Lesson Info
17. Location Session - Sled Dog Portrait
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
Location Session - Sled Dog Portrait
Yeah. Mm. Yeah. Mm. Mhm mm mm mm mm. Yeah. Yeah. Mm mm. Yeah. Yeah. What a better place to start a conversation about minimalism than out on the frozen snowy bay, just outside of a Halloween nunavut's baffin island up in Canada here in the arctic. And I've been waiting a few days actually for these conditions. These are perfect conditions and a great time to talk about. Uh one of my my favorite ways to shoot minimalistic image is simple images with lots of clean space and that is just to embrace um atmosphere. So what we have up here today is a lot of snow. It's pretty overcast, white on white. So that's really gonna make anything that we want to draw. The viewer's eye to the subject really pop. And it does a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to reducing clutter and noise and distractions and an image producing almost like straight out of camera point your camera anywhere kind of minimalist photos that said, creating a very strong image in these conditions can be tricky and more d...
ifficult because everything kind of looks like a simple photo. Ah you know, when it gets this minimal on this strip down, it can borderline become boring or un engaging. So we're going to try to take some images here today in a minimalist style embracing the atmosphere, which I feel like is one of the biggest ways or best ways I should say, to kick start your minimalist photo career. Go find fog, Go find overcast days, go find snowy days. Blue sky days can work too. But if you really want to keep it simple at first and get like those easy winds, find snow, find fog, find overcast days and embrace them and try to create some strong uh simple minimalist photos. Fix my little laugh, my cure fix my hat. Got to get the hat right? Yeah. Hey guys, so we've got atmosphere, we've got the environment that's going to help us out here with this simple photo, This minimalist photo now, we just need an interesting subject to really pop in the scene and one of my favorite things to shoot up here, and one of the main reasons I keep coming back uh is the sled dog. The sled dog, Canadian sled dog goes by a couple different names, but these guys are gorgeous, gorgeous animals. They're super, super nice to shoot, they make great subjects up here against these northern snowy conditions. Uh this is literally their backyard and so we're gonna try and see if we can capture a few portraits, maybe a couple more environmental styled dog portraits, for lack of a better word, we did get just a fresh, fresh snowfall. Um these guys are excited. We did just get a fresh snowfall. So the dog yard sometimes can be a little cluttered, a little messy. Uh This is gonna help um and help reduce any kind of clean up we do and post as well. Might get lucky, we might get some Ravens coming in on the action which also is is great for just adding a little more attention or or interest in our in our scene. Uh So let's get to work, let's see what we can do with the sled dogs on this gorgeous snowy day. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm mm. Yeah.
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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