Lessons
Minimalism - A Few Words to Start
00:43 2The Power of Negative Space
06:01 3Learn to See Visual Clutter
03:03 4Isolating Your Anchor
03:02 5Composing for Better Minimalist Photographs
03:57 6Choosing Gear to Create Minimalist Photographs
03:22 7Black and White the Classic Approach
03:38 8Working With Color
02:47Location Session - Apex Beach
04:54 10Apex Beach - Wrap Up
02:20 11Timing and Weather
00:44 12Common Traps and How to Avoid Them
07:08 13Post-Processing - When I Use it and Why?
14:19 14Print Your Work and Harness the Power of Minimalism
02:05 15Sled Dog Portrait Image Review
04:18 16Sled Dog Portrait Key Takeaway
02:43 17Location Session - Arctic Drone Flight
01:38 18Arctic Drone Flight Image Review
05:59 19Arctic Drone Flight Key Takeaways
02:10 20Snowkiting In the Canadian Arctic - Location Session
01:35 21Snowkiting Image Review
05:58 22Snowkiting Key Takeaway
02:27 23Class Summary
03:03Lesson Info
Sled Dog Portrait Key Takeaway
with this case study I wanted to kind of embrace and, and, and use three sort of tips tricks, whatever you wanna call it, arrows in your quiver to create a simple clean image. Number one being to just embrace the conditions of the day, which is this beautiful snowy, very clean, overcast day. It's going to do much of the heavy lifting. It's really easy or it's easier, I should say, to make these minimalist images and these clean images when you start with something like snow or fog or just overcast days. The second thing we did was we used a telephoto lens, helps compress and box out distractions so you focus the viewer's attention onto your subject. You shoot past by zooming past all the distractions and you really help eliminate a lot of noise and clutter. And then the third thing I did was I got really low to the ground and I embraced the snow as a foreground element. I shoved that lens right up into the snow. The snow is building up on the lens as I speak actually. Uh, and I did tha...
t for a couple of reasons. One I wanted to get low to be on the same level with the dog so I can get a more engaging, more natural looking portrait and two, there's somebody's coming and the dogs are getting excited and to, I wanted to use the snow as a foreground, like a subtle sort of soft push into the frame. Uh, sometimes with these images they have a tendency to look a little flat so you can increase the depth or introduce depth by shooting uh sort of a soft or subtle foreground element and in this case I use the snow. Um and hopefully you have like a subtle lead into the dog, which is the main point of the image and then a subtle drop off into the background. And hopefully those three things created a very clean, minimalist uh sled dog portrait, I think that's gonna be it for today. Fingers are quite cold. Dogs have had enough of me probably, I'm gonna make the rounds here and give these guys a little bit of love and attention. Uh and and I'll see you guys in the next uh episode episode class lesson. That's what they're called lessons, some lovely howling action going down here right now. Oh
Ratings and Reviews
Brittany Riggs
Lovely and information. The information was relevant and ended up helping a good bit.
Vincent Zuck
Very interesting class, in a very unusual location (Arctic), which blended together to give a top notch class. I learned a lot about Minimalism as applied to photography, and Minimalism as applied to post-processing. Curtis is engaging while teaching and demonstrating on site, or back in his "office". I really enjoyed this class. Thank you Curtis.
Kate Geary
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