Urban exploring - 15 minute photo challenge

[lpl6150]

@marc0241 i think he uses the canon 24-105 f4 L lens...as always :)

[TheAbabeed]

Greeeeeat................

[iVideoGuru]

I'd like to ask you, on an average how many photoes do you endup clicking in those fifteen minutes?

P.S.: Do you knoe the game of cricket?

[GreenyLiveshow]

I can not do good photography.. :(

[es30381]

hey how'd you get the dark corners and stuff on the picture of the leaf against the wood at 1:28. thanks mate

[TheMightyPnut]

@es30381 The effect is called vignetting, and although it can be achieved in-camera, it is usually added in Photoshop later =]

[es30381]

@TheMightyPnut Thanks :)

[es30381]

@TheMightyPnut and would the colours have been enhanced in photoshop as well or is there a technique for getting them so vibrant? :)

[TheMightyPnut]

@es30381 Probably, yes. It looks like he may have altered things like levels and saturation; but as most of these are HDR (High Dynamic Range - three pictures of different exposures, blended to get a full spectrum of lighting), they probable didn't need much editing.

I'm sixteen, and I try not to edit any of my pictures at all; but when I speak to older, more professional photographers, they pretty much all tweak their photos a little bit.

[es30381]

@TheMightyPnut Yeah I thought it must have been HDR (and I had just pressed post when he said the thing about HDR hahaha) but I wasn't sure. I am around 16 too and I just want to get the best from my pictures straight out of the camera, you know? :)

[TheMightyPnut]

@es30381 Yeah, I've been shooting for years, and I'm kinda getting the hang of it lol XD The best thing is to practise, and push yourself. I grew up with film SLRs, where you could only take about 35 shots - these days, people take 1000s of shots per day, and as cameras are digital now, we're not forced to get it right on the first shot like we used to be =[

[livinginthepast3]

Fantastic. Can you demo how you processed these in photoshop? Thx!

[lachsimzwaifel]

yeah, crank the fuckin contrast up to make the pictures seem to be goodlooking. Seroiusly, is this the best you can offer?

[GuitPick123]

@lachsimzwaifel

'Cause it looks better that way? He can do whatever he wants with his pictures. Get over it. If you don't like the pictures, don't watch.

[onofrv]

not one 15 minute video that I don't like. I like them all there the best. I would love to purchase a dvd of all the videos

[ashkibala1]

thank you so much gavin for your videos. could you please do a beach exploring - 15 minute photo challenge? cheers

[theinfamousroblowen]

Mate you're the most pro urbexer I've ever seen, can't wait to view your west park report...

[Mikej1592]

ROFL you left the video camera man in there LOL. gorgous pics I love the way they turned out. I learned the trick of using the timmer to take long exposure shots of the night sky by trial and error, works wonders. Eliminates any initial vibration from clicking the shutter button.

[samiamcreations]

how do you set your camera to take those hdr shots???



[ashkibala1]

@samiamcreations Bracketing. i think it's called AEB in canon.

[punkasskid4gc]

Any chance on showing us the pictures before post processing, right off the camera?

[andrepires]

Hi Sir. I'm portuguese and i love your videos. It's just an inspiration!

Whats your tripod?

[arthurmee]

One of my favourite of your 15 minute challenges Gavin. Those HDR images were stunning. It would be great if you could do a video or two of your photoshop work on creating some of these images. Hope you had a shower before you sat down to to photoshop these shots :). many thanks again.

[dreaddennis]

gavin do you miss film? greetz from amsterdam!

[Exitt10]

Thank u so much

Majed - saudi araiba

[combat7up]

how did u get rid of the white board?

[TheMorts100]

Hi Gavin, I like the first indoor image with the blue chair & toilet in the background. Did you use an pre recorded action in PS? I like the retro feel; high contrast, oversharpened, vignette etc. Or did you just go throught the paces yourself?

It really brought out the grime. Did you tell the Shire you are putting these on YT? HAHAHA Time for a new clubhouse or WHAT?!

[Malakh33rd]

Love your HDR shots.

