Here are some timestamps: Concepts: 1:03 - Photography is: 70% what's in the photo, 20% how you take it, 10% how you edit it. 2:35 - The real secret to getting better at photography is Vision. 3:14 - Understand what "good" looks like as fast as you can. 5:10 - Look to other forms of visual art for inspiration. 5:52 - Style isn't something you should really worry about at the beginning. Craft: 6:19 - The exposure triangle. 7:24 - Photography "rules" are a bad way to think about them. 8:22 - Show me your first 100,000 shots. 9:07 - Break down skills and then create a habit to work on them. 9:51 - Always consider the light. 10:32 - Everything in your photo is deliberate. 11:22 - Subject, subject, subject. 12:23 - Move, move, move, and experiment. 13:18 - An image isn't finished until it's edited. 14:22 - Photowalk with other photographers and review their work. 15:02 - Some settings on Auto are totally fine. 15:44 - The power of planning and scouting. Gear: 16:24 - Lenses over bodies. 17:05 - Learn gear specific skills. 17:51 - Learn the focal lengths.
Dude you have such a strong way of articulating the intersection of all these elements that make great photos. A very well spoken analysis of the process!
I like that you called it visual patterns instead of rules because visual patterns refer to things embedded in psychology - they are things that masses of people have identified as "good" simply by how our brains are wired. Visual aesthetics can be learned (due to rules) but many of them are naturally occuring (patterns). Love this video, thank you for sharing
Yea that definitely is true but i find myself going back to my old photos when i was just taking them not thinking and not knowing of any rules but whit mindset of wanting to capture unique photo and the composition of them is more of wtf that is wierd than that is bad and they make me analyzing them more then just plane beautiful photos that followed all the rules as al the other same photos that followed the same rules. I would rather forget anything i learned then learn more about composition, tehnical side is needed tho. Authenticity wins for me as an artist more than a photographer, i would rather have bad photos in my own way than have them beautiful in others way.
Love the percentage chart. In essence, don't spend all your time on things that will only contribute to 20% of your output. Breathing and talking gear will only make have more expensive gear. Composition, composition, composition. Thanks so much, Pat. Cheers from Brisbane.
I am a newbie and found your explanations simple to understand. There is so much content out there it becomes really overwhelming starting out and you have a real gift pointing out what to look out for. thank you
I'm just starting out as a professional photographer and someone at my full-time job insulted me. Was looking for a little inspiration in getting better. Thank you for the video I subscribed
I would say I already knew 75% of these tips already but its always nice to hear over and over again just to remind myself why I started photography. But also hearing it from someone else that does photography for longer.
Great video. Very informative. As a beginner photographer definitely will be using the knowledge shared in this video. Thanks for this. Keep up the dope content!
I'm an amateur and I learned real quick that you have to have an eye to make a good picture, not everything you see is necessarily a picture moment in my opinion, as you said here learn what good looks like. The rest will follow, it's like making a house you need to have a good foundation to be able to build a strong structure. Thanks for this video.
Gave your video a shot, with all the videos on photography out there I wasn’t sure but…wow!!! You have some good points particularly VISION! love it man. Thank you for sharing
Great video as always. The learning process.. or journey of photography has always seemed so arbitrary. Often find myself being lost in what I should prioritise as a new photographer. Will be coming back to this video each time I feel that way. Thank you! 🙏
This was so extremely concise and helpful thank you. ! I love how you breakdown the many different elements involved and stress the need for conceptual story.
I needed this so badly right now. Thank you for taking the time to create this video. I’m at the low point on the DK effect graph. The whole video has given me lots to think about.
This content is PHENOMENAL! I have my degree in photography- and did not learn half of the things you mentioned in this video! What were my professors thinking? Anyways, THANK YOU for being so thorough in your explanations! You’ve reignited my passion in this art form once again! 🙏🏼 ✨.
One of the first times I can say I'm glad UA-cam suggest a channel. I actually watch it your vids from beginning to the end and learn something each time. Anther great video. Thank you.
Been trying to get into photography for almost a year now, and I do know a lot of stuff about it (settings to get the correct exposure) but no where near professional. Thank you for posting this, it's really going to help me in my career.
