Try this for better photographs.
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Want to get better photos instantly? Well, you've come to the right place. In this video tutorial, we will discuss photo composition, angle, and why your photos are so bad.*
*Omar talking to his younger self.
First time here? Hi, I'm Omar Gonzalez, a professional portrait and event photographer in the NYC/NJ area. On this channel, we talk cameras, lenses, and techniques to improve our photography.
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Forget 'Live, Laugh, Love'
I'm getting 'Tension, Anxiety, Sadness' mounted on my wall
Part of what I struggle with is a sort of general anxiety about being out taking photos for some reason. So I end up with rushed compositions because I just don't want to draw attention to myself. Gotta work on that, thanks for these great tips.
Agreed. Me too.
Me too! I miss so many shots and ideas because there is that voice in my head saying I'm bothering someone or what I'm doing isn't proper........even tho it is.
Oh thank god I'm not alone. That's why Daido Moriyama appealed to me because his style is similar but he has a more purposed style.
Ditching my DSLR for Ricoh GR solved this very same issue for me.
So relatable..
I recently found your channel looking for Fuji help and just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy it. You are so warm and have a fun personality and love your content! Keep ‘em coming!!
So true, when I am not feeling photography I go back to Omar
same!
Hi Omar I could also see the same mistakes in my images until I realised If I said to you 'Westerns' (as in cowboy films) they have amazing classic camera shots ie gun duals, head shot, gun shot, ankle shot (forgive the puns) they're all in the classic films like HIGH NOON. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY its worth looking at films to see the camera angles they used and learn from them. P.S I'm not really into westerns but the angles are good for street photography. Enjoy.
👍this is much better than pure gear talk. Thanks!!!
FANTASTIC! Using bad examples followed by better alternatives really reinforces the point. Someone might even say a picture is worth a thousand words!
Liking Omar's video without even starting to watch it 😉😄
Omar- that was like ONE OF THE BEST EVER..... EVER...rrrrrrrrrrrrrr........ videos on street shooting- WOW... I go out and still am guilty of shooting away sometimes- and not thinking- and this was so helpful in thinking about slowing down- and angles and subjects and composition... and I forget....., I am gonna have to wear lousy pants so I can kneel on the ground.... - you nailed it- and the photos were excellent- thank you.... you are a joy to watch..... you and Angelina Jordan!
No one works harder and puts out content as consistently as Omarsito! Gracias hermano!
and its for free !!!
Love free ha ha
Omarsito made me think of my uncle. He would be a cool Tio. 😂
Always worth watching
Ok wtf
This was honestly a must see for people trying to develop their street photography.
Omar drops the best content! Informative and entertaining!
Love this content, Omar. Great pace, style and approach. Learned a ton.
J'adore, c'est pertinent, créatif, intelligent! Enfin des suggestions hors des sentiers battus! Le génie de la photo est dans l'oeil, dans notre mémoire. notre sensibilité, nos parfums et c'est là la magie. Bravo!
What a great video. I realised I need less photography-gadget videos and more of this.
Really incredible difference when you put the photos side by side! Much more effective with me than just saying lower the camera for a different perspective. It makes your perspective lesson really resonate, and drives it home. As I'm just learning, this is great! Thanks, Omar!!!
You had me at hello..
I love the "tiny man, big car" photo at 15:08.
Great video! You have become my favorite photography UA-camr! I’ve been taking photos since the 1970’s and am still learning a lot from you. Keep up the good work.
Omar, thank you so much for this video. I am 6‘4“ tall and I often make the mistake of shooting from my eye level. And I’m embarrassed to say I’ve been shooting for over 40 years and over 30 as a professional, and I needed this refresher. Sometimes we get stuck in old habits.
YOU DID IT AGAIN!
Thanks Omar
Here's a story along the lines of this video. I have a long time friend who is a very talented artist. When I first got into photography I had him look at some of my shots. I do landscapes mostly. I hadn't given it much thought, but I had gotten lower in some of them. He picked up on it right away, said it was a good instinct to get that perspective. It does make a difference in a boring shot to something with a little style to it. I try to remember to try it when I'm out shooting.
Good video as always Omar. Great reminder to make myself look at different perspectives while shooting. Work the scene.
Hi Omar, trust you and the family are all keeping well. I know this video is several years old, but I watched it a few months ago, and today I put a lot of the techniques you mentioned into practice. I'm 6'4" tall, but I got down low (pictures of a classic 1960's car and a Vespa moped) Canon 80D and kneeling and yes the images are so much more interesting, from that lower perspective; thank you and keep up the fantastic work.
As a car guy, I find that distance and focal length matter very much.
