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This is the most enlightening channel I subscribe to. While I’m most interested in nature photography, the images and your challenges as to how to look at the images are most instructive even though they may be cityscapes or some abstract shots. It helps me see. Many thanks to you. I’m thinking about my compositions differently and that is a very good thing.
Just found out about this channel via the TH-cam algorithm. Can’t thank that robot enough, what a great channel this is. I did four years of photographic design so the practical and theoretical stuff is somewhere in my head. But your style of explaining is soothing and gets me motivated to go out and shoot and try stuff. Very enlightening to say the least.
As a lifer, I have watched just about all your videos, and you are a credit to us all. This video in particular is outstanding. I reckon you should team up with a good publisher to illustrate and write your own books. You look happy.
I've watched a bunch of videos on composition and yours was an excellent summary of the various exercises one can play around with when learning to compose better. Examples were stellar, loved many of them. Thank you!
Such a joy this video was to me. Great examples of how to incorporate composition techniques .A few of my favorite photographers, which use minimalism in their work are Franco Fontana, Francesco Sembolini, and Allan Schaller.
My favorite minimalist photographer is me 😇😊 I was amused with the Timo Lemmetti moo picture since I did a photo very similar to it few weeks ago, which is my Facebook cover.
Stunningly beautiful images and wonderful and easy to understand concept of composition which plays and important role in photography.I always love your channel.Please keep up the good work.Wishing you all the best and a big thank you.
Thank Youuu sir, i appreciate you sharing your knowledge with everyone. Especially that you really KNOW stuff rather than those that just make videos for the hell of it
Very inspirational and I plan to expand my composition skills in the upcoming New Year 2022! Nice, very nice to view so many female photographer's work and the ones who caught me eye were: Adrian Kathleen, Vicky martin and Sara Ailler....thanks for the subject and encouragement. Love your channel! Susie from Athens, Ohio
For me this is your best video yet and the examples are terrific. The use of colours of the different surfaces and light/shadows shining through a steel fence/gate in particular struck a chord with me as did the lone figure image taken at night. There is something about coloured planes in photographs that I find particularly intriguing.
Best video ive watched on photography so simple to understand and very well explained.. thank you. Subscribed..look forward to going throught the rest of your videos..
I really enjoyed the photography you showcased in this video. Fresh and creative images. Also appreciated your comment about it feeling right. That feeling and being caught up in the viewfinder why I love photography.
I really enjoy your thoughtful content. Thanks for the time you spend sharing your knowledge and passion for photography. Best wishes from a fellow youtuber! 😀👍
Once again, Alex, you've informed and inspired. As for minimalist photographers, I'm profoundly affected by the work of Fan Ho. But there are soooo many brilliant minimalist photo artists these days. The genre seems to have enjoyed a renaissance on Instagram, for example. I love experimenting with it because in many ways it feels like a "purer" expression of an image. Rather like a poem might be considered a more refined/distilled version of a novel....
Thank you for a very minimalist video on minimalism , you manage to get the teaching point over very succinctly, making for a memorable video . It’s probably out of your control but the video is sadly interrupted many times . I have no problem before & after , other than that (advertisers take notice , if it’s payed while these videos are running I will not purchase it ! & will actively avoid it 😉!) your videos are amazing . ‘ buy me a coffee coming up (but not Costa !😂) thanks D
I learned a lot from this video and it’s worth watching more than once. The photos really helped emphasize what you are describing and I will be taking the challenge. Have you thought about making a video on Peter Stackpole? He’s probably best known for Life Magazine and his photos of Hollywood and WW2, but I like his photos of “The Bridge Builders” best. He did this as a young man with a Leica A. No built in light meter, view finder or visual focusing. I did get to meet him and a few other Group f64 photographers many years ago. I live nearby where they used to meet. The home is no longer there.
Good photography start from what one learn in Art School than what camera one use. Umderstanding the effects of lighting in a photo is the second most important aspect to make the photo stand out.
@@1967davidsrebrnik Not many people are interested in Art and Art Education. I studied Art during my Cambridge "A levels" which covers the subject in quite some details. There were 4 papers for just one subject. One need to cover Imaginative Composition (useful for overall photo composition and use of lighting to enhance a photo), Nature (useful for macro photography), Still Life (useful for product photography) and textile design/printing. Subsequently, I went on to do Advertising which brought all I learn in school to another level. To be reasonably good in photography, one need a foundation in Art. However, it is never too late to learn. One just need to know what is required. Not just buying new cameras and lenses.
