Vision-Driven Photography with David duChemin

THANK YOU for not confounding perspective and "lens compression." I hate it when instructors say that a longer lens causes compression of the distance between subjects (and the inverse for wide angle lenses). It's the perspective of the photographer that causes these effects. The focal length just determines the angle of view.

It was a great class - learned so much about the need to have a clear vision for your work - both for individual images & overall. I found it inspirational.

It was a great class - learned so much about the need to have a clear vision for your work - both for individual images & overall. I found it inspirational.

Good class. A little tangent-y. But David duChemin, did you really just use 'retarded' as a pejorative? Honestly, I would have thought you'd be a bit more worldly than that. Please correct that in your lexicon. For humanity's sake.

This course may seem to drone on at times but I firmly believe that repetition or other restatement helps learning. I highly recommend David's course, his ebooks and his CraftAndVision.com site. He gets to the important stuff about photography. He focuses on the conceptually tough stuff like vision, finding your own, and less on the "geek" technical stuff that, while necessary, is only a tool to accomplishing your vision, what you want to say in your photograph.

I have just finished this great class and ended up with a notebook full of notes. I highly recommend this class to all who would like to take not only technically perfect photographs but more importantly who want to express their vision and create something that moves others. I read many books by David and still enjoyed and got a better understanding throughout this course.

David is always worth listening to. The course might have been shorter given there was a lot of repetition and conversation that wasn't terribly interesting or valuable. But when it was good it was amazing. I learned a lot and it was worth the time and money spent.