A car rarely look good in wide angle, unless you want to exaggerate a part of it. (long front of an E-type)
With a 50-70mm Focal length and a good distance to the car, you will automatically also get a better angle. (not so much from the top.)
Great video Omar, rediscovered you from a comment in Itchy boots comment section. :)
I wanna go out now and try this!More please of this!!
Good info, great sense of humor! Thanks Omar !
Court Street. Always interesting to see photos of from my block.
I love, love your videos! I’ve learned a lot from you - thank you!
Oh my Omar , you nailed it completely . We all those tips and we forget them once we become tourists ha ha.
Flipping screens are great for adapting one’s angle . Doing so, creates drama - perhaps that should be in bold letters but I didn’t want to come across rude ha ha.
Bare streets are a rarity until the pandemic arrived, but then they become the subject and need lines to draw focus to something - a letter box or some other bit of street furniture .
Another tip which you have frequently eluded to on numerous videos is work the scene . Sometimes we get fixated by the thought in our mind and overlook challenging our perceptions to see if there were winners we were missing out catching .
Finally; you only learn from your mistakes if you notice them . Look often at other people’s photos and paintings . Ask yourself what you might have done differently .
Thanks again Omar - happy Easter
This is spot on
This is why I need to return to Paris. I thought my photos from 2014 were so hot. Now all I see is all my misses. The next time, I'll actually know what I'm doing! I rarely shoot street, which is ridiculous for a New Yorker. I hope to learn a lot from you!
Thank you so much - what a great lesson!!
Great stuff. Thank you! Fantastic.
Great tutorial Omar, not just one of your best videos, but one the best on you-tube in general, you’re a natural “maestro”. I appreciate the time and effort that you put into making your videos, but also the fact that there are no “commercial interruptions”. Stay safe.
You’re a great tutor not gonna lie!
Great great great advice. I'm in the phase of reminding myself to do this right now and this video is very relevant. Well done.
Great perspective Omar...makes me want to back to the Porsche Museum where I have like a gazillion pictures of cars just sitting there...
I often feel rushed on a subject or composition. I've found it's just a good thing to sit down, or step back and surmise the scene, to take in all the qualities of the composition. And then I shoot the stuffing out of it from those perspectives. Rushing into a composition is called News Photography!
Brilliant video. Thanks for sharing 👍
Appreciate this content. Videos like this motivate me to go shoot and try new things. Thanks!
A really informative video, I need to come back to this regularly to remind myself not to rush my photography. Thanks very much Omar.
Omar, you have some really good - really creative - videos. This is helpful, as was the one I watched earlier on the (unnoticed...?) dominance of blue in our images. UA-cam is full of channels with people making the same videos as everyone else, but your channel is one of those with novel and interesting content. Cheers from the UK 👍
You’re a fantastic teacher, btw.
Great tips!! Thank you!
Sacred Heart Cathedral. Nice acoustics and organ.
To quote Jerry Maguire: you had me at “orange chanclas” !!!
Am so petite I hardly ever have to turn my camera down... 😁🤣 jokes aside, your videos really help the beginner and love your humour :)
Swapped my Canon for Fuji and found your channel when looking for Fuji tutorials. I bought my first Canon 45 years ago but I never learned about the AFL-button and things like that. Because the old analog cameras did not have that sort of thing. Now I learn a lot from your videos, and they are funny too. Keep up the good work!
Hi Omar, this is awesome! I really enjoyed and learnt a lot by following your thought process! I have a loooong way to go!🤣
"This is a photo of nothing." Sick burn!
great stuff, thanks for sharing
It’s so funny I literally thought we need a red scooter popping in that alleyway in the first photo you used as an example. I got the scooter about 5 images later. Very coincidental, but it is Europe. Lol
Great vid!
One of the best tutorials for street photography that i have gone through... Please tell me you have internship positions open! 😄👍🏻
Love it
Photography been berry, berry good to you Mr. Omar! You are a delight and we do appreciate the work you put into these videos. Don’t ever forget that! 👍
Super helpful! You pretty much ID'd everything I do wrong... still learning only had a non-phone camera for 4 months now. Great content.
You sure have learned a lot in 15 years. Kudos for passing on what you have learned!
OMAR ........I just got the XE3 yesterday,,,,,,, had to have interchangeable lens capabilities in a small X100 formfactor ..... so just loving the joystick actually and I was a D PAD lover .......I will let you know as I was told the AF of the XE3 is better than our XT20 but have no fear I love my XT20 as well ......hope your well and hope to see you next vid .....as usual us OMAR maniacs are always waiting on Pins and Needles to see your next youtube adventure ..be well.
Great video Omar!
Felt like I was in a class...Your pacing and the way you explain just puts the viewer at ease...