[mrRapkis]

You left the camera man in that horrible place :(

[Sallybunckle]

I have my Black Rapid RS-W1 (W1 designed for woman) and I love it. Thanks Gavin for putting me onto the Black Rapid Brand, I thought it was a little pricie til I put it on, then I realised its worth every cent. :) Cant wait for your next 15 minute challenge. 

[xfilion]

Hi Gavin

Firstly great video's and I've learned a lot from both you and your compadre Jared Polin.

Just a small gripe with this video. You took a shot close to the bar with the central column of your tripod extended. I was always taught to extend the legs before contemplating using the central column. Was there a particular reason for doing that?

[zaalias]

sir, you are a genius.

[photomend]

Hey gavin.. waitin for next vid, its been quite a while :-)

[Gjameshill]

Hi Gavin,

What make and model is your tripod and tripod head? I love HDR photography, but I have no idea what make or model of tripod to buy.

[Bondroit]

Merci Monsieur Gavin pour vos reportages, j'apprecie ces quelques minutes de reportage.

[gr8fzy1]

Mmmm, that Paint with the heart pealed out of it is gonna be my new desktop. <3

[americano37]

you are so good man..congrats!!

[IMMEX65]

These photos have ... photoshop?, and if so, could you

display without this program?

[witchleaf]

***** =)

[mohijasmeet]

hi gavin

ur videos taught me a lot of stuff, i just want ur opinion on the canon efs 18-200mm 3.5 to 5.6 lens, i am pretty hard at cash at this moment and want a walk around lens as i am going to America in next few weeks and dnt wanna carry a lot of lenses , i had the twin lens kit but i sold those lenses , i got a Canon 550D

[se254eva]

Great location Gavin.

[sapphirephoenix75]

Mr. Gavin you are AMAZING! just one question for a beginner what camera and lens would you recommend without a really high price point if you can. Thanks. again Awesome work and love your videos please keep them coming!

[photographybyjef]

Nice work. I like the 15 minute challenge.

[bigbikes750]

Gavin, just to let you know that you look great standing in the background at Photoshop world with a beer in your hand. Well done buddy and cheers.

Peter

[SaskiaVideo]

Hi Gavin, love your video's it gives me so much inspiration !!!

[mpenny2008]

Love you videos Gavin. Particular these 15min ones. As it show you can take a snap shot of virtually anything and make it into a interesting photograph. Thanks to Photoshop and a bit of creative imagination. Man you could make a dog turd look good...

[Xeo989]

Maestroi Gavin ! Grande como siempre Love it !!

[4Alpha7Kilo]

Is that the 5d or the 5DII? I would assume it's the II, but just checking. :)

[bigheadkyle1]

I love watching these 15 minute challenges. It really inspires me to go around town looking for photo opportunities. Now only if I had a camera then that would help. How many different camera's do you have and would the Nikon D90 be a good choice for it's price? Maybe you can just give me one of yours lol

[JdMc1996]

Hey Gavin, I have recently subbed to you and realized that you seem to know your photography very well so I was wondering what camera and equipment you would recommend for someone wanting to start photography. (My dad and I want to start) :D Thanks

-Jd

[muusers]

Gavin, maybe you could do a video about processing one of those HDR pics from importing to publishing? Do you edit the photos in ACR first? Or do you merge them to HDR first and then edit them inside PS (add contrast/vignet) etc.

[jasonmusic1]

15 minute photo challenges are some of my favorite videos. I only wish there were more of them!

[djbass101]

Love the HDR photos!

[gbhatthal]

What kind of tripod are you using Gavin? I mean what brand and model number. Thanks

[Elm0Washington]

15 minutes of pleassure.....



[nrossi12811]

why all the dramatic music?

[enwordsand]

TEACH US HDR ON CANON PLEAAAASE

[spideyheidi]

brilliant Gavin x

[nabatiae]

Hi Gavin, Can you please tell me what type of background music you are using? and from where I can get it? THANKS A LOT

[110B557]

Thought you should have used settings to illustrate the "urban" quality of the images...less saturation, less color, less nice lighting.

