That guy casually delivered the most excellent "customers journey" I ever saw. He smashes our face telling we have a problem, he shows the solution, teaches it, gives us a feeling of "we need more of this knowledge", them he became a authority in the topic since he explained well and revealed his career, and gives us the solution to every problem with photos we had in his hands, throughout his book, which we believed he is capable of throughout the journey. You not only a goddamn great photographer, that was 200 IQ Marketing move right there.
Side note: knowing the rule is important but it can be broken. He mentioned to never have a face on the bottom third but sometimes it does create a great photo so don’t always feel needed to follow the rule.
Following the rules is far more important and because of that you can end up with many more new ideas 😂 so follow the rules. My dad taught to never cross the street when you see a car coming, and that rule still works today and now I am passing the same rule to my children 😂
When learning something it's always good to learn the rules first and then understand why breaking them might sometimes be great. By breaking rules that you didn't even know existed, you'll make something good only by accident
This applies to all visual arts, the rules are helpful for guidelines. Breaking those rules is acceptable in the right situations. For instance, you could break a rule if it achieves the effect you intend for your work.
1. Rule of thirds put your subject on the top right or left third and have them face the direction with the most space in the photo. 2. Don't let the background intrude on your subject. (things behind their head) 3. Blurring out the background depth of field
Blurring the background is only for portrait photos. And the rule of third is broken in portrait photos because the subject goes from being part of the composition to be the main object pf the composition.
@murphygreen8484 I know this was six months ago, but it depends. If the couple is at a tourist location and wants an object of interest in the shot with them, you could have the couple stand close together on one third line and the object of interest on the other, for example.
Another pro tips: - Make sure if someone ask you to do portrait, you should take a literal portrait photos, not landscapes - Make sure if you are in a tourist area, they tend to be want a full body shot and include the place point of interest. ( you could direct them to move in specific place, to make your composition works - If they have a group session about 10 people or so, make sure to take landscape photos to increase fidelity - If you are capturing sunset or sunrise moment, you could apply three point of light with the sun as the key light. You could also set the camera a bit to the side, so the lighting only cover 1/3 of the subject, to make it look cinematic - You have three angle at disposal, which is high, eye level end low. You could try every one of them that fits the best - Don't tilt the camera, cause not all people like it - Most people like wide angle lens, so try to use it, if they have the lens - Most of the time, Auto mode is just perfect, so you don't make them waits you to set the camera (excepts for night times, because some phones does not have a stable camera for night uses, so you could direct them to a well lit areas) - Make sure to takes a lot of pictures, because more is good and helps eliminates bad pictures
@@aomafura3374 depends on the background, if they’re traveling and want to show off the background, they probably want the whole frame in focus, but if the background isn’t very interesting, you could probably get away with a blurred background. The one thing you should always do is ask the person you are shooting what they want, however a lot of times they will not know what they want, and in those cases it’s best to play it safe by taking photos with the background in and out of focus, as well as pictures with the person in the center and pictures with more advanced composition. At the end of the day, a lot of people aren’t really able to understand photos taken with advanced techniques, because it’s sort of like you are giving them home-cooked or 5-star restaurant food when they’ve been eating fast food all their life and are unable to appreciate the full character of the food, although the opposite reaction still happens quite often
Same with a huge group of tourists at a theme park or friends at a bar... they literally just want proof they were there. Just take five decent pictures in quick succession while giving them a bit of "OK serious" now "Silly!" then you snap one or two after. Those last two after they are done being silly are them at their most relaxed and it usually works really well. I do love great photography, but I love your comment because its ultimately a form of communication. If you prioritize your own art before their documentation they are just gonna get mad about it 😅. Sprinkle it in!
Probably the best photo composition tutorial I've seen here in TH-cam, any people with different nationalities can understand what he's saying as long as you know English. So simple and straight forward, thank you sir I've learned a lot. Greetings from the Philippines🇵🇭
Totally agree. I wish I had a teacher like him - not just in photography. To me, learning is a lifelong process - too bad that learning in schools from "teachers" is a painful boring process.
There's a great example of how to break the rule of third on Mr.Robot. They tend to place the subject facing outward instead of inward, and that brings a sort of tension and unsettling feeling to the scene. Very cool stuff.
