# A harsh critique? ## Метаданные - **Канал:** The Art of Photography - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUUdaRU3O_U - **Дата:** 16.12.2025 - **Длительность:** 10:39 - **Просмотры:** 9,978 ## Описание Go to Squarespace.com for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch, go to http://squarespace.com/aop to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain! Be sure to check out the work shared in this video and support the community! Kyle Latham - No Fear No Envy No Meanness https://prettymessphotography.pixieset.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/cometberg_westerbus/ Stephen Smith - Eyes on Ennetbürgen https://www.stephensmith.ch/ and https://www.instagram.com/stephensmith1211/ Félix James - Cedardo Fine Art Photography https://www.felixjamesphotography.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/felixjames_photographer/ Stephanie Taylor - Simple Objects: An Excavation https://stephanietaylorart.com/simple-objects-an-excavation/ and https://www.instagram.com/stephanietaylor.artist.writer Sign up to the mailing list for weekly updates https://theartofphotography.tv/list My Adobe Lightroom and Capture One Presets https://theartofphotography.tv/presets/ AoP T-Shirts https://aop.threadless.com/ Need a website? http://squarespace.com/aop On my channel you will find videos about photography, cinematography, post processing tutorials for Capture One, Lightroom and Photoshop, photo assignments that YOU can participate in, the Artist Series and more. The Artist Series is an ongoing set of videos I produce as documentaries on living photographers. I am extremely passionate about photography and video and my goal in making these videos is to share my passion and enthusiasm with you! Don’t forget to subscribe and make sure to hit the like button and share this video if you enjoyed it! Ted Forbes The Art of Photography 2830 S. Hulen, Studio 133 Fort Worth, TX 76109 US of A ## Содержание ### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUUdaRU3O_U) Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) This video is brought to you by Squarespace. Welcome back everyone. I've got some cool stuff to share with you. We're going to do some viewer mail today. I want start with this scene which comes to us from Kyle Laam. This is called No Fear, No Envy, No Meanness. Kyle also enclosed a note. I'm paraphrase a little of this cuz he mentions that he started out as a musician. When that kind of ended when the pandemic hit and looking for something else to do, he ended up picking a camera. And he writes, "In the spring of 2020, I picked up a camera for the first time. As the world started opening back up, I began documenting the Seattle music scene, shooting shows, doing band portraits, and really just fell hard for photography. Eventually, I was carrying a camera everywhere and got completely hooked. It felt like discovering music all over again. This deep dive into history, culture, and craft. I hadn't felt that kind of thirst for knowledge in decades. This scene is my first. I had an absolute blast making it over the course of 4 months. I already can't wait to make the next one. It's kind of like writing a song. Our newest is always our favorite and then you record it and you're ready to write and make the next one. I can't wait to keep going and growing and learning. Thanks again, Ted. Take care, Kyle. Kyle, this is outstanding. And for somebody who's only been shooting for a short amount of time, I'm sure your intensity of diving into the subject uh is showing. And what I love is that you've clearly uh done a lot of work studying a lot of the photographers who were big in the 60s and 70s from the New York scene. You've got a wonderful compositional style that leans in that direction. And I think the black and white is really good in here. Uh you've got a really wide range of tones that come through here. Nothing is gets lost in the shadows. It's very well printed. One of the things that I love that you do a lot in here is you end up doing your pairings on your spreads or you have a scene on the right hand side or sometimes the left but usually the right that is void of any humanity at all and then you have something that's sort of like a candid portrait over on the left. And what's really cool, and I talk about this a lot when I teach my Zen course, is that, you know, when you have two images up on a spread, like it or not, they are going to have a relationship with one another. And yours really do have a nice relationship as you go through here. There's some really nice work. Uh, I love the candid portraits probably the best, but I think the way that everything fits together in the hole is really nicely done. Your wide-angle portraits are really good, too. Anyway, this is really awesome, and if you guys want a copy of this, I will link up to Kyle's website in the show description below. Kyle, I can't wait to see the next one. So, keep up the great work and thank you for sharing, man. Can't