That 80's KZread intro is absolutely GORGEOUS.

@brianpaton6687

3 жыл бұрын

You can get the luts and mogarts in the retro pack on Jamies site.

"The right exposure is subjective" is probably the most profound things said in this video.

@andreik3096

5 жыл бұрын

+ exposure to the right is objective necessity in digital :-P

@IgnacioDure

4 жыл бұрын

Jason O. Nungesser photography is subjetive, photography is art and you can use it how you want...

@NGameReviews

4 жыл бұрын

@@andreik3096 one could argue exposure to the left is a necessity as it allows you to bring up in the exposure in post. There's no right or wrong answer.

@sitka15

4 жыл бұрын

I agree, it is hugely significant to remember this

@Garacha222

4 жыл бұрын

I cringe viscerally when I hear an instructional video use the term "correct exposure". (which suggests that anything else is 'wrong', regardless of intentional placement of values.) Personally, I am black and white film centric, so the application of intentional development technique is intentionally applied in conjunction with the exposure settings for my purposes.

That intro was gold, I thought I had time traveled to the 1980's!

I'm not a photographer. I'm a filmmaker. I've been watching content like this for the past 6 years and this simply THE BEST advice I've ever gotten. Thank you.

most youtubers make me want to go out and buy new gear. you make me want to go out and shoot. I love this CHIAROSCURO. But I need high dinamic range for real state photography. I shoot a single raw and my pics get good enough dinamic range by this tecnique. But as for my other work I love shadows. And I rarely click on lens correction on lightroom because I want those shadows on the corners.

@cocatezz

5 жыл бұрын

Nicely put.

@FachyMarin

5 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly

@dharlow5810

5 жыл бұрын

You and me too.

@Vladimiradventurephotography

5 жыл бұрын

Talking about gear is so much easier than to have creative ideas.

@atistiltins6163

5 жыл бұрын

Tim Gomes, as a professional interiour, RE, shooter, i would recommend not relying on pushing a single raw if you want to go next level. Learning how to light with flash in a way, that feels natural, will do you more good, than 20 stops of DR

Jamie Windsor. Making people with a camera understand fundamentals of photography. Brilliant.

5:48: Try using darkness as a canvas to showcase light. Brilliant!

"Use darkness as a canvas to showcase light." Fantastic video Jamie. Love how you connected this topic to long arc of art history.

So important of a lesson, thanks Jamie. And by the way your retro intro, and sound at the beginning was brilliant! Please keep’m coming!

@ManuKa122

5 жыл бұрын

I would actually like to learn more about how to achieve these effects. Jamie is very much on a theoretical level of content. I appreciate this a lot(!)but I feel that Jamie could also share a bunch of practice as well. I am a photography trainer myself and I know talking about things you know is quite easy. Much easier than actually showing how to do these things and explain the steps of why and when. And - if you are not only a trainer but also a photographer - you don't want to share your tricks easily with potential competitors. So I guess that's the reason why Jamie doesn't share his tricks easily with KZread, since these special effects are essentially what makes his videos special compared to other more "theoretical" channels.

@emmaloushoare

5 жыл бұрын

I agree!! (To the original comment) Brilliant intro!!

@bluefilmsltd

5 жыл бұрын

A lot of it is key framing and transform (distortion) techniques in Premiere Pro. They are easier to than than he makes it look, though he does use these techniques very well. @@ManuKa122

@thenicflynn

5 жыл бұрын

I also really loved that haha I was thinking "OoooooOOOooo" :D ahahah

"Learn the rules, so you know how and when to break the rules". Not sure where I picked this quote up, but its served me very well.

@randomcommenter6734

5 жыл бұрын

It's van gogh I think, he said learn the rules like a pro to break them like an artist

@danzbeard

4 жыл бұрын

👌

@lyingeyes5579

4 жыл бұрын

A quote from Picasso

"There's no need to be afraid of the dark." WOW. So obvious, yet so important to learn. Thanks!

@01r1sh

4 жыл бұрын

As a vampire I concur!

Thank you for actually teaching us something rather than just rambling on about techy-stuff and blaming it all on the equipment.

The poems are remembered, the descriptions of the dictionaries are easily forgotten. Thanks for your video.

you have a very witty and offhanded way of explaining pretty complicated subjects. really entertaining and educational.

The 80s intro is eerie and beautiful at the same time. This guy knows stuff!

@Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle

5 жыл бұрын

I'd go with '70s Open University. I thought it was great!

Finally someone talking sense instead of specs!! Thank you, subbed.

That selection of images it's so awesome. One of your best videos! Keep it up! 💪💪💪

In the past I have fallen into the boost shadows approach, but I noticed my photos lacked the weight and depth of others work I admired. I recently realized my mistakes and have really embraced “the dark side” and it has made my work 100 times better. Great explanation as always Jaimie on something a lot of photographers need to know, remember, and work on. Including myself

The way you follow a red thread in your videos, the segways and transitions, it's so professional! We are blessed to have you Jamie!!!!

I often use the chiaroscuro effect myself. Having something black in a photo also makes the colours seem more colourful without actually adding more saturation to them, and I often end up even reducing dynamic range in my photos, blocking up the shadows rather than opening them up. It is still useful to have the wide dynamic range available to you so that you don't miss out on the details that you did want to preserve - something that many impulsive photographers would decide on later. I like being in full control of which parts of my photo go to black and which turn white. Especially for B&W photography. There's a reason it's called "Black and White" and not "Grey".

You have just explained why one of my photographs just didn't look right. I couldn't figure out why! Thank you

Wow! With this quality, how haven't you hit 1m subscribers already?!!!!

@tonychaar6780

5 жыл бұрын

He will and very soon

@andrewford80

5 жыл бұрын

@@tonychaar6780 Yeah, he will. He really does fantastic videos and has such a refreshing perspective.

@thomassandfield835

5 жыл бұрын

Totally agree!

@JamesClark1991

5 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. These videos are actually really helpful in learning some of the principles of photography. Most other channels just go by news/trends and tips/tricks (which is fine, but different)

@scottyzepplinphotography1188

5 жыл бұрын

Quality over quantity.

While I had been doing photography for bout 4 years, I finally decided to take a class because I wanted to hopefully learn more. On a few assignments I had submitted, my teacher said they were over/under exposed. I thought, “but this is how I want it to look”. When, in good faith, I tried his suggestions for re-submission, I didn’t like the way they looked. I basically thought the same thing you said, exposure is a matter of personal preference, not a hard rule. I decided not to re-submit. I still got an A+.

Without darkness, light loses its meaning... Love the video. Lots of great examples. Well done! :)

As always your videos are intelligent and thought provoking - you really are a natural teacher. I must admit the over sharpened, uniformly shaded and over fussy photos seem to be everywhere. Nice video 👍

Protect the highlights and embrace the shadows. Sean Tucker vibes here

@flatulent-1

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. The blackness in his images is gorgeous.

THIS is why I love your channel and will always watch all of your videos the second they drop, you always explain your topic simply but effectively even on basic subjects you still have a wealth of great technical advice!

Jamie, I just wanted to tell you how much I look forward to your videos. I can get a lot of advice or expertise from several of the Photographers here on KZread, but your POV on several topics really reminds me to focus on what I really love about Photography and the reason I love it so much...THE ART.

Your videos are always a welcome sight! Looking forward to this one.

Love the motion graphics. Love the knowledge shared. Love the content!

I've been taking photographs for nearly 10 years now, and while I've felt I've made improvement in many areas the use of shadow has not been one of them. To be honest, I've been one of the crowd who usually tries to open up every shadow they can find in a photo. I've watched this video a few times now but never really got what you were saying. However, after visiting an art gallery here in Tokyo that exhibited Meiji era Japanese painters I noticed they used no shadow in their paintings and it looked really weird (like your HDR comment), once I realised they used zero shadows!! So using shadows in a photo is just like we see in real life! Not everything needs to look bright and sunny.

I love how you put the philosophy and feeling of photography first above all. This is a fantastic channel, thank you.

Your content is so good. Man, you make everything interesting even if the context is not new. Great stuff - I mean really great stuff. Your edit is pretty much better than anything else I watch. And it continues to get better. Keep going, I think you are walking the right path.

Dynamic range is good to fix under of overexposure, but I agree people are slightly overdoing it with compressing the tonality of an image. Just because you CAN pull back shadows, doesn’t mean you should. Well done, Jamie.

