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Photography is harder than it looks, and in many ways it can be difficult to get better without following. bunch of rules, or copying someone else’s vision. In this video I break down some of the fundamental skills to become a complete photographer, that is someone who can go anywhere, at any time, in any weather and make images they are happy with.
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28 Comments
Love them all! The light, geometric shapes- gorgeous 🥰
A belting selection and particularly like the moon rise, that coast wasn't Hernandez by any chance 🙂
Nice idea the clif with the trees reflected upside down. Nice compact shot!
Excellent video! Great contemplative presentation.
An excellent set of images Alister, I could live with any one of them on the wall, guess that makes you a complete photographer! 😊
Thank you, Alister, that was very informative and inspirational. I like all of them. Both you and Adam have helped me to see more compositions in any given location that I would have previously overlooked thinking I had to capture everything in one grand, busy scene. It was like I was recording a location but not getting the more intimate scenes within. No wonder I was putting my audience to sleep. Your intimate images are dynamic and engaging works of art.
Great photographs and discussions…. It's hard not to like them all.
To me, that seastack image at 11:20 is the most three-dimensional I've seen from you in quite some time: superb!
Nice to see that you got a couple of keepers 😉
Absolutely love the moon rise images!
A workshop with you and Adam is a definite goal!
I can't photograph depressed but I can wander out into the woods depressed carrying my camera and return relaxed and happy with any number of images on the card.
PS: The macro lens for flowers and butterflies suggestion stuck me as funny. Imagine you're prone with your D850 & 100mm macro pointed at a Cardinal flower. You've just about dialed in the composition when 'someone' walks up to see what you are doing. You look up to say something and it's a bear. 🤣
The Guggenheim Bilbão is an architectural masterpiece. But, did you guys take time to actually go inside for the artwork? If I ever get over there, I definitely will. And shoot the exterior, of course! 😉
Most engaging talk, I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Hallo Alister, thank you very much once again for educating content and fine pictures, too. My favorites are the two of the rugged sea-stack, where you juxtaposed the coloured and the b/w version and showed how the emotional impact changes completely.
Very inspiring how you convey the aesthetics of the urban architecture to the coastal landscape.
I learn so much from your content on YouTube and podcast. Often I listen to one of your episodes when I drive to a location to photograph. Thank You for your time and knowledge
Wise words as always…thank you! 👍
Thanks for the video, I enjoyed your Images Very well.
I really like 8, 9 and 11, especially 8. They have something calming, but also alien, like a good SciFi movie. Wonderful.
I love your work! Plus, I love your take on photography. A lot of the images that you capture. You can feel something in that image. That's what it's about. Great work!
Really good watch Alister, you'd have been hard pushed to drag me away from the building, but the detail down on the coast was superb. I maybe would have got a couple of seascapes in to show where I had been, but what else was on offer would have been a too big a draw for me.
Where do you place observation in your photo process? Could that be the precursor to "fascination, engagement, excitement and interest"?
I understand that this goes for landscape photography in general but in my mind at least to become a complete photographer means that you've mastered all types of photography and you are confident that you'll end up with professional results regardless the genre of photography, time of day, weather conditions etc. That means that one has got to get proficient in Wildlife, macro, portraits, product photography, event photography, architecture, food photography, street photography, real estate photography, drone photography, landscape photography heck even cave photography or underwater photography as well. you name it. I doubt that such a photographer exists yet but that's my goal and what i want to become in the following years. It's a tough goal indeed but one that excites me a lot to keep pushing forward with photography into the future.
Thoughtful and incisive content. Great stuff! Thanks Alister
Great images, Alister! This video was also one of your better ones since you shared your thoughts about the photos in a very insightful way. I already have your ebooks and find them instructive and thought provoking.
I agree, Allister, on the need not to put the sun in the image. We al know the source of light. Sometimss it can be the biggest distraction of all. Something I point oit to camera clubs often.
Great video ! For the images with long exposure blur of the waves was that single long exposure or exposure stacking in post?
Thanks, this short video was inspirational