Thanks for another interesting video! I will definitely look around my home trying to make mundane things look interesting. In this weather, there's not much else I can do anyway :) I have a question though. In my humble experience, I noticed that, apart from knowing about leading lines and stuff, there seems to be something more elusive, which makes a photo great or boring: presence of emotion, or what Roland Barthes called "the punctum". In other words, they way I understand it: if a photographer does not feel anything towards the thing or person s/he is taking photos of, that will be felt in the photos, leaving the viewer equally indifferent. I'd love to hear what you think of it.
The symmetry/asymmetry dilemma is fascinating to me. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the decision to place a subject one way or the other when both options are available. I often find with my photographs they are equally valid. Is it personal style? Do you know of photographers who always lean one way or is it completely subject dependant?
I'm a subscriber who loves your channel, but the one question I always leave with is where does "How's it, how's it" come from and why do you say it every show?
@Paul Boudreau: It comes from South Africa, where Alex spent a number of years. A standard greeting there. Down here on the other side of the world, I had a South African boss who always called me "Uncle". I was mystified by this, so asked him one day. He said it was a sign of respect because I was older than him!
Yes (or Ja), Veivoli is right. It's how I used to say hello when meeting friends. Felt appropriate for the channel :D 'Oom or Uncle' is sort of falling out of fashion, but still about.
Hi Alex I love what ur doing here in your channel I needed this keep going, these videos are helping me not to quit and keep going for the love of photography and I'd love it if you'd be so kind to look at my photographs
While I’m sure the current thumbnail will elicit more clicks, I don’t really think one could qualify it as “minimalist”. I personally enjoyed the original thumbnail, with the less male-gaze-y minimalist landscape scene.. Don’t succumb to the temptations of TH-cam’s warped incentive structure my friend, at least keep your integrity while you’re generating content for them to use to mine our eyeballs for ad plays.
It's a fair point, and thanks for your input. Everything is an experiment, and the results are sometimes eye opening. FWIW, in this case, the CTR is actually slightly lower with this current thumb. Thanks for watching
I heard someone say once, and they were speaking about composition in painting but the same holds true for photography or any form of created image. "Good composition is the ability to make the viewers eyes dance with the image." It's what leads the viewer through the image and how they ultimately read the story you are trying to tell. I thought that was really quite beautiful.
Ok … Grazie mille Alex … Thanks these videos are really great BUT … I and I am sure others find there is one major problem which you have NOT addressed… before the video ends … even halfway through I end up picking up my camera and I start taking pictures .. so I don’t get to see the end.
I went straight out and took a couple of photos just isolating the subject and found that switching back to full field vision momentarily overwhelming. This video is my lesson plan for the next few months. Thanks Alex.
Your channel is most probably one of the most useful from a photography, learning and artistic "démarche" standpoint. Thank you for this work. It's making me rediscover photography.
I stated to bypass the section on color as I am strictly a b&w photographer. Everything I print or show online is monochromatic. It is just my preference. But as the color segment started, I suddenly realized that I look at colors and decide what a particular filter (red, blue, green, etc.) will do to the gray tones of the image. For example, if I take a shot with a lot of blue sky do I want that sky as a medium tone or add a blue filter to lighten the sky or a red filter to darken it. Thanks for waking me up to what I have been doing intuitively as I edit.
Yes, I very much enjoy his photography too. I was going to include him here, but found this great collection by photographers who aren't well known and decided to give them a platform.
Very helpful video! Very well spoken and described. I actually had a couple of good ideas while watching it! Thanks for your videos and inspiration, Alex. James.
*LAST CHANCE*
"Learning To See", a course built to give you to tools to take your photos from average to awesome is being removed from sale permanently on 31st December 2022.
Start seeing (and creating) better photographs today for just $35.
*Click here --> **tpe.teachable.com/p/learning-to-see*
This is the most enlightening channel I subscribe to. While I’m most interested in nature photography, the images and your challenges as to how to look at the images are most instructive even though they may be cityscapes or some abstract shots. It helps me see. Many thanks to you. I’m thinking about my compositions differently and that is a very good thing.
