Shifter: Question and Answer 33
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- čas přidán 16. 03. 2022
- Let me provide yet another warning about the realities of Instagram. I digress, again. For those of you wondering why I do so many question-and-answer films the truth is they fit my schedule and timeline. They are simple to produce and they are simple to edit and deliver. Without further ado.
1. 7:50, Do you feel pressure to post on CZcams?
2. 11:40, What are your current Fuji motion settings?
3. 13:16, Do you honestly recommend creating a website or blog with a view of showing work in the future?
4. 16:54, When making pictures, do you think about editing and sequencing or do you wait until later?
5. 18:59, What has changed or improved since your "How to do long term projects?" film.
6. 21:48, What is your advice about labeling your slides for achieve?
7. 24:47, What does your year look like photographically, and what is the best vs worst-case scenario?
8. 29:24, Do you have any resources that demystify photography and photojournalism? What do you think about education? What schools? - Zábava
Dog treats.... Part of my EDC are a pocket full of dog treats... I don't do Instagram... Make more prints! I resist pressure to post. I do not tapdance! I post when I want to. Good job, Dan!
DOG TREATS. that is a great idea.
Great as always ☘️
I want to say thanks for turning me on to Alec Soth in the last question. I went straight to his website. just finished his videos "real time vs. story time" and "The Photo Album" and they answer so many questions along the lines of sequencing, simplifying and time, especially the use of triptychs to express passage of time. Great stuff and I love his laid back humble approach. We are all about the same age. So getting back to the pre-internet/soc media photo album format is something I appreciate along with the DIY hand made, not published book making. Thanks again, keep it coming
He's legit. An actual working photographer. A rare breed in the online world. His books are really solid too. And his publishing co.
I for one want you to stick at you CZcams work Dan so please don't have a moment and walk away. You are towards the unique end of the spectrum both re content and style and an antidote to so much detritus that poses as reality. A cup of tea with Dan is something I really enjoy.
EDC? Only in America!
No plans to fly just yet.
Thanks Dan, I greatly appreciate you giving your time and thoughts.
Mocking the EDC crowd is the prelude to joining the EDC crowd.
Yep, I'm right there. As long as I don't carry more than seven knives at once I should be fine.
I learn about new things every single time I watch a film of yours. Kiitos.
That's a good thing. I feel the same anytime I crack a good book.
Your Q&A videos are great.
I ENJOY Your stuff... I am weird,,, But so are You !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, I am.
Best one yet.
After watching the most popular YT photography channels for years, I realized that theres something sneakily wrong with most of em.
Most are full of affiliate links.
Many invite you pay them money via Patreon.
Many do it indirectly by asking strangers to buy them coffee.
I know many who actually borrow or use X100V or GR3 that do not belong to them, and their motive is just to create videos of such hyped-up products because they know theres a very high viewership of videos of such over-hyped products.
If you look into the non-English photography sites of other non-English speaking countries, such cameras are never over-hyped to such extent. It reminds me of Glock pistols and Benelli shotguns😂 Such is the immense power of American media.
Today, i hv stopped watching such marketing garbage, and confine myself to only your channel and that of Mitchell Kanishkevich. Only 2 channels.
Keep up the great work!
Great time spent hanging here with you. I have to say for the heck of it - there is a benefit to shooting raw+jpeg and it may actually surprise you how helpful the jpeg is in some situations as a reference file. I mention that since you can tailor the jpeg to the shooting style you may feel like in the moment - while of course having the raw to change to the feeling you have anytime after in the remaining history of humanity. Shooting the jpeg in Acros+red filter gives a different feel than Astia than Eterna. Eterna is nice if you seek to see in that F-Log feel. You will also see the lens corrections in the jpeg whereas you miss them in raw. Anyway just my 7 cents.
Damnit Remler, stop commenting with valid information. It goes against this entire online world. But you are correct. I think for me it's all about routine. I've been doing the same exact thing for so long I don't know anything else. Living with digital blinders on. But nobody is more together when it comes to shoot, file, share than you are. It's impressive.
@@DANIELMILNOR505 One other tidbit. You can shoot the jpeg in the smallest format for those that think space issues - and still have the full raw. I use the jpeg as a reference file or sometimes as main. I mean how many sunset raws does one guy need>??
