How To Take Your Photos From The Expected to The UNEXPECTED!

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@onalepard 2 жыл бұрын

There are many times, even if I have my camera in the truck, and my husband isn't in a stopping mood, I will take a photograph it in my mind's eye as we pass something. Those photographs ALWAYS turn out great! :)

@d.h.6486 2 жыл бұрын

Haha! Same! My husband drives by most of my best photos! He's a “”Why don't you just use your phone?” guy. He doesn't get it. I have shot so many pics from the car, boat, motorhome, and bake of the motorcycle. They are sometimes good, but never as good as the ones that will forever be trapped in my mind.

@pedestrian2530 2 жыл бұрын

I completely understand your frustration. My wife doesn't like to stop on the road as well, even when we are just walking she constantly wants to move on to see as much spots as possible instead of spending some quality time in an beautiful spot.

@JohnDrummondPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

"The more you look, the more you see." - attributed to multiple authors. It's certainly true for photography.

@joshuagutierrez8407 2 жыл бұрын

In my experience, I’ve learned to stay away from photography groups. For sometime they were a great way to meet local photographers and to “Talk shop,” but ultimately I realized they essentially took the same shot. Day-in and day-out. For beginners, I would highly recommend them, but once you venture out and begin seeing outside the box, there’s no going back. For myself, I know I’ll get an incredible shot regardless of where I go. That’s not being cocky, but rather confident in my ability to “Find” the shot. One strategy i was taught was to choose a lens (I have many manual focus lenses) and spend no more than 1-2 hours at any one particular location and approach the scene as though you’re there to create a documentary. My goto focal length is 40mm.

@oneeyedphotographer 2 жыл бұрын

My go to lens tends to be one least used. Consequently I can use all of them.

@Meritumas Жыл бұрын

Love your teaching approach and focusing on the art rather than technical mumbo-jumbo gear talks. Thank you for putting such a great videos!

@hudster1969 2 жыл бұрын

Your first tip about training your mind to seek a photograph even without a camera stuck with me as it is something I try to do every day. You start seeing opportunities that weren't there before. Another top video.

@ThePhotographicEye 2 жыл бұрын

Howzit all, the jumper is a new addition because someone (i.e me) forgot to buy heating oil for the house, and we've run out. Anyway, hope you'll enjoy the video. Here's the video on Alex Webb: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fJqDmcx4yd_Gl6M.html

@warrend8362 2 жыл бұрын

🤦🏻 Where I live ..if you forget that once in winter you’ll probably need a plumber for the busted pipes lol One year I went through three cords of wood in the fireplace to assist 🥶

@paul-c7541 2 жыл бұрын

Get plenty of it ,it's down in price at the moment , the market is flooded with heating oil. weve just got our 2,500 litre oil tank filled. for a bout 3/4 the usual price.

@jamesmoros1274 2 жыл бұрын

Isn’t it funny, through our life’s we are been told to conform, follow the main stream 😊 Yet in our photography we try to show different perspective and how we understand what we see. Great stuff Alex 🤗

@WolfQuantum 2 жыл бұрын

Great breakdown of the "Secrets." Now and then I force myself to wander around a spot where in my head I've said, "There's not much there worth shooting." Once I start looking around I start to see those little pockets of visual interest. Look in the small spaces, shoot slow when the wind is blowing things around, look in the corners and pockets. My favorite landscape lenses are telephotos. Because they let me hone in on and explore the details, those little parts that make up the whole. I forgot that when I first started shooting news and features for a small publisher back in the film days. I kept just taking images of the whole scene. They were boring. I almost got fired. Then I went back and studied the Photojournalism edition of the Time-Life Photography series. What I saw of the great news photographers was that they shot the detail, that cut of the whole that conveyed the core essence. They shot at different angles. Low to high, looking down, on the edges. They used the components of composition to give the image impact. I incorporated that into my work and by the time I left the owner and publisher told me, "You've made yourself valuable around here." From that guy, it was like winning a major award. He wasn't easy to please, but he also demanded excellence. So when you look at a scene look inside the scene for those special images that beg to be explored. Again, a great video on starting to see, not just look.