Same with me. At this point I can say I am fascinated by the amount of people who don't have any kind of aesthetic sense when they frame a picture. And that includes all generations. In a time where we are all surrounded by pictures everywhere, this is difficult for me to understand.
I've watched a few "rule of thirds" videos and this is the best because it is very clear and includes other little hints that set off lightbulbs. Thank you.
Another thing, make sure your subject doesn’t look naked. This is most common with women when they are wearing a strapless dress, if your portrait only captures their head and the tops of their bare shoulders then the brain is going to naturally assume that since it doesn’t see any clothes that must mean she isn’t wearing any. This can be distracting for the viewer, and to prevent it you just need to make sure that at least a little bit of the subject’s dress is in the frame so the viewer’s brain has something to extrapolate from.
This is very helpful! I'm a painter, and listening to photography tutorials and similar really gets my creative juices flowing! I'm pretty good at composition, but I always walk away knowing a new technique or a new approach after each video like this. Thanks!
I had a couple that basically asked for this. He said he didn’t want a shitty photo, he wanted them to be on the left and the landmark on the right. He didn’t want a portrait tho. I’ve wanted to dip my toes on photography for some time and this is a nice and useful video to start.
I have always loved photography but have been intimidated by the technical aspect. You put this is ways most people can understand and the labeling of recipes kinda helps break these techniques down into a format most of us are familiar with, cooking. Subscribed!
I tell people around me about the rule of third but all they ever want to do is to be positioned center in the photo. They even specifically say please position me in the center, not in the left/right side. And they do it in every scene.
Man, i learned more about how to capture a professional-looking portrait using the rule of thirds from you and some of the commenters than my 2 years here in my local multimedia college.
One thing that I find interesting is that I learned 90% of these tips by myself, some photos I took, for example one I took of my cousin, she still uses it as wallpaper on her cell phone
This is gold Jerry! Gold! Having never taken a good photo in my life, I rushed home and tried these recommendations without delay. Threw the wife on the deck and boom, professional looking photos. Thanks Tim 🍻
This needs to be mandatory viewing when you get a phone/camera. We visited Chichén Itzá and asked someone to take a photo… ended up with cut off legs and about 40 miles of sky above us 😢
My mother gave me a Canon 2000d and a 50mm 1.2 lens. I have a lot of interest in photography so I've been looking for some videos to learn the basic. This is certainly the best I could find in TH-cam. Thank you.
Great tutorial. Think I've never liked taking photos because I want them to look fantastic but they rarely do. Hopefully your simple explanations will make me a photographer (of sorts).
As an extra point in my experience: take multiple shots! So often that one photo has someone blinking or looking away momentarily etc... or a dog shitting in the background. Once its set up using the sorts of guidelines here keep spamming that shutter button and take 3, 5, 8 shots whatever. Its not like the old 36 frame film days..
the beauty of the digital camera is that you have instant availability of seeing the result whereas in the days of film, one might not see results for a week or two or longer depending upon whether the film had a full roll of exposures and had been taken to the lab. Don't get into the habit of "spray" shooting or one might as well go to movie mode and then select a frame. Get to be able to get a good image the first time but check the image in normal size and then zoom to be sure it is sharp and nothing has happened to make the image unusable.
@@phlotographer I sort of agree but at the same time how many moments are fleeting never to happen again? I'd rather be trigger happy and get the shot. One of my favourite photos of all time is one of my son seeing himself in a mirror for the first time after crawling across the floor and it was done like that. One decent shot out of about 10 slightly blurry ones!! I didn't want to lose time checking photos in the moment.
Excellent video, Tim. For total beginners, it'll be VERY easy to understand and apply these tips. Myself I am more of an enthusiast and keep learning everyday, especially if it involves harder photo topics. Anyway, am now a subscriber, thanks for sharing useful info with us, Tim!
I am applying all this technique when I am taking pictures of my wife, she said these techniques are old schools. Thanks Gen Zs for always making everything ultrawide
Obviously, I agree. HOWEVER, if someone gives you a phone and asks you to take a picture of them (which I will never do unless you pay me), forget about the rule of 3rds and place them in the middle of the frame. The average person thinks that they should be in the center and will be very disappointed if they're not. TRUST ME.
Very helpful guide to using the rule of thirds for single person portraits. I'd love to have similar advice for groups of people! Should I arrange it so that their faces are all on the top line for example ?
