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What Makes A Photograph Great - [3 things!]
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00:15 What is a Great photograph?
01:45 Image has a Purpose.
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@joanantonim.p.2400 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Peter... 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Good thoughts... 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻 "SALUDOS... 👋🏻🙋🏻♂️😃 "
@Rangewriter 2 жыл бұрын
I also love to go out and make images and have come to realize that not everyone is impressed with my efforts. However, I understand that there are so many wonderful photographs almost everywhere. Making images to please yourself, I think is important. While it is satisfying to take photos, I sometimes get tired of sitting at a computer deciding which images to delete and then having too many to edit. Keep up the good work, Peter. You help inspire us to keep going.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
@SirMo 2 жыл бұрын
It totally makes sense what you're saying. Basically it's not about making an image someone else would make, but using your own imagination to capture what you yourself see conceptually. I am also a fan of mysterious, moody photos like the ones you took. Perhaps I can't explain it well, but I like that cinematic quality they have, of being a part of a bigger story.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
I think you said it well.
@1957PLATO 2 жыл бұрын
The act of finding a composition, and then making the photo is everything. And if the result somewhat is how I wanted it to look, then that’s a bonus.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Well said.
@lacijeszi309 2 жыл бұрын
I like the first picteure for it's mood and the second, third , fift for picteure"s colors. I would give "Every empty" name for the story.
@stevocem 2 жыл бұрын
A very nice colorful evening art light story, it nails the evening mood in color, as opposed to warm or cool, but still monochrome street illumination mood. I love to take images in the evening, I don’t know why. There are so many great points of illumination to play with, the light is not a homogenous diffused one as the daylight, it is different. I can’t move the lights around as in some studio, but I can move myself to the position. One more thing, I like your comparison to the music album, with a set of songs, of which maybe a couple are strong, but the rest is equally important to give the whole experience. Have a nice Sunday, Peter.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
@sstansm7f 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Peter! Photograph what you love and you will feel good - that's my religion.
@bradw7084 2 жыл бұрын
Photography is important for me because it gets me out, then it slows me down, then that allows me to see details & moments I'd otherwise miss, then there's the challenge of capturing the detail/moment & the feeling. This almost reconnects me with life/reality & gives me a buzz when things go well. After that, editing often frustrates me & I rarely show the images.
@Gibolingos 2 жыл бұрын
A good photo - its something that brings with it emotions. Positive and negative emotions. Technical matters recede into the background.
@Gibolingos 2 жыл бұрын
And here is probably the question of reception. Everyone has a different scale of feeling emotions. I think so.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Good points. Emotions are very important thing.
@Transterra55 2 жыл бұрын
For some reason, I would often see an interesting subject with perfect lighting when I did not have my camera--the iPhone doesn't always work well. I now carry my SLR on all my walks.
@Red35Photography 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video mate :)
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot!
@ScottAllshouse 2 жыл бұрын
Peter, the image of the woman on the tunnel wall could stand as a story on its own. Of course, each of us sees and tells a story our own way. It would be interesting to see you take that photo again with the lights of a car passing by.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Good idea about the car lights. The upper deck is for walking only and the cars are normally under the deck in parking garages. On that particular place there is a ramp that a car could drive. Maybe a turning car and the head light lights up the graffiti?
@AlpacoFilms 2 жыл бұрын
Peter, you are such an amazing and beautiful spirit in this world! Thank you so much for sharing this! I too love taking photographs for my own personal reasons. My favorite part of making an image is the connection i make with that moment at that time. That moment I'm capturing becomes a part of me and it's something only I get to share with universe. And it happens in a click.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your comment! Well said about the connection with the moment at that time.
@Lordvader330 2 жыл бұрын
I love the idea of telling a story. Makes so much sense. I see the story of Covid silence. The after effect of months of lockdown.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you found a story from those images.
@UMS9695 2 жыл бұрын
You have touched upon some of the finer and creative aspects of photography. I naturally gravitate to the finer elements of a photo, namely the energy it radiates, the mood it portrays and the feeling it evokes in me. Ultimately it's the feelings that the mind/heart register as memories by connecting me back to that moment in time and place when I experienced it.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment. You are into something. The emotions that a photograph makes are very important also.
