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Finally a good photographer. I'm tired of "reviewers" that never took a good photo in their lifes haha

Please I can not find your WhatsApp group

Truth is, what was said in this video, is literally all you need to know about photography. For the rest of your life. Good job, sir.

Ok, this is off topic but this dude brought it up …. China is building new coal fired generator plants at like one a month so there is no way they are on the road toward so-called “ carbon neutrality”!

I love the way you slowly and patiently explain things. It makes it easy to follow and understand ❤

Its funny how you told us to subscribe and thumbs up without saying it at 5:53. I paid special attention for sure.

Thank you for a very good discussion on the subject 👍 I am a hobby photographer and my future is more behind me than in front of me so to speak. Anyway, since I like both creating images and writing I decided to put together a short story and send it to friends and family on, more or less, regular basis.What I try to say is that we can enjoy "photo journalism" on many different levels 😊 This kind of videos are so inspiring even for me as a non-professional so please keep up the good work and please also do more discussion's videos 🙂🤗

I'm almost 30 and I realized my age is very young, too young even, to be called professional photographer. Being NG's photographer is my childhood dream Thank you for sharing this with us!

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Vast majority of composition is contrived bunkum If you have to use your brain to figure out the puzzle of composition being used in the photo, then it’s not art. The image should stop you from turning the page & connect with your heart. Hence appropriately gave you a thumbs down. NG is not a licence to get appreciated, sorry!

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Back in 1972 shortly after dropping out of college moving to Washington, DC with a portfolio of twenty 11x14 Zone System B&W prints on 16 x 20 18% grey mats per the preaching of St. Ansel I saw an ad in the Washington Post placed by renowned photographer and teacher Monte Zucker and got an appointment for an interview which required three bus transfers and a mile walk to reach his home office where generously critiqued each of my photos with a pair of L-shaped cropping guides explaining why he was cropping each one. At one point he spun one of my photos in a circled asking me where in the blurred image my eye was attracted-it was a lesson that human perception is attracted to CONTRAST and will be drawn to the objects or objects in a photo which contrast the most from the overall tone of the background. He explained that portrait lighting is based on that, on a dark background by using the key light to create a ‘mask’ of highlights on the front of the face and the viewer will be more attracted to the highlighted mouth and eyes. He explained the length of time the view dwells on the face will be influenced by what other contrasting distractions are in the frame. For example if a person on a dark background is wearing a white shirt it will fight for the highlighted face for attention and win. The better strategy for a portrait on a white background is to put the subject in white clothing and use a lighting strategy like backlighting which makes the front of the face darker than the sides. He also did something with the L-Shaped cropping guides which changed forever the way I compose photos. Instead of starting with the crop at the edge of the photo and bringing it inward he asked ‘what is the focal point you want the viewer to find and dwell on?” and the tightly cropped in on it with the L-guides and expanded outward. When he did that it became obvious where I had allowed distracting contrasting objects to enter the frame. He explained it isn’t a matter of the viewer not finding the focal point if it contrasts the most, but what if anything temps their eyes off of it. For example if there are hands visible in a portrait after taking in the face human nature is to go look at the hands to see what they are doing. If they are not doing something which adds context to explain the subject - i.e. a person holding a stethoscope will convey they are in the medical profession - is it a good idea to even include the hands in the photo? Not if they contrast and will distract from the face. I was so blown away by his common sense composition principles based on an understanding cause and effect of human perception that on the way home I stopped at a hardware store and bought a drywall knife and metal ruler and the evening using a set if L-shaped cropping guides I created cut down every one of my photos winding up with a collection of un-matted 8 x 10, 5x7 and in one photo of a couple a pair of 4x5s knowing at that point I had no way to replace them. I called him to explain what I had done and way and that convinced him to hire me. My next job two years later was at National Geographic working in the photomechanical lab reproducing photos with halftones, duotones and tri-tone and doing all the photo work for its maps, including color separation. While there I got to know some of the photo editors and staff photographers and worked down the hall from the machine shops which made all the custom gear the photographers used and the shop that repaired the cameras. I once asked one of the photo editor what it took to become a staff photographer and he told me that there were thousands of photographers who had the technical skills but what they look for was someone with the ability to tell stories effectively. What they looked for in non-staff photographers were people who came to them with a compelling story idea and who were able to handle all the logistics that are involved in assignment in remote locations. It was an amazing place to work in the mid-1970s when Kodachrome was King. The color lab was next to our and it would test the batches of Kodachrome Kodak produced to find the one with best characteristics and then buy the entire emulsion lot - boxcar loads - because there was variation in speed / color lot to lot, storing it in a freezer. Kodachrome was a dye-transfer process and very complicated to process and to mitigate against any processing failures the photo editors would divide the incoming film into two batches sending half to Rochester and the other half to a processing plant Kodak built in Gaithersburg, MD to service NGS. It was the norm for photographers to shoot many rolls of film for each shot from different points of view and bracketing exposures. Once a photo was selected for a publication it was sent to the lab to be duplicated onto Ektachrome which was processed in house. The lens on the camera used to make the duplicates cost more than my house. The process cameras I operated had 20 x 24 inch and 40 x 48 inch film backs. To make the largest wall maps we would turn the 40 x 48 camera into an enlarger putting the film onto the copy board which was 6 x 8 feet processing the film in huge stainless steel sinks. Color prints for display were made by creating 4x5 or 8 x 10 internegatives from the original Kodachromes. The enlarge was horizontal running on rails on the floor with the color print paper held onto the wall by vacuum. The color print processor could develop paper up to 48” wide. I realized that convention in composition which become “rules” like the “rule of thirds” become conventions because they predict the cause and effect quirks of human perception such as being attracted and seeking to make “eye contact’ if there is a face in a photo-human or animal-because that is an instinctive “are you friend or foe?” reaction. Where do we look next? The hands to see if there is something in them that might harm us. Regardless of how the face contrasts with the background the viewer will seek it out and go to it in the frame THEN be pulled off of it if something less important contrasts more than the face in tone, color, sharpness, shape, etc. There are many forms of contrast and it is possible to give the viewer a clue to the relative importance of various scene elements by creating a gradient of contrast on the objects which is exactly why the compositions in these videos are so effective. It’s analogous to telling a joke. What makes a joke funny is that 1) the audience understands the context; and, 2) they don’t expect the ‘punchline’. What the ‘rule of thirds’ does by placing important story elements on the four nodal points is predict whether the viewer finds the ‘punchline’ focal point first then wanders off it to understand the context (like seeing the face then then noticing the stethoscope) or gets guide over the context before finding the focal point ‘punchline’. If the latter is the goal you’ll want to place it to the right of the frame and make sure its contrast isn’t so strong the eye of the viewer gets pulled left-to-right in the frame past the context.

