FINDING LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY INSPIRATION LOCALLY
FINDING LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY INSPIRATION LOCALLY
It can be very hard to find inspiration in areas that you’ve photographed hundreds of times before. In this vlog I visit my local city park and challenge myself to find compelling compositions.
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About the images in viewing order.
Image 1 – Inspiration has to start somewhere
Deer Lake, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D850, Nikon 16-35mm f/4 lens, @22mm, 1/8 sec at f/14, iso 64
Image 2 – Frosted Leaves
Deer Lake, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 lens, @98mm, 1/3 sec at f/16, iso 64
Image 3 – Warm Grasses & Cool Fog
Deer Lake, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 lens, @34mm, 1/40 sec at f/11, iso 100
Image 4 – Cedar & Bull Rushes
Deer Lake, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 lens, @46mm, 1/160 sec at f/16, iso 100
Image 5 – Lone Figure in the Fog
Deer Lake, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 lens, @32mm, 1/15 sec at f/13, iso 100
Image 6 – Sun poking through the trees
Deer Lake, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 lens, @78mm, 1/160 sec at f/13, iso 100
Image 7 – Subtle Reds & Birch
Deer Lake, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 lens, @82mm, 1/13 sec at f/16, iso 100
Image 8 – Foggy Woodland
Deer Lake, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 lens, @55mm, 1/13 sec at f/13, iso 100
Image 9 – Soft Light and Misty Trees
Deer Lake, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 lens, @48mm, 1/6 sec at f/16, iso 100
Image 10 – Sword Ferns Black & White
Deer Lake, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 lens, @34mm, 1/3 sec at f/16, iso 100
Image 11 – I Sword Ferns Colour
Deer Lake, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 lens, @35mm, 1/3 sec at f/16, iso 100
Image 12 – Twisted Deadfall
Deer Lake, Burnaby British Columbia, Canada
Nikon D850, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 lens, @65mm, 1/6 sec at f/16, iso 100
I like this video. I just commented on Nick’s channel about spotting stuff locally and then came across your old video about doing just that! I’m inspired now!
Great reminder to pay attention to what’s local. Watch the weather and the light and GO FOR IT!!!
superb idea. staying local, I can work on technique over and over comparing results time and time again.
Your videos are very inspirational Adam. Makes we want to go to Vancouver. Question-What kind of vehicle do you have? I’m really looking for a photographer’s vehicle so I can sleep in it on my expeditions. Thanks again.
beautiful video,great images and lovely drone work¡
It was fun to see you find so many compositions in a smaller local area like this! The atmospheric drone footage was really great. I like that you photographed some smaller scenes as well, the ferns looked very nice!
Love how you make the “ordinary” into the beautiful! Thank you for sharing your vision.
Adam, your visual perception is break taking.
I need to Practice practice practice as Gary Gough would say
Thanks for the inspiration
Mark J
Thanks Adam, I’m just awakening to landscape/woodland photography and I find your vids really inspirational (I also daily dosed on your three ‘Landscape and Light’ vids earlier), and I love that you include so much technical detail in many of your vids.
Have you done anything on where you focus? Specifically as you are seemingly often shooting from such close distances (are 1/3rd in, hyper-focal distance, double distance still applicable?). Thanks, Allan
Love the moody ethereal images – would love to see a vlog of how you edited them but very well done 👍
I have just come across your video and I found it fantastic. Your quality is awesome and I like the way you explain each approach. It is stimulating for mi.
Well that was an incredibly productive day! Top notch work as always!!
I too really enjoyed your video! I also go to a nearby park for some of my photos. I don’t have the budget for traveling much so I’ve learned to shoot macros to help diversify my collection.
Great video 🙂 definitely always a challenge taking photos in well known territory but you got some pretty cool shots!
Wow! I just came back from a morning photo outing to a local park thinking to myself that there is a lot to find inspiration in locally and I came across this video. I too had a foggy, misty morning to enjoy in a woodland park just minutes from home. The content on your channel (and a few of your colleagues) is helping me out of a rut and back into inspired photography.
Happy New Year. Thanks for the inspiration, education and entertainment. Enjoyed this.
hello, I write from Chile .. it is a pleasure to see your videos, to see the way you face a scenario and achieve an emotional and subtle composition.
Thank you very much for sharing your work … I hope someday get to get similar results ….
Cheers
I’ve walked around Deer Lake hundreds of times, and I still think it’s one of the most low-key amazing places in the lower mainland. Fantastic video of a place that is near and dear to me, and has been an integral part of basically my whole life.
