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 :)
I am very pleased to have found this video and totally agree with (most of) the comments below. Taking pictures is for me a passion - not an obsession. If somebody asking me - i allways say: i am just an amateur. It is just a hobby. I learned it by reading books and "trial and error". :) But (as allways) during more than the last 30 years... I allways try to learn more and to improve myself. Thank you for showing "these kind" of images everybuddy took in his life - even professional photographers. Thank You
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.
Simon Carr Thanks for watching! John is teaching an updated version of this next week. You can watch the free, live broadcast Jan 12-16, 2015 on creativelive.com.
this is a great lecture on photography fundamentals... I am just starting to get going with a photography business and even these basics are helpful to have again.
this guy gets alot of comments about being boring and taking to long to the point, which is i guess true, but i think hes teaching a class and being very thorough. if i were taking photography lessons live, id want this guy as my teacher
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!
I totally concur that the New Age of entirely obsolete photographic film seems to spoil those who could never imagine that one would ever have to put Any limit on the number of pics they could take! Some of the fundamentals of creating high quality images remain the same. John has focused on scenes of great beauty and added good composition and lighting- a home run strategy! I've only had an interchangeable lens digital camera w/a decently large sensor for less than one year, but I think I'm focusing in on Quality and am totally enjoying the APS-C sensor phenomenon! As one of my favorite Books/Authors asked in the Classic - "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" ...."What is Quality?....What the Hell Is It?" - (Robert Pirsig).
Wow, Betsy, you put my thoughts in words! As a young boy i used to be mocked by my friends because i used to have always a plastic camera (With the cube flash :-) with me, now those people can't stop thanking me, because if they have memories of those wonderful moments, and how we looked during that amazing season that is youth, its because of me and my crappy cameras. Those a really true treasures, and i will never exchange one of those yellowish photos with a zillion of today 10000000 megapixels shot. Thanks you.
Great video, thanks for sharing. I hope those new to photography manage to stumble across this video. It could shorten their learning curve considerably! A great video on photographic perspective. Thought provoking, and a window to the tools that help create create vision. It has taken me years of play to learn some of the lessons you manage to convey in minutes.
Still , 10 years later, most of the great info in this video hold true. The. Colors & that type of info in the beginning of the vid was eye opening &, could be very useful in thoughts of how you take & edit a photo. Thank you.
A very helpful and very special teaching about photography. Specially when take B / W pictures I think. So, how to plan the background, front, object, and also the after work in for example Lightroom.
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.
This is an excellent video! You have put together a great video. I will be signing up for your class. Most of this is review for me but still excellent.
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....
I realy enjoyed this video. And every thing you showed and said was very useful to learning and perfecting the art of photography. I am self tought and i am always watching videos and learning differant and new things.I strive to get were you are at one day.
This is a great video! I've seen some of your videos before and I'm learning much from you! I guess photography has also to do with growing up and learning the tricks as you go along. Thanks for teaching us and sharing your knowledge!
Excellent teacher. TH-cam video's that keep my attention for longer than 2 minutes are rare, not because of the content but the speaker making me nervous . The pleasant voice, well prepared text , the right speaking rate makes this excellent video pleasant to follow . The examples are indeed recognizable and very well illustrating the theory. The video makes it possible to show things in a way a printed book cannot and this is exactly why this video is the perfect addition for all the good books we have on our shelves. When I look at the negative comments : they com form people looking for som dirty tricks that will show them to take fantastic pictures .. I wish tem all the luck they can get and they choose the wrong video, please read the title . And even if you try one of the tricks you found in these 2 min video's you will discover it is not as easy as it looked. Good pictures take time and practise and shooting a lot of photo's. It takes more than being a high rated professional photographer to be a good teacher.. John Greengo is both. Thank you for sharing this, I'll be watching this again and again .. Roger
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
I notice also that in a lot of John's photos, there seems to be two strong subjects, two subjects which are equally interesting, like a very strong foreground group of rocks, with a towering majestic mountain range in background, or waterfall with huge mountains in background etc- OR, they are just a single subject concept like pattern without any distracting elements I nthe frame like ripples I nthe sand etc-
Nazareth434 Perhaps the group of rocks in the foreground are included to add depth to the view captured in the photograph. A well used technique in landscape photography.
its a awesome video i really enjoy each an every second of this video, it help to lot to figure out all the essential thing about photography in detail. I much say thanks, thanks a lot for this great video on photography...
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
Indeed you are lucky!!! I've been scouring my area pawn shops for at least a month or so and they are far and few in between in the area of cameras. All I hear is "Everyone has a cell phone who needs a camera?" Now that Christmas has passed I might get lucky and find one. BTW Enjoy!!!!!!!!
Steve Jarvis brought me here..His the father of Chase Jarvis. He pay to enroll in creative live to learn photography..... his son is one of the best commercial photographer in the business.
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-
(well funky effects in sound are way more obvious!),btw dont say about effects of the eye!camera could see the same probably!Say it simply,we have 3d vision while camera not!ONE SIMPLE TIP from me: When you want to shoot sth,close one eye,if you still think it looks great,shoot it!This is what you get!
