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Tips for better photography
by eadams » Sun Jul 20, 2014 10:29 am
For anyone interested in improving their photography, there are loads of resources on YouTube. My favorite: The training company KelbyOne has a regular web tv show called "The Grid", and once a week they do critiques of photos sent in by users. Often they invite prominent guest photographers to help critique the submitted photos. They are called "blind critiques" because the photo creators remain anonymous (unless they have watermarked their photos with their names).
You can find these videos on YouTube by searching for "Grid blind critiques". You can skip the first 3rd of the videos since they will usually contain introductions, explanations about what a blind critique is and promotion of KelbyOne's offerings. You can also watch the show live (the scheduled shows are on http://kelbytv.com/thegrid/. If you watch any of these critiques, bear in mind that the panel of "judges" is made up of professional photographers, and they assume that the submissions are the very best work of the submitting photographer. Their criticism is therefore often harsh, but it is always honest.
I personally am a rotten photographer, but even so the critiques have taught me to look for certain things in my photos that I can try to fix in post-processing (e.g. better cropping, removing distracting objects, darkening bright areas that distract from the main subject matter, etc. etc.). The best workflow is to fix these major faults (either in SPE or in another program) before applying the finishing SPE effects.
For those of you out there who might be interested in having your own great photos critiqued, you can submit them. However, the chances are very low because only around 15 photographers are critiqued in each session, and there are apparently hundreds of submissions.
I am interested in learning about other useful resources. I saw that Andrew is planning a tutorial on masking out distracting objects in SPE and that gave me the idea for this post.
You can find these videos on YouTube by searching for "Grid blind critiques". You can skip the first 3rd of the videos since they will usually contain introductions, explanations about what a blind critique is and promotion of KelbyOne's offerings. You can also watch the show live (the scheduled shows are on http://kelbytv.com/thegrid/. If you watch any of these critiques, bear in mind that the panel of "judges" is made up of professional photographers, and they assume that the submissions are the very best work of the submitting photographer. Their criticism is therefore often harsh, but it is always honest.
I personally am a rotten photographer, but even so the critiques have taught me to look for certain things in my photos that I can try to fix in post-processing (e.g. better cropping, removing distracting objects, darkening bright areas that distract from the main subject matter, etc. etc.). The best workflow is to fix these major faults (either in SPE or in another program) before applying the finishing SPE effects.
For those of you out there who might be interested in having your own great photos critiqued, you can submit them. However, the chances are very low because only around 15 photographers are critiqued in each session, and there are apparently hundreds of submissions.
I am interested in learning about other useful resources. I saw that Andrew is planning a tutorial on masking out distracting objects in SPE and that gave me the idea for this post.
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Re: Tips for better photography
by DBenterprises » Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:58 am
Good one eadams. If you want to see what many consider the best images on the web, try 1x http://1x.com/
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