wait to see what you do next. Okay, so next up is this lovely book that comes to us from Steven Smith. This is called Eyes on Edit Bergen. And I want to apologize before I get into this cuz you'll see it in the B-roll. This did get damaged in the mail just a little bit. It got squished on one corner and I think it got wet cuz it's a little bit warped. You'll see that in the B-roll. However, seeing that water is a theme throughout here, maybe it is appropriate. I don't know. Anyway, I will read you a little bit of Steven's note. He writes, "Dear Ted, upon re-entering the photography world after a long career as an orchestral and coral conductor, you were one of the first channels I discovered. So, thank you for doing what you do for our art. Perhaps you will find this book of interest is a social critical visual diary of time spent in an idiolic corner of Switzerland in a village feeling its growing pains. Keep up the great work with warm greetings, Steven. " Steven also notes that he is on the editorial team of Frames magazine, which is very cool and probably also is no surprise that his work is very good as you guys can see here. I really love this as a visual diary. Uh it has a very journalistic type feel to it and the pictures are wonderful. Um I really like what you've done here. I also like the fact that you're crossing over between a lot of different themes, but it's all kind of brought together by the idea of that place in Switzerland. Another thing that it's probably not surprising but always kind of gets my attention is that when somebody has a career in music and then comes over to photography, there are a lot of us that do that. And as most of you who are in that camp know, there are certain connections visually to how sound is organized and how composition works. Uh it's just very different because sound being a timebased medium and then stills are kind of timeless in a sense. Uh it has enough differences but enough similarities. Anyway, man, this is really cool. I'm sorry that it got a little bit damaged in shipping, but uh you guys shouldn't worry if you want a copy of this. I will list Steven's link below. But anyway, man, this is awesome. Okay, so I've got a couple more Zen that I want to share. I have one on Simple Objects, which is very cool. And then I have another one that is all driftwood. But first, I want to give a shout out to our sponsor today, who are the awesome folks over at Squarespace. How easy is it to build an amazing website in a matter of minutes? Squarespace has you covered. It's dead simple. Head over to Squarespace, hit get started. You can start by using Squarespace blueprint AI and SEO tools, which will give you an impressive website in no time. Something unique because, you know, you're not like other websites. Give your site a name. Next, you can build your homepage. We'll start with a few preset layouts just to get us going. Want to sell products like prints, books, maybe you make a zen. Well, you can feature those on your homepage. Create a few more sections if you want. Let's also give it a color palette. ### [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUUdaRU3O_U&t=300s) Segment 2 (05:00 - 10:00) There's a whole bunch to choose from. Then just get us started. We can change this all later. Next, let's select the typography choices. Welcome to your website. Everything is set up and it's all ready for you to customize. Squarespace is built on Fluid Engine, the next generation of website design. Select edit and Fluid Engine allows you to drag, place, and resize any element on the page. You can snap these to a grid. You can make them float on top of one another. You can free form however you like. You can even preview and adjust how the site looks on either desktop or mobile. The layouts are independent. Of course, you'll want a portfolio for your work. Creating an image gallery is as easy as dropping a folder of images on your web browser. Once uploaded, you can drag to resort, customize the look, and Squarespace writes all of the code for you. Everything just works, and it looks fabulous. Want to sell your own prints, books, or zenes? Flexible payments allow you to make the checkout process absolutely seamless when you sell products or services. You can accept credit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, and in eligible countries, you can offer customers the option to buy now and pay later with Afterpay and Clear Pay. You should try Squarespace for yourself. It's absolutely free. No credit card required. Just go to squarespace. com/aop. Sign up for that free trial. If you decide Squarespace is right for you, I can save you an additional 10% on your order by using offer code AOP on checkout. That's right, the code is AOP. So, stop procrastinating. Go build your website today. And I want to give a special shout out and thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this video. Okay, so next up is this little zen of fine art work from Felix James. This is called