Think emotion would be the hardest as some people sent keen on having there photography taken

Not fan of tilting water since it gives really strange perspective of water standing still on a sloped land. Otherwise really like these advices.

Sorry but rule of thirds doesn't apply all.the time and yes I'm a professional landscape photographer Yes it has its place but I'm mot obsessed with it

i came here only to comment. i havent watched the video. ive been taking photographs (some good some bad) for publication since 1976. a co-worker of mine has been shooting for a long long time as well. we were looking through a national geographic a few years back and we looked at each and every photograph taken by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC photographers. a vast majority of the photographs were no better than simple snapshots that my mother could have taken with her Kodak Instamatic 404, and kodacolor II 126 film. NatGeo used to have amazing photography. i wanted to work for them once long ago. i did everything i could to perfect my craft. i studied, i talked to award winning photographers, i shot miles (okay i dont know how long the film would come to) of film, practicing and working to be the best that i could. when my friend and i looked at the credentials of the photographers, we couldnt find much about them. no real history of education, or work. we just shook our heads and questioned how that issue was so filled with photos that didnt even aspire to ho hum....

<3 Finally i can sey thank You for good photo ^^

Whats difference between layering and the photography been to crowed

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He talks too slowly for me. I changed it to 2x and it still slow 🥲

In the image of the three Cambodian boys, you've cropped out the top half of the nearest boy's face. Was that planned as a means of making the photograph more appealing?

Thanks so much for coming to Cambodia

Practice each of the principles. Over time it becomes instinct to capture a moment that is just right!

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Great information. With everyone taking snaps these days I feel we have lost these concepts. I’m going to practice each of these one at a time.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your love it. You are a PhD of Photography.

Thanks for watching If you have any questions about these composition techniques, please let me know in the comments below. I really hope they help you improve your images. Want more content like this? Don't forget to like this video and subscribe to help me reach the channel's next milestone, 30,000 subscribers! Download your copy of my new eBook gallagher-photo.com/learn

Great! Interesting and fascinating.

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Excellent work! Thank you!

thanks You Sean!. I like your explanation make it simple to understand and try out the techniques.

The photo u took in jakarta @2:27 reminds me of Goodfellas when Tommy was explaining his mom's painting to Jimmy & Henry 😁

Great video. TFS your tips. ❤❤❤

Suscribed! Thank you for sharing

Wow, I've watched a few of your CZcams videos but only now I learned your focus is on climate and the environment, which happens to be my field of work! I'm a climate scientist by profession and a hobbyist photographer. I was thinking like if the light is so important in photography why you hadn't made a video focusing solely on that. But then, as I watched this video, I found it increasingly insightful, especially towards the end. I understand now that your skill as a storyteller contributes to your excellence as a photographer. This video is truly amazing, and I really appreciate it.

Super 👍.

It's all nonsense!

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What a nice video, i really enjoyed it!

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Notes taken 📝! Subscribed, thanks for the content!

There's another technique for framing. You can use the natural landscape for framing if you're doing something away from civilization. Like areas where water and land meet. Or where rocks cut off part of the sky. They're harder to come by, but pretty neat when it does.

This man talks like my high school photography class teacher, convincing but more importantly, he knows his subject.

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Thank you for giving me such a great video

Off to a good start. @1:15 "Light" - I was in a business partnership where the other person would always want pictures, pictures, pictures. Often I would just look around; look up at the sky, and say "No." Or she'd tell me (not 'ask' which is what got my back up) to get a picture of her with some notable guest at an outdoor event and I would first pause to look up at the sky to gauge the sun instead of just snapping a shot of her and the Mayor or whomever, which drove her nuts, like I was drifting off or something. It's funny to think back to that.