To See Photos No One Else Can (Pro Tip)
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This made me think of the work of Yukio Namba. His only subject, as far as I know, is Korakuen Garden in Okayama. The most impressive image is of an island in that garden. It's captured in morning fog and there is a tree with red leaves. The thing is: the tree is that red only a couple of days a year. He had to wait about 20 years to have that fog while the tree coloured red, to be able to make that image.
That's total dedication isn't it! Thanks for sharing the knowledge
It's a wonderful garden, one I hope to visit some day.
xxx
He should've spray painted the tree.
He must be unenployed.
This is actually how I started photography. Some people admire how "why they didn't see that" and I appreciate them very much. Those little walks looking, and appreciating the mundane things makes my heart so full. I wish people see more than just looking. Well, I am ought to learn more and I'm excited!
I do this every day. I’m always fascinated by angles, light, shadow, and patterns.
Watching this video, I realized that photographers see our world more beautiful than other people.
I am an amateur photographer and I have noticed many times that I find something that looks wonderful on photograph and maybe hundreds of people who pass by do not notice it.
Excellent to hear! Yes, that ability to see something others don't is so special.
@@ThePhotographicEye Yes, that's wonderful. I am a bus driver, and even when I drive many times I see a wonderful scene or composition that would look wonderful in a photo, I just want to stop the bus and take photos, but then the passengers would probably lynch me 😊
Photography can be more than just taking beautiful photos (which is ok if that’s what you like). It can also be a way of exploration of the world around us whether it’s strolling down the street, hiking in nature, or hanging around the house. Great suggestions. Thank you.🙏
During the pandemic I started photographing objects around the house and it was amazing thinking about how to light these pieces ...I am primarily a portrait and dance photographer...this was so out of my realm but I believe I grew as a
image maker. I am now back to printing my images which is prohibitively expensive but it just isnt enough to post on social media for likes.
Im crying right now! 2 mins into the video, I paused to do the activity of simply observing the room, appreciating light and seeing how opening & closing my curtains/blinds completely changes the shadow. Or seeing how shifting an object changed the shape of the shadow! We take advantage of this but this is fantastic. I don’t just SEE the shadow, I FELT the shadow. This video is priceless, i’m only 3:32secs in.
awesome thank you.
Thank you Alex. I watched this yesterday and today I sat on the beach at the point where a fast flowing brook joins the sea. The sun was playing on the water as it cascaded over rocks. I took frame after frame using every way I knew. I was there about 2 hours and it was magical. Someone spoke to me and I jumped out of my skin as I was so engrossed. Thank you so much for your inspiration.❤👍 I would never have done this before.
This past week I started taking photos of shadows and must say I’m pretty entertained by the project. I’m not sure anyone else will be as impressed as I am!
I call this - The Beauty of Everyday Things. It is everywhere, you just have to look.
One of the most important videos on RUclips about photography.
This is basically my photography style. I almost never shoot "grand scenes". I find a comfort in the small thing I walk by everyday. I just had a gallery sell a print of mine, it was of the street outside the gallery after a thunderstorm at night. They loved it because they work during the day and have never seen that street "after hours"
I love these videos, and I've pointed out othe photographers to it. Keep these videos coming.
Learning how to draw is a brilliant way to really see the world around us. I was amazed after completing a drawing course how well I was able to observe everything around me. It was transformative … seeing things that I had never seen before even though they had been right in front of me for ages! Great video … thanks. PS: Can’t wait for my back ordered Fujifilm X100V to arrive at my local camera shop!!
You really remember what you take the time to draw in a way that you don’t remember photographing it too.
My wife's photographic sense was very good. Not all of her pictures were great but often she would see that really cool picture just waiting to be recorded. She did not like the technical side of a camera... but she would see the potential. Sometimes she would prompt me to "take a picture of that."
I ADORE your conversational style.
Seeing the world fresh everyday again is something I believe I've gotten pretty good at, however... translating it to digital film... all of a sudden I'm all left hands and thumbs 😊
Great advice! Especially the "un-bury your head from your phone part and look around" part!!!
It definitely helps to have little children around. They didn't yet develop this filter.
I think there could have been nothing more ordinary and undistinguished than the narrow rain-soaked walk leading up to a dark building that Bill Brandt photographed in 1937. But he managed to create a dark contrasty image, full of mood and a bit of foreboding that has turned out to be one of his most iconic. I think he saw what most people didn't.
