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on.
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There it is, it should be down the bottom now. Yep.
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Well done may have some subtitles. Okay.
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So that is kind of how the members Portal and the learning community works and the courses I think everybody has kind of found their way to, you know, you can just work through the lessons mark them as complete say they’re done, get a certificate at the
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end yay I’m going to do the certificates for the other courses.
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At some point, probably tomorrow.
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Right.
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So that’s everything in there, kind of talked about where to begin because you can go to that learning journey section.
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And I would have a look at the courses and now that you’ve kind of gotten a sense of the resources that are in here I’m hoping you’re feeling a bit like you have a few places that you can look for some information based on what you want to find out right
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now and what you want to learn.
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Otherwise I really think having a look at those learning journeys is going to be your best bet to start with.
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And just to take it easy. Take it slow.
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A lot of people I noticed were jumping straight into some of the quite technical editing videos.
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But I think there’s so much to learn about Behind the scenes stuff and that next level course and the really small things that can go into an image before we edit it to make it really interesting and dynamic and powerful and to tell a story or to tell
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our viewers something about the dog.
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So definitely don’t discount the rest of the stuff and just dive into the Editing part, especially if you’re not quite ready for that just yet so I always say, make sure you can crawl before you run receive that on the website everywhere.
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Are there any questions about the members portal, or any of those sections, um, any of the parts of the learning community kind of behind the scenes stuff, or the things that we do monthly or anything like that.
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can feel my voice is already going.
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Okay. Are you all still arrive over there.
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There was a question directly to me before which I’ll answer before we go on just so I don’t forget, which was do you need light room in Photoshop to follow along with your courses or workshops I use affinity Friday, which is really similar but obviously
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not the same. Yeah, I obviously I do all my editing and light room in Photoshop, but I’ve always said that as long as the program can mask. And it can do like layers that change the light and dark and color of the images.
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It’ll just be a matter of you finding what the equivalent tool is so you know if Photoshop has selective Color, as one of the tools you just, you need to find what the affinity Photo version of that is.
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And, you know, it will just be a bit more like you’ll have to play around with those tools a bit more because they might not match. Exactly. I think they’ll be really similar.
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It just might be a little bit more of a learning curve, I guess.
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But obviously, the techniques and the rationale for why I would edit something the way that I would edit it would be the same across any PRogram, because if I’m like, we should dark in this part of the image because it’s drawing too much attention away
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from our dog that’s going to be the same on Any PRogram, doesn’t matter.
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All right, let me check the chat, everything seems good to me. Awesome jade. Is there a big difference between lightning classic and like room CC for following along until i don’t believe so.
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I think it’s fine. I had a student in a private lesson, who’s using light room CC we did the whole entire images justin light room we didn’t go into Photoshop, and he was able to follow along and do everything and understand where I was, and finding the
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different tools and stuff.
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I don’t believe that there is a big difference.
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Willing to be proven wrong.
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But yes if there if you find that there’s a huge difference, just let me know and I will find a way to work around. I’m pretty good at solving problems.
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So, if you’re like I can’t find selective color infinity photo I’ll get on it and I’ll find out the answer so just let me know.
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Right, so if everybody’s feeling okay, there are planning the Not really rules but just a few little bits and pieces.
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So as I said, You’re welcome and encouraged, put your photos up on the facebook group or Discord for feedback, find the feedback thread or the feedback channel.
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At the moment there’s no limit to how much you can ask for feedback, and I personally as I said try and give you feedback, but obviously if it’s all getting a bit much and you’re asking me for feedback every single day, or, you know, four times a week,
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That’s maybe a bit too much, and I will choose one or two and then leave the rest of the feedback to other learning community members. I would think it would be more worthwhile for you to post photos that yeah like I said before that you’re either really
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proud of, or that you’re struggling with, rather than just every single time that you edit an image post it up and be like, what do you what do you think, because I don’t know if you can learn so much from that rather than, then when you’ve tried to really
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apply all of the ideas and techniques.
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And then you post it up and then you find out how to progress, even from there. So, so far, everybody’s been really cool with that just yet. Obviously if it gets out of control where a bigger group now we have more students.
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We’re a bigger group now we have more students. Um, I was coping really well before when there is 80 of us. Now there are more.
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So let’s just see how we go. I don’t want to impose limits but yeah if people get a bit out of control but like don’t feel like you can’t post.
