Thats true but I think a lot of you tubers are more interested with there relationships with camera manufacturers than there relationship with there viewers.???? I dont really know im just guessing????
Gentlemen, I can only agree that these videos are great for many photographers, but let us not throw rocks at the gear videos either. Occasionally you might pop in and squeeze a like to a gear minded video even if it is not your nearest interest. What we need to understand is that gear-centric videos exist because the photography industry spends money with youtubers, and if there is no industry - sponsored content, the amount of such videos as this one goes down dramatically. So if you like these, pay your fifty cents as I do as well support by watching some gear videos as well. It will keep your favorite creators afloat.
First of all thank you so much for this series of videos. It’s a very powerful tool for all of us that didn’t go to film school or just started to dig more into the world of photography. I’ve been doing this exercise in the spare time and at the beginning I have to be honest, I didn’t understand what was going on, it was very tough to visualise a scene just using these different shapes on paper. I started then to translate this exercise into practice on my way to work every morning, and The approach I had to a specific scene was completely different. Instead of “try to shoot everything”, I was subtracting elements from the scene and composing my frame. One thing I did was also subtracting part of the elements to give more emphasis to the photo, as you said today. For my trials I used a fixed focal length in order to push myself to frame what I wanted, instead of just zooming in and out. Wow! Thanks again, love these videos
I have always loved the history lessons that go along with what you are teaching here in your videos, I don't know of anyone else that takes the time to do that, or has the love of photography like you do. I always get something new out of your videos, thanks Ted!!
So, you're going to love this, Ted Forbes. I saw you do the practice with the paper squares and circles and I immediately thought "oh, I can do that in Photoshop it'll be easy." And you know what happened? I spent so much time trying to get all the layers set up so I could move everything independently and be able to see the white circles on the white background that I actually think it will be faster for me to just cut out some circles and squares.
Love the composition of you in that room. Interior opening leading to the pained double doors. Framed photo to the left and multiple frames to the right! Love your content as always!
THANK YOU, TED! Finally you put back the _art_ into The Art of Photography! I'm so fed up with gear reviews and the latest leaks and rumors. I understand that you need to earn money with your YT channel, but I'd choose videos like this over everything else every time.
This has been great! I love these bits of content more than gear reviews. =) As a food photographer, it's amazing how the stuff you talk about with portraits and composition can be directly applied to other types of photography! Thanks a ton!
Thanks for these types of videos Ted, they are really helpful. I was reading last year about looking for layered tones and shapes. Slowly, I'm remembering to be conscious of them when I go shooting. Improvement in small degrees.
I liked it the forst time you talked about the exercise but now I’m convinced I really need to do it and get my basics straight. You’ve been posting some of the best photography content I’ve seen in a while
He's very right about using physical materials to manipulate them instead of digital objects. With physical elements the fact that there's nothing between you and the objects makes for a more seamless interaction that can help achieve a flow state. Not to say it can't be done on a computer entirely but there's a definite difference. Don't treat it like a job, treat it like you're a child playing.
Wonderful!! You showed how the visual appeal changes with the position of objects along with the angles of the contrast of the geometric patterns of the shapes of the containers that hold the objects inside. It's always hardest to put complicated matter in a simple manner and you made it this simple of a matter so hard to convey like never before. Commendable!! Want more of the staff that evoke even a somewhat photographer to get to do something more interesting that he may too may not have imagined before.
Good idea to draw the attention away from glamorous targets to the (few) graphical elements. By the way at about 4:48 the graphic marvelous, make an image of it!
I want to be a bit post modern in my composition so I will need to get some deconstruction paper for this assignment. Not really related to the video, but this morning, I realized I have been trying to work too fast and I need to sit down and just look at my subject for a while. The bubbles in Sudek’s water glasses look like the bubbles you get when you leave a glass of water sitting over night. I suspect he set up compositions and looked at them for days before taking the photograph. I have been rather stuck in place for the past couple of months and have not been able to “see” any photographs. This morning, I stared at a dried rose stem and did not set up a camera. If I start to really see something, I might shoot it tomorrow. If not, I’ll leave it there and stare at it some more. Anyway, I really appreciate these kinds of videos. Thanks.
I have watched both videos and I have found that they are very useful when it comes to product placement photographs. I have applied some of the theories in my recent pictures. Thank you very much for sharing.
BRAVO Ted, just what one needs to think without the camera. Photography is like anything you do in life, planning is your greatest tools - and in photography, COMPOSITION is a huge part of planning. Spontaneity only works occasionally. To get the most out of your hobby one has got to be prepared to analyses the possibilities and might I add, many miss good OPPOPRTUNITIES inadvertently. I dig the part about dynamic background. Sometimes we get too focus on the principle elements that we want to emphasize and forget about the background - and YES we tend to shoot for a shallow DOF maybe missing out on something powerful. Many thanks to you Ted for shedding some light with tips that will make our work so much better, if we definitely work hard at it.