Beautiful photos! This should inspire me to start looking more to my parks instead of having to save up to travel to fancy places! I live in London you see
Superb. Great moody-misty compositions. Well done. JA.
Great video! I’m not a videographer and I never will be, but I really liked your editing where you went from a video scene to a photographic image and visa versa. You got some gorgeous images, even those you said wouldn’t win any prizes I’d have been proud of. I’m fairly lucky where I live in the U.K. as I’m within an hour of the Lake District, Peak District and Yorkshire Dales. The closest of all is The Forrest of Bowland, although I haven’t been fit enough to take advantage of it yet this year. However it’s a gorgeous area, especially in cold or foggy weather.
Your video production is top notch. The B roll is great. Your photography is excellent. Very inspiring. Look for the light, then find a composition the fits the light. Yes yes yes.
Great shots Adam, waiting for some fog myself !!
Bravo sir! Very nice production with your videos. Your transitions, music, and of course the outstanding photos make me feel like I’m there! You have a new subscriber…thank you!
Love the video I find it hard in the forest to find a composition but will keep trying 🙂
Another great video Adam. I enjoyed the various images. I need to use this for inspiration to go out into the cold and snow!
Great video! As a amateur and new photographer like me, it is nice and inspiring to see what can be done with a local location.
Love your video, Adam, I love the moodiness and thought provoking feeling to go off to the woods and ponder. This video was very inspirational.
Wonderful video! This might be one of my favorite of yours, really enjoyed it. Loved that little park area and many of the gorgeous images you got. And what an absolute amazing foggy morning that was 🙂
Another beauty Adam….that light 👏
Inspiational video to get outside and shoot on your own dorr step. Thanks Adam and happy new year
Beautiful and moody photos. You were really productive that day 🙂 PS: one question, how do you create those very smooth and slow sideways moves in the video. Do you just fly your drone very low and slow.. It looks like shot on some fancy rail but I don’t think you carry that around. cheers
Very inspiring…love you video Adam
Hi Adam! Not sure how I missed this episode, but happy to find it now. I used to live not far from Burnaby Lake and very much enjoyed seeing the area from your point of view. Looking for eagles tomorrow, thanks for sharing and the inspiration.
Great images Adam..
Hello Adam,the best,the most inspiring videos and photos,fine work,magnific work,all the best !!
You are inspiring me to look at things differently
Even your local park is awesome haha! Fantastic frosty and foggy conditions and some lovely shots!
Good video and great images BUT – I thought that it was going to be about finding inspiration locally. We hardly need inspiration when the weather is so helpful for photography. It is when the weather is ‘normal’ that we need to work hard for our pictures.
Stunning pics and a good lesson to go out and keep searching for compositions locally
Wow you got a bunch of great images on this outing. Great message about finding local inspiration
Great Stuff again.. Time passes Fast when you Love what your doing
Thank you, Adam, as always entertaining and some great detail shots. And like you, I have been out plenty. I must take advantage of our colder mornings, I now believe that the Season of Winter is now my favourite. And … of course, inspired by your winter shots …
Happy New Year. I’ve given a lot of thought about how you approach light, seeing the light. I know that is usually what draws me to a scene. But, I think I need to be more conscious about what I see, not just respond to it, to think about it consciously. I thought I had been, but not enough. Thanks for reemphasizing it’s importance.
Hey Adam, I’m a long time admirer of your photography. I’ve just begun filming my own vlogs about landscape photography and came across you here. I hadn’t realized you were on the tube! Anyways, loved the video. It’s amazing how fun, creative, and fulfilling creating beautiful video can be after doing only photography for so long. BTW, Awesome images. You got a ton of great stuff that morning! The fern was incredible. The subtlety of all of the images really resonates with me. Thanks for the really well done video, I’m subscribing and looking forward to watching more in the future. If you get a chance, I’d love some feedback on my own videos too. Bye for now!
What is your most used lens ?
Love your work Adam. Today the silver birch image at 10.52 was my favorite. I think you’d have a ball down here in New Zealand. Plenty of variety in scenery within a small drive. Temperate forests, leading into swamps and farmland. Volcanic desert and mountains. The bubbling mud pools. The wild west coast beaches with either rocks or black iron sand and the white east coast beaches, and that’s only the North Island lol. You can shoot the sun rising on one coast, potter about taking photos of waterfalls and having some lunch and a nap and shoot the sunset on the west coast later that day. I’m sure you wouldn’t be disappointed 🙂
Fantastic photos and a great video
Amazing Photography , just beautiful …. glad I found your channel . Very inspiring!!!
Thanks Adam, great video and truly amazing images, an inspiration indeed.