Image Review: The Golf Course
Lesson 33 from: Mastering the Art of PhotographyChris Weston
Image Review: The Golf Course
Lesson 33 from: Mastering the Art of PhotographyChris Weston
Lesson Info
33. Image Review: The Golf Course
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: The Golf Course
this image was presented by another TCP student, Tony Asprey. Thanks Tony, and has taken early doors at his local golf course. And it certainly looked a morning for photography rather than golf, Great sunrise, lovely colors and really nice reflections looking at the scene. Overall, it's the main tree and its reflection that grabs my attention. But they get lost amongst all the other information in the scene, like the patch of ground in the bottom left corner, the trees on the right of frame and their reflections as it's composed here. It's a nice view, but I'm missing a point of interest. A central story. My suggestion here would have been to frame more tightly on what I think is the strongest element, the center tree. Now, with the tree being a vertical shape, I would have used a vertical frame format, as I talked about in less than two of module four shot in the horizontal format. The ice starts on the left and travels across the frame past the tree and onto the far right. In a verti...
cal format, however, the ice starts at the bottom of the frame. It takes in the foreground interest and the reflection before arriving at the main subject, the tree. It's a much stronger visual narrative as a vertical image. Also, if I could go back to the scene and shoot it again, I would have moved camera position around to the left a little just to create some separation between the left, most branch of the foreground tree and the top branches of the tree in the background. And that would have helped isolate that main subject from the background. And given the whole scene a bit more depth on the processing front, I wouldn't have changed too much here. I've just lifted the exposure a little by lifting both the light gray tones and the shadows. I've added contrast by the texture slider and given the top of the frame a bit of visual weight just to help keep the eye in the picture space. And I've done that using a very mild graduated filter in light room. This is a great example. I think of making sure you start the picture taking process, knowing what the story is from the outset, which then determines how you set about capturing that story in camera
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.