John has a great voice and attitude. It is pleasure to listen to him. Thank you, John!
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 :)
This is one of the gazzilion photography videos i have watched on youtube and this is one of the most rewarding .
thanks John, just superb, how can 15 people dislike such a great free lesson. They won't be happy even if they go to heaven.
To net it out, let me say this - as a wannabe photographer... this video is an awesome eye-opener!! John Greengo is amazing!!
It shows just in your voice during the end, your passion for photography...thanks for sharing
I am very pleased to have found this video and totally agree with (most of) the comments below.
Taking pictures is for me a passion - not an obsession.
If somebody asking me - i allways say: i am just an amateur.
It is just a hobby. I learned it by reading books and "trial and error". :)
But (as allways) during more than the last 30 years...
I allways try to learn more and to improve myself.
Thank you for showing "these kind" of images everybuddy took in his life -
even professional photographers.
Thank You
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.
Simon Carr Thanks for watching! John is teaching an updated version of this next week. You can watch the free, live broadcast Jan 12-16, 2015 on creativelive.com.
great video. this video has increased my motivation to learn photography... Thanks. And i liked the way he summed up photography as MOMENTS.
this is a great lecture on photography fundamentals... I am just starting to get going with a photography business and even these basics are helpful to have again.
this guy gets alot of comments about being boring and taking to long to the point, which is i guess true, but i think hes teaching a class and being very thorough. if i were taking photography lessons live, id want this guy as my teacher
this is veeeery very good, very objectiv photo lesson ! all the visual tricks and the difference between eye/brain vs taking pictures. bravo ^^
This is a really good overview on photography and what can and can't be done when taking pictures. Very inspiring. Thanks.
Very good presentation! Informative, inspiring, and well presented.
Thank you a lot for that video, I'm not a photographer but an amateur illustrator and some of the things you mentioned really helped me out!
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!
I totally concur that the New Age of entirely obsolete photographic film seems to spoil those who could never imagine that one would ever have to put Any limit on the number of pics they could take! Some of the fundamentals of creating high quality images remain the same. John has focused on scenes of great beauty and added good composition and lighting- a home run strategy! I've only had an interchangeable lens digital camera w/a decently large sensor for less than one year, but I think I'm focusing in on Quality and am totally enjoying the APS-C sensor phenomenon! As one of my favorite Books/Authors asked in the Classic - "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" ...."What is Quality?....What the Hell Is It?" - (Robert Pirsig).
Wow, Betsy, you put my thoughts in words! As a young boy i used to be mocked by my friends because i used to have always a plastic camera (With the cube flash :-) with me, now those people can't stop thanking me, because if they have memories of those wonderful moments, and how we looked during that amazing season that is youth, its because of me and my crappy cameras.
Those a really true treasures, and i will never exchange one of those yellowish photos with a zillion of today 10000000 megapixels shot.
Thanks you.
Ah, the good ole days! When we (most) shot for memories, not Instagram!
Great video, thanks for sharing. I hope those new to photography manage to stumble across this video. It could shorten their learning curve considerably! A great video on photographic perspective. Thought provoking, and a window to the tools that help create create vision. It has taken me years of play to learn some of the lessons you manage to convey in minutes.
Still , 10 years later, most of the great info in this video hold true. The. Colors & that type of info in the beginning of the vid was eye opening &, could be very useful in thoughts of how you take & edit a photo. Thank you.
Thank you for uploading and sharing this video! I am looking forward to taking a formal class someday, and hopefully soon.
Worth every minute spend watching it. Thank u very much.
This is a really good video that really helps to explain some fundamentals of photography.
This is EXACTLY what I needed.
The AMAZING John Greengo has taken bad photos in his life! There is hope for me yet!
A very helpful and very special teaching about photography. Specially when take B / W pictures I think. So, how to plan the background, front, object, and also the after work in for example Lightroom.
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.
Thank you so much I'm taking Digital Photography and this helped so much.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video.. i enjoyed it vary vary much!!!!!!!!
This is an excellent video! You have put together a great video. I will be signing up for your class. Most of this is review for me but still excellent.
You are so inspiring, make me feel optimistic. Thank you.
Good work there mate....very educative and eye opener to a lot of misconception bout photography..thanks for the video
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....
Really enjoyable and thought provoking, thank you. You have a wonderful way with words!
i enjoyed every minute of this video, thanks for sharing
I realy enjoyed this video. And every thing you showed and said was very useful to learning and perfecting the art of photography. I am self tought and i am always watching videos and learning differant and new things.I strive to get were you are at one day.
This is a great video! I've seen some of your videos before and I'm learning much from you! I guess photography has also to do with growing up and learning the tricks as you go along. Thanks for teaching us and sharing your knowledge!
Thank You For That Brilliant Video...The Longest Photography Video I have watched here..I did enjoyed..