@thesecretlifeofmichal 2 жыл бұрын

I am glad that you and Sean Tucker are here to pull us through the "why" and kind of a philosophy side of photography. It's always amazing to listen to your talks.

@scottfreckle237 11 ай бұрын

Seen and understood so well. This guy is like a philosopher of photography or perhaps is it more correct to say of the photograph, 45 years of taking photos and I am learning so much from him.

@scottfreckle237 11 ай бұрын

You are a philosopher of the photograph. I've been shooting on and off for 45 years and you've opened my eyes to how many different ways I've missed 'the' photograph and just gone out blinkered with an idea. When I listen and watch these videos you're helping me discover photography again like I had forgotten I did when aged 15 and was surprised by being given an already old, 35 mm (possibly Zenith) 35mm camera with what might have been a 35 mm lens. Within 4 years my preference had become, and remains for B&W. Thank you for re-opening my eyes. Even though I now realise you'll never see this comment!

@ThePhotographicEye 11 ай бұрын

That’s awesome to hear. Thank you for watching

@scalaacom 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I often stand with my camera and think “there is a photograph here… but what!?”

@tanyadeleeuw 2 жыл бұрын

especially in a group environment like those your described, Alex, or a place where a particular scene is "the one" to get in the bag, my favourite thing to remember is "look behind you" for what you're missing by following along with everyone else's ideas!

@Martin_Siegel 2 жыл бұрын

The viewpoint section reminds me of the famous photo by Erich Lessing showing the Austria Chancellor Figl and the represantatives of the 4 allied occupying nations with the signed Austrian Sate Treaty on the balcony of Belvedere Palace in Vienna 1955. Lessing was the only photographer not in the signing room but among the crowd waiting in the park. To Austrians it is one of the most iconic photos of the 20th century, together with Figls words "Österreich ist frei!" (Austria is free). Rumor has it that Lessing was late for the signing and could not get into the the palace in time so he waited outside and was the only one having the photo of that historic moment.

@davidmcculloch8490 2 жыл бұрын

As a result of these videos, I'm staying open to more possibilities, even if going to shoot a specific subject that I've researched or seen before. Getting lost in the environment I'm photographing has led me to find more subjects (as well as physically getting lost and walking further.)

@jamesm9560 2 жыл бұрын

Love this subject. Tad echosy..

@markgoostree6334 2 жыл бұрын

My wife was good at seeing pictures when we were out. She didn't like portrait, or close up photography. She had a good eye for the "view" but she didn't like the technical side of taking a picture. Never could get her to work on that side of using her camera.

@2DogAle 2 жыл бұрын

I was a working photographer from my early 20s to my late 30s. Then my life changed and needed to go to work for someone, well, for many reasons and I became a non working artist as I call it. When I was a "professional" I was shooting weddings and portraits. Good money, but had it become a drudge and a very mechanical process for me so leaving it behind, so I thought, was a good thing. Little did I know, that by quitting, my passion for photography came back to me and I was out taking photos all the time and really enjoying myself. I thought of what I would like to take photos of and I always loved the outdoors so I started shooting landscapes and it was sooo much fun. I produced some great photographs and displayed them in my home and that was so rewarding too. I have sold a few prints over the years but never wanted to start a business again so I stayed a non working artist. I want to say, I suffer from depression. It's crippling at times but I still go out and shoot photos. I still love to go out in the country, parks, and forests to take pictures or, just cary my camera around with my dog by my side, and enjoy the beauty and moment I am in. Why am I writing all this? It has nothing to do with the subject of this video to be honest, but what it does give me, is something that I haven't enjoyed in a long time. When I was a working photographer I had tons of fellow photographers to talk to and discuss things like you do in your videos. After leaving that behind, there wasn't that kind of camaraderie of like minded people to recharge my creative batteries.I really miss those conversations and discussion as it fueled my passion. There are camera clubs, but they all seemed a little too regimented and also, petty so that didn't work. Now, listening to your videos, and seeing the comments, I am starting to feel that spark heating up. Over the past several months I have been bingeing on your content here and look forward to all the new post you make as well as going back to videos I have watched before. So, in a babbling and long way, I am writing to say you have helped me out of a photo funk here with your posts, I now feel that same energy I had when I was with other artist and most importantly, just wanted to say thank you. P.S. This is a great video and so many nuggets that I had to listen to it more than once. 📷

