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Artificial Restrictions: Stay Focused with Doug McKinlay - Duration: 4:05.

Hi, I'm Doug McKinlay and you're watching

AdoramaTV. Now for the past few episodes

I've been banging on about photographic

exercises. Why you might ask? Well I think

they're a valid way to keep your skills

honed and they're interesting too.

Even after all these years is working as

a pro I still do them for me, they keep

the edge sharp, and you can find some new

things to shoot. Now one of the problems

of being a pro, is you often forget what

you started working as a photographer for

in the first place. Sometimes the business

just gets in the way.

So for today, we're going to look at a

different set of exercises to help

people think outside the box a little.

We're going to call this exercise

'Artificial Restrictions'. Now this could

be anything you choose it to be, as long

as the application limits you in terms

of technique, time of day, equipment and

location. It's a little bit like fighting

with one arm tied behind your back.

You get more proficient with the other

arm the more you practice. As I said the

limitations can be anything, as long as

they have a photographic purpose. It

could be shooting everything in black

and white. Over or under exposing using

one lens. Shooting only in manual,

shooting while seated, or standing on a

bench or a wall. Shooting things only

above you et cetera... you get the picture!

For our purposes today though, I'm going

to pick three limitations. In a previous

video we did one where we use just a 50

mm f/1.4 lens.

Well sticking with that theme today, our

first limitation is using a 24 mm

f/1.4 lens. Now I absolutely

love this lens, and I use it all the time.

It's great for travel, great for reportage,

it's great for landscape, for

cityscape. Now the great thing about

the 24mm lens is it forces

a photographer to think about the

wide-angle. Things like distortion, how I

can use it to my advantage, or get rid of

it. It's a really great lens to practice

with. So our second limitation is time of

day shooting between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.

Now at the moment it's 10:00

a.m. and we're in the northern

hemisphere in the summer. So what does

that tell me?

It tells me the Sun is gonna rise quite

quickly. High in the sky and create some

hard contrasty light. Very difficult to

work with.

Not impossible. So I'm not thinking of

people pictures so much, because it'd be

very difficult to get nice face head-on

shots of people, portrait shots without

any kind of artificial light, because

you're going to pick up some shadows under

the eyes under the nose and under the

chin. For architecture it's

actually quite good, because we're going to

use this shadow to our advantage, and

think in black and white. Now the reason

why this exercise is quite good, is

because you don't always have a choice

when you're in a place for the great

light, you might turn it to a place, a

city, wherever, and in the middle of the

day and you have no choice but to work

with the light you've got. Now for me as a

professional. I can't walk away from a

place without the images, so I need to

work with the light I've got. So it's a

very good exercise to learn to work with

hard light. So for the third and final

installment of our artificial

restrictions video. We're going to be seated.

This is a great limitation, but it's a

fantastic limitation, I do it practically

on every job I've ever done.

I'll find a park bench, or city bench and

just sit and wait for the shots to come

in. I often can blend in with the people

around me, they'll soon forget you're

there and you become practically

invisible.

Now you've, it's incumbent on the

photographer on a good perch where ever

you are going to try this. We can get those

great passing pictures. Don't worry about

the equipment you're going to use. I often

use a longer lens, so I can get some

great portrait pictures. It's a great

exercise as I said earlier. The

limitations are not limited, the point is

is to pick things will make you think

about the whole process from conception

to print. Now these exercises I

think are fantastic tools and everyone

should do them from time to time.

Thanks for taking the time to watch.

I'm Doug McKinlay for AdoramaTV.

Don't forget you can also subscribe to Adorama TV for

more great videos, and let us know what

you think. You can like, comment, share

this video, and please stop by the

Adorama Learning Center for more great

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FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY :: Photo Assignment #14 - Duration: 7:57.

what is up everybody welcome back it is Monday which as you know means photo

assignments now Thanksgiving is happening this week in the US and so I

thought we would do something that's rather seasonally appropriate so for

photo assignment number 14 we are going to do food photography now this is going

to be more of a challenge than a specific technique or exercise that

we're going to go through and remember the whole point of photo assignments is

to challenge yourself creatively in how you think and how you approach what it

is that you want to say with a photograph I know it seems like it might

be easy since most people will be probably around a lot of food at some

point this week but really push yourself to go beyond that and I want to show you

some examples today of some things that you might think about that I think have

been done pretty well in the historical context of photography because

essentially food photography is going to be very closely related to still lifes

which is something that we have done before and there's a lot of techniques

that go into that and I want to look at some photographers I think one of the

most famous examples that most of you guys are probably already familiar with

is Edward Weston who did a very well-known series using food as still

life the peppers are probably the ones people are most familiar with there are

other foods as well but what I think is interesting about Weston's approach to

this and I think this is very significant as he approached these with

a very organic sensibility and so sometimes there's a metaphor for other

organic shapes you might associate these with maybe it's something like the human