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You know, if you want to post once a week. I think that’ll be fine. You know, don’t be like, oh no I shouldn’t. That’s why you’re here that’s part of the membership so take advantage of getting a bit of feedback you know if if it’s getting really busy
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I’ll just, I like to type a lot and I like to talk a lot not try and just condensed what I have to say.
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Very bad that you’re welcome to ask questions in the Facebook group, and the discord there’s no such thing as a dumb question, we all started somewhere we’ve all made mistakes will have to learn things.
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Search the group first to see if anybody else has asked the question. Um, but yeah, otherwise ask the question, part of our strength is helping each other out and everybody’s really really lovely and super happy to help.
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Sometimes there can be too much help everybody so helpful that you’ll get bombarded with helping answer sometimes.
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If I jump on and offer my advice, then I’m not going to say discount everybody else, but just keep in mind that everybody is at different stages of their learning.
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If I’ve seen somebody give what I think is the right answer. I’ll usually say I agree with that person so if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed with the amount of answers that you get to a question.
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Just Just keep an eye out for me or one of my mentors as well.
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So just, just keep in mind everybody’s at different stages of their journey but don’t let that discourage you from answering questions either because you can also learn a lot from jumping in offering your thoughts on something, you know, because even
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if you’re just starting, you’re also bringing experience and knowledge to the table so don’t be like no no I can’t do this I’m just a beginner, because you might have an interesting perspective that we hadn’t thought of, I mean obviously if you have no
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idea about the topic maybe doing it with questions, but you know if it’s something that you feel like you can contribute to the discussion and please do like we that this is one of the things I want this to be a community where everybody is helping each
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other and participating and sharing your advice and knowledge.
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Please only asked for feedback and questions in the facebook group, the discord or on the q amp a page or forums pages.
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Please don’t message me privately for that kind of question or feedback, unless it’s like an issue with the website or your membership of course, email me or message me privately then please don’t message me to be like, what kind of lens Do you think
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I should get or like can you take a look at this photo like not through Instagram messenger.
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Because like I said part of our strength is that we are learning from each other.
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And if you’re messaging me privately, it means you’re denying other people the chance to see your feedback and your answers, and your question, and to learn from that as well.
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So, and also it then feels a bit like a private lesson between us and that’s not fair to to the other members so yes, like I said, by all means, if you have a suggestion about the learning community or an issue or, you know, something that’s relating
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to you and your membership personally hundred percent anytime messaged me. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
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But that kind of stuff that would benefit the group definitely put in the sections.
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at the moment there are four mentors in our group, this will possibly expand in the not too far distant future, they are Rosie Teresa Allman live more and nor I Yeah, they are.
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I just wanted a little team now that we’re a bit bigger so yes but that might expand at some point we will see that’s just my starting point.
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So just for some helpers who you will see around the place, feel free to ask them, or tag them if something is going wrong, I don’t know, and they’ll get it to me.
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Otherwise, I’m pretty much by myself with this whole thing. I have an IT guy who I think I might fire because he’s not really very useful.
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So if something goes wrong, don’t panic in the history of this whole thing, there has not been a photography emergency that is a life and death situation.
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I can’t see it happening now.
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If the website breaks and you can’t log on, it will be okay I will fix it as soon as possible. Sometimes these things happen websites are really weird.
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I don’t know why they do what they do half the time.
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I built this whole thing basically Myself, and sometimes.
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Sometimes I fixed problems with like scotch tape and sticks and it’s all held together a bit in a fragile way and you’ll find some weird little things do weird things because i built it so as time goes on, everything gets upgraded and everything gets
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fixed but if you find something weird either just let me know or don’t panic.
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Oh, gosh. Do you know what, I’m not going to read this one through all upload this little presentation to the members portal and the lesson that this goes with you can read this later if you want to know what’s in store, it’s all really very exciting
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plans but I just don’t feel like we need to talk about it because let’s get on to some goal setting.
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Let’s start.
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I don’t know how I used to talk for like six hours at Children’s I can’t do it anymore.
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Now, if you’ve watched the February workshop, you might have seen some of this before but I feel like it’s a really good place to start with your fighters.
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I’m just gonna wait, I had one question that I was going to answer i feel like this might be a place for it.
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Yes, so susie, it was you I think that asked about being in Hawaii and wanting to take some photos with the sea turtles on the beach, wide open sky and see, I would be recommending to be exposing for highlights you can find a lesson on that, particularly
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in the next level course, I believe.
