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Lesson Info
3. Tea with Mankins
Lessons
Taking the Jump with Forrest Mankins
06:28 2Workshop Intro with Alex
02:15 3Tea with Mankins
05:47 4Failure
01:52 5Burnout
02:13 6Creating Concepts
02:55 7Planning
02:15 8Finding People to Shoot With
04:49Working with Talent
05:08 10Building A Team
01:17 11Shooting With A Team
08:48 12Film vs. Digital
05:26 13Editing - Referencing Film
23:03 14Editing - Finishing A Concept
03:12 15Presets
02:37 16$500 Challenge - Lake Five
04:41 17Learning Taste
04:08 18$500 Challenge - Land Cruiser
05:14 19Q&A with Alex
30:54Lesson Info
Tea with Mankins
(metal rattling) (piano music) I'm going to make a little bit of, a spot of tea with Forrest. I have a toolbox, a ceramic kettle, and some Slovenian mountain tea that I'm really excited for him to try. I know we usually do coffee, but this is the evening and this feels right. I love tea. So, I will do my best not to make a mess of this car. (water pouring) Okay. (metal rattling) Now we shall wait. (piano music) Hey Siri, set up a timer for six minutes. Call Mankins. (piano music) Mmm. So, I feel good. Some Slovenian mountain tea on a mountain. (piano music) Forrest! Tea's ready! Hey, Alex. Ah! That was quick. You came outta nowhere. How are you, man? Good. Good to see you. Welcome to- I like the shirt. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I'm wearing Forrest's shirt, but I haven't seen him today. So, I made you some mountain tea. Hopefully, you won't burn your hand. Where's it from? Uh, Slovenian. Oh, I like this. Cheers. Cheers. Let's see how hot it is. Thank you. ...
Yeah, I'll have to look at it for a while. (piano music) Not too bad. It's good. It's not too bad, it's not too hot. Well, (piano music) I'm glad for us that we were reunited in Montana. It feels right. Yeah. Especially up here. I know. We spent the night. What year was that we spent the night up here? 2017, early, early two years ago. Wow. Yeah, it was like a cold January morning. Yeah. Yeah. Very cold. It's much nicer now. Thank you for making this workshop. It's my pleasure. Yeah, so, what should these guys expect? What are you stoked to share? Well. (Forest laughing) Is that the deet? Bug spray, yeah. So it, it was interesting to hear you talking earlier because I never really thought about how no one really knows my photo process. It's mostly solitary or with, kinda, my team, whoever that is. Yeah. And, to me, I just took it for granted, right? It's been kinda the process for a couple of years, but yeah, I guess I've never talked about it. So, you know, I'm excited to share what led to that, how I came out of it, and just to be able to, you know, kind of, empower everyone else to be able to, kind of, recreate that magic that we all probably have in some of our photos, and to be able to take that and capture it no matter where we are. Yeah. Especially- That's what you do well. Yeah- It's like being able to, I really admire this way you have to create, yeah, create this, like, windows into life that are still. Mhm. But, they feel really natural, so I'm really keen to hear on that. Well, I'm excited about it, but also, for people that aren't in Montana, or- Right- Things like that, we're gonna talk a lot about just working with what you have. So, to be able to create, create good images you don't have to be in the Rocky Mountains, or in a crazy city, we, well we can take these tools and do anything we want almost anywhere. Columbus, Ohio? Columbus, Ohio, Cincinnati, Toledo, Chillicothe. What's Chillicothe? It's a town in Ohio. Yeah, I've only been once. It's a fine place. It's a fine place. Well, you're right that it's really important to be able to just work with stuff, like, work with any conditions or any location you have, even myself, I get caught up into like having the, you know, perfect mountain range, or the perfect trees, or, but I'm keen on hearing you talk about that. Also, hearing you talk about how you build intimacy, like, this connection with your models. I think it's really important, and especially how you hire, you know, I don't think all the models you use are like professional. No. Like friends, right? Friends. Yeah. So. Yeah. I think that's something that people think that they need, you know, these fancy people that are trained and very expensive, but I wanna hear you talk about how, like, you can get by and have amazing results with, like, friends and, and just assembling this little team of pirates. Absolutely, yeah. And, I think editing to me, like, you've always been the king of edits, so, I want to, yeah, I mean, everybody's got different styles, right. So. Sure. I've been, I've seen, I've seen the evolution of your aesthetic and the more it goes, the more fine it gets, you know, the more timeless I've been seeing that. Hopefully. Yeah, no, well, I, of course it's, you know, we all look back at photos from 2012, I mean, like, ugh. Right? So you've been, you've been among the ones who have gained the most timeless. So, I'd love to hear some of that, too, especially on, I mean, you've been using film a lot, I mean, there's a lot of things- Sure, yeah. That I'm excited to hear about. So, we got a few long days coming up. Right, right. So, um, I'll just leave you at it. Excellent, I'm so happy to be here. Cheers, man. Thanks. (piano music) Still have some tea left, but I'll leave you to these guys. Oh, my microphone. (Forrest laughing) So, this is a goodbye. Cheers. See you in a few days. Yes. When I take all my equipment out. Okay, Mr. Mankins, it's all yours. Farewell. I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. (Forrest laughing) (background chatter)
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Ratings and Reviews
Mathieu Cladidier
A lot of philosophical insights but not much of practical tips to use! I love Forrest Mankins photos and youtube channel. I signed up for his workshop to get a bit more of an insider perception, which he delivered in his own style and which is great. However, at the end of the workshop, I have a hard time to really feel like it worth it. Maybe I was expecting too much of technical, really hands on tips. The whole thing is good overall, don't get me wrong but not as much useful as expected.
Matt Steindl
Creating a Moment Overall, this workshop had a ton of great insight into Forrest's process before and after creating an image. I learned a lot and really enjoyed the points he touched on with working with models and teams. I never had a workshop go into these sort of important details that forgotten at times. I wish the workshop had more "in the field" video content as it tended to get a bit cumbersome watching Forrest talk at the camera over and over again but regardless I definitely learned a lot and would purchase this workshop again in heartbeat.