Collaborations Take Time

One of the great benefits of sharing your photography life on YouTube is the number of people that you get to meet. I often say the photography content creation community is a bit like a virtual camera club. While this does mean your virtual camera club has members from all over the country (even the world) it also means it is challenging to find the time to meet people in person.

I would love to have more time to spend travelling the country, meeting up with fellow photographers and collaborating on content ideas. For me, allocating time for landscape photography is often a careful balance of family and work commitments. As a result, I only collaborate a few times a year and only if the idea is going to provide a tangible benefit to all the parties involved.

My good friend and fellow landscape photographer, Chris Sale, is a person I have collaborated with several times. For some time now we have been talking about collaborating on the creation of a new photography related show or podcast. We didn’t just want to create just another photography chat show. Instead, we wanted to create something with purpose and definition. Something that has a USP!

Lockdown Ideas

Like many photographers at the moment, Chris and I have a bit more time on our hands. While our landscape photography activities have very much been restricted, that hasn’t stopped us being creative. This period of lockdown has given us the time to work on our idea to produce a new show. Over the last few weeks, we discussed several ideas but the one that stuck was Chris’ idea of doing a show around photography related videos on YouTube.

We decided to go with that idea as we produce and watch a lot of photography related YouTube content. We feel this makes us well placed to discuss the topic, and we also believe that no one else is doing this type of show (with landscape photography content). By talking about the videos that we watch we hope to inspire your watch later list and to also inspire your photography.

After man-hours of discussion and planning, we agreed to film a pilot. The biggest challenge for filming the pilot was the fact that we live in different ends of the country. Even without lockdown, it would be unlikely that we would be able to film anything in person. So, the main challenges to filming were mostly technical and how post-production would work with different video sources such as Skype..

With a plan for the show laid out and (hopefully) the technical issues all sorted we filmed the pilot which we are incredibly happy to share with you all.

You’ll find the video below. It will premiere on YouTube at 7:30 pm tonight (14th July 2020) and if you can join us live, we will be there in the Live Chat to discuss the show and hear your feedback. If you can’t join us live don’t worry as after the premier has finished it will remain on YouTube just like any other video.

We really hope you enjoyed the pilot show and we want to hear your feedback (good or bad). It will help us decide if we will do more shows and help us shape the content and format. We look forward to seeing your comments!