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So keeping your eye on the exposure of the sky so you can keep any kind of sky detailed clouds sunsets, that kind of thing. Keeping the color in the sunsets, keeping the detail of the clouds.
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And then you’re going to have to watch how under exposed that Leaves the turtles.
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So, that will be the problem. But yeah, have a look at those exposing for highlights lessons.
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This is where a lot of people would use a flash because then they could get the flash on the turtles.
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But yes, if you blow out the sky, then it’s going to become a problem because you can’t get the data back. So I would say priorities quite on the sky.
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We did in the most recent q amp a session. I believe talk about Bracketing, which is taking two or even three like HDR, but you can do it even just with two photos where you would have one where you exposed correctly for the sky.
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So quite underexpose. One way you expose correctly for the turtles. And then in Photoshop, using the Photoshop basics masking or you know whatever program you’re using, I think Susie you’re using a different one.
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I’m masking in the two images so you have the correct sky and the correct for ground and turtle is another way to do it. So, couple of options.
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Right. So let’s talk about stages of learning now if we don’t have any more questions.
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This is kind of important to know because it will kind of show you guys were or Jamie it was you Sorry,
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maybe show you guys where you’re at and how you might be feeling at wherever you are in your journey. So, there’s four stages of learning. The first one is you don’t know anything about the skill at all.
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I don’t think you’re here because you’ve all signed up because you want you know that you don’t know stuff and you want to know more stuff. It’s not like you don’t know anything about anything about photography, you’re like I don’t know enough I want
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to know more, right.
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So, that’s kind of the next stage you don’t know what you don’t know.
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You know that there’s a lot to learn but you don’t know what it is you need to know yet it feels like this big, wide open space of all of this stuff, you have to learn.
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And it’s so much that you, you don’t you don’t eat you can’t even kind of comprehend, where it all is and what it is. So, I think, quite a few of you are probably this stage, and that’s fine.
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It’s really normal.
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The next one is that you’ve been learning for a while, you can do the things, but it’s it’s hard like you really have to focus on it, and you know kind of consciously at a photoshoot being like, okay, think about the light which way is to light the lights
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over there okay now camera settings.
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Cut the light, so we need to make sure that I so is here now, the pose, I want to make this like is kind of a more strong you know so everything is not so unconscious yet.
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The next level is unconscious competence, which is where you’re doing the things without thinking much about it went out for a walk your walk went out for work, you’re noticing the light the color the moss like whatever editing takes less time you kind
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of have a process you know what you want to do. Generally, to get the results that you want. Sometimes you’ll come up against a photo that you want to do differently, and you kind of go back to the other stage a little bit, because you’re playing, then
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you’re experimenting with different style or different technique, are you using some tools a little bit differently to see what you can get your now kind of playing with the different ideas, and then usually what happens is that you would go end up going
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in a circle, I would say because like for me. I’m like, you know what I’m going to learn how to use off camera flash Now, I know nothing about off camera flash right so I started back at unconscious in competence I know nothing about flash and now I started
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to learn.
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I’m in the next section and it seems like there’s a lot and I just need to get a flash now and start trying so we kind of move in cycles right.
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There’s a question do you think the light room course will help me when I early use Photoshop. Yes, because you can use the camera rule filter, which is basically finished up basically light room inside Photoshop.
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So, yeah.
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And I would recommend to do that because you’re them working on the raw file instead of stacking stuff on top.
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It’s just a bit more powerful.
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Ok, so the reason these stages are important are because when we start looking at our own work we sometimes might start to feel a bit overwhelmed because we don’t know what we don’t know.
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But being able to look critically at our work and the work of others, is how we can improve right if we don’t look at our own work and say, Yes, I see that I need to fix x y Zed, then we’re not going to know what to fix right we’re not going to know what
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to work on. So, this isn’t meant to make us feel bad about our work or to be like my work so Terrible movie.
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If you know me you know it’s not ever about reaching some kind of perfection because I honestly don’t think that exists in photography, like it’s an art form right there’s no like.
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Yep. You’ve done it, you’ve created the perfect photo now there’s nowhere to go from here you can quit.
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Like that doesn’t exist. It’s only ever a process of continuing to develop and improve and learn new techniques and, you know, find your voice and what you want to do with what we’re creating.
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And that’s going to be different for everybody. I have quite an idea of what I would like to do and that’s going to be really different for a lot of you guys and a lot of people, so.