@ManuKa122

5 жыл бұрын

You cannot blame the people. Rather you should blame marketing teams that like numbers, since they are easy to understand and to compare. It is easier to understand (or believe) that ISO up to 4 million is better than ISO only up to 250.000, it is easier to think that 14 stops of dynamic range is better than 11 - on the other side it is very hard to sell unique features like "live view on long time exposure pictures" on the Olympus cameras or "live crop FHD out of 4K" on Panasonic cameras. Most consumers are no photographers, they are just "consumers". They want to buy (invest in) a product that is "up to date" and is "the best" for a long time, since they don't want to be outdated with other cameras from the moment they put a lot of money on the table - hence the "better numbers". They don't know that pictures with 4 million ISO will look like the hardest crap they ever took or that they don't even know how to understand dynamic range and in the same way they don't understand all the special features of special cameras. They have no time to understand this. They might have a hard job or two, a family to support, friendships to maintain ... you cannot blame people for all the marketing shit. Camera manufacturers want to sell their products. Marketing teams sell numbers.

@andreik3096

5 жыл бұрын

everybody should read at least once that good wiki on ETTR

@kevindiaz3459

5 жыл бұрын

@@ManuKa122 "Most consumers are no photographers, they are just "consumers"" Word brother. This is why so many people will buy a new camera without ever once investing in anything other than the lens that comes with it, let alone learning good shooting techniques. They hear what people are saying about things like DR while having an imperfect understanding of why experienced shooters appreciate it.

I didn't think your videos could get better and more interesting, and yet they did. Thanks a lot Jamie, you really are one of the best out there making me want to know and learn more and more about photography

Needed this video, thank you so much. I’ve been guilty of pulling out the shadows too much and have always admired those who have more mood. Time for a change. Great channel. Keep it going

What a great lesson! Absolutely love this. Thanks for making this video Jamie. It's going to change my photography

Agree with you 100% I think you are one of a million I was once impressed with dynamic range editing but realized lately that I’m loosing the mood And the subject of my image

Absolutely LOVE your channel. Thank you for inspiring me to rethink my photography once again. Really appreciate the focus on creativity rather than the endless rambling on equipment. The quest for a creative fresh idea or approach is so much more challenging, and when it happens, much more rewarding!

Beyond the fact that your videos are always interesting and insightful, I would always watch them for the sheer cinematographic work you put into them. Thanks a lot for sharing your art with us through KZread Jamie 🙏

Finally someone talking about the value of darkness in a photo. I deal with it everytime I edit my night shots. In this case, the night as to keep being the night, not some day surrogate.

Great video! Sean Tucker has a two part series on shadows and highlights that are some of my favourite videos on KZread. We definitely need to study light more and gear less as a photo community :).

@amitabhsrivastava1255

5 жыл бұрын

Was looking for this comment.

Your videos are always worthy to watch. Thank you for all the hard work.

I've watched several videos of yours. Got to say you have a great sense of art and a unique capability to diffuse it, in a very creative way. Great job!

Funny that you covered this topic because this is something I've also had on my mind lately. Couldn't agree more!

@wonder7139

5 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@oneeyedphotographer

5 жыл бұрын

I have a list of technical terms to learn. This is one of them.

@matiasnruffa

5 жыл бұрын

I agree a 100% with you. New technologies blinds us from the real meaning of photography; from it being a tool of expression. I think the same happens with over sharpening an image. Brilliant videos, going into the soul of our beloved job.

the best who ever talked about dynamic range

thank you again Jamie, your videos are some of the best on youtube, content, educational and inspirational. please keep up the great work

Thanks so much Jamie! I love this type of videos, keep the good work! You deserve everything

When I took a photo because I liked specifically how the scene actually looked for my eyes, then of course I recover shadows, pull down highlights etc. to get an image as similar as possible to how I remember the scene. For that, a big dynamic range is very helpful, and that's one big reason I upgraded from my little Olympus to the Sony A7III. But in other cases of course working with dark shadows and perhaps even blown-out highlights can make for a better, clearer, simpler photo. It DEPENDS, and therefore a camera with high dynamic range is the best tool because then you have the widest array of choices!

@IvoPavlik

2 жыл бұрын

He doesn't contradict that, does he?

Ciao Jamie Chiaroscuro...Yes yes yes, Great story, video and editing...! Dynamic range: Some feelings dwell down there in the dark mystery...!

Thank you Mr Windsor, very interesting content and thoughts on pushing my establish boundaries on composition. Glad to hear there is no perfect exposure. As usual, your videos are an inspiration. Awesome channel!

