Lessons
Class Introduction
17:26 2Welcome to Photography
13:08 3Camera Types Overview
02:00 4Viewing Systems
28:43 5Viewing Systems Q&A
08:45 6Lens Systems
32:06 7Shutter Systems
13:17 8Shutter Speeds
10:47Choosing a Shutter Speed
31:30 10Shutter Speeds for Handholding
08:36 11Shutter Speed Pop Quiz
09:06 12Camera Settings
25:35 13General Camera Q&A
14:38 14Sensor Sizes: The Basics
15:33 15Sensor Sizes: Compared
19:10 16Pixels
20:13 17ISO
21:13 18Sensor Q&A
13:34 19Focal Length: Overview
11:09 20Focal Length: Angle of View
15:09 21Wide Angle Lenses
08:48 22Telephoto Lenses
25:23 23Angle of View Q&A
09:29 24Fish Eye Lenses
10:39 25Tilt & Shift Lenses
23:42 26Subject Zone
17:19 27Lens Speed
09:56 28Aperture Basics
08:46 29Depth of Field
21:49 30Aperture Pop Quiz
13:23 31Lens Quality
18:30 32Photo Equipment Life Cycle
03:57 33Light Meter Basics
09:25 34Histogram
15:25 35Histogram Pop Quiz and Q&A
10:58 36Dynamic Range
06:03 37Exposure Modes
15:58 38Manual Exposure
09:38 39Sunny 16 Rule
05:54 40Exposure Bracketing
10:18 41Exposure Values
27:21 42Exposure Pop Quiz
26:43 43Focus Overview
16:15 44Focusing Systems
05:15 45Autofocus Controls
11:56 46Focus Points
07:35 47Autofocusing on Subjects
20:19 48Manual Focus
07:52 49Digital Focusing Assistance
03:40 50Focus Options: DSLR and Mirrorless
04:58 51Shutter Speeds for Sharpness and DoF
05:20 52Depth of Field Pop Quiz
12:14 53Depth of Field Camera Features
04:54 54Lens Sharpness
09:58 55Camera Movement
05:20 56Handheld and Tripod Focusing
04:32 57Advanced Techniques
07:12 58Hyperfocal Distance
06:50 59Hyperfocal Quiz and Focusing Formula
04:36 60Micro adjust and AF Fine Tune
05:34 61Focus Stacking and Post Sharpening
06:00 62Focus Problem Pop Quiz
18:07 63The Gadget Bag: Camera Accessories
25:30 64The Gadget Bag: Lens Accessories
12:46 65The Gadget Bag: Neutral Density Filter
20:43 66The Gadget Bag: Lens Hood and Teleconverters
08:55 67The Gadget Bag: Lens Adapters
05:43 68The Gadget Bag: Lens Cleaning Supplies
04:34 69The Gadget Bag: Macro Lenses and Accessories
15:57 70The Gadget Bag: Flash and Lighting
05:08 71The Gadget Bag: Tripods and Accessories
18:50 72The Gadget Bag: Custom Cases
11:20 7310 Thoughts on Being a Photographer
07:37 74Direct Sunlight
25:04 75Indirect Sunlight
18:49 76Sunrise and Sunset
18:39 77Cloud Light
14:48 78Golden Hour
09:50 79Light Pop Quiz
07:53 80Light Management
14:00 81Artificial Light
13:56 82Speedlights
16:02 83Off-Camera Flash
27:38 84Advanced Flash Techniques
09:49 85Editing Overview
08:24 86Editing Set-up
08:06 87Importing Images
16:45 88Best Use of Files and Folders
20:54 89Culling
20:56 90Develop: Fixing in Lightroom
18:13 91Develop: Treating Your Images
10:53 92Develop: Optimizing in Lightroom
14:51 93Art of Editing Q&A
06:01 94Composition Overview
06:53 95Photographic Intrusions
10:10 96Mystery and Working the Scene
16:18 97Point of View
09:11 98Better Backgrounds
16:02 99Unique Perspective
11:02 100Angle of View
15:06 101Subject Placement
41:14 102Subject Placement Q&A
05:18 103Panorama
07:39 104Multishot Techniques
13:57 105Timelapse
16:13 106Human Vision vs The Camera
20:07 107Visual Perception
08:35 108Visual Balance Test
22:56 109Visual Drama
12:25 110Elements of Design
28:57 111The Photographic Process
12:28 112Working the Shot
27:38 113The Moment
04:42 114One Hour Photo - Colby Brown
1:04:32 115One Hour Photo - John Keatley
1:03:05 116One Hour Photo - Art Wolfe
59:01 117One Hour Photo - Rocco Ancora
1:01:20 118One Hour Photo - Mike Hagen
1:01:20 119One Hour Photo - Lisa Carney
1:00:52 120One Hour Photo - Ian Shive
1:08:00 121One Hour Photo - Sandra Coan
1:10:29 122One Hour Photo - Daniel Gregory
1:06:07 123One Hour Photo - Scott Robert Lim
1:05:41Lesson Info
Advanced Techniques
Advanced techniques. There's a number of more advanced techniques, and this is one of those things that beginners might go probably don't need this stuff, but when you watch this class for the second or the third time you come through this section, you'll say ah, there is the solution to my problem. All right, here is a video and I am using a telephoto lens on our Space Needle and what I did is I ever so slightly tapped the front of the lens and notice how much it vibrates and notice how long it takes those vibrations to settle out and so I tap it, lets go, tap it, its still there, its still going, it's still going. It takes several seconds for it to kind of filter out, you might say. So one of the ways for taking photos when you are in a situation that high magnification, either telephoto or macro photography, for instance, is using the mirror lockup system and this is really only necessary on SLRs because there are no mirrors in the mirrorless cameras, of course. So this is for the S...