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Yeah, what we want is constant improvement and growth. But, yeah, it can be hard to know where to start when you’re at that I don’t know what I don’t know stage.
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So we can kind of break it down a little bit.
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And I kind of listed these moral lesson order of importance. Let me just move my little voice thing down.
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I’m.
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And we’ll break down these photos into their most important elements because if we get wrapped up and trying to uncover every tiny mistake, where we’re going to feel pretty bad about our photos right if we’re always looking for every tiny thing that we
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could have done better than we’re going to give up because we’re going to believe that like everything’s bad so instead of looking at everything that’s wrong if we kind of look at it in order of like importance in a way, then we can kind of narrow our
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field of what we need to work on. So,
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for me, the most important thing is focus is the subject and focus. Yes.
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The answer is no, that already immediately you have the thing that you need to work on, you need to work on getting your subject in focus, sweet, you have a plan you have a goal.
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That’s amazing.
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Easy. I mean not easy it’s not always easy to get your subject and focus but you know now that you would need to go to the website and jump on the improve your pet photography course and go to the lessons on focus and that is your.
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That’s your focus.
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Until you’re getting your subject in focus because there’s no point, taking the most beautiful photo in the world and spending four hours editing it.
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If it’s out of focus.
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There’s no point.
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i can kind of make it more sharp but it’s not gonna.
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It does not something you can fix in editing, it’s not something I can fix in editing you can send me an out of focus photo and I’d be like, no, sorry.
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It’s not going to look right.
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So that’s the first one next one perspective or angle. Are you taking the footer from a good perspective and you know that I feel like you need to get down very low.
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And this is probably something you’re going to have to play around with if you aren’t used to taking photos at a low angle how loads you actually need to go.
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If you’re still taking photos standing up here, or even kind of kneeling down with your cameras still at your kind of chest height. I’m going to say this probably too high, some of the time.
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So you might want to work on that you know do you have that presence Do you have kind of a blurry foreground layer in your photos, and if not, that might be the thing that you need to work on starting to look at the different angle in the perspective
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that you want to take your photo.
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So you will go and check out the perspective lesson. Cool. now you have a plan.
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So maybe you’re fine on those two so now we’ll look at composition, are you chopping off parts of the dog.
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adhere to any of the rules like don’t chop the feet don’t chop the little paws.
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I love it when you guys when I get when you get my voice in your head saying things and you tell me that because I just imagined you at a photoshoot now being like, okay, don’t chop off the pause, give the dog space to look into.
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Make sure that there isn’t a branch coming out of their head and I just love this vision of you like there with your camera like focusing really hard and me just like nagging you in your ear, I love it.
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Okay. Is it compensation or hot so the dog chopped off Have you chopped off the little paws and he chopped off the little ears. Other horizons straight.
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Doesn’t adhere to like the rule of thirds. Are you thinking about leading lines are using curves, or contrast and lighten dark you know that’s more advanced stuff.
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So all of these things can be made well except for focus, I guess. But most of the things can be made more or less advanced, depending on where you’re at, you know, if you’re like, yep yep yep yep yep yep yep okay let’s make your composition, more advanced
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how can you use curves to lead the viewers eye in to the frame or through the frame and back to the dog, which case, there is a whole lesson on back grounds and our purpose, something like that, photography goal.
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In the next level course and it talks about the, the voyage, our viewers have threat image based on the elements of the image. You know, so there’s always ways we can make these things more events.
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If you’re like yeah nice way I’m fine with composition I’m thinking about that time, who’s thinking about composition all the time but maybe you are.
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Maybe then lighting, so you’re not chopping off the fee, you’ve got a nice space to look into maybe lighting is your next thing. Are you thinking about the flatter with the lights flattering are there crazy shadows and highlights are the highlights blown
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out. Maybe they need to be. You maybe your camera can’t handle under exposing things and that’s okay but at least you’re making conscious decisions about the lighting.
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Are you trying to make a dark and moody photo with a lot of visible light in it.
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Do you know whether that’s going to work or not.
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So does the lighting work for what you’re trying to do, you know, again, basics to more advanced in this category. You know, it’s like, maybe you’re at the point where you’re like, oh, I didn’t know I couldn’t, I shouldn’t take photos and full sun Oh
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okay that’s loki Loki, can we not be making this right now.
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Maybe
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likes.