Thank you so much! This just showed me I'm on the right way after watching so many videos where they tell you to boost shadows and lower lights etc... Too often the outcome looks overly artificial to me... In the last couple of days I played around with the level of underexposure and DRO in my a6000 and found less to be more... Great examples and great video!👌

Completely agree after all we are “painting with light” (photography).

@staLkerhu

3 жыл бұрын

My sis is a good painter (well, in my opinion), and while she had the time she painted some of my photos (mainly landscape). Sometimes I find myself thinking about the picture I'm about to take "How should I do it to work as a painting?"

Sean Tucker once said "Embrace the shadows". I keep that in forefront of my mind when shooting now.

This short video really changes the way how I see things, as always, much appreciated

Your video's are among the best Jamie! Thanks for sharing!!!

I get angry when i see jamie has 171k subs and tony northup has 1.5m. Life is not fair .

@danadrian2752

4 жыл бұрын

PhoeniX Gaming. Don’t know who that is, is it a photography channel I should avoid and why?

@TheSullenDude

4 жыл бұрын

Oh why, don't you like comparing pErcEptUaL MeGapiXeLs?

@MyBinaryLife

4 жыл бұрын

Them butthole eyes are hard to look at lol

@Taykorjg

4 жыл бұрын

They don't even do the same thing so I don't know why you'd be upset.

@strixxx896

4 жыл бұрын

@@danadrian2752 there's no reason why u should avoid them,they're great ,and as someone said in the comments theirs type of content is not similar to this channel....

I love your channel. Where a lot of photography channels go over technical skills you bring me back to my training at art school. Although I studied graphic design I get to apply art theory to my photography.

i love your videos because they broaden my horizon and lead me to abandon conventions and try new things - apart from that, you have a very sympathetic personality. thank you!

7:05 "The courses are done by professionals" Matti Haapoja appear xDDD

I get your point, but it seems to me that deep shadows with beautiful highlights is the very reason why you would want a camera with a wide dynamic range.

@epictetus9221

5 жыл бұрын

Which sounds a bit like you didn’t get his point :)

@Jeemdeecreations

5 жыл бұрын

I agree tbh. Of course he makes a good point, but the point of a wide dynamic range camera is not just to show the entire range in every photo.. The point is to be able to capture it all bottom to top, and upon postprocessing AFTER taking the photo having the freedom to go for the blacks - or the whites if you feel it'd be more fitting.

@epictetus9221

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jeemdeecreations You're absolutely correct, but a lot of people don't understand that and get the wrong idea. Hence this video

OMG, Jaime, what an amazing video! I am stunned, not only by the beauty and artistry of the photos, but by your knowledge of the subject! You made the concept interesting and easy to understand. Well done mate!

Jamie, you give us such a wealth of photographic knowledge and experience that it is priceless. This is far far better than the rubbish we get from watching the American couple, Polin, Kai, and all the others who talk rubbish (bokeh, equivalence, dynamic range, etc) and get millions of views simply because they know that people watch them for the gear reviews and "7 ways to improve your photography" techniques. Do carry on with quality and not quantity for click baits. Thank you!

6:48 I'd love to sign up, Jamie, to play a small part in keeping you in the flat caps to which you've become accustomed, but something weird keeps happening. Each time I watch one of your excellent vids, which I think I am well advised to do, because I've only had a camera for six months (although I get out and about taking pics alot), the vast majority of tips that you give are things that I've adopted instinctively already. I think I've inadvertently stumbled across something for the first time in my life that I have a natural aptitude for. And I'm only fifty! Love the vids!

what? No we need absolutely more HDR sunset picture of a boat on a lake in front of a mountain. How dare you!

@kennyjonespiquero7791

3 жыл бұрын

Well, in Landscape photography you want to highlight the whole image so HDR is useful. What he's trying to is that use light to focus the subject, ex : Portraits

This is great, starting into photography, so many photographers saw some of my "chiaroscuro" photos and the first reaction was ... "I'm going to show you how to take those shots so you don't have so much shadow or black in them"... I was, for a while, constantly thinking "I like this why is it wrong?, I want this shadow". Until I met a GOOD photographer who told me basically what you just said. You're a great teacher, at least to me. Congrats!

