I’m Daniel Long and I hope you enjoy my photos!
Here are 5 mistakes that I used to make in Landscape photography and some tips to avoid them in your own photography. The benefit of acting as a hoarder with my images is that I can look back and see how much I have improved since I first began, and here are 5 of the mistakes I made most of the time.
Continuing my street photography project with a walk one morning through the Italian city of Como. To move quickly and freely I filmed this as a Point of View. I got some interesting images as I continue to try and learn a new style of photography.
Just a bit of fun and there’s some advice about photography right at the end, I hope you enjoy this video and look forward to better times. In 2014 I went to Dublin for a city break around St Patrick’s Day, the parade through the city centre was dazzling and fun and full of colour and life, the complete opposite to this year. I am working through all of my photography archives, removing the bad images and selecting everything that is in focus and I found myself looking through and editing photos of that day in 2014 on St Patrick’s Day 2021.
5 Tips for composing your landscape photographs in the field. Trying to remember a lot of compositional rules when looking for images can be difficult, so I focused on the 5 that I use most often and I provide 5 example images for you to see the application of these tips. Texture, Negative Space, Leading Lines, Diagonals, and The Rule of Thirds are all easily applied in the field to create great images!
A stunning sunrise over the city of Como in Italy meant that I had a fantastic landscape photography shoot, capturing the vivid pinks of a glorious sunrise! The whole landscape was painted in a pink hue that made the hike up, early in the morning worth every step. A series of images of the city illuminated and bathed in pink light.
5 Lightroom Tips to drastically improve your photography editing. I wish I knew these 5 Lightroom tools sooner and to prove my point, the example images I edit during the video are all from my past and before I couldn’t make the images look the way I wanted them to, but by using these 5 tools that I learned I was able to bring back these images from being deleted.
Fed up with staying in the apartment, I decided to scout out some new landscape photography locations by hiking the hill from Como to Brunate. The view from the villages were fantastic and I was able to think about an image that I would like to get in the future…
A video of 5 tips to improve your photography. These tips can be applied to any photography genre, but I use landscape photography as an example. If you learn all 5 tips then I think your photography will improve drastically. I wish I knew these 5 tips earlier, instead I had to learn them over time, but once I knew them I saw a big improvement to my photography.
A video all about ICM Photography for abstract landscape photography images. I walk through what is ICM, explain how I create ICM images in the field and then show various examples of my ICM images from the different environments that I enjoy taking abstract ICM photos, including the forest, the seaside and the mountains.
Struggling with photography block, unable to pick up my camera and feeling unmotivated to take pictures, I gave myself a challenge to spend one week with one lens: my canon 50mm f1.8. I had to explore different styles of photography, including street and documentary photography. Everyday I went out and took some pictures, let’s see how that went…
A discussion about creating an authentic voice or style in youtube and in photography. I’ve been struggling with ways to make my youtube channel stand out and appear unique to myself, so I made this video where I discuss the ideas that I’m having and why it is difficult to find your own style.
I went straight to photograph the Temple Volta in the Park in Como, Italy today. I knew I wanted to get some landscape photography done with this temple as my subject both illuminated at night and with some natural light. The night images had to be created using exposure blending in Photoshop, but turned out brilliant. And I was treated to a very colourful sunrise!
Heading through Como once again, I couldn’t see any architectural compositions but once I made it to the park on the shores of Lake Como, I found my subject: the trees illuminated by the street lamps. The perfect subject for some black and white landscape photography. A great morning of photography!
An early morning wandering through the streets of Como, Italy, I was looking for subjects to photograph. The dramatic lighting of the street lights on the old Renaissance architecture leant itself to some interesting street photography. I made it to a viewpoint on Lake Como where I got some great classic landscape photography images.
An update on my plans for the future of my vlog, the big news that I’ve moved to Italy and will be pursuing landscape photography as well as wildlife photography in Italy in the near future. There’s some discussion about how I will be filming my future vlogs, some new types of vlog that I will be creating in the future and what I want to achieve in the future…
A glorious day gave me the idea to head out and do some wildlife photography, my target Mountain Hares. Surprisingly I found an individual relatively quickly and over time I was able to move into a position that should’ve given good images. However, the heavens opened and I was stood on the hill for a long time before the hare graced me with some great images!
A simple little sunrise landscape photography excursion to Loch Garten. I try a different composition from what I have photographed in the past in attempt to combat the criticism of another photographer. There will be an upcoming video discussing the results soon.
A day of curiosity exploring a hidden valley on the west coast of Scotland for the landscape photography possibilities. Bizarrely the rain created a lot of opportunities and amazing conditions for landscape photography. A beautiful valley that I had never explored before resulted in some great images of the day!
A wonderful morning exploring Glen Affric looking to capture the vibrant colours of autumn in the landscape. From the sunburst yellows of birch trees, to the layering of colours created by bracken. The beautiful valley of Glen Affric does not disappoint in the variety of images to be had.
After a successful landscape photography shoot in the foggy Cairngorm mountains, I turned my attention to my next subject: Ptarmigan. I was to spend the day looking for ptarmigan with the hope of capturing some wildlife photography images, but the weather decided not to co-operate with me. Being rained off the mountain without any pictures, I did some research about ptarmigan behaviour to better know my subject.