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So maybe you are like, I didn’t know I shouldn’t take photos and full sun, I need to start paying more attention to the lighting conditions, and that’s where you’re at, or maybe you’re like, cool.
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How can I use the lighting today to make the mood of my photo feel a particular way.
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So then editing and you can see everything’s quickfire down is the editing over done Are you kind of going a bit crazy. Are you thinking about where the light would naturally fall.
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One of the big things that I see people do when they start doing lessons and the my tutorials is they start darkening everything except just around the dog, even if the dog is in a big open space like on a field, and the light should be falling Evenly
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from above, on to the dog.
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They’ll start putting like a spotlight on or just darkening this part, not the dog and everything should be pretty evenly lit so thinking about what makes logical sense for the editing, or even just okay what are the basic Edits that I can do to help
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draw attention to my dog.
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What basic Edits can I do to make the dogs Kurt color natural.
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How can I train my eyes to work out the white balance.
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Okay, Purpose I actually changed my mind about where this should be this I think should be further up because, although I think most of you are thinking about the purpose, or I don’t think you’d be here I think if you’re serious enough.
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to invest in taking better photos I think you’re already thinking about the purpose but is the background. Nice. Is it a nice place to take a photo. Does the dog look good in this location, or if you just kind of plumped it there and it’s like, kind of
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awkward right.
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Is there a reason for taking this photo or if you just kind of sat the dog on the road and gone okay dog I’ll take a photo.
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I don’t feel like that’s going to be so many of you guys but, again, taking this from a just starting place of, Okay, I’m going to consciously pay more attention to my background, all the way up to.
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Cool. How can I use this curvy branch that’s our king over the top as a kind of a top frame, and how can I frame this so that it has a really intimate mood with the dog kind of being nestled in this location right so we can take it from this more beginner
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place to a much more advanced place and thinking about locations and purpose purpose can even be.
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I want to show the really intense serious side of my dog, what elements are my photo going to need to be able to do that what what location is going to support this story or this personality that I’m trying to show my viewer.
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Right. And if you’re like well I didn’t know.
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Okay, now you have your plan that’s what you need to learn about, if everything else is fine, you know if you’re at this point where this is a thing that you feel like is lacking in your images, then maybe that’s your starting point, you know, and again
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guys, This isn’t all like, I don’t want you to like look at this list and be like, oh my Gosh, I have to focus on all of this at once. No, it’s like, what at the moment is missing, that’s holding your focus back or what is the point that is lacking a
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bit. That should be the first thing that you work on consciously to improve. Not everything. One thing.
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Last one is cohesion doesn’t make sense. Does the mood makes sense with the lighting the pose expression Location so on. Again this is like if I took a golden retriever puppy.
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And they put it in a field of wild flowers on a beautiful, bright sunny day.
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And I took a photo of it running with a happy mouth open.
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And then I was like, I’m going to make it dark and moody.
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It’s not going to work like I could edit that for two to death, I could do all of my normal things to make it dark and moody and it will not work because it doesn’t make sense because there are so many elements that are going against that, that mood,
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you know what I mean, if I made that photo brighton happy and light my golden retriever puppy in the wild flowers that make sense so be cohesion there.
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Same as okay i once took a photo of a wolf dog.
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And, you know, it’s posing It was beautiful, very regal know this kind of winter so everything was dark and drab and great like the wolf Doug’s perfect overcast everything.
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Very nice.
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And then we let it run around a little bit, so it could just let off some steam.
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And I was like I’m gonna take some candid photos of it running around, so we did, it was I was the happiest dog ever right super happy wolf dog run run.
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Now suppose I could have jumped over a log, and I was getting these candid photos I looked at them later and I was like, doesn’t really make sense though, because you have this majestic wolf dog like looking like a wolf, with a big goofy grin and he’s
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like homeless he leaps over this log on a drab winter day.
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So what do you do, you can make it dark and moody because the expression and the movement and the everything just of the dog in that moment is not documented it if he had his mouth closed and he was like, you’re running.
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Okay, let’s go dark and moody.
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I can’t make it light and brighton happy because we have a wolf dog.
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In a drab winter gray forest okay I could edit this thing so I pretended like it’s all pretty ingrained and Brian light Potter.
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That’s not for me right if you want to completely change the whole same you do that, that’s fine. I just would rather have the elements matching does that make sense when I say cohesion and whether a further makes sense.
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That makes sense.
