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
Composition Overview
Alright, this section is on composition. The artistic arrangement of the parts of pictures. So this is how we are framing up our subject. We've chosen what we wanna shoot now it's a matter of what do we have to work with with lenses and point of view and different ways of composing this particular shot and there's a lot of ideas and these are not complicated things. I don't expect... I would love to have questions from you but I don't expect a lot of technical questions in here, we're not as concerned about what shutter speed and what aperture 'cause those issues we pretty much cleared off the table I think but there are other questions that I would love to hear from you about why did you do it this way? Or anything like that so just keep thinking, have questions ready. One of the biggest problems for new photographers is that they try to capture too much. They try to often capture everything that they see and they experience. And the camera is a very different device than the human br...
ain and the way we experience things 'cause we experience things in chronological order and as we move from one place to the next things change and we see that but the camera is that one moment in that point in time and so we often have to simplify things because it is a relatively simple story that we're trying to tell, at least if it's a single photograph and so think about a little bit of a tighter story in many cases. I was in New Mexico and I was photographing a church what was on the backside of where I was but I kinda looked over here and I thought, hm, there's some things that I like here, there's something that kinda triggered that 'oh, I think there's a photograph in here' and so obviously bright colors, we pay attention to bright colors and so these blues and the red and there's some nice lines in there, some of that highlighting backlight but there's a lot of things. Think about things that you don't like in this photograph. And my guess is if you're looking at this photograph you might say, "Well there's a telephone pole in "the background that isn't really important." And some of you might say, "Well this really bright gravel "in the front really doesn't hold much interest at all." And so this is too much information, we don't need this much information in the photograph and so let's use our zoom lens or let's use our feet and get closer. We could use either one in this case. And this is a tighter, simpler story that's much cleaner that I think is a better photograph. I'm seeing nods in here, that's a good thing. So up at the tulip festival, I love shooting up there because it's always different every year, where the tulips are and what's out there and there was a huge field of these pink tulips and then across the field it looks like one of the bulbs had accidentally grown in an area where it wasn't supposed to grow and there was nothing around it. And so I got down on my knees and I photographed this one tulip up pretty close because I wanted to tell a really clean and tight story with this one tulip. And then I went off to go photograph the tulips kind of across the road and I turned around and there was a woman who came and did the exact same shot that I did. Okay, now granted, I didn't have the stylish matching colored coat to go with the flower when I did this, but I kinda went to one of those things did I not put in enough effort in order to get a good shot because if this is what the average photographer does, I need to put in more effort. And so after she left, I went back to that same flower to see something, could I do something else that was interesting and the shot that I came up with I think is very different, but tells an interesting but different story. And in this case, it is a little bit of a wider story and that's because the wider story is more interesting here but it's still clean and there's not a lot of confusion and clutter and garbage cans and things like that around there. And so, changing your point of view, moving around and just sometimes you gotta go back and you say, "You know what? "I can do that better." And kinda go back with a fresh mindset. This is I believe it's Trillium Lake up at Mount Hood and this was the sunset and I had found this one little snowbank in the foreground that I liked and a lot of times people forget on their cameras that they can do this, you guys ready? Watch this. (playful grunt) We can turn the camera vertically. We often so much think horizontal because that's how our movies and our TV's are and there's some nice stuff on the side that I kinda like but turn your cameras vertically from time to time, there's a lot of great vertical shots out there and there's a lot of great uses for vertical shots. You have to kinda be aware of what your end medium is sometimes but if you're just doing photography for photography reasons there's as many vertical shots as there are horizontal shots. Just a quick check, maybe you can go into your Lightroom Catalog or whatever catalog you have and take a look at what percent of your images are vertical versus horizontal. See if you're heavily biased in one end. If you're shooting 90% of your images in a horizontal format and there's not a particular reason why you're doing that maybe you need to start turning the camera vertically more. In Cuba, some fishermen on the pier down here and you kinda go to what seems like the first obvious angle where you wanna get them all in in a particular shot and then you work with that a little bit and you do the best you can but sometimes you don't know something else is better until you actually go there and so this is why you should almost always wear comfortable walking shoes when you're out photographing because you should be walking around checking out different angles and by moving around a different angle I'm able to simplify the subject a little bit because now I can have four individual characters with some very nice color in the background. Also in Cuba I was trying to figure out how to get a shot of all these boxers lined up and they're kinda doing their punching routines and so forth and I just never really found the right angle of view but it's a scouting time. Look at this blue wall behind here, this is a beautiful blue wall and so one of the things photographers, good photographers will do is they'll kinda be keeping a checklist of, that's nice over there, and that's nice over there, and that's nice over there so if I can line something up over there, over there, over there, I'm gonna line something up. And so when this guy, was kind of in between sessions, I lined up with the blue background. So it's a nice, clean, simple shot up close like that. These detail shots often work very well.
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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!