Excellent to hear, thanks for watching
Wow this is literally me right now.
Thanks Photographic eye
Just found out about this channel via the TH-cam algorithm. Can’t thank that robot enough, what a great channel this is. I did four years of photographic design so the practical and theoretical stuff is somewhere in my head. But your style of explaining is soothing and gets me motivated to go out and shoot and try stuff. Very enlightening to say the least.
Yes he is grrrreat
As a lifer, I have watched just about all your videos, and you are a credit to us all. This video in particular is outstanding. I reckon you should team up with a good publisher to illustrate and write your own books. You look happy.
I've watched a bunch of videos on composition and yours was an excellent summary of the various exercises one can play around with when learning to compose better. Examples were stellar, loved many of them. Thank you!
Such a joy this video was to me. Great examples of how to incorporate composition techniques .A few of my favorite photographers, which use minimalism in their work are Franco Fontana, Francesco Sembolini, and Allan Schaller.
Thanks for the suggestions
Allan Schaller is great! Love his images.
My favorite minimalist photographer is me 😇😊
I was amused with the Timo Lemmetti moo picture since I did a photo very similar to it few weeks ago, which is my Facebook cover.
I had a little chuckle over it too
Stunningly beautiful images and wonderful and easy to understand concept of composition which plays and important role in photography.I always love your channel.Please keep up the good work.Wishing you all the best and a big thank you.
Thank Youuu sir, i appreciate you sharing your knowledge with everyone. Especially that you really KNOW stuff rather than those that just make videos for the hell of it
A refreshing and thoughtful take on the art of photography. I appreciate your insight and you sharing it. Thank you.
Thank you
Very inspirational and I plan to expand my composition skills in the upcoming New Year 2022! Nice, very nice to view so many female photographer's work and the ones who caught me eye were: Adrian Kathleen, Vicky martin and Sara Ailler....thanks for the subject and encouragement. Love your channel! Susie from Athens, Ohio
Nice! This video went into my favorites instantly!
This, I reckon, was one of your best!! I’ll watch this one again.
Wow thank you.
These photographs…my mind is blown by every image shown in this video
Glad you liked them
Always useful to be reminded of compositional concepts.
Thanks for watching
For me this is your best video yet and the examples are terrific. The use of colours of the different surfaces and light/shadows shining through a steel fence/gate in particular struck a chord with me as did the lone figure image taken at night. There is something about coloured planes in photographs that I find particularly intriguing.
Love your videos but this has to be my favourite one. Love the examples.
Love seeing these examples, this just helped me realise my favorite type of photography is minimalist photography
Excellent video and love the images selected to illustrate the subject
Writing down tips. Every one of your videos, is a master class to me. Many thanks from Venezuela. 👍🏼
Best video ive watched on photography so simple to understand and very well explained.. thank you. Subscribed..look forward to going throught the rest of your videos..
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it
Damn, I sure did enjoy this! Lots of ideas well presented.
Thanks so much Larry!
I really enjoyed the photography you showcased in this video. Fresh and creative images. Also appreciated your comment about it feeling right. That feeling and being caught up in the viewfinder why I love photography.
Thanks for your great videos, so thought-provoking!
Thanks for watching
One of the best videos I’ve seen on this channel, followed closely by an older video you did on minimalist photography!
TBH, its my favourite genre, so that may be why :D
Brilliant- I’m going to try this philosophy when nxt in Glencoe.
Superb video again Alex , many thanks 🙏
As a beginner in photography, your videos are platinum for me,thx lots!!!
Really enjoy your videos
Thanks for the lesson! I really enjoyed this tour of minimal composition. Very inspiring!
An excellent refresher on many of the aspects of composition. Thank you!
Thank you 👍📷😎
My pleasure!
I really enjoy your thoughtful content. Thanks for the time you spend sharing your knowledge and passion for photography. Best wishes from a fellow youtuber! 😀👍
Awesome, thanks
Once again, Alex, you've informed and inspired. As for minimalist photographers, I'm profoundly affected by the work of Fan Ho. But there are soooo many brilliant minimalist photo artists these days. The genre seems to have enjoyed a renaissance on Instagram, for example. I love experimenting with it because in many ways it feels like a "purer" expression of an image. Rather like a poem might be considered a more refined/distilled version of a novel....