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That’s a quiet in the chat.
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Okay. Good. Excellent.
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And that might seem like too much stuff for you to think of right now because you’re like oh my god I’m just learning my camera settings, how am I meant to think about whether this mood makes sense.
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And again, like, That’s okay, you’re not there yet.
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You have this whole thing that I was teaching about the growth mindset, and that is about, you know, when kids and adults are feeling a bit down on themselves about their learning, like it’s fine You’re just not there yet, was put the word Yet there because
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it’s just the thing that’s going to happen.
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Okay.
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So I think those are all the most fundamental things that we need to be observing are looking for in a photo and in our work.
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Like I said, we can take them to more comprehensive or more dense levels.
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You can read all that but it’s all the stuff I’ve talked about basically.
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So,
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my chat box.
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Have a minute now to grab up one or two of your most recent photos you don’t have to share it I’m not going to ask you to share. This is Just for you and your pen and notebook.
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If you have one and we’ve been taking notes.
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Have a look at your recent photos. What are your main strengths, what are you doing really well so far.
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And what are your challenges. What is your, what is what is going to be your priority over the next few weeks.
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What are you going to be looking for most you don’t have to share this in the chat you’re more than welcome to.
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You don’t have to don’t feel obliged to, but if you want to, that would also be lovely, lovely And yeah maybe elaborate Why did you choose that one. What are you going to do to improve Savannah, I don’t know.
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I mean, you don’t have to do it right now if you’re put on the spot you can jot down this list and then just spend a few minutes in your own time having a look and being like, and if you don’t know.
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Then I suspect, and I know for you Sabina that it’s probably going to be something like purpose and cohesion coming together like, how can you take small subtle elements like the pose, or the location or the lighting, or all of it.
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And how can you use those things to tell a more powerful and impactful story, rather than, like, here’s a nice photo of a dog sitting here like what elements can you really start to play with, to really start telling more stories and showing us more of
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the pet that you’re taking photos of.
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i think would be interesting for you.
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Feeling like all of the above, Susie but don’t be overwhelmed.
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If it’s all of the above start with focus.
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Start with the important stuff and work your way down, step by step.
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So many things at the start with focus, maybe struggling to get the right settings on my new canon yeah okay, definitely check out the focus lessons then.
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And if it’s one of those new cannons, you should have the animal I order focus, I think, which would make your life easier.
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Definitely check out the focus lessons.
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Focus is my biggest struggle. Okay.
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I wonder if we should do a kind of a little. Have a look guys you guys who are on team focus.
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Have a look at the workshop from march, April the learning your camera one, because we looked at how to do the different focus settings I believe we talked about back button focus, different focus modes and focus area.
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If you are still struggling with focus, after watching that and looking at the focus lesson.
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Please post in the group.
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And everybody who’s team focused jump onto that post and say I’m also doing this, and we can maybe do a little focus workshop. Okay.
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Thank you, Teresa
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Feel like I still need to learn everything listed I’ve only recently started doing photography sometimes I love my fitness but most of the time I feel like they’re not good enough.
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When I do like them I feel like it happened by accident i need more control and knowledge, okay cinema so camera settings for you. I would guess lighting as well it’s going to be a big one, probably because sometimes we’re a bit all over the place with
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the lighting and.
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and then we’re like, it worked or didn’t work.
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And we don’t necessarily know why. So, Santa I think work through that improve your pet photography course and that will help you start taking control, and then see how you go from there and that feeling of not being good enough might not ever leave you
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because we as artistic II kind of people who care enough about what we’re doing to invest in learning more, really often have a big dose of imposter syndrome.
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And I will say up front because I am open and honest about things.
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I still suffer from imposter syndrome, even my favorite photos, I’ll be like, I don’t think this is very good. And in the end you end up just faking it and putting it out in the world and being like how good is this photo and inside you like, oh please
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don’t notice all those things I did wrong right or pleasers see through my facade.
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And it’s in our heads.
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You know, okay, you know, there’s always things we can improve but I think for a lot of us so much of that is just in our heads.
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Right. Let me see what else people are saying that I watched that video Thanks help some of the names are different. Okay, okay, okay, cool.
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Focus lots of facts, I’m gonna make a little note about focus guys, and maybe I’ll make a post in the group. And if, if you’ve all watched the lessons and stuff in a week or two and you’re still struggling.
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Let me know on this post and I will organize to do a little focus a little focus group on focus.
