Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This film is about how feelings can influence the images that you take.
The videos that I post that have a more personal theme tend to get a lot less views on YouTube. And I know that most of the time people use YouTube for tips, advice, and entertainment, so no wonder. However, I feel the need to share my story in more detail sometimes, and I truly believe that we don't talk about these things often enough, and by not talking about it we risk having these feelings impact us in a negative way, when they can be used to form a positive outcome.
On a day where I was feeling tired I found that the photographs I was inspired to capture reflected how I had felt and how my life was impacted by my mother's sickness and death.
I still often think about how it all affected me emotionally and recently I have realised that just by acknowledging those feelings it can add meaning or significance to the images that I capture.
Since my mother passed away, and I have been on the road to recovering from it, I have found that hearing other's experiences have been helpful in understanding why I have felt like I have, and by exploring this through my photography and the videos I post here it has also helped me figure out the why behind what I am doing and what is driving me.
Everyone has their own story about why they do what they do, why they take photographs, why they escape to the outdoors, and I am interested in finding out these stories of motivation are.
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Check me out in Instagram - instagram.com/daviddixonphotography
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Gear used
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Main kit
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Wide lens amzn.to/2p7jdDW
Prime lens amzn.to/2p7hgHk
Memory card - fast enough for landscapes and never failed! amzn.to/2tkgTft
Spare batteries - way cheaper than official Canon ones and do a decent job amzn.to/2sm8B2g
Other kit
Backpack amzn.to/2p7kr20
Cable release - cheap as chips and faultless essential bit of kit amzn.to/2p7mpPR
Filter holder amzn.to/2oA8ZwU
10stop filter amzn.to/2plM1XM
ND grad set amzn.to/2plXMxm
Tripod
Tripod head - ball head, solid, so easy to use! amzn.to/2oPmxkt
Tripod amzn.to/2ozVZre
Filming
Filmed with amzn.to/2tGdq7c (f1.4 for beautiful cinematic footage, and does 4k!)
To keep the frame rate consistent a variable ND filter is invaluable! amzn.to/2xpun8L
...stuck to my Lumix using: amzn.to/2z9sYHU
Lavlier mic amzn.to/2p7tM9W
Drone! amzn.to/2plTnu7
This film is about how feelings can influence the images that you take.
The videos that I post that have a more personal theme tend to get a lot less views on YouTube. And I know that most of the time people use YouTube for tips, advice, and entertainment, so no wonder. However, I feel the need to share my story in more detail sometimes, and I truly believe that we don't talk about these things often enough, and by not talking about it we risk having these feelings impact us in a negative way, when they can be used to form a positive outcome.
On a day where I was feeling tired I found that the photographs I was inspired to capture reflected how I had felt and how my life was impacted by my mother's sickness and death.
I still often think about how it all affected me emotionally and recently I have realised that just by acknowledging those feelings it can add meaning or significance to the images that I capture.
Since my mother passed away, and I have been on the road to recovering from it, I have found that hearing other's experiences have been helpful in understanding why I have felt like I have, and by exploring this through my photography and the videos I post here it has also helped me figure out the why behind what I am doing and what is driving me.
Everyone has their own story about why they do what they do, why they take photographs, why they escape to the outdoors, and I am interested in finding out these stories of motivation are.
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Check me out in Instagram - instagram.com/daviddixonphotography
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Gear used
If you go on to buy any of the below kit on Amazon it will support me in making more videos for you :-)
Main kit
Camera amzn.to/2q9Z3r4
Long lens amzn.to/2plU46Z
Wide lens amzn.to/2p7jdDW
Prime lens amzn.to/2p7hgHk
Memory card - fast enough for landscapes and never failed! amzn.to/2tkgTft
Spare batteries - way cheaper than official Canon ones and do a decent job amzn.to/2sm8B2g
Other kit
Backpack amzn.to/2p7kr20
Cable release - cheap as chips and faultless essential bit of kit amzn.to/2p7mpPR
Filter holder amzn.to/2oA8ZwU
10stop filter amzn.to/2plM1XM
ND grad set amzn.to/2plXMxm
Tripod
Tripod head - ball head, solid, so easy to use! amzn.to/2oPmxkt
Tripod amzn.to/2ozVZre
Filming
Filmed with amzn.to/2tGdq7c (f1.4 for beautiful cinematic footage, and does 4k!)
To keep the frame rate consistent a variable ND filter is invaluable! amzn.to/2xpun8L
...stuck to my Lumix using: amzn.to/2z9sYHU
Lavlier mic amzn.to/2p7tM9W
Drone! amzn.to/2plTnu7