[ioannis69k]

Cool ideas, thanks !

[Cobian88]

By any chance do you plan on putting up a how to do HDR in photoshop? I cant find any decent videos, I really like how you did your HDRs

[trueilarim]

@Cobian88 how about right here on youtube something like this:

 watch?v=KZW4LzlHduo

[stienerrecliner]

please do u a tutorial on dragan effect pleeeeeeease!

[kid0M]

Finally back with another 15 min challenge. Its been a while since you've uploaded one. love these!

[Dreadfultime]

@dirtycooking what was he using before? i though he have had that camera for a long time

[rvdw98]

@Dreadfultime A 40D if I'm not mistaken.

[numex106]

gavin, can you tell me which model manfrotto tripod you have? is it carbon fiber?

Thanks for the vids

[rvdw98]

@numex106 @6:02 you'll hear the tell tale sound of an aluminum tripod.

[forgethefancyname]

FINALLY!! i been waiting for this..thanks gavin

[mrmcweird]

Can you make a tutorial on how you created that last photo?

[numbnuts3rd]

'You know us Photographers and peeling paint' LOL!!!

[rorrt]

Im not a fan of HDR, localised contrast suffers, the midtones end up all milky. But the princible is there, though i would decrease the exposure between photos, to about 1/2 a stop. But a few of those shots, namely the photo of the bar really does warrant using HDR. You can bring back detail, without that "HDR look", of things just looking sickly, with weird shadows, and things that your eye cant see.

[zeyer73]

what is HDR???? thanks

[princedawson]

Thank you so much dear Gavin ;)

[Trevoc2]

Gavin, great job of making "lemonade out of lemons". These are the types of shots I would take, but my girlfriend says "they are interesting, but who would buy them?". I think they are artisitic and it doesn't matter who buys them.

On another note, I think you are using a Canon, can you tell me if you have a way to convert Canon raw (cr2) to Photoshop raw? I avoid taking raw shots for fear that I wont have a way to convert them. Thanks for any advice!

[Cybercreeps]

do you use wide angle lenses on this challenge?

[sivabala1]

I love your shows but please get rid of that awful country guitar intro. It cheapens everything.

[dinkaroo0252]

Fantastic as always!

[Umkomaas2010]

Would also like to see how you processed the HDR shots. Great challenge as usual.

[eggheadjunk]

ha ha favorite 15 min photo challenge yet cause you kept talking about how disgusting the place was just made me laugh!

[mohmoh48]

Is HDR a feature in the camera? If so, I have the canon t1i as it is a good beginner camera for me, therefore, does it have this feature? And does it have AE bracketing??

[ypsifrog]

another nice video; this is off topic but I'm considering getting a wacom tablet for my photoshop work, I've read others but whats your thoughts, maybe a video?

[swingking338]

@ypsifrog highly recommend. Check out my videos on the wacom bamboo and intuos4

[atyl1972]

gavin when you used AE bkt, how did you get to take the number of shots automatically instead of one at a time, can you explain?

[roglowe]

How would you rate that lense?

[corey75952]

I heard your camera take that HDR. How did you get it to do that?

[Beatbot]

4:25 works on Nikon, too. Pretty handy feature.

[CellphoneTL]

7:04 you should have got a cool shot of the light streaming from behind the door. it could have looked all ghosty

[marcuelcajon]

I was waiting for Texas chainsaw massacre's Leather Face to jump out at you. lol Nice pics.

[turdfacesaywhaaaa]

I love you!

[openbeta843]

ei Gavin show us how you edit the photos..

great show!!

[kubus1964]

i still love your vids.the are GREAT.

[TurboLag23]

Why do you use ISO when you don't need to? I find it just adds unnecessary graininess to my images, and I usually leave it at its lowest setting since it's non-defeatable.

Is this just because of my camera (Canon EOS DR XTi w/18mm-55mm), and can a camera like the Canon 60D, 7D or 5D handle ISO better?

