# Woodland Photography Tips (composition review)

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Nigel Danson
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PSl_Vxry1I
- **Дата:** 26.04.2026
- **Длительность:** 15:06
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## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PSl_Vxry1I) Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00)

A big thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode. Morning everyone, fantastic to see you all again. And so in this video, I want to talk about some of the images that I shot in Finale in Madeira and I showed in the video last week. I've also printed my favorite images as well, so we'll go up to the cabin up at the top of my garden and we'll I've got a better setup to look at top down shots. But first of all, I just want to show you some of the images that maybe didn't quite work in Lightroom, explain why they didn't work. Now obviously on that first day, it was raining so hard. I literally had my camera in my coat. I was just pulling it out of my coat and doing handheld shots. So I was shooting at ISO 1000 and they've turned out pretty well. So I really like this scene. I'm going to show you a print of the better version of this. Why I didn't like this particular shot is that you can see just up here there's this sort of area that is there's sky that's quite distracting. So your eyes are sort of drawn to that. And also because this tree sort of goes up in that sort of diagonal as well, I feel like your eyes drawn to that. So this didn't quite work, but I had moved around a little bit to the left and I think it worked a lot better. I didn't show these two shots, but I thought they were really interesting to show. So I did like this one. And the reason I like this is I like this tree. I think it's a really nice tree. I think where the light's coming through, it doesn't matter too much on this. It's fairly evenly spaced. So I've got some here, some here and I think that works really well. This tree I don't usually like using trees to sort of anchor the side of a an image like this, but in this case I think it works really well. What's interesting though is if I shoot that same tree from the other side, I don't think this works quite as well because there's not as much light in the background. So the tree sort of blurs into the scene. Now it may have been that there wasn't as much fog coming through at this time. But if you look at this shot, it's separated a lot better from the background. And that's something that you really need to think about whether it's raining hard or whether there's fog coming through, whether there's just bright areas behind because if you can separate those trees from the background, it makes such a big difference. This was a shot that I really liked at first, but then I just felt that this was just too distracting. This branch that comes over here. When I took this shot, I actually thought it worked really well. This is a lake that had gathered because of all the rain. And I thought it had worked really well this. But in the end, I just think this is too distracting this branch. So I sort of I'm not 100% sure about it. And then there was a series of shots where you saw you saw again this is when it was raining really heavily that I took. And I really like I really liked these. And I want to show the three of them to show you the difference between them. So what I really liked and again a handheld Now I didn't actually put this on my tripod. Now this is ISO 640 1/25th of a second. I really like these little droplets of water that you can see here. I think that works really well and all these little lichen that you can see. I really like the fresh ferns as well. I'm a great believer in telling a story and I feel like these ferns being new tell a story about you know when this was taken, you know, earlier on in the season. So I really like these, but I took these three shots slightly differently. So I did a wider shot which is this shot which I still think works, but I'm sort of on the fence whether there's too much sky in it. And there's obviously this extra tree on the left-hand side here and there's not as much fern there. I think it works, but I'm not 100% sure about it. So I'm just going to live with it a little bit more, probably edit it and play around with it a little bit more. I did like this shot again from the same location. I really like the texture. And because again it was raining so hard, then the bark was really wet. And when you're doing woodland photography, if you can have wet bark, it always looks better. Now it's a good idea just to play about with a polarizer. In this case I didn't because it was raining so much. I just didn't want to faff around with it. But you can just pull out some of that texture sometimes if you've got too much of a sort of glossy feeling to it. Just before we go up and have a look at these prints, I just wanted to have a look at some other shots that I shot more in the open area of Finale. And as I mentioned in last week's video, there's some of it now is fenced off which is a shame, but there's loads of areas that aren't and I kind of like this. I think this worked quite well. I like this fallen tree here. Just frames the background. When it's really foggy like this, it's good to have something a little bit closer to you because then you get more texture in it like you can see here. And then it separates it from the background and gives that depth. This was quite an interesting one which I quite liked. I wish that log wasn't there. Now obviously I can remove that with the spot removal, but I don't really like to do that. I like to just have a very natural image that I've not messed around with. Again, I feel like it looks a bit muddy because I haven't got anything super close to me. This is the closest thing is down here which are fairly clean. But this is quite muddy because it's so foggy and you you don't get quite as nice light reflecting. It

