release the British idiot!" it says when you say "really really shallow depth of field." (From a fellow Briton.)

Hey Mike, popped by for some inspiration and ideas (again), and notice some of your vids, this one especially, has subtitles added. Now not being pernickety, but I haven't laughed so much at some of the translations, absolute classics... :)

nearly lost your door there Mike! ;-)

really helpful and inspiring videos you do, thanks mate!! One of the best channel I found to teach me as a newcomer into the world of photos

Fantastic place!

Inspiring & Helpful, Well Done. Thanks!

inspirational as usual mike :) many thanks

work that fuji ! it has amazing colors and you could shoot sharp at 1/20s with that amazing IS a quick tip for ya mike, shoot in AF-C for the IS to really really work. definatly check it out! keep up the good work!

Awesome video! I recently took some photos of identical looking berries too!

Another good video Mr Mike🌹👍🤓

Well done! Thanks!

Very helpfull as always. Thanx!

Master!

awesome man! I'm new to photography and these videos are both entertaining and helpful!

thanks, very inspiring video!!

I'm really liking your vids and the way you teach is wonderful, really grabs my attention.

I really like, IF YOU CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THING, THINGS YOU LOOK AT CHANGE

thanks for the inspiration buddy!

we search the exif tags for a photos location on the google search map

Very interesting video and inspirational, very helpful as much of that I often overlook, will need to try scouting around the small things myself at some point, great video and love the overhead view of the mushroom, so effective and reminds me of good stock images.

Next time you shoot in the forest, invite me. You keep the car, I take one of your motorcycles. :) No, seriously, this kind of experience is great when I think my day is ruined by weather...

Wow Just come across this today; thank you.

Hello Mike, I love watching and learning from your videos. Can you sometime have a video of something like photography in night, moving objects, getting some sharp images or moving blur. Thank you, Merry Christmas :)

Great channel! You're really creative!

Well done!

thanks for your efforts...