I’m always looking forward to your videos and you never disappoint, a true photography channel, excellent work. Be well and stay safe.
Thanks Enrique
Absolutely excellent video - very inspirational….I’ve “bought you a coffee” :- )
Thank you so much
Thank you for a very minimalist video on minimalism , you manage to get the teaching point over very succinctly, making for a memorable video . It’s probably out of your control but the video is sadly interrupted many times . I have no problem before & after , other than that (advertisers take notice , if it’s payed while these videos are running I will not purchase it ! & will actively avoid it 😉!) your videos are amazing . ‘ buy me a coffee coming up (but not Costa !😂) thanks D
Your explanations make me a better photographer…Thank you
Thank you so much for sharing!!!
Very nice. One of your best.
I have never really thought about minimalist photography before now. Interesting subject. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed
Great Video and I love your channel its very helpful, Thank you so much.
Happy to help!
Thank you
Thank you for the good video
Thank you for watching
I learned a lot from this video and it’s worth watching more than once. The photos really helped emphasize what you are describing and I will be taking the challenge.
Have you thought about making a video on Peter Stackpole? He’s probably best known for Life Magazine and his photos of Hollywood and WW2, but I like his photos of “The Bridge Builders” best. He did this as a young man with a Leica A. No built in light meter, view finder or visual focusing. I did get to meet him and a few other Group f64 photographers many years ago. I live nearby where they used to meet. The home is no longer there.
Good photography start from what one learn in Art School than what camera one use. Umderstanding the effects of lighting in a photo is the second most important aspect to make the photo stand out.
I wished that would have been the material taught at school instead of many boring lessons.
@@1967davidsrebrnik Not many people are interested in Art and Art Education. I studied Art during my Cambridge "A levels" which covers the subject in quite some details. There were 4 papers for just one subject. One need to cover Imaginative Composition (useful for overall photo composition and use of lighting to enhance a photo), Nature (useful for macro photography), Still Life (useful for product photography) and textile design/printing. Subsequently, I went on to do Advertising which brought all I learn in school to another level.
To be reasonably good in photography, one need a foundation in Art. However, it is never too late to learn. One just need to know what is required. Not just buying new cameras and lenses.
Come do a picture day! lol.
Great video friend!
excelent ,wonderful , tanks
Thanks for another interesting video! I will definitely look around my home trying to make mundane things look interesting. In this weather, there's not much else I can do anyway :)
I have a question though. In my humble experience, I noticed that, apart from knowing about leading lines and stuff, there seems to be something more elusive, which makes a photo great or boring: presence of emotion, or what Roland Barthes called "the punctum". In other words, they way I understand it: if a photographer does not feel anything towards the thing or person s/he is taking photos of, that will be felt in the photos, leaving the viewer equally indifferent. I'd love to hear what you think of it.
Once again such a good, and well presented subject. A pity I've missed the chat. Wish you a wonderful evening.
ill watch it again and, quite possibly, again
Awesome!
I'm a minimalist and of course I prefer minimalist photography 😁. Great video!
Me too :)
Amazing info
Thank you ever so much and awesome to have you here
@@ThePhotographicEye welcome am a photographer myself
Thanks, great advice 👍🏻
Glad to hear you found it helpful
This content is dynamite every single time
Thank you so much
What about Mr Ho (?) - excellent black and white photography.
Fan Ho. Although not all his work was minimalist!
The symmetry/asymmetry dilemma is fascinating to me. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the decision to place a subject one way or the other when both options are available. I often find with my photographs they are equally valid. Is it personal style? Do you know of photographers who always lean one way or is it completely subject dependant?
Depends
1:08 "photographer name" lets assume its svetlana smirnova
It is :D
I'm a subscriber who loves your channel, but the one question I always leave with is where does "How's it, how's it" come from and why do you say it every show?
@Paul Boudreau: It comes from South Africa, where Alex spent a number of years. A standard greeting there. Down here on the other side of the world, I had a South African boss who always called me "Uncle". I was mystified by this, so asked him one day. He said it was a sign of respect because I was older than him!
@@veivoli Thanks!
Yes (or Ja), Veivoli is right. It's how I used to say hello when meeting friends. Felt appropriate for the channel :D
'Oom or Uncle' is sort of falling out of fashion, but still about.
