A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.
This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.
North Borders (Street and Cars)
7th Era (Misc, Mood, and Analog)
Hayden Pedersen (Misc and photo challenge)
Although some of them are kinda sponsored by Sigma, these Australian dudes have a really nice way of approaching photography for young people. I used to love to watch them, since they also did many things together.
Gavin Hoey
Peter Coulson
Graincheck
Nathan Elson
Manny Ortiz
Serge Remelli
Simon D'Entremont
Tatiana Hopper
The Photographic Eye
Joel Ulises
Cory Vanderploeg
I'm on my first month down this rabbit hole.. Started with a lot of gear related stuff.. I got the gear now. Here are a few that are less about gear..
Grainydays, Grain check, and Willem Verbeeck are my favorites.
I care less about gear or techniques, after college photo I didn’t want to hear any more about technique (but I love learning people’s story process), and I don’t care to stay up in gear like I used to.
I prefer to do searches for my actual gear and see who's out there using it. It's a nice way to get inspired without being told that you need to buy the latest and greatest stuff.
Peter McKinnon. His passion for photography (and other hobbies) is infectious. I feel inspired to photograph/travel/create/do something meaningful when I watch him. Maybe other YouTube photographers are “better” at photography than him, but none are as inspiring
Wow I had to scroll way too far to see his name. His videos about photography topics inspire me to want to make videography more often :-) love his passion
I like Peter's early stuff, but lately, he seems to be drifting away from what first appealed to me.
Some greatest hits, some deep cuts
Kyle McDougal Alan Schaller Matt Day Tatiana Hopper PetaPixel Nico’s Photography Show Ribsy Paulie B Analog Insights Lina Bessonova Ted Forbes Nick Carver Grainydays In an Instant
Eventually I get tired of watching any of them, but I used to like DigitalRev with Kai and Lam. They were a good balance of informative and fun to watch.
For reviews I watched Chris Nicholls, Matt Granger, Steve Perry. It's hard to find a channel that isn't too 'youtuber' in style ("smash that like button and don't forget to subscribe!"), and knows what they're talking about.
Ben Horne, Landscape, large format, film, slow.
Brews n' Views Relatively new "podcast". A group of photographers looking a selection of work, drinking some beer, and talking about said work. I tend to skip the intro 30 minutes of banter and go straight for the photo talking.
Courtney Victoria British landscape photographer making YT videos feels a bit overdone, but she manages a feeling of light heartedness that not many manage.
Peter McKinnon is where I started.
Some that have been mentioned already Courtney Victoria, The photographic eye aka Alex Kilbee and Nick Carver.
Some that haven't been mentioned:
Shoot Film Like a Boss, Steve O'Nions, Andrew Banner, North Light Photographic Workshops and Nico's Photography Show, Gavin Lyons
A lesser-known one: Joshua Peg.
I started watching him because I've got the same camera (Canon 250d). He strikes me as an earnest amateur who's learning his ass off, and who wants to pass on some of that knowledge and encourage others.
Peter McKinnon
I like John Branch. I appreciate his willingness to lay it all out and take you with him.
Paulie B for street photography
Roger Lowe aka Shoot Film Like a Boss
less and less do I watch photography related youtubers. Nowadays when I do I usually watch analog shooters and try to copy their colors in my digital editing. To that end, I recommend Serr, Willem Verbeeck and graincheck
All except those who make really specific tutorials on advanced stuff are useless, really. Except camera conspiracies because he's naturally funny.
If you like pointing your lens up, Nebula Photos did good content on astro/DSO/starfield photography
I like Roman Fox. Clean work. No bells and whistles.
Grainydays for days
Scott Walker doesn’t get mentioned much, this interview gives you an idea of what he’s like.
https://youtu.be/qfoz61LPnNQ?si=N9VW-wErHzmkwcZA
Less about gear, more about wildlife and landscape photography.
Nick Page is my all time favorite and only photographer I actually regularly watch on YouTube. I’ve listens to him since his early years and have loved watching and learning from him over the years. Super amazing, talented, friendly and down to earth guy you just want to go grab a drink with.
Nick Page
Fuck it I’ll start a YouTube channel
Thomas Eisel. Talks mainly about Olympus, but his channel is very informative.
Thomas Eisl is very underrated.
James Popsys. He’s not as pretentious as other YT photographers who think their photos are actually good. James is down to earth, humorous and honest. He shares his struggles and GAS on his YT channel and honestly love him for it! His photography is fantastic.
If you are not involved in a country/political issue, Mediastorm影视飓风 may be a good choice.
This was recently posted and hopefully relevant to you! Here is a short list of photography channels that are less focused on gear. Here is the source for this list (with lots more context!).
Hope this helps someone find some awesome in the world!
The Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/17vx62n/decent_yt_photography_channels_not_focused_on_gear/
The List:
Faizalwestcott
Fototripper
Aows
Grainydays / Film
Thomas Heaton / Landscape
Graincheck / Landscape, city, studio
GxAce / asthetic
Art of Photography
Adam Gibbs
Nick Page Photography
The Photographic Eye
Sean Tucker Photography / Interviews
Jamie Windsor
Matt Talks Photography
Daniel Norton / Portrait
Simon D'entremont
Thomas Shallen
Tatiana Hopper / Classic Photography
North Borders / Cars
Ramsey Kiefer
Photography Online / Various
Morten Hilmer
Phil Hadley Photos / Editing
James Popsys / Landscape
Roman Fox
Teemu.mp4
Pierre Lambert
Faizal Westcott
Teo Crawford / Landscape, Street, film
Nick Carver
Jarred Wilson
Mike Smith / Landscape
Alyn Wallace
Paulie B
Nigel Danson / Landscape
Mads Peter Iverson
Daniel Milnor
Imitative Photography Channel
Mike Gray
Walk Like Alice
Like Ayers
Joanna kustra
Nev Cartledge
The Crit House
StrudelmediaLive
Gallery Luisotti
SFMOMA
Aperture Foundation
OnLandscape
Samuel Streetlife
Evan Ranft
Darren J Spoonly Landscape
Matt Day
Joe Allam
Frederik Trovatten
E6 vlogs
James Bell Photography
Johnoutdoorvideos / wildlife / Nature / Landscape
The Real Sir Robin
Micheal Shainblum
Kyle McDougall
Chris Chu
Faizal Westcott
Newcastle Photography College / Tutorials
Take & Make w Gavin Hoey / Demos & Tutorials
The 505 Podcast / creative podcast
Shoot Your Shot Podcast
Moe & O photo show / in depth Podcast
Cassidy Lynne / Wedding
The Frugal Filmmaker
Peter Mckinnon
Schaller
That Icelandic Guy / Landscape
Lenswork / Podcast
Peter Caulson / model shoots
Northwest Depressed / Film
Adrien Sanguinetti / Japan based
Framelines / Street
Courtney Victoria
(edit: formatting)
Lots of very predictable choices here - the usual names. I don't mind them but I've found myself watching more and more channels with small or medium subscriber bases. Something a bit more real about their content. Here's a few I've found over the last six months or so.
Thanks a lot mate!
Simon d'Entremont is by far the best teacher of photography on the web.
The Art of Photography has gotten weaker lately, but his library of past videos has excellent material.
The naked photographer.
He does fantastic darkroom instruction and explanations.
My photography Youtube favorites are broken down into categories:
Entertainment_ Peter Mckinnon, Matti/Teppo Haapoja, Becki & Chris, Taylor Jackson, Fro Knows Photooooooo.com, Brendan Van Son, James Popsys, Christian Schaffer, Casey Neistat, GoPro
Content Creation_ Chis Hau, Lizzy Pierce, Jake Rich, Abe Kislevitz, Adventures of Ron, Peter Lindgren, Full Time Filmmaker
Drones_ 51 Drones, Stewart & Alina, Air Photography, Denis Barbis, Ash32
Photography Education_ Thomas Heaton, Mark Denney, Mads Peter Iverson, James Quantz Jr, Manny Ortiz, Peter Hurley, Seth Miranda, Sal Cincotta, Michael Sasser, John Branch IV, Vanessa Joy, PixImperfect, Matt Hernandez, Casey Faris, Billie Weiss, Eli Infante, Nick Page, Joel Grimes, Benjamin Hardman, Paul Rutherford, Sharpen
Gear Reviews_ David Manning, MKDHB,
Photography Theory_ Art of Photography, Daniel Norton, Sean Tucker
Everything Fuji_ Pal2Tech
MarkusPix, Three Blind Men and an Elephant, Camera Conspiracies ( if you're into video), Peter Hurley (portraits), Matt Granger ( Nikon shooter). I hate the Northrups (Sony fanboys) and Jared Polin gets on my nerves.
Just Grainydays
Haven’t seen Alex Armitage mentioned yet. He’s super fun to watch.
Haven't seen his name over here but found some time ago one called Paulie B, from NY, mostly street photo stuff but he does some interviews with lots of different photographers and I find it quite refreshing.
Nigel Danson has great videos on landscape photography. For general photo news, I'm a Chris and Jordan superfan (and have been watching them since the TCSTV days). I subscribe to the Northrup's channel but rarely watch it. It looks like Tony has his bokeh addiction back under control, that's a good thing!
Big fan of Jamie Windsor for technique and more about photography as an art form, then Sean Tucker for photography/philosophy
Alec Soth. There are probably others out there that do the service he does to photography as a storytelling medium, but I haven't found them.
The one who should do a YouTube channel is the guy from The Digital Picture.
I’m a big fan of Willem Verbeeck. If you dig film photography, give him a look!