@ATTACKofthe6STRINGS 2 жыл бұрын
I have so many other channels I'm subscribed to that I don't get to watch too many photo philosophy videos like this one, but I so appreciate them when the opportunity arises. One thing I find myself asking people who ask for feedback on their photos, which lines up perfectly with the points you've outlined here, is "what is the image trying to say?" A lot of people will ask others for feedback on a photo, but one thing that I've realized when I reflect on the photos I love most, or that other people give me the most positive feedback on, is that my best photos always seem to communicate what I saw in the scene I photographed. The act of photography is taking something that the world around you is speaking, and capturing that in a photograph that communicates that message to the person seeing it. My best photographs have consistently been the ones that best capture what I saw and speaks it loudly to whoever sees it. It has helped shape my photography, even though I've been so busy lately that I haven't been able to shoot as often. It's made me more choosy about the photographs I take, but it's also freed me from the burden of feeling like I *have* to find a photo every time I go out. I'm not "going out to shoot photographs", I describing it as "finding" images. I go out and I find images. Sometimes, I am able to hear the world around me speaking something, and I can find it. Other times, I have to plan to be in the right spot at the right time. Sometimes, I'm either not paying attention, or the world is just quiet at the moment. It also shapes the way I view photography tools. They're not brands to me. They have no prestige to me. Sure I do have a couple of things I want just because they have a name attached, but most of the things I come to want are things I feel will help me listen quickly. I don't want to fight dynamic range, color science, low light, etc. I don't want to fight expensive lenses, large and heavy bodies. I don't want to fight bad autofocus, finicky menus, incomplete feature sets, etc. I want a camera (or cameras, if just one can't do it) that lets me look at the world and grab what I see. Then, I can just go back to the computer and bring out what I saw by editing the raw file. I want to know that, at the moment I decided to press the shutter, what I saw in the viewfinder is what my camera captured to the best of my ability to afford a tool capable of doing so. What does the world around me say? What does this picture say to me? What do other people feel this picture saying to them? The closer the answer to these 3 questions become, the better I've observed my pictures to be.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. Finding photographs is great way to say and define the act making images. It is observing surroundings and the world and make an image when there is a feeling of a good image. Actually I just realised from your that it is actually not the act of photography for me, but it is the observing the surroundings and finding new things around me.
@bradw7084 2 жыл бұрын
Perfect video. This aligns so well with what I've been thinking for improving my photography. Story...perhaps via tryptychs. Not sure. Love that all my fave M43 KZfaqrs are concentrating on photography atm, not just gear.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Triptychs are a great way to practise. It is not easy.
@kidlatazul 2 жыл бұрын
Recently I entered a photography competition sponsored by an organization that promotes parks and forests in our (US) state. I thought the ones I entered had a chance to be selected: there was a scene of people playing hockey on a frozen lake; a shot of a comet passing over the same lake in summer; the moon, tinted red, setting over the lake early one morning; and shots taken in several of the few remaining stands of trees that were never cut down since pre-Columbian times, that I thought were particularly good (to me they tell the story of what the woods in our state looked like before they were cleared and how beautiful Nature is when left alone). Alas, none of my entries were selected. I'm looking forward to seeing what the winning entries are, so I can both learn something about making my pictures better, and complain about how blind and ignorant the judges were. I've come to the conclusion that while I occasionally end up with a picture that I think is good, only my best friends and a few family members agree. Figuring out how to take better pictures that appeal to a wider audience including contest judges is my current, formidable challenge. Your 3 characteristics of a good picture are a fine starting point.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
It is very hard to say why your photos were not selected. Looking at the selected ones is a good practise.
@ReinholdFriedrichAuer 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Peter, your video is very interesting, because it touches a problem I have with photography. In contrast to my friend, I cannot go out, (open) to find something which is good to catch - I always need to have a "project" in your words "a story". I have visited many exhibitions, the most fascinating have been those, where series of pictures tells a "story". Sometimes I was able to find a theme for a story - and others liked it. But many times I would like to go out, but missing a project, a story - missing inspiration. Unfortunately I am not very kreative.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Practise will help. The video I linked at the end might help: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r9uApqimpqzLd6s.html
@rpdee7344 2 жыл бұрын
11/12/21 In the USA Navy Photo School one of the assignments was to shoot a series of related photos in one session for news or storytelling to inform our viewers. Or as you have shown a series of photos of a time and place and may or may not be related directly to each other.
