Expressive Photography - Understanding Reflections
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
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A beautiful day making some photographs beside beautiful Scottish Lochs. It's so easy to get sucked in by great light and reflections, but is the real path to creativity to be found in the realisation that our best ideas may be intuitive rather than learned?
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A lot of food for thought
Reflect on the reflections, nice!
The explanation about energy and volume and introspection (from 18:39) is one of the best I've ever heard!
Thanks so very much. It’s great that my ramblings strike a chord 😀
My first view of your channel. I value your ideas and explanations, and your opinion is very specific. Thank you for lifting my head out of the sand and into better values.
Great, happy to hear that. Hopefully you’ll stick around.
It has indeed been "a heck of a year." Your videos has made 2020 tolerable, thank ya.
Thanks for that - much appreciated.
Thanks Alister...I liked this approach where you dived in and discussed the various images you took. By doing so, you are helping us to be more selective and creative. Thank you.👍
Glad it was helpful! Thanks as always for your lovely feedback.
I love your videos. They always get me to think about the deeper meaning of photographs.
Awesome, thank you!
Alister, I'm a recent subscriber to your channel (found you via Thomas Heaton). You have a great ability to articulate your thought process, feeling, and methods, that is rarely duplicated by anyone else I've come across. I really appreciate the way you talk about about transitions and color as a general theme and concept in photography. I've learned quite a bit in just a short period from listening to you ideas on transitions or both contrast and color. I shoot birds on digital and landscapes primarily on 4x5 film... and with all the gear talk of other channels it has been refreshing to find a channel that's primarily concerned with the photography itself. Looking forwards to future videos.
That’s great to hear, thanks very much for that. We’re upping the game even more in 2021.
I loved the bit about 'garbage' from 8:17! Such a great encouragement to concentrate on what you want to do, what you want to achieve in your photography :)
Thanks again. There is much more to photography than popularity! I’m fighting the cause.
Thanks, Alister, a wonderful vlog/video of your day of shooting. When I am out and wandering around like that, I go through similar thoughts and similar patterns of looking and then setting up my camera. And, at the end of the day/shoot, I'm always happy if I take away 1 image that speaks to me. Thanks again!
Thanks for that. Much appreciated comment
Alister I’ve only recently discovered your channel, however I’ve immensely enjoyed your words of wisdom on photography...
This particular video gives me new hope for editing what I feel rather than what I think the viewer prefers...
Thank you for sharing.
Awesome, thank you!
I always look forward to you new releases, Alister! I love the way you processed one of your last images (18:24) in high key with cooler tones-I wouldn’t have thought to approach it that way, but I thought it was perfect for the scene! Thanks for sharing,
Thanks so much! always happy to hear your comments.
the music that accompanied the opening drone shots drew me in ... i have not seen such still, peaceful water in a long time. I appreciate the artistic challenge that you brought out in this video.. you've put more attention on Lab recently than i remember in earlier work. maybe it's the demands of the subtle palette.
Sorry for the slow reply, wrapping up before the holidays - Thanks for all your great input this year, massively appreciated.
I couldn't agree more - reflections are like click bait, an obvious hook that one can quickly disengage from. I'd love to see the penultimate reflection shot rotated to be vertical (I could imagine a butterfly, but maybe it's just me). Loving your Luminosity & Contrast ebook, by the way!
Thanks Alan. I agree, and think we have to ask ourselves why we fall for the obvious shots!
And, probably the most important question is.. was the subject worth shooting without it’s reflection? 🤔. All the Best for Xmas and the New Year!
great point!
Hi Alister, Thanks for a new video with interesting "reflections". I discovered your channel only a week ago and I am thrilled! I've been watching through your playlists for days. I have already bought and worked through the two ebooks "luminosity and contrast" and "the colour of meaning". These and your videos are a treasure of new insights. My style of photography is very similar to yours in some places. Now I have many starting points to optimise imperfect things. The basic approach of why and for what we take pictures is also very much in line with mine. I intentionally don't post my pictures on "social" (?) media. I hang them on my walls in self-made A3 finart prints. Since I've been doing this, I get a much deeper satisfaction from photography.