I once had a friend try to tell me this information, and I didn't understand it, thinking he was crazy. Hehehe! This was well presented, thank you for creating this!
I go back to film days and my favorite portrait lens for 35mm was a 105 f2.8. I use a variation of that on digital. For my crop sensor I like an 80, if I could afford a full frame I would use something in the 100 range. The reason is that it eliminates distortion you can get with a shorter focal lengths, keeps background separation and with a wide open aperture, just the right amount of background blur. A fellow photographer pointed out that with the right settings even a landfill can make a great background, you just have to deal with the smell.
Another trick: if you can't change the aperture in your camera, but have optical zoom, you can step back and zoom in, this will create a lot of background blur. If your phone has a telephoto camera you can use this instead of relying on post-processing
I'm sure I've watched this video or something like this some 15 years ago. Though I did learn a lot then, this video is definitely out of date for today's standards. Portrait photos today prefer to be taken in portrait, as in taller than it is wide. This is because it fits the concept for social media scrolling on the phone. For Instagram it's 4:5. In that case you do want your subject to have more headroom while minimising how much the floor takes up in your photo. Head space gives photos more sense of occasion and umph. You also have to keep that in mind because most cameras shoot 3:2 or 16:9, where they see that they have their whole subject within the photo, and all is good, but then once the person tries to post that picture on social media, either they chop their leg or they chop their head. I see this happen so often with "professional" photographers. And even if you can just managed to crop the photo to fit into instagram, because there's so little headroom, the photo looks cramped and uncomfortable.
the most educative ad I have ever watched xD I feel the ugre to purchase that book, but remember that I dont have a camera and money, lol btw, "telephone booth"? really? is that 70-80s example xD
At 4:04, imagine a person being shot with 300mm lense with a f1.4 Aperture. That background would most probably get too blurry and look fake. But, ofcourse a person with those two things together will probably know how to take a photo.
Hey Tim great advice I have only just started taking photos of people I’ve been a landscape photographer very long time and understand the rule of thirds pretty well from a landscape perspective but I never really understood it from a portrait perspective I’m not going to become a wedding photographer or anything like that but occasionally I’d like to take a few photos of different people and someone in different circumstances and this video has been great at educating me on how to go about it I knew about bokeh but I did not know about the rule of thirds
I know about the rule of thirds, but there was a lot more info I didn't know. Great simple and concise video. Well done. I was gonna buy the cookbook, I assumed it was $10. Nope, $47. Oh well, too rich for my blood.
Great tips!! Something cool I learned about posing for portraits is to have the person stand with their weight more on one leg than the other. If using natural light, use the light coming from the side so the facial features of their face are highlighted better. :-)
Very easy to understand and informative for a beginner like me. Thank you for making this video. Watching it the second time for me to absorb it fully.
Very helpful - though personally I hate blurred backgrounds - especially when the difference in sharpness between the subject and background is substantial. To me, that can make it look like the subject has been 'stuck onto' the background, rather than being part of the overall image, actually present in the space that's been captured. Maybe looking like the subject has even been added in processing onto a different image. But I guess it has its occasional uses - it depends on the purpose of the photo - whether the subject just wants a photo of themselves, maybe showing off clothing, a particular pose, who they're with in that moment, etc, or whether their present location/surroundings at that time is important to them and maybe even why they want the photo taken just then. Ask them! Of course, with anything artistic, opinions on what looks good differ widely.
Very weird since that's what your eyes also do when focusing on something. It's the reason why blurry backgrounds are preferred when there's an object closer to the camera than the background. It also helps separate the 2 or more layers on a 2d format like a screen. The same exact concept is also present in painting. You typically paint more details to the part you want to be focusing on to guide the eye. It doesn't have just "occasional uses", controlling the sharpness of elements is one of the core parts in basically any art. Saying you hate such a big part might simply show your inability to use it effectively and can be a new thing to work on. Since again, when done correctly it should not look unnatural at all.
Straight to the point, no stupid intros and useless talk. Thanks.
That guy casually delivered the most excellent "customers journey" I ever saw.
He smashes our face telling we have a problem, he shows the solution, teaches it, gives us a feeling of "we need more of this knowledge", them he became a authority in the topic since he explained well and revealed his career, and gives us the solution to every problem with photos we had in his hands, throughout his book, which we believed he is capable of throughout the journey.