LR's In your camera, you press down on the shutter release, the mirror goes up and it gets up out of the way as quickly as it can, but the problem is it causes a vibration that shakes the whole camera exactly during the time that you are shooting photos. Which is why you might get blurry photos from a tripod, even though it seems like you've done everything else correctly, it's the mirror vibrating the camera ever so slightly during that exposure. The solution to this problem is mirror lockup If you turn mirror lockup on your camera. Which is going to be buried in your menu system somewhere. The first press of the shutter. Let's go ahead and press the shutter, what happens is, the mirror goes up and it vibrates the camera just as normally, but it doesn't fire the shutter. You wait a couple seconds, maybe two, three, four, five seconds, you press the shutter release again and then it fires the shutter, and now it does not have that mirror vibration because you have separated the mirror going up and the shutter firing. Now, obviously you can't be pressing the shutter on the camera itself because then you would be vibrating the camera by touching it so you need a cable release in which to do this. Now, there are some cameras that will have this automatically timed for you, it'll lock the mirror up, it will wait 3 seconds and then it will fire the photo. That's a few cameras, but you can either manually do it or have it automatically done. And so this is something that seems like, ok that's kind of nice, but how important is it? I was down in Yosemite and I was shooting a photo of a tree and I was examining the results from it, which are on the left of the screen and I thought to myself, I'm not doing a very good job, something's wrong here. The lens is out of focus, I know I focused on it, why is it out of focus? And then I looked and I saw oh, I don't have the camera in mirror lock up, and so then I took it with mirror lock up, and this is the difference between with and without which I think is pretty significant when it comes to sharpness. Now this is going to be a problem, Only some of the time. You do not have this problem at extremely fast shutter speeds because it's stopping the motion of the camera, any sort of vibration it just stops the motion, you're not going to have it really, really long shutter speeds because the vibrations settle out and become inconsequential in a long exposure, but there is what I call a vibration zone that is at its peak around an eighth of a second, depending on the camera. And so shutter speeds two to three around that area, some from a thirtieth of a second down to 1 or 2 seconds, is where you're likely to get this vibration problem in your camera with an SLR camera. Obviously you don't have this problem in mirrorless because you don't have mirror going up and down. And so mirror lock up works really well now, the other shortcut to this is, if you use live view. Live view, is the same as mirror lockup the exception is that you are using more battery power because there is an image on the back of the screen, so usually I use live view, but for some reason I'm saving battery power or I'm not using live view. Then I go into mirror lockup. Now, the neat thing about this vibration zone is that it is an area that you can detect with your ears. Now, normally you should be able to remember an eighth of a second, but it an eighth second makes kind of a unique sound in your camera, as do other shutter speeds in this range and so now for the first time in the class, other than listening to me, we're going to be listening to sounds. We want to hear what the shutter sounds like because it makes a distinct sound at each of the shutter, so let's start bring up our little sound, so here is an example of what a camera, your camera might sound a little different, sounds like at a variety of shutter speeds. (camera shutter)(camera shutter) You'll hear the sounds twice. At fast shutter speeds, you really don't hear much because all those sounds, we have the mirror going up, we have the first shutter opening, we have the second shutter closing everything resetting. it happens so fast it just sounds like one kerplunk of sound. (camera shutter)(camera shutter) You have to have a really, really fine-tuned ear, to pick up a thirtieth of a second out. But the chances are you're going to start to hear at 15th. Here's a little bit more of a time gap. (camera shutter)(camera shutter) You'll definitely hear it at an eighth. (camera