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Location Session - Sled Dog Portrait

Lesson 17 from: Minimalist Photography

Curtis Jones

Location Session - Sled Dog Portrait

Lesson 17 from: Minimalist Photography

Curtis Jones

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17. Location Session - Sled Dog Portrait

In this lesson Curtis takes you along to photograph one of his favorite Arctic subjects, the Inuit Sled Dog.

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Location Session - Sled Dog Portrait

Yeah. Mm. Yeah. Mm. Mhm mm mm mm mm. Yeah. Yeah. Mm mm. Yeah. Yeah. What a better place to start a conversation about minimalism than out on the frozen snowy bay, just outside of a Halloween nunavut's baffin island up in Canada here in the arctic. And I've been waiting a few days actually for these conditions. These are perfect conditions and a great time to talk about. Uh one of my my favorite ways to shoot minimalistic image is simple images with lots of clean space and that is just to embrace um atmosphere. So what we have up here today is a lot of snow. It's pretty overcast, white on white. So that's really gonna make anything that we want to draw. The viewer's eye to the subject really pop. And it does a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to reducing clutter and noise and distractions and an image producing almost like straight out of camera point your camera anywhere kind of minimalist photos that said, creating a very strong image in these conditions can be tricky and more d...

ifficult because everything kind of looks like a simple photo. Ah you know, when it gets this minimal on this strip down, it can borderline become boring or un engaging. So we're going to try to take some images here today in a minimalist style embracing the atmosphere, which I feel like is one of the biggest ways or best ways I should say, to kick start your minimalist photo career. Go find fog, Go find overcast days, go find snowy days. Blue sky days can work too. But if you really want to keep it simple at first and get like those easy winds, find snow, find fog, find overcast days and embrace them and try to create some strong uh simple minimalist photos. Fix my little laugh, my cure fix my hat. Got to get the hat right? Yeah. Hey guys, so we've got atmosphere, we've got the environment that's going to help us out here with this simple photo, This minimalist photo now, we just need an interesting subject to really pop in the scene and one of my favorite things to shoot up here, and one of the main reasons I keep coming back uh is the sled dog. The sled dog, Canadian sled dog goes by a couple different names, but these guys are gorgeous, gorgeous animals. They're super, super nice to shoot, they make great subjects up here against these northern snowy conditions. Uh this is literally their backyard and so we're gonna try and see if we can capture a few portraits, maybe a couple more environmental styled dog portraits, for lack of a better word, we did get just a fresh, fresh snowfall. Um these guys are excited. We did just get a fresh snowfall. So the dog yard sometimes can be a little cluttered, a little messy. Uh This is gonna help um and help reduce any kind of clean up we do and post as well. Might get lucky, we might get some Ravens coming in on the action which also is is great for just adding a little more attention or or interest in our in our scene. Uh So let's get to work, let's see what we can do with the sled dogs on this gorgeous snowy day. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm mm. Yeah.

Ratings and Reviews

user-3b9448
 

This is a brilliant course which I can highly recommend. I have done some Minimalist photography but still found the lessons very interesting. I enjoyed the discussion on colour vs. B&W. My favourite part was to learn how long it takes to plan a shoot, wait for the right conditions, even change the subject if the initial idea doesn't work and see the other images taken during the shoot before (or after) the final image. The presentation is excellent - love the cat :-).

Bradley Wari
 

Great Job! Great course! loved the bloopers, had a few laughs. I really enjoyed how he showed a little of how he worked the scene of a few of his images. showing multiple images and how he got to THE shot.

Deb Williams
 

Great class, good length and easy to follow along. A fantastic way to challenge yourself to look at composition differently and a course full of useful tips to try out.

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