And I always thought you were British. Things are seemingly more complex than I originally assume. Thank you for the insight.
@@local130 haha, I am, but moved to SA when I was 9, then back to the UK in 2008
You know you are close to perfection when there is nothing else to subtract
Photographer Name is a new one to me…🤣
They are the next big thing!
@@ThePhotographicEye good to be in the know before they become a household name.👍
Hi Alex I love what ur doing here in your channel I needed this keep going, these videos are helping me not to quit and keep going for the love of photography and I'd love it if you'd be so kind to look at my photographs
Lesson learned. I just need to move out of my shithole place and travel the world.
While I’m sure the current thumbnail will elicit more clicks, I don’t really think one could qualify it as “minimalist”. I personally enjoyed the original thumbnail, with the less male-gaze-y minimalist landscape scene.. Don’t succumb to the temptations of TH-cam’s warped incentive structure my friend, at least keep your integrity while you’re generating content for them to use to mine our eyeballs for ad plays.
It's a fair point, and thanks for your input.
Everything is an experiment, and the results are sometimes eye opening.
FWIW, in this case, the CTR is actually slightly lower with this current thumb.
Thanks for watching
You srtoill talk too munch concentrate the massege
I heard someone say once, and they were speaking about composition in painting but the same holds true for photography or any form of created image. "Good composition is the ability to make the viewers eyes dance with the image." It's what leads the viewer through the image and how they ultimately read the story you are trying to tell. I thought that was really quite beautiful.
Ok … Grazie mille Alex … Thanks these videos are really great BUT … I and I am sure others find there is one major problem which you have NOT addressed… before the video ends … even halfway through I end up picking up my camera and I start taking pictures .. so I don’t get to see the end.
I went straight out and took a couple of photos just isolating the subject and found that switching back to full field vision momentarily overwhelming. This video is my lesson plan for the next few months. Thanks Alex.
informative 14mins.
Helpful perspectives
Well explained concepts.
Glad you enjoyed it
amazing composition explanation vide! the best I have ever seen!!
Hello Alex, great video, always very interesting, all the best, keep them coming.
Thanks for taking the time to produce these videos.
At a time when my motivation is taking a dip, these videos help a lot.
This was a really great video, thank you for sharing! Going to link it from my photo blog :)
Is it weird that I find your videos not only valuable but also therapeutic?
😶👍👍👍
Your channel is most probably one of the most useful from a photography, learning and artistic "démarche" standpoint. Thank you for this work. It's making me rediscover photography.
Wow, thanks!
Again thanks for the inspiration,cheers.
Thanks for watching
Absolutely love your channel. Thank you so much for
I stated to bypass the section on color as I am strictly a b&w photographer. Everything I print or show online is monochromatic. It is just my preference. But as the color segment started, I suddenly realized that I look at colors and decide what a particular filter (red, blue, green, etc.) will do to the gray tones of the image. For example, if I take a shot with a lot of blue sky do I want that sky as a medium tone or add a blue filter to lighten the sky or a red filter to darken it. Thanks for waking me up to what I have been doing intuitively as I edit.
Michael Kenna's work gives me great visual pleasure. Their atmospheric simplicity very often just takes my breath away.
Yes, I very much enjoy his photography too. I was going to include him here, but found this great collection by photographers who aren't well known and decided to give them a platform.
@@ThePhotographicEye Yes, certainly I can't see anything wrong in publicising lesser-known talents.
Kenna was the first photographer I thought of
Nowadays if a photograph was not shot in super shallow depth of field it is not a great photo.
Very helpful video! Very well spoken and described. I actually had a couple of good ideas while watching it! Thanks for your videos and inspiration, Alex. James.
“Obscure the obvious and exaggerate the essential” Van Gogh
Just found my image at 8:15 Min. and fell in love with your channel ;) Thanks a lot for the small feature!
Have you viewed Tavis Leaf channel on dynamic symmetry
I know too many photographers who only worry about megapixels!
Very interesting again - thank you!
Hope you are well and healthy
This vid is giving me so many ideas. I'm glad I found your channel!
You need a long lens for this style of photography.
Thanks
Thank you
Thanks for sharing.
I like how you repeated some of the pictures.
Great ideas. Thanks for the inspiration!
I love this....I love composition
very helpful ! thanks !
Wow great what a great teacher you are
Great video as always
beautiful video