Alec Soth is really really good. Love his work.
Refreshing to hear your thoughts on all this. Your advice/ideas/words certainly resonate with me. Like many, I know I've been unconsciously 'sucked-in' to all the shallow, 'social-media inspired' photography content....which one lingers over for less than 3 seconds...and which is as quickly forgotten. Your thoughts on all this are fresh and inspiring..........and encouraging. Like a spring clean of my 'mind studio'. Awesome.
Yes, we measure now with thumb swipes and like buttons and then photographers wonder why the bottom falls out of the industry and nobody wants to pay for work. Makes my head hurt.
I would suggest the book 'Pictures on a Page- Photo-journalism, Graphics and Picture Editing by Harold Evans. 1979. Written at the height of photography
Sounds like a perfect book.
RE writing on slides, I recall reading the submission guidelines for The Image Bank. They specified that each slide should be labelled. I also recall specific software packages that dealt with printing slide labels.
Oh. ya, we had them back in the day. They would feel like ancient techniques now.
Got to the point where I now feel a little lift of surprise and joy when you publish a new QnA, feels like it could disappear at any time, and CZcams would be a lesser place without you. Thanks for making the time to make these, much appreciated. Just a heads up incase you're not aware, it not the done thing to refer to "the" Ukraine, like it's just a region that still belongs to something bigger.
Yep, it's a strange take on "'the" but whatever works for them works for me.
@@DANIELMILNOR505 Hi Dan, I've got a question for you... Double exposures, just discovered the function on my Fujifilm bodies after you talked about in your recent 'picture package' episode.... Any tips on what works in terms of composition / lighting but also the psychology of doing these in camera instead of in post, have you ever thought, heck I've just made one crappy image from two great ones !?
And the ones that do EDC every year…I can say some names but I better behave. Lol. That’s like the whole “what’s in my purse” videos. It’s simple. Purse. wallet. Hand sanitizer. Keys. Phone. Oh and chapstick cause dry lips are gross. I bought a field guide for birds off of eBay. Seen an eastern blue bird and managed to get a decent photo of it, too. I haven’t been on social media in over a year now(aside from CZcams of course). Enjoy your q&a videos. Keep ‘em comin’.
Birds and no social. You are on YOUR WAY. Well done Tina. Oh, just picked up a book from the library titled "Life List" about a female birder who is the record holder for most species seen in a lifetime. But, she wasn't macho. She thought she was dying.........her story is incredible.
definately laughing at the EDC stuff! lol. yes, they are fairly extreme. My EDC is super simple, my wallet, my phone, my keys, and a package of fishermans friend lozenges. what else does one really need in a everyday living?
Please tell me everything matches???????
@@DANIELMILNOR505 EDC has nothing on photographers and bags.
The EDC thing made me laugh so hard. Such a funny little community, I love them, I’m a part of them, and I can’t take them even sort of seriously at the same time.
Birdwatching is just so fantastic - on any level :) Best medicine in the world.
Reading about Phoebe right now. What a story. A bit odd but still an obsession worthy of note.
I'm serious into the edc community and have a separate channel for daily posts on my pocket knives, lol! But it's much, much larger than just white guys with extra income. Women are growing in the edc community in surprising numbers.
Women? What? Nobody is immune! What's next, children?
Once we did a team event, cleaning up a beach in Laguna Beach. Winner received a framed and signed Jimmy Chin print. Still p!ssed that I did not win.
That's a good cause! I lived there for years.
24:26 We need a little documentary on this subject. It would be vastly interesting and important.
This is the white elephant. I have a call on Tuesday of this coming week. A call with both photographers and archivists attempting to figure out a path. Any photographer who says "I have a great system," I would be skeptical. In my experience they are either delusional or they just don't know. This is one reason why so many photogs shoot Jpeg or just save a handful of images from a shoot. They know they can't sustain that data over time. Plus, these folks don't know about licensing and the value of imagery over time. You hear "Oh, that's how it worked in the old days but not now." Again, these are just out of touch snappers who don't know this is how many people survive after their shooting career is over. I just get a request for images from eight years ago. Boom, had them edited and transmitted same day.
