The Stylish Art of Photography 

A great observation and my own feeling exactly.

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Alas, those days are gone. :-( 8.5% of the people that watched this video stopped to give it a thumbs up, 0.03% did the opposite, 91.47% should have stopped to give it a thumbs up. RIP, David.

@@fredio54 I’m so very sad this morning..😪

@@joec.1030 I spent about an hour crying. Took me completely by surprise and hurt like we'd been friends for years. That's true engagement, as YT calls it, interacting with those in the comments on a personal and detailed basis, almost every time. He was a star and I'll miss him a lot. RIP.

Like all good drugs, Martha, I am better taken in moderation :-)

Thanks, Anthony. Glad you liked it.

Glad you enkoyed it and thank you, Jim.

Thanks, Tom.

Nicely put, Chris.

Glad to do so, Derek, thank you.

Thanks, Philip.

Thanks for those much appreciated comments, Chris. I will keep in mind your sentiments as I really do enjoy making general photography videos.

Thanks, David. It's the equipment reviews that get the bulk of the viewers but I like to break them up with more photography based posts. I have plenty of ideas, just getting round to doing them!

It's a pleasure to do so. Simon, especially when I get such appreciative reactions!

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That's nice - thank you!

Glad you liked it!

Exactly!

My head is swelling at this very moment :-) Thanks, Stephen!

Thank you, Alejandro.

Thanks, Kit.

That's good to hear, Jeff, thanks!

Nice of you to say so, Pat, thanks.

Great to hear and appreciated - thanks!

There are many reasons that I make these videos and appreciation like yours is a major one of them. Thanks, Michael.

@@DavidThorpeMFT you are very welcome David. Your work does set a standard. Subject matter, narrative nailed every time.

Thanks for that, Paul. All my points are open to discussion and my mind to changing!

Yes, that the idea, John and that way lies the most satisfaction.

Thanks!

Wow! That quote was from The Evening News - gone now presumably. Glad you found the video interesting.

Its been awhile, so I had to do a search. The evening paper, Lincoln Journal, merged with the Lincoln Star in 1995. It was hard to see it go. In pre internet days, you could get the news that happened during the day instead of waiting till the morning. If I may ask, how did you come across that paper, 4300+ miles away?

@@TopGarageTV I knew the quote about the camera not lying but influential as it has been I never saw (having been a news photographer) how anyone could really believe that. So i did a bit of research and got the full quote and then looked around some more to find that it was attributed to the editor of The Evening News, Lincoln, Nebraska who obviously knew his photographers well enough to know that the camera can be used and usually is, to give an impression of an event that he or she wants you have. Beside the point, really but my first job on a major UK publication was on The Evening news - but the London one.

I'm not overkeen myself but a black or even coloured band looks clumsy and ugly. Where possible I crop to 16:9 but try as I do, I don't find I'm able to see things in that aspect ratio. Glad you liked the video.

@@DavidThorpeMFT yes, liked the video *and* your photos all the best

I'm not keeping so healthy but I intend to keep on with the videos, Amirul. Thanks for your kind words.

Thanks YoBu - glad you liked it.

Thanks, William, great to hear that!

Thanks, Kent.

Glad you think so!

Thanks, John. I don't have any more of a handle on these things than anyone else but I really enjoy sitting down and organising my thoughts.

Thanks, Kennt.

Thanks, Jeff, glad you enjoyed it.

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Glad you think so, Jon, thank you.

Thank you, Malcolm.

Hello Hank - you are treating photography as a graphic art which is not how I see it. Photography is the art of observation, more akin to a novelist or a poet. If you look at Henri- Cartier-Bresson's work you are seeing his world and it is a very different world to the one you or I see. Take a look at a photograph called Blind Boy by Charles Harbutt. It is not something anyone would paint, too trivial a moment but frozen as it is, you are given a - jolting - insight into his life and feelings. If that's not what art is for, I don't know what it is. It's shame that photography has to be demeaned with a "little mechanical box" phrase. For Bloore to be good does not require photography to be bad. For myself, I have no great talent but even if I did, the notion of making 'fine art' would abhorrent to me. I imagine such a cosy, comfortable middle class attitude to art would be that last thing that any accomplished artist from Caravaggio to Hockney would - well they'd spit fire at the thought. That quote, interestingly it derives from a Lincoln Nebraska newspaper editor. Someone remarked to him that the camera shows things as they are. He observed that, while the camera does not lie, the photographer can. I'm a bit surprised that you expect hate for saying what you do. I've read and heard many, many such discussions between eminent artists and photographers and never come across hatred. Surely two people can hold contrary opinions on subjects which ultimately boil down to opinion? I have no interest in what you choose to hang on your wall and have no wish to force you to put photographs there instead. I'd assume that you have no mission to make me stop taking pictures or getting my videos banned.

Thanks, Ulf, glad you liked it.

Exactly what I thought ....I have seen some of these shots from David's previous posts... But that one was new (to me) and left an impression on me as well...

I love that type of symmetry and the awkwardness of the two people in opposition to the symmetry who serve to underline it. It's a product of having a camera around most of the time. That shot was taken after parking at a car boot sale and on my way to the sale area.

Thanks, Nuno!

Thank you, Mark.

Yes, I agree. Photography is viewed by so many as being a mechanical thing but some people are capable of making a shot, as you say. It;s just so damn hard to put the difference into words!

Yes, I tried cropping it out and erasing it in Photoshop but felt it lost more than it gained. Sometimes pictures can look too perfect and sanitised!

@@DavidThorpeMFT The leaves impinging on the right give me the itch that needs scratching more than the overhanging branches.

@@canturgan For my eyes, if I were to take those away, the overhead leaves take more attention. But i general I prefer to leave pictures unaltered apart from cropping and a tweak to levels if necessary.

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Thanks, Lance.

I'd not heard of that guy. I wonder if he ever uses any of the gear? Wild presentation and he uses company promo shots for illustration. Hmmmmn! Mind you, he's got over 1m subscribers, so who am I to feel superior? 😮

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That is what I would call a positive comment :-) Thanks!

TBH I forgot to add an exlamation mark :)

@@gerardg1950 Goes to show that anyone who feels that grammar isn't important should think again. All the best!

It sounds OK to me but sound really is the hardest part of RU-vid disciplines.