Yes, I love that photo - something about a snick, or a wynd - totally forget right now!
@@ThePhotographicEye it’s called “a snicket”, a word that leaves Americans scratching their heads. I think it still exists and is located in Halifax…I’m saying that like I have some idea where Halifax is.
The college experience is a very hard feeling to recreate, but these videos make me feel like I’m a student again, attending lectures in photo school.
Taking your advice, I’ve taken magnificent photos from my eye view and angels that I’m personally proud of. Thank you for being a superb teacher.
I missed your video release but this is fantastic. Love to read from photographers who feel reawakened to pick up their cameras. BTW, I lived in beautiful Edinburgh at the end of the 90's to early 00's and hardly took a single photo. Mad!
"Youi can observe a lot by just watching." - Hall of Fame baseball player Yogi Berra was as famous for his malaprops as for his hitting; but many, like this one, held hidden gems of wisdom that we can all learn from. P.S. -- thanks for sharing more of your own work in your videos. They show what most of us all know: that you practice what you preach.
Totally agree! This should be the number one skill in your ‘toolbox’ as a photographer. Another advantage is that you tend to remember certain situations a lot better than taking a photo right away. Thanks for sharing! 😊
I have been enjoying your channel for quite sometime. What I enjoy is the ideas you present - a sort of "wake up and think about your craft!" That, and you don't talk about gear. Thank you.
This is what I wanted, a Photographic Eye (no pun intended). I've been struggle with trying to get out of landscape trap for a while now. Unfortunately shooting objects/subject for an abstract meaning is not so easy, but I'm not giving up though. Thank you so much for this video.😁👍
Thank you for watching
What a great video Alex. In the couple of months since I ran across your channel, your instruction and pep talks have become very high on my list favorite channels. You are, until now unbeknownst to you, transforming me from a mere wannabe to rank amateur. I thank you for all of your efforts. With any meteorological luck, in 3-4 months, my vegetable garden will become a target rich environment for still life shots while the subjects are still alive.
Another great video, Alex - thank you! Love seeing more of your own work, too. One of the things that excites me the most about photography is the opportunity to make the familiar and the ordinary seem fresh and unusual.
Whoa, thank you so very much for your inspiring lecture. I just recently unpacked my old photo gear and went out "shooting", I hadn't done any photography in years due to being busy. You know.
Again, thank you for motivating and inspiring us slugs.
Greetings from Dallas, Texas.
Yes even a trash (garbage) or rusty junk can be a beautiful subject of photography. There is beauty in everything. 🤩
Hi Alex
Thanks for another great video. I too love this style of photography. I've been photographing the view from my bedroom window for about 2 years now and it never looks the same twice. The individual pictures may not be anything special, but when you put them together you start to get something else entirely.
Hello from Vancouver BC. Came across your channel and have to say, I like your philosophy towards being an artist in this dugutal realm. I've always looked at photography as a way to express. Laying out snaps and scanning with the naked eye is a must!! Young photographers have rarely felt the excitement of going to the shop to pick up their expressionism so to speak, or text actually. I appreciate your reinforcement and your energy about photography. Took a picture of a fork the other day, glad I found the tine!
Paul
Hi 👋🏻 thanks for watching
I have to keep coming back to this video - it's the one piece of advice that all students of Art (any art) should listen to.
Great video. I am new to photography and I’ve gotten stuck mentally with constantly trying to photograph the extravagant. This opened my mind a lot to finding the extra in the ordinary.
The other morning during my drive to work, there were a dozen Geese on a building rooftop. The low morning sun cast their shadow on the wall of the opposite building wall. They were so still I first thought it was a painting. The cell phone was my only choice for camera but it was such a unique odd scene. Always have your eyes up! Really enjoy your videos. They all make me think about improving my photography.
Hello ! I have discovered this channel just today,and I need to tell that the content of videos is really to the point,very helpful tips,and made me get back on my photography path,so I wanted say,big thanks ! And cheers from Poland !
This is exactly how I do it! Just recently really started to look, I now sit somewhere for a minute and really focus on everything.. my media sells very well because of this but I never really knew it was a specialized thing until now .. great video for sure
4 years of art school and over $120,000 and this was the single, most valuable lesson I got from my photo classes and some dude is giving it away for free on youtube! I love it. Keep making videos.
Just enjoyed watching this video.. it's the process I am going through right now.. it's so rewarding ❤️ .. the pictures speak quietly
Such humble advice. I always get inspired after your videos
You never disappoint us Alex. Thank you so much.
