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Ted Forbes
The Art of Photography
2830 S. Hulen, Studio 133
Fort Worth, TX 76109
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My name is Ted Forbes and I make videos about photography. I’ve been making photographs most of my life and I have a tremendously deep passion for photography that I want to share with you on YouTube.
The Art of Photography is my channel and I produce photography videos to provide a 360 degree look into the world of making images. We all want to get better so lets do this together!
I make videos covering famous photographers, photography techniques, composition, the history of photography and much more.
I also have a strong community of photographers who watch the show and we frequently do social media challenges for photographers to submit their own work. I feature the best and most interesting on the show when we do these so come check it out and get involved!
It takes a lot to make this photo thing work. But you're right, what you need is –
1. Endless work ethic
2. Love of photography
AND
3. Customer service
So many people forget that third one.
I already regret typing it 😉 Trade secret haha
Knowing the secret doesn’t mean you’ll ever be a great photographer, and many not knowing the secret have become great.
Constant failure is another aspect of success. That sounds dumb, but you only need to succeed once with most things in life. Every bad photo is a step forward, so make sure to take lots of bad photos.
I shoot street 7 days week and never go anywhere without my camera I always carry 2 In a knapsack that is has be converted to carry my cameras without damaging them. If I shoot under 100 in a couple of hours I am so disappointed. I love photography I love taking photos and it's been a passion since 1982. I am so inspired by other people's art. I applied for a photojournalism program but never got excepted, do the program director a slight disagreement during an interview. He was the editor of the Toronto Star. So I stopped shooting 4 a couple of years and painted and did film making. But eventually got back to photography. My influences are Vivian Maier , Mary Ellen Mark and Saul Leiter amazing photoghers. I could not even imagine what it would be like to be paid for taking photos. Being paid for something you love. Thank you for your amazing videos
Great video as usual! Why is your black shirt so "blocky" though? If it's you post-processing, or my monitor, I'm not sure, but the black blocks on your shirt is moving around being a distraction. Edit: I looked into it, and it seems it's a compression artifact. Don't know how easily it can be prevented, or if you care at all about it, but I just wanted to make it known 🙂
Too close to the lens
As a musician (and still learning my craft.) I think this is relevant in all kind of medium you're working in and I greatly admire people who dedicates their lives into their own medium of preference and choice and nothing beats hard work and dedication it doesnt matter when you're achieving success. The most important factor is that you don't stop improving yourself on the never ending journey. It doesnt matter if you're 25 of if you're 45.
“Whatever I was doing wasn’t good enough, because I was able to do it”
Great vid but I particularly love that quote. I think the difference is ‘worthiness’. I know you said ‘determined’, and I agree to a degree but I believe that naturally comes from a sense of worthiness. I got into photography a few months ago. I only had a very old and slow laptop so couldn’t really edit much. I dreamed of getting a powerful device and a good photo editor so I could unleash my creativity. After saving up I purchased an XT2 for the manual controls that I wanted to use, and I bought an iPad Pro, a big investment for me. And then it all stalled. There I was with the things I said I wanted so much, but then I was frozen because now I could do it. So then I went looking for more excuses, such as “My photos should look as good as theirs, and I don’t know how to do that, so I’ll do nothing”.
But what makes that person have thousands of followers, and me a handful. Why do I think I have to copy someone I admire, instead of just enjoying the feeling of appreciating them. It’s about worthiness and acceptance of self. Occasionally over the last 10 years I’ve been making music with a couple of friends. I’m self taught and don’t even consider myself able to ‘play’ in a technical sense. Nethertheless I’ve come up with some seriously catchy bass lines and guitar riffs. Over time I pretty much completely stopped listening to/and making more of the music I made with my friends, even though I really enjoyed listening to and making the music. Instead I would listen to those musicians I admired, yet with a sense of wishing I was as good as them. Where did the joy go?
The fact is the joy never went, it’s still as accessible as it ever was. There is room for everything to exist, and nothing is any better than anything else, other than a personal preference. Isn’t that reason enough to accept oneself and feel worthy of ones expression, Who wouldn’t prefer to dig themselves, to know and feel that whatever they produce has value without conditions.
We wouldn’t have had such things as expressionist Art if everyone towed the line. Some Art movements started with just one or a few people that are now part of the history of art, recognised, appreciated and valued by many. There would be no new movements if it weren’t for those with a sense of worthiness. Impressionist art can sit alongside Renaissance art, or whatever. I dig many art forms and one doesn’t have to take the place of the other. Nothing has to take the place of you.
So don’t let your admiration of another detract from yourself. Instead appreciate that they feel worthy, and sprinkle some of that fairy dust onto yourself.
Thanks for your channel Ted.
the best artists and photographers are mainly unknown or seen until somebody decides they are great which as usual will be a case of follow the money. Then it is down to taste as personally I think Ansel Adams stuff is not that good ~ Mostly what "informed" critics deem as great is not admired by the general public.
Great Ted,I love jazz but first photography!!
What?… Sorry, I like you and I like your channel, so no bad vibes, but this was just a whole bunch of waffle. You lost me on more than several moments… Love you though 🙂
I thought the secret was Deeper Pixels?!
Cheers Ted, Thank you!
"Ultimately, there is no substitute for knowing what you are doing"–Jim Green, IBM Project Management Specialist
Extreme determination and self motivation. Ted, thanks for the encouragement. – RJane Style
Thanks Ted! Inspiring Video!
Well said. It’s that simple!!! Just do it. Over and over. Until you get good at it. Life is not a competition. Do what you like for little time you have here.
thank you
So yeah, there are some people working at youtube to put dislike on any fucking video there is… it is fact with this video, because there is no way to dislike what is being talked about here.
Failure comes very naturally to me
Anticipate, acquire, propagate, inspire.
Anybody know how to customize ads? When I clicked on this video, our beloved leader popped up to yell at me about building the wall and "adding my name"! Blech.
The secret to being a great photographer: don't put your thumb over the lens!!
Good video.
Reminds me of the old saying, “Art is never finished. It’s abandoned.”
One of my teachers in school told me great photographers throw out all of their bad photos.
You can stay determined if you have great talent and acute business sense. They all feed each other.
I have to admit, I keep coming back to this video over and over again. One of my favourites. Saying that, I have to admit, I love your "non gear related" series. Not that there's anything wrong with gear reviews, I mean, YouTube views are YouTube views and everyone has to make a living, I get that. But for me, what puts you above everyone else, is the passion for art of photography (yeah, pun intended). There's very, very few people talking about other photographers, photography as an art, reviewing photographs of others (unless you have a fro…) in a nice, calm, polite, educated manner. So hey. I don't leave a lot of comments on videos (even though I watch a lot of them), but you sir, have my respect. And maybe one day I'll muster up enough courage to actually send you some shots of mine. Anyway, keep up the great work you do. Thank you. P.S. is there anyway of actually listening some of that jazz you mention in this video?
I'm quite late to the party (so to speak), but this episode rocks!