@joerghummerjohann4854 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I like the act of shooting. Especially with models, I like it even more than the results :-) Because of enjoying the flow of creativity. Just right now , I've started to use the unique look of Pen-F monotone 2 profile and it's "Wow" effect. And also no retouching needed
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Pen-F is one of those cameras that not much if at all retouching is needed.
@klaustomasini 2 жыл бұрын
I started a theme for my photography: short short stories. Its for myself and how I want to freeze my view of life, my thinking in pictures. after a peroide of to high pushing business life I am refreshing this theme and started to relax again. but I recognized very, very important issues. my way of finding stories changed and I lost my passion to feel and wait for them. now I am reworking on it and I see success.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Great to hear that you are starting to enjoy photography again.
@DannyB-cs9vx 2 жыл бұрын
One can also study what makes a great painting. Artists used many different techniques to make their painting please the eye.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
That is a great tip. Looking at art in its different forms is a very good practise.
@HermannKerr 2 жыл бұрын
You leaked the "Story" too early. Instantly your leak took me to think of the now famous and renowned Vancouver street photographer Fred Herzog who had this very unusual way of looking at things. His pictures told a story about Vancouver. I went to a showing of a collection of his work at the Vancouver Art Galley and it was astounding how his images could put me in the time and place. Ya, just to go out and take images, what it really did for me early on (over 40 years ago) is it got me to see what is really there and strip away automatic mental mechanism of categorising everything and to appreciate the wonder and form of what was before me. I could look at a scene and remember it without ever pressing a shutter. In a way it was oddly sad in retrospect as I stopped taking as (many) pictures. I always thought when I would get back into photograph one day which I thought have involved a 4x5 field camera (I have for a long time been an Ansel Adams fan). When I retired I looked into it and realised it was going to be easier said than done (in which there follows follows a long and, I think, interesting story). Of course I had a number of point and shoot digital cameras over the years, so I started looking at something of a better quality with more control and that would fit my style(a long process) which, in part, brought me to you. I appreciate your approach to photography and I have so far taken some of it to heart. So, I thank you.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. I will definitely look at Fred Herzog's images online if I can find them.
@alunevans9439 2 жыл бұрын
Another interesting video Peter, thanks! I notice the E-M10/2 on your recent video walkabouts despite it being a few years old, is it a favourite camera?
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
I use a few different cameras and I do like the E-M10 MKII a lot.
@bfs5113 2 жыл бұрын
I like what Francine Prose (author) said about what is a good photograph. It begins with, do I want to look at this photograph twice, 3 times, for 20 minutes or have this photograph?
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
That is a good definition. Thanks for sharing it.
@ruuddirks5565 2 жыл бұрын
Indeed purpose is everything. But there is also presentation and public. A photo can be great in one form for certain public and misses the mark completely in another situation. When I moved from an urbanized area to the middle of nowhere, my public changed from photographers to "normal people". It was an eye-opener how different they looked at my photos.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Very good points about the presentation and the audience. Thanks for sharing.
@bamsemh1 2 жыл бұрын
For me I mostly just walk out with my camera, but never sure I get anything good 😅 last night I wanted to get Orion, but I found out that he's too big for the 75mm lens 😅 so I ended up with something else from the sky 😊 I never think about the story of the photo, because I'm not always good to find a story from photos 😬 my aspergers block 😕 but yes, I try to create memories 😊 I just wish there were more shots with the 75mm 1.8, and not only portraits 😬 so I could probably find inspiration 😊
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Do not under estimate the value of memories. Very important.
@bamsemh1 2 жыл бұрын
Will you be hosting critics on our photos again soon? 😊 Been a while since we made an assignment from you 😬 since 2021 was a travel year again, it could maybe be a topic 😊
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
It is a plan to do that again. I have been a bit busy since the work has picked up again. Now it seems that restrictions are coming back... maybe more time again...
@bamsemh1 2 жыл бұрын
@@ForsgardPeter yeah, sadly 😕 they are talking about corona passport requirements and maybe masks again when going out in public. But the only positive thing if it will be a lock down again, is no people out and chances to practice street photography in daytime 😅
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Empty streets are a good opportunity too!
