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About the negative process of photography.

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0:00 - people overcomplicate photography
1:04 - the negative process
3:27 - the story of michelangelo
5:11 - frameworks for a subtractive process

andre pel
andrepel
andre pel photography

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[andrepel]

Hope this one helped!

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[mattmathai]

I once attended a talk bu someone who shot for National Geographic for years and took many of the magazine's covers. She said (I paraphrase) "Before you press the shutter ask yourself 'why am I taking this photo in this place at this time?'. If you can't answer that question, don't press the shutter" That's deceptively simple. Doing this will make you more mindful when you're shooting and very likely will produce better images.

[natekong]

This is the first lesson I learned from my first photography class: a photographer operates in reverse of a painter. A painter starts with an empty canvas and gradually adds elements to the frame. A photographer starts with a scene and gradually removes elements that shouldn't be in the frame.

[BernhardSchwarz-xskp]

100% of the absolute best shots you missed are those you did not take. These few minutes of video contain more wisdom about what "photography" is all about than what you will find in any book.
Bravo Andre, and thank you!

[tashihishey]

I started out with many lenses with auto everything cameras. Now I am 67. I now own only one manual camera, the Leica M240 and a manual 35mm lens. As with photography subtraction is essential, so too with the equipment. I now see the world through a 35mm lens in black and white. The colours don't distract as I capture the essential. Manual focussing allows me to be take my time to subtract. The rangefinder requires both the eyes to be open so as to subtract what is not needed in the framelines. I zoom with my feet, subtracting what is not needed. Subtraction is an art where the only thing you need to add is time.

[keithklitses]

Cropping has been in practice as long as photography has existed!
It amazes me that people scoff at this practice!

[jeremychurch]

You're absolutely right about cropping. especially with the high megapixel cameras these days, it gives you a lot of real estate to work with, why wouldn't you want to get it just perfect so it looks as best as it can. I can see why people scoff at composites but cropping and straightening shouldn't be an issue with anybody.

[MartinOcando]

This is the first time a title that looked like clickbait, it wasn't. And for that you got yourself a new subscriber. Thanks for sinking in more deeply a though that I have been toying with in my head for the past few months, but you just gave it a name: "What can I remove". I'll print some stickers and put them on my lens caps so I get reminded every time I grab my camera. Thank you!

[robertrowles]

On many occasions I go back to my photos {mostly Street} a few days after I took them, and realise the elements that lead me to take the image in the first place are there, but often lost amongst unnecessary surroundings. It is then that I start my cropping, and am frequently delighted to find that what I thought to be a bit “ordinary”, is now quite a decent image. I strongly recommend waiting a day or so before making these decisions because you then see your image in a new, and fresh perspective.

[joshhoe]

great video! will keep this in mind the next time i go out to shoot with my XT4!

[PushUphill]

I will agree that this is actually a bit of a magic bullet to making better photos. I came to this concept through the Robert Capa quote "If it's not good enough, you're not close enough". And while most people will agree he was talking about an emotional connection with his subject matter, he also got very close physically, and I took that quote literally.
I started taking an extra step, or two, or ten closer, leaving out a lot of peripheral junk, and it made a massive difference immediately to my composition.

[winc]

Simple, but profound. The misunderstood no cropping advice comes from the introduction of grainy 35mm film, and color slides. 35mm film degraded very quickly when cropped and of course with slides which were all a standard size, processed and mounted by someone else, it was all but impossible to crop after the shot. The advice then was not "zoom with your feet", but "crop in the viewfinder." That has all changed with digital where you have control of the whole process, but people keep repeating the same old advice they heard somewhere in a world that no longer exists.

[PhotoswithArt]

Now I got another principal key that I must put it in my head. That negative thing made it easy to grasp while many Pros like to talk in a bit too formal and too complicate way. I'm more like hobbyist currently but trying to up skill my photography. Thanks for the video.👍

[musaquazi]

A sincere and noble thanks for an incredibly helpful

[gc]

Finally a good video about a practical guide on how to take better photos. Thank you!

[dagwoodstreets]

I like your style of being direct and common sense- well said!

[patrickpowell]

Spot on, best advice any photographer can get or pass on. Before Photoshop in the days of 35mm film, I did my cropping when printing pictures. It was surprising how often you could get an interesting image from what seemed to be nothing special. The essence of this advice relates to colour v B&W photography. ‘Taking away’ the colour somehow ‘simplifies’ an image and allows us to concentrate on shapes and contents. But I have always preferred B&W images and still do.

[Hamyhamster]

Great tips! I’m also trying to apply this subtraction in my daily work as a designer.

[McCurleyFries]

I love these ideas… I am going to go out and shoot with this mentality in mind this weekend! Let’s see if it yields any improvements in my photos for me 😊

[mynameistrd]

this is so true. i need to watch videos like this often