Your 10,001st Photograph
Lesson 1 from: Mastering Photographic Composition and Visual StorytellingChris Weston
Your 10,001st Photograph
Lesson 1 from: Mastering Photographic Composition and Visual StorytellingChris Weston
Lessons
Your 10,001st Photograph
03:24 2Camera Gear
03:03 3Piece of Gear We Always Forget
03:47 4Be a Storyteller
03:09 5Finding Ideas For Photography - Know Your Subject
06:59 6Cae Study - Why Are Zebras Black and White Striped
01:30 7Photograph What You Love
02:00 8See the Extraordinary in Ordinary Things
01:31Have an Opinion
01:46 10See With a Child’s Eyes
02:34 11Tell Your Story
08:46 12Find a Needle in the Haystack
01:38 13Lions Hunting Under Star Trails
04:21 14Ansel Adams and Visualisation in Practice
03:20 15Keeping an Open Mind and Thinking on Your Feet
02:47 16Case Study - The Maternal Bond
02:42 17Don’t Tell the Same Old Story
02:38 18Relevance
01:06 19#1 Reason Photographs Fail
02:57 20Getting Rid of Clutter
03:59 21Post Capture Cropping
02:04 22The Elements of Design
02:31 23Elements of Design
01:38 24Elements of Design - Shape
02:21 25Case Study - Shape
02:11 26Elements of Design - Color
01:55 27Case Study - Color
01:50 28Color in Camera
01:42 29Pattern
01:54 30Texture
02:24 31Seeing The Elements of Design
08:52 32Gestalt Theory
05:10 33Case Study - Cove
01:36 34Case Study - Hat
02:09 35Light and Contrast
01:54 36Light and Form
01:26 37Light and Depth
03:48 38Perspective
02:28 39Lenses and Perspective
02:47 40Rule of Thirds
02:48 41Centre of Frame
01:36 42Case Study - Positioning the Subject
01:48 43Positioning the Subject - Dynamic Symmetry
03:20 44The Horizon Line
02:52 45Should the Horizon Line Always be Straight and Level
02:13 46Other Lines
04:57 47Rhythm, Balance, and Visual Weight
02:59 48Negative Space
02:29 49The Two Most Important Controls on Your Camera
03:41 50Training the Mind
04:26Lesson Info
Your 10,001st Photograph
Henri Cartier Bresson is widely considered one of the greatest ever documentary photographers. He is famously quoted as saying, Your 1st 10,000 photographs are your worst now today in the digital age, that number is like being much higher. With the sentiment remains. It takes practice to train the eye to see the real story in front of you. I came to truly understand what Cartier Bresson meant. One of my very early assignments in the sarin getting National Park in Africa. This is my 10,000 and first photograph. This is the image that changed my approach to photography and let me to see the world through my camera. The way I see it today, I was in the sarin, getting photographing the great migration 1.5 1,000, wildebeest roaming across the dry and dusty savannah. I was two days into a three week long assignment and had already photographed every aspect of wildebeest behavior imaginable. Now I don't know whether you've ever paid much attention to Wilder beast, but let's just say they're n...
ot one of nature's most alluring creatures. In fact, on safari Africans described him is animal God created after the spare parts of all other animals. It's an amusing impression, if a tad unfair. Even so, on the face of it will the beast, a large brown animals that walk in a circle around a big brownfield on. By the end of the second day, I was completely out of ideas. So the next day I changed tack. I left my cameras behind, and instead of taking pictures, I spent the whole day simply observing. And somewhere along the time line between dusk and dawn, a question kept niggling. May. What is migration? That's when it struck me Movement. Migration is movement. Is the movement of animals or people from point A to point B Movement is the story here, not Wilder. Wilder bees was simply the vehicle for the story. And so, for the rest of my time in the sarin Getty, I photographed movement, creating a diverse portfolio of images that revealed the essence off migration. And that, for me, is what photography is about capturing the story beneath the surface. Whether it's an animal, a person of building a plane, a train, it really doesn't matter what the subject is. You've got to find the hidden story cardio breasts on epitomised this premise in his journalistic work. Some journalists are wonderful writers and others are just putting fax one after the other and fax, I'm not interesting. It's a point of view on facts, which is important in the in photography. It is via vocation if you evoke. For me, the camera is a way of seeing beyond material in search for essence heart, soul, spirit. Whatever word you choose to describe it, a great portrait reveals a person's soul. A great landscape exposes the spirit of the land. A great documentary photograph gets to the very heart of the matter. Make essence your subject. Show me an image with heart, spirit or soul, and I'll show you your 10,000 and first photograph.
Ratings and Reviews
Edmund Cheung
Perhaps the style of presentation and simple, short, and direct messaging does not "jive" with some; but others may really love this. Yes the production of each episode is stylized and perhaps a bit formal (like a TV Show?), but there is something to be said about it. Perhaps this is not meant for professional photographers? I think of myself as decent amateur / high level photographer. I found lots of great nuggets of wisdom and inspiration from this. Especially when I an in a rut for creativity. Yes I have heard all these concepts and ideas before. BUT it is always great to hear and see a different way of presentation and voice. Please do NOT take the naysayer reviews as the end all. You should judge for yourself and watch a few episodes. If the style and content click for you, I would highly recommend this course.
Abdullah Alahmari
Thanks a lot to mr. Chris Weston This course is great and It is a 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 course for me. Beside the other course ( mastering the art of photography ) both courses are Complementing to each other and highly recommended.
Kai Atherton
While I am perhaps more advanced in my photography then this course. It is always great to be able to go back to fundamentals and remind ourselves of the basic principles, and even camera function. I thoroughly enjoyed this course and Chris's other. It is a great motivational jumpstart when lacking fresh creative idea's.
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