I love what you did with the sky. It looks very dramatic. Really makes the moss pop. And what a wonderful colour the moss is! Thanks for the video.

Criminally underrated channel. Such fantastic pictures.

Great video Andrew. Thanks. One thing that did keep drawing my eyes away from the mushroom was just to the right of the mushroom are two little flowers or leaves that are blue. I think I'd maybe try and get rid of those. Even though I know we shouldn't play with what nature has already put there. Still a great video. Really enjoyed it.

Really enjoyed your video today. The blurred motion photos look great.

Wow! That looks fantastic! I'm making my way through all of your videos started at "who is this guy" I'm learning so much. Thankyou

Still working my way through your (excellent) videos, and i've found this one in particular hugely beneficial. In my own LR workflow I've been guilty of always applying changes globally to the image, and this has shown me how I can get a more natural effect on a lot of images with selective changes. Secondly, As I used to prepare images for printing, I''ve always stuck to 3:2 crops. Why - It's crazy ! let the image decide the format ! Thanks again for sharing. Your channel has really rekindled my love affair with photography

why Jpeg? nice video btw

The ability to see a quality shot before even raising your equipment is a great superpower to have. Great work and eye

Nice job wnd thank u

Can I use my 24-70 or 70-200?

Back in 1972 I got a job assisting top wedding photographer/teacher Monte Zucker who rose to fame based on his technique of using dual flash to control scene range so the groom’s black suit and bride’s white dress would both be correctly exposed on color prints used in the wedding albums. This requires two light sources: Fill to lift the entire scene to the point the film or sensor can record shadow detail at the aperture desired for DOF, and then; overlapping an off axis Key light over the Fill to create highlights, raising its power until the highlights are correctly exposed and ENTIRE SCENE RANGE MATCHES RANGE OF PRINT PAPER or today the fixed range of the camera sensor. I had actually learned that before going to work for Monte from a Kodak “How To Take Portraits” book which suggested placing Fill light directly behind and above the camera (projecting its shadow down out of sight of lens) and key light over the head of the subject 45° to the side of the nose to duplicate the 3D modeling produced by the noon day sun. It worked so well my girlfriend / model used the portrait in the school yearbook instead of the one taken by the photographer the school had hired. I’ve always used the centered-fill / key light approach when using flash because it is the only way to always record a full range of detail with NATURAL 3D rendering regardless of subject size. After my career took me in a different direction - into the photo lab at National Geographic - I continued to use dual flash for my personal work in 35mm and med. format with fill flash always on a bracket over the lens and off camera flash on a stand. Since getting my first digital camera in 2000 I’ve used the same Stroboframe camera-flip bracket for my on camera flash and as linked below created my own DIY diffuser for creating on-axis fill for macro shooting. What you discovered, which most shooting macro don’t realize, is that the traditional macro flash lighting strategies, ring or two flashes on axis at opposite 45° both create a full range if detail in most situations but the angle of the lighting and the shadow and specular highlight clues that our brains use to see 3D shape in 2D reproductions are in the ‘wrong’ places on the subjects in that they do not match the PATTERNS of highlight and shadow the sun creates. Ring flash was actually developed by Nikon back in the 1960s to document surgical and dental procedures where the goal was flat even lighting in deep body cavities and being able to keep camera and flash sterile by wrapping it with a drape. Crossed flash lighting provides key and fill but where the shadows from both flashes cross you get ‘cross-shadow lighting’ and no detail on any shadows they create. The solution to get fill on axis over the lens is solved by the type of macro diffuser many macro shooters now use for single flash shots. I created and published plans for one about 15 years ago on my web site and photo forums when I started doing dual flash macro: photo.nova.org/MacroDiffuser/ using my two Canon 580ex flashes. The diffuser on the off camera flash is also one I created and published plans for at photo.nova.org/DIY01/ The advantage of dual flash vs single flash off axis is precise control of the scene range to ensure that detail is always recorded in the shadows illuminated by the on-axis fill source. A single flash flash off axis creates shadow that need some source of fill and any fill source placed on the opposite side from the key light (e.g. reflector) will to some degree create ‘crossed shadow’ lighting with no detail in low areas and the specular highlight clues the fill creates will not match the pattern seen in natural light where the fill source usually does not create any shadows or specular highlights. A more natural look can be obtained in dual flash shots by cloning out any ‘catchlights’ the fill creates or placing them on the upper surfaces of 3D objects which is accomplished by keeping fill source above the lens and wrapping it around the sides of the subject as much as possible to mimic skylight fill, the perceptual baseline for ‘’normal”.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that finishes a video 5-6 months after the event lol. Loved the video.