Absolutely love this. This type of video is where you truly shine Ted and the reason I subscribed to this channel. More please :) also, what happened to the podcast?
Ted's top tips! Cool vid, food for thought, appreciate the kick up the butt to remember to be aware in the thought process of making images rather than just waiting to see what happens, although that too can be fun, thanks.
Great video Ted, what I find interesting is the thinking that you subtract stuff, to get better results. That is probably why I have difficulties with wide angle lenses, and also Phone photos. With shallower depth of field it's easier to hide stuff.
Your videos are just amazing, i've been reading "Art and Visual Perception" written by Arnheim and you've clearly done it as well. So congrats! You''re really teaching all this magical process that we call see and create!
Great video, Ted. It's got me thinking about how to approach street and urban/architectural pics in the "dynamic ground" light and how I can go about it. Might take me awhile to figure it out for some of the places where I live, just getting the right perspectives. Just means I'll be doing a lot of visualisation work and a few trips!!! :D
Can you guys recommend more pages like this that are more academic in their approach to photography? I’m tired of hear reviews which seem to be 99% of photography RUclipss
Loved this video and as I watching I was thinking that I would love the take a photo using this technique in your space. Take off the photos on the wall on the right hand side. Then do a portrait having one patio door on the left hand side and you sitting the stool on the right side of the frame. Or possible landscape including both patio doors.
Always great direction given with yer videos Ted, I am excited to announce that I’ll be moving to the Dallas / FW area this year…. And hope to attend the Foto Fest for next year, and expanding my creative amateurish photography more into something a bit more of an offering on my own site etc…. ;) be well
Great video Ted. But, I would request you to also, put the names and of the photographer you are referring to, in the description. For now, if you can give the names in the reply.. Thanks.
The secondary ground often occurs naturally in nature and wildlife photography. It happens when the landform that lies below the horizon line is very large in the frame, and is even in color, value, and texture. When photographing wildlife, I am often looking for such a landform (or vegetation mass) to set up by, in hopes of being there when a wild animal or bird comes along in front of this secondary ground. Or, when I spot an animal or bird, I then look for an area that would serve as a secondary ground, and then move around the subject until the secondary ground is behind it, making for an attractive, distraction-free background. I wish there was some way to post some examples here!
RUclips needs fewer gear reviews and more videos like this
If you think so about this Video, you will be ashamed not to check Jamie Windsor's or Sean Tucker's photography channel
If you think so about this Video, you will be ashamed not to check Jamie Windsor's or Sean Tucker's photography channel
Thats true but I think a lot of you tubers are more interested with there relationships with camera manufacturers than there relationship with there viewers.???? I dont really know im just guessing????
P.s This channel is not what I am talking about in this comment , this is one of the best you tube photography channels.
Gentlemen, I can only agree that these videos are great for many photographers, but let us not throw rocks at the gear videos either. Occasionally you might pop in and squeeze a like to a gear minded video even if it is not your nearest interest. What we need to understand is that gear-centric videos exist because the photography industry spends money with youtubers, and if there is no industry - sponsored content, the amount of such videos as this one goes down dramatically. So if you like these, pay your fifty cents as I do as well support by watching some gear videos as well. It will keep your favorite creators afloat.
I used to do this type of exercises when I was in architecture school. We still do a version of this when we sketch new projects
First of all thank you so much for this series of videos. It’s a very powerful tool for all of us that didn’t go to film school or just started to dig more into the world of photography. I’ve been doing this exercise in the spare time and at the beginning I have to be honest, I didn’t understand what was going on, it was very tough to visualise a scene just using these different shapes on paper. I started then to translate this exercise into practice on my way to work every morning, and The approach I had to a specific scene was completely different. Instead of “try to shoot everything”, I was subtracting elements from the scene and composing my frame. One thing I did was also subtracting part of the elements to give more emphasis to the photo, as you said today. For my trials I used a fixed focal length in order to push myself to frame what I wanted, instead of just zooming in and out. Wow! Thanks again, love these videos
Natural born teacher. Importance of composition. This video is essential. Thank you.
I have always loved the history lessons that go along with what you are teaching here in your videos, I don't know of anyone else that takes the time to do that, or has the love of photography like you do. I always get something new out of your videos, thanks Ted!!
So, you're going to love this, Ted Forbes. I saw you do the practice with the paper squares and circles and I immediately thought "oh, I can do that in Photoshop it'll be easy." And you know what happened? I spent so much time trying to get all the layers set up so I could move everything independently and be able to see the white circles on the white background that I actually think it will be faster for me to just cut out some circles and squares.