You not only a goddamn great photographer, that was 200 IQ Marketing move right there.
real good marketing
Side note: knowing the rule is important but it can be broken. He mentioned to never have a face on the bottom third but sometimes it does create a great photo so don’t always feel needed to follow the rule.
didi you even watch the video untill the end?
Following the rules is far more important and because of that you can end up with many more new ideas 😂 so follow the rules. My dad taught to never cross the street when you see a car coming, and that rule still works today and now I am passing the same rule to my children 😂
When learning something it's always good to learn the rules first and then understand why breaking them might sometimes be great. By breaking rules that you didn't even know existed, you'll make something good only by accident
This applies to all visual arts, the rules are helpful for guidelines. Breaking those rules is acceptable in the right situations. For instance, you could break a rule if it achieves the effect you intend for your work.
In art, it is important to learn the rules and once you have them committed to memory, get busy learning how to break them.
All my friends and family needs to watch this
I was thinking this too....
my gf sent me here
bro atleast you have gf😭😭
Me too😂
😂😂😂
Lol
@@Itachi-k7ldon't worry, dating coaches exist.
compact but not short, easy but not simplified. Perfect
1. Rule of thirds
put your subject on the top right or left third and have them face the direction with the most space in the photo.
2. Don't let the background intrude on your subject. (things behind their head)
3. Blurring out the background depth of field
thanks for saving my 8 minutes
Blurring the background is only for portrait photos. And the rule of third is broken in portrait photos because the subject goes from being part of the composition to be the main object pf the composition.
Does the rule of thirds also apply when you are taking a photo of a couple?
@@murphygreen8484it's called rule of the threesome then.
@murphygreen8484 I know this was six months ago, but it depends. If the couple is at a tourist location and wants an object of interest in the shot with them, you could have the couple stand close together on one third line and the object of interest on the other, for example.
Another pro tips:
- Make sure if someone ask you to do portrait, you should take a literal portrait photos, not landscapes
- Make sure if you are in a tourist area, they tend to be want a full body shot and include the place point of interest. ( you could direct them to move in specific place, to make your composition works
- If they have a group session about 10 people or so, make sure to take landscape photos to increase fidelity
- If you are capturing sunset or sunrise moment, you could apply three point of light with the sun as the key light. You could also set the camera a bit to the side, so the lighting only cover 1/3 of the subject, to make it look cinematic
- You have three angle at disposal, which is high, eye level end low. You could try every one of them that fits the best
- Don't tilt the camera, cause not all people like it
- Most people like wide angle lens, so try to use it, if they have the lens
- Most of the time, Auto mode is just perfect, so you don't make them waits you to set the camera (excepts for night times, because some phones does not have a stable camera for night uses, so you could direct them to a well lit areas)
- Make sure to takes a lot of pictures, because more is good and helps eliminates bad pictures
don't make 100 times the same picture tho
Exception: your girlfriend and her friends ask for a photo to show off their cute outfits. In this instance, you throw all the rules out the window.
😂😂😂😂
In that case, woukdnt you be just applying the Portrait rules? Except instead of just their face, it's their whole body
@@aomafura3374 depends on the background, if they’re traveling and want to show off the background, they probably want the whole frame in focus, but if the background isn’t very interesting, you could probably get away with a blurred background. The one thing you should always do is ask the person you are shooting what they want, however a lot of times they will not know what they want, and in those cases it’s best to play it safe by taking photos with the background in and out of focus, as well as pictures with the person in the center and pictures with more advanced composition. At the end of the day, a lot of people aren’t really able to understand photos taken with advanced techniques, because it’s sort of like you are giving them home-cooked or 5-star restaurant food when they’ve been eating fast food all their life and are unable to appreciate the full character of the food, although the opposite reaction still happens quite often
can't relate, the missing object is a girlfriend
Same with a huge group of tourists at a theme park or friends at a bar... they literally just want proof they were there. Just take five decent pictures in quick succession while giving them a bit of "OK serious" now "Silly!" then you snap one or two after. Those last two after they are done being silly are them at their most relaxed and it usually works really well. I do love great photography, but I love your comment because its ultimately a form of communication. If you prioritize your own art before their documentation they are just gonna get mad about it 😅. Sprinkle it in!
