Why YOUTUBE Photographers HATE THIS
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2023
- RUclips photographers hate this sort of video, all they want is the quick fixes and easy wins, but photography at a professional and commercial level just isn't like that.
Lets take a deep dive into this
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I'm not a RUclips Photographer, but I play one on TV.
University taught me, amongst other things, how to learn, I completely agree with you. I'm a cinematographer by training and I can say that there is nothing particularly difficult in cinematography nor photography. Every concept can be grasped with very little effort. The thing is that there are millions of things to learn and they have to work in unison to make a decent piece of work. After three decades of doing this, I'm now learning how to RUclips, I'm a newbie again. Thanks for your content, your point of view and advice is very valuable to me.
I watch this channel BECAUSE you tell me the things I don’t want to hear. I grew up among a family of artists and they’d say things like “just worry about getting good and the money will follow” and other nonsense that has wasted many years of my life going in the wrong direction.
After abou 40 years in photography, I have found that I still learn more from beginning photographers than from most of the 'seaoned' ones. This is because, as one zen philosopher said, "in the beginner's mind, all things are possible: in the expert's mind, very few things are possible." The reason is that as seasoned photographers, we "know" what "should" be done and then we don't try new approaches and eliminate a lot of possibilities. My personal approach when someone tells me 'you can't do that is to respond either, "just watch me," or, "is that a challenge?"
I’m reminded every day I watch your videos how necessary your content is. You give me that kick in the ass I need to get my photographic career progressing where I want it. Forever grateful.
Scott, I share your videos with friends who are not photographers because you address issues common across many jobs/careers. I like your channel because it seems more emotionally honest than might be typical on youtube, and you often highlight frustrations I already feel which lets me know I'm not entirely a nutjob. So, thank you for your hard work! I'll keep watching as long as you are able to keep it coming...
I've been a full time wedding photographer since 2012... and although our work is worlds apart, I absolutely love hearing from (dare I say)... another over-thinker (what's a better way of saying that?)! I feel like you ask yourself the same sort of questions I do... it took me the first 5 years to realise I was working with the complete wrong sort of people! I discovered your channel during the Pando, when I didn't have any weddings on and had a 18 month panic attack. I always wanted to have an enormous studio and shoot cars (I started out in a photo lab processing film, and got a taste for space... and the morning sunlight beaming in). But here I am... with a my camera bag and laptop... that's it! If I've taken one thing from you... it's that no matter what form of photography you do... the pleasure comes from doing it well and not settling for the mediocre. It's what keeps it exciting... which is a great place to work from! You can be happy and fulfilled in any style of photography when you're pushing your own personal boundaries - so I can watch your channel and feel motivated to take my wedding business up a gear. What do I want from RUclips? Content that helps me to search within for answers... rather than give them to me. Kinda what you do mate ;-)
“Giving each other high fives!” - great line
Well one of the reasons I follow you is because you are NOT predictable, routinely waffling about what everyone else waffles about, I do not subscribe to them even if I often agree with the contant because like you I fell like I am stuck in an echochamber instead of learning something new. You, for better or for worse LOL often open a can of worms others have not touched, which makes your uploads much more interesting to me.... thanks for not giving up and keep flooding us with videos... I do enjoy all of them.
You are quite a sophisticated youtube-philospher, Scott ;-)
What attracted me to photography, way back in the 1960's & '70's, was how it brought together many fields of Science and how it put to use all those fields in a practical way to get something, an image, done. Light is the interaction of photons and electrons. The exposure and development of photographic film comprises the quantum phenomena of photons absorbed by the Silver Halide crystals and the chemistry of realizing the resulting image. The formation of an image involves optics, the spectra and polarization of the light, the spectral sensitivity of the emulsion. To me, Photography is Applied Quantum Electrodynamics which is fun to understand and even better when you can put it all to use.
I personally like longer videos compared to shorts/ reels.. I love this channel because you’re actually discussing photography and the business behind it vs trying to constantly sell me some new gear.. I do boudoir photography which is very different to what you do. I am still very new to the photography world itself but I learn more from this channel than any other… Honestly just really appreciate what you do! Hope you have a great day
Scott, you’re absolutely right. In my desperation to become ‘good’ at photography, I watched and absorbed everything. The more I watched, the more confused I became. My problem was me. I’d become a kit junkie. Every issue was caused by kit! I knew about composition and the basic theory but I hadn’t really, fully understood it. I started to look more at photographs which made me stop, and to ask myself why? I mentally deconstructed the processes. I’m now taking photos which I’m happy with. I’m not trying to prove my ability to anyone and everyone. The kit I’ve got now is old, but it’s relevant to what I shoot. I watch your channel for your honest, simple but accurate information. It is also very entertaining. Thank you
Hi Scott. I don't often reply to RUclips videos, but since you are specifically asking for input and I do enjoy your videos, here's my 2 cents (or perhaps 2 pennies, in your locale). Within the framework or your question, I think 2 specific kinds of content I enjoy are relevant:
I'm not sure if this pertains to your video, but something I don't see anymore is real peer reviews. I miss my community College photography days. Every week we would put the prints we'd made during the week up on the wall and as a class we would discuss each other's work. It was so refreshing getting real time criticism on my pieces. I couldn't wait for Friday to hear how I needed to improve, or how I had improved. I'd trade all of the "likes" for REAL" feedback even if it's not what I want to hear.
I personally love coming to your channel simply because you tell us the point of the video, why it's relevant and why other photographers and professionals might care, how you approached the issue/topic, your shortcomings (things to avoid maybe), what you've done to express growth in that area and wrap up with a challenge of getting your viewers to address these issues/topics and sharing how we might have overcome them ourselves. You don't bombard the audience with before and after / raw and edited pictures. You provide information and allow the audience to create their own results with the information given. As I type this out, the best reference that comes to me is that of a professor during a lecture prepping their students for a test and not a tutor with the answer book open showing us what the answer is and what we need to do to replicate that exact answer
I love how you acknowledged you'd forget, one of the most scott things you've done
If you haven't read "The Crisis of Expertise" I think you might like it. Great video BTW.
I've been watching youtube on how to do photography for 5+ years now. I've learned so much about lighting, posing, editing, business management, advertising, philosophy, empathy, technical, artistical, and everything else. It's such a treasure trove for someone who wants to learn from so many different teachers. Even at college, in my field, I could see some teachers were better at teaching and others were simply academics who happened to teach because they were required to and everywhere inbetween. And even with those motivations, some were more talented than others because they had honed the craft of teaching for longer.