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I will tell what Rule of Thirds is, what landscape composition is and of course give you some composition tips and rules. After watching this video you will know what framing and composition are in Photography.
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Yes, Peter,
I totally agree it's important to know why breaking the rules will turn a mediocre image into something that has real impact.
Being aware of the "rules" will get you a well-crafted, yet very standardized, image that's 90% of the way there. That inspired last 10% is where you add something unexpected.
Another great instructional video,
Rick Bear
(Professional photographer in the UK.)
Thanks Rick again for your input.
Thanks for this video, Peter. This week's assignment in your 2022 52-week challenge is "golden ratio" and it's led me back to this video and some others for inspiration. I'll be submitting a beauty and fashion image based on the golden spiral composition tool.
Composition is difficult (for me). Fibonacci spiral, one can fit it to terrible images - and to the best images (for example).
So here is a tip I used back in the 1990s at the university (with some decent computers for the time):
Photoshop had come out a few years earlier - and they had implemented this "sketch filter" (where it took a photograph and simulated a charcoal drawing). Internet also started to go WWW with images being uploaded.
So I started to search for images I knew/liked by my favourite photographers. And though the images were usually low-res, it did not matter much, because I pushed the sliders of photoshop "all the way"...to get as simple as sketch as I could. Removing the factor of the depth of field. Removing the factor of light or colour.
I also scanned some of my own images to do the same.
O boy did I get a shock. Great photos made this amazing charcoal lines that described the scene perfectly with the minimum of lines. My images had lines all over the place. In other words, they were cluttered by the tree, by the street, by another tree, the bicycle and whatever else I had tried to cram into the frame.
It thought me a lot about we see reality (and how we filter common things "out of frame" when we focus at a scene). It is similar to sitting in a theatre, 100% involved in what we see - if I snapped an image of it we would obviously see the light rig - all the other sitting in the theatre, the green exit lamps....something totally different than the feeling of being immersed in the play (to use an obvious example).
I am waiting for the first camera maker that introduces the "charcoal real-time view" in the EVF/LCD (it should be easy to do with today's edge-detection program lines) - half-jokingly.
I do tip people to do this exercise with favourite images (also own). If it instinctively works as a charcoal/pencil drawing, one is probably onto something. If it looks like my images (looking like someone on the phone that has been doodling - one is probably not onto something.
(PS - one can also do this exercise with the most famous paintings through history and get similar insights of how they composed with lines and shapes)
Another of your really helpful videos Peter ;what is particularly helpful is both the practicality of your tips and the use of photos to demonstrate the points . Great work and a very useful series of tips many of which I use in practice but setting of them in context and options makes them come to life.
Thank you.
Good ideas and advice Peter - thank you
Thanks a lot for this concise and useful tutorial. Much appreciated...
Thank you, this great info
Interesting. I use all the methods you mentioned all the time😀
I have seen a few your photos and yes can see that you do!
Once again, thank you very much! Very helpful as always. Your videos are terrific; I look forward to them. Thanks.
Thank you so much!
Thanks Peter! I always learn something new and interesting from your videos. Please keep up the good work.
Thank you!
great examples and images
Thanks.
Your pictures are terrific. Thanks for sharing your expertise with us.
Thank you.
A great lesson, thank you :)
Great to hear!
One of your best videos. I will watch it quite a few times and use it to learn how to better compose my pictures.
Thank you.
Thanks for your guide in the world of photography! I'm a guru in it, but I wolud like to add several rules like a patterns and match color, shape and trying different angles of shot.
Good additions.
Great video! A tip I learned years ago was to use the rule of third grid lines to judge my levels. I can check if my verticals are straight and I never have issues with crooked horizons either. Actually it was such a habit that the first things I did when I bought my EM5 was to turn on the grid lines and turn off the built-in level. Another thing that determines my composition is aspect ratio.
Very good content...once again
Thank you.
Grid line tip is great. I’m constantly getting my horizon shots leaning 2-3 degrees to the left or right. Grid lines rule. TY
I cannot self critique. The happiness I experience while making an image always clouds the way I look at it later. It’s tough to admit your photo is terrible when the memory of making it was so enjoyable.
Yes, but the memory of making is a big part of the process.
hello peter good to see alway great to see your video...
Thank you.
@@ForsgardPeter no thank it hard to put your self in front of that cmera two time a week, it big commitment you're fulfilling to the photography Community. people like you are a that's it to CZcams
Very good vlog!
Thank you.
Thank you Peter for this video. I enjoyed being reminded again of the rules. I’m a very spontaneous photographer and loses my ‘mind’ when photographing - what I mean is I forget rules :) . By the way, one of our South African ambassadors and the marketing manager from the UK introduced a group of us to the new OMD EM5 iii. I still have my first EM 5 and I’ll wait for my EM 1 ii to be upgraded to iii.
Here's another one, spiral staircase + golden ratio, really works
Good advice and excellent pics to illustrate themes, Peter. Impressive city snow scenes, but my favorite image was the gull eating from a bag, with man in background also eating (super interest, plus humor, critical moment).
Thanks.
The you Peter. Great rules for photgraphy.... I am one of those that likes to break the rules.
Hope you do it in purpose? Of course sometimes accidental rule breaking can lead to great images.
