John Greengo teaches some of the common misconceptions beginner photographers have.
In this clip from his CreativeLive course, Fundamentals of Digital Photography 2013, John Greengo shatters the common myths about what it takes to be a successful photographer.
Geengo illuminates photography fundamentals with easy-to-understand exercises and lessons that will help you take better pictures.
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I was watching this and it brought back a lot of bad memories of how veteran photographers tried to mislead me by propagating these myths to me when I was looking to them for guidance in the beginning. I am especially angry about how one photographer tried to propagate myth #5 to me and ended up wasting a whole decade for me while I tried to figure out the problems to my photos and why it was not as good.jealousy and insecurity did not come much worse!
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MY Dad beats me when we lose our snapchat streak
The AMAZING John Greengo has taken bad photos in his life! There is hope for me yet!
Yeah but cameras can capture something we can't see.
Didnt expect anything in particular and just clicked out of curiosity, but i watched through the whole video and was amazed again and again and again 🙂
Excellent stuff from John yet again..this guy is consistently interesting.Subscribe if you want to progress in photography..if not..go back to bed.
I love myth #5, I just saw an example in one of the comments!
Thank you so much I'm taking Digital Photography and this helped so much.
fine lecture, very well done and documented; thank you
Great video!
Magnific!
Ok this was half an hour of photography is hard and you are stupid and dont know anything
John- I am camera/photography illiterate. Just bought a used Canon EOS 60D and two lenses in a pawn shop. Don't know if they work with the Canon. Want to learn. Tell me what courses to take and where I can find suggested settings for the Canon EOS 60D. I don't even know how to focus this thing. 2016-12-02
HORRIBLE PHOTOGRAPHS?
HOW?
I'M IMPRESSED… I WISHED I TOOK PHOTOS LIKE THAT
Thank you.
same here stumbled onto this by accident. Needless to say, I've subscribed. I hope I learn to take something than the general rejects I usually get.
John has a great voice and attitude. It is pleasure to listen to him. Thank you, John!
As a person who grew up WITHOUT the benefit of digital photography, I want to say that:1) Photos from my childhood are few and far between-my parents were wonderful, but were, poor people in love. 2) We did NOT have the benefit of taking 200 photos in search of that perfect shot of ourselves-indeed, it was EXPENSIVE (and it took 1-2 weeks to get those photos-a whole, at most 36 of them-back from the developer) to have all of the photos on a roll of 35mm developed and they included many "crappy shots." So when you see a beautiful/handsome shot of your mother, father, uncle, aunt, cousin, grandparent, or friend you should acknowledge that we were also as fabulous in our youth as you are! 3) We had to GUESS if what we had captured on film was what we thought we had captured. 4) There were so many moments in our lives where we were at "our best" that could not be captured because we did NOT have access to a mobile phone, let alone, its internal digital camera. We were EVERY BIT as wonderful as you are, but we may lack the photographic evidence to document our excellence at any given moment. 5) What you see as "normalstance," was science fiction to us at the time, and 6) We have beautiful and vivid "photo albums" in our minds that are more valuable than any piece of celluloid film could ever capture and we urge you (our precious children) to first (before you whip out that cellular phone) take a moment to take in your environment when those precious moments of your life present themselves. You know those moments and sometimes, it is just enough to be there, in that moment and drink it in with more than just a VISUAL memorial. Smell the scents, feel the textures, listen to the ambient sounds, and taste the "joy" of the moment because before you can blink an eye, it is gone! Be there in that moment, fully in that moment. These are the things that indelibly engrave themselves in our memories! These are the things that really count!
Awesome ! THANK YOU !!! 🙂
Nice
This is EXACTLY what I needed.
Lovely video. I really enjoyed the part at 3:45 about the picture with your friends. Initially I thought it was a not a a bad silhouette. when you mentioned you were getting a degree in photography.
excellent….📷
exactly what i need
38min👏👏👏👏👏.
Now this guy is brilliant..
Me too, pure accident but a super vid. Thank You for the great information..
Those fundamentals are so helpful Dude! Great photography tips and guides!~
I like your examples!!
Best Rrgards
i follow your every videos ….. they help me learning always…..
thank you sir
tks for great video. (y)
I mean no offense at all, but, I get the impression that John seems to think that he is the authority and "know all end all" on photography. Also, for being a Pro, his stuff isn't that great…quite basic actually. I wish I could show him my "un-educated", "self taught" work. Then he might think differently about the way he words his remarks about the fact that you MUST have a photography degree to be any good. I know the dynamics of photography inside and out, I have been published multiple times and I have NEVER taken one photo class in my life. John, if you read this please don't take offense, (that is not my intent), I'm just saying that there are many paths at which one can take to be a professional photographer. cheers.
Awesome, thanks
To net it out, let me say this – as a wannabe photographer… this video is an awesome eye-opener!! John Greengo is amazing!!
a video of 38 minutes…..seems so short…..so interesting and informative….thanks for sharing such important tutorial on photography….many of my doubts is cleared….
tips for taking silhouette shots is find subjects that we as a civilization instantly recognize the shapes of, like palm trees, camels, VW bugs, anything that has good strong easily recognizable shapes to them for the biggest impact- these shapes will instantly register with the viewer whereas undefined shapes that are darkened will leave the viewer scratching their heads as to what it might be, and make the photo much weaker- The camel silhouette shot in this video at 35.00 minutes into the video is a prefect example of a great silhouette shot that is instantly recognizable
not sure why the summit shot in the rockies 'didn't work out' because with some basic photoshop adjustments, contrast, saturation boost etc- and perhaps dodging and burning- something ansel adams and many early photographers all did- would make a pretty good photo of the summit shot- for those that say "But that is altering what reality really shows-' well yeah- so isn't using shallow depth of field, slow shutter speeds for blurring action, fast shutter speeds capturing what we normally can't see- using long shutter speeds to capture scenes I n the dark that our eye can't, telephoto lenses altering the scene- sompression of scvenes, wide angle lenses including ore than our peripheral can see- see- etc etc etc and infact using tools to increase thignsl iek contrast, color etc are actually brining back some of the detaisl our cameras flatten out on us-
Perfect. Came across by accident and watched out of interest, but what a really interesting 38 minutes. Excellent, relaxed delivery, and very informative. Very well done, and very much appreciated, thank you.
Subscribed.
Regarding involvement with their subject, check out "The Hazards of a National Geographic Photographer…"
Great images bring some great risks.
http://thephotosociety.org/reality-check/
great video. this video has increased my motivation to learn photography… Thanks. And i liked the way he summed up photography as MOMENTS.
Nice explanation about the guy pulling rickshaw with speakers
Great lesson of photography!
You revealed all the secrets!!!
Good work there mate….very educative and eye opener to a lot of misconception bout photography..thanks for the video
great