Sedaro. I'll share a little of his note. He writes, "Hi, Ted. First, let me tell you that I love your channel. Here you have in your hands my first attempt of a fine art work on paper. I mean, except some black and white prints on fine art paper. The booklet is a driftwood series project I wanted to do for a long time. I live by a lake and have collected all the pieces of driftwood over the years and this is a result of my motivation. I hope that you enjoy it and please give me some advice to help me for my next project. Cheers, James. James, this is a wonderful idea. I think you have a subject here that has a lot of potential. I really like the whole idea of driftwood and having it as abstract. I do want to make a couple critiques on what you've done here. First of all, the printing is very dark. You have a style that is going to be very low density in terms of dynamic range. In other words, it's kind of just highlights and just shadows. You don't have a lot of midtones. I'm not sure if that's what you were going for. Sometimes when you're working on a computer screen, things look a certain way and then when you get over to paper, it's totally different. Computer screen has a lot of stops of light and paper has about eight maximum. So, I would be very careful about that because a lot of this gets really dark and I lose the driftwood and it just becomes kind of this light abstract. Um, so that's just something I would watch out for next time. The other thing, too, is that everything is full bleed on black and I don't have any borders and I don't necessarily dislike that, but something to think about. Uh, black gets real intense real quick on paper. One other thing that I want to mention to you because you mention in here that this is fine art work on papers. I really would be careful about paper selection and print quality. I think it just needs to be a lot higher. And I understand this was something on a budget that you were just getting done. But something to think about and like for instance, the text on the front is really dark gray. Get it out of the glare there on black. So I would just watch out for those things. But I really like the subject and I like what you're trying to do with this. And I think there is, like I said earlier, there's a lot of potential here that you could explore. And when this works, some of these are really nice. It's a wonderful abstract. See, you got some mid tones in these and they get a little better definition, but it's abstract, but it's actually very cool. So, I'd just love to see you keep massaging this and keep working with it and you'll get there, man. This is pretty awesome. So, thank you for sending. Okay, so simple objects. This is an excavation by Stephanie Taylor. I'll share you a little of Stephanie's note. She says, "Dear Mr. Forbes or since I watch so many of your videos, Dear Ted, enclosed is the companion book to my gallery installations that my former collaborator and I did in response to the fire in Paradise, California in 2019. When I heard that she had lost two family homes representing four generations, I suggested that we work together on what has become a contemporary archaeological dig. I've spent shooting for 50 years, but mostly as a research for art projects, not as an end in itself. Now I am adapting yet again to my long mural painting and sculpture career to the art market so to speak. Stephanie, this is quite good. And one of the things that I love about this is that all of your background kind of comes together in here. The whole idea of murals, uh, drawing and even sculpture. And I think this is really well done. I love the concept. I like the idea of just simple objects. The common theme is that they're being rescued from fire sites. But, uh, this is well, uh, put together. I think it's well divided. Um, there's a lot of interesting things in here. And I love the fact that you've paired this not just with photography, but also with drawings and then the physical art ### [10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUUdaRU3O_U&t=600s) Segment 3 (10:00 - 10:00) aspects of it. And so it ends up being something that's very unique. I think the text is good, the layout's good. You've designed this very well. So I highly recommend this if you guys are interested. Uh and obviously a very personal topic being on fire and then obviously your home of Los Angeles now when you sent this to me. So um anyway, I will link up Stephanie's work in the show description below. I really appreciate you sending this and I really like it quite a bit. It's very different and that's a good thing. And of course, I will link up to all of this work in the show description below. I highly recommend you support your colleagues. There's some really good stuff in here and uh I'll show you where you can get copies of it. Would love to know what you guys think, so drop me a comment. I will see you guys in the next video. Until then, later. --- *Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/17884*