I don’t remember the last time I liked a video so much. Thanks for this!
Well done Alex, wow made so simple.Better than spending all that time on Instagram,RUclips, this has been a great lesson
Again a wonderfull and great episode. I noticed that I save far more from your “tutorials” to look again in the future than from Amy other RUclipsr. Many thanks Alex.
Thanks Alex for the reminder to pay attention as we go through life as photographers. I loved your examples, and this got me to pause today and take a photo at my work with my iPhone (and make my first post to Instagram). Only cellphone edits for now, but it brings back the joy of capturing photographs from my perspective.
Glad it was helpful!
Beautifully articulated. We can develop our eye for photography...on everyday things without picking camera...i could suddenly start seeing things in a unique way
Thanks for watching
Fantastic food for thought! Actually, the pandemic helped me to take another step on that journey (where there is still a long way to go): before that, I mainly used the camera during travels, preferably at places that I had not seen before. I still like it, but the challenge of trying to make my - boring? - place look interesting is really worth it! Your channel is probably the most inspirational I have seen so far on RUclips, because it goes beyond the obvious. Pun intended ...
Thank you Alex for this video. There is so much to learn, and I greatley enjoy the photo examples you use. I love your personall work too!
This is exactly what I've been needing! If you want to work on developing a course I love the way you present!
Thank you
very influential , have got bored with my photography, i always do the mundane. Always looking in my local area. I am a street photographer. will now revisit with new eyes. ty so much. I have never planned an image. i know I will see something when out walking. I did and do a personal project once a month. Me last one was taking rubbish (garbage) images, ie photos of rubbish! It worked out well. I give myself a personal project once a month. I am a hobbyist and love birds of prey as my daughter is a falconer. But my real love is urban. regards Mick
I am very touched by this video, one of the best I have ever seen about this topic. Thanks Alex
This is so bizarre! Ive come across William Egglestons name a few times today. It turns out that my husbands friend who is a scientist and music composer has given him a piece to record as a tribute to this photographer! Im a photographer that has been shooting dance for the past few years and I love looking at the work of so many other artists.Thank you for your insights and inspiration. Im glad I found you ...Jan in NYC
Thanks for watching
This goes back to what somebody said that you don't have to live in the most exciting place in the world to get a great photo.
Thank you. I really needed this.
I can’t wait to watch this tutorial. I learn so much from you. Thank you.
Great to hear Char! Thank you so much.
I just found your channel and it has quickly become a source of inspiration. I'm from Memphis and know Eggleston slightly. He's crazy like Jerry Lee Lewis. Dangerous to be around. It's hard to escape the gravitational pull around his work. Maybe that's a good thing. I was getting some weird looks yesterday, taking a picture of the cracked paint in the crosswalk in front of the liquor store. lol.
This is knowledge that people pay to learn and your giving it here for free. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks for watching
I just have found your channel and I am very glad I did! The way you speak about photography really resonates with me. And it is really inspiring for me because you deal with the essences of photography instead of its surface. Thank you very much for sharing your experience and knowledge this way!
Thank you for watching.
Thank you for the inspiration that I've been looking for.
Thank you very much! I started this way. In between on my journey, i think I got a bit diverted in trying out something new but that's actually quite what everyone else is doing. I'll head back to my way. Thank you 🙂
Such a fantastic video. Profound and resonant far beyond photography. I think this is at the heart of a creative and positive interpretation of the world around us. Thank you so much for this - genuinely inspirational and quite possibly the most important photographic advice I've ever had.
Thank you, I dont have work at present and find myself struggling creativly. Just inspired me to take some macros of shells I have upstairs.
So very true. The “art of observation.”
It's kind of helpful hearing this one while culling images from earlier today. I stopped to take a photo of some stacked empty cups someone left on a park bench earlier, just thinking "Huh that looks interesting." I haven't gotten to that photo while searching yet, but I get the feeling I'll like it more now.
Very good advice. I myself have good days and bad days. On a good day I manage to get three creative photos in a row. Without thinking, they are simply just there to be had. On a bad day I spend hours and hours staring at a couple of subjects from umpteen different angles. The day after, I delete everything. Maybe it is more important to learn to recognize your mediocre photos than to concentrate on recognizing the really good ones. 😊
Putting mindfulness back into photography.
Very inspiring.... Love it!!!
