Recent content by Stuart Mc

Christ lad you need to broaden your photographic horizons if you think a photographer of the calibre of Terry Gibbins would use AI, jeesh.

I’m sure they don’t, though in any real world sense qualifications/associations/fellowships mean precious little these days (not that I agree with this) people (should) judge you on the quality of work above any qualification but more importantly these days it seems being an entertainer or a...

Very kind Tom - popularism has well and truly taken over. I'd agree with that though I'd say that if you do YouTube full time as your main income driver then it's still professional and just as valid as any other approach, there's plenty of absolutely awful 'pros' who don't do YouTube too. The...

Ball park figure - I have a video which has 25k views, after YouTube has taken its cut, (before tax) its made about £100. A lot of factors go into how much you make from ad revenue but if you used that as a rough guide, you can do the maths from there. You’ve got to be doing seriously high...

Cheers, from my own point of view it's incredibly time consuming both out there and in post, a 15 min vid takes anything up to about 10 hours to produce excluding the actual shoot itself - like anything it gets easier with practice but it's still a pain to be honest, though for professional...

I can maybe clear up a few misconceptions re: YouTube (bored waiting for the Mrs to put the kids to bed): Very few landscape photographers on YouTube (if any) make a living directly off the platform itself, ad revenue even on decent sized channels (30/40/50k+ subs) will be modest at best vs an...

As someone who has transitioned to doing somewhat regular YouTube content after years doing stills only, my answer to your OP is that doing YouTube (for me) significantly affects your ability to produce your best work. There’s no getting around the fact that it takes up a significant amount of...

I was a judge on this competition last year, no it’s an entirely different thing, his is a charity based competition in its second or third year.

It’s a valid argument if the same compositions year after year makes the book despite those shots being taken in neither amazing conditions or from a unique angle/perspective as per those chrome hill shots from years past, it’s just lazy judging. Thats certainly been the case from what I’ve...

Well you’d have to make your own mind up with that

This in a nutshell. Biggest problem folk have is separating the fantasy of the title vs the reality of how it's run. For some time now it's massively lost it's way, from top to bottom in all aspects. Cover image this year the horizon looks wonky/halo around the arch/sloppy local adjustments...

1st one is a nice take Martin, my mate Dem was up there at the same time and said it got out a bit for a short while. I was there a couple of days earlier and looks like you had very similar conditions to me. The last 3 especially 2 and 4 in the skies look like they've a magenta cast to them...

Mine's the one with the snow ponies called 'The Shelter' here: https://www.lpoty.co.uk/gallery/2021/your-view The other is of hardknott roman fort: https://www.lpoty.co.uk/gallery/2021/historic-britain

That's all correct, as i'm one of the people whose image wasn't on display as it should have been (had 2 in the book, both emails said each image would be on display), a friend of mine working in london who also had an image commended said it wasn't there. Cropping / poor display par for the...

If you're going to use the Sky replacement tool in photoshop at least use one of the ones that doesn't come bundled with the software it's less obvious.