The grain is mostly due to the GRII high contrast black and white preset rather than high ISO.

@jurgenvanhest9913

2 жыл бұрын

I believe it can be done with a very high ISO and a ND-filter, or as you say with post in PS/LR.

@Dan-jg7zl

Жыл бұрын

The GR is nothing special. It can be done perfectly easy with any dslr, especially older dslr's with a more limited dynamic range.

@picat4

Жыл бұрын

@@jurgenvanhest9913 Who is mentioning postprocessing here?🤔

@sharpskilz

10 ай бұрын

shoot with high iso on any small sensor DSLR and convert to black and white, do a little bit of contrast adjustments and get back to me.

@sharpskilz

10 ай бұрын

@@picat4 the op. he doesnt phrase it as post processing but the word "preset" is interchangeable with post process, as in, the camera does the post processing, and doesnt just give a flat redout from the sensor, it does a bit of teiddling

This is a great idea - to take the work of a photographer with a specific unusual style, and explain how they achieved the look. However no matter how much you master the technical side, it requires a long term devotion to a particular style to become as good as Olga. I once spent two months photographing Paris deliberately out of focus (not moving) to get an impressionistic style. Even though I took hundreds of such photos deliberately every day during that time, the number of keepers were relatively few. When it works it's beautiful; but just moving the camera or defocusing the lens is just the beginning. The message to anyone who wants to try working "outside the box" is find a style you like and then explore it extensively. I really enjoyed the video. Thank you.

I bought the trilogy. She is quite amazing. We love the books. The thing is, her images are very evocative and emotionally charged. They aren't just ICM photos for the sake of getting blurry photos. Anyone can take blurry photos. If you look at her work you will see creative genius at work.

@darrengodssonfielding

Жыл бұрын

Completely agree. We may be able to imitate the style but we would never be able to imitate the creative thought & emotion she pours into her work. But we most certainly can learn from her and apply some degree of her style to our own images.

@michaelgeaglemeare1585

Жыл бұрын

Creativity combines many factors of experimentation and freedom from comparison.

@fotodivision

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely agree. Every goog photograph has his own eye & Touch. Don't like to talk about settings etc. This is Pure & Unique Art. Congrats Olga!!❤

It's NOT ABOUT HAVING A DISTINCT STYLE! It's about having a honed visual interest (love). The style takes care of itself. Find out what you actually like. See what opens the door.

@39exposures

2 жыл бұрын

totally agree with that. you can mimic almost anything, but it's not about the certain technique.

@-The-Darkside

Жыл бұрын

@@39exposures I found with Guitar, early on you spend your time trying to mimic/learn 'how x plays guitar", then you spend the next load of time trying to shed sounding too much like someone else lol (unless that's your thing of course), otherwise the only feedback you get is "That's cool it sounds like you've been listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix buddy" and that's not what I want.

@jamrollz

Жыл бұрын

'having a style' sounds so yuck and vain, not to mention self limiting.

@sharpskilz

10 ай бұрын

spoken like a true skateboarder

@dance2jam

10 ай бұрын

I may sound like a replayed answering machine recording, but here goes. When I first started with another artistic endeavor, my teachers always said, don't copy my style, have your own. If you were drawn, as a beginner, to that person in the first place, of course you are going to copy their style. An artist's growth includes many factors and influences, and I agree, follow your passions and your style will find you. The resulting in an interesting paradox. Style, becomes "brand" - which can be important for financial success or even recognition, but it "locks" the artist into a perspective box.

Found your channel while looking around for photography ideas. I've been a hobbyist for 5 years now and only just found out about ICM photography. Olga's work is incredible, wow. Thanks for covering it!

This is the most underrated photography channel . absolutely amazing content , Keep it up . Subscribed !!

Just when I think I've seen the best videos for my photo journey, one like this comes along and re-sets my thinking! AND with a GR8... Love it! Go go Olga!