This is essentially a $300 course on basic photography. For free. Amazing
Who is charging $300 for the most entry level photo composition?
@@lt3880scammers and op would pay for it
@@lt3880 someguy probably 😅
no it is not
Probably the best photo composition tutorial I've seen here in TH-cam, any people with different nationalities can understand what he's saying as long as you know English. So simple and straight forward, thank you sir I've learned a lot.
Greetings from the Philippines🇵🇭
lady, you are gorgeous
Totally agree. I wish I had a teacher like him - not just in photography. To me, learning is a lifelong process - too bad that learning in schools from "teachers" is a painful boring process.
There's a great example of how to break the rule of third on Mr.Robot. They tend to place the subject facing outward instead of inward, and that brings a sort of tension and unsettling feeling to the scene.
Very cool stuff.
Excellent show too
I travelled europe and asked a lot of strangers to take my picture and a lot of people need to see this video lol, great video, simple and concise.
Same with me. At this point I can say I am fascinated by the amount of people who don't have any kind of aesthetic sense when they frame a picture. And that includes all generations. In a time where we are all surrounded by pictures everywhere, this is difficult for me to understand.
This is the only video where I understand the rule of thirds. Kudos to the presenter for the very clear explanation and demonstration.
I've watched a few "rule of thirds" videos and this is the best because it is very clear and includes other little hints that set off lightbulbs. Thank you.
Another thing, make sure your subject doesn’t look naked. This is most common with women when they are wearing a strapless dress, if your portrait only captures their head and the tops of their bare shoulders then the brain is going to naturally assume that since it doesn’t see any clothes that must mean she isn’t wearing any. This can be distracting for the viewer, and to prevent it you just need to make sure that at least a little bit of the subject’s dress is in the frame so the viewer’s brain has something to extrapolate from.
as a film bro who has no idea how to use a camera and has a partner who wants me to take better pics of them i appreciate this
the best teacher in my book... you not only know your craft but also knowlegedable on how to teach your subject... 10/10
This is very helpful! I'm a painter, and listening to photography tutorials and similar really gets my creative juices flowing! I'm pretty good at composition, but I always walk away knowing a new technique or a new approach after each video like this. Thanks!
I had a couple that basically asked for this. He said he didn’t want a shitty photo, he wanted them to be on the left and the landmark on the right. He didn’t want a portrait tho. I’ve wanted to dip my toes on photography for some time and this is a nice and useful video to start.
I have always loved photography but have been intimidated by the technical aspect. You put this is ways most people can understand and the labeling of recipes kinda helps break these techniques down into a format most of us are familiar with, cooking.
Subscribed!
Single best composition guide I've ever watched. Simple to understand, quick to implement, helps not just with photos but also art.
I tell people around me about the rule of third but all they ever want to do is to be positioned center in the photo. They even specifically say please position me in the center, not in the left/right side. And they do it in every scene.
And you let them boss you around?
Man, i learned more about how to capture a professional-looking portrait using the rule of thirds from you and some of the commenters than my 2 years here in my local multimedia college.
One thing that I find interesting is that I learned 90% of these tips by myself, some photos I took, for example one I took of my cousin, she still uses it as wallpaper on her cell phone
This is gold Jerry! Gold! Having never taken a good photo in my life, I rushed home and tried these recommendations without delay. Threw the wife on the deck and boom, professional looking photos. Thanks Tim 🍻
This needs to be mandatory viewing when you get a phone/camera. We visited Chichén Itzá and asked someone to take a photo… ended up with cut off legs and about 40 miles of sky above us 😢
Im watching this for when the time comes i won't disappoint anyone with my photography skills.
The photo with the lady on the blue beach is so good
My mother gave me a Canon 2000d and a 50mm 1.2 lens. I have a lot of interest in photography so I've been looking for some videos to learn the basic. This is certainly the best I could find in TH-cam. Thank you.
Great tutorial. Think I've never liked taking photos because I want them to look fantastic but they rarely do. Hopefully your simple explanations will make me a photographer (of sorts).
As an extra point in my experience: take multiple shots! So often that one photo has someone blinking or looking away momentarily etc... or a dog shitting in the background. Once its set up using the sorts of guidelines here keep spamming that shutter button and take 3, 5, 8 shots whatever. Its not like the old 36 frame film days..
the beauty of the digital camera is that you have instant availability of seeing the result whereas in the days of film, one might not see results for a week or two or longer depending upon whether the film had a full roll of exposures and had been taken to the lab.
