During a period of bad mental health the only thing that could get me to leaving my house was taking a walk with my camera, trying to capture the little details around my neighbourhood. It was the start of rediscovering wonder in life. It's nice to see someone else put the power of it into words.
My favourite photography youtube channels are Graincheck, Teo Crawford and Willem Verbeeck. I think they all have a soothing voice, living in a place that's visually quite different from the town I call home, and a optimistic enthusiasm and curiosity in common.
I have exactly been struggling with finding creative and unique angles recently. I have a toddler and it's hard to travel to new places so I started looking into nearby to capture the beauty around me. This was a very inspiring article, thanks a lot! I love Sean Tucker's Youtube channel. I got into his videos because I wanted to try street and wasn't keen on buying fancy photo gear like lights for portraits and such. But I went deep on his channel and he has videos for everything. He has easy 1 strobe portrait setups, corporate headshots, street tutorials, interviews with landscape photographers. Really above and beyond videos. Highly recommended!
Slowing down is definitely important. James Popsys's channel is my favorite YouTube channel related to photography. His videos were part of what made me want to get a camera in the first place actually. His work is great and he has a great perspective on photography.
I have slowly stopped working on a “frame a day” (or at least one frame a day) project because things got stressful in my life. But your wonderful words and images are reminding me that taking pictures of my immediate surroundings (which is what a lot of my project became, out of necessity) is so rewarding, even if I think I’ve done the same shot over and over or I worry that it’s gonna be boring or that I suck or whatever. You’re reminding me of the beauty that awaits me in my world and the disservice I do to myself by denying myself the opportunity to see it. Thank you. 🙏
enjoyed this one and it’s a great motivator to shoot more around the house, thanks! I recently built out my first darkroom so have been watching a lot of YouTubes on that, The Naked Photographer is a good one, lots of info. Also enjoy Linusandhiscamera’s channel, good stuff there
I revisit places around me several times a year and observe what the changes in weather and/ or light in the scene do to them, it’s like getting to know them better. I also like to see how nature can adapt to the local urban environment and watch for this locally as subjects to photograph.
I have recently enjoyed “the Cole and John show” on YT, both pros that discuss and share tips in amusing short videos. Take care!
I love this kind of personal imagery. I carry a camera around just for these little magic moments that are lost if not captured. I think of it as the B-roll of my visual life... the spices in the carnita in the taco of life, so to speak. Light, shadow, camera... yumm.
Such true and good advice here (that can be applied beyond our photography as well)! And your dancer friend seems a great subject, so many varied poses and expressions that reveal the mastery of one’s instrument a dancer possesses. I enjoyed this post, thanks.
I appreciate the channel for honest, straight and open insight into the professional niche-market field (a niche field that I hold no interest in at the moment, but it's not important really) and occasional constructive and useful insights into developing one's creativity and distinct work signature.
I really like the series mike chudley is doing where he interviews different photographers and we got to go behind the scenes on their process. The channel Framelines is also doing something similar.
During a period of bad mental health the only thing that could get me to leaving my house was taking a walk with my camera, trying to capture the little details around my neighbourhood. It was the start of rediscovering wonder in life. It's nice to see someone else put the power of it into words.
My favourite photography youtube channels are Graincheck, Teo Crawford and Willem Verbeeck. I think they all have a soothing voice, living in a place that's visually quite different from the town I call home, and a optimistic enthusiasm and curiosity in common.
Thank you for the kind words, Roos! Will check out those first two, and I already know Willem of course :)
Totally agree with you. Slow down and see the beauty that surrounds us. Thanks.
Thanks David! Appreciate you
photographing your home/neighbourhood , places you see every day through changing seasons of light and colour provide endless discovery of images.
one of my favourite sites is https://www.youtube.com/@GajanBalan
always encouraging to go out and take chances and experiment
Love the homie Gajan!
