This is what holds photographers back
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
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I’m a jaded 68; commercial trenches 44 years….and I’ve always said: If the technical merits are the first thing mentioned about a shot….then The Shot apparently doesn’t make a dent! And the CAPTURE is everything. It’s not f/1.2. Or 1.4. Or 2.8. It’s…..the shot. It’s not cropped vs FF; it’s not Canon, or Sony, or Fuji, or….ANY brand.
It’s really about…the space between your ears. YOUR imagination, your ABILITY….
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I can agree that we've all been there: everything is a tool, and every tool has to work to the advantage of the story being told.
I was so happy that I don't worry (too much) about any of the things that beginners worry about. And then, you get to narrative and I realize my photos are good, but there is too often no narrative.
Well said.
LOL..... I LOVE your truth and honesty... spot on, straight to the point FACTS !!
I enjoyed that day in the studio, I can still smell the biscuits now. 🤣
My concern as a newbie photographer other than taking the best photos possible when on assignment, is the niche and target I am positioning my business in. The gear part is solved in day one: get something that is good and does not break, period (Canon, Sony, Nikon, whatver). The intricate part is how to aggregate perception of value to the customer + deliver a result that beats that, every time. How to communicate the right message for my audience, my geography. When to say NO. Identifying red flags and above all else learning on a daily basis: lightroom, photoshop, light, art in general.
Gear is the least interesting bit, it just needs to work and be practical.
"Sharpness be damned. Your photo sucks!" Should be made into T-Shirts. 😂
i understood nothing you said in the first part of your video. the second part was very insightful. thank you.
I once attended a talk of a fashion photographer and one particularly striking photo came up. Someone asked him : "What was your settings?" As if merely having his camera with the same settings, he will be able to reproduce the photo.
Honestly . All I care about is producing what the client, (art director) (person hiring me) what they want and need the image to do. If I feel the image needs to be handled differently I first produce whats asked for then deliver both - asked and my perception.
Well Scott thanks for that. Very informative as always but it made me stop and restart certain areas a few times.
Love the bonus at the end. Always nice to see professionals at work.
I think something that holds alot of photographers back is just so much bad advice that's out here on youtube. You've gone over in past videos about how there's RUclipsrs who are not working professionals in this industry (mckinnon) who regurgitate the same info as other RUclipsrs who only shoot for youtube and that's whats stunting the growth. You nailed it on the head about aperture and dof though. The amount of times I've gotten weird looks from photographers who are blown away that I shoot product and food at f8 - f16 is unreal
I’ve never given two shits about Bokeh, and some of my best photos were taken with a $25 35mm CCTV lens on an Olympus PEN camera. Where does that leave me?
You must be the best photographer in the world then ❤😊
I came back to photography as a hobby after a few years. This meant that I missed starting when bokeh had become a thing. I also used to work in a camera shop and even then I rarely looked at the in-depth specs for a lens. It never made my photography any better or helped in my job.
Another great thought provoking video. Would be interesting to hear the average age of the photographers with agents. I'm sure as people get older, how in touch with the zeitgeist they are diminishes. I also don't think there is nothing wrong with being more interested in the technical side of photography. The photographers with the creative ideas need assistants.
Is this a new camera, lens, lighting? It looks really good!
I don't think I've ever cared about bokeh lol, always found the discussion on it dumb.
Chromatic aberration on the other hand I find important, at least when it comes to considering buying a lens. But this is mainly because I'm often shooting with bright open steel frame windows behind my subject
But, RUclips tell us to worry about all of these things (bokeh, sharpness chromatic aberration, colour fringing) not you though, which is refreshing thanks
Here's what I think is the real answer. Tech being more or less spot on, including no weird donut bokeh and no focus misses in final selected image and so on are merely expected minimums - but they ARE expected and you NEED to get them right unless you have some really good excuse like you're a wartime correspondent. But that's ALL they are - baseline minimums. Nothing more. It's like if a novelist bragged about the fact that their book had no typos or spelling errors. Now you can use unique lighting tricks (unique, not copying others on the internet) to do unique things, and truly mastering light as a storytelling tool is important - but I agree many photographers get hung up on obsessing over basic stuff. I mean, yeah a bought a Canon 85mm 1.2. It's great, especially in how it rolls off the point of focus which reminds me of how Cookes do it. Now I know when to bring it out based on composition and I no longer really think about it. It's a baseline
Hey, I do macro now and then and I need to care about abberation and especially diffraction lol
I had to laugh about the whole bokeh discussion. I'm def very much aligned with your view on this as it's mine as well. Worry about the creamy texture of the background that's out of focus but..what about the freakin subject?! Gezuz and thanks for the laugh ~Chuck in BIrmingham Alabama USA
Spot on, although I do somewhat disagree with you on chromatic aberrations/fringing. For modern lenses CA is basically a non-issue, and what little there is can usually be corrected automatically, but there are older lenses (like the Sigma 50mm I have) that completely destroy details, give your model a giant purple halo, and make jewelry rainbow colored. I guess what I'm saying is, don't buy old lenses ;)
Worrying about bokeh is indeed silly (unless it's actually distracting, in which case you should probably reconsider what you're doing). Instead consider it to be a character that can be used creatively.
I rarely worry about the technical aspects of photography unless it is required of a shot. If the shot is good, no one cares about what lens, how many megapixels, etc. I've seen technically perfect shots that absolutely suck. I've seen shots that suck precisely because they are technically perfect. I've taken more than my fair share of sucky shots in 40 years.
I must be a good photographer then because the last thing I care about are settings or quality of the camera, just the result. 😂 I paint in the same way and have done for 50 years so perhaps I'm not entirely a beginner, just changing the medium. I paint with anything as long as I have something to paint with and on. I am completely clueless about cameras and use any at hand. I do feel incompetent when I hear people discussing gear but I can usually fight with it and get the result I want. If I ever had a commission with specific criteria, then I would be lost.
I don't care about chromatic aberrations but I feel like I should. Probably a sign I watch too much RUclips.
I lost focus, literally. The camera used to be my tool. Now i have become the tool of my camera. It makes great pictures but i do not anymore.
Is that Pat Metheny?
Bokeh, shmoke, the only thing that matters to me is that the out of focus background help my subject stand out. Show one subject clearly with the background supporting it. Only nit picky photographers care about bokeh, the client could give a rats ass about it.
Nobody touched the fruits
Sorry but the notion that ' if you work is not original then it has no value' is a total non sense. Any photography course would explore this and tell you that is wrong.
Volume levels are low.
I‘m sorry to say it but you ought to find something new to talk about. I really like your style and your personality but you keep rehashing the same ideas and concepts. I hope this is seen as the constructive criticism it is intended as
That's because people don't get it. He has, in the comment section, to those previous videos are filled with people arguing to death that he is wrong. So it needs to be said because nobody is going to search video from 2 months ago, let alone years ago to realize they are wrong.
At least a tad of the fruit was ated.....