Take Better Photos Episode 8 - What to Photograph
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- In this recording of a live webinar, Nick Rains rounds off his eight-part photography instruction series with a look at 'what' to take photos of, rather than just 'how'. Nick examines the concept of mental templates, an idea previously articulated by author and photographer Michael Freeman.
- Krátké a kreslené filmy
Nick, very nice shots these. And thank you for the explanation and highlights too.
Please don't stop your tutorials. They are excellent.
Thank you so much for explaining everything in a language I can thoroughly understand as a novice photographer with an eye for beauty and a love of what I now know to be Wabi-Sabi and all things old and full of character (I love your Chevy pictures especially) I must go back now and start your series from episode 1 🙂
These videos are a hidden gem
Simply put, spectacular pictures and a wonderful informative video
Glad you think so!
Nick truly is a great photographer in his own right! Beautiful work! Thanks so much for this lovely series
Spectacular series - a true masterclass!
What a pleasure and have learned so much from the first 7 aides
Great advice to go out with a strong thematic sense of direction, or having a mental template in mind, as you put it. Know in advance what you are going out to shoot, and stay focused on that visual theme.
Beautiful images and wonderful examples to plant the seeds when out and about shooting. Thanks.
Marvelous episode, thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is a superb presentation. It’s incredibly helpful and illuminating. Thank you!
Great info Nick. I also want to tell you that Leica Australia has an awesome channel. Great job Nick.
Thanks!
Brilliant video, vey well presented and very informative
Glad it was helpful!
49:00 My favorite picture.
Thanks for sharing !
An excellent series, Nick. Thank you for sharing your expertise and artistic eye. Now, to use the knowledge...
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you very much. Every episode was helpful and interesting!
Glad to hear that!
This is good stuff
Great explanation and I agree totally with with the concept. I see it as a visual database built over time, looking at the world and studying photography and photographers. Thanks for the insight!
Really inspiring session. Please do more of them ;-)
Very informative, and your photography is really great. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thank you!
Awesome, thank you!
very very informative... thanks a lot for sharing!
My pleasure!
This was such a great teaching series!
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent ideas
Glad you like them!
Best regards from Portugal. I wish you the best!
Thank you! You too!
Regards from Canada, love your videos
Thank you very much!
perfect explanation, learnt a lot from you.
many thanks, keep teaching pls.
You are welcome!
This is a great video, Cameras and Lenses would have to make up a big part of the shooting experience, how do you decide what camera and lenses you bring with you when go out shooting? Currently "2022" use Nikon (3 Nikon DSLR cameras) and Fujifilm XT3 camera, but I have been looking to invest into the Leica system because of weight for long time now. I miss shooting film back in the day before digital took off (my reasons why I have adpoted well to the Fujifilm mirrorless system for the Fuji film simulations) so looking to replace majority of my Nikon gear for Leica, particularly the SL2-S because of its BSI sensor and its incredible punchy colours out of camera and the Q2Monochrome for its amazing dynamic range with monochromatic images (just like shooting Kodak film again).
The more experienced you get, the less gear you carry. I only really use a single SL2 with 18mm, 24-90 zoom and, occasionally, a 180mm. 90% of the images you see in my videos were shot on this gear (I have a CL too, for when I only want one small camera or a second body). All this fits easily in a small Thinktank shoulder bag.
Some great ideas thank you. I am currently checking out time lapse which is easy to set up on my SL2 but rather complicated to process as a video thereafter.
I note that the Q2 can do this "in camera", have you used time lapse with the sl2?
Processing timelapses is tricky for sure. The SL2 cannot do it 'in camera' but if you want some more inspiration and technical advice, try here: lrtimelapse.com/
@@LeicaCameraAustralia Many thanks.
Backlighting - do you focus on the sun (or anything bright) or the dark objects or do you find something grey and focus on that.
You focus on whatever is the subject. You let the meter do the work of exposure, and override it using Exposure Compensation if necessary. See my video about Exposure: czcams.com/video/Rjqj2yznOt0/video.html
Do you think the 18 mm Super Elmar ASPH is a suitable lens on my SL2 for those colorful tulips in the Keukenhof Gardens? Are there any particular items that I should be aware of when shooting into a field of tulips? Is the Summicron a better choice when shooting into the sunlight? Thanks.