Men are attracted to any gear oriented sport/ hobby....golf, fishing, cycling, photography and now edc...
That is very true. My wife just doesn't care. Other things, she does, tech and gear not so much.
if printing one picture a day, are you imagining having a certain printer? any printer?
or a local printing shop to print a small postcard size image? (for me its a 1$)
love that exercise/challenge idea.
Any and all. A cheap printer at home is great. You can also, depending on where you are, FTP to a local lab to get photographic prints which are dirt cheap now.
The EDC crowd is cray-cray! I wonder about their sanity, the stuff some of these people carry around with them is questionable-some are on survival mode-you’d think there was a zombie apocalypse happening. Great video Dan, I like your sense of humor.
Yes, and where are all these people going to bug out to when the roads are impassable and a thousand people are already in the bug out location?
Yeah EDC is a real thing. When I was ten it was a pocket knife. On the CZcams front, you are more interesting than the people that are supposed to to be “informed”. Some remind me of paint drying. So, there is more to CZcams than what is advertised. Your filter is working very well. 😏
Yes, the pocketknife was handed to me as a child. It was a tool I was required to have with me and something I used on a daily basis. Same applies all these years later. I used it three times yesterday.
Holy cow, so it’s like your writing poetry with all these mediums. I figured that’s how you did it, but didn’t know. So when you record video you don’t have a video in mind? Your just like this is cool to shoot?
No plans to walk now but depending on what happens with my life....it's always on the table. I don't have that needy in my blood or soul. I like being alone. I told my wife the other night, "if I never socialize again I will be fine." So the idea of building a large following by playing by those rules just doesn't resonate with me.
Hey dan, any taught on posting on Flickr?
Hey Mark, don't know much about Flickr now but it used to be the single best online photography community. I hope that it still retains that look and feel. Flickr wasn't perfect but the level of conversation went far beyond the thumb swipe.
The EDC group is insane, I've lost interest in loads of bushcraft groups because of this. they need to carry 3 firearms, what a load of plonkers. I'll listen to the rest of your video now
The bushcraft people are hilarious too. Camping in minus forty with no bag, quilt, tent or ground cover. I also love the bushcraft being sold with softcore porn. Woman in bikini in yurt made of Earth. It's endless.
How about the guys that complain you're wearing sunglasses inside?
I love those guys!
6 Degrees in the SW desert while it's 70 degrees in Rochester, NY (yes, I know.. elevation = cold). I can say I'm very successful at not having a following.
NOT having a following does have its perks.
Ciao Daniel. Agreed about your Instagram rant. In order to alleviate, you can manage to watch it on a desktop browser, if it sounds better to you.
Will try..
Instagram is the worst. The whole idea that you can only see images in a tiny format with a portion of text and a shitload of hashtags is comical
It's soul crushing to see how many good photographers became content producers in the race to be liked. And to sit in conversation with these folks and watch as they can't hold eye contact, can't hold a conversation and are mindlessly scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Not to mention what we KNOW the parent company is up to and how many horrible things they have to done to us as a culture. Users simply have to ignore or deny this to continue to engage and....they....do. We have nobody to blame but ourselves.
As a non-American, the first time I heard the silly term “Every Day Carry” was in the early 90s, in American gun magazines, where it was a trend to show which of your firearms are “on your body” everyday. Probably a HKP7 + a not-cheap Emerson CQC7😂
To me, it was a hilariously Neanderthal culture. Were these Neanderthals living in the forest or are they trapped in a violent war zone? 😂🤣
Fast forward to 2020, the same silly term EDC started to appear in YT’s “cameratology”/photogear-obsessed videos.
IMO, its a trend that captivates those who want to be seen as being masculine, outdoor-sy, financially-able, and trendy. Whats the use of a leftist liberal hipster bringing along an over-priced pocket knife and over-priced China-made flashlight to his usual Starbucks ?😂
IMO, this child-like behaviour might also be practiced by such people who’re doing it only for video purposes to hope of becoming a paid advertising platform via attracting the attention of mftrs of over-priced bags, pouches, pocket knives, LED mini torches etc😂.
And I think many of such EDC salesmen on YT are actually unemployed American Anglos with too much time.
