He is right. 80% of photography is photographers personality. For years i was frustrated that i cannot make cool photos of people until i realized it is because i'm an extreme introvert. I do not socialize. That's just absolutely not me. Some time ago i accepted that. I'm a good enough photographer, but i will never have those cool portraits or street photos of people because of my personality. I have to focus on different things.
@@wigee That's what i thought and that's why i was so frustrated with myself. Then i realized my true levels of social anxiety and learned to respect them. No photo is worth such a stress for me. I hate that, but i don't want to torture myself anymore.
@@dambranslv I have no intention of being a professional photographer but watching this video made me think that I indeed will forever be an amateur. I'm also an introvert that doesn't enjoy random talking. It'd simply be unauthentic from me to do this regularly.
Nobody is better at these sorts of presentations than Scott Kelby and it's because he has both an engaging personality, a sense of humor, and an amazing wealth of technical and practical knowledge. One of a kind sort of guy! Great presentation winning a 10 out of 10 rating! Thanks B&H!
Excellent Scott, Thank You, I love your Teachings. I am an old man 83 Years old Your Teachings are so enjoyable to me, I learn so much from you. And very entertaining...
The most important book in my life about portrait photography are published by KelbyOne. "Peter Hurley - The Headshot": this is a joint work of Scott Kelby and Peter Hurley on the subject of headshot photography.
Decades ago, I was second camera for a number of wedding and bar mitzvah events. From the minute we got out of the car, the lead photographer spent all his time engaging with and showing genuine interest in the people around him whether or not they were actually in the frame. He became a member of the party who was there to have a good time . . . but he just kept shooting. Everyone was so relaxed that even the group formals looked like people having fun together. The way he related to so-called ugly brides helped them relax to the point that their photos showed the kind of woman that the groom fell in love with. He became a different person on the job just like the football player Scott referred to became a different person on the field. He was definitely not that gregarious off the job. One of the best photography classes I ever attended, even though I still haven't mastered his method of being all in with the people and still maintaining control of the photographic job at hand. I guess it's just takes lots and lots of practice because you really care.
Scott Kelby makes everything fun, and he has a genius, born of experience, for making things simple. I scribbled down his plainspoken advice for using a CTO and 1-stop diffuser or softbox with a plain old flash - you can get the 580 EX for under $100 used nowadays, whoopee.
38:40 I feel like more people should understand that it's not the lens that makes the background look closer, it's the act of stepping back to achieve proper framing when you are zoomed in. Understanding how perspective distortion (which is not at all affected by what lens you are using) affects images is key to being able to take wide angle portraits. There's a great video by Gerald Undone that dispels the myth about telephoto lenses 'creating' compression.
This reminds of the story behind the famous portrait of Winston Churchil in Life. At the last moment the photographer ran towards him, snatched the cheerut off his lips and clicked. The anger in his eyes gives him the character that he was famous for.
I believe this video deserves two likes from each of us - one for the great lessons, and another for the great standup show 😊 Thanks, great lesson, great entertainment, I enjoyed allot! 👏👌
Last week, I set up a minimal studio in my apartment, used my Canon and a new flash with three 18 year old models. It worked great, and in line with what Scott says in this video.
Amazing Scott you are a brilliant teacher not just great in creativity and technics of photography, I enjoyed and laughed a lot for your humorous talks and that’s what makes you a great teacher 👨🏫 ❤ thanks for the channel for sharing this video..
Scott, your thoughts and words are extremely useful! Nice to see a real teach how to take great photos instead of sharing the 526th gear review, as most others do 🎉
No. 11 - i'm going to try my hand at portrait photography. and the reason i have interest in this is because everyone has an amazing face, even those people that are considered unattractive. i think we all need to have a realistic portrait of ourselves.
When Steichen was photographing, all cameras, whether Graflex, Linhof, Sinar, Home Brew, they were all pretty much the same, and you could change lenses from any of them to any other. Today, that's not so. Of course, the camera then contributed little regardless of the skills of the photographer. Today, a skilled photographer can make photos with the OM Systems OM 1 camera that cannot be made with Canon, Nikon, Sony.
The disclaimers scare the (&^%%&& out of me. They're worse than what you're wanting the drug for. And, the photo for the ad shown is a very bad composite.