An 18mm would certainly be one way to shoot those wonderful tulips, but there are many others. All Leica lenses perform well when shooting into the light, it's one of their strengths.
Hello NIck, I noticed episode 2 is missing from the series of videos 1-8.
I think you will find it is there. Might be on another page.
czcams.com/video/G08ay62pECU/video.html
I do love these technical sessions. I wonder is someone can answer a technical question for me - I have a Leica D lux 7 and I want to do some offcamera flash work. What do I set the flash sync to - the manual says 1/4000th but that seems too fast?
I confess I have not used the D-Lux 7 with flash but you don't have to use that particular sync speed - that is the fastest shutter speed that can be used with the dedicated flash. You can use slower speeds if you want to balance a flash with the available light exposure. The D-Lux has a normal hot-shoe so you should also be able to use an off camera flash with a remote trigger, although you will almost certainly need to manually control the flash exposure in this case.
@@LeicaCameraAustralia Thank you for the reply - I was wanting to do some portraits indoor with the DLux 7 - basically low key shots - so the intention was to take a test shot which was black - having removed all ambient lighting so I am in total control of the light - to do that I understand you set the isa to the native iso of 100, and the aperture to something small like f8 say plus set the flash sync speed - I just struggled to see that the sync speed could be as high as 1/4000 for a manual shutter curtain. Maybe I am getting confused and the sync speed is 1/150 or something?
For flash, the shutter speed is actually irrelevant, as long as the shutter is fully open when the flash fires (up to max sync speed). Shutter speed, ISO and aperture affect the ambient exposure. Only ISO and aperture affect the flash exposure. This allows you to balance ambient and flash by setting the flash exposure and then varying the shutter speed to change the ambient exposure. It's a little tricky but once you have grasped the concept, not too hard.
@@LeicaCameraAustralia Brilliant Nick thank you so much for taking the time to reply - I appreciate it.
I enjoy your videos and your work, Nick. As a neuropsychiatrist, I get the concept behind what you are calling a "template". However, I wonder if that term connotes too much rigidity or a cookie cutter way of seeing the world? We don't really form templates as such. In fact, many photographers would argue that we should abandon anything like that and try to see the world in a LESS preconceived way in order to be more creative and see possibilities. Maybe words like "attractors" or "visual hooks" are more like what is actually going on in our brains when we encounter a scene and pick out/sort things of particular (and to your point, repetitive) interest? Anyway, I agree with your content completely. Just not the template thing :)
Yes, fair comment. I was using the term from Michael Freeman's writings on the subject but I see where you are coming from. I see 'templates' as being part of our mind's sub-concious pattern recognition abilities but maybe 'trigger' or 'attractor' is appropriate. Actually I use the term 'attractor' in terms of conscious composition rather than what piqued your interest in the first place, but I guess that's a similar concept.
@@LeicaCameraAustralia Nick, we never really know why we are attracted to something, conscious or not, right? But, you are so right about pattern recognition...most of which is unconscious. But at some point, we "willfully" arrive at a photographic composition, though a lot of what drove it is beneath the surface in one's sub-conscious patterns. Complicated stuff. But at the end of the day, creativity is about finding new patterns or new applications of existing patterns regardless of where they come from. Happy shooting!
Less Corona is no reason to stop the Leica Conversations.. Please all you Leica channels..
You keep saying 'good picture, bad picture'. But what are these pictures good for? A few likes on IG? Hahaha
Good in the sense that they are useful for my clients and, I hope, visually pleasing. As a travel and documentary photographer for the past three decades I find I need good pictures for my various books, as well as the commercial clients I shoot for.
@@LeicaCameraAustralia I can understand if you are shooting these with an 8x10 or old Eggleston style. But nowadays anyone with right gear can shoot these with eyes closed. NBD!
@@joannerodgers8227 you are very rude and ignorant
Why would you make such unkind nasty unhelpful comments about someone who is trying to hep others improve their skills free of cost to the viewers