Your images are beautiful, that being said! Can you ditch the video attached to the camera setup? It's annoying as a viewer constantly looking at the floor because your camera is down "for obvious reasons" either a chest mount or hat mount would be ideal so we can see the area around you. The camera has beautiful black and white tones.

Your photography is so versatile and love that you did this. 👏👏👏

I like this video. Thanks for sharing these tips. Especially when they are token from my city, Barcelona.

Enjoyed, only legs walking thru the foreground could be interesting if the composition happened to be right. Learned to use LCD for composing, should disturb people less than using viewfinder.🎉🎉🎉🎉

Thanks for sharing Andrew. It`s a great video showing how to 'see' as a photographer, things I struggle with (give me a landscape to shoot and i'm good to go). You managed to get some great shots too

Fun way to spend some boring time. I'll think of that next time I'm at such a location or the airport etc.!

One question. What focus mode were you using?

Your channel is a place where creativity came to live. I always enjoy your content.

Excellent Andrew. But your version of a boring, busy, nothing place is my idea of heaven. So much potential. Then again, I wouldn't be working while trying to take photos!

Good and bad photos are everywhere - takes a keen photo eye to sort them out. Monochrome, low perspective, slow shutter speed instructive methods to try. Escalator a favorite. (Did you come away w/any usable swag?😊) Cheers!

I haven't looked into it carefully, but I had heard on other channels that Spain has different laws regarding street photography and taking recognizable pictures of people in public. I gather no one hassled you there? Perhaps the convention center counts as one of the exceptions and the attendees aren't camera shy. Much as I enjoy seeing street photography, I personally never feel comfortable trying it myself.

Hi Andrew. Would you ever consider hosting a photography competition on your channel? Would be a fun way for your viewers to showcase their photos in some catergories of your choosing.

Intriguing video (which I enjoyed) but hideous location, too many people and too much noise. Suppose I should change my name to "miserableoldgit" now!

What a really fun project. I've gone to so many of these, and I love seeing how you got it done.

“Ahh you prick don’t move!”…. I fell out of my chair laughing with understanding!

Happy Sunday, Andrew. In a week and a half I am embarking on a 15 day, six state journey with my young grandniece (5) and grandnephew (11) who are making their way to the East Coast of the US for the first time - they’ve never left California . I will be trying to do what you’ve been demonstrating with all of your street photography videos during that time. I’ll be in DC and Historic Virginia and NYC and Philadelphia so, if I can’t get some shots in those places, it’s not my bag. In this video I truly loved the reflections in the glass shots. The one with the “shard of light” only illuminating the subjects face, and the guy leaning against the wall with the wall in the foreground and becoming almost a tunnel until the subject stops it…also appealing images to me. Great shots. Loved the car images on IG, btw. Have a great week.

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Always look forward to your videos and this is no exception. Thank you 🙏

Love these video's. Wish I could find these shots too.

I really really like your work! from macro to landscapes and street photos!

I have been using three same camera for years each photo you take is a lesson as you said only when you feel you need to push to next level and your camera gear can only to so much buy new equipment.. Awesome advice from you😊

Is it possible to cull through photos locally without having to first upload to the cloud? Would drive me insane to upload hundreds of images I was then going to delete in the next hour and I really don't want or need to get Adobe's 1TB of cloud storage.