### [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PSl_Vxry1I&t=300s) Segment 2 (05:00 - 10:00)

sort of the shadow areas go this sort of muddy sort of feeling to them. But if I had more sunlight breaking through the fog, then I feel like this would have been a lot better cuz I would have got more definition in this trunk here. And then finally, which is more like that, I've got this shot here which I quite like. But yeah, I wasn't 100% sure about it at first. I cropped it. So originally I had a shot with the tree in the background there. And I felt that tree was quite nice. Just gives an extra layer of depth. But if I tried to make it symmetrical and pull out the right hand side like that, can you see at the top right there there's that distracting bit of branch? And I just didn't like that. So that's why I cropped it a little bit tighter. But anyway, they're the things I didn't think quite worked. Let's go and have a look at some of the prints that I really liked and I'll explain why that is. Okay, we're going to have a look at these prints now. Before I do that, I just want to say thanks for this week's sponsor which is Squarespace. If you're looking for a website or you're looking to set up a domain, then go to squarespace. com/nigel and you can get 10% off. And I really recommend setting up your own website. If you've got prints to sell, if you've got workshops to sell, then it's a great way of starting out with a career in photography. Or maybe you just want to do it on the side, then having a website is so important and it is super easy to do with Squarespace. So go and check it out. I've loved using it for many years now. Probably I've been using it for nine years now and it's literally the bedrock of my photography. Okay, so we're going to have a look at these photos. So I've printed these on my Canon 21000. There's some eight three ones, some eight two ones and they're printed on Fotospeed NST Bright White paper. You need to make sure when you're doing this that you print on the right side. Just to give you an example, I've just printed two images here. And you can see this one's a lot duller because I printed accidentally on the wrong side. It's sometimes difficult to tell. So just make sure that you don't do that like I did which is really dull. So I really like this shot. I think it works really well. We've got this really nice curve around and you saw me talk about this and take this in the in the forest here. One of the things that I'm unsure about which is whether to crop it here. I feel like if I did crop it there, it might just look a little bit better. But I really like this tree here. I'm just not 100% sure about these branches coming in. But this is a good example of where there is sky in it, but the sky is slightly blown out. It's got that sort of fog effect blurry effect to it and it just I think it just works. I really like this. It's really simple. Great portrait of a tree. So this was a little bit different. Again, I showed this in the video. I didn't show me taking this cuz it was it just started to rain really hard. But what I really like is I just positioned this tree so it wasn't cutting off this bit at the bottom and it sort of left your eye to wander into the background here. And I think that works really well in woodland shots where you've got that sort of depth. You've got somewhere for your eye to go. And I really like that. So yeah, I think this works pretty well. This was one of two shots that I took. I'll show the other one here now. I'll just post it. But I think this works a little bit better. It's a little bit of a wider shot and including this tree on the right hand side. I could go wider because there's foliage at the top. This lichen at the top sort of brings your eye back down into it. And we've got multiple layers through it. We've got the ferns at the front, then we've got this tree here, then these trees here. And then right at the back we've got these trees. And again we've got that depth being portrayed by the luminosity of these trees dropping off through the fog. And I think that looks so good. The only thing is a little bit unsure about this is I feel like this space here is just a little dead. I tried moving around a little bit, but I wonder whether it's just a little bit you know, it's negative space that isn't great. So this is a shot that I've taken before, the last visit actually when I was doing the video for the Z8. But I was never happy with it and I think this works a lot better. So like I said, this tree had a tree in the background. And then I just made sure this gap was not too small as to be distracting because if you have a really small gap, it can be distracting. And not too big that it shows the tree behind and it only shows a bit of it. And I think that works really well. And again with these gaps here, wherever there's a gap, I don't want that gap to be too small that it just looks like I've not planned it well enough. So this looks more purposeful. I really like the rocks in the foreground. Again, we've got that attenuation going through and we've got this nice the laurels the top here. The branches sort of reaching up look really good. And I really like this. I think it's worked super well. This was an experiment and I think it's worked really well. I actually when I took this, I thought I'm not sure about it. I purposely slightly overexposed it. So you got this burnt out look here. You it burnt out. You know, you lose some of the details because the light sort of bleeds

