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Your 10,001st Photograph

Lesson 1 from: Mastering Photographic Composition and Visual Storytelling

Chris Weston

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1. Your 10,001st Photograph

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Class Trailer
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Your 10,001st Photograph

03:24
2

Camera Gear

03:03
3

Piece of Gear We Always Forget

03:47
4

Be a Storyteller

03:09
5

Finding Ideas For Photography - Know Your Subject

06:59
6

Cae Study - Why Are Zebras Black and White Striped

01:30
7

Photograph What You Love

02:00
8

See the Extraordinary in Ordinary Things

01:31

Lesson Info

Your 10,001st Photograph

Henri Cartier Bresson is widely considered one of the greatest ever documentary photographers. He is famously quoted as saying, Your 1st 10,000 photographs are your worst now today in the digital age, that number is like being much higher. With the sentiment remains. It takes practice to train the eye to see the real story in front of you. I came to truly understand what Cartier Bresson meant. One of my very early assignments in the sarin getting National Park in Africa. This is my 10,000 and first photograph. This is the image that changed my approach to photography and let me to see the world through my camera. The way I see it today, I was in the sarin, getting photographing the great migration 1.5 1,000, wildebeest roaming across the dry and dusty savannah. I was two days into a three week long assignment and had already photographed every aspect of wildebeest behavior imaginable. Now I don't know whether you've ever paid much attention to Wilder beast, but let's just say they're n...

ot one of nature's most alluring creatures. In fact, on safari Africans described him is animal God created after the spare parts of all other animals. It's an amusing impression, if a tad unfair. Even so, on the face of it will the beast, a large brown animals that walk in a circle around a big brownfield on. By the end of the second day, I was completely out of ideas. So the next day I changed tack. I left my cameras behind, and instead of taking pictures, I spent the whole day simply observing. And somewhere along the time line between dusk and dawn, a question kept niggling. May. What is migration? That's when it struck me Movement. Migration is movement. Is the movement of animals or people from point A to point B Movement is the story here, not Wilder. Wilder bees was simply the vehicle for the story. And so, for the rest of my time in the sarin Getty, I photographed movement, creating a diverse portfolio of images that revealed the essence off migration. And that, for me, is what photography is about capturing the story beneath the surface. Whether it's an animal, a person of building a plane, a train, it really doesn't matter what the subject is. You've got to find the hidden story cardio breasts on epitomised this premise in his journalistic work. Some journalists are wonderful writers and others are just putting fax one after the other and fax, I'm not interesting. It's a point of view on facts, which is important in the in photography. It is via vocation if you evoke. For me, the camera is a way of seeing beyond material in search for essence heart, soul, spirit. Whatever word you choose to describe it, a great portrait reveals a person's soul. A great landscape exposes the spirit of the land. A great documentary photograph gets to the very heart of the matter. Make essence your subject. Show me an image with heart, spirit or soul, and I'll show you your 10,000 and first photograph.

Ratings and Reviews

Edmund Cheung
 

Perhaps the style of presentation and simple, short, and direct messaging does not "jive" with some; but others may really love this. Yes the production of each episode is stylized and perhaps a bit formal (like a TV Show?), but there is something to be said about it. Perhaps this is not meant for professional photographers? I think of myself as decent amateur / high level photographer. I found lots of great nuggets of wisdom and inspiration from this. Especially when I an in a rut for creativity. Yes I have heard all these concepts and ideas before. BUT it is always great to hear and see a different way of presentation and voice. Please do NOT take the naysayer reviews as the end all. You should judge for yourself and watch a few episodes. If the style and content click for you, I would highly recommend this course.

Kai Atherton
 

While I am perhaps more advanced in my photography then this course. It is always great to be able to go back to fundamentals and remind ourselves of the basic principles, and even camera function. I thoroughly enjoyed this course and Chris's other. It is a great motivational jumpstart when lacking fresh creative idea's.

Abdullah Alahmari
 

Thanks a lot to mr. Chris Weston This course is great and It is a 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 course for me. Beside the other course ( mastering the art of photography ) both courses are Complementing to each other and highly recommended.

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