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Focus, focus group.
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Okay, it’s in the book now.
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See if I remember it right let me look at it today, purpose and cohesion as the main month, yeah not, for sure.
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Light and editing, I need help with if I like an image I have no clue how I got there, okay. So have a look at.
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Yeah, the light room course, even the december workshop about the looking for distractions because that is a heat to do with the rationale of why I start my editing process the way that I do.
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So it could be interesting to kind of help give you a base, as a rationale. Yes.
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So Kat said bringing more sense into the picture instead of having a nice photo of a nice dog in nice flowers yet nicely like okay just sit there dog guess that’ll work so we’re having more of an intention behind the photo I guess I like that.
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I think editing is my main focus and working with my camera in manual, I feel like I’ve been practicing composition and lighting and photography photographic my clients dogs using my mom for years, but I’m trying to move over to the big bad world of manual,
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manual, you will have so much more control and manual over what your camera does though.
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I mean not not manual focus, nope nope no manual exposure yes manual focus, no manual focus works like a single shot focus and if the dog move slightly, or you move slightly they will be out of focus.
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So keep that in mind, they really need better names for things but yes editing plenty of tutorials and different guides like I did a guide on a note on adding darkness.
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So if you’re somebody that has been looking through the tutorials and you’re getting really excited about all the curves layers because we all know that I love me a curves layer and I love adding darkness to things.
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And you’re now getting very enthusiastic about adding darkness to all your photos. Please go have a look. Maybe Teresa you can link this one to at the a note on adding darkness lesson as a bit of a guide on when you may wish to add some darkness, and
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when you may not wish to.
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was the march critique the other posts you mentioned for focus outside the back to basics.
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I’m, we need to be talking about focus.
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We probably have nothing to critique.
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there might be some talking focus in one of the q amp, a sessions, there’s definitely a focus listen in the improved course. In the next level course, and the back to basics learn your camera workshop.
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and we might have talked about it in a q amp a but I’m not sure. Thank you guys so yeah if you’re somebody who’s already fallen in love with adding darkness and curves that little thing that tries it just linked there might be interesting for you as well.
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So the bit and back to basis for thought yeah i’m not i don’t i don’t remember saying another one so I think was just those ones.
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Okay, so I think that is pretty much it is God I felt like he was looking at my light.
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That’s pretty much it. So I hope that the list there at the end hasn’t overwhelmed, everybody, but more giving you a kind of a list of Priorities of maybe where to start.
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Have a look at the learning journeys as well because like I said I’ve kind of mapped out where you might want to start and the different workshops and resources you might want to look at.
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Otherwise, posting in the group, or on the discord and being like, hey, I’m having real trouble with focus, what can you tell what do you think a, you’ll get a lot of answers from people be they’ll probably point you to some lessons in the course, or
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the resource library to that might give you the answers you’re looking for, or you like hey I have a black dog, I don’t know what to do. Somebody will be like here’s a whole lesson that I’m right I’m black dogs and if they don’t do what I will.
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So definitely if you have, you know, if you thought about this and you’re like cool yeah I definitely want to fix this up or I’m having this problem, post in the group or on the discord and you certainly be pointed in the right direction.
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Are there any final questions, are there any questions I said that I would come back to and I forgot to come back to.
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Hope you all know by now that I am scatterbrained.
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And I don’t take myself too seriously and I hurt that’s okay with everybody because it’s just how it is.
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If you have any other final questions, please post them in the chat.
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otherwise you’re welcome to post them on the group later that’s totally fine.
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You can ask a quick question about library me yes, See if it’s quick, I didn’t answer things quickly through them in detail or not at all.
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Questions just very excited. I’m excited for you to.
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And so glad you’re all here. Like genuinely.
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Yes Wait for Sabine his
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Message.
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katie Do you have any lessons on capturing two dogs.
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Not yet but it, I made the lesson for it I just haven’t filled it in yet let me see if I have time this week.
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Multi.
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They might be something somewhere.
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It’s not a specific lesson, I feel like I’ve mentioned it, but it’s on my list I’ll do a quick thing and I can expand on it later.
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It will probably still make your head hurt though I’m sorry, multi dog lesson.
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Yeah, that’s a realist.
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I’ve set it up I just hadn’t filled it in yet. With that like next level course I keep thinking things that I want to add but I just don’t have time to add them so I’ve just made some blank lessons to come back to the point in time.