What a great tutorial, well done mate

I learned flash photography apprenticing with and assisting Monte Zucker back in 1972-74 who introduced using two flashes in an overlapping key over neutral fill configuration for shooting weddings back around 1970s when color prints finally became stable enough to be used for wedding albums. Color print paper has a much shorter range than B&W and it was impossible to correctly expose a bride’s white dress and grooms black tux in the same photo lit with a single flash. But Monte had a background in studio lighting and understood that by starting with a foundation of EVEN SHADOWLESS FILL then overlapping an off axis KEY light it was easy to record the full range. This is the workflow: 1) Set aperture for desired DOF on subject 2) Place Fill source directly above lens high enough so it’s shadow falls straight back behind the subject unnoticed, i.e, ‘neutral fill’ mimicking the look of skylight. In the studio setting we would bounce the fill light backwards off the white wall and ceiling near the ceiling to create wrap-around, shadow less fill. We don’t see fill creating a second set of shadows in natural light and you don’t want to see them with flash either if the goal is to duplicate the look of natural light. Unlike the sky, fill flash will create specular highlights and you must be aware of that. Raising the flash above the lens puts them more naturally on the upper curves of 3D faces and objects and in human portraits the second catchlight always falls on the black pupil and is easy to retouch out for more natural looking single ‘key light’ catchlights at 10 or 2 on the eye. 3) With only the fill light raise its MANUAL power setting until there is detail recorded on the film in the darkest folds of the black suit, or use a draped black terry towel on a stand. On film this simply required a bracket test and looking at the negatives. Just look at the playback image and left side spike from black towel with digital. 4) Once shadows are exposed evenly with FILL turn on the off axis KEY light and raise it until a white towel is exposed optimally taking care not to blow out the separation between solid white object and specular reflection of the light source which provide the clue to 3D shape. Terry towels, black and white are good test objects because like fur and feathers the loops of the fabric create specular highlights. Getting a full range of tone from deep black to white with detail preserved everywhere is that simple and the key factor in avoiding UNFILLED voids in the lighting pattern is keeping the fill centered! This applies to photographing any 3D object. Fill placed off axis will create shadows the camera captures and they will become dead voids because no fill reached then other than what gets bounced around the room as spill in a studio setting and / or the ambient light the shutter speed used allows. The challenge with Macro is getting the fill between the camera and the subject. I solved it by creating this DIY diffuser: photo.nova.org/MacroDiffuser/ for use with my pair of Canon 580ex flash. When taking normal photos I used fill on a bracket over the lens with DIY ‘scoop’ diffuser I created: photo.nova.org/DIY01/ out of ‘fun foam’ sheets I found in the hobby section at Walmart. The problem with ring and crossed flash on camera axis for macro is that the lighting is flat, except for the front-to-back inverse-square fall off, and the catchlight reflections are not natural looking (i.e., from above the camera axis).

Why didn't you stack them in the camera?

I like that you double tap just like in Zombieland.

Nice work, and interesting ideas 💡

@AndrewLanxonPhotography if you don’t mind sharing, what preset or editing did u use to get the high contrast bnw images. The bnw i shoot have a lot of greys, tint to them and i am u able to get them to looks like yours

Lovely images! Good work for only a day and a half on the island. Man, I just love the 4:5 aspect ratio. The color and sharpness of the Hasselblad is pretty special too. Are you reviewing this camera or did you add a medium format to your arsenal?

Hi Andrew, great vid. At 5.10, when your camera is inverted with the centre column have you thought of putting your camera in a cage, so as it keep everything upright. I'm looking for something that is not too bulky to carry but can rectify the inverted camera. Another solution get a clamp and attach ball head, then clamp it to the tripod leg.

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couldn't you use burst mode...3 or more pics at a time.?

Hair looks great, what are you talking about

Love your videos. Look forward to every one. 👌

Appreciation of an image is subjective. I liked them and would have been very happy had I taken them. Cheers.

Loved all the images but my favourite for sure is the seated older gentleman sporting a hat and cane (4.07). Can't explain why. Just is. Cheers.

Isn't that Portobello Beach? :) Cheers from CURIO Photography, Musselburgh ;)

Great shots. Does that screen flip up?