Having items in the foreground often gives your image a 3D feel. Funny, I was writing this just as I reached your section of the video where you covered this subject. Good job, thanks. 👍 p.s. most people just point and shoot without any thought of composition. That’s why what could have been an excellent shot is just mediocre.
I often use the rule of thirds and symmetries, because they are the simplest and because, unfortunately, I don't have the time to reason and analyze a scene as I would like. But I also love the sixth rule, breaking the rules :)
Yes, breaking the rules is fun!
Really good info, Personally I’m no good with computers so post production for me is really hard, as I’m not interested with computers it makes learning hard work and for me very boring so cropping is really easy and use that most. I try to get my picture as near as i want it to be before I take the picture whereas my partner hammers away on the shutter and sorts her pictures out on the computer, two very different approaches but we both get there in our own way. P.S. don’t know how you find time for all the videos you post but I do appreciate it thank you
It is true that spending time on the computer is away from making images. I see it as a part of the process like darkroom used to be. Nothing wrong with straight photography either.
About find time to do videos. It is sometimes a bit hard, but happen to like making them.
I tend to mess up images in post process because I overthink them. Too many tools to mess with. I find that slight tweaking is best, at least for me.
@@MarkMphonoman "Too many tools to mess with." Indeed!!
Good vlog, I enjoyed the aspects that led into each other, particularly the end No6 break all the rules, this gave individuals something to aspire to, in seeing the perspectives and attain freedom with growth. what is possible? Anything if you learn the basics.
Yes, learning the basics is important. That is the whole base of going forward.
I have all the methods in mind when taking photographs, and try to use what suits the motif best, but it's not as easy as it seems, I try to learn from watching other people's images that I really like.
Looking at photographs is a great way of learning. Do you have a favorite photographer?
@@ForsgardPeter I have always been interested in classic black & white photography, and Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ansel Adams are photographers that have inspire me a lot.
Good video. I have another one. It's not what you do, it's how you do it. 😉😀
Very intresting video Peter. This video made me want to go out and take photos
And do you now why Olympus dont have a high megapixel camera like the Sony have the 61mp and nikon has 40mp cameras
Probably because Olympus uses much smaller Micro Four Thirds sensors. It's doesn't make sense to build high Megapixel MFT cameras as you will have a lot of noise in the images. Some Olympus cameras offer a composite High-Resolution mode though.
Thank you. Hope you have time during this weekend to make some images.
16 and 20 megapixels is a very high resolution. A magazine cover is about 8 megapixels. As most people will display their images online, the current Olympus cameras give you much more than you need. Also, Olympus lenses are very high quality, and enable the camera to use the pixels on the sensor effectively.
Shoot with confidence. You have all the megapixels you could ever need.
Footnote: Sony just released information on a 47 MP MFT sensor that is coming out soon.
Its in the eye of the beholder...
"Rule" of thirds is the one I use more often because it is the simplest way to begin with composition 😅.
The second one I use as often as possible is the framing.
Anyway, I prefer the leading lines but I found that it is not the easiest technic 😜
Leading lines is not easy, but very effective.
Rule of thirds; the grid is invaluable!
Uso la Regola dei Terzi ( Rule of Thirds ) :-)
I think you misspelled "BRAKE". It should be BREAK. Anyway, good video. Basically, use rules 1-5 as a guide to find your own path to rule 6.
I did, sorry about that and thanks for pointing it out.
A picture I saw the other day, taken maybe a hundred years ago. Seven eight men spread across the middle and bottom of the picture. Everyone smokes a pipe, but at the bottom left you find a dog, it also has a pipe in the mouth and looks towards the photographer. Well, all the rules have exceptions and this one made me laugh.
Do you remember who has taken that photo? Can it be found online?
@@ForsgardPeter It might be online, but I got it offline. It's actually thirteen people placed as a normally group picture in three rows. About half of them has a pipe i their mouth, and the dog down in the left corner, also with a pipe in his mouth.
It's just a normal group picture and you have to se it twice to catch the dog with the pipe. A ordinary picture untill you see the dog. No names, no nothing.
“Breaking the rules.” Happens to me often. By mistake. LOL 😁 I really hate when that happens. For me, it usually means a ruined shot.
I am to much symmetry, which afterwards make me think.... boring. I need to reprogram myself.
Not necessarily boring, but of course a little variety makes it more interesting.
Your video are always so raw, and feel like your talking to me. down to earth, straight like a nice scotch.. All the other you tuber are so rehearsed and so scripted. there some truth in way you leaving small error in your video, or just correct on the fly. The Secret to your success, Will be to not fearing to revealing trade secrets, the deep you look into your past and expressing your journey of how you have achieved your current photographer status. this how you'll pull tighter your viewers to your level and understand of photography. growing your Community,,,the closer to your goal you will be of making everyone a better photographer. More subscribers you will achieve I'm sure. go deeper brake down the complexity of it all, simplify clarify and Guide,
time for a third video a week, of you on site,
in your photographer role..
just maybe have a camera follow you at first
no talking needed. live feed in real time( is rocket fuel peter.)
just showing work flow. as start
processes, setting up workspace on professional level on assignments
Thank you for the comment. I especially liked this one: "down to earth, straight like a nice scotch..". Thanks.