This dude is awesome 😎
Definitely gonna keep these things in mind the next time I go out and shoot.
wow! super informative! learning a lot from you! new subscriber here 🤎🤎🤎
Thanks for sharing
Thx Omar, this is exactly what I needed, berry good video and a lesson. Like your humor and the way u explain.
Words of wisdom. Go low!
Dude. Another great upload and interesting video about quite basic boring thing's. :D Nailed it.
Apuntado ..intentare pensar en ello antes de mi próxima foto, gracias
New subscriber because A. You’re freaking hilarious ! 😂
And because I was somewhat interested in trying fujifilm (canon girl) but now I’m def certain I want a Fuji . Great stuff 😊
Thanks for subbing! Appreciate it!
Amazing content
Wow I have watched tonnes of shooting tutorials and this one is simply the best , great content and excellent delivery .
Thank You for this video, I usually struggle with composition, I usually take different angles or Camera positions of the same subject.
i've find myself almost in all of the bad examples. Really helpful, Thank you.
You actually cracked me at "Berry nice". Haven't had a good dad joke laugh in awhile
Thank you for your videos Omar. I'm new to photography, however I had an interest for it for many years. But finally I bought my first camera ever (x-t30) and your videos are helping a lot. Keep on!!!
All good stuff, thanks for the reminders. I know all this stuff so why don't I do it more often!!!!!!
My composition is still catching up with my technical knowledge, so these videos are really helpful. Thanks Omar!
I really do suck. IT doesn't matter how much I follow, the quality jus looks awful at 200% on lightroom. Can anyone explain? Is it dst on the lens itself? Sensor is really clean - spotless actually. I use high shutters, relatively low ISO's at 500 or less 640 sometimes and the sharpest point in my 16mm f1.4 . The 5.5 focal length. I hold it as steady as I can
1.87m, to be exact.
Haha. There it is.
This was interesting and useful, though I was a bit alarmed when you said you were on the ground shooting up. That’s gonna attract attention…oh, with the camera..ok! Can’t have you getting arrested, how'd we live without some regular Omar in our lives?
Anyone else have a feeling of "the gras is greener on the other side"?
Either my town is hella boring to shoot in or it's a psychological thing to want to go somewhere else to shoot
If you started a Photography School, I would move to Jersey.
Omar, can you please hold a master class in the Hob area someday. I would easily pay for it. I feel as though I'm at a stage that I have gotten pretty good with my Xs-10 (16-80mm) in manual but I don't really speak to any real photographers about those little tips and tricks. I get some amazing sun rise shots off Marineview's roof but I would love to see what someone like you could produce in that environment. Idk it's hard to learn more when there's question I can't get off the internet or with someone live. I walk around Hob everyday practicing but I feel I've hit a plateau. Also, your videos are awesome seriously thank you. If you ever need an extra hand shooting I would love to help/learn.
Really like this video 👍. I can feel I'm already better now 🙂
What makes your content top-notch is your innate ability to keep it real and speak from the heart. The substance of these videos is not the subject matter at hand, rather the way in which it is presented to the audience. Omar, from one dad to another, you're the cream in my morning coffee, without which my day just wouldn't be right. Thoroughly enjoyed your video, keep up the good work!
Excellent tutorial. Keep up the work or maybe get back to work. Is work still slow?
Berry nice video :)
Very smart of you to see from a beginner perspective -- and then offer concrete ways to advance. This is an excellent contribution to the community of photography. So many beginners would not have walked away if they had had this help to make it more satisfying. And I used to love that 17-40 on my 5D3! A virtual drama machine and so easy to use.
2 seconds in and I feel personally attacked.
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Man. I switched to Leica after a year on Fuji. But I still watch your content! Keep it up :-) You can’t ever sell noir!
Fantastic video again thanks Omar. More like this one please :).
OMG ... Malaguti Phantom , the red scooter , pimped up ! I love it !
This has to be one the best, if not the best video you have posted here. Very very interesting stuff. Basically you got me right where I am in my photography journey. I am starting to work scenes more and think about sth interesting, composition, subjects....
Anyways, thank you so much. Please do more like this one.
Yeah this one and the learn to crop video
I really like the pieces idea esp if you're posting that on IG once a day they can see the whole picture unfolds. This also works on portraits.
Very insightful content, Omar! Thank you very much for this video tutorial. Would you do a video tutorial on how to get better or let's say more interesting photos in very rural areas with no big skyscrapers and super interesting architecture that kind of are the half battle already?
Damnit, I snorted coffee when you popped Bernie in there.
I needed this
I likes humor and the serenity that you transmit through your videos. 💪💪
Excellent video and amazing advices. Thanks Omar!
Excellent tutorial with great examples..... Thanks Omar
Wonderful Video. thank you for your time teaching about composition! enjoyed by watching it!