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
Panorama
So there's a number of reasons why you might need to take multiple shots. Now I have to be honest with you, there's some things that we're talking about that I just couldn't find another part of the class. But it seems to conceptually make sense, we talk about how do we tell the story in the frame. Well sometimes we have to use several frames to tell the story and there are multiple ways of shooting multiple photos telling different stories. And so there's a lot of things that we can change when we shoot. For instance, we can change the direction our camera is pointed and we can end up with a panorama. We can change the subject that we're shooting and end up with some sort of double exposure or multiple exposure. We can change our exposures between photographs and end up with a high dynamic range shot. We can change our focus and do focus stacking, we talked a little bit about that earlier. You can change the time that you're actually shooting the photos and end up with a time lapse. Y...
ou can have two different points of view and end up with 3D photography. That's a whole separate thing on its own. You can have multiple points of view shooting all at the same time and in the movie industry they call that bullet time, and so there's all sorts of reasons for shooting with either multiple cameras or multiple times or just more advanced techniques to get different results. We're not gonna talk about all of them but we'll talk about ones that really apply to this type of photography. So first up is panoramas. Every once in a while, I'll take a shot, I'm looking at it in the computer later on and I realize that it's just not composed properly and it would make for a really nice panoramic and I just crop it as it needs to be out there. And for subjects especially with people that are moving this is the system that usually works best, it's just simply cropping it later. And so, I didn't want so much space in the sky so I cropped it. I had too much dead space on the top or on the bottom. It looked nice in a panorama later on and I cropped it. Now, this is not the highest resolution way to shoot these types of photos but when they're moving subjects in there, it's very, and it's easy, and it's quick and it sometimes thinks that you just don't realize until later, "ah, here's a photo that I didn't really exactly see when I was shooting it". And so don't be afraid to shoot a photo that has some dead space that you can't really do anything about because you're constrained by the sides, not the top. So for panorama stitching, great technique for getting either a wider scene or more resolution onto a photo. So in this case what you wanna do is you wanna shoot a series of photos that are slightly overlapping. And so you can see as we put these together they're overlapping in size and there's a variety of software programs that will assemble this or you can do it yourself if you're good at Photoshop or other programs. And you can get a lot of resolution into a single photograph like this. And so the two different main reasons that you would do this is one: you don't have a lens that is wide enough to go from left and right that you want. Notice the overlapping of the images here, and then stitching them together. The other reason is to end up with a picture that has more pixels than your camera has inherently in the sensor. So this is a tricky merge situation because there's gonna be some penguins that move a little bit from one shot to the next. And so you wanna get these shots taken as quickly as possible when you get set up to do this. Sometimes I don't need that massive of a resolution and so I will shoot verticals. Technically it's not as good because you don't end up with as many megapixels, but sometimes you know what you're final needs are and you don't need a gigantic file. And so in this case four individual photos. And if you've been to my website, this is the cover shot that I've had on there. It's just one that I really like, really good lighting. In this case, my lens that I had just wasn't exactly the right width that I wanted. So I shot two photos, merged them later on. And so these photos have been merged, very high resolution. If we get a bigger screen in here, I'd like a screen the size of then entire background. This image would fill it and be very, very sharp and would be nice to have. And so all of these are just stitched images and if the software is good you will never notice where the stitch is. So in Istanbul, Turkey they have a tower, and I forget the name of the tower right now, but you can go up in the tower and have a little tiny walkway. And so when I went around this walkway I took photos North, East, South, and West. And then at Northeast, Southeast, and so forth. So I took eight photos going around, and then I stitched all of them together into one really big, long photo. And then with my fancy slideshow program here I can do this panning as it goes around and does a 360 around the city. So if you've never been to Istanbul, Turkey well here you go. And there's our big crew ships. And so this is a fun little thing to do any time you have a really nice 360 viewpoint. Shoot about eight photos horizontally with a wide angle lens making sure there's some overlap and in case you're wondering what the actual photo looks like, this is the actual photo right here. So this is a very, very long and skinny photo. So if you wanna do this type of photography, ideally its best to have a nice level tripod. Now this example here was shot hand-held. Yin-yang, sometimes it's good one side, sometimes its good on the other side. It can be done hand-held. I would prefer to use a tripod. This is all one photo, it should all be the same shutter speed, it should be the same aperture. If it isn't, it's gonna be harder to stitch together. We don't want the focus changing on this either so manual focus as well. Now most of the time you're gonna be doing this in a landscape style shot where everything is in focus. And so shooting at f/8 to f/ is where you end up most of the time where you want to have a fair bit of depth of field and almost everything in focus. I like to shoot this left to right, and the reason that I shoot it left to right is because when I first started shooting some panoramas I shot a few of them right to left and when I saw the resulting photos in my feed of all my images in light room I looked at them and I said, "why did I shoot these photos? They are horribly composed. They make no sense at all" because they show up in the opposite way. Your computer shows images up in left to right manner and so this is the way it'll automatically look right in your computer later on even before you do any stitching together. And you wanna overlap 20 to 30%. And so the reason you want things to overlap is so just like stitching clothing together you need a little bit to stitch together to overlap and if you have too much to overlap the problem is that you end up working with so many photos the size of the file that your computer has to work with is gargantuan and it's gonna slow everything down. So you want just enough for the stitching to take place and that's gonna be around that 25% margin.
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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
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