On this exercise we're focusing on compositions.
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Well here I am in the beautiful city of Baños
Ecuador, and we've been planning on shooting some different things today and
yesterday. However it's just been raining, raining, raining and overcast
for days, and so I thought this is a perfect time for a 60-minute
challenge. Now if you're not familiar with my sixty minute challenge,
that's where you pick two things as your theme
and then you just go and shoot those for an hour, using different
photographic principal's specifically rules of composition, like rules of 3rd,
leaning lines, texture, pattern, shape, form things like that,
and you try to do this just to build your up skills as a photographer. So you
might get great stuff or you might get stuff that
you can hang on your kitchen wall. It's not necessarily going to be your best stuff,
but the point is to build your skills as a photographer and learn how to see
things.
Well Gavin Hoey, another host of Adorama TV has been doing this, but he calls it
a fifteen minute challenge.
And I figured hey, if Gavin can do it in 15, I can do it in 15 minutes as well.
So that's what we're gonna do,
but before we get started I want to remind you of some great contest's that
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In this exercise we're focusing on composition, so I'm gonna keep it simple. I'm
using my Canon G16 camera, it's a really awesome camera.
I'll just look through this.I'm going to be looking for things like shape, form,
rule of thirds, pattern, texture all of that kinda stuff,
and looking right behind me I can see some of that in this table. So I'm gonna start
right here.
I'm gonna zoom in, we're gonna get some of these little rocks, and off we go.
I sorta like the texture we've been shooting but I think we can do better. I just
looked down here and
there's this leaf, that's all wet and it's sort of fallen right here and I think that's
gonna make a much
better shot. I love the background, how it contrasts. Let's just take a
few of these.
There's a park in town and it's full of flowers, and this looks terrific. But
if I shoot it like this I'm going to get
a nasty shot, and I don't want to do that. I'm gonna apply the unusual point of view. So I'm gonna
shoot this actually
looking straight up to the sky, and that is gonna look great.
Hey you know what else is in this park? Lots of cool dogs and if you know anything about me
you know I love dogs. So I'm gonna take a few shots of my new furry friends. Why not.
Alright one of the things that's all over the place are puddles, and the thing I love about puddles
are the reflections that we see in the puddles,
as well as all of the texture here. We can convert this to a nice high
contrast black and white and it's gonna look
spectacular. So I'm just gonna get in here and shoot a few shots.
Well this tree right here has tone's of texture and texture always looks great
in pictures.
So I'm gonna fill the frame with this texture right here, maybe break this up using the
rules of third. So this takes up a third in the photo the white takes up two thirds.
Or maybe the opposite of that , we'll see
what we get just shooting this tree right here.
When you're shooting stuff like this
don't be afraid to get really close. So maybe take some shots far away but get
closer, closer, closer until
in fact you think you're too close, and then take your choice of all those
different pictures and see what looks best,
but overall things like this tend to look better
the closer you get.
Well my 15 minutes are almost up
but before we go, I wanna talk about something called leading lines. That's when we have lines that are
leading our eyes into a photo.
There's this little thing right here we've got a buncha puddles in the top,
and theres a really awesome reflection of a building that's behind us,
and we have these old pipes here. Maybe that tubing is in the
shot here. I can actually frame this up in such a way that tubing leads our eyes
into the shot . So let me do that really fast and I think we'll be done for the
day.
Well that's how I did on my 15 minute challenge thanks for inspiring me
Gavin Hoey , what a great guy.
Listen you can try this out, make sure you focus on basic elements of
composition that's what we did.
We got pattern, texture, rule of thirds,
leading lines and there's probably a lot more we could have gotten if we stayed
out here for a little bit longer but it looks like it's gonna rain again. So
we are out time. Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Exploring
Photography.
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