Don't get into the habit of "spray" shooting or one might as well go to movie mode and then select a frame. Get to be able to get a good image the first time but check the image in normal size and then zoom to be sure it is sharp and nothing has happened to make the image unusable.
@@phlotographer I sort of agree but at the same time how many moments are fleeting never to happen again? I'd rather be trigger happy and get the shot. One of my favourite photos of all time is one of my son seeing himself in a mirror for the first time after crawling across the floor and it was done like that. One decent shot out of about 10 slightly blurry ones!! I didn't want to lose time checking photos in the moment.
Very helpful video. I'm a beginner in photography from Mizoram,North East India.
But I have no money to buy camera😢. In in love with photography
Excellent video, Tim. For total beginners, it'll be VERY easy to understand and apply these tips. Myself I am more of an enthusiast and keep learning everyday, especially if it involves harder photo topics. Anyway, am now a subscriber, thanks for sharing useful info with us, Tim!
Finally a simple and straight forward tips with practical showcases! Thanks for an awesome guide!
I am applying all this technique when I am taking pictures of my wife, she said these techniques are old schools.
Thanks Gen Zs for always making everything ultrawide
Im a beginner and i think this vid helps me to start on doing good pics..thank u very much.👍😊
The way you say "photo" is satisfying
Obviously, I agree. HOWEVER, if someone gives you a phone and asks you to take a picture of them (which I will never do unless you pay me), forget about the rule of 3rds and place them in the middle of the frame. The average person thinks that they should be in the center and will be very disappointed if they're not. TRUST ME.
Very helpful guide to using the rule of thirds for single person portraits.
I'd love to have similar advice for groups of people!
Should I arrange it so that their faces are all on the top line for example ?
step 4. Camera height in relation to sub eyes.
I once had a friend try to tell me this information, and I didn't understand it, thinking he was crazy. Hehehe! This was well presented, thank you for creating this!
I go back to film days and my favorite portrait lens for 35mm was a 105 f2.8. I use a variation of that on digital. For my crop sensor I like an 80, if I could afford a full frame I would use something in the 100 range. The reason is that it eliminates distortion you can get with a shorter focal lengths, keeps background separation and with a wide open aperture, just the right amount of background blur. A fellow photographer pointed out that with the right settings even a landfill can make a great background, you just have to deal with the smell.
Another trick: if you can't change the aperture in your camera, but have optical zoom, you can step back and zoom in, this will create a lot of background blur. If your phone has a telephoto camera you can use this instead of relying on post-processing
Simple, great teacher Tim. Thank you.
It's simple but usefull. Thank you so much sir.
Great tips. Thanks!
thanks for the effort and the sharing. thumbs up.
Good tips 👍 📸
I'm sure I've watched this video or something like this some 15 years ago. Though I did learn a lot then, this video is definitely out of date for today's standards. Portrait photos today prefer to be taken in portrait, as in taller than it is wide. This is because it fits the concept for social media scrolling on the phone. For Instagram it's 4:5. In that case you do want your subject to have more headroom while minimising how much the floor takes up in your photo. Head space gives photos more sense of occasion and umph. You also have to keep that in mind because most cameras shoot 3:2 or 16:9, where they see that they have their whole subject within the photo, and all is good, but then once the person tries to post that picture on social media, either they chop their leg or they chop their head. I see this happen so often with "professional" photographers. And even if you can just managed to crop the photo to fit into instagram, because there's so little headroom, the photo looks cramped and uncomfortable.
the most educative ad I have ever watched xD I feel the ugre to purchase that book, but remember that I dont have a camera and money, lol
btw, "telephone booth"? really? is that 70-80s example xD
what an amazing video, that indoor lightning and green screen part was the best to demonstrate. thanks a lot.
At 4:04, imagine a person being shot with 300mm lense with a f1.4 Aperture. That background would most probably get too blurry and look fake. But, ofcourse a person with those two things together will probably know how to take a photo.
They better. That sounds like a REALY expensive lense 😂
I was talking about this topic yesterday, interesting that this video is shown to me just a day later
If you are in central europe, always ask an asian tourist to take the picture. They put so much effort and care into giving you the perfect picture.