### [10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PSl_Vxry1I&t=600s) Segment 3 (10:00 - 15:00)

around the edges of the leaves, but I think I like that. I think because again we've got this fog, it just sort of softens that a little bit. And I shot this I think at maybe it was 14 or 16 mm because I really liked this little sort of part of the trunk up here where obviously a branch has probably fallen off and it just was This was like right overhead. I was sort of shooting like this and I think this works really well. I I love this image. In fact, it might be my favorite image. I think this one and the next one are two of my favorite images. So, this one is the one that I wanted to take again. I lost this image um when I took it last time. Stupidly deleted my photos. Now, you can see there's a little bit of movement here. It was really windy. I don't mind that. I think that tells a story again. I want these ferns to be sharp and they won't move in as much. I just chose the right um shutter speed. The only problem with this is that when you have something on a hill like this and it had I had the same problem with this one here, then you tend to get a corner that's not got a lot in it. This corner is quite big. So, what I did in the edit is that I just darken this down a little bit cuz it was quite bright and I think it works really well. I really like this. I think this has worked pretty well. Right, so I've got two A2 ones. Want to print it like that. So, the first one is this one here. Now, this is good. I like it. I talked about um before having that white gap here and this is the shot that I've moved around a little bit and you can see it works really well because I've got this stone here, you know, got this tree going up and then I've got this in the background. I'm so mad though because I made a mistake on it. I shot it and I was meant to up the aperture to like F13 and shot it at F10 or F8, I think. I'll put the number here somewhere. And this is slightly out of focus and I really feel like this needs to be super sharp, which is a shame. I'm going to have another look again because I think I might have a shot where that's sharp but that's not sharp and I may be able to focus stack it, but I tend not to focus stack woodland shots because it gets really complicated and really difficult to do. But because I really like this shot, I think I might try and do it. And I think it works better as more of a vertical shot. There's a nice space here at the side of this rock. And I think this rock Without that rock, I just don't think this shot is anywhere near as good. That rock, you know, when you have secondary subjects like this that really bring out this main subject and the other secondary subjects in the background, it works really well. And I feel like we've got this one, this one and they create sort of a nice sort of triangle here. That works so well. Last image that probably again one of my favorites is this one here. There's just something about old twisty trees and rocks that I absolutely love. It's probably my favorite type of photography. I literally get tingly looking at this because it was such a stunning scene. I took so many different angles with this branch, you know, I was shooting further up here so that you know, the this was below the branch just to try and find all the right gaps for all the trees. And I think this has worked so well. I think everything comes together on this image. I like I was a bit worried and I was trying to shoot it quite a high ISO to get a fast shutter speed, but actually I think it ended up going for like 1/25 of a second. And because it was so windy, I got blurriness here, but again that tells a story. You know, that there's a little you know, this fern here is sharp. There's quite a lot of the ferns that are sharp, but that there's a that blurriness just tells a story. You know it's windy. You know that the the fog's coming through here. And I think this works so well. I really do. I think this is one of my favorite images that I've taken in this woodland and um it's going to be going on my portfolio of images on my website really soon. I talked about this ages ago. I said I was going to update it. I haven't done yet, but I've nearly I'm nearly there now where I'm going to add about 15 new portfolio images to my website. And that's all done with Squarespace. So, make sure you check out Squarespace as well. But I'll send out an email about that when these are ready, but there's going to be very limited editions um of prints. I'm going to do a very small edition of each print because I don't want to end up printing too many images. It takes a huge amount of time to package them. I'm really particular about how I package them. So, I'm going to do a small limited edition of prints and I'll let everybody know through my email. Um and like I said, I haven't done this for probably 4 years now. So, if you're interested in that, then make sure you sign up to my email. I'll put a link in the description below. Thanks for watching. I hope you've enjoyed it. And next week No, not next week, the week after that, I'm going to be back on my counties project. So, in 2 weeks' time, my next video will be me, hopefully fingers crossed, photographing

### [15:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PSl_Vxry1I&t=900s) Segment 4 (15:00 - 15:00)

bluebells in the southeast of England. Thanks a lot. Bye.

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