If anyone wants to explore this nerdy composition stuff more, I’d highly recommend ‘the visual story’ by Bruce block.
thank you!
one of your best videos ever! we need like 10 million more like this please
Love the composition of you in that room. Interior opening leading to the pained double doors. Framed photo to the left and multiple frames to the right! Love your content as always!
THANK YOU, TED! Finally you put back the _art_ into The Art of Photography! I'm so fed up with gear reviews and the latest leaks and rumors. I understand that you need to earn money with your YT channel, but I'd choose videos like this over everything else every time.
This series may be the best course in composition available on RUclips. My sincere thanks.
This has been great! I love these bits of content more than gear reviews. =) As a food photographer, it's amazing how the stuff you talk about with portraits and composition can be directly applied to other types of photography! Thanks a ton!
Love when you are back into art
I LOVE this series! So much more interesting than the multitude of "rule of thirds" videos we see on youtube. Thanks!
Great to see the wall space filling up. Thanks for the video, I took notes and drew diagrams.
Blew my Mind again. Thank you. I love learning and i learned something about composition. THANK YOU
You are like the Rick Beato of photography. Thank you for the videos!
Thanks for these types of videos Ted, they are really helpful. I was reading last year about looking for layered tones and shapes. Slowly, I'm remembering to be conscious of them when I go shooting. Improvement in small degrees.
Could you do a video about framing photos? The frames on your walls are what i want without spending an arm and a leg.
I liked it the forst time you talked about the exercise but now I’m convinced I really need to do it and get my basics straight. You’ve been posting some of the best photography content I’ve seen in a while
He's very right about using physical materials to manipulate them instead of digital objects. With physical elements the fact that there's nothing between you and the objects makes for a more seamless interaction that can help achieve a flow state. Not to say it can't be done on a computer entirely but there's a definite difference. Don't treat it like a job, treat it like you're a child playing.
Wonderful!! You showed how the visual appeal changes with the position of objects along with the angles of the contrast of the geometric patterns of the shapes of the containers that hold the objects inside. It's always hardest to put complicated matter in a simple manner and you made it this simple of a matter so hard to convey like never before. Commendable!! Want more of the staff that evoke even a somewhat photographer to get to do something more interesting that he may too may not have imagined before.
You nailed it in your background as well 👍
I have seen both videos now, and I'm gonna do this exercise. Thanks a lot for your efforts 🙏🏼
I was just thinking about making dynamic background for one of my photos. Thank you for this video!
Just mindblowing stuff here. Thank you for doing what you do sir.
What an advance photograph lesson, I love this video❤️
Good idea to draw the attention away from glamorous targets to the (few) graphical elements.
By the way at about 4:48 the graphic marvelous, make an image of it!
I want to be a bit post modern in my composition so I will need to get some deconstruction paper for this assignment.
Not really related to the video, but this morning, I realized I have been trying to work too fast and I need to sit down and just look at my subject for a while. The bubbles in Sudek’s water glasses look like the bubbles you get when you leave a glass of water sitting over night. I suspect he set up compositions and looked at them for days before taking the photograph. I have been rather stuck in place for the past couple of months and have not been able to “see” any photographs. This morning, I stared at a dried rose stem and did not set up a camera. If I start to really see something, I might shoot it tomorrow. If not, I’ll leave it there and stare at it some more.
Anyway, I really appreciate these kinds of videos.
Thanks.
Loved it! Need to go find the previous video.
Love this video Ted, it reminds me of the first videos I watched of you I guess about 10 years ago when I started photography.
I have watched both videos and I have found that they are very useful when it comes to product placement photographs. I have applied some of the theories in my recent pictures. Thank you very much for sharing.
Ted, fabulous, enjoy watching and listening. Always inspires me
Ted, great video….just what I needed to get out of of my “photo-rut”!
Learned a lot. Thanks for sharing.
Just great! Gives us ideas you never thought of!
There is a lot to think about in this video. Thanks for the thought provoking content.
Congrats. In one video we see the basic principles of design and composition and the pschychologal effects. Amazing 😍😍
Thankyou, you definitely give me food for thought!
BRAVO Ted, just what one needs to think without the camera. Photography is like anything you do in life, planning is your greatest tools - and in photography, COMPOSITION is a huge part of planning.
Spontaneity only works occasionally. To get the most out of your hobby one has got to be prepared to analyses the possibilities and might I add, many miss good OPPOPRTUNITIES inadvertently.
I dig the part about dynamic background. Sometimes we get too focus on the principle elements that we want to emphasize and forget about the background - and YES we tend to shoot for a shallow DOF maybe missing out on something powerful.