Excellent teacher. TH-cam video's that keep my attention for longer than 2 minutes are rare, not because of the content but the speaker making me nervous . The pleasant voice, well prepared text , the right speaking rate makes this excellent video pleasant to follow . The examples are indeed recognizable and very well illustrating the theory. The video makes it possible to show things in a way a printed book cannot and this is exactly why this video is the perfect addition for all the good books we have on our shelves.
When I look at the negative comments : they com form people looking for som dirty tricks that will show them to take fantastic pictures .. I wish tem all the luck they can get and they choose the wrong video, please read the title . And even if you try one of the tricks you found in these 2 min video's you will discover it is not as easy as it looked. Good pictures take time and practise and shooting a lot of photo's.
It takes more than being a high rated professional photographer to be a good teacher.. John Greengo is both.
Thank you for sharing this, I'll be watching this again and again ..
Roger
OMG!This is fantastic. Thanks I needed this..
Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!
Simply loved this terrific video. Will certainly subscribe. Thanks for making and sharing.
Those fundamentals are so helpful Dude! Great photography tips and guides!~
I like your examples!!
Best Rrgards
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
I notice also that in a lot of John's photos, there seems to be two strong subjects, two subjects which are equally interesting, like a very strong foreground group of rocks, with a towering majestic mountain range in background, or waterfall with huge mountains in background etc- OR, they are just a single subject concept like pattern without any distracting elements I nthe frame like ripples I nthe sand etc-
Nazareth434
Perhaps the group of rocks in the foreground are included to add depth to the view captured in the photograph. A well used technique in landscape photography.
its a awesome video i really enjoy each an every second of this video, it help
to lot to figure out all the essential thing about photography in detail.
I much say thanks, thanks a lot for this great video on photography...
Very good video for learning Photography.
Wow I so enjoyed this presentation. Thank you
i follow your every videos ..... they help me learning always.....
thank you sir
Thanks John ! Such a wonderful Superb video .....
GREAT! What every photographer - starting or experienced should know....
thank you so much...i enjoyed full 38 minutes of it....
very very informative video.
I learned many many things from it.
Thank you very much Sir.
You are awesome.
I completely agree with the myths I believed the majority of them. Great information
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
Indeed you are lucky!!! I've been scouring my area pawn shops for at least a month or so and they are far and few in between in the area of cameras. All I hear is "Everyone has a cell phone who needs a camera?" Now that Christmas has passed I might get lucky and find one. BTW Enjoy!!!!!!!!
Thank u sooo much...i really enjoyed....especially to see pictures shot in Bhutan The Taksang Monastry)...
Wow, is there a place to get the powerpoint of the optical examples you showed?
Do you even have an audience in ur presentation room ? ;) Terribly quiet behind the camera! Learned some new stuff so thnx for that!
minute 16:36 its because he's using a head set you cant her his class
Excellent video!
excellent....📷
exactly what i need
38min👏👏👏👏👏.
Useful and dynamic, thank you!
Thx for the shout-out!
I like your lessons, thank you
ONE OF THE BEST INFORMATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY CLIPS IV'E SEEN! =0)
Very interesting and informative.
fine lecture, very well done and documented; 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.
There is a photography special effects guide on PhotoPar.com with some of these more advanced and cool tricks worth learning.
There are additional photo tricks on PhotoPar,com that anyone can benefit from using dslr cameras.
Thanks John! I love it...
@brolly414 absolutely!! So start using it!
Now this guy is brilliant..
Great course!!!
best vid ever seen about photography..thanks alot..35:20 great frame..i m from INDIA..
Great & Clear....
thank you buddy... this is awesome lesson for me...
Steve Jarvis brought me here..His the father of Chase Jarvis. He pay to enroll in creative live to learn photography..... his son is one of the best commercial photographer in the business.
tnx so much,,,i learned so much,,,,more power
Great One !
Nice explanation about the guy pulling rickshaw with speakers
2022 and still the best
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-
You revealed all the secrets!!!
awesome video.. thanks you so much !
I love myth #5, I just saw an example in one of the comments!
32:33 what did you use? polarizer or nd filter?
They need to build a camera with a curved sensor...right???
Awesome, thanks
Myth list
1. 0:42
2. 4:14
3. 4:55
4. 5:43
5. 7:03
6. 15:03
Just great!!
I love this vedio, thank you so much
very informatics.
Thank you.
Awesome ! THANK YOU !!! :)
I actually like the low light penguin shot lol
tks for great video. (y)
(well funky effects in sound are way more obvious!),btw dont say about effects of the eye!camera could see the same probably!Say it simply,we have 3d vision while camera not!ONE SIMPLE TIP from me: When you want to shoot sth,close one eye,if you still think it looks great,shoot it!This is what you get!
Why your not looking to Camera!!! THAT sucks....... Anyway nice video thanks for that....
Even with the best of intentions, sometimes we can end up with terrible outcomes....
that's the kind of life i want to live i wannt to travel the world shooting pictures
great
Magnific!
Wow..
Those are not so terrible pictures at the beginning! they have some aura.
That bird thingy fucked me up XD