Lesson Info
22. Arctic Drone Flight Key Takeaways
Lessons
Introduction
01:41 2Minimalism - A Few Words to Start
01:31 3The Power of Negative Space
12:08 4Learn to See Visual Clutter
08:40 5Isolating Your Anchor
05:47 6Composing for Better Minimalist Photographs
09:27 7Choosing Gear to Create Minimalist Photographs
13:16 8Black and White the Classic Approach
08:41Working With Color
09:06 10Location Session - Apex Beach
11:50 11Apex Beach - Wrap Up
02:24 12Timing and Weather
08:24 13Common Traps and How to Avoid Them
10:29 14Post-Processing - When I Use it and Why?
17:41 15Print Your Work and Harness the Power of Minimalism
02:13 16Three Easy Exercises to Kick Start Your Journey into Minimalism
02:55 17Location Session - Sled Dog Portrait
04:05 18Sled Dog Portrait Image Review
07:34 19Sled Dog Portrait Key Takeaway
03:33 20Location Session - Arctic Drone Flight
05:14 21Arctic Drone Flight Image Review
06:36 22Arctic Drone Flight Key Takeaways
03:31 23Snowkiting In the Canadian Arctic - Location Session
06:07 24Snowkiting Image Review
08:32 25Snowkiting Key Takeaways
02:52 26Summary
03:08 27Wrap-up
01:18Lesson Info
Arctic Drone Flight Key Takeaways
we've covered a few different techniques here on this drone outing and I'm gonna go over them one last time, just so they stick with you the first and the biggest thing, we really changed our perspective by getting that drone up in the air. Taking advantage of getting this very extreme perspective is a great way to open your scene up and get rid of visual clutter just like a telephoto lens shooting past clutter. It's the same thing if you get you know, top down perspectives like that, all of these things that are like blocking, you know, and overlapping and intersecting with the horizon all of a sudden become less of an issue because you're shooting down, you still have to look out for things overlapping and you still have to look out for uh crossing of shadows and patterns and stuff like that. But it is like a really quick and a simple way to see how changing your perspective in an extreme way like that can really clean up clean up a space and clean up your composition also by getting...
the drone up in the air, we were able to really leverage the power of negative space. We we got this tiny little dog team, this massive sea ice expansive situation and by getting the drone up like that and really embracing negative space and making the dog team looks so small in the frame, we can really tell that story about, you know, the human in the big open space and how the environment itself and that visual mass that weight that the landscape and the environment of their carries really comes in and tells really helps tell the story of that image. So it becomes part of the subject. Another thing that we covered here was the use of a repeating pattern or a sequence of shapes and forms that when put together and looked at in this top down perspective, they don't look like visual noise, It's not distracting because they're all going in a similar direction. They all have that repetitive shape. The difference of putting uh creating a shot like this where those patterns are different. It's gonna be very jarring for the eye to go from triangle square circle octagon. Whatever the patterns happen to be abstract or otherwise, especially if you're changing color that becomes cluttered and visually distracting. You can look for things like rocks, repeating patterns and rocks. You can look for in big open grassy fields where it's the same type of soil or grass texture. So look for those shapes and patterns where everything looks similar and unified. And the final thing I wanted to talk about was just timing and whether it was really important with this shot in particular to go out at sunset. So I could get those long shadows. Get that nice contrast the light to really highlight the patterns in the snow. If you're going to try to create these shots with intention, really start looking at the weather. What's on the horizon, you know, is it gonna be fog? Is it gonna be snow? Are you gonna get low light, flat light, overcast days? You can create minimal shots and all those conditions, but if you know before you go out what you can expect, then you can make photos intentionally instead of just like stumbling upon them a pack, I'm blah, blah, blah. Yeah, another point that I wanted to talk about, another thing I wanted to like and the third thing that I wanted to leave with you guys is forget.
Ratings and Reviews
user-3b9448
This is a brilliant course which I can highly recommend. I have done some Minimalist photography but still found the lessons very interesting. I enjoyed the discussion on colour vs. B&W. My favourite part was to learn how long it takes to plan a shoot, wait for the right conditions, even change the subject if the initial idea doesn't work and see the other images taken during the shoot before (or after) the final image. The presentation is excellent - love the cat :-).
Deb Williams
Great class, good length and easy to follow along. A fantastic way to challenge yourself to look at composition differently and a course full of useful tips to try out.
Bradley Wari
Great Job! Great course! loved the bloopers, had a few laughs. I really enjoyed how he showed a little of how he worked the scene of a few of his images. showing multiple images and how he got to THE shot.
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