I help Photography beginners create better images.
The videos on this channel will help you avoid common mistakes beginners make… in photography and editing. Plus, you’ll learn everything you need to master your camera,
The videos on this channel will help you master the four keys to creating AMAZING images: know thy camera, light, composition, and editing.
I understand trying to make life easier and regain a 'life balance'. I know just how long it takes to create content, and thinking of weekly content is very draining-or at least I find it so. I found your channel looking for an introduction to Luminar Neo. Your short course hit the mark and got me started, and I thank you for that. I look forward to seeing where you go with this channel and wish you every success.
I am a Photoshop/Luminar Neo/Topaz kinda guy and I DO enjoy your tutorials, so I'll keep on watching as long as you keep on introducing interesting techniques, tutorials and reviews. Keep the fire burnin!
I've learned so much from you over the past few months of my photography journey and I'm eager to see any content you put out regardless of the frequency. I would like to see tips on composition. Be well, take care of yourself.
@Parker Photographic. I'm with you for the 'long haul', sir. I've followed your tutorials for several years now and can honestly say that your teaching methods are great, especially when compared to other photographic channels on here. ♥♥ Being disabled and not finding it very easy to get about I tend to focus (pun unintended) on close-up and macro photography. This does NOT, however, mean that I'm not interested in all spheres of photography and photo-editing. I love it all and would definitely 'tune in' to any videos that you upload. ♥♥
Sounds great to me...get rid of the stress, life is way too short. Gotta enjoy it! Your title also scared me because I have finally found a group I am learning and enjoying. Hang in there.
Thanks for the support. The new PhotoMation community is my new primary focus. There I'll be able to provide a better experience for all... to create better images. There's more than meets the eye when you log into the community. I'll make announcement, with more info, next week.
Thank you for your photography tips and tutorials. I recently went to our local aquarium, and took my Canon EOS R40 with. To my horror, the pics were a disaster. My few phone pics were better! I definitely need some tips for that type of indoor, dark with bright flashes setting. Tks
Many thanks for your video tutorials, especially on GIMP. Yours have been instrumental in teaching me how to use software such as this and how to compose different photos. Will you be doing anything more on Udemy? I found that content to also be helpful. Good luck, stay healthy, be safe as you are right, life is way too short.
I'm not adding any more content to Udemy. I've created a new photographic community where I'll be able to better serve photographers and help them create better images. It's more hands on vs anything else out there.
That’s what I’m here to learn. Currently trying to set my camera up to be able to go from landscape to wildlife quickly. Sigh. I learned a lot at the beginning but I had not been watching because of the recent content. Glad you are getting back to basics.
Lots of stuff for people to view already Chris, take your time doing anything new. You ate no 1 priority. Love your teaching style. Learned so much from you.
I'm actually glad you've taken this path (despite the fact that the title initially terrified me). You can have too much to cover and with the rapid advancements and changes to software, it's impossible for one person to do it all. I'm looking forward to learning more from your revelations on key concepts, landscape photography, tips and tricks on composition, and sharing your experience of 30+ years as a pro. Toward the end of my real career as a manager of multimedia services, I got totally overloaded and my company wanted me to be all things to all people. I walked away and retired from that and started teaching video production at a local college until I could "slow down." Now I do things for pleasure and occasional sales, but mostly to have a creative outlet. My family's grown and gone, I retired in 2012, and I've never looked back. Keep up the good work and I look forward to being on the journey with you! Can't wait to see how you replace FB.
Techniques and tips for street photography. Also, guides or exercise on how see or determine a scene, spot and situation for photography. Thank you for your tutorials.
I'm most excited about getting better at composition. I'm glad you are continuing. I know sometimes I think we make it hard for you wanting this and that and everything. There are some members of the group who are really good photographers who help out with cc. That's a good thing. So, did you take all those Gimp videos down or just moved them somewhere? I'm glad you're not quitting all together as I think you are a great teacher. I purchased, I believe, most if not all of your courses (Udemy). My problem is time. I'm sure that is for you too as you mentioned. Well, just do the things that excite you. I'm sure those things excite us too.