@MichaelHassey 2 жыл бұрын

Good points - all. One tip - invest in a microphone and some audio gear. So many photographers creating content seem to blow it when creating video about their passion. You can have a bad shot, a bad frame but blow the audio and you ruin the entire project.

@darryljungen8307 2 жыл бұрын

Photograph the expected in an unexpected way... Great advice!!! Another fantastic video. Thank you.

@RS-Amsterdam 2 жыл бұрын

Basically what it is all about is "object isolation" . This can be done in many ways, separation by color, size, view point, focus, luminosity, framing etc. etc.

@spinerocker 2 жыл бұрын

Morning motivations 👍👍👍

@L.Spencer 2 жыл бұрын

I think I do this to my satisfaction, but there's always new ways to do it. I like how you said to think about what is the subject and notice who else is on the stage.

@beachbumblog 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff, I love this type of content because it always inspires me to keep shooting things. One thing I read one time that was really interesting to me was the advice to shoot the same locations repeatedly. Of course explore new places too but shooting the same places forces you to get creative to get new images. Sometimes we take for granted what we see all the time and I think this video is a great example of this. One of my favorite photos is a super close macro shot of some mushrooms that popped up in my garden bed. The grass around it looking like a forest and the mushrooms popped amazingly. Keep experimenting.

@mArvBENEsaPH 2 жыл бұрын

The more we watch . The more we learn👍🙏❤️

@petervanriet5389 2 жыл бұрын

One inspiration for me is Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan. He's known for his abstracts in primary colours, but when you go through his work in chronological order, you see his 'abstract eye' developing. The shapes and colours become detached from the meaning of what you see (what you see vs what it is). You can't go that abstract with a photograph (there always has to be something real in front of the lens) but I also see this with Alex Webb and the Belgian photographer Harry Gruyaert.

@RichardOldroyd 2 жыл бұрын

A great wake up call to all of us to step out of the norm.

@jimhood1202 2 жыл бұрын

Great advice as always. Whenever my inspiration batteries are running low a quick look at one of your videos and I'm up and shooting again. Thanks.

@shaunflemingphotography 2 жыл бұрын

Very solid advice. Not gonna give it anymore fluff or fill. This is simply straight up solid advice to take directly into practice.

@shawnbrown7022 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your experience on photography! I get alot from your talks!

@johnclay7644 Жыл бұрын

informative 10mins.

@miamitten1123 2 жыл бұрын

DAMN!!!! This was a brilliant video among you normally great videos. Granted, I’ve only seen 3 of your videos so far, but this one has helped A LOT! I mean that.

@ThePhotographicEye 2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped you :D

@marcelowilson-barnett3768 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I love sitting down with nice a coffee and listening to your sessions. Will be training my mind more. Tunbridge Wells, Kent UK

@aloromot4110 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video! I always come away with a new idea when I watch you. You are the best photography channel on YT! Thanks!

@travelrecordmusic8265 2 жыл бұрын

Inspired now!!

@lanidelacruzramsey927 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@ubeauty100 2 жыл бұрын

So inspiring thank you love it

@largophoto 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@ThePhotographicEye 2 жыл бұрын

thank you so much Nicholas

@InsightWithAmith 2 жыл бұрын

A great content Mr alex ,you blow our mind on real photography .your whole channel is unique out of 100 photography channels.thank you

@blackmamba3427 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video and presentation 👏 Thank you for sharing your expertise.

@kevinmarcus625 2 жыл бұрын

This video was fantastic. So insightful. Thank you for giving me another perspective!

@Rob.1340 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍📷😎

@marleenlagrange2899 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Alex for this very informative and inspirational information - loved it. You are a great speaker!