Hey I'm a young KZreadr and photographer just learning the basics, and previous to this video I had always thought to bring up the shadows and bring down the highlights to give it a balance. But now I've learned that that's not always the case. this video in itself will help so much in the future both in my vlogs and photos. Thank you

CHIARO - SCURO In Italian "chiaro" is the opposite of "scuro". Thank you for your videos, they really inspire me.

thoroughly enjoyed this video and your channel in general, Jamie. It's refreshing to see that there are some photography KZreadrs that talk about history of photography and the thoughtfulness of it.

I really can't say enough how impressed I am with all of your newer videos. I really enjoy your video essays and I find myself using your language in the annotation of my own work. I also love that you so rarely put your own photos into the videos which I think shows a certain element of modesty that's missing in so many other photography based channels. You're one of the few people I follow online that if you were to release a book tomorrow in something I'm even slightly interested at less than £40 or so, I'd buy it in an instant. I can only say that about a very select few. (That said I haven't bought your presets - purely because the photos I take just don't want presets applied to them)

That is withut doubt the best video You have made so far Jamie. Wonderfully thought out and executed.

Thanks so much for the video. Fantastic job and I appreciate the subtleties of your editing.

You're a breath of fresh air, Jamie. Thanks. Took up shooting film to supplement my digital and love it. You quickly learn to embrace the shadows...

I just had to comment on the "RetroWave" type into. The old film look. The jitter of film frames. The softness. The fonts. The music. The nostalgia. I love it!

Jamie, a big big thank you for making this video. I didn’t know the term before but the chiaroscuro look is what I’ve been trying to capture for some time... so far with little success. Heartened by your advice, I’ll keep trying. Brilliant to have someone who can really convey the artistry of photography beautifully as well as technical advice.

Another fantastic piece of content - a very good lesson for me, I had to watch this twice. I've been looking for some inspiration, your videos have given my that urge to get back out there and shoot - for myself, not just for work. Thank you.

Another great lesson Jamie, really love the depth of thought that you bring to things. Keep it up!

Probably my favourite photography video of the last 12 months! Thanks so much @Jamie for reminding us to concentrate on content and meaning/expressing feeling rather than *just* on technique!

Thank you for your videos! I loved this one as I struggle with this subconscious pull to recover hilights and shadows everytime! and I always find myself going back a bit to a more contrasted look before moving forward with the edits.

Brilliant! Love your KZread videos. Thought-provoking, informative, inspiring presentations with fantastic editing. Keep them coming.

Jamie, this video is truly inspiring! You explain the concept very well, alongside the video representation and it has really help me understand what I love about some of my favourite street photographers.

This is one of the best photography lesson video I have ever seen! You just opened up a different dimension in the thought process! God knows how many days I wasted just thinking about the dynamic range of a camera.

Another stellar video James! So well thought out and so well articulated. Bravo, Sir! ....and as for that retro intro: a touch of genius!

Brilliant video, thank you

Well said. Appreciate all the work you put into videos like these

Great quality content! Your videos are allways a joy to watch and and a source o good information to me. Thank you.

I became obsessed with this stuff after a video Sean tucker did a long time ago about exposing for the highlights. This is a fantastic video Jamie!

Great video Jamie. This style of photography/art is what I enjoy making......and now I have a word for it!! Thanks. Your editing is fantastic. Thanks for creating.

Love your videos. So very helpful. Please keep them coming.

Great post. Very insightful. Thanks for sharing Jamie.

Well said, love this video, so well put together and with a strong clear message.

Love art chat! This was wonderful. I often see actions sets being sold that reduce shadows and pull highlights, and you lose so much composition sometimes. Mabye because I'm older and grew up with film photography but I think that limited dynamic range is the charming and artistic aspect of photography.

Brilliant and necessary to mention, specially in these times where the first thing you are likely to be told is : “pull the highlights and brighten the shadows “, until the image looks like a comic book. 🙏 for sharing!

Brilliant Jamie. I love your insights into the history of creating images.

Great edit. You're clearly very knowledgeable in what you speak about and it's refreshing to hear.

This is a great video! I used to be afraid to show deep shadows in my photos because I wanted the perfect details in every photo. Now because of youtube photographers like yourself, I am embracing not having this "Everything must be exposed Picture!" Thank You.

Great approach and wonderful addition of explaining the art side of the topic. Thank you for the videos, as always.

Jamie I love the history and science behind the topics you bring us! I get so much out of your videos.

SO right. I unconsciously do this a lot and thank you Jamie for putting it in words.

This is probably the most genuinely useful photography video I've seen in months, something to actually advance my technique rather than worrying me about gear! Thank you!