Image Review: Grass and Field
Lesson 38 from: Mastering the Art of PhotographyChris Weston
Image Review: Grass and Field
Lesson 38 from: Mastering the Art of PhotographyChris Weston
Lesson Info
38. Image Review: Grass and Field
Lessons
Class Introduction - Three Steps To Creative Photography
03:48 2Firing The Creative Mind - Part 1: The Camera Points Both Ways
03:10 3Firing The Creative Mind - Part 2: Letting Go Of Judgement
06:53 4Firing The Creative Mind - Part 3: Detaching From Outcomes
04:12 5Practicing Mindfulness In Photography
02:43 6Finding The Visual Narrative
02:39 7Behind-the-scenes: Naples
07:52 8Seeing Beneath The Surface Of Things
02:30Finding Inspiration
03:19 10Slowing Down
03:57 11Three Reasons To Shoot RAW
02:29 12Choosing the Right Frame Format
03:52 13Don’t Be Limited By The Shape Of Your Camera
05:07 14WYSIWYG
04:15 15Choosing Lenses
05:02 16Perspective
02:44 17Considering Foreground And Background
03:10 18Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad But Three Into Two Is Better
03:43 19Separate And Isolate
02:32 20The Art Of Creative Exposure
06:38 21Focus On The Story
04:20 22The Passage Of Time
03:00 23Creating A Visual Sense Of Mood
04:24 24Color vs. Black & White
03:09 25The Decisive Moment
03:00 26Using Color As A Cohesive Tools
01:51 27Photography Is A Two-Part Process
06:55 28Case Study: Recreating The Art of Sumi-e
07:04 29Case Study: Making Something Out of Nothing
04:32 30Case Study: Moody Blues
03:29 31Image Reviews
03:02 32Image Review: The “Thinking Man”
01:55 33Image Review: The Golf Course
02:32 34Image Review: Dreamstate
02:38 35Image Review: Gone Fishing
02:24 36Image Review: Promenade
01:47 37Image Review: Sky and Reflections
01:57 38Image Review: Grass and Field
02:20 39Final Word: Show Me What The World Looks Like To You
04:44Lesson Info
Image Review: Grass and Field
I've included this image because on the face of it, it's a really lovely shot. Warm, inviting tones, a beautiful sunset swallows flitting open countryside. What's there not to like? But it's also a great example of something I said right at the very beginning of this module that the purpose of these image reviews is to ask the question. Does the image tell the story the photographer wanted to tell, and in this case, I don't think it does. So let me explain. The title of this image is field and grass. So let me talk you through the individual compositional elements in the frame that together make up the visual story. The horizontal format means my eyes starts on the left side, and immediately I reached the fence. The fence being a physical and therefore visual barrier stops me going any further into the picture space. So my eye follows the line of the fence all the way down to the road or track the road, then takes me down the far right side of the frame until it disappears in the dista...
nce. I have now left the image, and I haven't even noticed the field or the grass as it's shot. It's a very pretty scene, but it's incongruous with the photographers intention, and that's why I've included it in this review. To get closer to that intent, I would use the fence in a different way. As we see the scene here, the fields and grasses run up through the center of the frame. So first of all, I would turn the camera vertical. Now the fence becomes a frame of what lies beyond. Rather than follow its line down the road, we stand against it observing the scene. The grass is in the middle ground and the fields beyond. Other than that, there's nothing I would change at the scene. I might have used a slightly wider lens to capture the fullness of the setting sun, but that's about all now for me. Both versions work. They are both good pictures. They simply tell different stories. But this one is closer to the story the photographer wanted to tell, and that is the reason we take photographs to express ourselves
Ratings and Reviews
Gary Hook
Wow, what a wonderful journey. I love the concept of telling a story with one's photos and as I go through past images, I'm seeing them in a much different perspective. That's the good news, The bad? The lost opportunities I never 'saw' before; however that is a good thing. There is so much to internalize with the material so that it can get out of the head and into the 'heart'. I also found the concept really helps me with composition, both in camera and post. Biggest take away, as Chris underscored in his closing, is to slooooow down, take the time and feel it. Don't be so quick to leave one scene as there remain other aspects, yet to be discovered. A great experience that I truly enjoyed Thank you
Glenda
I loved this course - in particular the latter part of it in which he demonstrated how post processing lets you really tell the story of the image. Another fabulous course. Thanks Chris & thanks Creative Live.
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 photographic composition and visual storytelling) both courses are Complementing to each other and highly recommended.