@countrykilo 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the insight 👏

@gilessmithdirector2983 2 жыл бұрын

wonderful

@cliveeariss880 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Alex, alway so interesting, I often use the viewfinder for searching, and cutting out the vision I dont need.

@ibp2007 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.🇫🇷♥️🇫🇷

@ThePhotographicEye 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Ian!

@SylvainDuford 2 жыл бұрын

Great Video, bad audio

@davidgodfrey1815 2 жыл бұрын

I was down along the Potomac River one morning, it was cloudy, foggy, not much happening. Then I noticed the spider webs covered in mist. If I hadn't looked, I would have missed amazing images.

@CindySmithPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

Like your sweaters tying in with your background😇

@geoffmphotography9444 2 жыл бұрын

Another good episode thanks Alex. Sound quality my end was a little 'hollow' and I had to jack up the vol. Great, and for me, timely advice.

@amateurphotographerassocia5965 2 жыл бұрын

This is great, will share with our group ;)

@championthewonderhorse9733 2 жыл бұрын

I like how many different photographers you cover. Can I recommend you look into the work of Jan Staller. He has a great eye for unusual sculptures hidden in the man-made environment. I personally love his industrial landscapes.

@williamcahill4665 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for a informative video

@ThePhotographicEye 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Random factoid, but my primary school headmaster was called Billy Cahill :D

@jamesm9560 2 жыл бұрын

I have an Edutige ETM 001 THAT'S CHANGED MY VIDEO LIFE!

@SimonWillig 2 жыл бұрын

These are the things I'm in the process of discovering right now. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. One btw: did you notice the acoustic 'features' of the room you were in?

@christianpetersen1782 2 жыл бұрын

Howzit Alex! Thanks for a great video. I wonder if the very young would see the unusual quicker than us oldies who have seen so much more of the same old thing so to become a bit stereotyped. The reason I don’t join our photo club outings much is because they tend to all stand together and photo the same thing i.e. end of a pier photographing a sunset! I’m afraid I prefer being alone and think creatively for myself in my own head space. I find it very calming to be ‘in the zone’ and more satisfying to come home with an original photograph or two. I frequently go out for photo days with a photo pal and we both enjoy the day by having company but photo independence. I love your creative videos and look forward to more. Many thanks.

@hannahdobbs226 2 жыл бұрын

Personally I doubt it. Most young people are too obsessed by their smartphones to even notice anything happening in front of them. Also photography as an artform is heavily dependent on understanding the exposure triangle. Those of us who started with a manual film camera had to learn the basics. The young have got accustomed to instant gratification and expect to just click and have the camera or phone to make the decisions.

@GarryKnight 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, no! Now I want to just pick up the camera and go out. Always seems to happen when I've watched one of your videos, Alex!

@paul-c7541 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you I know I'm not mad now, I carry a ground sheet around with me, so say I want to take a picture of a mute Swan out comes the ground sheet for me to get down to the level I want, it makes perfect sense to me, I was starting to think I was odd, maybe I am😊. I love your video's.

@arcanics1971 2 жыл бұрын

As usual, great points made. Though the sound was a little off-putting on this one.

@teacherdude 2 жыл бұрын

This has literally happened to me, being at the same event and having all the same advantages and the other guy took photos that helped win him a Pullitzer. I wish I could claim it was better equioment or luck but that simply isn't true. he saw something i did not see

@lightbox617 2 жыл бұрын

Who has the right lens? Who has the right strobe. Who has a sufficiently neurotic eye to see something different from the others? Occasionally, in public spaces, I have lain on a floor to see the ceiling with a 10mm lens and it has worked week. I was able to stand up and walk out before "security" arrived

@lucasvanrosmalen5385 2 жыл бұрын

Great info, maybe consider a lavelier mike for better sound.

@ronco52 2 жыл бұрын

"The more you look, the more you see." Especially the details in your scene, minimize the content, throw out the unneeded. focus on the truths you see in your captures!