Move, move move is great but I think there is so much value in STAY, Stay, stay for learning to understand the many ways to capture the scene in a new or hopefully improved way 😊
Hi Pat, enjoyed this video, very well put together and one thing i'm battling with is the gear issue, I see on forums, FB and all the other outlets pushing one into the latest and greatest costing thousands of dollars whether it's bodies or lenses. I'm using a 2017 model of Nikon D5600 and even though it's of now an old format, i'm just wondering if investing in the DX range of lenses for this camera is a good idea or not. Will there come a time when something goes wrong with this camera that I'll have all these lenses that are useless? What makes a Z lens any better than a AF lens except for maybe it's quicker autofocus performance? I have considered trying to buy into the cheaper end of the Z cameras and lenses and sell my current kit before i Invest too far into it. Maybe move to a different brand that have not changed it's mount system and any of their lenses can be used might also be worth considering. I don't have to stick with Nikon. Full Frame or Crop?
I found one thing that helped me get my exposure triangle in control was first two years I shot exclusively in manual. I almost took it too far to where I’d miss a shot because I wasn’t shooting in program mode lol
One thing I've been wondering about the exposure triangle is: does it have different qualities depending on the weights or is it all just trying to get hit the exposure goal and it doesn't matter much how you do it? Like if instead of low iso, high shutterspeed and low aperture, I had low iso, low shutter speed and high arpeture. Say those two configurations get to the same exposure, is the exposure the same in quality? So you're not actually get to a different visual result, it's just that you have to consider things like low shutter speed can cause a blurry image, so you have to consider how much 'shutter speed' budget you can burn before your image gets shaky etc.
Thank you for the video Pat! I’m a beginner and will be buying my first camera pretty soon. I’m planning on buying a really old Canon DSLR with a 50 mm f1.8 lens, would that be a good investment? (Budget is low, I’m a broke college student LMAO).
Wow thought this would be one of these videos "this is how I do things so you have to as well", but this has been a very objective and informative one. Nice work Pat!
My tutor from the Photography course I went to 10 years ago told us to always focus on the Aperture but here you say Shutter Speed- seems to me Aperture makes more sense as you can control the depth of field n decide how much to reveal in your picture. With Shutter Speed how often you need to freeze an image or make it flow ? What do you say to that?
Also never let anyone lie to you that gear doesn't matter. If that was true experienced photographers would sell their thousands of dollars worth of gear for the cheaper priced gear. They WON'T
I always tell people that "gear *can* matter" Like as soon as you can, you should have good, well functioning, well made, professional gear. It will help you immensely. However when you're starting out, you're not going to be any better if you have the money to buy a Leica straight off the bat. It's fine to learn your craft on cheap - though still at least good enough - gear. You need to have something that's good enough when you're starting out. I mean as a teenager I won the local photography competition four years in a row with a second hand bridge camera. Now that camera was, by any reasonable standards, terrible. I mean it was a second hand fujifilm bridge camera that cost me £15, it wasn't good. But it was the only thing I had access to that had a manual mode and was decent-ish quality. And for that reason it was perfect for me to learn how to take photos on. But you bet that as soon as I had the money to do so, I went and bought good quality gear. Because gear matters.
Have you seen what Lara Jade did with a toy camera? I’m not saying gear doesn’t matter, but great gear won’t automatically make someone a great photographer.
@@stephenderong9151 but it does matter. Idk why ppl keep lying and saying it don't. Otherwise the pros should just sell their gear and work with beginner equipment
I’ve shot some of my favorite shots on my d200 with dx glass. I’ve been shooting from my 850 with all 2.8 or better glass for a while. 800 before that. And there’s photos I’ve taken on my 200 that won’t get dethroned. I think composition trumps gear. Hell, I’ve done impressive stuff with my phone lol
I see what a lot of “professional” photographers shoot with, and most around here doing weddings and what not are shooting crop sensors. And I think I could hand them my 850 and take their 5500 or whatever and I could get a better shot than them with my 850
Pat, I have watched your videos and subscribed. I like your analysis of the length of time to learn how to become a good photographer, it is what I have experienced over 14 years. You are a good teacher! Father Dan
8:50... oh yea, I cringe looking at my early on photos. I see them today and say to myself, oh that was bad! Now well past 100k photos long ago I have my own style. But as creatives we are always learning or going back and looking at things, hence why I came across your video today while watching a few others this one came up and I said, let's see if there's something I need to revisit. We can always work on something no matter where we are in our level of work.
Thank you for the video! Really helpful stuff. I am at the point where "the more I know the more I know I don't know" and that there is so much more stuff to learn!
I just love our way to tell a story. It's captive and you come across like an ultra-professional as well as a really likable person. Love it! Thank you!
Here are some timestamps:
Concepts:
1:03 - Photography is: 70% what's in the photo, 20% how you take it, 10% how you edit it.
2:35 - The real secret to getting better at photography is Vision.
3:14 - Understand what "good" looks like as fast as you can.
5:10 - Look to other forms of visual art for inspiration.
