Micael Widell Newsletter #58
Captain's log
February is typically one of the most boring months of the year for me to do photography. It is dark, wet, cold, slushy, muddy and gray. But I try to always view things from an optimistic angle – if conditions are so bad, that must make for the best possible training for my creative eye! So I went out every week for a photo walk, and made videos from them.
I have now settled in more to my new square cinematic style of doing videos. And I must say that this newness really has sparked new creative joy for me when it comes to crafting my youtube videos. It is a lot more fun to try to make a beautiful video, not only beautiful photos.
It was all triggered by my purchase of the DJI Pocket 3, a very popular new vlogging camera with a built in gimbal. I had previously been using the Pocket 2 for years. And while the Pocket 2 was great, it's sensor was a bit too small to do any heavy color grading of the footage. The Pocket 3 has a much larger sensor, and you can have a lot of fun grading the footage. This discovery, combined with me finding inspiration from cinematic masters on youtube such as gxAce and Gawx, led to my new style of making videos.
Here are the videos I made since my last newsletter:
- What Pro Photographers Never Tell You
- The Secret to Black and White Photography
- Slush Photography with the Sony 135mm f/1.8 GM
- Why are all my videos square?
- Macro Photography when there is NOTHING to Photograph
Daily Weight Loss Videos
One day in February, I felt that enough is enough – it is time to lose weight. I was weighing over 88 kg, and was at an unhealthy level of body fat.
But I had tried losing weight several times over the past couple of years, and always failed after a few days. I decided I needed to do it differently this time, to have a chance to succeed. I decided to mark the importance of this project by starting a daily video series:
I am posting a weight loss video every day, until I have lost 10 kgs. Today I posted video number 18.
Follow my weight loss vlog here.
Inspiring photos from Instagram
Here are some photographs I have found on Instagram recently that I really love and find inspiring. Click the username to visit the photographer's instagram profile and follow them.
@jamie_hall_definitive_imaging
@marc_vaillant_wildlife
@mc_macro_photography
@visualsbypreet
@bugsnapz
@macrogp
Goodbye for now
Thank you for reading this far, and see you in a month! Feel free to follow me on YouTube, Instagram and Twitter in the meantime. If you like my work, please consider supporting me on Patreon. And lastly, feel free to tell your friends about this newsletter, and to reply to it if you have feedback or comments :)
/Micael