TAKE BETTER PHOTOS (5 Tips Every Photographer Should Know)

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[JesseDriftwood]

Yes!!! Shake the cinematographer fist!

[JamesKGraves]

The 'cinematographer's fist' is honestly super smart; there's me looking around at every other object to understand the lighting, when my hand's been there all this time! Love the video, as always 👌

[ianflint]

Love the cinematographers take on stills imagery. Lighting is common, but, the fist is a golden nugget of a tool. Most useful. Thank you!

[GajanBalan]

I need that SNL skit of 2:54. Cinematographer convincing people he’s not angry searching for the light, proceeds to get angry 😂

[PRDATR]

I bought the same Pentax film camera two months ago and man it's fun to shoot film!

[Chromedbustop]

One thing I would like to draw attention to, because it has helped me a lot, is seeing the amount of photos Mark took of the camera. He's got 52 photos shown, who knows if that was before or after culling. But that is 52 attempts to get the right final look. So often when we see the work of others, especially in the edited and stylized format of youtube videos or social media images we only see the end result and it can appear like they nail a shot straight away every time. It's helpful to remember that even people who are very skilled and very experienced still have to work to create something good. It doesn't just happen.

[pierrezapata]

my 2 cents- when I was a beginner photographer, I was always looking for cool subjects and when I would take the photo I would always wonder why they didn't look as cool as my favorite photographers' photos. It was when i realized how important it was to do what was number 1 on your list. As long as you can find the good light you can make a boring subject look awesome-consequently, a great subject can look terrible with bad lighting. So clearly, I learned quickly that my style was about following the light, not about looking for subjects. The light became my subject :)

Great video as usual!

[jennasketolife]

Thank you, Mark! I’m definitely going into my next shoot fist first. 😂

[createdshocked]

So I am 10 percenter:)
When I was looking just like that for things like this I wasn’t finding nothing new what I didn’t know. But there fist fighter photographer comes in and I am happy for seeing this one big note.

[romain_do]

Blessing us with dope content again! Thanks. I need a donut

[tuckerkanderson]

Love this Mark! I think a lot of these can be applied to filmmaking too. Great stuff, maybe I'll apply a few of these to my videos too :)

[ATs_fm]

Finally someone gets it! Thanks for not letting me sit through an 11 minute video and give me the opportunity to decide what kind of information is valuable to me. You're a real MVP, MB 👍

[Chadreintar]

Always love your content 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 specially documentary film making☺️☺️☺️

[jan-hendrikswanepoel]

One of the ten percenters 😅 👏 Keep well, man 🙂

[isffitnessequipment]

Great video. Please keep doing more photography (I mainly subscribed to your channel to learn video, but this post is great for helping to think in more artistic ways with product photography.)

[QippysChannel]

Great tutorial! Just gave me an idea to make one too, , thanks Mark!

[MoCo_Filmmaker]

10% always for your videos!!! Great tips, enjoyed it and now I want donuts...

[AlToneTech]

These tips also work for video! Thanks Mark!

[ClaudioDesideriFilms]

So cool to see you making photography tutorials too Mark! I think your big experience as a filmmaker will be the added value so please go on with it, looking forward to learn little but fundamental tips from you. Bone Team from the beginning!🙋🏻‍♂️

[VlogPhotography]

Really interesting and informative video. Really enjoyed this. Thank you for sharing