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Is there a way to invert the radio filter from the beginning or do I have to manually do that every time I want to put a new one yet no you can do it, so.
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okay.
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So sabina is yours currently not ticked.
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And every time you make a new one. It’s not ticked.
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Yeah, okay. So, currently look something like this right.
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Yep, anytime that you want to set a new default setting for the radio filters in light room set whatever you want it to be. Don’t make any radio filters, just hit enter.
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So if I’m like okay I want it to be inverted and 50% feather every time.
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Don’t make any radio filter is just hit enter and go back to the radio filters, and you’ll see now I’ve got my 50% feather and it’s on the inside.
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So if I now want a 90% or 90.
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It’s going to be a 90 for the first time in its life it’s been on 89 forever. So if I want it now and 90 all the time if I were to make a radio filter now, and set that the next time so I hit Enter.
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Okay, come on.
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The next time.
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Oh, the next time is still at 90. Okay, it’s decided to behave itself in general.
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So, let me see.
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So now it’s on 50, if I did it, and did it.
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Whatever, whatever.
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Okay, well today it’s staying at that level.
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in general, if you just hit enter and don’t say anything. Next time you come back in I mean you can do it, we’d like this too so what I want my wife to always be 66 so hit enter don’t make any radio filters when I go back in whites will now be at 66.
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not says how do you undo that every radio filter I do unsaturated I must have done that setting you just mentioned accidentally at some point yeah okay.
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So you just so at the moment is always like this. D saturated, just double click on the name, that’ll take it back to zero.
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Don’t make a radio filter.
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Just hit enter. And then when you go back in.
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It’ll be everything at zero.
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So anytime you end up with some like weird settings all over the place.
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Just set the mold 0000. Double click double click it Enter and then when you go back in.
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It’ll be whatever you left it at last time.
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So that’s how you can set these like effect. So if you’re like, I want a shadows effect, I don’t know, right now it’s on 54 maybe I want that at 100. So now I can go.
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It’ll be at 100.
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I didn’t even know what I had it on before I think I just see some random one instead of zero, and then just use that time
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that you can turn on your microphone and just reply out loud it’s i.
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is there a note on all the shortcut keys for light room. I want to print them out.
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I just got my pen. No, I don’t really use the shortcut keys that much but I can make a list for you. Let me just add it to my to do list.
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Because I think the only ones I usually use like are to see the overlay.
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And the sheet the slash to see the before and after.
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But I can do, I can have a look. It might not be this week but I will put it on my list.
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Light room keyboard
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shortcuts.
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Cool.
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Any other question.
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Dawn there is a list of Photoshop shortcuts in the Photoshop basics workshop booklet.
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Yeah, okay, I can do that.
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Just not lacquered.
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No worries.
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Hey, thank you.
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All right. Any final questions for any of you guys are you all feeling okay with the learning community if not you know I’m here, and the mentors are here and everybody else is here, everybody’s really super happy to help.
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And, you know, I always feel like with this community thing, the more that you contribute and get involved in the workshops, the more you’ll kind of get out of it but at the same time.
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If you don’t want to get involved and you just want to work on your stuff in the background, that is Totally okay to some people reach out and let me know that they’re just happy working in the background and that makes me happy because then I know that
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they’re okay because I care very deeply about you guys and you’re okay and that you’re happy being a member, you know because I don’t want you to sit there like resenting me or something because I’m not making workshops that you’re interested in, I won’t
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know that unless you tell me so do get in touch if you need anything from me.
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Right.
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If nobody has any final questions.
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The chat
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hurt my little subtitles worked okay, I don’t know if they were useful. Sometimes they’re a bit random, but I think maybe they’re better than nothing.
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Oh 10 people dropped out at some point.
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Okay, I think everybody must be okay because nobody’s asking anything so I will wish you a lovely night I will get on. I’m seeing live tomorrow actually so I will make a time with her for the first aid course.
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I am away on the weekend and then I’m on the road so my internet and computer time might be slightly more limited than normal but the Editing tutorial will be going up on the 20th.
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Regardless, and then next week. So on the, on the week of the 17th. So not this week coming up with the one after. If you have any questions for the q&a submit them that week earlier is better so we have time to have a look at them.
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Yeah, otherwise have a lovely week and I’m really looking forward to seeing what you guys make and what you’re learning and how I can help you and yeah seeing you guys improve.
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Bye everybody.
