Part 2: What Makes The Image Work?

In Photographically Speaking, Photographs & Photoshopping, Resources, The Craft, The Life Creative, Tutorials &Technique by David3 Comments

On Sunday, I showed you one of my photographs and sent you to my blog to discuss it, asking questions about the decisions I made and the effect of those decisions. Thanks to everyone who chimed in! The point was to get you thinking about the all the many choices we make in order to create one photograph. I promised you a video discussion of that image and you can see that by clicking the link or the image below.

However, for this to make sense, I need to quickly tell you about the context for this video. In my quest to help you do more than just use a camera and make the strongest photographs you can, I’m about to offer my ImageWork course again and the video you’re about to see is the complete seventh lesson (next week I’ll also show you the first).

I created ImageWork to address one simple need: the necessity of  understanding the incredible possibilities of our tools to change the look and feel of our photographs.


Our tastes will all be different but the tools and the choices we make with those tools are amazing; It’s just that many of us aren’t using them as powerfully  or as intentionally as we could be.

I’ll tell you more later but for now I want to introduce you to the idea of how to look at making images a little more intentionally, all the way from your vision to decisions made with the camera and to refining the final image in the digital darkroom (in this case, Adobe Lightroom, but this is about why the changes were made and what effect they have, and can be applied no matter what program you use). It’s how these choices all work together to make a final photograph.

Put the coffee on and take a few minutes to watch this video, it’s one of the lessons (lesson 07) from my ImageWork course.


This Sunday, November 10, 2024, I’ll send you more details about the remaining 17 videos that make up the ImageWork course and introduce you to some great bonus resources.

This is one of the most practical courses I’ve ever offered, and it will change the way you make photographs. I can’t wait to show it to you. Until then, whether you intend to enroll or not, this one’s on me—I hope it gives you some insight.

I promised I’d draw a random winner from those who participated in the discussion about the image I posted on Sunday. The prize is a full enrollment in ImageWork (and ImageStory too, but more on that later) and that winner is Denice Woyski.

For the Love of the Photograph,
David

Comments

  1. Thank you for sharing the video. It was very helpful to hear your choices both in the taking and the processing of the image. Some very good points to remember. An excellent exercise altogether.

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