I have all the common public speaking problems, like using filler words. Erm. So. You know. I’m working on taming them. It's also one of the reasons this YouTube channel exists so I thought I’d share how being a YouTuber could help with making presentations and public speaking anxiety, and improve the way we communicate.
The sitter isn’t the only person benefiting from the portrait. There’s also an upside for the person behind the camera. I give a lot of myself when taking pictures, but I realize and appreciate that at the same time I'm receiving.
What do we get out of it? Well that's what this video is about. We get the valuable gifts of connection, confidence and wisdom.
Grab your camera - Artists have both strived to embrace, and to free themselves from the linear perspective that has been prominent in works since the renaissance. Photographers have to be really clever to side-step perspective, and in this video I'll show you how.
No one wants a label, but it can be handy when you are looking for appropriate sources of information to get further ahead. I came across the term “camerist” in a photo magazine from the early 1900s. In this video we'll explore the relationships between the novices, amateurs and professionals, with a nod to the Kodakers while we are at it.
The exposure triangle takes a simple concept of 3 settings that change the amount of light you capture, and makes it needlessly complicated. In this video, I'll show what we should be using as a visual aide instead of the terrible triangle, as well as show what happens if we treat the triangle as a real graph with three variables.
Even if you never shoot a roll of film in your life, there's some wisdom to inhale from the simpler days of analog photography.
Just by looking at the features of mechanical cameras we can see how to cut through the noise and uncover the fundamentals of what we need to know. This isn't just making pictures, its remembering the pleasure that got you started in the first place.
I'll bet you aren't taking pictures just to hear the sound of the shutter. Why do you take pictures? And how will you create your best work?
This video is for those who want to critique the work of others AND those who will be having their own work critiqued. Critiques are not random, and they're not a free for all. Here are 5 tips to frame a quality analysis of photography and art work.