5:52 - Style isn't something you should really worry about at the beginning.
Craft:
6:19 - The exposure triangle.
7:24 - Photography "rules" are a bad way to think about them.
8:22 - Show me your first 100,000 shots.
9:07 - Break down skills and then create a habit to work on them.
9:51 - Always consider the light.
10:32 - Everything in your photo is deliberate.
11:22 - Subject, subject, subject.
12:23 - Move, move, move, and experiment.
13:18 - An image isn't finished until it's edited.
14:22 - Photowalk with other photographers and review their work.
15:02 - Some settings on Auto are totally fine.
15:44 - The power of planning and scouting.
Gear:
16:24 - Lenses over bodies.
17:05 - Learn gear specific skills.
17:51 - Learn the focal lengths.
Love u
Thank you
Appreciated ❤
The way you explain photography really shows how much you know it. You're on another level Pat
aw thanks so much, Andy! much appreciated!
Your comment got me to watch this video.
Dude you have such a strong way of articulating the intersection of all these elements that make great photos. A very well spoken analysis of the process!
ah thanks man, those words mean a lot to me. thank you! i appreciate you
I like that you called it visual patterns instead of rules because visual patterns refer to things embedded in psychology - they are things that masses of people have identified as "good" simply by how our brains are wired. Visual aesthetics can be learned (due to rules) but many of them are naturally occuring (patterns). Love this video, thank you for sharing
Yea that definitely is true but i find myself going back to my old photos when i was just taking them not thinking and not knowing of any rules but whit mindset of wanting to capture unique photo and the composition of them is more of wtf that is wierd than that is bad and they make me analyzing them more then just plane beautiful photos that followed all the rules as al the other same photos that followed the same rules. I would rather forget anything i learned then learn more about composition, tehnical side is needed tho. Authenticity wins for me as an artist more than a photographer, i would rather have bad photos in my own way than have them beautiful in others way.
Love the percentage chart. In essence, don't spend all your time on things that will only contribute to 20% of your output. Breathing and talking gear will only make have more expensive gear. Composition, composition, composition. Thanks so much, Pat. Cheers from Brisbane.
100%, you got it! ease yourself into photography with those ratios initially, and then you can work out what works for you after you're comfortable :)
I can't agree more, Paul!
Thanks!
I am a newbie and found your explanations simple to understand. There is so much content out there it becomes really overwhelming starting out and you have a real gift pointing out what to look out for. thank you
I love how you sectioned the video, it makes it easier for me to take notes. Greatly appreciated Pat!
I'm just starting out as a professional photographer and someone at my full-time job insulted me. Was looking for a little inspiration in getting better. Thank you for the video I subscribed
everytime I watch a Pat Kay Video, I learn a lot! That’s why I don’t skip ads. Thanks for sharing your insights.
I just started my photography journey and out of all the people out there on YT your videos have helped me out the most, keep up the amazing work Pat.
I would say I already knew 75% of these tips already but its always nice to hear over and over again just to remind myself why I started photography. But also hearing it from someone else that does photography for longer.
Amazing presentation!
I love hearing you talk. You always have a lot of substance and value in your videos. I hope your 2021 is going great.
aw thank you! mine is great. hope yours is too!
Great video. Very informative. As a beginner photographer definitely will be using the knowledge shared in this video. Thanks for this. Keep up the dope content!
The timing of this upload was perfect for me, thank you!
hope it helps!
Fantastic tips and really confirmed my learning path. Thx
Great tips! I wonder if you could show some examples of beginner photos and pro level photos and explain the differences.
I'm an amateur and I learned real quick that you have to have an eye to make a good picture, not everything you see is necessarily a picture moment in my opinion, as you said here learn what good looks like. The rest will follow, it's like making a house you need to have a good foundation to be able to build a strong structure. Thanks for this video.
Gave your video a shot, with all the videos on photography out there I wasn’t sure but…wow!!! You have some good points particularly VISION! love it man. Thank you for sharing
Literally my biggest inspiration. Thanks again.
Dankeschön from Germany, very enjoyable and helpful your videos 👍❤️✨
Great tips !
This video was really informative! I'm excited to check out the rest of your videos :)
Really useful video. Thanks
This is so insightful! Thank you!
Great video as always. The learning process.. or journey of photography has always seemed so arbitrary. Often find myself being lost in what I should prioritise as a new photographer. Will be coming back to this video each time I feel that way. Thank you! 🙏
got chu man! im sure some of these will come in handy every now and then!
Give yourself a project with small defined scope and work on that target.