shutter)(camera shutter) Ok, so that's the area that most of us can suddenly start to hear there is a difference between the first shutter and the second shutter, and that's right where this peak problem of the vibration is. So lets hear it at a quarter (camera shutter)(camera shutter) and down at half (camera shutter)(camera shutter) and at one second. (camera shutter)(camera shutter) So if you can discern the difference between there's a difference between the first and the second. You're probably in a warning zone for that vibration zone problem. So lets have a little pop quiz and see how good your ears are. Ok, so you're going to hear a sound, I think we'll hear it twice and then try to figure out if you can determine which one of those shutter speeds it is Lets listen. (camera shutter)(camera shutter) Alright, so, we're not gonna do any full answers and questions here, just think to yourself and let's take a look at the answer here (camera shutter)(camera shutter) Now, once again, each camera's going to sound a little different. Let's try another sound here we go. (camera shutter)(camera shutter) That one's definitely slower, right?. You can hear that distinction between the first and second And the answer (camera shutter)(camera shutter) And let try one more (camera shutter)(camera shutter) That's sounding, that ones very hard to pick out because that's a little bit faster, (camera shutter)(camera shutter) So start picking out in those slow shutter speeds are with your ears, you can just hear like, oh, that's a warning sign.
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a Creativelive Student
Love love all John Greengo classes! Wish to have had him decades ago with this info, but no internet then!! John is the greatest photography teacher I have seen out there, and I watch a lot of Creative Live classes and folks on YouTube too. John is so detailed and there are a ton of ah ha moments for me and I know lots of others. I think I own 4 John Greengo classes so far and want to add this one and Travel Photography!! I just drop everything to watch John on Creative Live. I wish sometime soon he would teach a Lightroom class and his knowledge on photography post editing.!!! That would probably take a LOT OF TIME but I know John would explain it soooooo good, like he does all his Photography classes!! Thank you Creative Live for having such a wonderful instructor with John Greengo!! Make more classes John, for just love them and soak it up! There is soooo much to learn and sometimes just so overwhelming. Is there anyway you might do a Motivation class!!?? Like do this button for this day, and try this technique for a week, or post this subject for this week, etc. Motivation and inspiration, and playing around with what you teach, needed so much and would be so fun.!! Just saying??? Awaiting gadgets class now, while waiting for lunch break to be over. All the filters and gadgets, oh my. Thank you thank you for all you teach John, You are truly a wonderful wonderful instructor and I would highly recommend folks listening and buying your classes.
Eve
I don't think that adjectives like beautiful, fantastic or excellent can describe the course and classes with John Greengo well enough. I've just bought my first camera and I am a total amateur but I fell in love with photography while watching the classes with John. It is fun, clear, understandable, entertaining, informative and and and. He is not only a fabulous photographer but a great teacher as well. Easy to follow, clear explanations and fantastic visuals. The only disadvantage I can list here that he is sooooo good that keeps me from going out to shoot as I am just glued to the screen. :-) Don't miss it and well worth the money invested! Thank you John!
Vlad Chiriacescu
Wow! John is THE best teacher I have ever had the pleasure of learning from, and this is the most comprehensive, eloquent and fun course I have ever taken (online or off). If you're even / / interested in photography, take this course as soon as possible! You might find out that taking great photos requires much more work than you're willing to invest, or you might get so excited learning from John that you'll start taking your camera with you EVERYWHERE. At the very least, you'll learn the fundamental inner workings and techniques that WILL help you get a better photo. Worried about the cost? Well, I've taken courses that are twice as expensive that offer less than maybe a tenth of the value. You'll be much better off investing in this course than a new camera or a new lens. I cannot reccomend John and this course enough!