Thank you guys for your messages! I'll try to keep posting interesting things about this journey that is photography that all of us share! And please feel free to leave your comments here as well! :)

I wish more you tubers would realise the "hi Guys" and "whatsuppp" are exhausting when watching shorts. Thank you Jorge for the calm and concise delivery of your content, I am really enjoying it.

Finally someone who’s talking about street photography while showing great examples. Awesome photography! Liked! Subscribed!

Your Quiet, Clear simple presentation produces extremely thought provoking content…This example was very interesting indeed, especially when you explained how you got that horse racing shot! I now realise looking for possible “layers” in random shots taken on a days shoot is a bit like looking for lightening on a sunny day! Many thanks, as always for your advice.

Layering is a major focal point to what I’ve developed as my personal style. The more layers that I see in the images the more the scenes appear to take on a more “worldly” character. My hope is to transport the viewer into the whole of the scenes that I capture, not just a flat 2D image. I want them to feel pulled into the image due to depth of the subjects while still making the intended subject stand out due to lighting and color contrasts or simply eye contact.

Inspired by Cartier-Bresson and Harry Gruyaert, I ditched my 35mm lens and started shooting 50mm. Zone focusing with it on a Nikon S2 rangefinder was such a big challenge, but a challenge worth facing. After a while I started to see things differently, and realized that this focal length is magical.

So glad to have found this channel. Wonderful video about layering and the calm feel of your music choice and voice is refreshing in a YT channel. 🙏🏻

Deeply appreciated, Jorge. I've long been fascinated by this technique, and yours is one of the most illuminating treatments of it I've seen.

Such a great lesson! Thanks for sharing-I learned a ton!

I love the way you captured the essence of Bresson's work. I have been studying him for a while now and this video has really gelled the process for me. thank you! I like his earlier work that incorporates more surrealism. I love your work and your videos, .

Excellent clear explanation and tips on layering Jorge, the best breakdown I have heard to date. Just when I thought I had already learned these things for layered composition, you shared the caution about colours. That’s one that I had not given as much thought in terms of it adding too much complexity, so will surely keep this in mind next time in the field and filling the frame. Great work, keep ‘em coming!

damn! your pics are just superb!

Another great lesson Jorge 🙏🏻

No wonder your photos are great, the thought process behind it is thorough. Enjoyed it! Thanks for the video !

Fantastic video. I loved the horse shot with the explanation - very helpful. I need to do this more often instead of just concentrating on my subject. I hope you can post more videos, you haven't done much of late. Your inputs into photography are one of the best on KZfaq.

I love layering, it tells stories… maybe many… loving your work

Wow! Never got such simple and valuable insights in photography... thanks! Pls keep it on

Always classy and inspirational. Thank you.

Looking forward to see some new videos on this channel. Very inspirational.

Vaya clase de fotografía en 14min. Gracias por compartir tanto conocimiento Jorge ❤️

Awesome Jorge, the "art of layering"

Great video. Instant subscribe

Absolutely love this video!!! Great tips with excellent reasoning and stunning photos!!

Such sound advice. As usual, your videos offer information that is useful and thoughtful.

Great work. Really happy I came across your channel. Thank you for sharing.

Excellent discussion of layering for photography. Thank you.

Calmly explained, very helpful. Thanks

Great insight of the layering methods. Thank you for explaining your approach!

Great video. Thank you! Beautiful photos

you just kept it so simple again, Thank you :)

Just seeing this, Jorge. Well done!

Fantastic content! Thank you for taking the time to teach others.

Great video! Thank you for sharing the informations!

Great informative video, learn a lot thanks for posting

Excellent presentation and great photos. Muchisimas gracias!

Muchas gracias Jorge. Muy inspirador.

Mario Testino layers his group shots with wide angles-sometimes even ultra wide. It creates a surreal feel which I love. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

Amazing video. So useful . Thank you for the invaluable tips. Keep on making videos

illustrations are just as informative as the photographs!

Outstanding lesson. Muchas gracias!

excellent advice, cool video, great photographs shown. thanks a lot

Your videos are very inspiring 🙏

Muchas Gracias!! extremadamente interesante y didático!!

Really nice video with lot of useful tips. Your images are beautiful too!

That’s a really helpful and practical lesson thanks

Congrats (from Lisbon, Portugal) for your KZfaq channel. Al the best.

Great articulation of a complex element of photography, I very muted enjoyed this. I am a big Alex Webb fan.

well said.. !!!!!! loved it

Inspirational and educational , thank you

how come i did not know your channel up until now? glad it finally found me.

Love this

Great video !

Really great. Thanks

Excellent advice, great photos, instant sub 👍😉

Nice vídeo. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you+ I am learning from you 🙏🏽

Crystal clear explanation and illustration Jorge. Perhaps the fourth tip requiring consideration is choice of aperture. Would you agree that between the focal length of 28 - 35 an ideal aperture is f/11 so that all of the layer elements are acceptably in focus?

Cool Video, really good lesson!!!!

I personally prefer 35mm and I could see myself using a 28mm as well when composing layers. I Love the work you are doing, great info and video! Thanks!

Me encanto! super interesante

Gracias muy bien explicado.

well done!

Brilliant, mucha gracias

Agree. ~35mm is the ideal focal length. Not just for layering but for daily carry. Next ~50mm.

7:53 what a wonderful image

First there a lot more people everywhere. The 50mm is too rigid. You need more apparent depth of field. One looking normal. The 35mm. I love both! My next lens is the 90mm~105mm lenses. I love flatter perspectives and isolating main subject. Background most important. My stage. Wait for your actors and cast. People group themselves beautifully. No direction reqd. Feel the balance. When it 'feels' special, it is! A very good video. Bravo.

