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
Editing Set-up
All right let's talk about the set up of the whole computer system and so forth. So it doesn't really matter what type of computer I have, it doesn't matter if it's Mac or PC, your traditional desktop, your all in ones or even your laptops. What is nice is having a larger size screen all the better to see your images with. And so thinking about screen size is really important, and so if you do a lot of imaging work and you have a laptop you might want to look at getting a monitor that you can connect up to it so that you can have more screen real estate. And so the bigger the monitor, I haven't had a monitor that's been too big yet. Okay? That has not been a problem I've had with any of my monitors, every monitor seems to be bigger than the one that I had prior to it. Storing your images on a hard drive is the best scenario. If you store 'em on your computer eventually you're gonna fill up your computer and you're gonna make everything you do on that computer slow down and potentially ...
crash. Photographers and photographs eat up a lot of data and so it's best to store that on external hard drives. Now every external hard drive available on the market today will fail. Every hard drive will eventually stop working. And so this why you have to have backups to every drive that you might have. Now the desktop drives are ones that you plug into the computer they typically have a little bit more space, the portable ones don't take any power they draw it usually through a USB connection on your computer, these portable drives are great for travel photography, where you're working with a laptop computer but if you have a desktop at home and you have access to power and that's on a regular basis then the desktop drives will allow you to get a larger capacity for less money. And in all cases it's really good idea to have a third hard drive stored in a separate location that would not be affected by potential burglaries or fires or some other type of damage that might happen to one particular location. And if you haven't taken this step just think for a moment how you would feel if your current computer and hard drives just stopped working. All of the photos that you've ever taken for your entire life are wiped out and gone forever. And for a professional photographer absolutely can't have that. Just not excusable, I saw a couple of stories recently in the last couple of years where a professional photographer either had their house burned down or they had it burglarized and they had their hard drives taken and every photo they've their entire lives was gone. And right onto the internet people just dove in, that person was stupid, they should have had a hard drive backed up in another location. And a cloud storage would be another option for that. All the images on the cloud, but having your images in more than one location is the most important thing to think about there. Communication back and forth between the memory card the computer, the hard drive and the computer, there's a lot of different connections that are out there. So I just kinda wanted to put those out on a scale so that you could see how fast they are. Now the JPEG photos don't take up very much space compared a raw photos, the actual size will depends on the number of mega pixels and the camera that you have. But these are kind of the general place that they're going to be. The old USB system is way too slow which is why they introduced USB 2.0 which is on everything that has been out for several years at least at this point. Apple had a Firewire 400, they had a Firewire which were pretty fast as well. Nowadays we're seeing things that are more often on the USB 3.0 connection, and this is called superspeed, sometimes called superspeed plus, and things are moving pretty quick with the USB 3.0 system and so at least as of today you'd want to get hard drives that have USB 3.0, you want to make sure your computer has USB 3.0, you're gonna be able to access your photos and everything's gonna move back and forth very, very quickly. Apple has their own Thunderbolt system, which although it is technically twice as fast as USB 3.0 it's pretty close to the same speed. And they actually have a new one coming out, USB 3. which is a little bit faster and Apple not too long ago introduced a new computer that only had a USB C connection to it. Now USB C even though it shares the USB it is a completely different connection it's a whole different device that's plugging into your computer and so this is probably gonna be the next stage of connections on the computer which is gonna be a little bit faster. And then Apple's trying to push the route ahead even further with Thunderbolt 2 which is even a little bit faster and so when I'm looking at a computer a lot of times I'm trying to think sometimes a couple years ahead of time. The next computer I buy I want to make it sure it has such and such, and I'm gonna get new hard drives that have such and such on them, so that everything is communicating. Cause if you have one piece of equipment that's well behind all the other that's the weak link in the chain that's gonna be holding you back. So I did a test recently with some of the equipment that I had, just to see how long it took me to transfer 1000 raw images, and you can see between Thunderbolt and USB 3.0, it was virtually no difference even though in theory it was twice as fast. And the problem with these numbers and why they will vary when you do them, is that it depends a lot on all the other equipment you have, which hard drive was I going to? Which computer? What was the operating system? And so these numbers will run back and forth and you can go online and find different test results but they are gonna vary quite a bit because all the equipment is varying between them, but whatever's the fastest system that you can afford is the one that you should probably look at. I have seen your computers, and I know what your computers look like, and I know what you put on the desktop on your computers. All right? And I have seen how a lot of people organize their computers and a lot of people just kinda get frustrated and they're like "You know what, I'm just gonna put this "on the desktop and I'll deal with it later, "I'll put this on the desktop and I'll deal with "it later, "and I'll put this on the desktop and I'll deal "with it later." Until there is absolutely no place to put anything else on the desktop. And this is not what the desktop is for, this is a short term place to put things and so this is the equivalent of going out and buying a gigantic file cabinet and then putting all your stuff on the top of the file cabinet all right? It's just like "Well why did you buy the file cabinet if that's "where you're gonna put everything?" We want to organize things and this is not the best organization tool it's also not really good, and so we love kitty but we're gonna say goodbye, we don't wanna have pictures on the desktop. I am rather boring when it comes to my desktop graphics. And part of the reason is there is a color permanence that our eyes can see when we look at colors. For example I want you to stare at this photo There's an X in the middle just stare at that X for about 15 seconds and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna turn it off and it's gonna be a blank screen but you're gonna see the reverse of these colors okay has everybody got a good view of that X? You at home stare closely at that X all right? Here we go let's turn it off, and you're probably going to see a residual image of the American flag. And so on my desktop I have chosen the exciting color of middle tone gray, okay? If I want excitement don't come, don't go to my desktop, on your desktop you should probably have some sort of short cut to get onto the hard drive of your computer and if you hook up any external hard drives in any place that you're going relatively quickly learn about short cuts, these are short cut folders that don't have anything in them but they automatically take you to those areas that you need to go to on a regular basis, anything stored on your desktop should be there only temporarily, until you have found a good spot to put it.
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Ratings and Reviews
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!