Its actually part of the American “Bragging Rights” sub-culture. The love to show-off.
And the shamelessly childish “Fake It Till You Make It” mentality.
Narcissistic society.
I don't know what else to say other than "You nailed it." Time, money, looking for sponsors, etc. And why on Earth would someone carry all those things on a daily basis. Pens and paper sure, but I know people who carry three guns, multiple knives. I always wonder "What are you waiting for?"
@@DANIELMILNOR505
And many of these EDC guys laugh at Preppers😂😂😂😂
Just be aware that it's "Ukraine", not "The Ukraine". The latter is considered an insult to Ukrainians as it suggests Ukraine is not sovereign
Like "The 405." I get it. It is odd however that we use "The United States." But I would never say "the Mexico," or "the Peru."
CZcams is one is the worst locations to learn about photography. You will get a thousand times more by going to a used book store.
Books, talks with working photographers, talks with editors, etc. CZcams, like most social channels, is about following not real data.
I dunno man, I earn a great living thanks to Instagram so... just saying ;-)
Look, I'm not here to tell anyone what to do. Well, okay, sometimes. For me it's not about money. I watched FB and Instagram destroy friends and family alike. I saw it radicalize family members and friends and I watched it destroy a lot of good creatives. I also watched what Zuckerberg and the crew were doing. Mainly, lying to congress, lying to the public, lying to the users and all in the name of total greed. I can make money in a lot of ways. I don't want anything to do with that group. I had a friend who used to sell narcotics. Technically, what he was selling was a specific drug that at the time was technically legal to sell but the government had put a deadline on the calendars for dealers. At this point...it will no longer be legal and we are coming for you. My friend knew it. He also knew the destruction he was leaving in his wake. The addicts, the crime, the human destruction. We spoke about it. He had a Porsche. He had money. He had the stunning girlfriend. But he was haunted. To some degree, this is how I felt. There is also another situation happening. The IG community when it comes to money is like the wild west, an arms race. I see users with zero talent asking for and getting big money from brands. But what's happening is the return is falling off and falling off FAST. My advice, have a Plan B because when the bottom falls out it will fall fast. Again, I'm not saying you need to believe, just sharing.
Thanks for mentioning Ukraine. I was in Lviv ten days before war started and it was peaceful and you couldn't tell that something is going on beside news. Now we're having major humanitarian crisis in Poland with nearly 2mln immigrants, helping however it's possible. Government (supporting Trump btw) is doing nothing. Everything is being done by us, normal people with a bit of compassion. Hope it'll end soon, but as putin started to bomb and shell civilians including facilities with kids inside, I don't see future in bright colours. NATO and UE is doing something, but we should do a lot more. Cheers, stay healthy, stay safe.
Half the US blames Biden for the entire thing. And they blame him for health care, education, gas prices, inflation, the border, taxes, the weather and TV ratings. We are radicalized here almost beyond recognition. Dems sitting around acting like the world is fair and not realizing they are in a street fight. Republicans attempting to revise history in their favor, lying like you and I breath and now claiming Ukraine had to be stopped because of the corruption. (Three Repub friends said this to me this week.) As if Russia had to invade to stop the corruption happening in Ukraine. The same people refuse to believe anyone but the Dems are corrupt. I said this when Trump hit the ballot. If we elect this guy we deserve what happens to us. Let's hope a cease fire can be reached and we end this thing.
@@DANIELMILNOR505 as societies we deserve everything what is happening because of choices we make. In the long run education is everything, our government is forcing changes in education to get children more religious and less educated. People are furious but what can we do when another year of school books is going further in rewriting history and pushing XV centurie theories into kids. Something will stick.. It's disturbing as f.... Situation in Ukraine is really dramatic, every day I hear stories that should never happened. I don't know what media is focused in the US, but things look bad, now russia is just bombing and shooting civilians every day. Hospitals, shelters, blocks with kids inside. Pure evil.
And btw, russia invading Ukraine to fight corruption is the best joke I read in years.. actually both countries have an issue with corruption, but 100% russia is the daddy here
Syria since many years ago (Putin).
You are selling squarespace much better than any other CZcamsr
They are everywhere.....