I have exactly been struggling with finding creative and unique angles recently. I have a toddler and it's hard to travel to new places so I started looking into nearby to capture the beauty around me. This was a very inspiring article, thanks a lot! I love Sean Tucker's Youtube channel. I got into his videos because I wanted to try street and wasn't keen on buying fancy photo gear like lights for portraits and such. But I went deep on his channel and he has videos for everything. He has easy 1 strobe portrait setups, corporate headshots, street tutorials, interviews with landscape photographers. Really above and beyond videos. Highly recommended!
Oh yes, Sean's got it all! Thanks for mentioning him!
Slowing down is definitely important. James Popsys's channel is my favorite YouTube channel related to photography. His videos were part of what made me want to get a camera in the first place actually. His work is great and he has a great perspective on photography.
Will check him out, thanks Kun!
My current favorite YouTube channels are Paulie B, Kyle McDougall, The Photographic Eye, Dee Rosa, and Matt Day to name a few.
Love Paulie, Kyle and Matt, but not yet familiar with the other two, thank you!
I have slowly stopped working on a “frame a day” (or at least one frame a day) project because things got stressful in my life. But your wonderful words and images are reminding me that taking pictures of my immediate surroundings (which is what a lot of my project became, out of necessity) is so rewarding, even if I think I’ve done the same shot over and over or I worry that it’s gonna be boring or that I suck or whatever. You’re reminding me of the beauty that awaits me in my world and the disservice I do to myself by denying myself the opportunity to see it. Thank you. 🙏
My favorite Substack photo newsletter, besides yours of course, is Dina Litovsky’s “In the Flash” https://open.substack.com/pub/dinalitovsky?r=g4m3a&utm_medium=ios
thank you for those kind words Chelsea, that means a lot! And I love Dina's newsletter as well!
enjoyed this one and it’s a great motivator to shoot more around the house, thanks! I recently built out my first darkroom so have been watching a lot of YouTubes on that, The Naked Photographer is a good one, lots of info. Also enjoy Linusandhiscamera’s channel, good stuff there
good tips! Love Linus :)
I revisit places around me several times a year and observe what the changes in weather and/ or light in the scene do to them, it’s like getting to know them better. I also like to see how nature can adapt to the local urban environment and watch for this locally as subjects to photograph.
I have recently enjoyed “the Cole and John show” on YT, both pros that discuss and share tips in amusing short videos. Take care!
Will check them out, thanks Paul!
Wonderful post.
I love this kind of personal imagery. I carry a camera around just for these little magic moments that are lost if not captured. I think of it as the B-roll of my visual life... the spices in the carnita in the taco of life, so to speak. Light, shadow, camera... yumm.
Thank you Don! Love calling it the b-roll of your life!
Such true and good advice here (that can be applied beyond our photography as well)! And your dancer friend seems a great subject, so many varied poses and expressions that reveal the mastery of one’s instrument a dancer possesses. I enjoyed this post, thanks.
thank you :) and yes this is exactly why I love working with dancers :)
Tin House Studio
will check it out!
I appreciate the channel for honest, straight and open insight into the professional niche-market field (a niche field that I hold no interest in at the moment, but it's not important really) and occasional constructive and useful insights into developing one's creativity and distinct work signature.
checked it out yesterday and enjoyed!
I love those photos of the fencing and shadows, just lovely light and compositions.
I try not to go to deep into 'Photography YouTube' for fear of getting sucked in, but Noah Kalina's channel is one that I always like to watch.
Big fan of Noah myself as well. Thanks for the kind words, Tom!
I really like the series mike chudley is doing where he interviews different photographers and we got to go behind the scenes on their process. The channel Framelines is also doing something similar.
Mike's great!
Mij favorite newsletter is 'kronkeling'. It is funny, not pretentious and always relevant.
keep on the process
greetings Jan meijs
ooh I didnt know about this one yet, thank you Jan!
I enjoy watching David Manning’s YouTube channel. https://youtube.com/@davidmanningvlog?si=aAgOeN1zfipT0BOM
ooh I wasn't yet familiar, thanks for the tip!