[BloatedSensations]

@TurboLag23 Yes. MUCH better. I shoot a Sony A850 - which is Sony's D-SLR offering in the same range as the Canon 5DII. And, there's really no perceptible difference in noise between 100 to 400 ISO. At 800 ISO you begin to notice a little creeping in, but it's still FAR from being a "noisy" image. 1600 ISO is still pretty usable for most applications. And, above 800 ISO, the 5D handles noise much better than my A850. (below 1600 they're practically identical)

[jkddaddy]

@TurboLag23 of course, knowing that higher end cameras can handle ISO higher with much less "noise" might still leave you with your first question: why did Gavin use it? Reasons to consider: most lenses are sharpest around f8-f11, several stops darker than wide open (each stop down halves the light hitting the sensor), couple that with the need to keep the shutter speed fast enough to defeat "shake"/blur (for handheld) and you find that increased ISO may be the ticket to make it all work!

[HaWaIiCiNqZeRo]

What type of strap are you using for your camera?

[HaWaIiCiNqZeRo]

What type of strap are you using for your camera?

[Niloy135790]

Sir, I just wanted to say that I truly love your videos and they inspire me immensely!...Please keep these videos coming! :)

[davefk]

Just goes to show the banality of everyday photography and difficulty finding a decent subject...

[Flairfive]

Look 3 people hit the wrong thumb!

[TheSbzStudios]

Yes! Another 15 minute challenge.

[theogore]

Great sample of work experience!

Great place for a zombie movie!

[N6600]

Sir, what is your strap. Was planning to invest on a new strap that is more convenient and is w/o that huge camera branding.

[PhotoGavin]

@N6600 The strap is the RS-Sport from Black Rapid. Its totally amazing.

[BloatedSensations]

@PhotoGavin ...and totally expensive. They're great straps, alright! But, I don't know what they sell for where you are, but over here, in Canada, they sell for the Canadian equivalent of about $60.00 British pounds. I've played around with a friend's BR R-7, and liked it a lot - great strap. But, I can never seem to quite get myself to part with that kind of cash for a strap - especially not when there's all sorts of old, classic glass floating around on E-bay for not too much more than that.

[N6600]

@N6600 Thank you sir.

[Godpleaser77]

Alway love the 15 minute photo challenge!

[computersguy13]

"Who on earth would want to use this place?"

Apparently, you would. :)

[r0ng100]

love your videos! and amazing pictures!

you used photoshop HDR pro with all your HDR pics?

and how i get in to the HDR pro? ><

[PhotoGavin]

@r0ng100 It's new in Photoshop CS5... File - Automate - Merge to HDR Pro

[zgmzero]

@PhotoGavin it is absolutely amazing you could take such great photos in just 15 mins at this abandoned place! and so many of them!

Please do the next tutorial on how you process the HDR in PS CS5, thank you.

[PHotographish]

I like the idea of a black and white HDR! !! keep on like this!!!

[ThePool111]

Sry your name is gavin!! I know :D

[ThePool111]

Hi Gevin!! First of all I have to say that I totally love your pictures!! You're such a great photographer!

I think it would be great for us (normal photographers) if you could show how you did the photo in 6:30. How did you do the effect here and how do you get the nice colors in the pictures. I'm tryind this a lot, but I don't get such nice colors!! The shiny blue or the orange...

Thanks

Ps: 15 minute photo challenge rocks!!! ;)

[PhotoGavin]

@dirtycooking Yep, about 6 months ago. Great camera and currently at a pretty good price too.

[stevieh59]

@PhotoGavin HOw do you find it with the 9 focus points?

[stevieh59]

@PhotoGavin HOw do you find it with the 9 focus points?

[adamziaja]

please show also postprocess :)

[mzfcker]

this is horrible BOOM! perfect pictures

[smcs]

you like HDR, do you? :)

[FallenKain]

Gavin, when are you coming to Orlando? I'd like to arrange to see you speak.

[PhotoGavin]

@FallenKain Orlando was last week :-( But if you convince Adobe to get over next year I'll buy you a beer :-) Photoshop World Orlando was Awesome BTW!