You have an incredible way of explaining things! This video was super helpful, thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much! I’ve always wondered proper placement.
this is simply the best guide, with no bullsh..t. just straight rules and expanations,
This video was so helpful and easy to understand.
Hey Tim great advice I have only just started taking photos of people I’ve been a landscape photographer very long time and understand the rule of thirds pretty well from a landscape perspective but I never really understood it from a portrait perspective I’m not going to become a wedding photographer or anything like that but occasionally I’d like to take a few photos of different people and someone in different circumstances and this video has been great at educating me on how to go about it I knew about bokeh but I did not know about the rule of thirds
Excellent video straight to the point with good examples, thanks a lot 😃
Tim, thank you very much for this very interesting and insightful video. Looking forward to finally making good photos.
Thank you for posting this video and sharing these photography tips, hopefully I will be able to take better and cleaner photos now, appreciated. 👍
This will come handy. Gonna save this one. Thanks.
I have always done these things intuitively.
Thank you very much for your detailed and simple explanations!! 🥰
these are great rules for journalistic, workman photographs. learn these rules and then learn how to artfully resist them!
What an amazing person!
Thanks a million, straight to point recipe.
I know about the rule of thirds, but there was a lot more info I didn't know. Great simple and concise video. Well done.
I was gonna buy the cookbook, I assumed it was $10. Nope, $47. Oh well, too rich for my blood.
I love how you explain everything!
nice information sir
I was missing the wide lens distortion aspects (in comparison with linear) in this guideline.
Thank you Tim. I just clicked subscribed. This the best tutorial for beginners. Simple and straight forward super easy to understa👌
Pure knowledge, simply put. Thank you for the amazing video!
This is excellent, easy to understand info for beginners like me. Thanks
Great tips!! Something cool I learned about posing for portraits is to have the person stand with their weight more on one leg than the other. If using natural light, use the light coming from the side so the facial features of their face are highlighted better. :-)
Thank you so much for sharing all the tips.
My parents really do need to be watch this tutorial, it's great! XD
Basic but clear informations. Thank you.
awesome info, thanks
Thank you Eduardo
Thanks. Good for you all.
Very easy to understand and informative for a beginner like me. Thank you for making this video. Watching it the second time for me to absorb it fully.
This explanation video is sooo good
Lovely video ! Very knowledgeable. But Tim, please help me with the link again. For the Photo Cookbook.
Hi Karan, here is the link: www.learn.photographyacademy.com/photo-cookbook
What an excellent summary of the golden rules! So very well presented.
Just wow amazing tutorial ❤❤
What is the yt algorithm trying to imply?
That we can't take photo nicely 😞 XD
Great advice. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks man hope this help me to grow my channel🤝
this video just helped me learn so many things at once. thanks man.
Bless you dear sir. Concise and helpful, I really appreciate it.
A good review of the basics ...
I'm so sorry bro do I need to pay you or something? I feel like just watching a masterclass.. Love this video man!! Thanks a lot!!
Very helpful - though personally I hate blurred backgrounds - especially when the difference in sharpness between the subject and background is substantial. To me, that can make it look like the subject has been 'stuck onto' the background, rather than being part of the overall image, actually present in the space that's been captured. Maybe looking like the subject has even been added in processing onto a different image. But I guess it has its occasional uses - it depends on the purpose of the photo - whether the subject just wants a photo of themselves, maybe showing off clothing, a particular pose, who they're with in that moment, etc, or whether their present location/surroundings at that time is important to them and maybe even why they want the photo taken just then. Ask them! Of course, with anything artistic, opinions on what looks good differ widely.
Very weird since that's what your eyes also do when focusing on something. It's the reason why blurry backgrounds are preferred when there's an object closer to the camera than the background. It also helps separate the 2 or more layers on a 2d format like a screen.
The same exact concept is also present in painting. You typically paint more details to the part you want to be focusing on to guide the eye.
It doesn't have just "occasional uses", controlling the sharpness of elements is one of the core parts in basically any art. Saying you hate such a big part might simply show your inability to use it effectively and can be a new thing to work on. Since again, when done correctly it should not look unnatural at all.
Well presented. learned something new today.
very useful tips. thanks
this help me so much, thank you!!
I didn’t know I need it, thank you
Thank you this was very insightful!
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