Thank you very much for your work! The day after tomorrow we go into a strict lockdown in Germany. Many hours ahead with Alister! :-)
Michael
What a lovely comment, it means a great deal to me. I’m very pleased to hear your views and agree 100%. Thank you so much for your support.
Another great one... you really got me thinking about reflection photos... I kind of agree, they seem to be unique but then do not hold up over time
Good, thinking is good 😀 thanks for all your support and enthusiasm this year.
I bet you have read a lot of philosophical literature. Maybe you should investigate becoming a part time vicar or philosopher (I guess you are already doing the philosopher gig in your videos). Thanks for your analytical approach to photography as it relates to creating mood, emotion, etc.
LOL< yes, I've read a lot of philosophy!! I don't think the Vicar gig would suit me!! :-) Personal development will feature strongly as we move into 2021
Great video as always!!
Thanks again!
Great vid Alistair, love the grasses and water. I echo Trevor’s comment, any chance on a colour tutorial?.
My daughter is doing and art degree project on water and reflections - magical patterns. She is also painting such abstracts. She has painted a Gary Gough seascape and is on an Adam Gibbs reflection painting ( both with personal permission of course and photographer credited. Any chance she could paint a water scene of yours?
No problems if not. Keep up the great works. Thanks MJ
I’d be happy for her to paint one of mine. My latest insta post would be fun 😀
Braw stuff !
Ta
Always worth watching and thanks for mentioning the Lab colour space - I might be playing with that at some point, although I notice that it disables ACR (which kinda makes sense :)
Thanks. Yes, it disables a few adjustments and filters 😀
Reflection images are bloody difficult to get right! Where do you put the horizon? Do you include some foreground? Tight or wide? Not as easy as you think!
Alistair, could you do a video on different colour spaces in PS please? It's something that is a bit of a mystery to me, and probably others. Cheers - Trevor
Hi, yeah, I've done a couple on LAB for the Members Channel. Thanks for watching.
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Thanks
Your images are so beautiful and I find I need to think more when I watch your videos...both with my mind and my heart. I do wonder if the image of the island with the pink sky turned upside down and cropped with just the reflection could be the feeling you saw when you took the image. Anyway maybe it was what I was seeing more than what you saw at the time of taking the picture. Thanks so much for producing wonderful quality of videos. Miigwetch.
No doubt :-) There are creative images everywhere when we ignore the obvious :-)
Some time ago now I was trying to take a photo of trees reflected in the water in a hollow of a log. I could get the log and water in focus but not the trees (about 3 m up) and when trees were in focus the log and water were not - as you mentioned in the video. Any thoughts on where I might go to research this phenomenon? Informative video, thanks.
It's a tough one Guy, as you can't have both sharp. I think I discuss it about as well as I can in this video. You choose, one or the other. It depends I guess on the scene, and the amount of surface activity. In the end, everything is an aesthetic and emotional articulation consideration. Nobody can tell you which is better.
@@Alister_Benn Thanks.
I make a lot of photographs I like, but the ones I would print large, frame, and hang on my wall to look at every day, are far less.
As always, a very thought provoking video. And I couldn't help noticing you've joined the ranks of photographers like Simon Baxter who own dogs. ;)
LOL, yes, I went for a very low maintenance breed though. Occasional drags along the beach and he’s fine.
Thanks for your video, Alister. I've just noticed that you don't seem to use a remote trigger for your camera. Do you use a time delayed exposure? Or, are you not concerned with camera shake when your shooting speed is relatively low but not long exposure? Thanks.
Hiya. No, I’m too lazy for a remote!! I always get them wet and they’re just a pain. I use a 2s timer and never suffer from soft photos. The Arca Swiss is rock solid
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Why did I point my camera ? It like this
It's a pretty good question to ask! :-)
@@Alister_Benn because it [ the camera] has a front and it was there