I moved all the gimp tuts to a new channel and I'm not planning on any new content there, either. My focus is on the PhotoMation community where I'll be able to provide a better experience for all to create better images.
@@ParkerPhotographic I remember now. Like I said, do what excites you because I'm sure it will excite us too. Do what you think is fun. I surely enjoyed the images you posted from your trips. Don't get stressed. That's not a good thing.
I'm actually quite pleased to see your focus is going to be more on photography rather than Lightroom and Topaz. All the photo editing in the world isn't going to help me if I can't take decent photos to begin with, right? My biggest thing I need to learn is composition. It's one thing to snap a photo of something I like, but it's choosing the angle to shoot from, looking where the light is coming from, where in the shot to place the subject that make the difference between a flat and boring image and a photograph that really pops.
I am part of a local photography club and it sounds like your plans for videos are exactly what we are looking for!! We have a lot of beginners that want to learn more about their cameras and how to use the settings. I'll be anxious to see what you will be posting!
Burnout / exhaustion hits everyone at some point, especially when you really care about what you do. Gotta take care of ourselves. I think your plan is perfect, and of course I'll be sticking around. Thanks for the update!
Well I am beggining, 6 months "potographer"... Im happy with the news because edition is not my priority now. All the rest about photography is priority...Thanks !
Legit question! In the beginning of the video I stated that I intentionally underexposed the image to retain as many highlights as possible in the waterfall. There is no such thing as a perfect image straight out of camera. To bring out the best of what you captured requires editing. Some images require more editing than others. I'll delve into more about this in next week's newsletter. Also, the camera profile I use is Neutral… which doesn’t have any preprogrammed contrast/colors built in. Which is another reason why the original looks flat.
I'm greatly impressed with the depth of your photography and editing knowledge and so pleased you choose to share it. Would you consider making a video on editing a photo (a bird shot would be great😸) and make a copy available for download so we can do each step with you? With copyright protection, of course. That way we'll know the result we're after. Thanks again for teaching us.
I'm scaling back editing tutorials for now. At least on RU-vid. I'll have an editing challenge in my new photo community where you'll be able to download the file and follow along.
Great ideas and techniques! However, I was thinking you were going to try not to be such a perfectionist! ☺I learned a lot on this one for certain. Keep on keeping on!
I made a couple of mistakes and didn't edit them out. Now that I'm not thinking about perfection it's helped me relax and I'm able to record the first time through. Although, this was the second take. The first one I forgot to hit the record button! :)
I just have to say thank you so much. I was all set to go buy a new laptop until I found your post. Just implementing the one tweak to my graphics card sped things 10x. My CPU was getting crushed everytime I used the app, and now it actually runs respectably. You Rock.
Excellent tutorial. Concepts are explained well and pace is good. Thank you for putting this set of (well-thought-out and planned) tutorials together for Luminar Neo. You have another sub.
very detailed tutorial thanks , but I am running version 3.04 of PhotoAI but do not get the same masking options as you show in the video , when I clicke selection it just shows me what it thinks is the subject and hence I cannot apply different degrees of denoise /sharpening to specific parts of my iamges as you show in the video , what am I doing wrong ?
Thank you for the incredible video. I do disagree on kit lenses. To the right hands they are excellent. However to a beginner they may produce worse photos than they can get with their phone. For example the Nikon af-p 18-55 is awesome. Also the old Canon 28-80 mk1 was incredible. The same can be said with the panasonic 14-42 kit. But overall most kit lenses are so so at best with a few gems out there. Another thing to be said is that a great kit lens is very light. So as a photographer you are more likely to bring your kit out if it is light vs a heavy 24-70 that you worry about and leave at home. Happy shooting.
My stance on Kit lenses has changed recently. My old kit lenses from 35 years ago are much different from today's. I now have a kit lens for my z30... as you said it's lighter and more enjoyable to carry around for things like vacation and family gatherings, et.