When that notification comes through, and you stop everything else to get insight to git gud at photography :)
Thanks for sharing, Pat!
haha i love the dedication. thanks!
Great teaching! Thank you.
It is very helpful waching your videos, you explains very nicely.
This was so extremely concise and helpful thank you.
! I love how you breakdown the many different elements involved and stress the need for conceptual story.
I needed this so badly right now. Thank you for taking the time to create this video. I’m at the low point on the DK effect graph. The whole video has given me lots to think about.
This content is PHENOMENAL! I have my degree in photography- and did not learn half of the things you mentioned in this video! What were my professors thinking? Anyways, THANK YOU for being so thorough in your explanations! You’ve reignited my passion in this art form once again! 🙏🏼 ✨.
One of the first times I can say I'm glad UA-cam suggest a channel. I actually watch it your vids from beginning to the end and learn something each time. Anther great video. Thank you.
dude you are awesome, i learn a lot with you. love your style. greetings from Argentina
Hello! I have a question: I have Sony A6600, what is the best SDXC card to use with this camera speed-wise, etc.? Thank you!
Been trying to get into photography for almost a year now, and I do know a lot of stuff about it (settings to get the correct exposure) but no where near professional. Thank you for posting this, it's really going to help me in my career.
Hi, I love the videos.
I'm having so much trouble getting sharp images, how can I check if the problem is the camera or the lens (or just user error)?
Just bought a sony a6400 this will help me tremendously!
Clear and articulate 😊👍😊
Move, move move is great but I think there is so much value in STAY, Stay, stay for learning to understand the many ways to capture the scene in a new or hopefully improved way 😊
I finally got my first camera and this is so useful - thank you sensei Pat!
Straight to the point. Appreciate.
Hi Pat, enjoyed this video, very well put together and one thing i'm battling with is the gear issue, I see on forums, FB and all the other outlets pushing one into the latest and greatest costing thousands of dollars whether it's bodies or lenses. I'm using a 2017 model of Nikon D5600 and even though it's of now an old format, i'm just wondering if investing in the DX range of lenses for this camera is a good idea or not. Will there come a time when something goes wrong with this camera that I'll have all these lenses that are useless? What makes a Z lens any better than a AF lens except for maybe it's quicker autofocus performance? I have considered trying to buy into the cheaper end of the Z cameras and lenses and sell my current kit before i Invest too far into it. Maybe move to a different brand that have not changed it's mount system and any of their lenses can be used might also be worth considering. I don't have to stick with Nikon. Full Frame or Crop?
Thank you for the great lesson .
my pleasure :)
I found one thing that helped me get my exposure triangle in control was first two years I shot exclusively in manual. I almost took it too far to where I’d miss a shot because I wasn’t shooting in program mode lol
Great video and explanation, I fully agree with telling a story in a visual image
One thing I've been wondering about the exposure triangle is: does it have different qualities depending on the weights or is it all just trying to get hit the exposure goal and it doesn't matter much how you do it?
Like if instead of low iso, high shutterspeed and low aperture, I had low iso, low shutter speed and high arpeture. Say those two configurations get to the same exposure, is the exposure the same in quality? So you're not actually get to a different visual result, it's just that you have to consider things like low shutter speed can cause a blurry image, so you have to consider how much 'shutter speed' budget you can burn before your image gets shaky etc.
Thanks buddy. Very important points covered.
Thx for the tips 👍appreciate you sharing your knowledge
Thank you for the tips
Thank you for the video Pat! I’m a beginner and will be buying my first camera pretty soon. I’m planning on buying a really old Canon DSLR with a 50 mm f1.8 lens, would that be a good investment? (Budget is low, I’m a broke college student LMAO).
One of the best tips I've ever come across on UA-cam, this helped me so much. Thanks Pat!!
The value you give in your videos is more than value to me. It’s an inspiration. So thankful for your time.
Amazing video..Thank God I came to it.. right tips with just right flavour.. :)
We’ll done! Clear, concise, and perfect for beginners such as myself. Thank you!
this video is the most useful for beginners I've seen since I got interested in photography, congratulations buddy!
I really like this guy!! So good
Thanks Pat !
thanks for explaining it to me like I'm 5 years old, I'm feeling like I'm starting over again it feels great. so much to learn!
That's how the cookie crumble...you can't polish a turb! Man, gotta love those expressions ! Great video, bro !
You mean, "turd"? 😅
LOL a bit vulgar, but it gets the point across 😂
Very nice information
Wow thought this would be one of these videos "this is how I do things so you have to as well", but this has been a very objective and informative one. Nice work Pat!
This was excellent
Smashing it my bro!!! 🙌
cheers homie!
