Lesson Info
19. Sled Dog Portrait Key Takeaway
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
Sled Dog Portrait Key Takeaway
with this case study, I wanted to kind of embrace and and use three sort of tips tricks, whatever you wanna call it, arrows in your quiver to create a simple clean image. Uh number one being to just embrace the conditions of the day, which is this beautiful snowy, very clean uh overcast day. It's going to do much of the heavy lifting. It's really easy or it's easier, I should say to to make these minimalist images and these clean images when you start with something like snow or fog or just overcast days. So I encourage you to seek out those conditions. If you're starting in minimalism photography, it's going to help reduce distractions and clutter right off the hop so you're that much further ahead before you can take the camera to the bag. The second thing we did was we used telephoto lens helps compress and box out distractions so you focus the viewer's attention onto your subject. You shoot passed by zooming past all the distractions and you really help eliminate a lot of noise and...
clutter. And then the third thing I did was I got really low to the ground and I embraced the snow as a foreground element. I shoved that lens right up into the snow. The snow is building up on the lens as I speak actually. Uh, and I did that for a couple of reasons why I wanted to get low to be on the same level with the dog so I can get a more engaging, more natural looking portrait and two, there's somebody's coming and the dogs are getting excited. And to, I wanted to use snow as a foreground, like a subtle sort of soft push into the frame. Sometimes with these images, they have a tendency to look a little flat. So you can increase uh, depth or introduced depth by shooting uh, sort of a soft or subtle foreground element, and in this case I use the snow. Um and hopefully you have like a subtle lead into the dog, which is the main point of the image and then a subtle drop off into the background. And hopefully those three things created a very clean, minimalist uh sled dog portrait, I think that's gonna be it for today, fingers are quite cold. Dogs have had enough of me, probably, I'm going to make the rounds here and get these guys, so a little bit of love and attention uhh and and I'll see you guys in the next uh episode episode, class lesson, that's what they're called lessons. Yeah man, some lovely howling action going down here right now. Oh, ooh, that's cute, I should probably be shooting this. Okay, you guys done? Mhm. Can I, can I talk, can I do this now? We're good, everybody's good. Okay, quiet on the set, yeah, okay. Uhh but I don't even know what it is, but what was even talking about
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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