figure maybe it's a fist clinching whatever that is it has this kind of I

guess almost personification into an object that it's representing I guess

it's the best way to put it there's a lot of really neat qualities to these

first of all they're done in black and white so you have removed a layer of

reality from that and they're essentially these organic studies of

light and they're absolutely beautiful some of my favorite work that he did

another contemporary of his was Wynn Bullock this is an image he did called

Half Of An Apple from 1953 I want to say and it's half an apple this image

probably wouldn't work the same way if it were in color and I think it's very

important that is a study in black and white because when you start to look at

this you start to see these forms in these shapes in here that are very

organic and they suggest things like maybe the human ear or they might look

like an owl whatever that is it starts to have this metaphoric personified

quality to it where it leads your mind into other places and I think that's

when this is done very successfully a contemporary photographer who I

mentioned a lot on this shows Tom Baril

and I think he has that in a very subtle way in his own work the images he does

of pears he does a lot of botanical work and I think that's probably what he's

most known for but there are other examples where I think that organic

quality and what that might suggest just to the viewer I think is what makes these

very interesting I think this is something that you see a lot

particularly an art of this time I mean Georgia O'Keeffe was doing these

paintings of flowers that had almost these erotic qualities to it but I think

that's interesting because I think that's what we are drawn to when we

start to see these things as we start to look at the shapes and then what that

relates to and it becomes very psychological in a certain sense so I

think these are really interesting examples to look at another photographer

whose work I absolutely love is André Kertész and it's really interesting to

see what he did with some of these organic shapes - and Kertész was an

amazing photographer and one of the most interesting series that I think he did

was a series of images that he did with the sx-70 when he was working with

Polaroid and they're very simple images but because the photographers really

removed from the development process obviously with instant film and then the

simplicity of having a fixed lens on a camera that's going to do color only and

really the way it came down for him was just an approach to composition not all

of these are foods but it's really interesting to see the studies that he

did with these I think that's somebody that you could draw a lot of inspiration

from another very well-known photographer Josef Sudek and he had a

very different approach so far all the examples we looked at

really fill up the whole frame of the image and they're almost I wouldn't go

as far as to say macro but they're very close-up in nature and the way Josef

Sudek approached these is almost more of a past master style where there are

other elements in the composition and maybe the apples or the fruit or

whatever that is become a part of that and you know there's also other elements

that add interest into this to like you know moisture in the window what's

happening with the light in the room and it's just a very different approach it's

very subtle but these images do involve food another photographer who did some

really interesting things shooting food was Irving Penn and I think the world of

Irving Penn I've talked about him a lot over the last couple years on this show

and I think what's interesting about Penn is when you consider he was working

in New York City you have Harper's Bazaar and Vogue which are the competing

magazines at the time and it was an environment where they were both having

an image overhaul and really trying to bring a

modernist style into the work that they were producing and so I think it was a

perfect storm if you will for Penn creatively to be able to insert some

really adventurous things into what was going on in essentially publication

photography at that time now what's interesting about Penn and I've always

thought this is that he's kind of of two minds there's a very conservative side

to Penn that's not going to do anything wild or over-the-top or bizarre or

strange but at the same time there's another side of pen that is highly

experimental and I think that his work is a culmination of all that coming

together and I think that's where you start to see some really interesting

things whether that's portraits or whether that's you know whatever that

work was and working for a magazine there's a lot of interesting food

pictures that he did they're all in color and these were typically run in

magazines against some kind of recipe or an article about cooking or something

like that and some of my favorites are the still lifes he did of frozen foods

first of all the subject is strange like who would shoot frozen packaged food at

that time but what I think the takeaway here and this is what I want you guys to

get out of this is I think you're going to be most successful with anything in

photography when you finally find a way to do something new and different that

pushes you creatively into that direction that you haven't done before

something that's not trend based something that's not style based and

Irving Penn is a really interesting example of where we see that and it's

not easy to do I get that it's really difficult and one last photographer

speaking of frozen foods that I want to mention who did some really bizarre work

is of course William Eggleston this is an image of a freezer interior but it is

a food image and he is William Eggleston so hope that gives you a little bit of

inspiration and maybe a reference point on where to start with some ideas on

here like I say on every photo assignment - push yourself to do

different things if you if a shot that you know you can execute on for instance

go ahead and get a good shot out of that but then push yourself to do something

you haven't done before or maybe you're not so sure you can succeed on because

that's one of the keys to not just photo assignments but anything in life really

creatively is that giving ourselves permission to fail is okay and because

you're not going to have success without failure first of all and the other thing

is if you don't make mistakes then you have nothing you can learn from and so

those are things that are really key allowing your work to move forward and

you know seeing your work on these photos assignments - those are some of my

favorite videos to make because it allows us to connect through photography

so the work is really improving and I love that and I love that it's moving in

that direction I'm gonna let you guys know I'm going to be doing some food

photography along with you guys in these photos assignments so you got to follow

me on Instagram if you want to see that I'll put my username below and so we'll

be working on that now another thing I want to mention is the deadline on this

so Thanksgiving is this week I'm going to be traveling at the end of the week

I'm going up through Chicago and then into the great state of Indiana and so

the likelihood of me actually getting the follow-up video done by next Monday

is pretty slim so what I'm gonna do is allow you two weeks on this and I think

the film people will be relieved on this but I'll give you a full two weeks to

work on this so that would put your deadline at December 2, 2017 so anyway

December 2nd will be the deadline that gives me that's a Saturday that will

give me Sunday to put it together and I'll release it on Monday on the 4th so

anyway if you are new to the show you have no idea what photo assignments are

I have a whole playlist of photo assignments that you can go check out we do them