Many thanks to you Ted for shedding some light with tips that will make our work so much better, if we definitely work hard at it.
love your videos. thanks for that.
and greatings from switzerland
I have been doing this exercise. (With different colors) It has been very useful and entertaining. Thank you.
You're a great teacher, thanks Ted
OMG. THANK GOD I FOUND YOU. THIS IS INCREDIBLE.
Absolutely love this. This type of video is where you truly shine Ted and the reason I subscribed to this channel. More please :) also, what happened to the podcast?
Great video! Loving this new series Ted!
Can’t wait to see what’s next in this series! Great stuff! Do you have any book recommendations that dive into deconstructing some of the greats?
Another excellent composition video, thank you :)
Thank you, Ted!!!
Ted's top tips!
Cool vid, food for thought, appreciate the kick up the butt to remember to be aware in the thought process of making images rather than just waiting to see what happens, although that too can be fun,
thanks.
Great video Ted, what I find interesting is the thinking that you subtract stuff, to get better results.
That is probably why I have difficulties with wide angle lenses, and also Phone photos.
With shallower depth of field it's easier to hide stuff.
Your videos are just amazing, i've been reading "Art and Visual Perception" written by Arnheim and you've clearly done it as well. So congrats! You''re really teaching all this magical process that we call see and create!
Really great series! Keep it up
Keep these coming! This is why I subscribe.
Thanks for this, and all of your thoughtful commentary! : )
I like this physical tactile approach
Studio’s looking goood.
Great Video, I wish you can keep on post work like this. Please continue with “Composition”
Another brilliant video. Loved it.
Very interesting concept. Love it and looking forward to using it in future work! Thank you ;)
Beautiful composition, something to think aboutit
Amazing .. fires the imagination ❤️ 🙏🏽
great lesson!! Thanks. Cheers from Brazil
Bravo Ted! Thank you!
Great video, Ted. It's got me thinking about how to approach street and urban/architectural pics in the "dynamic ground" light and how I can go about it. Might take me awhile to figure it out for some of the places where I live, just getting the right perspectives. Just means I'll be doing a lot of visualisation work and a few trips!!! :D
thanks for this , made me think about my photography
Can you guys recommend more pages like this that are more academic in their approach to photography? I’m tired of hear reviews which seem to be 99% of photography RUclipss
Look up T hopper on RUclips ... She is beyond amazing!
Sean Tucker is more philosophical than academic but has great content.
Alec Soth :)
Jamie Windsor
Very nice video, thanks Ted.
Loved this video and as I watching I was thinking that I would love the take a photo using this technique in your space. Take off the photos on the wall on the right hand side. Then do a portrait having one patio door on the left hand side and you sitting the stool on the right side of the frame. Or possible landscape including both patio doors.
simply great, thank you
Great Ted. Thank you.
Awesome 👍 enjoyed this one a lot
Good stuff, love this kinda content!
Thank you! "be patient, slow down..."
Very insightful.... Thank you❤️
wow I just love this, really have been looking for something like this for a while, would love to see more even :) thanks a lot for this one
@theartofphotography look at this....
Always great direction given with yer videos Ted, I am excited to announce that I’ll be moving to the Dallas / FW area this year…. And hope to attend the Foto Fest for next year, and expanding my creative amateurish photography more into something a bit more of an offering on my own site etc…. ;) be well
Brilliant content. Thanks 🤩
This was great!
love your educational videos. off to make a picture!
This is excellent.
Very good, thank you!
Great video Ted, I love your channel.
I appreciate that!
Love your videos nice job 👏
Great info! ❤️
Lovely camera angle.
Love it
What a great video!
Always remember guys, this is FREE content…unbelievable
Great video!
Great video Ted. But, I would request you to also, put the names and of the photographer you are referring to, in the description. For now, if you can give the names in the reply.. Thanks.
Amazing video
Great video! Are you getting the Sony Xperia 1 III?
Jesus Christ ... 😱Thank you ...So Good
Super interesting
The secondary ground often occurs naturally in nature and wildlife photography. It happens when the landform that lies below the horizon line is very large in the frame, and is even in color, value, and texture. When photographing wildlife, I am often looking for such a landform (or vegetation mass) to set up by, in hopes of being there when a wild animal or bird comes along in front of this secondary ground. Or, when I spot an animal or bird, I then look for an area that would serve as a secondary ground, and then move around the subject until the secondary ground is behind it, making for an attractive, distraction-free background. I wish there was some way to post some examples here!
This is really great and I learned a lot. Thanks for sharing Ted. Like four hundred seventy five
Great video. Way better than a lame camera review.
Double like! Thank you!
Hey Ted! Quick question: do you have any book recomendations on composition? Thanks and greetings from germany!