Definitely one if not the best photography channel

I really enjoyed this. I love photographs that give me a feel like a painting. I have experimented with some long exposure/blurry photography in the past, but this artist and her work really captured me... I love it. It speaks to me so much more than the ever so sharp and accurate photographs we see and take every where. Thank you for sharing this.

@TigerPaw193

8 ай бұрын

@dreamscuba, I don't know if I "like" her work or not; this is the first I've known of her. But looking at her work, I AM sure it deserves more of my time and thought to form an intelligent response to it. Meanwhile, I agree about liking a photograph that gives me a feeling like a painting. The great painters of the past have much to teach the digital photographers of today. Rembrandt and his exquisite use of light and shadow take the viewer's eye where Rembrandt wants it to go. The impressionists. Etc. In our personal libraries, to inspire and instruct us, it may well be that we should give as much shelf space to books showing the works of great painters and sculptors as of great photographers. Just a thought.

This is the best photography channel on KZread. Thank you

such enjoyable images you took, and well explained! Can't wait to try. Thank you to you and thank you to Olga 📷📷😎

Excellent video. Thank you for bringing Olga Karlovac's work to my attention. I love it. It's amazing what can be achieved with a point and shoot camera and controlled ICM.

It took me 15 years to even start getting over the stupid concept of "sharpness". Its just so stupid! It does not matter how sharp an image is if it is not an interesting photograph! These days I focus on taking interesting images instead. I see so many young photographers hung up on sharpness, this just stops them from developing a good eye for photography. Its just sad.

@noyo1444

2 жыл бұрын

Photography is about variations and sharpness is just one of them.

@lvngraw

Жыл бұрын

agreed

@ohroonoko

Жыл бұрын

It doesn’t matter how blurry it is either.

@petermoons9568

Жыл бұрын

Never looked at it this way. It’s an eyeopener.

@ondrejpavelka2179

Жыл бұрын

Im guilty as well and i promise i will think about it in my future progress

Great video! Olga's work is beautiful. Such an underrated effect and wonderfully refreshing when you consider how so much of this gear centric industry is focussed on "sharpness" as a predominant factor for quality photography. Thanks for posting!

@ImitativePhotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and well said!

Great video. I hadn’t heard of Olga, so thank you for sharing. You did an excellent job with explaining the technique.

WOW! What a great teaching ‘finding your style and committing to it’. A fascinating story, and excellent video. Olga’s work is very appealing, and your practical demo is very engaging. Thank you very much 👍.

Excellent! Great explanation of how it's done and photos to match, thank you!

another great video: almost like a delightful lecture I can not get enough of. Thankyou

love your work! one of the best YT channels

Thank you for this video, love Olga's work

Inspirational. Thank you!

Just found your site and this video. It's great that you show her work and then the recreations, which were very good. Subscribed.

Love this kind of artistic flow

Fantastic vid, fam. I love her outlook...plus, the HCB quote is timeless. Subbed.

It's really great and helpful what you are doing! Thanks very much! And continue!

What a great vidéo, very inspiring

Love this. Thank you for showing this technique

Fantastic video, well done. Also, love that the comments here are super thoughtful and nuanced.

Love this… She does amazing work. Was great seeing you showing her technique. Nice commentary too…

Sharpness is the last thing I think of when I take a photo. It seems the higher than megapixel count goes the more people forget the art of photography itself. I draw more than take photos and even in that media it is more about the work as a whole rather than just making it "clean" or "neat". I want to have fun in the process and show a little of myself in my work.

@oneeyedphotographer

3 ай бұрын

I like high megapixels for the opportunity to crop. Sometimes it's an alternative to a zoom lens, sometimes it's essential to get the artistically correct aspect ratio, sometimes for alternative compositions. Almost never a bigger print.

Great Video. I did not know of her. I love her style. It shows that sometimes we should step out of the box we put ourselves in listening to everyone telling us only sharp images are right. I will definitely experiment with this. Thank you for your video.

This is photography poetry. This is just sublime....

