How a Nat Geo Photographer Selects the Best Images from a Shoot - Whittle Down
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Date: 2022-07-07
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jezelf
Composition is first criteria for my eliminations. Then capturing the moment that was a chance or rare event if the exposure could be improved in post. It then becomes subjective of course; I would have tried to shoot a back view of the cat looking out the window at the city like he's trapped or its his domain - both final images are great but for me, his final one has distracting leaning vertical lines on the right ( my ocd would want them more vertically straight ) and the cat is lost in the white environment, but I do love the asymmetry. The city backdrop would be my choice. but would have to 'content aware' fill to remove the reflection of the light. or rather look out for it in the view finder and move it for another shot. But I'm just another armchair critic - each to their own, its what makes everyone's artistic expressions valid. Great video and I learnt some things.
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Composition is first criteria for my eliminations. Then capturing the moment that was a chance or rare event if the exposure could be improved in post. It then becomes subjective of course; I would have tried to shoot a back view of the cat looking out the window at the city like he's trapped or its his domain - both final images are great but for me, his final one has distracting leaning vertical lines on the right ( my ocd would want them more vertically straight ) and the cat is lost in the white environment, but I do love the asymmetry. The city backdrop would be my choice. but would have to 'content aware' fill to remove the reflection of the light. or rather look out for it in the view finder and move it for another shot. But I'm just another armchair critic - each to their own, its what makes everyone's artistic expressions valid. Great video and I learnt some things.
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fafmotorsport
Think about how YOU would select an image OUT OF CAMERA if you were not allowed to edit it after; ) That has been the thought process shown by this man; not the thought process of -which photo shows the most potential that I can edit later. -
Why? Well Remember, he is not young: he would have been learning his craft 50+ years back when-as he says-cropping wasn-t really possible; and certainly the digital tools available today to help the under/over exposed areas, magic wands etc etc we-re not available to him!
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Think about how YOU would select an image OUT OF CAMERA if you were not allowed to edit it after; ) That has been the thought process shown by this man; not the thought process of -which photo shows the most potential that I can edit later. -
Why? Well Remember, he is not young: he would have been learning his craft 50+ years back when-as he says-cropping wasn-t really possible; and certainly the digital tools available today to help the under/over exposed areas, magic wands etc etc we-re not available to him!
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Wilson
This was kind of odd.
When you have the chance to create your own lighting, which they were doing, you have control over: (1) balancing foreground to background to whatever degree you desire, and (2) separation of subject and background however you like.
Not much explanation for exposures (which are easily fixed anyway) to be all over the place or for a final image with so little separation for the subject.
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This was kind of odd.
When you have the chance to create your own lighting, which they were doing, you have control over: (1) balancing foreground to background to whatever degree you desire, and (2) separation of subject and background however you like.
Not much explanation for exposures (which are easily fixed anyway) to be all over the place or for a final image with so little separation for the subject.
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Bubbles
A lot of comments seem to mention keeping over exposed/under exposed photos. While yes, these can be fixed in post, the wildlife photography (and sometimes even other professional photography competitions) have a no-editing policy, making it about the photographer in the field rather than the editor and post processing. That is why his first round is eliminating technically faulty pictures.
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A lot of comments seem to mention keeping over exposed/under exposed photos. While yes, these can be fixed in post, the wildlife photography (and sometimes even other professional photography competitions) have a no-editing policy, making it about the photographer in the field rather than the editor and post processing. That is why his first round is eliminating technically faulty pictures.
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Victor
Maybe it has to do with video compression or the brightness of the video, but it seemed to me the the photographer got rid of some over or under exposed photos in the first 'round', but later in the culling process still had images on the board that could just as well be considered over or under exposed as the ones he got rid of in the first 'round'.
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Maybe it has to do with video compression or the brightness of the video, but it seemed to me the the photographer got rid of some over or under exposed photos in the first 'round', but later in the culling process still had images on the board that could just as well be considered over or under exposed as the ones he got rid of in the first 'round'.
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J.
in the era of selfies and smartphone cameras we take tons of pictures. but the storage is limited so now i start to select better pictures. and my main consideration is always story (lighting etc, that's an additional things. like is the picture telling me a story? will it spark conversation/recall with my loved ones when we go back to it again?
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in the era of selfies and smartphone cameras we take tons of pictures. but the storage is limited so now i start to select better pictures. and my main consideration is always story (lighting etc, that's an additional things. like is the picture telling me a story? will it spark conversation/recall with my loved ones when we go back to it again?
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Julia
I didn't like the one he chose, I preferred the cityscape one. There's something just cold and barren about the white walls and the light shining in; it seems like it's the window creating the affect but it's like the sun shines but doesn't give any life or warmth. Like a cold day reminiscent of when you didn't have any hope.
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I didn't like the one he chose, I preferred the cityscape one. There's something just cold and barren about the white walls and the light shining in; it seems like it's the window creating the affect but it's like the sun shines but doesn't give any life or warmth. Like a cold day reminiscent of when you didn't have any hope.
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Joshua
It-s so much simpler for me. If I take 112 photos, 105 of them are absolutely worthless. The other seven are usually varying degrees mediocre, and I just choose the least embarrassing one. If all else feels, I leave the whole pile on a hard drive and never look at them again.
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It-s so much simpler for me. If I take 112 photos, 105 of them are absolutely worthless. The other seven are usually varying degrees mediocre, and I just choose the least embarrassing one. If all else feels, I leave the whole pile on a hard drive and never look at them again.
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Night
I suppose none of these photos were edited. Almost every photographer I know edit their photos these days, some even go as far as replacing the sky, removing electrical cables and various objects in the scene besides doing dodge and burn and other basic editing functions.
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I suppose none of these photos were edited. Almost every photographer I know edit their photos these days, some even go as far as replacing the sky, removing electrical cables and various objects in the scene besides doing dodge and burn and other basic editing functions.
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Clueless
Interesting perspective to see which one is a keeper out of all the shots taken. Never thought of it that way, but I suppose since I mostly shoot in digital cameras, a lot of the flaws on exposure and framing can be fixed with digital editing and cropping somehow.
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Interesting perspective to see which one is a keeper out of all the shots taken. Never thought of it that way, but I suppose since I mostly shoot in digital cameras, a lot of the flaws on exposure and framing can be fixed with digital editing and cropping somehow.
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