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So happy you're making videos again! I hope all is well :) I've been wondering about this for a while... what glasses are you wearing??

great videos but your sound is extremely over-compressed.

There is one myth that needs debunking - Full Frame gives less DOF. That only applies if you move closer to the subject. Examples at 100mm f2.8, all at the same distance (5m) to the subject :- FF = 399mm APSC = 261mm 4/3 = 192mm To get 192mm DOF on FF, the distance needs to be 3.5m Simply put, FF increases DOF at the same distance - the opposite of what everybody thinks, Could this be a myth started by camera manufacturers to sell more expensive kit ?

skill issue

As someone you mostly shoots landscape architecture for the vast majority of my pictures depth of field isn't something I need to worry about. Just close the aperture down and have everything in focus but in some cases its really interesting to play with it a bit and control the whats the main subject of the picture is.

Boring obvious info

Great vid, nice one! Don't also forget the 'curse of Alex Webb' - the now ubiquitous and overused use of the silhouette in street!

The effort you put on your videos is incredible. Thanks for sharing, you're amazing.

Definitely took some Alex Webb photos when I was a kid playing with my father's camera

❤ Your voice is so soothing!

this is the second video of yours I've watched and I find your presentation style to be concise, informative and unpretentious. Subscribed.

You can utilize the grid setting on the mobile camera to level up your shot.

"Choice is the enemy of creativity." ❤❤❤❤

I've been doing this for 50 years, you explain things very well. I wouldn't put too much effort into metering, though, just shoot it and look at it. Adjust. The other thing I would add is using hand-held light sources can be useful, not for trails but illumination.

Excellent video. Thanks 😊

Hi Jamie. Followed your vids for years. You are the Gold Standard for both info and editing. I have a small channel and would love to ask your advice for better animated sequences. Yours really add the polish to your already excellent content. Could you please point me in the right direction for levelling-up this part of my presentation? (For example the 0:16 intro sequence playing with colour bands - frickin awesome!) Is it done with after effects? Do you outsource? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, Anthony.

Once I got into the habit of shooting f5.6 and higher, I started to have a lot of fun with the freedom of thinking more about composition than focus. It really makes a difference in your perspective.

I prefer the less pretentious term "Toneh".

Absolutely wonderful video on every level, Jamie.

My olympus camera has a live time bulb mode where you get updates on the current exposure of your image. I have a 45mm f/1.8 lens with a variable ND filter, I can use to try out this shooting technique. Thanks for the explanation.

Graphic composition - using the "object" as the center or as an element to lead into the scene - and using light like a brush to highlight and amplify the beauty and sensuality of objects, lines, and shapes - are the differences between clicking a picture and visual art. This is the message in this video. But - spreading it over 17 minutes is an overkill.

I hate shallow depth of field, you shouldn't have to brute force your viewer into looking at a thing.

Had 35mm system 2 lenses adaptors about 25lb of stuff. Loved it. Died at 20 years.

another masterclass by a pure perfectionist. one of my favourite content creatures out there, thanks again jamie.

You're an amazing creator and you're content always leaves me thinking deeply, keep up the great work Jamie.

This the dumbest thing i have heard. Using shallow depth of field because you paid money for it! Haha!! Thats american maybe. Its just a setting. A tool. Many of the photos you showed would have looked better with more closed down blades so you can actualy see whats in the background. Also the picture is sharper more closed down. Also it gives some wiggle room fir the character, and its realy not necesary to have eyes in focus, but ears out of focus. To me it sounds you completely miss the point of photography. And just like expensive things, if you were a woman, you would have huge implanted breasts, and 100 pladtic surgeries, just because you can! And look hideous :)

In print journalism we had an expression "f/8 and show up"

I just got one... I'm hardly 5'1"... The thing in taller than me... I could hardly reach the top... My small hands couldn't "twist" the thing but I after a couple tries and between me holding the top center with my chin and trying to "twist"... "I got it!!" Thank you for the video 😀.

Is Webb more of a “photographer’s photgrapher”? A lot of those photos seem to be just street photos of 3rd world countries. I guess what I’m saying is I don’t get it. These aren’t amazing photos unless you know a lot about photography.

15:00 „With a lesser photographer this may look accidental or poorly composed…” - …but when you're Alex Webb you're allowed to do so and nobody gives a ****. Still not being Alex Webb you better beware! 😅

This is actually quite informative and thought-evoking video. I was curious for some info how the photographers work their shots to get the final image. A lot of things happen after "the snap".

Just posing a question. Does a long exposure compress a moment in time, or spread it out? It’s not hard to argue that a picture is a slice of time, space and light… but a long exposure is not so much a slice, but a loaf.

The general rule i have developed is: never start out trying to do something good. Instead, do something random or even crappy and then make it good. Everyone fights "blank page syndrome", where you feel frozen and unable to make that first mark because you don't want to put it in the wrong place, or be the wrong thing. "It was a..." No That's passive. "The man jumped..." Too direct. You realize that rather than putting things right from the start you can take things that are there are improve them.

Why this annoying background sound? It makes it hard for hearing impaired people to understand.

A great teacher Jamie & very inspiring. Many thanks❤

So educational, I learned so much, Thank you so much 🤙

I like your opinon.

From one Jamie to another. Nice to see a post like this. People really do often overuse it. I have been taking portraits for years and I have learned to use shallow DOF sparingly. To my eyes it can be really dull and predictable. It also slows down the consumerist engine where people think they have to spend thousands and thousands on ''pro'' fast lenses just to fit in. Now that iphones have computational shallow DOF, I hope the obsession will wane.

Indeed so. One thing you want your lens fast is when you do paid work shooting weddings or some other occasions, where you are very heavily reliant on your environment and subjects. You need to provide the professional looking shots even if your environment issint great or your subjects are not cooperating with you. Fast lens means that you can separate your subject from the background and this really helps a lot.

Hmm…I agreed… but instinct is best…

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I swear I knew this guy, do you have a brother called Craig Windsor?

People who feel they must shoot at 1,4 at all times are among the most boring twats in the world.

Thank you for showing how to break out of the self imposed boundaries of shallow depth of field by providing clear and concise guidelines for doing so or to courage necessary to embark on this path intuitively.

Awesome content brov

I like shallow depth of field unless it's an environmental portrait.

I recently came across a video on reddit of a fashion film where the filmmaker used a m43 camera with a vintage mamiya lens and it looked like a technicolor dream where with a deep focus the crowded background was as much a part of the imagery as the characters. This guy made the subject standout purely through composition and colors. It had an overwhelming response on his insta page but then I came across a comment on reddit where a guy “points out his failure” of not being able to create a shallow depth of field and introduces the concept of an ND so that he could correct the error 😂 The filmmaker was sweet enough to not mind it at all but it made me think how synthetically we sometimes approach what is pure art. This video is such a positive and inspiring piece for me after coming across something like that coz you cant help but think if it isnt rubbing off on you being surrounded by such approach all the time. Thank you for this

No actually I've never fallen for the shallow depth of field trap. I'm a stereo photographer and always go for maximum depth of field. Stereo photographers usually control their composition carefully, keeping the entire scene in focus so the viewer can explore the whole space.

this is a great video, very informative. thanks

I am a fan of deep focus, but didn't like any of these Alex Webb photos. I also think the composition grid makes them worse not better.