Bao Doan I like both Omar and James as well, they both have a self-deprecating style. Explaining the thought process used to get to a picture is more interesting to me than camera content.
"Dude, suckin' at something is the first step at sorta being good at something." - Jake the Dog. Thank you for the advice Omar! I'm relatively new to Fuji and photography in general, and your channel has helped a great deal. Great work!
Very good idea. I now know that I am an intermediary photographer, thank you, my world is now sooo much brighter 😂🤣 I use to teach scuba diving at an advanced level and these four stages of competence, as they are referred to in the psychology of skills learning. It may seem unimportant to a few but for many, knowing how they are progressing is very helpful and motivating. Thanks again Omar, please, do more 🙂
[Almost 4 years after you posted this, RU-vid suggested it for me.] A helpful and enlightening video. At a certain point, one reaches the stage where the problem is not figuring out why the bad pictures are bad, but why the good pictures are good. That's how I learned about compositional elements like leading lines, and the importance of lighting.
Omar, Please. Never. Stop. This is amazing. I'm learning so much from you, and you just distribute that positive energy in every video. Please continue this series! And big, huge THANK YOU for doing this.
Congrats Omar, this video made me realise that I'm already at the intermediate photography level! And I think that I mostly follow your path when shooting. First: Composition Second: focal length (even if you are shooting with primes, you have to choose your prime) to get that composition Third: DOF, do I want everything in focus or I do rather prefer keep a shallow deep of field? Fourth: movement. Do I want everything to be frozen or I'm looking for movement? Fifth: Shoot (I trust AUTO ISO more than I should hehe).
Just got an XT30! Great video to kind of inspire me to get better at this. It's just my hobby but being conscious about what I'm doing (good or bad) has helped me the most.
Been following you since I got my X-T20 and have learned a lot and feel like I'm ready to be intermediate. This was a great summation of the basics that's concise enough to be able to carry in my head when I go out to shoot. Please do do more of these. Perfect for where I feel I am. Thanks for your channel and knowledge and entertainment value. Keep 'em coming.
Rick Sammon's saying, as you paraphrased, comes from the cycle of learning of us human beings. The last stage leads us to automatism, 95% of what we do everyday! Great info throughout the whole vid.
FINALLY someone speaking outside the "exposure triangle"! Now what you need to do is a more organised break-down per episode: Fast.moving objects, night photo, panoramic ... Showing simultaneously all the main factors on a table and how they interact with each other is the correct way. No so much giving "recipes" of success... well done!
More please. It’s interesting to know your thought process and explaining it with pieces of paper is novel but it does work for me. Keep up the good work.
I've been watching you since before I got my first camera and you've definitely helped me out a lot. I cosider myself intermediate so this really helps out a lot. Thanks dude!
Yes, please more ice cream! This is exactly I personally need, discussing cases and how to approach them. This is filed experience but guided and injected!
One small quibble: When talking about focal length, I think he meant to say More depth of field "when you go wide." He did indeed say Less depth of field for longer focal length. I like this very much. (He did clarify shortly after.)
Omar i've watched so many of your videos and somehow didn't watch this yet. This is a great video as a refresher but also for my fellow friends who I'm trying to get into photography, they can understand the conceptual and technical sides but your examples highlight how those can be translated creatively.
I like the real world examples of the thought process behind taking the pictures. Photographers often talk about the exposure triangle and knowing the picture you want to take before hitting the shutter, but they seldom go through the thinking that happens in the spur of the moment, how they came to decide the settings to get the result they wanted.
Really good video. Great to see other persons workflow. As being self taught it really gives me a lot to hear your thought process. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks, great video! Next video could approach looking for light and composition. Training the eye to focal lengths and the dynamic range of the camera.
I love this. Been into this fairly hard for a few years, but I've realized I've become lazy in not thinking through my shots, just being complacent in how I shoot. This is a great reminder of all the things I need to be thinking about all the time. 🙏
Dude, you should make a book from this. It's so easy to understand. I as a beginner usually confused at where to start when a moment arrived. Thank you so much and yes you should do this 'intermediate' video
Kudos for describing your thought process! 👏 That makes these video stand out from a bunch of others. Sounds like a great new series is coming. Can't wait!
Great video as always Omar. I'm an event photography in the UK. And I'm also trying to develop my street skills. Really like the image through the bikes. Keep it up pal.
Watching this one video has gotten me to the next level. Please make more of these so that I can reach boss level. You and your videos are the reasons that helped me decide to go Fujifilm. The way you explain how things work in the photography world is very entertaining and addictive to watch. The reason that I wanted to use a mirrorless camera instead of a smartphone is to take great family photos where i can display around the house and that came to mind when the day my daughter was born. Is it possible for you to make a video on photographing toddlers? Maybe with a GoPro first-person shooter style. The autofocusing settings for these fast moving little people is where i need to improve on. I know many new dads would love to see that. Thanks! From Vancouver, Canada
Sir! I just found your channel and I'm binge watching these videos. Been a traditional artist in ink, watercolor and pencil for a long time. Got my canon 80d to up the art game, but that quickly snow balled into video creation and editing. Now a year later, digging into buying my first telephoto lens.... Price shopping the sigma and canon 70-200 f2.8....... OUCH!! But in the grand scheme I think it will work for many things including wildlife aaaaaaand kids. Your cracking me up with the kid comments, I nearly gave up trying to catch more than a blur of my own rascals. Anyway, love the way you explain all this crazieness that eventually produces beautiful photos. I would try to you tube how to use my camera, light, shutter speed....what I got was a headache. Thank you.
Omar - Love this video. Simplified explanation of practical hands-on application of valuable photographic principles. Looking forward to more of this kind of tutorial approach to applied photography.
Congratulations, Omar for this new series. It is very useful to improve our techniques and knowledge on how to set up our camera. Please, keep doing this type of videos. Looking forward for the next chapter. Great job!!
Omar, I love the way you shared your setup "process" here! This is a fantastic way for us "conscious incompetents" to get a clue! I'm there for the next installment...
This is great, just bought a camera for my wife and now I don’t have to spent hours teaching her, just show her Omar-verse videos, hopefully we get more of this from you
This is super helpful as I become more consciously devoid of skills...lol . But truly, thank you... you’re a riot to watch an very interestingly helpful!