[FallenKain]

@PhotoGavin Oh no! Damn, I'm upset that I missed you! Alright, well, I'll tell ya what, if you shoot me a private message, I'll drop you my email, and you'll be more than welcome to stay at my place next time your over. Be happy to take you out for a couple rounds! They just opened a bar here that's got over 100 beers in stock. Where did you speak in Orlando?

[jamesrdolan]

Some nice shots there Gavin. I do a bit of Urban Exploration (Urbex) myself. I live in Yorkshire and there are some great old textile mills which are excellent for photography. I would put a link to my urbex site but I don't know if youtube will sensor it. "james dolan urbex" on Google will bring it up 1st though.

[Rotten3ullet]

finally another episode

[Acilpirin]

Great, I just love urban exploring.

[Kadadj]

How can you hold your hands so still? I have trouble under 1/100 shutter speed. If I choose liveview, it look like there's an earth quake or something.

[ramdawgy]

@Kadadj live view is not really benificial unless on a tripod really :) just hold your hand really close on teh lens towards the body hold your breath and stay still

[Kadadj]

@ramdawgy Yeah, I dont actually use live view, It was just an example. It's really annoying though, to have shaking hands. It's weird, I can play guitar solos where there are 7 notes each second perfectly, but I cant hold a camera still.

[ramdawgy]

@Kadadj its just practice hey :) and just hold everything really closely and HOLD YOUR BREATH it helps alot im able to usually shoot at about 1/20th without IS most of the time

[SUGAddr]

Are you shooting in full manual mode for these shots?

[MrWp97]

i loved the leaf shot

[missterry2009]

very creative in finding a subject..i got some of gavins video and it helps a lot regarding shooting raw,easier to adjust color...

[padlockd]

Are you using Nik Software's HDR Efex Pro, or something from Photoshop?

[lewiscifer999]

Great video as always, thanks Gavin, you're a major inspiration!!

[secretsquirrel83]

Inspiring stuff, thanks.

[thehouseofnothing]

you bought the 5D ?! :)

[LoveHateKillMate]

i dont like the vignett everywhere :(

[CharlieLovesYouFilms]

i have a canon 7d how do you take hdr photos ?

[LordEmosewa]

@CharlieLovesYouFilms There should be an AEB option in you're menu.

[1986Chaitanya]

great video, also fantastic shots.

[lynxhasbigholybawls]

your amazing! :D

[MrBlofeld007]

Another great informative video. Love the camera strap I'll have to look into getting one.

[WetOct0puS]

This is one of my favorite photo challenge! Thanks Gavin i love urban stuff .

[shinichi13]

hello gavin! im just wondering, what kind of effects you use in photoshop that gives you the best effects yet it can be done within 3-5 minutes for an average user like me :)

[PhotoGavin]

@shinichi13 Best advice... shoot RAW. I tend to push the contast sliders fairly hard, but it's not to everyones taste. Experiment and create your own style.

[Sinwori]

is it still a HDR picture, if i take just one shot in RAW mode and paint the different exposures in lightroom? that should be the same result.

[bairak88]

Great video as always Gavin. i have one question. is that blackrapid strap? if so, do you recommend getting one?

Thanks.

[PhotoGavin]

@bairak88 Yes that's the Black Rapid RS-Sport. It's a really great strap if, like me, you hate wearing round the neck style straps.

[padlockd]

@bairak88 Looks like an RS-7 and the BRAD accessory. This guy Jared Polin has a cool review of the strap.

[mportillo27]

You are amazing!

[DavidLTG]

i like "kitchen "the most black and white.

i think that This HDR's looks better in Black and white ! :D Very cool

[cankarales]

You are amazing!

[mariandeacu]

What is the number of stops that you use for HDR in bracketing mode?

[PhotoGavin]

@mariandeacu Either 3 or 5 depending on the contrast levels. For these images it was mostly 3 shots, two stops apart.

[agerken]

Hi Gavin,

i like your Videos and i like your spots too.

The only thing i don't like so much is, that you shop the photos too much so they look unreal. HDR is nice too, but only if you don't see it too much

[BOSERNR1]

i want this challenges in real time :D



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[934real]

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[TheSuperMicrosoft]

great video!