Thanks for the video 😊
Loved this tutorial, Pat. Learned so much. Thank you.
I love you my dude!!!
This is, without a doubt, the best photography related video I ever watched.
All my life I've been listening not to compare with others work and now i am told to do it with the best of the best xD
Thank you
OMG I didn't realize the polished turd was a thing. Thought it was a creative invention of the person who said it to me. Thanks for enlightening me!
You did great brother ...keep it up ,,, I am also a photography lover
You’re tops Pat. I get so much out of your videos. Your video regarding feeling uninspired found me at the perfect time the other week. Cheers Mate!
Your style at the beginning is, everything 👍😳yes. Yes.
My tutor from the Photography course I went to 10 years ago told us to always focus on the Aperture but here you say Shutter Speed- seems to me Aperture makes more sense as you can control the depth of field n decide how much to reveal in your picture. With Shutter Speed how often you need to freeze an image or make it flow ? What do you say to that?
Thanks this really helped
Heya! Great video, thanks Pat! You mentioned breakdown the skills for each category of photography - would love to see a lesson on this!
Thank you so much, you are my biggest insperesion and you have learned me so much
my pleasure! thanks for watching :)
You just earned another subscriber man. Thank you for these tips!!
You are very detailed and seems very expert 😍
Great post
Thanks so much for this Pat! These tips were excellent!
my pleasure!
Hey pat love your videos. I own a nikon dslr any tips lens wise for everyday use ?
Thank you! Your descriptions and definitions are so well worded and easy to comprehend. Straightforward, real talk is so appreciated.
Great tips, for photographers at all levels! Thanks
Also never let anyone lie to you that gear doesn't matter. If that was true experienced photographers would sell their thousands of dollars worth of gear for the cheaper priced gear. They WON'T
I always tell people that "gear *can* matter"
Like as soon as you can, you should have good, well functioning, well made, professional gear. It will help you immensely.
However when you're starting out, you're not going to be any better if you have the money to buy a Leica straight off the bat. It's fine to learn your craft on cheap - though still at least good enough - gear. You need to have something that's good enough when you're starting out.
I mean as a teenager I won the local photography competition four years in a row with a second hand bridge camera. Now that camera was, by any reasonable standards, terrible. I mean it was a second hand fujifilm bridge camera that cost me £15, it wasn't good. But it was the only thing I had access to that had a manual mode and was decent-ish quality. And for that reason it was perfect for me to learn how to take photos on.
But you bet that as soon as I had the money to do so, I went and bought good quality gear. Because gear matters.
Have you seen what Lara Jade did with a toy camera? I’m not saying gear doesn’t matter, but great gear won’t automatically make someone a great photographer.
@@stephenderong9151 but it does matter. Idk why ppl keep lying and saying it don't. Otherwise the pros should just sell their gear and work with beginner equipment
I’ve shot some of my favorite shots on my d200 with dx glass. I’ve been shooting from my 850 with all 2.8 or better glass for a while. 800 before that. And there’s photos I’ve taken on my 200 that won’t get dethroned. I think composition trumps gear. Hell, I’ve done impressive stuff with my phone lol
I see what a lot of “professional” photographers shoot with, and most around here doing weddings and what not are shooting crop sensors. And I think I could hand them my 850 and take their 5500 or whatever and I could get a better shot than them with my 850
Pat,
I have watched your videos and subscribed. I like your analysis of the length of time to learn how to become a good photographer, it is what I have experienced over 14 years.
You are a good teacher!
Father Dan
Any suggestions on which camera to begin with??
Like the way you talk - and like what you have to say. Great work
.....Greetz from 🇩🇪
I love how Articulate. Great Video. Learned Alot.
REALLY PUT ALOT OF THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE
8:50... oh yea, I cringe looking at my early on photos. I see them today and say to myself, oh that was bad! Now well past 100k photos long ago I have my own style. But as creatives we are always learning or going back and looking at things, hence why I came across your video today while watching a few others this one came up and I said, let's see if there's something I need to revisit. We can always work on something no matter where we are in our level of work.
Thank you for the video! Really helpful stuff. I am at the point where "the more I know the more I know I don't know" and that there is so much more stuff to learn!
⭐️ X 20times. 🏅
So good! Thanks!
my pleasure!
Thanks mate, enjoy your content and style, new sub😊
I just love our way to tell a story. It's captive and you come across like an ultra-professional as well as a really likable person. Love it! Thank you!
British Old Period Movies.....Just have the best Picture Quality and best Shots. Gorgeous Quality 👌
Excellent video man.
This is Beautiful Stuff man. thanks.