One of your best yet, Alex. Your “learning to see”advice is some of the more useful I’ve heard.
This is a great video, you've tapped into the core of what works in photography.
Wow, thanks! Great to have you here Eugene
A good, timely reminder, thanks 👍🏻
This needs to be a master class for sure!!
I absolutely loved this video. I hace seen it three times already.
What a brilliant photography video. Thank you. You've inspired me.
(Also, I think, a great lesson in life. We miss so much by not being "present" and in our increasing "busy-ness". Now is the only moment we can actually guarantee. Yet we often miss it in our regret about yesterday and/or our concern for tomorrow.)
Great Comment
@@bonjen1 Thank you 🙏 I appreciate this. 😍
Thank you for this Video, and the amazing fotographs in it. it is so inspiring. I‘m starting again for the 3. or 4. time since having made that amazing picture with the - even then old -little camera from My mother! I will never forget that Moment when the pictures arrived and that ONE with the vivid colors and deepness of scene sprang at me… ☺️ Now i am reliving that magic when taking My sophisticated modern digital camera with me every day and doing - what i call experimental fotographing - on the way, often in the little Park, taking pictures of the forever changing nature…. Today ist was that Little yellow Transparent Flower…
Thanks for sharing... brilliant ideas & advice....a great video that all potential or existing photographers should watch & take note... cheers from Australia 😀
The comment about don't go with other photographers should be extended to friends, spouse, well, anyone. My wife knows I like to take my time looking for photos. It's really fun if I can take my time. Sometimes I find a great photo, often I don't. I suppose it's like fishing, you have to cast a lot of line to get a good fish.
It gave me enough motivation to not ignore ordinary things. Love from Pakistan.
Fantastic subject, thanks
Shooting on film has really helped me look for images to capture. I am really slow with the process because I only have so many attempts and each click costs money. It's been a fun learning process!
Slowing down is a whole process in itself.
A geat inspirating and motivating video. Thanks!
Thank you for giving me a whole new perspective
Things I see everyday I take for granted: my cats. I hear you. I'll take more photos of them!
Great video, thank you
I hope to study on your inspirational course, always learning ❤️
great informative video !!!!!
Thanks for this… I am going to TRY to FORCE myself to stop ignoring or filtering out the day to day as I rush about without connecting what I am looking at to what I can see !!
💯correct Alex. I live in Edinburgh and take it all for granted. Would love to take images of Edinburgh but without the postcard tag. I know it's their. This vid has giving me the kick up the a## to find it.
Great video. It inspired me a lot.
Excellent and thought provoking, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Thanks. really helpful. I'm also enjoying seeing more of your work featured in the videos.
Glad you like them Ray!
I agree! I've noticed that I take a lot of pictures that are similar to some you've shown here, but I dismiss them as boring and promptly delete them. It's nice to see someone who's been doing this longer than I have, photographing ordinary things in an interesting way. Maybe I should quit dismissing mine so quickly. 😊
Inspiring words
Thanks for the confidence boost
Cheers!
Hi Alex… à channel like yours, which is talking about creativity and the art of photography itself, is greatly needed. And not using background music gives way more depth to your own voice…
Sorry for the reference but I remembered when my Chief Scout told us about an exercise described by Baden-Powell in Scouting for Boys where an agent received a very curious training: a basket of stones was showed to him and after a closer observation he was asked to described all the stones that were there. He proposed to do the same exercise and was very interesting and funny. I don´t know how much it really helped me but photograph surely aided me to be more curious and make a better observation of my surrondings. Thank you for another amazing video. Regards from Brazil.
We had similar things in Scouts in South Africa. One was 'sand stories' where you had to try and recreate a scene from the marks left in the sand by foot prints, dragging objects etc.
So true & so difficult.
The one image like that to me that really stuck with me was an image of dirt under a bridge that was under construction. The focus was on the dirt and there was a good bit of bokeh and in the back where construction workers on platforms and stuff with tools. I believe it was in black and white. That one for some reason the contrast of the ground and those little rocks and the sort of framing of the bridge and then sort of the interesting stuff going on in the background yet still not a overly detailed picture was just really amazing to me and I loved it it was in a gallery in a school in Tennessee if anyone might recognize where it was
I figured you were South Africa from the first video I saw. Now I'm positive. xD. Enjoying your lessons. Thank u
Love this. Will share ;)
Please do, that would be awesome!
Great video Alex this has given me a lot to think about.
That’s awesome
Completely agree.