@oneeyedphotographer 2 жыл бұрын

In the group of ten, I'm the one who doesn't raise the tripod, or lays down on the job, or wanders off the photograph a tree because the telephoto macro lens doesn't zoom or pulls out a supertelephoto lens for a landscape shot.

@denisesavage2382 2 жыл бұрын

Are there other characters on the stage . . . Competing . . . Great question to have in mind as we draw a camera up to the eye. My little bit of gold takeaway from this video.

@vicentiuapetrei 2 жыл бұрын

Please be aware that the sound is not that good. I played this video after another one about photo books and I raised the volume at max to be able to hear what you say.

@frederickedwards2369 2 жыл бұрын

Alex...I absolutely love your KZfaq segments and maybe it is me but I am having a hard time with the audio part of the presentations. Sounds like a room without a mic. Thanks, Mate.

@Yesthankyou8 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Alex, why does you channel home page says that your channel has no content?

@LeadsTheFallen 2 жыл бұрын

Is it me or is the audio messed up?

@carmenfissenden2530 2 жыл бұрын

Nailed that perfectly in your video . On occasions I hit the bullseye with a sequence of shots that have universal appeal to photographers and non photographers alike . When it happens you just know it and keep shooting, even though you have acquired several keepers already . Why : because the next one could be the one and it requires working the scene in the way you did when you had your first camera , except now, you now know so much more but reman flexible and open to see more with greater simplicity in telling the story . Certainly , practice is the key and there is no room for being complacent . Sure, take the obvious shot and then move on and look for telling the story from a different perspective , just as the video illustrated flawlessly . Fantastic reminder to us all to use our eyes, our feet and imagination to see what is before us .

@edbrett5104 2 жыл бұрын

i just tell my photo editor or whoever my brain isn't wired right

@rdanielh78 2 жыл бұрын

The audio came out bad, very low.

@zurqcaholic 2 жыл бұрын

Is it my audio!?

@williamcurwen7428 2 жыл бұрын

The world is not mundane. It is our innate sense of mediocrity that makes it mundane for us as a construct. Try harder, and get lost in a world that is waiting for you to arrive.

@simons_pics Жыл бұрын

Did you forget to plug in your external mic ?

@laimonasapavicius5643 2 жыл бұрын

Sound :(

@jeremymmonaro4822 2 жыл бұрын

Every one has their own theories i guess. LOL

@arunashamal 2 жыл бұрын

I see amazing photos when I don't look

@KrzysztofDziuba----1-2-3 2 жыл бұрын

Please invest into better microphone. Your talks are awesome, but I have difficulty to understand you correctly even when I set my volume to 100%. Other videos from e.g. Nigel Dawson or Adorama channel are understandable even on 30-40% of volume. Probably frequency response of your current mic is not good enough.

@shapesart2701 2 жыл бұрын

... But why I see less when have my camera with me ? Seriously, it happens to me often. Maybe I'm a better photographer without the camera ? :-D

@WhoIsSerafin 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I had a hard time hearing you

@RaadMambles 2 жыл бұрын

Audio is 90% of KZfaq.

@ThePhotographicEye 2 жыл бұрын

and 90% the bane of my life when trying to create content (this video was a fail on the audio front..)

@theuktoday4233 2 жыл бұрын

Create the moment, throw the cat into the christmas tree before you photograph it!!!

@ZappaBlues 2 жыл бұрын

Your audio has a bit too much room echo. Just thought you should know

@ThePhotographicEye 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was an experiment with a shotgun mic that failed :) It’s been resolved now in later vids

@edjefferson9175 2 жыл бұрын

I like your videos. But the audio quality is poor. My brain is working so hard to filter out ambient reflections that I cannot absorb what you are saying. A simple lav mic is all it takes to do the job. It is basic filmmaking 101.

@ThePhotographicEye 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ed. The audio is something I’ve been working out for awhile now. I’m not sure if I had changed it by the time this video was made or not. Thank you for your feedback

@edjefferson9175 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePhotographicEye Bravo! Just watched your piece featuring Eve Arnold and loved every second of it. The lav mic sounds great and my brain could relax and enjoy learning about her so thank you from all of us! Well done.