Starting with good background composition is a great shortcut to a good photograph. If you don't, logic will lead you there eventually: The greatest pictures have both good background and subject positioning, but if you move your camera to chase the subject, you almost instantly lose your background composition. What now? So instead ask (or wait for) the subject to move, and you'll have a chance to have both. It's simply good logic, because you won't tell your background to move any time soon.

I enjoyed that Jorge your work is good I mainly work in black and white myself and have done so for a few years or so now I have various reasons why I like to use it and not colour I also think 35mm is about the best lens to use or 23mm on the Fuji cameras for my photography I tend to use my 50mm for more portrait work I recently bought a lens that gives me a 26mm field of view which I'm still trying out its 17mm 1.4 a fast lens I like it then I don't like it then again I like it cant make my mind up Jorge but with the 35mm I feel I'm in more control of the images if that makes sense.......great video my friend

nice!

Nice pics.

Thank you

Thank you for great tips! When do you talk about lens 23 until 50mm are Fullframe or Aps-C frame? Thanks a lot.

what is interesting is your talking in story terms, I think many people overlook that, more so when you get out of street and travel photography and into fashion, but the concepts are tied. your image should capture a moment be it staged (for editorial) or natural through street photos. this video offers insights on different fronts that are helpful.

07.52 is an excellent image! :- )

Did you notice that the shadow on the man’s jacket in the horse track photo looked like a horse head? Very nice video.

I'm a relative newbie to photography Alex Webb is an awesome photographer. However, I'm just dumbfounded as to why a knowledgeable person like yourself has not even mentioned the master of layering Saul Leiter or Ernst Haas!

9:54 Interesting, when I first watched pictures by Ernst Haas I saw how overvalued sharpness is today. The horse picture also is not having a true focus point, from what my eyes see. To me this one is one of the best pictures ever. There are several one by June Newton which I like but your pictures speak their own unique language…. I hope I will reach this point one day…. thanks for sharing…. I also would be interested in the fact of cropping in street photography. For my taste I sometimes see a one time situation but it’s too far away so I crop it, and throw out 50% of resolution. In my opinion it’s better than going away with no picture at all?

After a year of using the 16-55mm (crop sensor) for hobby street shots, I feel like my new leap to 33mm (50mm equivalent) is a challenge. Like you say, it's a complicated focal distance. I'm actively trying to avoid the shorter focal lengths. Only because I think too many 35mm street photos seem lazy, with a plain subject, over-inclusive background and too much reliance on the interesting distortion of the lens itself. I think the 33mm will make me work harder for each shot and have to move left and right more, to get the background objects as relevant as possible. To use layering in a fairly targeted way. I'm excited. And I'll have to get used to missing a lot of shots, compared to my 16-55mm.

Great video thank you. 🙏I really liked your photo of the Hats and Horses event. Can you share your lens and camera settings for that photo?

Great explanation about the layers of photography. Are these all pictures clicked by yourself? If yes then please tell me about the picture at the time of this video at 7:15 (location, how long to wait for this click, color ratio etc)

Could you clarify your meaning regarding 'start with the background'. Are you saying pick a setting and let subjects walk into/through it? If so, where is your focus point? Thanks

Thank you for this video! One question about the picture with the horse. All layers are sharp, so you had your aperture set on 16 or so? It was sunset, I think not too bright. The horse shows no motion blur, what means minimum shutter speed 1/100 or so? The picture shows no noise, but I expected high ISO. I assume, you didn’t use a tripod. How did you manage that?

Nice video a few questions though to better understand, for example concerning the photo at the horse race-track, was it at 35mm? And was it shot at f/8? And where did you focus? cause the gentleman in the foreground is slightly out of focus - how far from him where you standing? less than 1 meter?

Have you a list of other masters that I can also study. Thank you

Dear Jorge, thank you for the amazing video and pictures. Someone asked you already about the settings in the horse race picture. I however would be interested in the f stop. How can you possibly get in focus a foregroung that near, the middleground and the background? It it the advantage of apsc? Would you have been able to get the same shot with a fullframe camera ? Thank you Martin Camino de Santiago veteran in beautiful Spain :) Ps I always wanted to do a project about my caminos, but as Dan milner says “my Camino”, “pilgrims on the Camino”… etc would be far too vast. I would have to find a more particular topic like “pilgrims on the Camino with red backpacks and blue shoes” (just joking but I will have to find a way to be more specific.) What is your take on that ? Obviously it would be a project for a printed book. Thanks

Lo primero agradecerte este vídeo tan interesante y didáctico. Me gustaría hacerte una pregunta y si te viene a bien me contestas. Parece ser que Winogrand empezaba a trabajar con las horizontales, Alex webb suele utilizar una vertical para dividir el encuadre o Alan Harvey empieza con un sujeto en primer plano y a partir de ahí empieza a resolver. Mi pregunta es, siendo consciente que todo dependerá de la escena que nos interesa captar ¿ tienes algún patrón por el cuál sea determinante para empezar a trabajar o es simplemente un fondo apropiado?

Outstanding, informative and thought-provoking. Thank you. I can't wait to start to compose from the background forwards.

I think the f stop also plays a big part. Sometimes I feel like a photo doesn’t work with layer’s because I’ve chosen f2.8 and the forefront is too blurry. Particularly night photos I find challenging for this reason.

What aperture do you use for laying on 35mm lens?

How is 40mm instead of 35mm as in the Nikon Z series 40mm is available and compact

Nice vid but for me the jury is still out on "layering." I can't see making layering itself the object or subject of your photography. There has to be more.

What about 40mm?

8:00 I see another layer. The shadow of your arm, wich looks like the head of a horse.....nice

lets talk about camera and lens.

You cannot learn how to take a photograph, you can learn how a camera works, you can eliminate the mistakes of a bad picture but a good picture is instinctive . Incorrectus