every Monday and basically I give you an assignment it allows us to all

participate and then I feature the best work and the follow-up video and if you

want to know how you can submit your work I have a video for that too so go

check those out and I will be doing a couple more videos before the holiday

starts so stay tuned this week subscribe all that stuff so you'll be up to date

I'll see you guys in the next video until then later

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Hidden Amsterdam Oud West | Eileen Aldis - Duration: 5:08.

Hi guys!

Today's video is all about Amsterdam, the most popular city to visit in The Netherlands

and, arguably, in the entire world.

This is a place people love to go and visit and the Canal Ring is gorgeous, of course,

with the canals and the bridges but we wanted to get a little bit off the beaten track

so this is a neighbourhood profile of a place called Oud West or Old West.

I fell in love with a plant store there called Wildernis.

It opened in 2015 and I love the concept.

The goal for them is to make the city greener so they work with green professionals

and organizations to do that.

So they give workshops and lectures on nature and urban gardening.

Even if you're just visiting Amsterdam and you're not necessarily in the market to buy a plant,

because that doesn't travel very well,

it's still a great place to visit because you walk in and there's just so much beautiful greenery around you

that I just breathed a little bit easier.

So it's a nice kind of respite from walking around the streets

and you can also just sit there and get a coffee or a slice of homemade cake

and enjoy the feeling of being in an indoor garden.

Across the street from Wildernis you'll find a restaurant called HappyHappyJoyJoy.

It's the newest restaurant of a Dutch Chef named Julius Jaspers.

He's a cookbook author and a TV host

and the idea here is that everything from the food to the decor is designed to make you smile.

You really, really do feel happy and joy when you go inside.

It is seriously Instagrammable.

I didn't get a chance to eat here but I heard a ton of great reviews

and I'd love to go back another time.

Not far from the restaurant is De Hallen

and if you only have time for one stop in this neighbourhood this is definitely where you need to go.

It's a multi-use space that used to be a tram depot

and it's a fantastic example of repurposing an old space and making something new out of it.

It was built in phases between 1902 and 1928

and it's the only old tram depot in The Netherlands that's kept in its original state.

It's had a lot of purposes throughout the years.

In 1996 it was a public transportation museum and in 2005 it was occupied by squatters

and we're lucky that people in the neighbourhood got together and made sure that this building was saved.

Now it's home to an arthouse cinema, lots of creative independent shops,

and a weekly indoor craft market.

This historic converted building has become one of Amsterdam's most popular spots

and although there are a ton of places that you can look around and explore,

of course I did have some favourites.

One of which was actually a sock store called Qnoop.

Qnoop with a Q is a play on the Dutch word for 'button.'

The idea is that their socks come with a button, which is biodegradable by the way,

to save us from losing over 15 socks a year.

We all lose them in the wash or when they get separated in your drawer

and, if you have a button so that they're always together, you won't lose them.

If you get hungry while visiting De Hallen do not worry because there are tons of places

where you can get delicious food in the food hall.

You can get a full meal or a snack or just have a drink.

There are over 20 street vendors

that serve everything from pizza to Vietnamese food to Greek.

I'm sure you can find something that you like.

We ate at a place called Bao Wowow and, as I'm sure you can guess, had a bao.

I was a little shocked when the girl got out a blow torch but it did taste good.

If you walk all the way through the food hall at the back there's a restaurant called Kanarie Klub

and for me, the coolest thing is to see all of the little details that they preserved

from when it was a tram depot.

So if you look down at the floor you'll see the tracks,

above the bar there are more details,

and they've really kept the overall sense of history in this building.

Do not miss going upstairs because there's a pool

and this is inspired by when the building was occupied by squatters

who had a pool that was filled with rainwater.

One of the best stores in De Hallen is definitely The Maker Store and, as the name implies,

here you'll find original brands and amazingly unique products by local creators.

If you want to buy a souvenir from Amsterdam I can't think of a better place to go.

They had tons of unique things that you just can't find anywhere else.

There's also a street market that takes place outside De Hallen

so if you walk outside the building you can see that as well.

A few blocks away from De Hallen is Vondelpark.

This is the largest park in Amsterdam with 120 acres.

If you're craving some space or you just want to do some great people watching

you'll find people biking or walking their dogs

and it's a great place to just sit and have a rest.

I hope you enjoyed seeing this young, creative neighbourhood in Amsterdam.

If you did then give this video a thumbs up and leave a comment down below.

Tell me your favourite part of Oud West and, if you haven't already,

please subscribe to my channel for more travel videos and I'll see you in my next one.

Bye!