Lesson Info
2. Concept vs Experimental Photography
Lessons
Class Introduction
03:58 2Concept vs Experimental Photography
04:26 3Visual Storytelling, Why It's Important.Finding Inspiration In Others Work
04:57 4Equipment
04:57 5Setting The Mood, Color, Style
05:55 6Mextures App Deep Dive
10:00 7Capture Apps
04:33 8PaintCan App
06:26Lesson Info
Concept vs Experimental Photography
So, what I'd like to talk about first is the whole concept of what is conceptual photography versus experimental photography. And people have different ideas of this. And sometimes the terminology can switch around a little bit. But for this course, what we're going to look at is conceptual photography is really about the idea, right? The image that illustrates an idea. And then for experimental photography, I'm going to refer to that more as processing. Okay, so different kinds of editing and techniques kind of like wet plate photography. And I'll talk about that in just a second. So, that's going to be the definition for this course. Okay, and let's take a look at some samples of what I mean by that. So, these would be images that I consider more conceptual where they're rather can I say straightforward. Sure, they're edited. There's color toning, there's con contrast, there's black and white, there's color manipulation, but there's not a lot of manipulation of the image in terms of ...
blurring or illustration. So, this is what I would consider more concept. Style photography now, mm hmm. Would this be more concept or would this be more experimental? And for me, I think this kind of images more concept. Sure. It's torn paper and cut out paper. But it's not uh experimental processing if you will. Or editing. And I'm just saying this so we we can be on the same page when we're talking about this course. So, I would consider this more conceptual photography. Alright, now, something like wet plate photography, I would consider more processing or experimentation, als uh photography where you're actually getting textures and techniques by the way, you're processing either film or in our case, we're going to take mobile shots and process them through apps to get these kind of experimental looks. And it would be so fun. And web plate photography or that style heck fire has been around since the Civil War days. I mean it's pretty amazing. And um there's a current photographer named Sally Mann who does this beautiful, beautiful wet plate old fashioned style. You can also do Diana type these Diana types here, gorgeous. This is not selling man. Um and these are I'm trying to give you some ideas on how to, dare I say, mimic these techniques inside of your mobile device. Now, let me just take one second to clarify what I'm considering a mobile device or the process. And I really want to say that, I think this could be a very liberating conversation about devices and workflow. I find folks want to either just work in light room or just work in Photoshop or just work on their camera. And for me, I've really freed myself up to work in the whole creative cloud system. So what does that mean for me that means? I'm working on my mobile device. Okay, my phone as my camera and then perhaps I'm working on my ipad and I can take the same image for let's say from light room from the mobile device because it's in the cloud. I can take that into light room really easily on the ipad and use that and then quickly go into Photoshop on the ipad in a second. And then I'd like to continue the work flow process to be desktop. So for me it's seamless. It's 100% seamless. I will go from my phone to my IPad to my desktop without even thinking about it. And I'd like to invite you to free yourself up to think of your workflow. Is that open? Like you don't have to only do it on your phone or you don't only have to do it on your ipad or you don't only have to do it on your desktop. The whole thing is open to you And these programs are getting so sophisticated. I mean it's absolutely amazing what you can do any more on these devices. So in the course of this class I'm going to keep that that whole workflow open and I will be bringing around from all of those. And I hope you will join me in that process. Now when I talk a little bit more about experimental looks or experimental photography and for me that's really more painterly perhaps adding textures. Again, this is not wet plate look. These are actually sketches or sketch looks that you do and I'm going to show you how you can mimic these looks on your mobile device
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Ratings and Reviews
Michael Branch
This class really helped open my eyes to the potential of mobile photography. Now I know some new apps and ways of using my existing apps to take my mobile photography in a fun, new and more artistic direction.
Charles Smith
Good course. A lot of good tips and ticks. I thought there would be more on using different props to create different effects....A little disappointed that Mextures and PaintCan is only available on iPhone not on Android.....
user-1acd94
Oh Lisa, what would we do without you? You are one of the main reasons I keep coming back to Creative Live. If anyone is relatively new to either mobile photography or Photoshop - push through the zones where you feel a bit lost. One of the absolute joys of Lisa's teaching is that she addresses all levels of students in one go - there is always something as an instant takeaway, and always more to sink in on future viewings.