Thank you for a really interesting and useful video. I found the technical camera data really helpful.

That was an awesome presentation! It also made me think of the work of Saul Leiter and Monaris. I appreciate your discussion and analysis of Olga Karlovac’s photographic style. I am definitely subscribing to your channel :)

@Neil-Aspinall

4 ай бұрын

I will never forget when I stumbled upon on a Saul Leiter exhibition in Munich Germany a few years ago.

I love this work but I wholeheartedly disagree that this is the lesson here. Sure, having a 'style' and sticking to it, is a great way to learn your tools and getting to know a subject through limitations. Some people thrive by getting down to 1 thing and doing it well, even exploring to the bottom what they can do with it. Some painters are classic examples of this. I could look at variations of Magritte's paintings forever and never get bored of it, for example. But there are so many more people out there for who working like this is just a means for alienation and stagnation. Lots of art people (especially 'educators' and critics), focus too much on this 'do 1 thing right' bit or a 'main theme', while some of the greatest artists did the total opposite. I mean, look at David Bowie. You can build a body of work through doing a million different things for decades and themes will automatically emerge. It's far more important to just start doing something (pick a subject to start) than to 'stick with something'. Listen to that inner creative voice/urge, try something and see where it leads. That's the great lesson. For some it leads to something like Karlovac's type of work for others it leads to a very different ever changing tapestry.

@ImitativePhotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. I guess what I was trying to say is that as an aspiring artist you're more likely to stand out and be recognized if you have a signature style. Of course, this tends to benefit the audience/curators more than the artist, because it's easier for them to identify/remember a narrative if there is a consistent theme. It's kind of a personal branding thing. I don't think Olga's work would make as much of an impact if her photobooks were split into colored/B&W, focused/blurry. Part of what makes it interesting and unique is that she sticks to that style for that length of time. Now, is sticking to one style long term what's best for the artist? Well that's up to the individual, and for some it can definitely lead to stagnation and frustration. Different strokes for different folks and all that...

@chesslover8829

Жыл бұрын

​@@ImitativePhotographyStagnation is an issue for artists. Personally, I like the freedom to evolve.

@oneeyedphotographer

Жыл бұрын

@@ImitativePhotography I think I have always had a style. It just took a while to find it.

@stefanmorgenstern7132

Жыл бұрын

That's how I see it, too. Sometimes a story has been told, i.e. a topic has been dealt with exhaustively. If everything then becomes repetitive, stagnation sets in or you keep copying yourself, you should get off the dead horse and start something new.

@Moodboard39

Жыл бұрын

​@@stefanmorgenstern7132 Stick to one ... people like change ...not everyone thinks the same ..

Really enjoyed this post !

Love this womans work. Will start working with it in my Style. 😎📷

This video inspires me a lot. It takes me to another dimension in photography. Many thanks! 🎉

Thanks for introducing me to photographers and photographic styles I knew nothing about. Persistence and vision paid off. I agree that the body of work helps sell the style even though each photo has interest in its own right.

Thanks for this great and inspiring video 😃👍🙏

Just lovely, thank you

Thanks for introducing me to this artist’s work - amazing

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. This video is amazingly important. I love it and needed it. 📷📷📷

This is cool, and shows that often the difference between art and just doing a thing is scale. If you can commit to a style or aesthetic large enough, or long enough, it shows your intentionality. The method becomes the art rather than the images themselves.

@ImitativePhotography

2 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@TrapPhoneLoveMelodiesss

3 ай бұрын

Excellent observation

Thank u very much for sharing ! She s great, i love blurry photos. Good work !

Great video, your narration and thought process explained and then executed well with the graphics in the video showing the settings and ICM direction(s). I would like to see one of these done for the ICM photos I see of surfers riding waves with a horizontal pan. The surfer is mostly frozen still but the surrounding waves/water are nicely blurred from the ICM

Thanks for uploading, that was very interesting and informative

This channel is beautiful. Thank you ♡

Excellent video. Well done! Thank you for sharing. I’ve been fascinated by motion of late. Her work is stunning.

@ImitativePhotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Excellent video. Well done! Thank you for sharing

Nice work bro, nice shots of yours also! Interesting video, thumbs up!

Amazing Job 👏👏👏

Wow, I love this.

great explaination of how ICM works

I really appreciate this video. Thank you.

great work and great reproduction of the style!

@ImitativePhotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

awesome.. love your work

Enjoyable and interesting video. Thank you👍

Nice discussion and love your work.

I work with a point and shoot.. I haven't done anything in a while.. but now I understand how she works.. incredible stuff

Perfect! Thanks for sharing

Your video was really interesting! Thank you.

Beautiful work!

She is amazing, I never heard of her before, thank you for the discovery. Now i need to find money to buy her books !!

Some really good examples - well done

I love the video game esque overlay you put over your photo walk. Especially with the diffracted sides it reminds me a lot of MGS

Very cool

6:49 was probably my favourite shot, great job!

I like this form. I'm gonna have to try it.

Excellent, thank you! Subscribed!

That was commitment,going out to shoot in that weather in Toronto! I was shivering just watching it.

Love it. After my camera got stolen in an armed burglary, I had totally left learning. Now I feel like starting again. Thank you.

@ImitativePhotography

5 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear about your camera.

@jigggro

5 ай бұрын

@@ImitativePhotography very kind of you to respond and say sorry. I watched your video and went out the next day to a historical site. Got some ok/respectable stuff. Anyway I can send it to you, since your channel has inspired it ?

@ImitativePhotography

5 ай бұрын

@@jigggro if you're on Instagram you can send it to me there, same name as the channel.

Fantastic shots

This is so cool. I've taken a few photos like this unintentionally. Yet i love them. The ones I like the most were actually taken with the tiny Pentax Q. In camera high contrast monochrome filter. And they all happened during a holiday in Lyon France.

Informative video, and great images!

@ImitativePhotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great info! Thanks!!

Nice work! Thanks!

Nice idea to breakdown and try re-create the style of a photographer you admire. A great learning tool more people should use!

@ImitativePhotography

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely!

So glad to have stumbled on your channel! You are really helping me past a photographic doldrum by this content I get to see photography re-imagined. Than You🙏🏼

@ImitativePhotography

10 ай бұрын

Great to hear!

Very nice video. Good concept, well-narrated, and interesting content. Technically excellent.

@ImitativePhotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

I've heard the Magnum photographers refer to something called 'authorship'. They say you need to find 'authorship' in your work. It isn't quite style, or technique, or subject. It's kind of that elusive thing that makes your work 'art' and identifiable as being from you as an 'artist'. And, I think you are correct that the challenge in achieving this 'authorship' is commitment.

@ImitativePhotography

3 ай бұрын

Well put.

love it, love it, love it

Muy bueno. Una tremenda fotógrafa Olga K. Gracias por compartir. Voy a probar esa técnica. Saludos desde Argentina

勉強になります。ありがとうございました。

Cool vid. Love the bag shooting technique! I like shooting without people knowing that you're taking pictures, way more candid. Will try it.

This really cool too see, you imitate a Photographer's style. I subscribed and am looking forward to seeing what other Photography Style's you explore.

Spectacular

Really enjoyed the video, well done, Thank you!

@ImitativePhotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Excellent. Thank you.

Nice. I think I will have to try this.

Well you’ve gotten my attention! Thank you!

Love her work.....😍😍😍

Thank you! Very interesting story!!!

This is so amazing.

I enjoyed this.

This is so good! Thank you

Really enjoyed this one.

Very Interesting. It leaves you to think and your imagination of what is happening in that moment., and surrounding.

i've see three of your videos so far. and every time your'e in a different city. respect. (also i looooove berlin)

I love this technique, I have tried ICM and have got some very satisfying photos from it but this video has inspired me to try some more, thank you for sharing