Lesson Info
25. Snowkiting 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
Snowkiting Key Takeaways
that's it for the chitin portion. I really had a lot of fun with this concept. I enjoyed combining those two worlds, The clean aesthetic of minimalism with the sort of high adventure fun of chi ting. And it really was great to work with my friends and work with such a great team. So here are the key takeaways from this little trip outside with the kites. Number one, negative space, negative space was huge. It's probably what I relied on the most for that shot of boomer jumping the snow machine, including all that visual sort of mass clean, clean, clean space. And it really helps sell the scale. It really helped calm things down and created that classic calming sort of energy you'd expect from a minimal shot, but it was of a subject that's usually seen or depicted as high energy, high adventure. So I liked that juxtaposition and I think that that negative space was had a lot to do with that. The second thing I wanted to mention was limiting the visual clutter we went on the day that was...
snowing and it just had recently snowed the day before as well. So we had a really clean blanket in the canvas to work from on top of that. I decided to place them against a big skyline that I knew they would appear sharp and clean and pop off of. And the third thing, use the telephoto lens to shoot past just any other potential distractions in the snow, places that were a little bit left bare or rock outcroppings or other caters or snowmobiles and things like that. So those three things really helped limit the amount of visual distractions in the frame. And then the last thing I wanted to mention was just using black and white and place the color these shots in my mind, we're always going to be black and white and the day we went out was overcast and snowing. So it lent itself really well to that conversion. I wanted to portray this idea, this clean aesthetic of minimalism combined with the power and sort of the grace of chi ting as a sport. And so black and white was a really great way to doing that. Also, I hadn't seen this kind of fighting shot done in black and white or in this sort of clean, minimalist way before. So that was also another factor. I wanted to see if I can create an image or a series of images that portrayed chi ting uh in a classic way. So that's it for the snow kiting. I hope you guys enjoyed that. I hope there was something in their value and uh, maybe some of you will decide to try out snow fighting or water fighting or land fighting at some point in the future. Yeah. Mhm Yeah, mm
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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