@nippelpippel 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Peter, first of all I would like to praise your great contributions! Some time ago I bought an Olympus OM-D E-M1MKIII and I am very happy with it. After I hadn't dealt with macro photography for a long time, I wanted to start and try focus stacking on the relatively new camera. All settings checked, 60mm 2.8 is on it, it doesn't work. The camera does not show the icon in the display. Do I have any setting that blocks this? I just can't figure it out. Do you have any advice? Best regards, Marcus
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
It should work. There is always a possibility that you have features on that will disable focus stacking. Check that you do not have HDR or some other feature on by mistake. If you have manual focus on by accident stacking wont work.
@nippelpippel 2 жыл бұрын
@@ForsgardPeter it works fine with nice results 🙈😂😂👍👍👍. Thann you so much 😊
@ylvabeba9788 2 жыл бұрын
Kuva on hyvä kun se vastaa tarpeeseen johon kuvaa halutaan käyttää, tietty tekniset vaatimukset pitää täyttää. Mikäli kuva on teknisesti aivan täydellinen, mutta ei vastaa haluttua käyttöä, se lentää roskakoriin hyödyttömänä. Kuvaajalla pitää aina olla selvillä syy miksi kuva otetaan ja mitä sillä aiotaan tehdä, mihin käyttää.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Hyvä pointti. Tarve ja käyttötarkoitukseen sopivuus on juurikin se tärkein.
@hautehussey 2 жыл бұрын
Put them all on the screen at the same time makes it very hard for those of us who watch these videos on a phone.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Sorry about that. I just wanted to show the whole set at once. I understand that it is hard to see the whole set on a phone
@25palex 2 жыл бұрын
Peter, what lens is better to buy, olympus 17 f1.8 or sigma 16 f1.4? who is better?
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Hard to say for sure. Either one is ok.
@25palex 2 жыл бұрын
@@ForsgardPeter same image quality? Same fast af?
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Those two lenses are quite close. I have not tested them side by side.
@25palex 2 жыл бұрын
@@ForsgardPeter thanks Peter
@arunasrimkus1922 2 жыл бұрын
Are the images of your sequence that you've shown taken on the same day?
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, in an hour.
@arunasrimkus1922 2 жыл бұрын
@@ForsgardPeter Wow, these photos are really inspiring, I should try something like that myself! Great video
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
@rhiwderinraytube 2 жыл бұрын
What makes a photograph great? There is a huge difference between a good image and a great image. I have lots of pin sharp, nicely composed and exposed photos - they are good but not great. Greatness is something that makes an image stand out - it isn’t story or sequence, it is one or more elements that make one image stand out. Examples might include a splash of colour in a dull palate, an unusual viewpoint or composition, an image that tugs at your emotions (poverty, war, pollution, struggle, etc) or one that breaks with convention (selective focus, viewpoint, composition, horizon line, subject distance, distortion, etc). When you take a photo and it is good, begin to ask yourself how you could make it a little bit different to really stand out. Sometimes great photos are planned, but many are unplanned, capturing a single moment in time that can never be repeated. (Funny, dramatic, pathos, etc). Just practice and enjoy pushing yourself.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@bosamuelsson3052 2 жыл бұрын
Yes a story dedramatizes the tecknical part of the Photo a bit…
@69horatioh 2 жыл бұрын
I am not really interested in the technical stuff. I love composition and story.
@sosomelodies659 2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately for me 90% of my photos are fillers, 8% are good, and 2% are great. By great I mean, there are Instagram worthy. :-)
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
Not a bad amount of keepers!
@tonyb4326 2 жыл бұрын
If you're not a pro then shoot for your self, it's better to at least have images you can relate to. Hoping other people will like them is a crap shoot anyway, over the years I've found that the images that I thought were really good were not that popular, and the ones that to me were average at best people loved.
@1957PLATO 2 жыл бұрын
True words, my friend. I have the same experience. Normal people look at a photo in a different way than us, photo enthousiasts.
@ForsgardPeter 2 жыл бұрын
That is a very good point about the audience that look at our photographs. Images resonates differently for different type of audience.
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